A successful story in setting up NoMachine with Nvidia driver on AWS

[eric-duveau]

Hi

I would like to share my experience in installing a “shadow pc” with Ubuntu 18.04 as guest OS.

You’re interested in this I will tell you more.

Here is my successful recipe :

On the AWS server:

sudo apt update

wait two minutes after the end of the update

sudo apt install pulseaudio pavucontrol ubuntu-desktop mate mesa-utils glmark2 libopenal1
sudo passwd ubuntu
sudo apt upgrade

On my PC on Ubuntu 20.04:

get the lastest version of NoMachine on the web site

cd /directory/where/the/package/was/downloaded
sudo apt install ./nomachine_6.10.12_1_amd64.deb

scp -i .pem nomachine_6.10.12_1_amd64.deb ubuntu@:/tmp

On the AWS server:

sudo apt install /tmp/nomachine_6.10.12_1_amd64.deb
sudo reboot

sudo apt install lightdm
sudo reboot

sudo systemctl get-default
sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target
ps aux | grep X | grep -v grep
glxinfo | grep -i "opengl.*version"
nvidia-xconfig --preserve-busid --enable-all-gpus
sudo systemctl isolate multi-user.target
sudo systemctl isolate graphical.target
sudo reboot 

Here you should have a fully functional Ubuntu gaming PC

glxinfo | grep -i "opengl.*version"
ubuntu@ip-172-31-10-147:~$ glxgears

Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.

12969 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2592.448 FPS
13946 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2788.973 FPS
13696 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2739.193 FPS

glmark2 Score: 2399

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[brotech]

This step:
“get the latest version of NoMachine on the web site”

can be done using the command as:

wget https://download.nomachine.com/free/linux/64/deb -O nomachine.deb

it will download the most recent deb package.

[eric-duveau]

Just after :

> sudo apt install /tmp/nomachine_6.10.12_1_amd64.deb

Don’t forget to install the nvidia proprietary drivers

> sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall

[eric-duveau]

@brotech Thanks

[brotech]

Hello,
the url to download recent package has been changed, now it is:

https://www.nomachine.com/free/linux/64/deb

Replaced ‘download’ by ‘www’. So, full command now is:

wget https://www.nomachine.com/free/linux/64/deb -O nomachine.deb

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