Linux

5384 readers

222 users here now

A community for everything relating to the linux operating system

Also check out [email protected]

Original icon base courtesy of [email protected] and The GIMP

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

Ategon

anzo

dwraf_of_ignorance

GUI options for KVM? (lemmy.radio)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/linux

12 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I've been using VMware for about two decades. I'm moving elsewhere. KVM appears to be the solution for me.

I cannot discover how a guest display is supposed to work.

On VMware workstation/Fusion the application provides the display interface and puts it into a window on the host. This can be resized to full screen. It's how I've been running my Debian desktop and probably hundreds of other virtual machines (mostly Linux) inside a guest on my MacOS iMac.

If I install Linux or BSD onto the bare metal iMac, how do KVM guests show their screen?

I really don't want to run VNC or RDP inside the guest.

I've been looking for documentation on this but Google search is now so bad that technical documents are completely hidden behind marketing blurbs or LLM generated rubbish.

Anyone?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

As others said virt-manager is probably the easiest. If you want to manage your server via web console akin to something like vcenter you can take a look at proxmox. Or try out cockpit with the libvirtd/qemu plugin on your Linux machine. Cockpit also has a spice/vnc display built in,