On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James B. Byrne <byrnejb at 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