drozwood90
Senior Member
Sounds similar. You just point a directory, configure the "hardware" resources, point to an ISO and boot.
The nice part with this is, Each virtualbox client gets it's OWN IP, and OWN Remote Desktop Connection. Then they bridge the client to your network. So, on my local lan (192.168.0.xxx) I connect (using the Microsoft Remote Desktop) to 125.???.???.??? and I get that machine on my local. I think RDP runs better, so long as you are not connecting with a smaller screen. An issue I ran into when using RDP on my phone to connect to my server at home. it ran FAST. MUCH faster than VNC...but I could not figure out how to get the RDP client to NOT resize my window. I run my server at 1280x1024. Then I connect my phone and it drops to 640x400. Plus the issues you run into with the Homeseer Speaker client not connecting to the proper sessions. Both of these issues can be worked around with a desktop RDP client...but I could not get the Mobile Version to do the same.
It is nice that it includes OpenRDP as part of the server, since sometimes I am using an OS that does not have any remote server stuff...no VNC, no RDP (XP Home).
When I last used VMware, you had to create "images" through TEXT and SCRIPT. Was too much for me to care to learn at the time. Sounds like they've refined it quite a bit. I THINK at the time only the paid version had a point and click screens to create your machine.
I don't know which runs "better"...but if VMware is that easy, I'd be pressed to use whichever one uses less resources (runs more efficiently).
Does VMWare have any built in remote desktop type stuff?
--Dan
The nice part with this is, Each virtualbox client gets it's OWN IP, and OWN Remote Desktop Connection. Then they bridge the client to your network. So, on my local lan (192.168.0.xxx) I connect (using the Microsoft Remote Desktop) to 125.???.???.??? and I get that machine on my local. I think RDP runs better, so long as you are not connecting with a smaller screen. An issue I ran into when using RDP on my phone to connect to my server at home. it ran FAST. MUCH faster than VNC...but I could not figure out how to get the RDP client to NOT resize my window. I run my server at 1280x1024. Then I connect my phone and it drops to 640x400. Plus the issues you run into with the Homeseer Speaker client not connecting to the proper sessions. Both of these issues can be worked around with a desktop RDP client...but I could not get the Mobile Version to do the same.
It is nice that it includes OpenRDP as part of the server, since sometimes I am using an OS that does not have any remote server stuff...no VNC, no RDP (XP Home).
When I last used VMware, you had to create "images" through TEXT and SCRIPT. Was too much for me to care to learn at the time. Sounds like they've refined it quite a bit. I THINK at the time only the paid version had a point and click screens to create your machine.
I don't know which runs "better"...but if VMware is that easy, I'd be pressed to use whichever one uses less resources (runs more efficiently).
Does VMWare have any built in remote desktop type stuff?
--Dan