OK, so rdesktop works like a charm! Here is a little guide to booting your VM using the headless option in VirtualBox, then remoting into it with rdesktop.
Prerequisite: You have a virtual machine already created with networking working properly. In this example my VM is called "<vmname>" when you execute these commands replace this <vmname> with your vm's name. Ex: VBoxManage modifyvm OpenSolarisVM -vrdp on 1) Download rdestkop from www.rdestkop.org 2) Install rdesktop by following the README file in the download 2a) To install rdesktop unzip the archive - tar -zxvf rdesktop.1.6.0.tar.gz 2b) cd rdesktop.1.6.0 2c) su (type in root password when prompted) 2d) ./configure 2e) make 2f) make install 3) exit (to exit root login) 4) Next we need to turn on the virtual remote desktop feature on the VM you want to remote into: VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> -vrdp on 5) VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> -vrdpport default (default is 3389) 6) VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> -vrdpauthtype null 7) Now start the vm: VBoxHeadless -startvm <vmname> -vrdp=config 8) Now we will connect to the VM using rdesktop: rdesktop -0 -a 16 127.0.0.1:3389 The -0 option connects us to the console session, the -a option specifies 16 colors to use in our display. I hope this helps someone else. -Nick -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
