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Goa - Using a headless Sculpt as a remote test target
June 4 2024 by Johannes Schlatow

Goa's ability to run applications on a remote Sculpt system comes in handy for testing. However, switching between keyboards to control the remote-running application is a tiny inconvenience. My recent experiments with Sculpt on a ZimaBlade, which has no built-in display, thus motivated me to experiment with solutions for Sculpt as a truly remote test target. Continue...
Remote desktop solution for Sculpt via VNC
June 9 2021 by Johannes Schlatow

Thanks to alex-ab, we already have a native VNC client available in Sculpt to connect to VMs remotely. How nice would it be to also bring a VNC server to Sculpt and thereby enable remote desktop scenarios? In this article, I want to share my experiences made when developing a VNC server application with Goa and ultimately present a ready-to-use package for Sculpt. Continue...
Native VNC client
April 24 2020 by Alexander Böttcher

In order to connect to VMs remotely, several options exist. Using VNC is one way to go. Virtualization solutions like Qemu/KVM have built-in support, so a native VNC client on Genode becomes handy. In this post I'm going to report about a ported VNC client of the libvncserver project and its usage on Sculpt 20.02. Continue...

Goa - Using a headless Sculpt as a remote test target