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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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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 ...
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Stay Logged Into Headless Server

I have a headless Linux server running some services without root access (username leo), via systemd --user. I ssh into my server (as leo), start the services, and then exit. The problem is, systemd ...
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VAAPI on headless system

We run a hosted box with Intel Corporation HD Graphics 630. We have there Debian Buster with i965-va-driver-shaders and intel-media-va-driver-non-free installed. We are able to do hardware-accelerated ...
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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 ...
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Spinning up vm/containers for single windows app

I admin a small Edu/MakerSpace, and we have a few donated pieces of equipment that require a Windows-based OS to run the controlling app. I have tried looking for & tested a Linux/POSIX-based ...
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Error installing chrome remote desktop on headless debian buster linux host

I have a debian buster host (not on Google Cloud) and I am following the steps in this tutorial: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/chrome-desktop-remote-on-compute-engine However, when trying to ...
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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 ...
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Getting hardware accelerated graphics on a headless Windows Server 2008 R2

I have a series of command line applications which use accelerated hardware contexts to perform logic on the GPU, in a CUDA like fashion. The applications are Windows specific, so they can not run on ...
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TeamCity sends inadequate responses after Selenium tests

I have a TeamCity 7.0.2 at CentOS 6.2 server without X Server. I've installed x11-fonts*, xvfb, firefox, xauth, extracted env. variable DISPLAY=localhost:1, and started xvfb. After that I could start ...
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Unable to connect to vrde virtualbox VM remotely

So I've remotely created my first headless using ssh. Now I'm attempting to connect to this VM using RDP so I can install Ubuntu Server, but I cannot get connected at all. When starting the VM ...
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Ubuntu server installation on headless server: stuck

I am trying to install Ubuntu 22 - server on a headless server. It doesn't even have VGA/HDMI output. So I have prepared a usb stick with ubuntu installer. I am connecting via RS232. Once I get to ...
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How to run a Python script in interactive desktop session on Windows 10 remotely?

In other words: how do I run a GUI app on Windows 10 remotely? Background: we build and test plugins for third-party CAD engineering software. In order to run tests of our plugins, we need to first ...
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Headless installation of debian "golden image"

For the retrofit of some older embedded (Intel, x86) PCs I would like to install a customized Debian image with as little as possible user interaction. Normally I would create a Debian installation, ...
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systemd-networkd: how to elegantly switch between creating a wireless access point and connecting to a wifi network

I'm working on a headless IoT device that creates its own access point so that the user can access its web UI and do necessary configuration. The system uses networkd but I'm not very attached to it ...
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Firefox and Chrome headless mode not working on VPS (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) with Python/Selenium

I am trying to get Chrome running in headless mode with Python, but for some reason I only get a blank page back no matter what website I try to read. Google Chrome: v77 Chromedriver: latest version ...
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PowerEdge T100 fails to boot without display+keyboard

Our office has an old Dell PowerEdge T100 , which I'm recently setting up with Ubuntu 18.04. For space efficiency and we leave no mouse/keyboard+display connected. Thing is, once we power up our ...
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Cannot boot Debian-9.6.0 in KVM: "640 x 480 Graphic mode"

I'm trying to get a disposable virtual machine on my private server. I've tried downloading a couple of Debian ISO files for 9.6.0, but I am unsuccessful in booting any of them. After trying kvm -m ...
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Open graphical Windows applications without monitor and control it

I have an Windows server with multiple applications installed on it. For each application we created a macro that interects over it. For example, open the ERP -> go to product registration -> add a ...
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Would a static IP make PC go online as soon as router become available/ready?

I have posted a part of this question here and now what Im questioning is an answer suggested - to create a static IP. Question in short: I have a headless PC(running Ubuntu) and I want to make this ...
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How to install Xvfb without root access (tried with linuxbrew)

I have non-root access to a headless Debian server that runs Jenkins. I want to build Unity3D on that Jenkins, which requires me to install Xvfb. Because it is a headless server, X11 is not installed, ...
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Setting up headless windows NVIDIA machines

We have some headless Windows 7 machines in a datacenter. We use them to run unattended tests of a 3d graphics application (similar to a game). We have trouble running the machines at 4k resolution ...
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Is there a way to do SpiderOak setup from an Ubuntu 12.04 server command line without a GUI?

We're experimenting with SpiderOak for a few server backup tasks. (We preferred to avoid dropbox if possible, though that may end up as a fallback.) We've installed the client on our local Mac and ...
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