Temperamental VNC

[Hakan Koseoglu]

On 2 September 2010 11:19, Michael Pavling <pavling at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is not with the VMs (those I can manage with VRDP happily)
> but with the host - the server running the VMs.
OK, I have an env which I can simulate this. I have seen VNC clients
(not servers) dying in the past due to some bugs (especially with X
tunneling) but not for a while now. I'll give it a go later on today
and see if I can replicate the error and obtain some debug data.

> "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
You can start VNC servers as any user when the server boots up.
RHEL/CentOS comes with config & init scripts ready but if you do a bit
of searching you will find plenty of examples for Ubuntu.

> 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?
Some people swear by it. Almost universally I use SSH & X tunneling
and I'm happy with it. I use VNC servers to run GUI apps which need to
be persistent and will not run w/o one but my VNC environments are
very spartan with twm only and they run perfectly fine w/o crashing. I
use VNCServers on RHEL/CentOS a lot for remote management but that's
usually to entertain the customers but never had one server crash for
years.

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