remote mol-sessions with X-windows or vnc.

[Thomas Carlson]

I am using:  ssh -X to log into a user account on my YDL machine from=20
my OS X laptop using XDarwin.  I can run MOL remotely just fine.  Does=20=

this help anyone?

Tom

On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 07:25 AM, Peter =C5strand wrote:

> Andy Baxter wrote:
>
>> Can anyone help me with some information about using Mac-on-linux to =20=

>> run remote displays on a number of machines over a network?
>
> We have tried this idea. We used a setup like this:
>
> vncviewer -- Xvnc -- MOL
>
> The clients were running vncviewer. Xvnc was running on an Intel Linux=20=

> server. The MOL:s were running on a Mac with Mandrake Linux. MacOS X=20=

> 1.0.1 was running in MOL.
>
> The performance was OK. The largest problem so far seems to be how to=20=

> handle many MOL sessions on the same machine:
>
> 1) Each MOL must use a separate partition or image file to load MacOS.=20=

> It might be feasible to let each user have their own 1GB image file in=20=

> their home directory, but it would be *much* nicer if the=20
> copy-on-write functionality (earlier discussed on this mailing list)=20=

> could be brought back to life.
>
> 2) MOL seems to have some kind of "session number" concept, which I=20
> don't really understand. If this needs to be some kind of unique=20
> integer, perhaps the DISPLAY variable could do.
>
> 3) I've noticed that the MOL processes are running as root, which=20
> scares me a bit. It also means that the users cannot kill their own=20
> sessions.
>
> Any ideas of how to solve these problems? Samuel, is this just a=20
> totally crazy idea? :-)
>
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