Temperamental VNC

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 2 September 2010 09:40, Michael Pavling <pavling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Which button?
> Any button.. sometimes when I click "settings" on a VM, sometimes when
> I'm adjusting settings, sometimes when I click "run", but always the
> second I click something - it never just dies when my back is turned.
Interesting. Works here. I have a VM which runs tightVNC and works
fine whatever I do to the VM (pause, bounce, start other VMs on the
server).

> I do - I'm using VRDP to each VM, which works very well. I have
> sourced a nice script that starts the machines I want when the host
> boots. I'm quite familiar with the day-to-day start and stop command
> line, and can muddle through the more complex admin and create
> functions, but I'd *rather* not.
Good luck with running a server with all of the desktop crap.

> So why is there VNC in the first place? Because there *is* a GUI that
> people *want* to get to - 'wants' and 'needs' are different :-)
VNC is there because 10 years ago there was no X tunneling, no NX,
nothing but exporting DISPLAY and transporting X11 across a slow wire.

> I want to be able to get to a (reliable) GUI over the network. Do you
> know how I can achieve this (with VNC or otherwise)?
Works here with VNC and rdp to the VirtualBox VMs.

> Yes, as will "reboot" - but I can't remote desktop on again until I've
> plugged a monitor into the console and logged in as a user - this it
> the concern I'd rather not have (not "how do I reboot an Ubuntu
> machine from the command line?").
This makes no sense. If you start a VM with rdp, you can always do an
RDP connection to it, even it is rebooted. I do not understand why you
need to plug a monitor & keyboard. Are you talking about the server
running the VM itself? You can start VMs from command line after an
SSH session and then connect to them via RDP. After you start them,
you can always start the VirtualBox via ssh -X and manage them with
with the GUI interface provided if you're not good with command line.

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