J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest.
No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings.
VBoxManage modifyvm <name> --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ...
And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's.
The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have
an RDP server included ("Home" versions of "modern" Windows, or even
a very old Windows 2000, and all that).
-Matt

