Thank you for the input, Andrew. A VNC session starts its programs (including the Desktop, session managers, etc) from ~/.vnc/xstartup. Currently, the following is what my users' xstartup contains:
~/.vnc/xstartup: #! /bin/sh win --fwin & Win4Lin actually acts as the X desktop so the users never the *nix side of things. This is a good thing as helps dumbify things for otherwise Linux-unsavvy users. I wouldn't consider this to be a QEMU deal breaker, it would just be a nice feature--one that I haven't seen any options for or information about on the QEMU web site. At present, I'd probably just start the window manager (WindowMaker) and have the user click on an icon to start QEMU... Or something like that. I haven't played with QEMU yet to determine what's viable and what's not--but the main thing is that it has to be easy to use, so I have to hide all the technical and CLI stuff from the users. Andrew Frink wrote: >Tom, > I hacked that in by putting qemu in ~/.xinitrc so when the user does >startx thats what they get. i believe that vnc uses the same file to figure >out what to run after X >Cynyr. > >On 1/11/06, Tom Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Excellent! Sounds like everyone likes QEMU, so I'm definitely going to >>give it a shot. >> >>One other question... With Win4Lin, for example, one can start the >>Windows session in lieu of an X session--so all the user sees is >>Windows. My users will be accessing the server via VNC so this feature >>of Win4Lin works out pretty well. Does QEMU support anything like this >>or does it need to be run from within an X session? >> >>Thanks again to everyone for their opinion of QEMU! >> >>~ Tom >> >>Tom Smith wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I've been using Win4Lin TS 3.0 for some time to server Win98SE to five >>>remote users for legacy application support. >>> >>>I'm currently testing the recently released Win4Lin Pro TS server >>>running Win2k as an intended replacement for the old TS server. This is >>>where I came across QEMU... >>> >>>QEMU appears to have functionality similar to VMWare (I haven't tried it >>>yet). I'm curious to here other Gentoo users' experience with this >>>software. I will be using in a production environment so stability and >>>uptime are very important, as are reasonable performance. >>> >>>I would very much appreciate any feedback you all can give me about your >>>experience with QEMU. >>> >>>Best Wishes, >>> >>>Tom >>> >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> >> > > >-- >if you are tired of virii look at http://fedora.redhat.com/ >and for those of you still using AOL's messanger >try out http://gaim.sf.net/... and for photoshop see http://www.gimp.org >use http://www.gimp.org/ > > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
