I’m sure I’m missing something obvious but can anyone please explain how to connect to a TrueNAS VNC VM from virt-manager. Everything I have found seems to indicate that it is supposed to have virt-viewer built in but the settings don’t seem to be compatible with direct VNC sessions only SSH.
To be clear am talking about the connections / ports listed on the VM setup page. I have had this working on Windows with RealVNC Viewer for a while but am trying to set up access from a Kubuntu desktop.
Just use virt-viewer. virt-manager is for managing remote hypervisors, and can only use SSH or SSL tunnels to the remote host, since it wants to access the remote system’s hypervisor sockets.
You can create .vv connection files on your Kubuntu desktop to have one-click access to the remote guest console. They’ll have a format like:
[virt-viewer]
type=vnc
host=<IP of your TrueNAS server>
port=<VNC port you defined for the guest>
title=<hostname of your guest
If you enable VNC display port, use a client like UltraVNC to connect to the ip address:port (generally the NAS ip & port).
Thanks for the replies. I managed to get this working with virt-viewer. I’m also trying Remmina for a better interface though that has its own issues to sort out.