krantz
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- Jun 2, 2013
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Hello all:
I have some questions, and cannot seem to find any solution. I´ve been goggling for over 2 days.
1) I recently got a very strong 2U server with 6 SATA bays, 8 GB ram (expandable up to 32 GB); My current setup is 4 drives of 3 TB each + 2 drives of 1 TB each; total is a 7 TB ZFS environment mirrored. I attached a 50gb SSD as cache.
2) The processing power is overkill, serving files, time machines, movies, and backup storage is piece of cake for this machine.
3) obviously it doesn't have a strong vid card, nor i cant use it as a desktop (in fact I had to make substantial changes in my study room to accommodate it and keep it refrigerated and isolated).
4) I want to have a full FreeBSD installation at a jail (it doesn't make any sense having linux there, as the linux jails are only 32 bits, while the server´s architecture is x64).
5) I want this jail to serve for installing other tools and software running on graphical environment, so I can take advantage of the processing power (databases, IDE, etc)
6) Already installed a ports, xvnc, gnome2, portsmaster, etc etc. But I just cant seem to make it work and connect remotely via VNC to it. Everytime I make a VNC connection all i get is a gray screen.
7) I am not an expert on FreeBSD or Linux for these matters.
Is it possible to achieve what I want? if so, can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
I have some questions, and cannot seem to find any solution. I´ve been goggling for over 2 days.
1) I recently got a very strong 2U server with 6 SATA bays, 8 GB ram (expandable up to 32 GB); My current setup is 4 drives of 3 TB each + 2 drives of 1 TB each; total is a 7 TB ZFS environment mirrored. I attached a 50gb SSD as cache.
2) The processing power is overkill, serving files, time machines, movies, and backup storage is piece of cake for this machine.
3) obviously it doesn't have a strong vid card, nor i cant use it as a desktop (in fact I had to make substantial changes in my study room to accommodate it and keep it refrigerated and isolated).
4) I want to have a full FreeBSD installation at a jail (it doesn't make any sense having linux there, as the linux jails are only 32 bits, while the server´s architecture is x64).
5) I want this jail to serve for installing other tools and software running on graphical environment, so I can take advantage of the processing power (databases, IDE, etc)
6) Already installed a ports, xvnc, gnome2, portsmaster, etc etc. But I just cant seem to make it work and connect remotely via VNC to it. Everytime I make a VNC connection all i get is a gray screen.
7) I am not an expert on FreeBSD or Linux for these matters.
Is it possible to achieve what I want? if so, can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks!