Running "Windows Emulation" headless ... possible?

[Sean C. Farley]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Scott Robbins wrote:

> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:18:07AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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>> I want to run a Windows environment for one piece of software, but, I
>> don't want to run it on my machine, I want to run it on a remote
>> server ...  basically, what I'd like to do is start up the 'VM', and
>> connect to it using vnc ... the idea is that the software needs to
>> run 24x7, but I need to be able to connect to it from multiple
>> locations throughout the day ...
>>
>> Is there something that I can do using ... Xvfb?  Or something like
>> that?  Anyone have experience with this sort of thing?

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> At any rate, with qemu, you could set up the server with tap
> networking, give the MS machine its own address on the subnet, and run
> tightvnc server.

Actually, QEMU has a built-in VNC server (-vnc).

Sean
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