From a security point of view, installing a GUI is a bad idea as it greatly expands the attack surface of the host. Certainly a GUI does take up some resources which could otherwise be used by the VM’s. Gnome will take up resources whenever it is running – regardless of whether or not you … Read more
Try DBvisualizer from Minq Software … http://www.minq.se/products/dbvis/ It’s universal. It is Java based, and uses JDBC drivers to access just about any DB platform. It’s a very mature product, and has commercial and freebie. I liked it so much, I splurged for the licensed copy!
Have you tried Cyberduck? http://cyberduck.ch/ I’m not sure if it allows for sudo integration as I don’t use a Mac (this isn’t, to my knowledge, something that is native to the SCP protocol; i suspect winSCP does it by initiating a separate shell session, sudo chowning the files, and chowning them back after the operation … Read more