On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > > >> I have installed a Windows instance as a kvm guest on a host running >> CentOS-6.5. I can access the desktop through the virt-manager console >> and >> everythign seems to work, although the mouse cursor seems to get lost >> from >> time to time. >> >> The virt-manager console display supports various resolutions but when >> I >> re-size the desktop display remains essentially a square inside a >> letter box. >> What other methods are available to open the windows desktop from the >> CentOS-6.5 host console or by remote access that allow me to have a >> re-sizable >> MS-Windows desktop display for this guest running on my normal >> (gnome2) >> desktop? > > What I do is change the resolution inside the guest, or use rdesktop > with the desired geometry. > There's no resizable display with virt-manager yet (a la Vbox). Even with VMware I generally prefer to connect directly to the guest with vnc, redesktop, NX, etc. instead of the VM console once the network access is configured. However the main problem I have with the virt-manager console is that when using NX/freenx to the KVM host, the mouse pointers seems to run at a wildly different resolution than the screen display. I can usually manage to get the pointer where I want but it often involves going 'past' the edge of the guest screen to get somewhat in sync, then back where I wanted it. Is there some way to get the console's mouse to track the positioning of the host's X screen as managed by freenx? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com