On 9/08/2012 11:57 AM, James C. McPherson wrote:
On 9/08/12 11:23 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
...
For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service
instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project,
feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something
useful ;)
The method script can also be used as a CLI script to switch VMs
from SMF to GUI mode and back via "savestate" to disk.
For most of the time you can use RDP consoles to VMs instead, but
yes GUI can be useful. Alternately, there are some Web-GUIs to
VirtualBox which essentially recreate the X11 GUI equivalent in
HTML (for general administrative tasks without need for X11), and
often include an RDP client to conveniently connect to consoles.
If you're using bridged networking, then you can ssh in, or use
xdmcp (if you set it up). The vboxheadless service is handy to have
as well too. I've got it configured, but haven't needed to use it
in quite a while since my use-cases changed.
I've used x11vnc to attach remotely to running console sessions too,
works well.
Carl
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