You are a godsend! I was just asking about this feature on the list...
1) Should be reasonably fast
2) Should use secure connection (ideally ssh).

I'd rather teach Pharo communicate via standard input/output first so you can use it as a command line tool, then expand this ability to talk via any variant of TCP/IP.
I am very new to Pharo so I don't know the extent it's married to its GUI environment, not sure how easy it is to implement...

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Geoffroy Couprie <geo.couprie@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

Following the discussion on VM remote administration (
http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/pipermail/pharo-users/2010-May/000268.html
), I started working on something like a remote workspace. So far, I'm
able to connect to a VM running Pharo with netcat, and execute some
code. It is not much, but it was fun to write, and I learned a lot of
things :)

Now, before I add new features, I feel I should ask if someone would
be interested by this, and what use case you would imagine:
-Connecting from another VM or sticking with netcat?
-Remote debugging (might not be easy, but should be fun to do)
-Sending commands to a lot of VMs at once (and querying status)
-Multiple connections possibles?
-Being able to save a session (like http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ )
-Authentication/encryption? Is there a way to use openssl, or should I
steal the 3DES code from RFB (it should be quick enough for text only
communication)?

Best regards,

Geoffroy

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