On 10/29/25 11:31 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Showing my age here. Back in the early 1990's I was into OS/2 and
> bought a turn-based video game "Galactic Civilizations for OS/2". The
> successor to OS/2 (ArcaOS) is backwards compatable to ye olde OS/2. I
> now run the game in an ArcaOS VM under QEMU. My current 12-gig (YES:
> TWELVE) desktop will occasionally crash (once a month) whilst "Youtube
> bingeing". There's a lot of work involved "per year" in GalCiv, and I
> get very annoyed at having to re-do it after a crash part way through a
> "year".
>
> Currently, I run the VM on my hot backup 32-gig "successor machine".
> I don't want to dump the older machine, because it works for almost
> everything else.
>
> The other machine is in another room, so I have to walk over there to
> play the game. I need a client that can connect to the other machine,
> take over the X session, and provide keyboard and mouse input and mirror
> the other machine's screen. Importantly, my main machine crashing must
> not affect the other machine.
>
Considering you are using QEMU on the remote you could install QEMU/KVM
on the remote and use libvirt (with vnc and spice) on the local system
to control the remote vm and display. For games with low latency it
probably will not work but for video it should be enough.
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