Virtualbox and VRDP

[Jonathan]

On 9/14/2009 11:55 AM, Dan Nelson wrote:
> 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.

I'm trying to avoid installing X on the server at all or this would be
an option.

> Maybe someone could add VNC support to vbox using libvncserver?
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvncserver/

It's a good idea but I personally don't have the time :(

Jonathan