Flying Cars and Food Capsules

2011-05-25 21:02:52 by jdixon

Today I was installing RHEL 6.0 on a remote Xen domU using virt-install with VNC. None of the Mac VNC clients I tried was able to render anything remotely usable. I tried various encoding schemes and color resolutions, to no avail. And where Chicken of the VNC rendered a screen seemingly inspired by LSD trips, RealVNC simply shit its pants and crashed.

So I downloaded an OpenBSD 4.9 iso and installed it in VMware Fusion. Installed tightvnc-viewer from packages. And in less than 10 minutes, I had a working X11-over-SSH tunnel to the remote Xen VNC console. From my Mac desktop. Through an OpenBSD VM. Across the fucking internet.

Welcome to the future. Sorta.

Comments

at 2011-05-26 03:11:53, Paul wrote in to say...

Try net/ssvnc for a better maintained package.

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