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Date:      Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:02:55 GMT
From:      Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
To:        Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "headed" virtualbox + vnc
Message-ID:  <201112012002.pB1K2swd025653@higson.cam.lispworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> (message from Andriy Gapon on Thu,  01 Dec 2011 14:11:55 %2B0200)
References:  <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org>

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>>>>> On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:11:55 +0200, Andriy Gapon said:
> 
> Is it possible to start a guess VM with GUI and also be able to access it via VNC?
> All google hits for freebsd+virtualbox+vnc are about VBoxHeadless.

Probably not simultaneously, but you can close the GUI with the "Save the
machine state" option and then bring it back to life as a headless VM
(presumably with vnc).

Use VBoxManage controlvm ... savestate to stop the headless VM and then start
it again in GUI mode.

__Martin



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