On Wed, 19 May 1999 13:43:24 +0300 (IDT), Alex Shnitman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Udi Finkelstein writes:
>
> > Ideally, I would like to see a front end program that would even manage the
> > number of sessions (allows me to limit them), and could even hold a session
> > open and allows a user to use an open session (saving the VM reboot time). I
> > guess this is possible, but it probably requires major coding (a program
> > pretending to be an X server, keeping the session open, but which really only
> > serves the X traffic to a "real" X server somplace else on the LAN).
> > Now that I think of this - could this be done by combining VNC in front of
> > VMware?
>
>Don't know about anything else, but this program you're talking about
>actually exists, it's called xmove and it's actually pretty good. I
>don't know of a website, but the version I have points to
>ftp.cs.columbia.edu:/pub/xmove for the latest version.
Thanks! It seems that there is more than one program like this, and even the
VNC group had something similar as an earlier project called Teleport. See
http://www.uk.research.att.com/teleport/ . Unfortunately, it's a binary only
distribution, and only for academic institutes. After reading their white
paper, though, it seems that there are more similar projects, and the general
name for this type of programs is an X proxy server.
I'll keep looking.
Udi
