[plug] Remote VMWare...

Trevor Phillips phillips at central.murdoch.edu.au
Fri Feb 25 15:02:51 WST 2000


Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> Anything less than 256kbit? :) (and it would probably be slow even on
> that)

I'm thinking mostly within a LAN (10MBit - Hopefully 100MBit switched soon).

> Plus you can disconnect from the VNC server and VMWare will keep running,
> but if you want to shutdown/reboot/whatever an X client machine, all
> programs you are running must die.

Exactly! The VNC Solution seems the nicest. Yes, you can suspend (to disk with
VMWare2), but VNC is easier (if you have the resources to leave it running).

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