[Openstack-operators] graphical access to instances
Bryan Taylor
btaylor at alpharender.net
Fri Aug 17 22:35:54 UTC 2012
Spice is suppose to be the new hotness but it's betaware last i saw. Check redhat for spice space. It is suppose to integrate directly to qemu lxc. I recall a Linux ands a windows client.
Bryan
Brian Schott <brian.schott at nimbisservices.com> wrote:
>Yeah, I think it is that out of date. The google fork neatx was last updated in 2010, so...
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>On Aug 17, 2012, at 4:42 PM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin at nimbisservices.com> wrote:
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>> Is FreeNX still actively maintained? According to the web page <http://freenx.berlios.de/>, the last release was four years ago.
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>> Take care,
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>> Lorin
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>> Lorin Hochstein
>> Lead Architect - Cloud Services
>> Nimbis Services, Inc.
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>> On Aug 16, 2012, at 9:27 AM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:
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>>> People around here seem to like FreeNX quite a bit, no real experience
>>> with XRDP so can't compare the two. But FreeNX is faster than either
>>> VNC or old school X forwarding. Of course OpenStack can only handle
>>> the redirected console through VNC, but presuming the instances are
>>> running properly with the right public IP and security group setup to
>>> allow it this won't get in the way of NX as a service on the VMs.
>>>
>>> -Jon
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am working on what seems to be a rather unusual use-case for
>>>> OpenStack. This fall we would like to give every 1st year
>>>> electrical/computer engineering student a VM (ubuntu 12.04) on 512
>>>> core cluster. On this instance they will run the software required to
>>>> do their assignments, print, etc. I am only familiar with vnc through
>>>> an ssh tunnel and the performance is less than ideal. The replacement
>>>> must have a client that can run on linux, max and windows, have better
>>>> performance than vnc and be secure.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any familiarity with some of the other options? I am
>>>> currently considering FreeNX, and XRDP.
>>>>
>>>> I looked at several other options including:
>>>> 2X TerminalServer - In the download section it does not list a client
>>>> for anything other than windows (not sure if the NoMachine client
>>>> would work?)
>>>> LTSP - A good client for windows/mac seems hard to come by
>>>> XDMCP - Again, it seems as though the client might be a problem.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any advice, or tips, corrections are welcome.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you!
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