> On 1 Nov 2025, at 00:20, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@???> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 05:43:20PM +0100, Nick via Dng wrote
>
>> 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.
>
> Yes, I'm running QRMU/KVM on the remote to run the VM. Since it's a
> turn-based game, I don't need blazing speed. Is there a tutorial on
> this setup? VNC of the underlying linux session is smooth and crisp.
> But on the emulated VM, the mouse pointer is rather flakey. It seems
> that layering VM emulation on top of VNC emulation is problematic.

Maybe you could try tigervnc server on the remote computer as well as using it for the client? There is an xorg plugin that might be faster.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=tigervnc

Tom