xVNC on headless machine

alpha_lt · 06-25-2010, 11:32 AM

Hello,

I've found some manuals on this topic, but all of them are made for systems already with GUI and X server. My case is following: I have Ubuntu 9.04 server system, no X server, no GUI and its totally headless system. How can I configure XVNC server on that so that I could have only virtual X monitor, but not real. I don't want to install and run real X server. Is it possible to implement my task ?

tredegar · 06-25-2010, 12:55 PM

Try this link: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3214112

alpha_lt · 06-25-2010, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by tredegar

Try this link: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post3214112

Thanks for answering, but this post is about starting VNC, but not installing. I need to know what should I install first.

tredegar · 06-25-2010, 06:16 PM

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How can I configure XVNC server on that so that I could have only virtual X monitor, but not real.

^^- Your OP did ask about how to configure vnc.

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I need to know what should I install first.

OK:
I'm not running 9.04, but on 8.04 I installed vnc4-common and vnc4-server
Then you'll have to do some minor configuring of vnc so it starts the desktop you want. In my case (KDE3) I made ~/.vnc/xstartup read like this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
startkde &

X has to be running on your server for it to be able to export the display to another computer. If X isn't running on your server, then there is nothing to make requests to your remote vnc client to render windows, backgrounds etc.

If you don't want to have X running, then I don't think this will work for you.

Perhaps you need to realise that you can run X on your server without a monitor attached to your server: It is just a process, and doesn't need a locally connected screen, although this might be useful to help you get it all set up, and debugged in the first place.