[kwlug-disc] GUI Remote Access

[Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account)]

> On Jun 24, 2017, at 10:43 PM, Peter Melse <peter_melse at gto.net> wrote:
> So far this list has covered every free method I've tried so far, so i'll offer up the solution I'm using now, though it has a few caveats.
> 
> tldr: vmware horizon (view) virtual desktop infrastructure. It's non-free, takes a lot of hardware, but offers domain authenticated, responsive gui connections to Ubuntu(14.04, 16.04), and windows desktops. 

Interesting; I’ve been using RDP to hit my windows VMs on ESXi. It works well enough that I can run Altium (which requires DirectX) this way, but I haven’t thought of trying horizon. I’m still quite green when it comes to VMWare’s technologies. Thanks for the lead.

-A.