On 05/17/2019 08:23 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
David,
I have been trying to duplicate your results, but when I turn vrde on and do the headless boot, my Windows 7 machine errors with "VBoxManage: error: Could not find the VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension library". I have not yet been able to find the cause. The host has the appropriate extpack installed, and the guest has the correct version of the guest additions.
Larry
I haven't done anything special with the startup. I have virtualbox running on a server on my LAN and use $ exec VBoxManage startvm Win7Pro_32bit --type headless to start the guest running headless on the server. Then from my laptop, I use rdesktop with rdesktop valkyrie.3111skyline.com -u david -x l launched from Alt+F2 in KDE. To size the guest desktop to the desired size I also run the following on the host server after starting the headless guest $ VBoxManage controlvm Win7Pro_32bit setvideomodehint 1440 864 32 So long as the vbox drivers are all loaded, e.g. $ lsmod | grep vbox vboxnetflt 32768 1 vboxnetadp 28672 0 vboxpci 28672 0 vboxdrv 483328 4 vboxpci,vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt I've never had a problem with VirtualBox not wanting to start. The video and vrde settings for the guest are $ vbm showvminfo "Win7Pro_32bit" | grep -i 'video\|vrde' 2D Video Acceleration: on Video mode: 1440x864x32 at 0,0 enabled VRDE: enabled (Address 0.0.0.0, Ports 3389, MultiConn: off, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: null) VRDE port: 3389 Video redirection: disabled VRDE property: TCP/Ports = "3389" VRDE property: TCP/Address = <not set> VRDE property: VideoChannel/Enabled = <not set> VRDE property: VideoChannel/Quality = <not set> VRDE property: VideoChannel/DownscaleProtection = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableDisplay = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableInput = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableAudio = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableUSB = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableClipboard = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableUpstreamAudio = <not set> VRDE property: Client/DisableRDPDR = <not set> VRDE property: H3DRedirect/Enabled = <not set> VRDE property: Security/Method = <not set> VRDE property: Security/ServerCertificate = <not set> VRDE property: Security/ServerPrivateKey = <not set> VRDE property: Security/CACertificate = <not set> VRDE property: Audio/RateCorrectionMode = <not set> VRDE property: Audio/LogPath = <not set> VRDE Connection: active -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org