> -----Original Message----- > 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.
It can be even better: Setup Xvnc like this http://www.sourcecodecorner.com/articles/vnc/linux.asp and KDE will be automatically started. (however, you drop the reuse of 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
