Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:55:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@bluelife.at> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox and VRDP Message-ID: <20090914155543.GA40881@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <29e884c4b57123a181fb162710e6d1d0.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> References: <4AAD95C2.7040907@kc8onw.net> <29e884c4b57123a181fb162710e6d1d0.squirrel@webmail.itac.at>
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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
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