On Wed, August 29, 2012 10:38, Theo Band wrote:
I'm not sure what your benefit is to not use your host but a VM running on it. You could consider to use XDMP. You still need a (local) X server (gdm), but then choose remote logon usign XDMCP. On the virtual machine use gdmsetup to allow remote access or use this link:
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Installation_Guide/s2-trouble-remotex....
Presently I build kvm hosts with a minimal install and add whatever packages are required to get kvm working and provide my customary administrative tools. The kvm guests get the user applications. I simply want to have a similar arrangement on my personal workstation so that my experiments do not become invisibly dependent upon something I have installed for my own use.
Basically, I want to simply leave the host configuration alone once kvm is running and do my mucking about in a virtual machine.