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title: Display
description: How to access a virtual machine's display
published: true
date: 2023-05-20T21:29:47.985Z
date: 2023-10-15T14:58:54.578Z
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editor: markdown
dateCreated: 2022-07-31T09:22:05.854Z
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[D-Bus](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus/) is a desktop-oriented middleware that can be used to create a display for a virtual machine.
* Export and enable a video backend, add support for OpenGL and peer-to-peer connection:
#### Libvirt
* Add a D-Bus video backend and add enable for OpenGL:
```
<graphics type="dbus">
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</graphics>
```
It will look like that when launched:
> This equates to `-display dbus,gl=on` in QEMU
>
{.is-info}
When the virtual machine is launched, a specific D-Bus address will be choosen, as well as a rendering device:
```
<graphics type="dbus" address="unix:path=/run/user/1000/libvirt/qemu/run/dbus/8-user-d-bus-dbus.sock">
<gl enable="yes" rendernode="/dev/dri/renderD128"/>
</graphics>
```
* Export and enable an audio backend:
* Add a D-Bus audio backend:
```
<graphics type="dbus">
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</graphics>
```
#### Connect to the D-Bus display
A third-party tool is required to interact to the D-Bus display.
[Libmks](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libmks), which is under development, is such a tool.
> Due to [a bug](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libmks/-/issues/16), it is currenlty only possible to connect a D-Bus display with plain QEMU
{.is-warning}
Libmks has to be built from source.
- Clone the repository
```
git clone https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libmks
```
- Change directory
```
cd libmks
```
- Build it
```
meson setup build
cd build
ninja
```
- Launch a diskless virtual machine
```
qemu-system-x86_64 \
-enable-kvm \
-machine q35 \
-drive if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on,file=/usr/share/edk2-ovmf/x64/OVMF_CODE.fd \
-cpu host \
-device virtio-vga-gl \
-m 4G \
-smp 2,sockets=1,dies=1,cores=2,threads=1 \
-display dbus,gl=on \
-device virtio-tablet-pci \
-device virtio-keyboard-pci \
```
- From another terminal tab or window, launch the previously built MKS using the following command
```
./build/tools/mks
```
## Resources
* [Detailed presentation](https://bootlin.com/pub/conferences/2016/meetup/dbus/josserand-dbus-meetup.pdf) on D-Bus