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Connect to Windows Virtual Machine

From any client PC booting from network

  • We press ALT-CTRL-F6. Windows login screen is shown. We press Alt-Ctrl-Delete. We click on Change user and then Other user.
  • If we already have an administrator account we connect with our own account on domain SCH.LOCAL. Otherwise we connect as local administrator root typing username .\root

Via proxmox gui

Suppose we want to connect to virtual machine running Windows and install software.

  1. First we connect to Server PC to Proxmox by using a browser (firefox recommended) as user root or teacher. We connect either locally, or from another PC on local network or from internet.
  2. On the left pane we select Datacenter and double click on hosta.
  3. To open a VNC console, (that is a remote connection to graphical environment through vnc) we have 2 ways
    1. For unscaled clean view we select the Windows virtual machine we want and press Console button at the top right or we right click on the virtual machine and select Console.
    2. For scaled zoomed full screen we click on Console tab (next to Snapshot tab).
  4. On the local machine, we change language to english.
We first change the language on the local machine and then press alt-shift if needed to change it on VNC console too
  1. If we need to send CTRL-ALT-DELETE to the VNC Console, we click on the small arrow on the left on VNC console, click on A button and then the bottom one.
  2. We click on Change user and then Other user.
  • If we already have an administrator account we connect with our own account on domain SCH.LOCAL. Otherwise we connect as local administrator root typing username .\root
On our 1st login, Windows will create user profile and delay for about 30sec during login. Next time login will be faster.
After we finish working, we don't forget to logout from Windows virtual machine
en/connection/connect2windowsvm.txt · Last modified: Y/m/d H:i by vagk