On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Jay Vollmer <jaycvollmer@gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings.

After recreating my Windows xp installation in an Oracle Virtualbox VM on openSUSE 11.4, I've found that if I have lost the ability to connect to the VM using rdesktop.  This happens whether the firewall is running or not.

When I try to connect to the headless VM session (rdesktop localhost:3389) I get the following error:

Autoselected keyboard map en-us ERROR: connect: Connection refused

If I specify the en-us keyboard map, I still get the "Connection refused" message.

I'm starting the headless session with VRDE=on and the VM config has Remote Display enabled with the port set to 3389.  Before I recreated the xp installation, I was able to connect to a headless VM without a problem, so now I'm wondering what I must be doing wrong.

Perhaps someone can tell me where I'm going astray - other than my wardrobe, I mean ;-)

If thats Virtualbox 4 or higher, you need to install the matching extension pack to get the RDP (and some other features) to work. see : http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing -- The mysteries of the Universe are revealed when you break stuff. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org