On Thu, 2020-12-24 at 13:47 -0500, 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?
Matt,
Snapshot: I want to build and use a 240 GB C7.9 VM from my F33 laptop
using NFS storage from a C8.3 server
Reality: You can't get there from here. At every step there's a
permissions blockage, and none is a simple rwx problem.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL