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In computing, Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop sharing system that uses the RFB protocol to remotely control another computer. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.

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What is the difference between TigerVNC and vnc4server?

Ubuntu ships with vnc4server which is based on RealVNC. CentOS ships with TigerVNC, which is based on TightVNC which is based on RealVNC. Does anyone know feature wise what is different between vnc4server and TigerVNC?
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Access KVM virtual machines over VNC without port forwarding with SSH

Is it possible to access the VMs without having to forward the remote port and VNC to the localhost? I'd like to be able to VNC into the KVM server and see the VMs display.
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What VNC service would you recommend?

There are many VNCs out there. realvnc, tightvnc, and so on. Which one would you recommend, or would you recommend avoiding the VNC protocol altogether? (And if so, in favor of what?)
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Intel AMT - enable vnc via linux

All our old servers have supermicro boards and we used IPMI to make out-of-band managment. Mostly we used it for shutdown/restart and sometimes change some settings via the sol/kvm console. As it happens one of our new servers has an Intel board…
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Xen connect to dom0 with vnc?

Is there are a way to connect to dom0 using VNC without running X? I don't want an X server, I just want to see what is on the console. EDIT: Adding some background, since people seem to be really annoyed that I would ask such a question and that…
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"Oh no! Something has gone wrong." What am I doing wrong with the default CentOS VNC configuration?

I'm trying to configure a little PC settop for work that will mostly be used as a remote backup server (basically just something that exists for the extremely remote possibility that our data center disappears in the rapture) at my employer's home.…
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KVM / QEMU: connect to VM without GUI

Short Version (Solution is below): I have a Windows PC. I have a Debian server (without desktop environment). I have a Ubuntu VM running on Debian server via KVM/QEMU. Question: How can I connect to Ubuntu VM and start the installation process? Long…
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How to share desktop over LAN to multiple viewers

I need to share one machine's screen to 10 computers in the same LAN, without internet. The platform is Windows 7. I've tried Windows remote desktop help but only allows one viewer. I'm testing UltraVNC but is kind of slow. I have limitations, I'm…
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Can someone explain how NX works?

I can't seem to find much about how the NX protocol actually works. I have heard it does something with sending X11 commands. But does this mean that the listening clients need to have an x server to run the actual commands and display them?
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How to set keyboard layout with a VNC client to KVM (libvirt)

I have both kvm guests and hosts installed on a Debian 9.9 with kde on an AMD Machine qemu-kvm 1:2.8+dfsg-6+deb9u7 amd64 When connecting with a virt-viewer, my keyboard layout is working (fr-ch) actually, I don't know where…
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virt-manager Spice copy paste doesn't work

I have a Debian 9 KVM host runs on a dedicated server. I use virt-manager on my laptop (Ubuntu 16.04) to connect it remotely. Everything works quite well except copy/paste actions between VM's SPICE display(the one embedded in virt-manager) and my…
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VNC on Vista

I'm using UltraVNC on my Vista machine, and it's giving me very poor performance, even over a 300 mbs network. It seems to be doing screen polling. I looked, and it doesn't look like the video hook driver is working. Does anyone know if you can…
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VNC faster than Spice for remote access to KVM guest?

Having used RDP before, I'm not exactly thrilled with the performance I am seeing from VNC to my KVM virtual machines. The KVM host is Ubuntu 12.04 server x64. I've read that Spice is faster, and so after considerable bumbling around, I got it to…
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How to make Linux VNC server listen on local IP instead of just loopback?

I know how to specify a listening port of VNC server under Linux, but what puzzles me is that I can not find a way to specify a VNC listening IP. When started VNC server under CentOS 5.6, I found its process "Xvnc" is listening on 127.0.0.1:5901.…
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VNC connection via SSH proxy machine

I would like to make a VNC connection from home to a Windows machine at work. The Windows machine is not accessible from the outside, but there is a Linux box that does have port 22 open, so it would seem that this can be done. I suspect it's just…
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