Chapter 6: Virtual Display Devices and Protocols
In this chapter, we will discuss the way in which we access our virtual machines by using virtual graphic cards and protocols. There are almost 10 available virtual display adapters that we can use in our virtual machines, and there are multiple available protocols and applications that we can use to access our virtual machines. If we forget about SSH for a second and any kind of console-based access in general, there are various protocols available on the market that we can use to access the console of our virtual machine, such as VNC, SPICE, and noVNC.
In Microsoft-based environments, we tend to use a remote desktop protocol (RDP). If we are talking about Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI ...
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