Running a remote browser

[typody]

Hi,

 

I am tying to setup the ability to run a remote browser on a VM I have running on a server here and I am not sure if it's doable so would appreciate any suggestions.

 

Essentially I want to launch something on my PC that opens a browser that is running on my VM, uses the VM's network connection and storage but it looks like it's running on my main PC.  I have looked at App-V and RemoteApp but they seem quite heavy for what I am after and I am not sure if they use the VM storage/network or my main PC's.  Any suggestions?

 

Thanks

[Nick H. Supervisor]

I'm not too versed on VMs, but I'm not sure that it's possible to run the browser in the VM but have the browser window float on your main system as if the browser was running from there. It would always be contained within the VM's window.

 

Why do you want to do this? It sounds like you want to keep the browser in a container so that you can prevent anything malicious from happening to your main system. If that's the case, have you looked in to using some software like Sandboxie? It would run on your main system, while also putting the browser in to a container that would help to keep your system unmodified.

[typody]

Thanks for the quick response, that is sort of what I am after.  An isolated browser session that appears like it's on my PC but isn't.  Something like coherence mode in parallels but using the VM resources.  I guess I could just terminal service into the VM and run it directly, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution.

[Nick H. Supervisor]

6 minutes ago, typody said:

Thanks for the quick response, that is sort of what I am after.  An isolated browser session that appears like it's on my PC but isn't.  Something like coherence mode in parallels but using the VM resources.  I guess I could just terminal service into the VM and run it directly, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution.

I took a quick look, and you might want to try this: RemoteApp Tool. It says that it doesn't work for Windows 10 Home, but I'm not sure if that is for the client machine or the server. I guess it means the client though.

[typody]

This tool, looks like it has some real promise and will do what I need.  I will give it a test.  Thanks very much.

[typody]

well that turned out to be a lot simpler than expected.  No need for me to build a RDS or AppV box.  Looks like it will be ideal, many thanks.