I had not thought of that. However, the purpose of this exercise is that I need to VPN into a client site. I don't want the VPN to wipe out routing and network info on the host, so I thought I'd install a vm and let VPN cripple the network on it. Thus, I don't think VNC is going to work for me unless I'm happy with the display packets going halfway across the US and back to get from the virtual machine to the host machine. On 06/10/2010 12:31 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:50:31 -0500 > Dale J. Chatham wrote: > > >> I'm finding KVM VMs desktop painfully jerky. It's bad enough at >> 800x600, but at 1600 x 1100 (or whatever the res is) as all but >> unusable. >> > I never use the emulated video console at all once I have the > machine installed. If I need a full gui, I install tigervnc-server > on the VM and then create a brand new VNC display independent > of the console and access it via vncviewer. > -- Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803 There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -- Ed Howdershelt (Author) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines