Poor mans virt-viewer

vm-watch.sh

#!/bin/bash


#   Short shell script to connect to a remote libvirt vm. Best when run 
#   under an ssh agent and the user must be in libvirtd on the hypervisor

VNC_COMMAND="(/Applications/Chicken\ of\ the\ VNC.app/Contents/MacOS/ && \
    ./Chicken\ of\ the\ VNC \$VNC_COMMAND_ARGS &)"

HYPERVISOR=$2
VM=$1

USER=${3:-`who am i | cut -d " " -f 1`}

echo "Connecting to $VM on $HYPERVISOR"

VNC_PORT_LOCAL=5900
VNC_DISPLAY_LOCAL=0
until [ -z "`lsof -i:$VNC_PORT_LOCAL`" ]; do
    echo "Port $VNC_PORT_LOCAL in use: inrcrementing"
    let VNC_PORT_LOCAL+=1
    let VNC_DISPLAY_LOCAL+=1
done



VNC_DISPLAY_REMOTE=`ssh -l $USER $HYPERVISOR "virsh vncdisplay $VM | cut -d ":" -f 2"`
VNC_PORT_REMOTE=5900
let VNC_PORT_REMOTE+=$VNC_DISPLAY_REMOTE


echo ssh -L $VNC_PORT_LOCAL:localhost:$VNC_PORT_REMOTE -l $USER -N -f $HYPERVISOR
ssh -L $VNC_PORT_LOCAL:localhost:$VNC_PORT_REMOTE -l $USER -N -f $HYPERVISOR

VNC_COMMAND_ARGS="localhost:${VNC_PORT_LOCAL:-0}"
echo VNC_COMMAND $VNC_COMMAND 
echo VNC_COMMAND_ARGS $VNC_COMMAND_ARGS
(cd /Applications/Chicken\ of\ the\ VNC.app/Contents/MacOS/ && ./Chicken\ of\ the\ VNC $VNC_COMMAND_ARGS &2>1 > /dev/null &)