The Virtual Framebuffer
For as much as purists would like to claim that all administration should be done via serial port, there's something to be said for all this newfangled graphical technology that we've been using for, oh, around the last 25 years. Xen makes a concession to these forward-thinking beliefs by including a facility for a virtual framebuffer.
You will need to edit your Config.mk file to build the VFB:
XENFB_TOOLS ?= y
At this point you'll also need libvncserver and libsdl-dev. Install them in your chosen way. We installed CentOS's SDL-devel package and installed libvncserver from source. Then we built Xen and installed it in the usual way.
To actually use the framebuffer within a domain, you'll need to specify it in the config file. ...
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