[PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer (20100421)

[Konstantin Vasilev]

   Hi all,
   I try this patch. All works well!
   Only one question.
   Why command VBoxHeadless -v off --startvm mayVMname doesn't go to
   background and doesn't release console?
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With best regards,

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   22.04.2010 10:43, Daisuke Aoyama pishet:

     Hi all,
     First, thank you for porting great software and thank you for using
     my
     patch.
     This archive contains an individual patch files and a modified
     Makefile for
     virtualbox-ose 3.1.6_3. Please select an options you want before
     building.
     And make it by normal way.
     I tested the binary on FreeNAS 0.7.1 stable (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p7
     amd64/i386 kernel) and FreeNAS 0.7.2 devel (FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE
     amd64/i386
     kernel).
     What's new?
     -----------
     Fix some bugs.
     Add modifier hook such as AltGr.
     Add the ability to parse non-US keymaps.
     (the code is referred to Hubert Tournier's patch)
     How to use
     ----------
     # cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose
     # tar xvf /path/to/vboxvnc-20100421.tar.gz
     # tar xvf /path/to/vboxint18-20100310.tar.gz      (optional)
     # make config
     # make
     It provides an internal VNC server for guest OS console access in
     VBoxHeadless frontend.
     Supported Options:
       -v, -vnc, --vnc on|off                Enable (default) or disable
     the VNC
     Server
       -a, -vncaddress, --vncaddress <ip>    IP address the VNC server
     will bind
     to
       -p, -vncport, --vncport <port>        Port number the VNC server
     will
     bind to
       -k, -vnckeymap, --vnckeymap <keymap>  Keyboard mapfile (default:
     builtin
     US)
       -S, -vncsecret, --vncsecret <secret>  VNC Authentication secret
     three options at one line is an equivalent option, for example:
     "-v on", "-vnc on", "--vnc on" are same feature.
     -v option specify whether VNC server starts in the machine.
     default is on (enable).
     -a and -p options specify IP address and port number of VNC server.
     default IP is wildcard, port is 5900. If you have multiple
     IPs(NICs)
     in your system, you can select the listen address of the server.
     -k option specify the keyboard layout convert from VNC keys to
     Scancodes.
     default is US standard 101keys. (I tested only US 101 keyboard)
     If you want another keyboard, you can spcify the path of kbdmap(5).
     In the standard installation of FreeBSD, it's located in
     /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/.
     for example, "-k /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/jp.106.kbd" uses JP 106
     keyboard.
     -S option specify the password of the VNC server.
     However, it have security risk in common server. It assumed used
     with
     FreeNAS (limited user environment). Please consider the risk by
     using
     command line.
     When starting the VM, the proctitle is changed like below (you can
     see
     by "ps axww"):
     VBoxHeadless: VM: TestVM4 Port: 5900 Auth: off (VBoxHeadless)
     vboxint18-20100310.tar.gz (optional patch):
     [PATCH] VirtualBox INT18 patch for gPXE iSCSI boot/install
     [2]http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2010-March/
     007540.html


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