Re: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread James O'Dell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/19/2012 11:18 AM, Mike Haudenschild wrote: Good afternoon, VCL users -- I was curious if anyone else is running full Linux desktops (e.g. with GNOME) with VCL. Specifically, is there an implemented method for connecting to the GUI (i.e. as

Re: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread Mike Haudenschild
Hi Jim, Did you make changes to VCL, or just pre-install an RDP server on the Linux box prior to pulling the image? Regards, Mike On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 14:22, James O'Dell jod...@fullerton.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/19/2012 11:18 AM, Mike Haudenschild

RE: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread Waldron, Michael H
Yes, there is a very simple method of using VNC, which is available with most Linux distros. Make sure you have both vnc and vnc-server packages installed in the image. You don't have to have the VNC client installed on the end-user's desktop, you can use the client in the Linux image. To

Re: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread James O'Dell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I didn't need to make any changes. I just installed RDP as part of the image creation. This may not be the best method as the firewall isn't configured to limit rdp access. But it seemed to work. __Jim On 3/19/2012 11:27 AM, Mike Haudenschild

Re: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread Aaron Peeler
Just as a heads up, in the 2.3 release we're adding support to define connection methods on a per image/OS basis. We have a lot of the code work done and it's fairly stable in the repository. See VCL-30 and VCL-526 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-30

Re: Full desktop Linux images?

2012-03-19 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Mike, xrdp works well on Linux - http://www.xrdp.org/. We are using it for Linux reservations with no issues (please use latest version of xrdp as there are some issues with RDP 6.1 for older xrdp). You will need to modify following files/code to make RDP links available for a Linux