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noVNC

noVNC - Utilities

What is noVNC?

There are many VNC clients available on Linux, differing in their capabilities and operating system support. If you are looking for a cross-platform VNC client, you have two options: use either Java-based VNC viewers (e.g., RealVNC or TightVNC), or web-based VNC clients. VNC web clients are typically faster than Java-based VNC viewers, and could easily be integrated into other third-party applications.

noVNC is an HTML5-based remote desktop web client which can communicate with a remote VNC server via Web Sockets. Using noVNC, you can control a remote computer in a web browser over VNC. noVNC has been integrated into a number of other projects including OpenStack, OpenNebula, CloudSigma, Amahi and PocketVNC.

noVNC Feature List

The following list shows full features offered by noVNC.

  • Supports all modern browsers including those on iOS, Android.

  • Supported VNC encodings: raw, copyrect, rre, hextile, tight, tightPNG

  • WebSocket SSL/TLS encryption (i.e. "wss://") support

  • 24-bit true color and 8 bit colour mapped

  • Supports desktop resize notification/pseudo-encoding

  • Local or remote cursor

  • Clipboard copy/paste

  • Clipping or scrolling modes for large remote screens

How can i use noVNC?

noVNC is only useful in case there is some missconfiguration on your VPS Server (Eg: Network Missconfiguration) etc...

We highly recommend using an SSH Client for Linux & RDP for Windows. Otherwise, there is no reason for using noVNC.

However. We can access noVNC with the following steps:

Step 1:

Login to your PetroSky Client Area then select the Server you would like to access it's noVNC

Step 2:

Fetch for 'Actions' then hit 'noVNC Console'

Step 3:

A new window will open containing the noVNC Console as the following screenshot:

And we are done! You can use noVNC to access your server!

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