From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 14 15:55:45 2009 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 9B209106566C for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB3A8FC18 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:55:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n8EFti5v085874 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:55:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8EFtisK039297 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:55:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8EFthJb039290; Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:55:43 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:55:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Bernhard Froehlich Message-ID: <20090914155543.GA40881@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4AAD95C2.7040907@kc8onw.net> <29e884c4b57123a181fb162710e6d1d0.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <29e884c4b57123a181fb162710e6d1d0.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:55:44 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox and VRDP 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: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:55:45 -0000 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. Maybe someone could add VNC support to vbox using libvncserver? http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvncserver/ -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com