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Hi
I have XBMC live installed on a Asrock 330HT. Its placed in my hometheatre in the basement, and when i want to do some work with the gui or try some new addons it would be great if i could reach the gui from my PC. Is it even possible to have a VNC session pointing to the XBMC machine? Has anyone tried and in that case how did you do it.
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Yes, it is possible.
If you by GUI mean XBMC it could be performance problem. Some people do it, I dont see the point. Just install the default ubuntu vnc server and enable it. (see ubuntu forum or google). This will give vnc access to the console.
If you by GUI mean a desktop / window manager it is more meaningful. Then you want multiple background vnc sessions that initiates ad-hoc. I found that to be too much work to set up with vnc. I is also regarded as low security.
I recommend nxserver instead. The free version is excellent. Easy to setup.
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I read somewhere on here that the 'X11VNC' server works best for this. Do a search you should find it. It's in the ubuntu repos.
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I don't know if this applies to Linux, but on Windows VNC to a machine running XBMC is very slow because the XBMC screens update so fast. It's just barely usable, but only barely.
I have tried using an X server to connect to my Ubuntu machine (Xming), however I get an "OpenGL not available" error. Presumably the X server has to offer an OpenGL interface.
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Thanks for your replies guys!
I give it a try and report my progress!
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hi
I have used x11vnc with xbmc works, if you give the right options (may also have to give a --auth), it is possible to patch the /usr/bin/runXBMC to launch x11vnc also everytime xbmc launches...
the only issue is you cannot see any video's over x11vnc, however you can do other tasks... esp related to installing plugins, etc
xbmc 1:9.11_lucid2 on boxdg45fc
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You can also do X11 forwarding and run it locally.
On gigabit ethernet I was able to run SD video. Audio still comes out where it normally does.
Code:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `xbmc_%`.* TO 'xbmc'@'%';
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