Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/KQEMU for server consolidation?

[Leigh Dyer]

Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Leigh Dyer wrote:
>
> > Has anyone tried something like this before? QEMU will be running on a 
> > server, so I figured that the VNC X server would be a good option for 
> > the GUI, but if anyone has a better idea I'd love to hear it.
>
> You could also run VNC or RDP on the Windows server guest installation. 
> Doesn't give you remote access to the early boot sequence but has 
> slightly less overhead.

Yep, I was thinking about running RDP in the guest for day-to-day stuff 
(we do that now for our real Win2k server. The QEMU GUI has to go 
somewhere though, and short of installing the VNC patch, the easiest 
option looks like running a virtual X server like the VNC one. QEMU can 
connect to that and the display goes nowhere, until of course someone 
connects via VNC.

I've started on this, with a Win2k server install and SQL 7 running on 
my desktop seemingly quite well. After some more testing (loading up 
some databases, testing apps running under Linux connecting to it 
through the virtual NIC) I'll start looking at running it on our test 
SMP server with the VNC X server. If people are curious, I'll be happy 
to let you all know how it goes.

Thanks
Leigh
> Regards
> Henrik
>
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