Temperamental VNC

[Michael Pavling]

On 2 September 2010 10:55, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote:
>> 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?

The problem is not with the VMs (those I can manage with VRDP happily)
but with the host - the server running the VMs.

Forget the fact that I'm running VirtualBox. I have a bare-metal
server that when I'm administering it via VNC I occasionally get
"booted off" (although not from the SSH window that started the VNC
process) and have to start a new VNCServer process. I'm curious why
I'm getting this problem as it's causing me more than a little
inconvenience - and assume I've done some poor setup somewhere, as
noone else is complaining online about similar problems.

> 10 years ago there was no X tunneling, no NX,

I'd not heard of NX before - just googling. Thanks for the heads up.
Would you recommend it or any other options for remote console onto a
headless server?