Re: How to make "headless" system?

[Matt Ventura <mattventura@mattventura.net>]

On 11/07/2015 12:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, 
> fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have 
> "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res 
> monitors of 800x600 at best. Also, they are all in the basement, which 
> is a trip I don't like to make very often!
>
> I want to force these systems to support hi-res 1680x1050 or better so 
> I can VNC to them from my main machine and be able to use graphic 
> software to operate and maintain these machines.
>
> Right now I mostly use ssh and it can be a real pain!
>
> Can anybody tell me how to accomplish this or point me to a "How To" 
> somewhere?
>
> I am running Jessie and XFCE.
>
> Many TIA!!
> Dennis
If you absolutely must have a full X running on the machines, you can 
use xvfb to create a "fake" X that doesn't actually display anywhere, 
and use VNC to access it. There's also xvnc which is specifically for 
use over VNC.