On Tuesday, August 18, 2009, at 10:01:10 AM, Jens Franik wrote: > And who gives the Virtual Machine access to the Graphic Card and > Screen? If there is an X System running, this needs to be started with > an Account - even if it is unprivileged.
I didn't mention that the host system uses GDM, the Gnome Display Manager, to log into the gui automagically. I think it runs as root, as the final stage of the init process. VMWare Server includes its own VNC server, not well documented at all, but that makes it possible for me to access the VM from any other machine on my LAN just as if I were at the host itself, even with nobody logged into the host. That's a definite plus, to me. Right now I'm at the host, but earlier in the thread I was accessing from another box entirely... -- Jim Kyle Using The Bat! v4.0.34 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 on VMWare Server 2 under Xubuntu 8.04.3 with AntiSpamSniper Version 3.0.1.2 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.9.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
