Bernhard, On Thursday 27 October 2011 13:12:23 Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > as there is not such an option yet: > why not have the possibility to have a VM continue running headless > when closing the VBox Gui? Of course this may (or may not) only sense > when VRDP is turned on, otherwise only SSH or RDP inside the VM would > be the only means to re-connect. > I'd add this as a fourth option besides "save machine state", > "send shutdown signal" and "poweroff". > How about this?
This is more difficult than you might think. In the current architecture a VirtualBox process does not only contain the VMM for virtualizing the guest but the same process is also responsible for handling the user frontend. Doing what you propose would mean that a VM is always started in headless mode and the VM does only connect if necessary. Of course this would be possible but for now the architectural changes are too intrusive for too little benefit. Maybe later. > is it possible to add an option to the VBManager to start a VM in headless > mode? Do you mean VBoxManage? This is already possible. If you mean the VirtualBox GUI VM manager, then this will be possible with the next major release. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Senior Manager Software Development Desktop Virtualization, VirtualBox ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven
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