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Remote Desktop works surprisingly well over low bandwidth. I’ve done it at times using my unlimited hotspot data when I only had 3G speeds

kkielhofner 4y ago
RDP is really quite impressive. I host Windows VMs on a Linux server. With quickemu[0] you can fire up a Windows Vm in minutes. It fetches the ISO, sets everything up - even breezes through setup, creates a user, does KMS for activation, etc. One command and a few minutes later you're looking at a Windows desktop. Setup Remote Desktop (with SSH forwarding or VPN of course) and you have a remarkably responsive (even at 4k single and dual display) GUI experience and powerful remote connection - file sharing, sound forwarding, clipboard sharing, even printers and arbitrary devices. [0] - https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu
- vaxman 4y ago
- pmarreck 4y ago
  you misspelled “remote root protocol” ;)
  - kkielhofner 4y ago
    Hah totally get your sentiment but in my case it’s a port forward bound to loop back to a VM listening on a very well secured Linux machine only accessible with key based SSH. I’m not terribly worried about it.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    Well in my case, it’s running on an EC2 instance with no ingress access. I access it by tunneling through Session Manager secured via IAM temporary credentials which itself is secured via a physical MFA device. (https://medium.com/sai-ops/using-aws-session-manager-to-connect-to-windows-instance-without-an-rdp-port-open-bdb5c6699e83 https://medium.com/sai-ops/using-aws-session-manager-to-conn...)
- whatsthatabout 4y ago
  Never heard of quickemu - looks really cool! Thanks for sharing
  - kkielhofner 4y ago
    You're going to love it!
nomel 4y ago
I think you misread my comment. If you're using a Windows app as part of your Mac workflow (which is often the case if Fusion is being used), you'll put files in a shared mount so the Mac and Windows apps have access to the storage they're on. This doesn't work if you have to transfer files across the internet to start the Windows side of your workflow. For example, a Windows reporting tool that reads from an sqlite database, which was generated with a Mac workflow, while I'm sitting at a coffee shop. And, the nicest thing about fusion is that each Windows app appears as a native window, which RDP doesn't seem to have.
- fsiefken 4y ago
  Hi Nomel, the Microsoft RDP clients you can map a directory which is transparently available in both environments. The only constraint is bandwidth.
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kkielhofner 4y ago

RDP is really quite impressive. I host Windows VMs on a Linux server. With quickemu[0] you can fire up a Windows Vm in minutes. It fetches the ISO, sets everything up - even breezes through setup, creates a user, does KMS for activation, etc. One command and a few minutes later you're looking at a Windows desktop. Setup Remote Desktop (with SSH forwarding or VPN of course) and you have a remarkably responsive (even at 4k single and dual display) GUI experience and powerful remote connection - file sharing, sound forwarding, clipboard sharing, even printers and arbitrary devices. [0] - https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu

vaxman 4y ago
pmarreck 4y ago
you misspelled “remote root protocol” ;)
- kkielhofner 4y ago
  Hah totally get your sentiment but in my case it’s a port forward bound to loop back to a VM listening on a very well secured Linux machine only accessible with key based SSH. I’m not terribly worried about it.
- scarface74 4y ago
  Well in my case, it’s running on an EC2 instance with no ingress access. I access it by tunneling through Session Manager secured via IAM temporary credentials which itself is secured via a physical MFA device. (https://medium.com/sai-ops/using-aws-session-manager-to-connect-to-windows-instance-without-an-rdp-port-open-bdb5c6699e83 https://medium.com/sai-ops/using-aws-session-manager-to-conn...)
whatsthatabout 4y ago
Never heard of quickemu - looks really cool! Thanks for sharing
- kkielhofner 4y ago
  You're going to love it!

nomel 4y ago

I think you misread my comment. If you're using a Windows app as part of your Mac workflow (which is often the case if Fusion is being used), you'll put files in a shared mount so the Mac and Windows apps have access to the storage they're on. This doesn't work if you have to transfer files across the internet to start the Windows side of your workflow. For example, a Windows reporting tool that reads from an sqlite database, which was generated with a Mac workflow, while I'm sitting at a coffee shop. And, the nicest thing about fusion is that each Windows app appears as a native window, which RDP doesn't seem to have.

fsiefken 4y ago
Hi Nomel, the Microsoft RDP clients you can map a directory which is transparently available in both environments. The only constraint is bandwidth.
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