[CentOS] KVM and vnc together

Sat May 26 14:53:45 UTC 2012
Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com>

On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jerry Geis <geisj at 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