thanks

>> You can use tightvncserver to get a graphical desktop trough vnc. Like that, I can login to my servers from any client from my lasy seat ;) Don't forget to install a window-manager of your choice...

not sure whether I completely understand that yet but ...

if one uses something like tightvncserver ... you need to access that VM from somewhere outside right? Further more I guess you need to use some sort of IP addresse and maybe port in order to do that ... Where do those come from if you have not accesses the concole of the VM to make any setup? Is that in the xml files (accessed with   virsh edit [domain]) again

secondly ... if I find a way to access the console of any VM in the console of my host I am as happy as I can be. so that's what I want to pursue at this point in time.

In my eyes this should be such a given that I am surprised about seeing so many appealing for external or virt-viewer access.

>> Don't forget to install a window-manager of your choice...

where? my host, the external cpmputer I use to access the VM thrgouh tightvncserver

On August 29, 2016 at 3:29 PM Dominique Ramaekers <dominique.ramaekers@cometal.be> wrote:

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virt-viewer again ... I am on a GUI less server, so that's not a option. I think
setting up the console is the thing one needs to figure out.

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I also have 'GUI-less' servers. You can use tightvncserver to get a graphical desktop trough vnc. Like that, I can login to my servers from any client from my lasy seat ;) Don't forget to install a window-manager of your choice...

Having a Gui to use virt-manager is, according to me, no excess luxury for non-harcore-terminal-administrators...