[xen-tools-discuss] Xen-Tools and error about "Guest has not initialized the display yet"

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 07:38:54AM +0000, Jason Long wrote:
> > See the man-page for xen-create-image and look for VNC there. There
> > are two example roles supplied ("xdm" and "gdm") with the source code
> > which install a VNC server.
> > 
> > But they seem horribly outdated with regards to package names --
> > "xserver-xfree86" no more exists for many Debian releases, you
> > probably need to replace that by "xserver-xorg". I've never used them
> > and I actually wasn't aware that they were part of the project when I
> > took it over from Steve.
[...]
> Can you show me the correct parameter? I can't understand it. 

Edit /etc/xen-tools/role.d/gdm and /etc/xen-tools/role.d/gdm, replace
"xserver-xfree86" by "xserver-xorg" (/etc/xen-tools/role.d/gdm
probably also needs "gdm" replaced by "gdm3") and then add either
"--role xdm" or "--role gdm" (whatever you prefer) to your
commandline.

		Kind regards, Axel
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