Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:53:40 -0400 From: Jonathan <jonathan@kc8onw.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Virtualbox and VRDP Message-ID: <4AAE8324.6020803@kc8onw.net> 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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On 9/14/2009 11:55 AM, 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. I'm trying to avoid installing X on the server at all or this would be an option. > Maybe someone could add VNC support to vbox using libvncserver? > http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvncserver/ It's a good idea but I personally don't have the time :( Jonathan
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