Bind VM Screens to Host consoles

Elleni

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Is it possible to bind vm's to certain host serial consoles?

We would like to achieve the following, Install ProxMox onto some laptops, which also all will have an windows vm booted. Now we would like the users to be able to switch to the fullscreen windows vm by some keybinding like Ctrl-Alt-F2 or similar.

Or what would you see as similar functionality? Like After booting some key binding that opens a corresponding spice session in virtual-viewer in fullscreen mode.

Like Ctrl-Alt-F2 - opens session to booted Windows VM, Ctrl-Alt-F3 opens an other VM in Fullscreen, Ctrl-Alt-F7 opens back the locally booted debiansession in which proxmox was installed.

Does anyone have an idea on how this could be achieved? Or an idea on how similar setup could be setup, like some sort of small menu that lets one chose on which VM one want to switch?
 
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Like Ctrl-Alt-F2 - opens session to booted Windows VM, Ctrl-Alt-F3 opens an other VM in Fullscreen,

The "missing keyword" here is "Developer Workstation" --> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Workstations_with_Proxmox_VE_and_X11

I have this on a too-small NUC for testing things --> https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/using-vms-on-the-same-host-machine.153004/post-694760

But I would NOT expect this approach to be stable enough for a productive Laptop as Hibernation / Sleep would be a difficult challenge. I would really be happy to be proven wrong, please go and test it! :-)
 
Hi UdoB. Thanks for your post - I will have a look. Thanks for the pointers