I would suggest first and foremost to not use VNC at all.
VMWare offers some free options, and they come with a tool for connecting
that will be less resource intense.
Barring going that route for any reason, I would suggest using Microsofts
RDP protocol to support remote login to the Windows
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Steven S. Critchfield
cri...@basesys.com wrote:
I would suggest first and foremost to not use VNC at all.
VMWare offers some free options, and they come with a tool for connecting
that will be less resource intense.
Barring going that route for any reason, I
The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and
you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access
to the appropriate ports from a remote machine.
Chris
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14,
- Original Message -
The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine
and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just
need access
to the appropriate ports from a remote machine.
You might want to look deeper into that. While the webserver that
You may want to look into VirtualBox. It has a built-in RDP server for
virtual machines (be sure to get the PUEL version).
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:44, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote:
- Original Message -
The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux
It does give you access to open a console. You may have to install a
browser plugin and/or java, but you can open your virtual machines console
with nothing more than a web browser. I used VMWare Server for years this
way. Our VMWare Server didn't even run a GUI.
Chris
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011
It will give you true console access by way of a remote console plugin.
But, though I have not really tried it, it also supports (through manual
setup) guest VM console access using VNC protocol. The remote console
plugin works pretty good though and you can create shortcuts to launch
the plugin
- Original Message -
Note that Vmware server appears to be on a
sunset track though. With newer versions of linux, vmware server will
probably continued to gradually have operational problems as VMware is
no longer
updating it to keep pace with linux and windows changes on the host
Agreed. I was starting to think Virtual Box, but with Oracle and some of
the licensing mods, I plan next to delve into what comes native to linux.
CentOS 6 should be out soon and I will probably pick it up there as RHEL6
is based on Fedora 12 and things had modernized fairly well by that point
