On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Michael H. Warfield mhw@wittsend.com wrote:
On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 12:43 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
I finally got access to some machines with more resources than the free VMware ESXi license allows which pushed me into trying kvm instead. Seems capable enough for what I need and can even import and run the existing vmdk images I already have. But, I have some questions about accessing the virt-manager console remotely for initial configuration, etc.. Normally I use freenx for remote GUI access and it seems to work except that on the Windows guest I tried the cursor position never stays in sync. Are there better ways to get remote access to the GUI or centralize access to a group of KVM servers? Or do most people automate the VM setup to the point where they don't need console access until it is up on the network where you can connect directly to the guest?
Use use Remmina as a client and freenx on most of my servers. Remmina supports NX, RDP, VNC, native X11 and others an can tunnel any over ssh. That being said, I've heard some people say some very good things about Spice (not to be confused with the electrical engineering Spice as in gnuspice), which is NOT support by Remmina.
Someone told me that Spice was only usable for host to VM remote desktops but, the last I heard, it looks like it's approaching a general purpose remote desktop that can outperform NX. But it's really hard to beat NX.
I don't really understand the details yet, but it looks like a vm can be configured to use vnc or spice for its console - but how do you get the connection established somewhere other than the virt-manager running at the host? What client would you use to do this and how do you know the connection details?
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com