On 01/08/2015 06:09 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:

in my "serious" environments which are all virtualized it is simple:

 * a central VMware vCenter Server for the HA cluster
 * that thing is sadly a windows machine, don't matter
   because it's only purpose is to run a RDP session
   and all day long the VMware client connected to the
   vCenter
 * for sure you can achieve the same with pure open-source
Right, just a SMOP.... NOT.

Actually, even with vCenter (which we also have) getting a console is not a foregone conclusion. It is a browser plugin which actually right now does not work for me on my linux desktop.

On second thought, perhaps you're suggesting what I often do, RDP to a windows machine with vCenter, which does work, but is less than elegant: RDP from machine 1 to a virtual machine 2, accessing a hypervisor running on physical host 3  that accesses a virtual machine 4.