From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 2 09:17:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB7171065675; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from decke@FreeBSD.org) Received: from groupware.itac.at (groupware.itac.at [91.205.172.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4688FC0A; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home.bluelife.at (93.104.210.95) by groupware.itac.at (Axigen) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 1A6BF4; Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:17:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:16:58 +0100 From: Bernhard Froehlich To: Andriy Gapon In-Reply-To: <4ED80A5A.2050300@FreeBSD.org> References: <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> <201112012002.pB1K2swd025653@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <4ED80A5A.2050300@FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: <8c573021da20ecf69a3225f19af422b5@bluelife.at> X-Sender: decke@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.6 X-AxigenSpam-Level: 1 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A0B020B.4ED8978B.0072,ss=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Cc: bapt@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "headed" virtualbox + vnc X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:17:00 -0000 On 02.12.2011 00:14, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 01/12/2011 22:02 Martin Simmons said the following: >>>>>>> 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. > > The reason I am asking is that apparently that feature is available > with RDP > (via Devices -> Enable Remote Display). So I hoped for the same with > VNC. The correct answer is not yet. Currently VNC support is a hack and does not integrate very well. Since VirtualBox 4.0 there is a new plugin API which allows to write a VNC plugin that integrates the same way as RDP but without the GPL licensing issues. Someone already started writing such a VNC plugin but that work has stalled. It's more or less in a working state so they plan to integrate it at some point in the future. We have an highly experimental port of that code available for vbox 4.0.4 but I don't know if we ever got it working. bapt@ has done some work on this so probably he knows something about it. http://redports.org/browser/virtualbox/emulators/virtualbox-extpack-vnc http://redports.org/~virtualbox/svn.tar.bz2 -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/