VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X: “Connection reset by peer (104)”
Posted by Jan Polnicky on Aug 19, 2009
Today I tested OracleVM (OVM) templates on their own distribution of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5 with seeded VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.2 for X. All went fine, but the VNC connection to virtual machine was not painless as I expected.
[root@oram ~]# rpm -qa "vnc|xen" kernel-xen-2.6.18-128.el5 xen-3.0.3-80.el5 kmod-gfs-xen-0.1.31-3.el5 kmod-cmirror-xen-0.1.21-10.el5 vnc-4.1.2-14.el5 kmod-gnbd-xen-0.1.5-2.0.1.el5 vnc-server-4.1.2-14.el5
On a brand new OEL5 system with virtualization support, I have created a new virtual machine with a fresh OEL4 (plain OS), and set appropriate memory for the virtual domain using the Xen management user interface commands. I also checked if the VNC port was allocated with the command virsh dumpxml:
