Re: [Xen-users] Is possible use guest machines inside Xen from the host machine

[Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Macfin wood wrote:

>  Im really new to Xen and was searching about, i found this forum 
> entry telling that is impossible access the guests directly from the 
> host, there is someone telling it may be possible with Xen inside 
> VirtualBox. The Forum post is the following 
> : http://serverfault.com/questions/298817/is-possible-use-guest-machines-inside-xen-from-the-host-machine
Not quite sure what's being said there. When you fire up a guest, 
it's just like having another machine on the network. Assuming the 
network is set up correctly, that new machine will "just appear" and 
can be accessed with any tools a real machine could be accessed with 
(eg SSH and so on).
If you need to access a "console" (wether text or graphical) then 
obviously the virtual machine doesn't have a socket on the back to 
connect a monitor to. Depending on the setup, you may have a VNC 
server with a virtual graphical console in it, or you may be limited 
to a text console which can be accessed with the correct Xen tools 
(I'm still using the older tools so "xm console <domain>" will 
connect me to a text console of a PV guest).
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