Virtualbox and Windows

[Steve Holmes]

Why would one want to control the Windows guest from within the linux
environment? Am I missing something? I figured once vbox started the
guest (windows 7) you would be in windows until you shut it down or
some how switched back to the linux world to do something over there.

On 9/4/12, Gregory Nowak <greg at gregn.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 02:36:51PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>> One note though, if you choose
>> to run without using the GUI, you'll need to use an rdp client to
>> control a guest started with vboxheadless.
>
> I should have said a windows guest started with vboxheadless, as
> GNU/Linux guests can be accessed via ssh of course.
>
>> As I described a few months
>> ago on this list, rdesktop connecting to a port on localhost should
>> work well here, and doesn't require much of an X11 environment to
>> run. The only big problem with rdesktop is that there's no way to kill
>> it from the keyboard once you connect to a remote machine, and
>> virtualbox provides no way to disconnect from the rdp session inside
>> of the guest without first halting that guest as far as I know.
>
> Now that I think of it, if you have a windows version that allows
> logins via rdp you don't need to use the virtualbox rdp server. You
> can instead setup your windows guest for rdp logins, and that will
> allow you to disconnect/logout from inside the windows guest itself.
>
> Greg
>
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