On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Negative negativebinomial@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have to use the local video at all? What happens if you use freenx and run in a session started from a remote NX client?
Doesn't freenx use X? I haven't installed but will try it.
Yes, it uses X, but it doesn't use the local video hardware.
What I did try was to leave X off on workstation and built a fedora guest. I also connected to the workstation from another machine via ssh and I tried running the virt-viewer via X-forwarding, it stayed up for about 10 or 15 minutes and crashed. Since I could see the console on the work station then, it showed a kernel panic.
Not sure what that means. Freenx would at least keep the sesson active when you disconnect.
After rebooting I opened a terminal via ssh and it seems ok -- up for about 30 minutes so far, I'll check in the morning.
The trouble with that is I usually connect to the workshop via vnc, so I'm not sure the guest will be of much use.
A vncserver session not attached to the local console should also avoid local hardware issues - but freenx/NX is nicer to use.