Once the installation is complete, I’m using VNC again to update the missing Ethernet drivers in the Device Manager, configure the network and that’s pretty much it. Look for the viostor drivers during the installation process and the logical volume will finally show up in the installer. Since Windows won’t find the required disk drivers, I’m attaching the Windows virtio driver. Since the VNC port isn’t exposed to the internet (deliberately), I’m using ssh port forwarding to access it to complete the installation. Once the KVM is up, I’m using a VNC client to complete the Windows installation. In my case, the network bridge br0 from the Linux KVM host is exposed to the guest KVM. disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/$VIRTIO_IMAGE,device=cdrom \ disk path=/dev/$VG/lv_vm_$NAME,bus=virtio \ Virt-install -connect qemu:///system -arch=x86_64 -n $NAME -r $RAM -vcpus=$CPU \
#NOMACHINE VS VNC INSTALL#
The biggest challenge was to find the right parameters for virt-install to install a Windows server on my Linux KVM host.
#NOMACHINE VS VNC WINDOWS 10#
Windows 10 Pro contains an RDP server as well but I haven’t tried it. I realise that a Windows Server installation is pretty much overkill for just a cloud desktop but hey… it’s free (in my case).
It uses the RDP protocol which is fully supported by Guacamole. However, I have an unused Windows Server 2019 educational license which I can use for my cloud desktop. Obviously there is commercial remote desktop server software like RealVNC or NoMachine but I don’t want to shell out cash for my cloud desktop and in the case of NoMachine, its proprietary NX protocol isn’t supported by Guacamole. While it works, the graphics performance/latency sucks even though I was using the low resource environment xfce4. While I love Linux, it sucks when it comes to running a remote desktop server using non-commercial software. Thanks to the awesome Apache Guacamole remote desktop gateway software, I can access it everywhere, just by using a web browser (and an Internet connection). This is one of the ways to use the raspberry pi as surveillance camera.I like using a remote desktop work/office environment for various reasons, travelling being on of them. The original RaspberryPi OS comes with RealVNC - a courtesy of RealVNC towards the RaspberryPi project.Īs this is a commercial version of VNC you may be able to tweak it further.īut if your intention is to stream movies then a better solution is to use RTSP directly from the PI to e.g. My RPi4/8GB (Ethernet) streams FHD over SSH without any loss of quality. You can modify the viewer connection options for the vnc server on your workstation but in any case the image is generated on the Pi.
The images you see on your workstation is generated by the Pi and sent over the wire - and the quality of the connection greatly influence the quality of the recevived images. The VNC service in the Pi is reacting to the servers kbd and mouse and in return sends back the images generated by the client to the server. With VNC it is opposite - your workstation becomes the server as it is serving kbd, mouse and monitor to the client - the Pi. We are used to the remote system to be serving us something - either a webpage or sending a mail and the client is consuming the data or service. While VNC uses the terminlogy of server for the remote system and viewer for the local system - it is more like an opposite view of the server/client method.
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