On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 12:43 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> I finally got access to some machines with more resources than the >> free VMware ESXi license allows which pushed me into trying kvm >> instead. Seems capable enough for what I need and can even import and >> run the existing vmdk images I already have. But, I have some >> questions about accessing the virt-manager console remotely for >> initial configuration, etc.. Normally I use freenx for remote GUI >> access and it seems to work except that on the Windows guest I tried >> the cursor position never stays in sync. Are there better ways to >> get remote access to the GUI or centralize access to a group of KVM >> servers? Or do most people automate the VM setup to the point where >> they don't need console access until it is up on the network where you >> can connect directly to the guest? > > Use use Remmina as a client and freenx on most of my servers. Remmina > supports NX, RDP, VNC, native X11 and others an can tunnel any over ssh. > That being said, I've heard some people say some very good things about > Spice (not to be confused with the electrical engineering Spice as in > gnuspice), which is NOT support by Remmina. > > Someone told me that Spice was only usable for host to VM remote > desktops but, the last I heard, it looks like it's approaching a general > purpose remote desktop that can outperform NX. But it's really hard to > beat NX. I don't really understand the details yet, but it looks like a vm can be configured to use vnc or spice for its console - but how do you get the connection established somewhere other than the virt-manager running at the host? What client would you use to do this and how do you know the connection details? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com