Virtualbox and VRDP

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 14), Bernhard Froehlich said:
> On Mon, September 14, 2009 3:00 am, Jonathan wrote:
> > I just installed virtualbox on my server without X11 support intending
> > to run it headless and now I find that the Virtual Remote Display
> > Protocol support is only available in the closed source version.  The
> > virtualbox Editions page says that some of the closed source features
> > may eventually become available in the open source version as well, has
> > anyone heard anything about this happening for VRDP?
> >
> > Are there any other options that would allow me to set up a VM remotely
> > without installing X?  I suppose I could set up a VM locally and then
> > copy it to my server once it's configured for remote ssh access but that
> > would involve copying several GB over the internet, a rather slow
> > process on my connection.
> 
> You can setup your virtual machine with VBoxManage but installing a system
> in it is rather painful without GUI.  The way you described is my
> preferred at the moment but you could also install with X11 and use
> VBoxSDL and X11 forwarding.
> 
> I've talked to the vbox developers and they don't think that the RDP code
> will be put opensource in the foreseeable future.  That's a pity because
> in combination with vboxweb [0] which is a python web interface to vbox
> that includes a Flash based RDP client this would be a great headless
> solution.

What I do is run vncserver, VNC to that virtual X11 session, then run my
VirtualBox sessions under there.

Maybe someone could add VNC support to vbox using libvncserver?

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvncserver/


 
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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com