On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:20, Will . <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This patch was created against VirtualBox-2.2.0-OSE it was developed to 
> replace part of the missing RDP functionality found in the closed source 
> edition.
>
>>Your request to the vbox-dev mailing list
>>
>>    Posting of your message titled "[PATCH] VNC Server support for 
>> VBoxHeadless"
>>
>>has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the following 
>>reason for rejecting your request:
>>
>>"Your message was too big; please trim it to less than 100 KB in size.
>>Thank you for this proposal. Please 1) gzip the attached patch and post again 
>>and 2) please sign the Sun Contributor's Agreement, 
>>see>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Contributor_information or just declare 
>>your changes to this patch under the MIT license. Thank you!"
>
> gziped as requested.
>
> As far as I am aware all QEMU VNC code is compatible with or released under 
> the MIT license, you will of course need to do your own due diligence to 
> confirm this. The vbox code, some of which I have used is of course licensed 
> under the GPL. My own additions which were essentially just linking code I am 
> happy to release under the MIT license.
>
> I required this functionality for my own usage and it has been tested with a 
> few different clients (protocol 3.3, 3.4 and 3.8). I believe
> it should be useable for anyone who would like basic console access for a VM 
> over a suitable network link and does not wish to use a remote X session for 
> whatever reason. It undoubtedly has some bugs and the different styles of 
> coding do not necessarily go together very well. I decided however rather 
> than just hide it away I would post it here such that anyone who requires 
> this functionality or perhaps would just like a reference of how to implement 
> it would have it available. Maybe someone with more time than myself would 
> care to
> tidy it up or re-write it.
>
> William Wiseman
>

WOW!
I haven't tested you patch yet but this is trully amazing man! :)
Hope this makes to the main tree as this woudl, undoubtly help a lot of people.

Congrats again.

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