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Headless systems or programs do not depend on a graphical user interface, user interaction or directly attached monitor/mouse/keyboard to work as expected. Administration is typically done via network.

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Running gui based desktop software in a headless VM

I am dealing with some software that "wants" to be run from a system that has a desktop (call it the primary package). This software invokes other packages that also run as user level applications on the desktop (call them the secondary packages). …
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Slower VM Performance for Headless Browser Tests on Xeon

I created a virtual machine on my desktop to run our continuous integration process. After I was happy with it, I moved the VM (keeping the same configuration) onto our server where I found that the headless cucumber tests were taking 2-3x longer.…
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Accessing guest VirtualBox console via headless host SSH?

I've looked quite some time for this, and just can't find anything. Is there a way to access a VirtualBox guest consolle, via headless host SSH session? I.e. without any RDP/VNC protocols, just like on Xen, via xen console VMNAME?
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connect to xvfb remote to fix firefox headless crash?

I have firefox running in xvfb (for nagios monitoring with selenium) but firefox crashes on me since today in ps: /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.17/crashreporter /tmp/customProfileDira27173dd39e4467.... how can I see/fix the crashes?
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Juniper’s Network Connect ncsvc on Linux: “host checker failed, error 10”

I’m trying to log in to a Juniper VPN with Network Connect from a headless Linux client. I followed the instructions and used the script from http://mad-scientist.us/juniper.html. When running the script with --nogui switch the command that gets…
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How do I headless install Ubuntu 10.10 Server

I installed Centos 5.5 on a headless server. The BIOS supports console redirection, so all I needed to do was: 1) Connect over a serial cable, 2) adjust the BIOS, 3) put the CD in, and 4) at the boot prompt, type: linux console=ttyS0,115200n8 …
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Can I have notifications/alerts sent by IM to a Skype account from a headless machine?

I want to make my network monitoring system send IM alerts, and the IM client of choice at my workplace is Skype. Is there a command-line driven API, that doesn't require the GUI Skype client, so I can run it on the Linux machines that run my…
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Not able to run firefox in a head-less Ubuntu server 9.10

I need to run Firefox in my server in order to execute some Selenium tests from Hudson. I would love no to have to install a complete gui. So I installed Xvfb in order to fake the Gui (I understand it this way correct me if my assumptions are…
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what does google use to install its headless servers in its server farm?

I am interested in this as I want to set up my own headless servers, and I'm sure learning from google would not be a bad idea for me :)
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Make Headless Server Use Hardware Accelaration

I have a headless CentOS 8 Server with an AMD GPU. I want to use hardware acceleration but when I run OpenGL programs with xvfb-run (e.g glxinfo), the system reports I am using software rendering. How can I use hardware acceleration on a headless…
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Dropbox Headless Install - No Account Linking URL

When installing Dropbox on a headless Linux machine with their install script (https://www.dropbox.com/en_GB/install-linux) - after install, when the dropboxd script is run a URL to link the installation to an account should be displayed. This is…
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How do I install Xen without having a video system?

How can I install Xen on a system without having a video card nor onboard video? Something about pxeboot or kickstart? I've searched for the answer but keep ending up in docs that have very little to do with my use case. I don't have optical drives…
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How to disable integrated intel graphics and use shared RAM for the Linux

Given a server with Intel E3-1275 v6 CPU, is it possible to instruct Linux kernel to stop using the integrated graphics and restore video RAM back to OS? I'd prefer using a kernel command line flag and disable the integrated graphics during linux…
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Installing Ubuntu Server through SSH

Does anyone know if it is possible to install Ubuntu server headless? I do know of the ability to output a terminal to a COM port, BUT, I was wondering if there was a way to drop a prompt, install SSH, and relaunch the setup through SSH.
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How to create a headless JDK on Ubuntu

I want to have a headless JDK on Ubuntu 14.04. As discussed in the question “How can I install a headless JDK on an Ubuntu Jaunty server?”, one option is to create my own jdk-headless package. I have tried to create a dummy package using…
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