Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:05:24 +0200 | From | Harald Dunkel <> | Subject | wishlist: vnc framebuffer device? |
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Hi folks,
To make a headless system "less headless", would it be possible to integrate a vnc framebuffer device into the kernel?
The idea is to have a vnc server instead of a local screen and keyboard to show the boot output and to provide a console login on /dev/tty{1..6}. It would be pretty similar to qemu. No need for fancy graphics, of course. The IP address might either be obtained using DHCP, or it might use an IP address/netmask given on the kernel command line.
I understand that authentication might be an issue here.
Hopefully this isn't one of the oh-no-not-again questions. I haven't seen it mentioned on the kernel or linux-console mailing lists before.
Regards
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