Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:14:34 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Martin Simmons <martin@lispworks.com>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: "headed" virtualbox + vnc
Message-ID:  <4ED80A5A.2050300@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201112012002.pB1K2swd025653@higson.cam.lispworks.com>
References:  <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> <201112012002.pB1K2swd025653@higson.cam.lispworks.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4ED80A5A.2050300>