[lug] Linux | VMware | Xen question..

[Hugh Brown]

> VMWare Workstation on Linux paired up with any of the VNC servers for X 
> -- especially those based off of TightVNC with better compression -- 
> makes for an interesting "log into it from anywhere and run any OS" 
> networked machine.  I can (with some slowness and pain... GRIN...) VPN 
> into the location the linux machine is located at, fire up a highly 
> compressed VNC session over a slow link to that location to get the 
> Linux desktop and do anything in Linux I want, and then fire up VMWare 
> in X to launch any number of OS images.  It's nifty.

There's also the NoMachine (www.nomachine.com) FreeNX
(http://freenx.berlios.de/)  stuff that is less slow and less painful
than VNC.

Hugh