Re: [CentOS] KVM and vnc together

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jerry Geis geisj@pagestation.com wrote:

I have my machine CentOS 6.2 running KVM guest of Windows 7. This works fine while I'm in the office...

Then when I remote in using VNC to my machine - the VNC always works fine. However, when I try to access the KVM session its like the mouse has lost its brain.

Anyone ran into this?

I have not had the need to try your scenario.

I startup with this command: qemu-system-x86_64 -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net user -hda win7.img  -usb -m 4192 -vga std &

Each guest VM can have it's own vnc console (look at the kvm man page). With VNC enabled for your Win7 VM, you can access the Win7 console directly w/o having to go through your CentOS desktop.

HTH, -- Arun Khan