Virtualbox and VRDP

[martinko]

Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Sep 14), Bernhard Froehlich said:
>> On Mon, September 14, 2009 3:00 am, Jonathan wrote:
>>> I just installed virtualbox on my server without X11 support intending
>>> to run it headless and now I find that the Virtual Remote Display
>>> Protocol support is only available in the closed source version.  The
>>> virtualbox Editions page says that some of the closed source features
>>> may eventually become available in the open source version as well, has
>>> anyone heard anything about this happening for VRDP?
>>>
>>> Are there any other options that would allow me to set up a VM remotely
>>> without installing X?  I suppose I could set up a VM locally and then
>>> copy it to my server once it's configured for remote ssh access but that
>>> would involve copying several GB over the internet, a rather slow
>>> process on my connection.
>>
>> You can setup your virtual machine with VBoxManage but installing a system
>> in it is rather painful without GUI.  The way you described is my
>> preferred at the moment but you could also install with X11 and use
>> VBoxSDL and X11 forwarding.
>>
>> I've talked to the vbox developers and they don't think that the RDP code
>> will be put opensource in the foreseeable future.  That's a pity because
>> in combination with vboxweb [0] which is a python web interface to vbox
>> that includes a Flash based RDP client this would be a great headless
>> solution.
>
> What I do is run vncserver, VNC to that virtual X11 session, then run my
> VirtualBox sessions under there.
>
> Maybe someone could add VNC support to vbox using libvncserver?
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/libvncserver/

Based on my little testing RDP performs much better than VNC. :-(

M.