On 2014-08-21, Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I've got a small problem with vnc over an ssh tunnel. (sshvnc is a simplied > form of ssvnc given in the ssvnc port.) I'm going to try to cure it myself, > so I'm just reporting here. > > I have a virtual server with mythic-beasts, an openbsd-5.5-stable qemu image > running on a physical debian host. I can ssh into the physical host for the > admin console of the vs. I can vnc into the vs unencrypted and I can ssh > directly into the vs. > > My aim is to put the vnc through an ssh tunnel using sshvnc, especially as > Mythic-Beasts does not offer ssl. Sshvnc should do this automatically but it > is failing. There is a fleeting error message which I managed to capture with > scrot. This yielded the commands behind the gui:
sshvnc is a bit of a special case for when you need to start up the server as well - for this simpler case, can you just use "vncviewer -via ssh.host vnc.host:screen" instead?
