Does anyone have experience or suggestions in getting OSGeo packages
(ideally OSGeo-Live) working as a remote desktop from a cloud platform?
As per Chris Barnett's emails, the FOSS4G 2017 would like to get it
working for the global FOSS4G.
On 3/2/17 2:38 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
OSGeo-Live USB sticks will be available to [FOSS4G 2017] workshop
participants, but we’d also like to make cloud-based instances
available via remote desktop. I’ve run into a couple of technical
issues with this and think it would be very useful to draw on your
collective knowledge and experience. What would be the best/most
appropriate way to go about this?
On 4/2/17 4:08 am, Chris Barnett wrote:
I’m really just at the phase of ascertaining feasibility. My attempt
to import the OSGeo Live VM to AWS failed because the AWS import
process didn’t support Lubuntu. I think that I probably can get it to
work on other cloud hosts, but I haven’t had a chance to test yet. For
remote access to the desktop I’ve been using xrdp and tigervnc. This
also looks like an interesting option:
http://guacamole.incubator.apache.org/, as it allows remote access via
the browser.
I think it would be fantastic if a cloud version could be reused
beyond FOSS4G. Something like a docker image could be a nice solution,
as it would be portable across many cloud providers and could also be
installed locally.
On 3/2/17 6:25 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
With regards to getting OSGeo-Live working in the cloud, I think that
would be an excellent goal to work on. Back in 2009 some people did
actually get OSGeo-Live working on one of the early cloud platforms
(called click2try which is now out of business).
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Press_Release_35
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