Getting spice client console working in Virt-Manager for Mint 19

So the rest of the stuff works fairly easily, however due to renaming, there’s a good chance in Linux Mint 19.X, running the latest version of virt-manager of this writing (1.5.1) you might run into the error: “Error connecting to graphical console: Error opening spice console, SpiceClientGtk missing” The package needed for virt-manager/viewer to properly

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Using RealVNC in Windows to connect to a KVM session

In the past I have always used virt-manager from linux, often switching to X11 forwarding to natively run the app in Windows because I had always thought that VNC just didn’t work with KVM, despite seeing posts to the contrary on the interwebs. Turns out, the issue is specifically with RealVNC’s (default) settings. To connect

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Switching the default user when using SSH

By default, when creating a new linux worstation, the default username will always be used if you choose to ssh to another machine, unless you wanted to use the username@server method or -l switch and add the username. However you can simply add a configuration option to your ./ssh folder which will always use specific accounts

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X-Men Apocalypse Movie Review

Being one of those growing up with the X-Men comics (as well as Avengers, Spider-Man, Punisher, Iron Man, and others), I think this is a wonderful time for cinema, at least for those of us who originally read many of these stories in print. This story, about an Egyptian mutant named En Sabah Nur, originally

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