it is possible....Rfb protocol or a close cousin?
Drew Northup, N1XIM
--- "Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> Chris Emerson wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Julian Hall wrote:
> >
> > > One feature that I (and I suspect others) would
> find extremely useful would
> > > be to allow the GUI to detach and attach to
> running processes. This would
> > > be acheived, I guess, by using some kind of GUI
> server module, as a
> > > replacement to the standard X11 ui module.
> > [snip]
> > > This would be (very) useful for setting up
> virtual server systems...
> > >
> > > Any comments/ideas?
> >
> > One of the things which annoyed me about VMWare
> was that you had to
> > launch it from X. If we have a way of running a
> VM without any GUI,
> > then it would probably be useful to connect to it
> later and see what
> > the console looks like.
> >
> > I think that a lot of the functionality you're
> asking for could be
> > implemented already using VNC, but it's still
> probably useful. I
> > wouldn't think that it's too much work hacking the
> GUI plugin (in
> > whatever form it may end up in) to support
> detaching/re-attaching.
> >
> > Personally, I'd be more interested in a text-only
> (still VGA?)
> > interface.
>
>
> This is a really cool idea. Something to keep in
> mind as we
> achitect FreeMWare. We'll need to keep the video
> updates optimal
> if we want them to fly across the 'net.
>
> I'm wondering how long before someone suggests
> allowing a simple
> GUI client which will allow multiple people to
> attach to the VM
> in a read-only fashion (video only), plus one with
> read-write
> (video + keyboard). Thus someone could be editing a
> document
> on a VM server, and other people in a group could be
> monitoring
> the changes interactively.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
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