Archiv des Monats: Januar 2009

Ubuntu Dev-Branch with KVM and XDMCP

If you are using kvm on Linux, i.e. Ubuntu, you might be interested in the development process for the next upcoming release. Often you have to desire, if you like to upgrade a current stable release to an snapshot or not.

With kvm you have the ability to setup a guest with a development branch. Normally you would have to use vnc or similar to work with the graphical surface (if not only using ssh).

But Linux does have xdmcp support and with gdm as login manager it is very easy to setup gdm locally and in the guest OS to run the guests desktop on the local X11 screen.
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