On 02.12.2011 00:14, Andriy Gapon wrote:
on 01/12/2011 22:02 Martin Simmons said the following:
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.
The reason I am asking is that apparently that feature is available
with RDP
(via Devices -> Enable Remote Display). So I hoped for the same with
VNC.
The correct answer is not yet. Currently VNC support is a hack and does
not
integrate very well. Since VirtualBox 4.0 there is a new plugin API
which allows
to write a VNC plugin that integrates the same way as RDP but without
the GPL
licensing issues. Someone already started writing such a VNC plugin but
that
work has stalled. It's more or less in a working state so they plan to
integrate
it at some point in the future.
We have an highly experimental port of that code available for vbox
4.0.4 but I
don't know if we ever got it working. bapt@ has done some work on this
so probably
he knows something about it.
http://redports.org/browser/virtualbox/emulators/virtualbox-extpack-vnc
http://redports.org/~virtualbox/svn.tar.bz2
--
Bernhard Froehlich
http://www.bluelife.at/
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