Accessing the Virtual Appliance Console

To connect to your virtual appliance console, use the virt-manager or virt-viewer GUI tools.

You can also connect to the serial console of your virtual appliance using the “virsh” command. SSH to your QEMU/KVM host server and type the following command at the prompt:

Replace <va_name> in the above command with the name of your virtual appliance.

These tools are not available on all client platforms. If this is the case, you can enable access to the console for a VNC-compatible client program. Use SSH to connect to your QEMU/KVM host server, and enter the following commands:

The command ":12" means that your virtual machine provides VNC access on this host using the port 5912 (5900 + 12). Connect your VNC client to this host and port to access the console.