I thought I'd drop a note and thank the VNC team for providing a great solution for a specific problem I had:
In an effort to get the best of both worlds, I run Redhat Linux in a virtual machine inside Windows XP, the host operating system. (VMWare provides the virtualization of the hardware, in case anyone's not familiar with the software.) I installed Cygwin to get bash and sshd for Windows, but was unhappy with the X-windows solution. It was a bit of a hassle to run, and wasn't "stateful" in that I had to log out when shutting down the X window. Enter VNC: I configured by Linux desktop to be smaller in size than my normal Windows desktop, then set up VNC to use my normal X environment. Now all have I have to do is hit one icon, and VNC will connect to the virtual machine, start up KDE, and present a normal X desktop. The best thing is that I can kill the VNC window, and next time I fire it up, I will see the exact same desktop that I had the previous session. So not only is VNC a good remote desktop solution, it's a good X-server-for-virtual-os solution. :) David _____________________________________________________________________ David Coppit - Ph.D. Candidate [EMAIL PROTECTED] The University of Virginia http://coppit.org/ Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean "not really". - Dave Parnas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
