Thanks a lot for your answer, Darshaka.
OK, so I know it is now a purely Virtualbox thing.
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:37:19 +0100, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:
I created a Virtualbox-Machine ("grml") without a HDD and inserted a grml.iso as virtual cd and did:
$ vboxheadless -s grml
On the VBox-Host I did:
$ rdesktop localhost
On a remote machine I did:
$ rdesktop $IP_OF_VBOXHOST
Works flawlessly!
Alright, I followed your instructions, create a Virtualbox VM booting from grml.iso, then,
VBoxManage startvm Grml2011C --type headless
which should be exactly the same as vboxheadless -s. However, I just can't connect:
$ rdesktop localhost ERROR: localhost: unable to connect
Here are some diagnostic info:
$ VBoxManage showvminfo Grml2011C | grep -i VRDE VRDE: enabled (Address 0.0.0.0, Ports 3389, MultiConn: off, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: null) VRDE Connection: not active
$ rdesktop localhost:3389 ERROR: localhost: unable to connect
$ netstat | grep 3389 || echo not found not found
$ netstat | grep vbox unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1970431 /tmp/.vbox- root-ipc/ipcd unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1954856 /tmp/.vbox- root-ipc/ipcd unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 1200559 /tmp/.vbox- root-ipc/ipcd unix 3 [ ] STREAM CONNECTED 973926 /tmp/.vbox- root-ipc/ipcd
$ rdesktop 192.168.2.105 ERROR: 192.168.2.105: unable to connect
Thanks