Virtual KVM

OVH Innovation, vKVM (Virtual Keyboard/Video/Mouse) enables you to access to a distant PC even if it is not running on the network any more.

What is that?

Virtual KVM is an Ovh innovation following an in-house launched idea. Thanks to the virtualization of the server, we start your server on a minimalist system: vKVM. This system enables us to launch your dedicated server in virtualization and to monitor its starting on a screen.

You can also start your server on an ISO or on the USB flash disc thanks to ftpfs. You can thus start your server on any system and carry out the handling via vKVM with the keyboard and the mouse.

Example:

For example, you are under Windows, you modify the configuration of the network and splash... your server doesn't ping any more, impossible to connect!!

Don't worry, you can sort it out via vKVM. How? You just have to reboot your server in vKVM mode and then via the Web interface of vKVM: start your server.

Next, via a Java applet (VNC/SSL), you follow the starting of Windows on a screen. With the keyboard you will enter the login and the password, double click and you restart the network, then reboot the server on the disc.

How does it work?

virtual KVM: it is the tool of virtualization which simulates a minimalist system on your server and starts your server on it.

Internet: Information of the server and your keyboards/mice/screen transmit across the Internet.

Keyboard/mouse/screen: Your keyboards, mice and screen enable you to manage the server from home, as if it were physically beside you.

To get vKVM

To use it, go to the Manager. Following the reboot of your server in vKVM mode, you will receive an email and let's go.