[CentOS-virt] WinXP Xen guest: compare VNC vs RDP

Mon Apr 27 09:55:09 UTC 2009
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 04/27/2009 12:17 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Julian Price wrote on Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:46:44 +0100:
>
>   
>> I use RDP because it allows copy & paste of text between the local and 
>> remote machines.  VNC does not, unless I've just not got it set up right.
>>     
>
> I have always been doing that (copy text to VNC). I run VNC for my Windows 
> *hosts* rather than RDP because I can attach to an existing console session 
> and not logout the console. RDP doesn't attach to a session but opens a new 
> one.
>   
With rdesktop you can also leave the session running and reconnect to it.