Re: [Xen-users] xen multi remote desktops

[Eric Lindsey <eslindsey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps slightly off-topic, but this could also be accomplished from
within Xen, which is probably what the OP was looking for:

>From the domain.cfg file:
vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncdisplay=x' ]
This allows you to connect to VNC viewer on dom0's IP address, port 5900+x.

So you have 4 virtual machines, with one of these vfb lines in each:
vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncdisplay=1' ]
vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncdisplay=2' ]
vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncdisplay=3' ]
vfb = [ 'type=vnc,vncdisplay=4' ]

This would allow you to connect a VNC viewer to the same IP address,
one each on ports 5901, 5902, 5903, 5904.

It should be noted that this provides no password (though one could be
added with ,vncpasswd=xyz after the vncdisplay=x), but more
importantly, no encryption even IF you add password authentication.
So you should use an SSH tunnel to connect to these ports instead of
opening up these ports to the public Internet.

See also:
http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Configuring_a_VNC_based_Graphical_Console_for_a_Xen_Paravirtualized_domainU_Guest


On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Alexandre Kouznetsov <alk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> El 22/06/12 11:15, jacek burghardt escribió:
>
>> I just installed xen on my dell 860 server and I wan to run four
>> instances of server 2008 and I only have one ip address. Is there
>> proxy that will let remote users connect to remote desktops.
>
>
> I'm afraid this is a clear offtopic, the issue is far from being
> xen-specific.
>
> Googling on keywords "remote desktop load balancer" will certainly throw you
> usable results. "proxy" instead of "load balancer" would be too generic, the
> functionality you are requesting has more to do with load balancing than
> with a generic proxy.
>
> You also can use a NAT frontend and forward ports to different backend
> servers, based on source IP using iptables rules. Still, not xen-specific.
>
> As last resourt, you may set up a internal network with private addressing,
> and let your users in via some VPN, letting them to choose form the client
> side, what RDP server they want to talk to.
>
> By the way, maybe it would be easer to request more IP addresses or move to
> IPv6.
>
> With best wishes.
>
> --
> Alexandre Kouznetsov
>
>
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