Remote desktop feature

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Alex O. Karasulu edited this page Mar 9, 2018 · 2 revisions

This page is based on issue #1878, which is oriented to provide Remote Desktop Control for Subutai users

Discussion issue: https://github.com/subutai-io/base/issues/2124

Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_remote_desktop_software

1. X2Go ( website )

Test result:

Worked on the physical machine, where Ubuntu 16 and Mate desktop installed.
ERROR thrown when X2Go server was installed inside LXC container with Ubuntu 16 and Mate desktop: _Connection failed. mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device _. The problem is related to root user, with other users it works!

Open source
Uses NX technology
Server is light and works only on Linux hosts
Client fully works on Linux, OS X, and on Windows

2. Guacamole

Open source
Weights more (more dependencies)
HTML5 Client (via browser)

3. Xpra

Open source
Client and Server works on Linux, OS X, and Windows
Very bad documentation

4. Xrdp

System design: EZ Desktop solution for Subutai containers

https://github.com/subutai-io/base/wiki/EZ-Desktop-solution-for-Subutai-containers