[Bio-Linux] Several concurrent users to BioLinux8 as Headless VM on Ubuntu14.04?

[Xavier de Pedro]

He he, I presumed that this was going to be an answer. We are using
already X2Go in the production server (where we did start the virtualbox
machine with BioLinux), and I am still reluctant (feeling lazy and
conservative, maybe) to setup everything by hand there, since it might
interfere with other customizations we have in that production server
(and it took a while to have the whole thing working as intended; if
curious, ISPConfig3 setup with ssh-jailkit enabled in that server also).

I'm seriously considering that option, again (X2Go to url server and add
the biolinux repos, system upgrade, analyse the upgrade sh script for
biolinux I saw somewhere a few days ago, etc) , if I can't find another
less-risky solution (the RDP to a virtualbox-contained BioLinux server
seemed the safest approach for our case).

Thanks for the feedback already provided about this topic!

Xavier

El 29/09/15 a les 12:23, Tony Travis ha escrit:
> On 28/09/15 15:58, Xavier de Pedro wrote:
>> [...]
>> But we are concerned expecting to have some students with old-ish
>> computers (from the 60 students enrolled in the course), and we did
>> setup another virtualbox-powered virtual machine with BioLinux8 on a
>> "Headless" server so that those students (5 or so?, we presume) will be
>> able to connect through RDP to one of our servers to use BioLinux there.
>> We followed these instructions for the setup:
>> https://www.howtoforge.com/vboxheadless-running-virtual-machines-with-virtualbox-4.3-on-a-headless-ubuntu-14.04-lts-server
>>
>>
>> However, only one RDP connection seems to be allowed at a time. I tried
>> these tweaks I could find around:
>>
>>   "Ubuntu 14.04 – Gnome Classic alike Desktop for XRDP : MATE-Desktop"
>>   http://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=5382
> Hi, Xarvier.
>
> Don't use RDP, use "x2go" - Bio-Linux 8 comes with the "x2go" server
> pre-installed. You just need to install the "x2go" client on your
> Windows/Mac desktop or laptop PC's. I'm particularly interested in
> Bio-Linux as a terminal server, so please let me know how you get on?
>
> The most important thing is to set the "x2go" client to use the MATE
> desktop. I've used this to run Bio-Linux courses with 20 or more people
> accessing the same server via "x2go" without any problems.
>
> HTH,
>
>   Tony.
>