Headless systems or programs do not depend on a graphical user interface, user interaction or directly attached monitor/mouse/keyboard to work as expected. Administration is typically done via network.
Questions tagged [headless]
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Is it possible to run OS X headless?
I'm using an old iBook with OS X 10.4 as a server. Is there any way I can run it headless, ideally to cut down the memory usage and aid performance?
Is a headless mode possible with any version of OS X, standard or server?
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How can I start an X11 session on my headless Fedora 13 server?
I have a small home server using Fedora 13 as operating system.
Since the upgrade to Fedora 13 I cannot start the X11 server. (I need it to use vnc)
When I try to start the server, both the nouveau and the original NVIDIA driver claim that there's…
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Stay Logged Into Headless Server
I have a headless Linux server running some services without root access (username leo), via systemd --user. I ssh into my server (as leo), start the services, and then exit. The problem is, systemd sees that the last instance of leo has logged out…
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Leo Izen
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Headless OpenGL rendering on Google Compute
I created a GPU instance on Google Compute engine with NVIDIA Tesla K80 attached.
I have installed GPU drivers and CUDA based on this guide.
nvidia-smi check - ok.
nvcc -V check - ok
Now I am trying to make sure I can run headless rendering with…
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Michael IV
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Windows: Creating a service out of headless application (VirtualBox). Stop/shutdown script?
My client needs to have a virtualized Linux running on his Windows Server 2008 (R1). I've managed to setup VirtualBox as a service with srvany, but I see no way of creating a kind of 'stop script' so the virtual machine powers off correctly when I…
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Vagrant + VirtualBox + X11 on a headless server
I'm trying to run a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM via Vagrant on a headless server.
The VM has ubuntu-desktop package installed, however when the machine boots up I can't open X applications. DISPLAY environment is empty and setting it to ":0" doesn't…
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Install VirtualBox Headless only
I want to install VirtualBox on a fresh debian box without having to install an X-Server.
How can that be done ?
Andre
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Windows Server 2012 unattended upgrade
I am new to using windows server software and at the moment we are using windows server 2008 R2 datacenter. We want to upgrade to server 2012.
How can we perform a unattended upgrade on the windows server. we have no physical access to this server.…
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simulate keystrokes in headless environment
I need to simulate keystrokes in headless environment.
All xte, xdotool and many C++ designed to work with X11 window
I've tried xdotool, which it throw some error:
xdotool type "aaaaa"
Error: Can't open display: (null)
Failed creating new xdo…
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How can I create a packet capture file on a headless server for a single process?
I'm writing a python script on a headless server, and I'd like to see the packet capture output for the script.
I can't run ettercap or Wireshark on the server as there is too much other noise (besides, wireshark is a GUI tool). I do have sudo…
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Linux kernel option to force video card to stay on
I just installed Debian Wheezy 7.1.0 on an Intel vPro System (Intel Core i5-2520M, SuperMicro MBD-X9SCV-Q-O). Intel AMT's KVM works perfectly until Debian has completed booting and shows the login prompt. At this point, the screen in RealVNC goes…
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Any advice for administrating a headless server?
I have a headless server (with a desktop (ubuntu 10.04)) that I VNC into (using RealVNC) whenever I want to do anything with it. However, VNC-ing does not seem reliable. Every week I have a connect a monitor because something went wrong and the…
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Configuring a headless windows 7 system
I have a client who resells our systems enclosed for use in industrial environments.
We have been looking at installing a small dc powered monitor, but have run into a few problems which has made me start thinking about using a netbook plus RDP…
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VAAPI on headless system
We run a hosted box with Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630. We have there Debian Buster with i965-va-driver-shaders and intel-media-va-driver-non-free installed. We are able to do hardware-accelerated video encoding of screen grabbed from Xvfb using…
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Martin Ždila
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How to configure Apple Power Mac to boot headless (without keyboard or monitor)?
I have a couple of Apple Power Mac G5 machines that I have deployed as servers: they're running GNU+Linux, connected to the world only via an ethernet cable.
When I need to restart these machines, they will hang at some early stage; eventually the…
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