rdesktop or vncviewer ?

[sw2wolf]

I use qemu to run WindowsXP on OpenBSD 5.6:

qemu-system-i386 -hda winxp.qcow2 -m 512 -localtime   \
    -net nic,vlan=0,macaddr=52:54:00:12:34:22,model=e1000 -net user \
  #-vnc 0.0.0.0:1 \
  #-nographic -redir tcp:3389::3389 \
    -monitor stdio

Then what is better way to use this qemu box between rdesktop and vncviewer(seems not in 5.6) ?

Regards!

[Oko]

You have"secure" ssvnc in ports if you need a vnc client. Without network topology I can't say what is more "secure".

[sw2wolf]

Originally Posted by Oko

You have"secure" ssvnc in ports if you need a vnc client. Without network topology I can't say what is more "secure".

Yeah, there is ssvnc. I donot care "secure" but performance.

thanks!

[Oko]

If you care for performance you should not be running anything in qemu on OpenBSD. On the real hardware I found exposing Windows 7 RDP port 3389 far superior than using it via virt-manager console which is essentially glorified VNC. VNC server is very portable but you can't beat native RDP protocol on Windows. For the record we run only KVM guests on Red Hat host and performance is adequate.

[sw2wolf]

Originally Posted by Oko

If you care for performance you should not be running anything in qemu on OpenBSD. On the real hardware I found exposing Windows 7 RDP port 3389 far superior than using it via virt-manager console which is essentially glorified VNC. VNC server is very portable but you can't beat native RDP protocol on Windows. For the record we run only KVM guests on Red Hat host and performance is adequate.

Of course QEMU cannot get to what KVM does. But better than nothing, i sometimes use QEMU to run some windows apps without leaving OpenBSD.

Regards!