On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > On 06/05/2013 11:22 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Yes, that works, even starting from a freenx session. I just didn't >> understand what "File/add connection" meant in virt-manager. That's >> probably good enough for the scale of things at the moment. > > this is much more secure than doing vnc directly to the remote machine ( > for obvious reasons ) - since qemu will open a real vnc port on the host > machine for every session you request it to. > > If its a linux vm instance, why vnc at all, the emulated serial console > should be enough (?) We'll have a mix of linux and windows guests so there is the issue of how to do the initial guest network setup before you can connect directly even when cloning an existing image. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com