On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James B. Byrne byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca wrote:
I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual host and using one of the guests as my primary workstation.
However, I am not sure how this would work in practice. I am accustomed to working with virtual instances via ssh (a terminal window) and with my desktop system in a Gnome window manager. Is there a reference somewhere that outlines the mechanics of logging into a virtual guest's graphical desktop directly from the physical console of the kvm host system?
I like to use freenx to host the desktop and the NX client to display it. That should work regardless of whether the desktop is a VM or not and regardless of the OS or location of the display - and it wouldn't surprise me if it performs better than whatever the built-in KVM mechanism uses. Even if you normally work locally, you may find it handy to be able to pick up the display from elsewhere with everything still running and have good performance.
The wiki is here:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX
Also look into spice:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Spice-libvirt
Akemi