I have a Mac laptop for work. I would like to keep my personal stuff off of my work computer. Obviously I can just ssh to my home computer and/or tunnel X using Quartz. But this always feels clunky, plus I don't get to use i3wm.Is there a way to run something like a thin client using VirtualBox, where I can connect to my home machine as if I were sitting at the computer, letting me use my normal shell to login, and if so desired, startx?
Is it possible to run a thin client in virtualbox?
x11;ssh tunneling
While you can't actually run a full-on thin client, you can do the next best thing - tunnel your entire X session. I found this solution at LinuxJournal.xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- :1 &ssh -fY remotehost /usr/bin/i3(replace /usr/bin/i3 with whatever window manager you prefer)xterm can really be anything, but xterm is only about a 3mb install on Arch Linux. I also installed:xorg-xhostxorg-serverxorg-xinit(I may not have actually needed xorg-xhost to get this running).I now have i3wm with all of my key bindings, and it works just like if I were sitting at the computer (plus some extra lag, of course).