Hi,
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:29:10PM +0200, Michael Hanke wrote:
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> As a thought: One can even fully integrate FSL into the windows desktop
> by running a headless VM. The user needs to install the Xming X server
> for windows (free software -- easy installation). One can then connect
> to the VM via SSH (e.g. using putty -- free software; no installation).
> FSL can then use the local x server and it looks like a native win32
> program. This would also reduce the size of the VM (approx 200 MB) as
> the X server inside the VM becomes obsolete.
I could not resist and tried it.
I'm using a minimal Debian system inside a VirtualBox machine. It is
configured to be accessed via SSH through port 2222 on the host machine.
There is no need on the user side to configure anything but:
- Install Xming (click through)
- Install putty (basically copy it on local disk)
- Install VirtualBox (click through)
- Mount a local folder/drive for data exchange: VM <> Windows-host
Download VM image. Compressed with 7zip it is only 247 MB and this
already includes FSL ;)
After uncompressing and copying the image into the right location one
can start the VM 'headless' (no visual output). Log into it via SSH as
the fully configured user 'neuro' via putty. No one has a console
(the beloved) and can type 'fsl'. The FSL gui will appear on the Windows
desktop.
The advantages of this approach:
- No space is wasted for an X server inside the VM
- No additonal desktop that needs space on the screen.
- Consumes less memory (important isssue for VMs as you need as much as you
can for FSL)
- Faster (no need to waste cpu cycles for video output inside the VM).
- FSL look like a native Windows app.
Disadvantages:
- The setup as described above is quite complicated, but still should
be easier that a cygwin installation.
Cheers,
Michael
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