VNC clients
Introduction
VNC (Virtual Network Computing) is a system that allows you to see and interact with the screen of your virtual server in a window on your desktop. VNC is the best way to interact with your server during the installation process.
You may also may wish to use VNC if you prefer to use the desktop rather than the command line to administer your server. (However, we do not recommend installing a desktop environment on a server. Running a desktop may have a small, but not negligible, impact on your server's performance. There are also the security and stability implications of installing dozens of extra packages.)
Web VNC
We support VNC in the browser. Naturally, this relies on Javascript.
From your virtual server's page on the control panel, simply click the Web VNC button.
Desktop clients
If for some reason you can't use Web VNC you may want to install a VNC client for your desktop. These are freely available for all platforms. Our suggested clients are listed below.
Please see the console access page for information on how to access the VNC console using a desktop client, and the mythic-oob-client utility to securely tunnel VNC traffic.
It is currently also possible to connect your VNC client directly, but this is now deprecated as it is less secure, and will be decommissioned in the future. In order to do this you will need the VNC IP address, your VNC
password, and either the port number or the display number. You can get this
information from the server page on the control panel, or from the status
command on the admin console for your server (you must first set a password
using the vnc-passwd command).
The port number and display number are the same bit of information: port =
5900 + display. If your client doesn't prompt you for either, trying
appending : followed by the port number to the IP address for your server,
e.g. 93.93.128.1:6001
Linux
We recommend Vinagre for use on Linux. (Several users report getting stuck in full-screen mode in Vinagre: the key to exit full-screen mode is typically F11.) Remmina also looks good.
macOS
macOS has a built-in VNC client. From the Finder menu, select Go → Connect
to Server.... Specify your server's VNC address as vnc://host.na.me:99 where
99 is the port number. You can also use an IP address instead of a hostname.
Windows
For Windows desktops we recommend Tight VNC.