How to vnc to a server that has no graphics or video card at all.

I just built a NAS based on a former game pc (huge enclosure :-).

All went well and I soon finished the 24 TB NAS system but then got annoyed by the fairly loud fan noise. A quick investigation led me to the source: the nvidia video and graphics card.

As a test i then took it out, although i knew my server would be out of any gpu and would possibly not boot at all.

but it did boot, and I was well abel to ssh my way through the rest of the conifgurations ans tuning.

After a while i was wondering if it was possible to vnc in to the thing.

GDM (gnome) would not start, complaining about a missing display:0. I then installed xdm and vnc4server apt-get install xdm vnc4server

And after starting vnc4server on the console (via ssh) I was able to start a rather bare xConsole. (gray background, white terminal in front).

And finally after typing gnome-session in to the terminal....

I was in my gnome desktop :-)

So steps are:

1. install debian with a graphics card. ( and don't forget ssh!)
2. disable bios warnings (so your system will boot even without a graphics card)
3. Remove graphics card
4. Reboot
5. install vnc4server
6. type vnc4server in your console (via ssh remeber the display number vncserver will print in it's result)
7. connect to your server with vncviewer and use ipaddress:1 as host ( :1 being the display number vnc4server printed out

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