On Fri, 8 Feb 2013 11:41:07 -0700, Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:28:07AM -0600, Seb wrote: >> On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:13:49 +0100, >> jdd <j...@dodin.org> wrote: >> > Le 08/02/2013 04:08, Seb a ??crit : >> I will read that, thanks! >> > http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-guestcontrol >> Thanks for these pointers. The process seems a lot more complicated >> than I thought. First, to start the VM, I don't know if I'd need >> 'VBoxHeadless -s "My Windows VM"' or 'VBoxManage startvm "My Windows >> VM"'. The former seems to be relevant to allow remote connections >> via a particular port (3389). This has the benefit of being very >> unobtrusive in my Linux host, but I don't know how control the VM in >> this way. The > Through an rdp client. The one that comes to mind is rdesktop, though > there are others for unix-like systems. The -s flag with rdesktop > looks like it might do what you want, though that's not something I > actually tried. Thanks for your input. However, this would require using yet another layer of complication between the host and the guest. I think I will just bite the bullet and have the VM running and logged into, and then use 'VBoxManage guestcontrol ...'. Following that route, I just tried: VBoxManage guestcontrol 'Windows Vista (64-bit)' exec --image 'C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe' --username myuser --password mypassword and I can see the cmd.exe window popping up in the VM, but something is wrong. Working directly in the Windows VM guest, cmd.exe displays the window with the text: ---<--------------------cut here---------------start------------------->--- Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\myuser> ---<--------------------cut here---------------end--------------------->--- and one can start typing commands. However, when doing it with the 'VBoxManage guestcontrol ...' above, then the text doesn't show up. There's only a black screen and no input is taken, either directly onto the VM guest, or via the 'VBoxManage guestcontrol ...' Cheers, -- Seb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
