On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 05:06:07PM +0000 or thereabouts, Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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? >
Thank you Stuart, that worked a treat! Moss
