Access virtual machines and other external screens
Field Monitor is a remote-desktop client designed for the GNOME platform.
It is focused on connecting to virtual machines, but can connect to any server supporting the RDP, SPICE or VNC protocols.
It has support for directly connecting to VMs of the following hypervisors:
- Proxmox
- QEMU/KVM via libvirt
For supported VM hypervisors Field Monitor also offers options to manage the basic power state of VMs, such as starting, stopping, rebooting, etc.
Additionally, Field Monitor supports opening RDP and Virt Viewer connection files and quickly connecting to RDP, SPICE or VNC servers via URI.
Field Monitor can be downloaded via Flathub.
Note
A Nixpkgs submission is currently pending: NixOS/nixpkgs#392984
Field Monitor can be built from source using Meson. For a list of requirements, please see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Thank you for considering to contribute to Field Monitor! Field Monitor is free software and lives from people investing time into making it better. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md to get started.
© 2025 Marco Köpcke and contributors
Field Monitor would not be possible without Marc-André Lureau's RDW, the remote-desktop widgets that power all RDP, VNC and SPICE connections. Thank you!
Field Monitor is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, please see COPYING for more information.