Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-09 Thread qwofford
Thanks for linking me to the background reading, that was very educational. I see that I can use VirtualGL Transport to call my GL applications without a remote desktop, but this will introduce latency between the client-side 2D X server, and the remote 3D X server. Perhaps a startup script on

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-05 Thread DRC
On 4/5/18 8:26 PM, qwofford wrote: > I am having problems with the way /opt/TurboVNC/bin/Xvnc is being > launched by /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver, however (which I will refer to > as Xvnc and vncserver from here forward). >> My /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf: TurboVNC is not designed to be started from

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-05 Thread qwofford
I've ditched the TigerVNC server. I'm now launching sessions from /opt/TurboVNC/bin/vncserver, and using SSH tunneling for the simplest possible solution as you suggest. I will absolutely pursue one of the more advanced security configurations in the near future, so thanks for that. I am

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-05 Thread DRC
On 4/5/18 2:52 PM, qwofford wrote: > I realized shortly after posting that I mis-spoke. Although I have > tigervnc installed, I am using xinetd to launch Xvnc, /not/ tigervnc. > > | > service xvnc_darwin > { > disable =no > protocol =tcp > socket_type =stream > wait =no > user =nobody > server

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-05 Thread qwofford
I forgot to address your comment about /etc/gdm/Init/Default. I added a line to echo some text into a file in /tmp/. It did not appear when I restarted gdm. Since this server is not in production, I had the opportunity to reboot it to be sure. Still no test file. It appears that

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-05 Thread qwofford
I will skip X-forwarding on my ssh connections, thanks for pointing that out. I realized shortly after posting that I mis-spoke. Although I have tigervnc installed, I am using xinetd to launch Xvnc, *not* tigervnc. service xvnc_darwin { disable = no protocol = tcp socket_type = stream wait =

Re: [VirtualGL-Users] vglrun fails on a TurboVNC client to a headless server node

2018-04-04 Thread DRC
On 4/4/18 9:13 PM, qwofford wrote: > I am having trouble launching applications with vglrun from a TurboVNC > session. Server OS is Centos 7. Client OS is OSX. vnc server is > TigerVNC/Xvnc. I followed the server configuration documentation for > VirtualGL 2.5.2, section 6.1 documentation very