[kwlug-disc] GUI Remote Access

[Peter Melse]

No problem :) you may also be interested in the remote display vnc options (in guest vmx files) which lets you vnc into guests by connecting to a port on the host. (Some firewall exceptions, and host reboots required)
~P

On Jun 24, 2017, 10:57 PM, at 10:57 PM, "Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)" <aklists at mixdown.ca> wrote:
>> On Jun 24, 2017, at 10:43 PM, Peter Melse <peter_melse at gto.net>
>wrote:
>> So far this list has covered every free method I've tried so far, so
>i'll offer up the solution I'm using now, though it has a few caveats.
>> 
>> tldr: vmware horizon (view) virtual desktop infrastructure. It's
>non-free, takes a lot of hardware, but offers domain authenticated,
>responsive gui connections to Ubuntu(14.04, 16.04), and windows
>desktops. 
>
>Interesting; I’ve been using RDP to hit my windows VMs on ESXi. It
>works well enough that I can run Altium (which requires DirectX) this
>way, but I haven’t thought of trying horizon. I’m still quite green
>when it comes to VMWare’s technologies. Thanks for the lead.
>
>-A.
>
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