Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread J.Witvliet
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 5:12 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:13 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Not sure if freeNX is the best way to go. How about x2go: http://www.x2go.org/ Or thinlink from http://www.cendio.com/ The free version of NX may be on the way out, but currently freenx has the advantage of being a 'yum install'

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/28/2012 10:37 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread Nux!
On 28.08.2012 15:23, James B. Byrne wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual host and using one of the guests as my primary workstation. However, I

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread Patrick Lists
On 29-08-12 15:22, Johnny Hughes wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX Also look into spice: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Spice-libvirt I do several Windows desktops with spice Yesterday I tried both spice and FreeRDP connecting to a Win7 x64 VM on an F17 laptop. FreeRDP feels much

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread Theo Band
On 08/28/2012 04:23 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual host and using one of the guests as my primary workstation. However, I

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Theo Band theo.b...@greenpeak.com wrote: On 08/28/2012 04:23 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-29 Thread James B. Byrne
On Wed, August 29, 2012 10:38, Theo Band wrote: I'm not sure what your benefit is to not use your host but a VM running on it. You could consider to use XDMP. You still need a (local) X server (gdm), but then choose remote logon usign XDMCP. On the virtual machine use gdmsetup to allow

[CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread James B. Byrne
I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual host and using one of the guests as my primary workstation. However, I am not sure how this would work in practice. I am

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Cal Webster
On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 10:23 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual host and using one of the guests as my primary workstation.

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Les Mikesell
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is setting up my desktop as a virtual host and using one of the guests as my

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Chris Beattie
On 8/28/2012 11:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I like to use freenx to host the desktop and the NX client to display it. That should work regardless of whether the desktop is a VM or not and regardless of the OS or location of the display - and it wouldn't surprise me if it performs better than

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I am nearing the end of a project that moved our disparate services and hosts onto kvm virtualized servers. What I am now contemplating is

Re: [CentOS] KVM as a desktop

2012-08-28 Thread James B. Byrne
On Tue, August 28, 2012 11:37, Akemi Yagi wrote: Also look into spice: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Spice-libvirt Actually, I posted my question after reading that very page. I did not want to start down some technically involved path if a simpler solution was already widely used. I