Using a screen on host for client VM?

[PeterLinuxGeek]

Hi All,

Veterinarians (and probably others) often subscribe to a service that plays advertising in a waiting room.
For vets in Canada this is often w8 a setup that requires windows & IE
(It does not run on Linux FF...)
As this is a 'dedicated' old crap PC usually, it is the perfect candidate to virtualize...
except you need that screen output...

Any chance I can use a video card (dual head?) in the host/server to do this and safe a PC... ?

Thanks

Peter

 

[jfroebe]

two different ways that I can see this working with only using the one pc (server):

1. set up xwindows and use a remote desktop client (rdesktop) to view the winxp vm.
2. purchase a USB video card (~$50) and assign the USB device to the winxp vm.
this will require you to update the /etc/qemu-server/<vm id>.conf file with the "hostusb:" parameter. See http://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qm_manual for details.

I would tend to use the USB video card in your setup.

 

[PeterLinuxGeek]

The first one might give people access to the server... but I like the second option!
Didn't know there was such hardware, cool.

Thanks for the tip!

Regards

Peter