Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-21 Thread Paul Boniol
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris McQuistion cmcquist...@watkins.edu wrote: The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. Chris I was

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-21 Thread Chris McQuistion
Virtualbox is pretty decent for that sort of thing but I don't know what the status of that project is since Oracle bought Sun. Chris Sent from my iPhone On Jan 21, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Chris McQuistion

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
I would suggest first and foremost to not use VNC at all. VMWare offers some free options, and they come with a tool for connecting that will be less resource intense. Barring going that route for any reason, I would suggest using Microsofts RDP protocol to support remote login to the Windows

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Boniol
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: I would suggest first and foremost to not use VNC at all. VMWare offers some free options, and they come with a tool for connecting that will be less resource intense. Barring going that route for any reason, I

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. Chris On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Paul Boniol paul.bon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14,

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. You might want to look deeper into that. While the webserver that

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
You may want to look into VirtualBox. It has a built-in RDP server for virtual machines (be sure to get the PUEL version). On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:44, Steven S. Critchfield cri...@basesys.com wrote: - Original Message - The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Chris McQuistion
It does give you access to open a console. You may have to install a browser plugin and/or java, but you can open your virtual machines console with nothing more than a web browser. I used VMWare Server for years this way. Our VMWare Server didn't even run a GUI. Chris On Fri, Jan 14, 2011

RE: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Mark J. Bailey
] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC - Original Message - The free VMWare Server simply runs a web server on your Linux machine and you don't need graphical access to the server at all, you just need access to the appropriate ports from a remote machine. You might want to look deeper

Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Steven S. Critchfield
- Original Message - Note that Vmware server appears to be on a sunset track though. With newer versions of linux, vmware server will probably continued to gradually have operational problems as VMware is no longer updating it to keep pace with linux and windows changes on the host

RE: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC

2011-01-14 Thread Mark J. Bailey
: Friday, January 14, 2011 10:59 AM To: nlug-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [nlug] VMWare on Linux Running through VNC - Original Message - Note that Vmware server appears to be on a sunset track though. With newer versions of linux, vmware server will probably continued to gradually