Xen users - Sep 2009 - Connecting separate VMs to separate displays [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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Hi,


We currently have a test network that is simulating a corporate network,
that we are using to do our research. It consists of 7 PCs, with 5 VMs
spread between them. What we are looking at doing is Virtualising them.
What would need to do is have 4 of these VMs connected to individuals
displays as we need a GUI to interact with the VMs to do our research.
It seems to me that Virtualising is best for running servers that people
interact with over the network (eg HTTP, Database, RDP etc etc), I''m
not
sure if what we would like to do is even possible. I have done a lot of
Googling but haven''t found much to help me. Can anyone tell me is what
I
am proposing is possible (eg connect different VMs to different
displays)?


Thanks, 

Martin. 

 

  
 

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Martin,

Your users could use VNC or RDP to connect to the VMs. I''m assuming  
they have PCs on their desks.

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On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:24 PM, "Lucas, Martin"
<Martin.Lucas@dsto.defence.gov.au
 > wrote:
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>
> Hi,
> We currently have a test network that is simulating a corporate  
> network, that we are using to do our research. It consists of 7 PCs,  
> with 5 VMs spread between them. What we are looking at doing is  
> Virtualising them. What would need to do is have 4 of these VMs  
> connected to individuals displays as we need a GUI to interact with  
> the VMs to do our research. It seems to me that Virtualising is best  
> for running servers that people interact with over the network (eg  
> HTTP, Database, RDP etc etc), I''m not  sure if what we would like
to
> do is even possible. I have done a lot of Googling but haven''t
found
> much to help me. Can anyone tell me is what I am proposing is  
> possible (eg connect different VMs to different displays)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin.
>
>
>
>
>
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Hi Peter,

We need the displays directly connected to the Xen VM Server as we are
trying to consolidate our network and completely replace our test
network with a single box that will virtualise the entire network. So
what we want to do is have 4 monitors connected to the Xen Server. Our
test network is entirely for research purposes, so there won''t actually
be any real users.

Thanks for your quick response,

Regards,
Martin.
 
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>From: Peter Booth [mailto:peter_booth@mac.com]
>Sent: Thursday, 17 September 2009 10:00 AM
>To: Lucas, Martin
>Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com
>Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Connecting separate VMs to separate displays 
>[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
>Martin,
>
>Your users could use VNC or RDP to connect to the VMs. I''m assuming
>they have PCs on their desks.
>
>Sent from my iPhone
>
>On Sep 16, 2009, at 8:24 PM, "Lucas, Martin" 
><Martin.Lucas@dsto.defence.gov.au> wrote:
>
>
>
>	UNCLASSIFIED
>
>	Hi,
>	
>
>	We currently have a test network that is simulating a corporate 
>network, that we are using to do our research. It consists of 7 PCs, 
>with 5 VMs spread between them. What we are looking at doing is 
>Virtualising them. What would need to do is have 4 of these VMs 
>connected to individuals displays as we need a GUI to interact with the
>VMs to do our research. It seems to me that Virtualising is best for 
>running servers that people interact with over the network (eg HTTP, 
>Database, RDP etc etc), I''m not sure if what we would like to do is
>even possible. I have done a lot of Googling but haven''t found much
to
>help me. Can anyone tell me is what I am proposing is possible (eg 
>connect different VMs to different displays)?
>	
>
>	Thanks,
>
>	Martin. 
>
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Lucas, Martin wrote:
>We need the displays directly connected to the Xen VM Server as we are
>trying to consolidate our network and completely replace our test
>network with a single box that will virtualise the entire network.
The only thing that comes to mind is to fit four video cards and pass 
them through to the guests. Use pciback.hide to hide them from the 
host kernel.

Not sure what you''d do about keyboards and mice though.

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