Install Procedure for rdesktop¶

Requirements¶

To install rdesktop you will need the following:

• a installed and supported operating system (e.g. CentOS 6.x)
• root-access
• a fast internet connection

Preliminary Note¶

This procedure is based on a documentation supplied by http://www.proclos.com.

Install¶

yum install rdesktop

Usage¶

connect to host machine

rdesktop localhost

connect to virtual machine with given ip and port

rdesktop 192.168.0.99:7777

if you want to enforce a specific keyboard layout use the -k option

rdesktop -kde 192.168.0.99:7777