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Date:      Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:30:41 -0500
From:      "Steve Wills" <swills@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Andriy Gapon" <avg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: "headed" virtualbox + vnc
Message-ID:  <88b9b2414a56d67d98bde1c497892b3a.squirrel@mouf.net>
In-Reply-To: <4ED80A5A.2050300@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> <201112012002.pB1K2swd025653@higson.cam.lispworks.com> <4ED80A5A.2050300@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi,

> 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.
>

(Picking a random message in this thread to reply to...)

You might also consider running VirtualBox under x11/xpra, which is like
screen or tmux but for X11.

Steve





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