Solaris

I have a server running openindiana, it hosts virtualbox and several VMs on it.

My first question is if I can run openindiana desktop from my windows on same network, now I am using XWin server under cygwin-X, I can run GUI of VirtualBox etc. but can I have the openindiana desktop show on my windows, since I don't much about unix command.

Another question is how should I install USB devices, Windows has plug and play, when I plug in a USB device, Windows will install and show the device, but when I plug a USB device on openindiana, I don't see it reacts in anyway and I am not sure where I can make it install the new USB device, what I really want is a way to have the USB device show in a VM on VirtualBbox.

Thanks, please help

If you configure network in your VM on Windows, you should get a dhcp address for that virtual machine.

After you get an IP address on your VM, you will have a scenario in which you want your X server to be Windows and your X client will be VM.

Now, for instance from putty and xming (both free), you configure putty X forwarding in the options for the specified IP address of the VM you will be connecting to and connect to it.

Any X window from that session will now be shown on your X server windows machine.

If you use cygwin and have a X server running in it, you can use ssh -Y user@VM-IP and run programs after that in same fashion as above.

You might consider also using VirtualBox built in "seamless mode" to achive similar results without using X11 encapsulation and/or forwarding.

Thanks for quick reply.

What I tried to do is connect to the host server's GUI, the openindiana. Not tried to connect to any VM.