From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 1 20:32:33 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 B58E3106564A for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:32:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from citadel.icyb.net.ua (citadel.icyb.net.ua [212.40.38.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6718FC15 for ; Thu, 1 Dec 2011 20:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from porto.starpoint.kiev.ua (porto-e.starpoint.kiev.ua [212.40.38.100]) by citadel.icyb.net.ua (8.8.8p3/ICyb-2.3exp) with ESMTP id WAA18296; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:32:26 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from avg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by porto.starpoint.kiev.ua with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1RWDIv-0007k2-TS; Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:32:25 +0200 Message-ID: <4ED7E457.4010507@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:32:23 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111108 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Byshenk References: <4ED76F0B.6090603@FreeBSD.org> <4ED7B320.5020007@FreeBSD.org> <20111201175643.GJ75313@portland.byshenk.net> In-Reply-To: <20111201175643.GJ75313@portland.byshenk.net> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:32:33 -0000 on 01/12/2011 19:56 Greg Byshenk said the following: > On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 07:02:24PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 01/12/2011 18:17 Warren Block said the following: >>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >>>> 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. >>> >>> net/x11vnc installed in the guest should work. >> >> Of course that's not what I meant/wanted. > > It's about as close as you can get, I think. > > If I understand aright, "standard" VNC uses its own display, which > means that it can't somehow "attach" to an existing X display. > > I've never used it, but according to its description, x11vnc -does- > allow you to connect to a running X display: > > "x11vnc differs from traditional UNIX VNC servers in that > it is accessing a real X displays that may already be in > progress rather than creating its own X server for clients > to connect to." I am not sure what all of this (i.e. features of vncserver and x11vnc) has to do with a capability of Virtualbox to export guest's screen via VNC protocol. -- Andriy Gapon