Virtualbox and Windows

[Gregory Nowak]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 03:57:50PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> 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.

If you use the vbox GUI to start the guest, this is correct, you'd be
in the guest until you switched back to the host. However, if you
choose not to use the vbox GUI, then your only other option is to
start your guest using vboxheadless. If you do that, then you will
need an alternate method to access the guest, since vboxheadless is
what the program name implies, it only starts the guest, and leaves it
up to you to determine how you will interact with the guest. Hope that
clears things up.

Greg


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