I’ve got a new toy. Actually its a new PC built by my own hands. The main reasons for getting it are to run a bunch of databases for development work and to have a system to play with linux. Its got an AMD Athlon X2 2300 BE and 4 Gig of memory mainly for all of the Oracle databases I sometimes need to run. I’m using the 64 bit version of CENTOS 5 and the 64 bit version of Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition. The installation went pretty smoothly once I’d got the correct libraries loaded, but then I have put Oracle onto Linux before so I new what to look for.
The new PC is mainly going to run headless so I want to connect from my work PC (which runs Windows XP) and be able to control apps such as Oracle dbca (Database Configuration Assistant). Now I has read a bit about forwarding X windows over ssh so the question was how to get an X Windows session running over ssh on a Windows laptop.
The answer was to use Innotek’s VirtualBox to run Ubuntu on top of Windows XP and open an X Session over ssh to the new PC and then run dbca……and it works! The picture shows dbca running from the server in Ubuntu on Windows XP.
