From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 21:15:55 2010 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 B03211065670 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39BEF8FC14 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NUo5g-00048V-P6 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:15:52 +0100 Received: from 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz ([90.178.41.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:15:52 +0100 Received: from gamato by 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:15:52 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:15:27 +0100 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <4AAD95C2.7040907@kc8onw.net> <29e884c4b57123a181fb162710e6d1d0.squirrel@webmail.itac.at> <20090914155543.GA40881@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.41.broadband11.iol.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/2.0.1 In-Reply-To: <20090914155543.GA40881@dan.emsphone.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: Virtualbox and VRDP 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: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:15:55 -0000 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.