Is it possible to run a windows gui client in a virtual machine hosted in a non gui linux?
How to set this up? and how to connect to such a machine?
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Sign up to join this communityYou can do this, if you have a third machine where you can run a GUI. For instance, I've setup Windows 7 running in Xen server (a bare-metal hypervisor with only ssh access to the server). I connected to it using RDP (remote desktop), from other Windows machines as well as using an RDP client on OS X.
virt-viewer
is available on Windows and allows you to view the console of your KVM guest during boot and/or before guest networking starts. It's an alternative to VNC in @ThomasDickey's comment above, and uses the SPICE protocol.
Nov 28, 2015 at 13:25