[Solved: yes for vnc] Re: does phpvirtualbox support remote console? or virtualbox supports vnc without X?

[Joe Sciulli]

--- On Tue, 7/12/11, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

From: Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com>
Subject: Re: does phpvirtualbox support remote console? or virtualbox supports vnc without X?
To: "Joe Sciulli" <jsciulli2003 at yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-emulation at freebsd.org
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 8:29 PM

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Joe Sciulli wrote:

> This page http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html said VBoxHeadless does support remote desktop without X Window system on the host at all.  However, just like phpvirtualvox, it's also through the VRDP support, which appears to be deprived into VirtualBox extension
>    package since virtualbox 4.0, that is NOT available to freebsd.
>
> So, what is the solution to have remote console of virtualbox guests on freebsd host since virtualbox 4.0?

Build VirtualBox with VNC support, then
   VBoxHeadless --startvm test --vnc --vncpass myvncpassword

Then use a VNC viewer to connect.

Thanks a lot!  Worked perfectly!  I just realized the "rdesktop" command I attempted to connect to that vnc before is NOT a vnc viewer :-(  And it's easy to tunnel the vnc traffic over ssh.