Hi, all --
This is probably a VM-ish question rather than a SuSE-ish question, but since I'm running OpenSuSE I figured I could ask here to get started :-) I always get distracted when somebody writes openSUSE with a small u (which never existed) or SuSE in any non-historic context (though there are some SUSE-related entities which are still named such). I am a
Hi David, Am 22.07.21 um 22:01 schrieb David T-G: little like that monk character, it disturbs me for no obvious reason whenever I see it. Of course it's a petty thing but I can't get over it.
I want to create a VM on host X and view it from my host Y desktop. All of the examples I've seen show someone working locally. Can either of these tools support running the VM "there" but viewing and interacting with it "here"?
You have multiple options. Virtually all qemu-based or qemu-affiliated tool sets offer the remoting protocols VNC and RDP. This includes KVM and VirtualBox and, to some extent, Xen. I would advise you to stay away from Xen if you really just want to run some VMs with GUIs. See https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=97007 for a VirtualBox discussion. See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-kvm-vnc-for-guest-machine/ for KVM With KVM and Linux guests, you can also use the very performant spice remoting protocol https://linux-blog.anracom.com/2021/02/26/kvm-qemu-vms-with-multi-screen-spi...
If not, is there another simple and free hypervisor that will fill the bill? I'm not particularly in love with either, not least since I have no experience; they just seem to be at the top of everyone's "virtualization for dummies" lists.
KVM is pretty well-integrated with Linux desktops. If you need a GUI to setup everything, there is VirtManager, however many prefer using a CLI tool like virsh to work with it. VirtManager plays nice with machine local and network remote hypervisors. VirtualBox also is easy for beginners and when you come from a Windows background, it is easy to carry over your existing knowledge.
I just want to run a few simple VMs, but I have neither the disk space nor the extra RAM on my little desktop to do so -- and I don't particularly want to have to get up and go to the coat^Wserver closet any time I have to access them.
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