Mac vs PC

Nixy

Nixy

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Why would I run linux? I need WINDOWS for a work program...running linux would not accomplish that goal.
 
Huge

Huge

Member
Virtualization, my dear. Runs better than real Windows (why, I don't know).

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paul_valaru

paul_valaru

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Well mac is a no talent kid who's claim to fame is getting hit in the nuts in the movie dodgeball.

and PC is on the daily show, so I pick PC
 
Nixy

Nixy

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Huge, you're running windows in a virtual machine and linux is your main OS? That's exactly what I'm doing...except my main OS is Leopard...
 
Mirlyn

Mirlyn

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Huge said:
No I still use Vista; I've learned a lot in linux but I'm still a n00b. :/
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Can you remotely connect to your windows session with something like VNC? I've never tried it, but that's the setup I'd like to be able to achieve.
 
paul_valaru

paul_valaru

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Mirlyn said:
Can you remotely connect to your windows session with something like VNC? I've never tried it, but that's the setup I'd like to be able to achieve.
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Yes you can.

I had that set-up for our inventory server at work.

It's just like running VNC any other way.
 
Mirlyn

Mirlyn

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paul_valaru said:
Yes you can.

I had that set-up for our inventory server at work.

It's just like running VNC any other way.
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So you can VNC to the windows virtual machine? Sweet. I'll have to give it a shot. I want to switch my desktop to linux, and the only windows thing remaining is activesync (which I could run in a vm).

One of our remote support tools use VNC "single-click" to connect the client to our desk systems (we run a VNC listener, not the VNC server).
 
Luis G

Luis G

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Mirlyn said:
So you can VNC to the windows virtual machine? Sweet. I'll have to give it a shot. I want to switch my desktop to linux, and the only windows thing remaining is activesync (which I could run in a vm).

One of our remote support tools use VNC "single-click" to connect the client to our desk systems (we run a VNC listener, not the VNC server).
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There must be some options in qemu (or kvm) to forward certain ports, they already provide a virtual nic for the virtual machine so I don't think forwarding is a problem.
 
paul_valaru

paul_valaru

100% Pure Canadian Beef
Mirlyn said:
So you can VNC to the windows virtual machine? Sweet. I'll have to give it a shot. I want to switch my desktop to linux, and the only windows thing remaining is activesync (which I could run in a vm).

One of our remote support tools use VNC "single-click" to connect the client to our desk systems (we run a VNC listener, not the VNC server).
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Our virtual windows had it's own IP people never even knew they where VNCing to a linux box.
 
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