Best way to have remote desktop on a debian guest? (bhyve)

[asimov-solensan]

Hello all,

I would like to add some context to the question. Right now this is my most powerful computer and it's online 24x7. I have this debian virtualized to run tasks such as video coding and compiling through ssh.

I would love it to use it as a kind of "mainframe", in a way that I use a thin client (rpi, odroid or similar) with just the needed software to connect remotely.

I would like to have the session manager once connecting remotely and then create a new session or retrieve an existing one. I'm mostly looking for abehaviuor like windows remote desktop.

I guess the obvious answer is vnf. But it feels slow and clunky compared to the windows solution. I read about spice but don't know if this will work with bhyve.

So, any advice on what I try to do?

 

[m0nkey_]

You probably want xrdp then.

 

[asimov-solensan]

Indeed, that works exactly as I wanted. Read abut it and at first I understood that it wrorked over VNC. So I thought that it would have same limitations.

But although it uses VNC as backend the behaviour is completely different, besides is extremely easy to set up, response is amazingly fast (over LAN) if bhyve had any kind of hardware acceleration that would be just perfect for all kind of works. The only downside I have found is that getting clipboard and other features working is not trivial.

Still it covers me needs perfectly.