Is there anyway to remote desktop into my MorphOS machine? I would like to be able to get into it from my main Windows 10 computer. Would be nice to just have it running somewhere and be able to view the MorphOS desktop on my main machine without it taking up desk space.

https://library.morph.zone/Applications/VNCServer

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Ah, it comes with the OS. No wonder searching applications didn't bring anything up. thanks!

Careful : VNC Server on MorphOS is CPU hungry

Sure is. Switching to the Virtual monitor driver should help though since that one, while not doing any hw accelerated blits, is keeping everything in ram, so there's no penalty for vram 2 ram transfers by CPU.

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and doesn't support encryption either

@Crumb

The original VNC protocol never specified any encryption. The existing attempts to add security by bolting a TLS to the protocol have had massive security flaws in them, or other bugs making them impractical in securing VNC.

RealVNC introduced "RFB 5" protocol that is (probably) doing cryptography right, but it is proprietary and RealVNC only.

Even today many VNC server and client implementations only support using SSH or VPN tunnels to secure the connection. Using SSH tunnel is what I'd recommend, even though it is not very convenient. Since we currently have no SSH daemon, it'll have to be a reverse tunnel originating from the MorphOS system. To create the tunnel, use:

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The tunnel will be enabled for as long as you have the SSH command running. To shut down the tunnel CTRL-C the ssh command.

While the tunnel is up you can securely connect to the MorphOS VNCServer *from* the server by pointing the VNC client at the server localhost port 25900.

If the server is to be used as a proxy, another secure means to do that (such as TLS tunnel, VPN or 2nd SSH tunnel needs to be arranged to allow connecting to the proxy host port 25900. The specifics of such arrangement are beyond the scope of this post.

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I am "new" to morphOS.... some questions on that:

1) If I "save" virtual monitor, I cannot switch back to my iBook G4/Radeon monitor, is there an easy way to do so?

2) Can I use virtual monitor 8bit? Looks like I need at least 15bit because of Ambient?

1) No good way of doing that if you plan to be switching between built-in screen and vnc. You'd have to disable Virtual monitor (move it out from devs:monitors) and reboot
2) Applications can request bit depth when opening a screen and Ambient does indeed require at least 15 bit (as do many other applications)

Don't know if possible or how bad of an idea (speed wise but not only) this is:

Run Qemu on Win10 machine and tell Qemu to emulate hds by some raw (non-filesystem-level) access over network to the real hds on MOS machine. On Linux there seem to be things like NBD (network block device) which seem to allow this. Maybe Win10 supports something like that too.

On the MOS machine (the server side of raw hd sharing over network) you would have to use Linux too to make raw-hd-access over network possible. Even in unlikely case such thing is supported by MOS, you could not run both the real MOS and the emulated one on Win10 at the same time if they are working on and accessing the same physical hd(s) at the same time.

FYI if you wish to use MorphOS and connect to something else...

RDesktop works great and is part of the base install of the OS.

na...I rather connect to MorphOS, as MorphOS runs on my small ibook G4 Screen. Coding and other things are done on my X1000 AmigaOS4 or/and Windows setup. Currently I am using MorphOS just for testing my multiplatform ToDo List app:

https://www.morphos-storage.net/?id=2467718

In case I fall in love with MorphOS I might do a dual boot setup on my Amiga X1000

> In case I fall in love with MorphOS I might
> do a dual boot setup on my Amiga X1000

MorphOS does not run on the AmigaOne X1000/Nemo.

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sad....then I have to stick to my ibook. Thanks for infos!