[SAC] [support.osuosl.org #20049] OSGeo: adhoc VM down

[Martin Spott]

On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 12:07:57PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:

> It works fine for me - Ubuntu PPA Firefox 9. Can you try Chromium
> browser (They hinted it might be working better) or just latest firefox
> fox direct executable. I wonder if the lag from North America to Europe
> is too much.

I don't think it's the latency, that's just approx. 150 ms

I have gone through the pains of setting up another browser (and now
Google Chrome is, without asking, polling dozends of sites I never
wanted to see) and allowed masqueraded HTTP(S) internet access from the
workstation, but the result still looks the same: I'm getting a
"Connection timeout" when trying to read the console of almost any of
the OSGeo VM's (I did not try all of them, but at least some which are
known to be running).

I _do_ get the noVNC console from my spare netbook running latest
Firefox on WinXP on an almost direct internet connection, but I have to
move the mouse all the time in order to get the screen refreshed and
I'm still unable to enter the "/" character into the GRUB command line
because of some apparent keyboard mismatches.

Lance, may we/I get at least some sort of direct access for maintaining
VM's on this host ?

Cheers,
	Martin.
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 Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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