On 25/12/2020 02:47, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:30:19PM -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via
users wrote:
> The primary mission of the server is mass storage (19 TB ZFS). Direct
> console (MATE) and ssh connections meet those needs just fine. It's the
> new mission objective of using that huge back-end storage space for
> creating virtual machines to prototype new client servers (not yet
> purchased). A VNC supporting the MATE desktop would be ideal since the
> local console is located in an inconvenient space. My plans to use
> TigerVNC to access virtual machines on this server now seem to be
> torpedoed.
For this use case, have you considered using the built-in VNC functionality
of virt-manager?
When it comes to connecting to a VM I use remmina along with the remmina-plugins-spice.
Works fine, and there is no need to configure a VNC server on the VM.
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