On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Nux! nux@li.nux.ro wrote:
I have installed a Windows instance as a kvm guest on a host running CentOS-6.5. I can access the desktop through the virt-manager console and everythign seems to work, although the mouse cursor seems to get lost from time to time.
The virt-manager console display supports various resolutions but when I re-size the desktop display remains essentially a square inside a letter box. What other methods are available to open the windows desktop from the CentOS-6.5 host console or by remote access that allow me to have a re-sizable MS-Windows desktop display for this guest running on my normal (gnome2) desktop?
What I do is change the resolution inside the guest, or use rdesktop with the desired geometry. There's no resizable display with virt-manager yet (a la Vbox).
Even with VMware I generally prefer to connect directly to the guest with vnc, redesktop, NX, etc. instead of the VM console once the network access is configured.
However the main problem I have with the virt-manager console is that when using NX/freenx to the KVM host, the mouse pointers seems to run at a wildly different resolution than the screen display. I can usually manage to get the pointer where I want but it often involves going 'past' the edge of the guest screen to get somewhat in sync, then back where I wanted it. Is there some way to get the console's mouse to track the positioning of the host's X screen as managed by freenx?