Skip to content

CNV-66741: Add note about single VNC connection #103044

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
wants to merge 1 commit into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
Open

CNV-66741: Add note about single VNC connection #103044

Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
Binary file added images/vnc-console-warning.png
View file
Open in desktop
Loading
Sorry, something went wrong. Reload?
Sorry, we cannot display this file.
Sorry, this file is invalid so it cannot be displayed.
8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions modules/virt-connecting-to-vm-console-web.adoc
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ endif::[]

. On the *Virtualization* -> *VirtualMachines* page, click a VM to open the *VirtualMachine details* page.
. Click the *Console* tab. The VNC console session starts automatically.
+
[IMPORTANT]
====
Only one connection to the VNC console is possible at a time. If you attempt to create a second connection to the same VNC console, a warning is displayed and you are prompted to disconnect the current session and connect a new session.

image::vnc-console-warning.png[]
====

ifdef::desktop-viewer,serial-console[]
. Click *Disconnect* to end the VNC console session. Otherwise, the VNC console session continues to run in the background.
. Select *{console-menu}* from the console list.
Expand Down
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions virt/managing_vms/virt-accessing-vm-consoles.adoc
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ You can connect to the following consoles to access running virtual machines (VM
[id="vnc-console_virt-accessing-vm-consoles"]
== Connecting to the VNC console

You can connect to the VNC console of a virtual machine by using the {product-title} web console or the `virtctl` command-line tool.
You can connect to the Virtual Network Computing (VNC) console of a VM by using the {product-title} web console or the `virtctl` command-line tool.

:context: vnc-console
include::modules/virt-connecting-to-vm-console-web.adoc[leveloffset=+2]
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ You can connect to a Windows virtual machine (VM) by using the desktop viewer an

:context: desktop-viewer
include::modules/virt-connecting-to-vm-console-web.adoc[leveloffset=+2]
:context: virt-accessing-vm-consoles
:context: virt-accessing-vm-consoles