On 02/03/2007, at 10:35 AM, Piers O'Hanlon wrote: > Hi Sam, > > On 01/03/07, Sam Gundry <[email protected]> wrote: Arh, okay. Thanks > guys, I've had a look through numerous docs but > couldn't find anything. I thought I'd read somewhere that there was > such > a command... > > Unfortunately, as mentioned, it isn't currently possible to run vic > without an interface as the tcl GUI is integral to the tool. One > solution, if you for example you have a headless UNIX machine, > would be to point the DISPLAY at a vncserver (a virtual X11 server) > - that way you don't have the GUI showing up anywhere and vic just > runs - though you'd need to set it up to transmit on startup. You > could remotely access the GUI using a vnclient. >
Along similar lines, you could also run vic in a virtual frame buffer version of X (Xvfb). Using Xen or some other machine virtualisation system, this technique can be used to have a "separate" capture machine along with a display machine both in the same physical box. For an example implementation, see http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ research/accessgrid/software/xenag/). These days, Linux KVM (kernel virtual machine, not keyboard/video/mouse) is probably a better way to do the machine virtualisation. I believe you need kernel 2.6.20 to do KVM without patches (and supported cpu). chris > Robert Olson wrote: > > That's correct, unlike rat which is split explicitly into audio- > engine, > > controller, and UI components, vic is a monolithic app that has > the GUI > > stuff wrapped up at a fairly fundamental level. > > > > --bob > > > > On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Derek Piper wrote: > > > >> > >> That should be: > >> > >> vic -t ttl address/port > >> > >> e.g. > >> > >> vic -t 127 233.2.171.246/59966 > >> > >> .. and that just starts VIC with those network settings, it > >> doesn't hide the GUI. As far as I know there are no such arguments > >> that do that. > >> > >> Derek > >> > >> Mike Daley wrote: > >>> Hi Sam > >>> the command line is > >>> vic -ttl address port > >>> i.e > >>> vic -127 233.2.171.246/59966 > >>> Mike > >>> Sam Gundry wrote: > >>>> Hi, > >>>> > >>>> Does VIC have a command-line argument to start without it's GUI? > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Sam > >> > >> --Derek Piper - [email protected] - (812) 856 0111 > >> IRI 323, School of Informatics > >> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana > >> > > > > > -- > Centre for Computational Prototyping > Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing > www.vpac.org > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
