[CentOS] KVM console?

Wed Jun 5 21:13:02 UTC 2013
Pete Travis <lists at petetravis.com>

On Jun 5, 2013 1:49 PM, "Les Mikesell" <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 02:23:50PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Have you tried virt-viewer directly, without the manager wrapper?
> >
>
> No, I'm just bumbling my way around at this point.  Is there an
> overview of how things are supposed to work somewhere?   I normally
> work at a windows box using the NX client to freenx as a starting
> point - or with ESXi I would run their console client.   Can I get a
> remote freshly started vm console to appear on my windows desktop
> natively or in a freenx session on a host that is not the VM's host?
>
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>    Les Mikesell
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You can run virt-manager locally and add an ssh connection to the remote
host for admin and use, or use 'spicec' from spice-client (iirc) for
standalone access. For windows guests, I'd install the spice tools and qxl
driver from spice-space.org as well.

--Pete