-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 20/03/17 08:37, Martin Kletzander wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:26:20AM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> >> Can anybody comment on how to host virtual desktops on a headless >> server using libvirt and KVM on the server and a SPICE client to >> access the virtual desktop? Is there a standard way of doing >> this? >> >> I've seen many fragments of information about how to do this but >> I didn't come across a single guide describing the entire >> solution. Search engines also return a lot of information about >> gaining remote access to a real physical desktop but that is not >> what I'm looking for. I've also come across many real-world >> scenarios where people are manually starting VNC server processes >> for each user on different ports but I was hoping to find out if >> there is a more standard way of doing this now. >> >> When I say "virtual desktop", the type of user experience I'm >> thinking about is that named users can run a SPICE client >> anywhere and always connect to the same host/desktop. E.g. if >> they leave some windows open, disconnect, go to another physical >> machine and reconnect with the same username they will see the >> same desktop with the same windows open. >> > > How is it different to just having VM per user on that host and > having people connect to their VMs (using TLS and passwords, for > example, just to make sure). Each VM will have its own spice (or > VNC) server and users can connect to them either directly (if there > is access and open ports etc.) or through libvirt (if they are > not). If latter is the case, you can use ACLs to restrict > particular users to connect only to their machines. > That would be one solution - is there any standard solution to manage the ACLs and to route each user's connection to the right machine without asking each user to remember their machine name? Is there a way to do this where multiple users are concurrently logged in to the same virtual server, similar to different XDMCP sessions started on the same server for different X users? Regards, Daniel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJZCIJkAAoJEGxlgOd711bE6gUQALGT7dxFUWtYmKuf3/5eBLAG CTwsTTEN69a8DNp8QNN/q1HtXRjmSCvltcCYfVYOtDlAPSvW/oHoQ2jsoa9k4CY2 YwUN10ChUILicb6braRycFwC2Ff+iA3eME3ncRjwuN9huqszyilLlqU3uAg2+xD2 yfOazAW8pta/cg6Fom41D0IC9I5HXBJLn4AOO0Sbj1eOrSGpIdZYabtKRkMSafJO /0fuOFvYpWQ4+oMqQEICRthu+xF6fbey25hnD3TUJgCW2zM5s4a2oPZdjiFvGtw6 c5uzDcX5Uc0UlcGIKzoT2FvvgTyKkGOae9MXaZSzFXHCTPua3JZYeGcWFAYjTvqQ 934e2/WEnsEFcMaQmySeIHw/ZDxC/CMJzGzyIOr+rEuExezsJMyeXHwk+z6TGoXN CryrApnZB+0Qye6NqdCL+7o/q0W/gxQaGUSlwp4Fjmt62ecgNPlMfq4qndASOpq3 GlSFGuVvz9yFLKkejbAgcT1+cJ3pnI2wdozUmi+nOj9ygdvVdqw0+OMQj0qmQwL1 zjRpCJnz/Algv9w8LRfo9FamUxafo2EFq3HgmMqZf28cc91H+0ekfumOuR4jK0cu FfZCDvKm5XWs45KYknzsBsCQVMP3DyOj3J7hAElkgrGwIE8tdwrlfaS/m/U3MNtB C3XU90VUrSsb+o0Nor+H =b7NO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
