Oh lol, you guys. Now I'm laughing.

Heh, somehow I'm fine with that.

Is it something rendered in full screen mode, or something rendered along with the desktop? Continuous or at intervals? What screen capture program and method are you using? (Or need to used/cannot be used?) Those three are irrelivent. Also, the first one is pretty much a given. Thanks for trying!

This is the similar to asking "How do you replace the engine of a vehicle", and having a bunch of people who change tires for a living mark the question as 'not a question' because they don't understand what an engine is.

And also, I'm only at this point because people closed my question because they didn't understand the topic I was talking about. I wouldn't be insulting if people wouldn't downvote things that were out of there scope.

I do know all my viable alternatives to solving this problem without needing a visual display actually.

They're all looking for a 'why' so they can say 'No that's dumb, do it this way'...Which is what I'm not looking for, as it doesn't answer my question. That's simple logic.

@Iain Maybe you haven't been keeping up, but we already established that the question is a real question. The only real issue it seems, is my lack of including motive and reason into the question.

@Iain Listen, I can take suggestions and whatnot, but I have to walk back and say 'Yes this is possible, and here's how" or "No this can't be done because of x and y"...I've already pitched all the alternatives, but since a dude wrote a script to handle what we're doing for Sikuli a year ago, he figured it'd be faster than writing, for example a python test script....Essentially the GUI is just a dumb interface with a web browser. There are most certainly better solutions, but that's not what I'm looking for.

I was hoping there was a driver or something that could bypass this, or emulate a display, or something. Some kind of answer, but instead I got a bunch of 'I don't understand the question, so he's being vague'

@ChrisS Exactly what I'm dealing with here. yourlogicalfallacyis.com/personal-incredulity

@WesleyDavid no it wouldn't, it doesn't change the question.

I know one way of doing it via using VNC, but that would mean I'd have to spawn a VNC connection to each machine before it can start work, and there would be 100's...so I was hoping since the windows instances use the generic VGA driver, there was some kind of registry solution, or some kind of driver or app that would make it work.

I think it's a bad approach, but that doesn't make it unanswerable.

But here we go. Just because this is getting fairly annoying. My boss wants me to use Sikuli to load test some server code we have running by booting up a bunch of EC2's, and running through our custom dialogs while I take metrics on Sql Server 2008. I personally think it would be better to take the UI out of the equation, and just programatically make these calls, but for some reason, he just won't accept that as an answer. So, I figured someone on here might know HOW to keep the display running after disconnecting, or without even connecting at all.

@ChrisS I specifically DON'T put my reasoning in here most of the time because I already KNOW all of the solutions, and am only interested in the one I'm trying to solve. I don't want to spend a bunch of time explaining myself. And again, with what you said, my motives are irrelevant to the real question here, so why are we STILL focusing on that? How does what I'm doing affect whether or not I can, with software, view the screen when I'm not connected?