On 02/05/2015 12:46 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote:
> 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).
I confirm that rdesktop-1.8.3 is very broken, at least when used the way
you use it, and 1.8.2 works perfectly. Very strange for a minor version
bump.
