[coLinux-devel] NX + coLinux = Killer App

[Dan M. <dmi...@ca...>]

Hi...

Has anyone else tried NX under coLinux?  It's truly amazing...  I had 
trouble getting NX to run on the coLinux 'standard' Debian image 
yesterday, so I cooked up a Fedora Core 2 image and installed the NX 
Server Personal Edition without any problems.

NX Provides X11 while the coLinux VM hums along in the background.  
Here's a screenshot of NX running a Gnome 2.6 session on my dual-head 
WinXP notebook:

http://66.207.121.60/harmony.jpg

Set-up is very simple -- all that needs to be done is install the NX 
Server .rpm on the coLinux 'virtual' machine and install the NX Client 
exe on the Windows machine.  In my situation I use NAT to network 
coLinux.  Accessing the coLinux VM from anywhere on the 'Net (securely) 
is as simple as forwarding port 22 in Windows ICS (Internet Connection 
Sharing) to the coLinux machine's private IP, and hitting the external 
IP of  your Windows box with the NX Client.  NX will tunnel X over SSH 
so this is much more desirable than VNC.  Performance and stability have 
been great thusfar. 

FYI, The FC2 Linux install is a 1GB compressed image (approximately 
400MB compressed).  If there's interest I can upload it to anyone who 
wants to host and share.  Gnome 2.6 is sweet!

D.