Hi,
Check out Nomachine's NX Free Edition for Linux, seems to be the exact
thing you are looking for.
It is an X proxy/broker that tunnels through SSH and is actually FAST.
(No, really.)
You install the server part on the guest Linux VM and forward the
appropriate port on the host to the guest VM's sshd like you'd do with
normal ssh.
Then install the client on your Linux|Windows|MAC and connect to the
forwarded port on your host.
You need to set up on the client side what kind of environment you are
connecting to (GNOME, KDE, etc.) and your connection speed in order to
optimize the connection.
Another neat feature is that AFAIK, the NX server running on your guest
does not require an actual X server/WM session running just that the
libs are installed.
This means that you can have remote X while @ runlevel 3 for headless
operation.
I have been using Nomachine's version for a while now on Solaris and
Linux and it seems to be working fine, the ability to resume an X
session saved me from a lot of pain several times.
Since Nomachine opened up almost all of their code in 2004, there is a
free alternative called FreeNX and Google also recently announced their
own GPL'd NX implementation - Neatx.
I do not have any experience regarding these, they might also be good
for you.
Robert
On 07/27/2009 11:54 PM, Robin Wood wrote:
Hi
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?
To try to explain it another way, if I start VirtualBox on my local PC
I get a full screen window with KDE in it, I want that but with
VirtualBox running on the server.
I know that I can do X forwarding through ssh but is there a better
way? A friend suggested Xnest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xnest or
something that he thought was called xbsetg (can't find google
reference) that would let my start my main X session on virtual
terminal 7 then have 8 start a gdm session to the remote machine.
Last resort is something like VNC but I don't know how I would start
the remote graphical X session without a monitor
I think Xnest seems like the best option but wondered if anyone else
did this and what they used.
Robin
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