Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:15:27 +0100 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox and VRDP Message-ID: <hiiope$dn4$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20090914155543.GA40881@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4AAD95C2.7040907@kc8onw.net> <29e884c4b57123a181fb162710e6d1d0.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> <20090914155543.GA40881@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > 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/ Based on my little testing RDP performs much better than VNC. :-( M.
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