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Field Monitor

Field Monitor is a virtualisation program, available on Linux.

Completely free
Linux
Open source

Overview

Field Monitor is a virtualisation program, available on Linux.

Services and protocols mentioned: RDP and VNC.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Access virtual machines and other external screens” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Field Monitor is completely free: it is open source software, and every feature is available without paying or subscribing.

Its licence (GPL-3.0+) is a copyleft open source licence: you may use, study, modify and redistribute it, including commercially; modified versions must keep the same licence.

Strengths

Open source code
Commercial use allowed

About

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 Virtual Environment 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.

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) — 9 November 2026
Last technical check: 6 November 2026
Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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