Tobias Gasser wrote: > Am 28.11.2012 18:35, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: >> I can't help with vinagre as I have never used it, but would like to >> offer an alternative. You should be able to ssh into the gemu session >> and run a xorg based app over the ssh link. That's how I normally >> access remote systems. A virtual system should work the same. > > yes. works fine - as soon as i know the ip address. > and i too use ssh to connect to remote systems. > > >> To me, the advantage of a vnc connection is where two or more users >> access the same screen and can communicate via phone/skype conference. >> However, for a single user, it seems to me that a vnc setup is unneeded >> overhead. > > i agree. but: > > i want to play with different distributions, most use dynamic ip.
I don't experiment a lot with different distros any more, but setting a static ip should not be hard. Even if dhcp is used, then the ip address shouldn't change unless there is a reboot. > as i want to set up a headless i7 with a fat harddisk in the cellar, vnc > would make life much easier! > > with ssh i have 2 points: > 1) i have to know the qemu-image ip > 2) the ssh-server must be started which is not default with quite a lot > of life-distros. I would think a simple apt-get or rpm command would get sshd running. And you can always install from source. My logs show that it took about 15 minutes for openssl+openssh (on a slow system). > with vnc i just have to connect to the server-ip with the 590x port, > where the x is known by qemu '-vnc :x'. with ssh i have to look at what > ip my dhcp-server assigns to the qemu-session. not realy a problem, i > can ssh to it... > > vnc just needs 2 more packages: gtk-vnc + vinagre > thus disk-overhead is minimal, protocol-overhead i can ignore as i have > 1gb network inhouse. It's not an issued of overhead or disk space, just the complexity of setup. I just was making a suggestion though. If you are more comfortable with vnc, then that's what you should use. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
