On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, Greg Byshenk wrote:
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."
Yes, I've used it and it works pretty well. Another option is to always
run the VM guest headless and use a VNC client on the host to connect to
it "locally". That works too, and is similar to using the direct
VirtualBox window.
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