How to enable QEMU Barrier KVM client per VM without breaking the Proxmox configuration system?

[renne]

Hi,

we want to use Barrier KVM to control multiple VMs from one PC without having to fiddle around with hardware KVM switches.
Installing the distribution Barrier packages on CLI systems makes no sense as the dependencies will install all the X11 stuff.
QEMU has an integrated Barrier client.

How can the Barrier client integrated in QEMU be activated without breaking the Proxmox configuration system?

Thanx for any hint!

 

[aaron]

You can add custom arguments with the "args" config option

qm set <vmid> --args ...

https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/qm.conf.5.html#_options

It has been a while since I used Synergy. I wasn't aware of the fork. I'll have to keep it in mind.

 

[Edvins]

Hi,

we want to use Barrier KVM to control multiple VMs from one PC without having to fiddle around with hardware KVM switches.
Installing the distribution Barrier packages on CLI systems makes no sense as the dependencies will install all the X11 stuff.
QEMU has an integrated Barrier client.

How can the Barrier client integrated in QEMU be activated without breaking the Proxmox configuration system?

Thanx for any hint!

@renne - I am hoping to do the same thing - I have two windows laptops and a Proxmox server with several linux VMs. Were you able to get this working?

Thanks.

Ed