On Wed, August 29, 2012 10:38, Theo Band wrote: >> >> > I'm not sure what your benefit is to not use your host but a VM > running > on it. > You could consider to use XDMP. You still need a (local) X server > (gdm), but then choose remote logon usign XDMCP. > On the virtual machine use gdmsetup to allow remote access or use this > link: > > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Installation_Guide/s2-trouble-remotex.html > Presently I build kvm hosts with a minimal install and add whatever packages are required to get kvm working and provide my customary administrative tools. The kvm guests get the user applications. I simply want to have a similar arrangement on my personal workstation so that my experiments do not become invisibly dependent upon something I have installed for my own use. Basically, I want to simply leave the host configuration alone once kvm is running and do my mucking about in a virtual machine. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB at Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3