[ale] Virtual machine questions for public use machines

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Jan 24 14:44:30 EST 2015


I don't have any details for you but yes to all. I saw laptops being rolled
out at IBM that looked like win7 machines until I saw the boot process was
all Linux with a KVM auto started VM.
On Jan 24, 2015 2:31 PM, "Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale at acarver.net> wrote:

> I'm going to try a virtual machine experiment in the next few weeks with
> some spare boxes at work but I'm having trouble figuring a couple things
> out.
>
> First, is it possible to have a setup where the host OS (Linux) has no
> GUI (console at most) and the guest OS (Windows) is all GUI that can
> completely take over the screen to appear as if it was the host OS?
>
> If that's the case, can this be configured to happen at boot (system
> boots, at end of boot guest is running on the whole screen)?
>
> Is there a VM host that can accept a signal (by cron, ssh session, etc.)
> to kill a guest?  This is to kill the guest at night, delete the guest
> container file and then make a copy of an archived container to
> essentially start from scratch every day.
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