Re: kvm 58 and vncviewer

Amit Shah
2008-01-03T15:58:24Z

On Thursday 03 January 2008 20:58:17 Jerry Geis wrote:
> I dont exactly know what SDL is.
>
> All I know is when I am at my desk everything is working fine...
> Then I go home and use "vncviewer machine" to remote into my desktop.
> Everything runs normal of course but when I select my minimized kvm
> session, it maximizes but I cannot click in the XP session to give it
> focus. All I get is the
> little square mouse pointer like you get when you move the mouse off the
> kvm window
> and kvm has grabbed the mouse. I cannot ever select anything in the XP
> window accessing my
> machine with vncviewer.
>
> I am using centos 5.1 and now kvm-59.

You should try something like this:

Start kvm with the -vnc :1 switch. This won't give you the usual qemu/kvm
window that you see. You will need to use vncviewer on the host to see the
kvm window.

Use this setup then from your home pc; it should be better.

Amit

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