Remote GUI Access from Windows to Linux
Set up remote GUI access to a Linux host from a Windows host with VNC (Virtual Network Computing) . It's easy and takes only a few minutes. It took me way longer to document it than to do it, and I had not done it for a few years, so that included time to research. When using virtual machines, GUI access can be very clunky even when the VM is hosted on your own fast, powerful, local machine. VNC provides a much faster and better experience. Description: vncserver is used to start a VNC desktop. vncserver is a Perl script which simplifies the process of starting an Xvnc server. It runs Xvnc with appropriate options and starts a window manager on the VNC desktop. Here is a good implementation of VNC: TigerVNC http://tigervnc.org/ Install the server software on the Linux host. Install the server on the Linux host. I use CentOS 7. I did this as root. You can use sudo if it makes you happy. yum install tigervnc-server.x86_64 View documentat...
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