Providing access to a single VM

[Dennis Jacobfeuerborn]

Hi,
is there a way to provide virt-viewer access to a single VM? After some 
googling I can only find ways to provide access to a whole virt-manager 
instance but I'd like to create VMs for users an only give them access to 
their own virtual machines? Is this possible?

Regards,
   Dennis

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 04:27:05PM +0200, Dennis J. wrote:
> is there a way to provide virt-viewer access to a single VM? After some  
> googling I can only find ways to provide access to a whole virt-manager  
> instance but I'd like to create VMs for users an only give them access to 
> their own virtual machines? Is this possible?

I think you're going beyond what can be done using virt-manager.

Have a look at the XML configuration of your domains (virsh dumpxml guestname
http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html).  You'll see that you can
assign a port number to each virtual machine by using:

<graphics type='vnc' port='5901' autoport='no' />

Give each guest a different port number and control access to those
ports (eg. using the firewall or ssh port forwarding).

Rich.