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Graphical Control of Instances

There are a lot of ways to view the graphical interface

In this page we present three of them.

1. X11 forward with ssh

• The easiest way is to use X11 forwarding (-X) with your ssh connection
  

  user@client1:~$ ssh -X -i mykey.private root@10.16.3.xx
  

  2. Run VNC server on your vm

• If your are not running a *nix machine you can use any vncviewer after you start x11vnc server on your vm


• Run x11vnc and insert a password for vnc connections
  

  :~# x11vnc -usepw -create -forever
  Enter VNC password: 
  Verify password:    
  Write password to /root/.vnc/passwd?  [y]/n y
  Password written to: /root/.vnc/passwd
  

• Connect with any vncviewer to your instance
  e.g. from a *nix machine use
  

  $ vncviewer 10.16.3.XX:0
  



• Fill in your password and the following window will appear:
  
  
  
  
  From the console start gnome by typing
  

  gnome-session &
    

• As soon as your session is initialized you can control graphically your instance.



3. Set up a secure ssh tunnel between your machine and your instance and use vncviewer (only for *nix machines)

• Setup a secure tunnel
  

  $ ssh -i mykey.private -t -L 5900:localhost:5900 root@10.16.3.XX 'x11vnc -localhost -nopw -create'
  

• Use vncviewer at localhost
  

  $ vncviewer localhost:0
  

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