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The scenario is as follows - I will be moving across the country and my desktop will stay here powered and online, while I move with a laptop. I need a way to connect to the desktop for file streaming(music and movies) as well as using the virtual machines. I have thought about SSH and VNC.
I need something failsafe. That's priority one. I won't be around to fix it if it breaks. I can set the computer to come on in the BIOS at a certain time if the power went out. But if I can get in remotely the whole setup is useless.
SSH only provides terminal use, correct? So if I chose that route I would be able to access the computer via command line and play music and movies with mplayer and such, correct? But I would not be able to run the virtual machines? Because there will be no GUI, right?
I have been playing with Vinagre and Vino through the host and guest of a virtual machine and I cannot get it to connect. Is there a better application? x11vnc? I have forwarded port 5900 on the router and have upnp enabled. Got a better remote desktop suggestion?
I would like to run this setup headless.(no monitor) I also would like to run it without a gpu if that is possible to make it more energy efficient.
Both computers are 64 bits and will be running Ubuntu 10.10 and soon 11.04.
Are these crappy ideas to begin with? Should I go another route to get my files and access the virtual machines?
I belive you can use ssh to perform remote access.
is team viewer out of the question? I love team viewer and it works great on Ubuntu – mjrider – 2011-04-20T02:30:22.200