best way to run graphical BT4 from a server

[dale at puredistortion.com (Dale Stirling)]

Xen will work for full virtulisation and run Backtrack (haven't tested).

Xen delivers it Graphical interface over VNC. though you can set up TLS
support for these connections.

Dale

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/27 Nick Drage <nickd at funkyjesus.org>:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Robin Wood wrote:
> >
> > > I'm building a server that is going to go into a data centre and I
> > > want to some kind of virtual machine software, probably either
> > > VirtualBox or Xen, and in that I'd like to run BT4. What is my best
> > > option to get a full BT4 X session back to my linux desktop?
> >
> > I can't speak for Xen, although I know someone to ask if no-one here can
> > help... which I suspect is extremely unlikely ;)
> >
> > For Virtualbox, Look at VRDP, which I would expect you can port forward
> > over SSH.  The "--vrddport" and "--vrdpaddress" options should be used
> > here.
>
> I like Virtualbox so would rather go with that so I'll have a look at
> VRDP and see what it offers.
>
> > BTW, if you use VMWare Server instead watch your firewalling, IIRC
> > it opens several listening ports whether you want it to or not.
>
> I tried it and didn't like it, didn't seem a patch on VirtualBox last
> time I gave it a go.
>
> Robin
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