From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 20:13:06 2011 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 2CF741065673; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from martin@lispworks.com) Received: from lwfs1-cam.cam.lispworks.com (mail.lispworks.com [193.34.186.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA1A8FC13; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from higson.cam.lispworks.com (higson [192.168.1.7]) by lwfs1-cam.cam.lispworks.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id pB1K2trf088806; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:02:55 GMT (envelope-from martin@lispworks.com) Received: from higson.cam.lispworks.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by higson.cam.lispworks.com (8.14.4) id pB1K2t3v025657; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:02:55 GMT Received: (from martin@localhost) by higson.cam.lispworks.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id pB1K2swd025653; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:02:55 GMT Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:02:55 GMT Message-Id: <201112012002.pB1K2swd025653@higson.cam.lispworks.com> From: Martin Simmons To: Andriy Gapon In-reply-to: <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> (message from Andriy Gapon on Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:11:55 +0200) References: <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "headed" virtualbox + vnc 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: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:13:06 -0000 >>>>> 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. __Martin