vlab gives you a CSE lab desktop session on non-CSE computers, including UNSW library computers, your own laptop or desktop, and mobile phones and tablets.
Key points
Available to all students and staff.
Uses a freely available and easy-to-install VNC client to give you a CSE lab virtual desktop on your PC, Mac, laptop, tablet or mobile phone.
Usable 24/7 from anywhere in the world.
Resolutions available (and server:port to get them):
vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5911vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5912vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5912vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5914vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5915vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5916Colour depth is 16 bits.
Your session automatically terminates of you don't do anything for 2 hours.
Sessions are not persistent. It's like a real lab computer: Once you disconnect or logout all your windows are gone. Your saved data, of course, remains in your home directory.
Multimedia: Audio is not supported, and video may be choppy due to network speed and latency (but who wants video without sound?)
You cannot connect USB devices to the CSE desktop session. If you want to upload or download files, you will need to use the local computer to do so, maybe via CSE's Samba server.
Use the UNSW VPN, CSE VPN or an SSH tunnel when connecting from outside UNSW.
Free VNC client download: TigerVNC. Other VNC clients should also work.