Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/KQEMU for server consolidation?

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On 11/8/05, Leigh Dyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using QEMU and KQEMU quite happily to run Linux and Windows
> guests on my Linux desktop PC for quite some time now, but I'm wondering
> if anyone has ever used QEMU for running a Windows server OS on a Linux
> server. Specifically, I need a Windows 2000 Server install running with
> SQL Server 7 for a project, but I'd rather not dedicate a full machine
> to it.
>
> Has anyone tried something like this before? QEMU will be running on a
> server, so I figured that the VNC X server would be a good option for
> the GUI, but if anyone has a better idea I'd love to hear it. Also, are
> there any issues running KQEMU on an SMP kernel?

I've tried QEMU and VNC and, for me at least, the mouse doesn't work. 
You get the little dot mouse that you sometimes see in VNC (its the
"show dot when no cursor" option in VNC) when it goes over the QEMU
window, but it has no effect - either clicking or moving.  This was on
Linux host with Windows 2000 guest.

Would be interested to know if someone has a solution to this though.