[CentOS-virt] Can KVM be run "headless"?

Thu Nov 11 03:30:11 UTC 2010
Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org>

Greetings,

----- Original Message -----
> On 11/10/2010 06:46 PM, compdoc wrote:
> If I am running a windows client, I would run something like
> Ultra VNC server. And on my host, communicate with something
> like krdc. Am I correct?

Opps, I need to add a more details... because I assumed in my last reply that your VMs were Linux... but of course they can be Windows.  If you want to access your Windows VM then yes, you can access it via RDP assuming you have turned on remote access in Windows.

Of course virt-manager and virt-viewer can also give you VNC-based GUI access to your Windows VM, but RDP is much faster.

It'll be nice when Red Hat adds SPICE support to virt-manager and virt-viewer.  Expect that in RHEL 6.1 and CentOS 6.1.  I believe SPICE can be done manually but I have yet to find any good instructions on how to do it.  Even in Fedora 14 it is a manual process that I haven't figured out yet.  Expect Fedora 15 to include SPICE support integrated into virt-manager and virt-viewer... and RHEL 6.1 to follow shortly thereafter.  That's my guess anyway.

TYL,
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