2009/7/28 Dale Stirling <[email protected]>: > Xen will work for full virtulisation and run Backtrack (haven't tested). > > Xen delivers it Graphical interface over VNC. though you can set up TLS > support for these connections.
I'll be only allowing access to it through a VPN but would probably stick TLS on as well if available. So, half expecting to start a war here, Xen vs VirtualBox for this setup? I've personally ruled out vmware server just because it was always sluggish compared to VirtualBox and I really didn't like the browser thing they came up with. Robin > > Dale > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 2009/7/27 Nick Drage <[email protected]>: >> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Robin Wood wrote: >> > >> >> I'm building a server that is going to go into a data centre and I >> >> want to some kind of virtual machine software, probably either >> >> VirtualBox or Xen, and in that I'd like to run BT4. What is my best >> >> option to get a full BT4 X session back to my linux desktop? >> > >> > I can't speak for Xen, although I know someone to ask if no-one here can >> > help... which I suspect is extremely unlikely ;) >> > >> > For Virtualbox, Look at VRDP, which I would expect you can port forward >> > over SSH. The "--vrddport" and "--vrdpaddress" options should be used >> > here. >> >> I like Virtualbox so would rather go with that so I'll have a look at >> VRDP and see what it offers. >> >> > BTW, if you use VMWare Server instead watch your firewalling, IIRC >> > it opens several listening ports whether you want it to or not. >> >> I tried it and didn't like it, didn't seem a patch on VirtualBox last >> time I gave it a go. >> >> Robin >> _______________________________________________ >> Pauldotcom mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom >> Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com > _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
