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Assign higher port numbers to avoid conflict with port numbers assigned by
the VNC viewer, which uses the lowest available port number.
8.3.2 Using SDL instead of a VNC Viewer
If you access a virtual machine's display from the virtual machine host console (known
as local or on-box access), you might want to use SDL instead of VNC viewer. VNC
viewer is faster for viewing desktops over a network, but SDL is faster for viewing
desktops from the same computer.
To set the default to use SDL instead of VNC, change the virtual machine's configuration
information to the following. For instructions, see Section 5.3, "Configuring a Virtual
Machine by Modifying its Xend Settings" (page 37).
• If it is a fully virtual machine, use vnc=0 and sdl=1.
• If it is a paravirtual virtual machine, use vfb=["type=sdl"].
Remember that, unlike a VNC viewer window, closing an SDL window terminates the
virtual machine.
8.4 Virtual Keyboards
When a virtual machine is started, the host creates a virtual keyboard that matches the
keymap entry according to the virtual machine's settings. If there is no keymap entry
in the virtual machine's settings, the host uses the keymap entry specified in host's
Xend file ( xend-config.sxp). If there is no keymap entry in either the host's
Xend file or the virtual machine's settings, the virtual machine's keyboard defaults to
English (US).
Unless you manually specify it, a keymap entry is not specified in the host's Xend file
or for any virtual machine. Therefore, by default, all virtual machine settings use the
English (US) virtual keyboard. It is recommended that you specify a keymap setting
for Xend and for each virtual machine, especially, if you want to migrate virtual ma-
chines to different hosts
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