2012-08-09 5:57, James C. McPherson пишет:
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.
Well, "console" access in VirtualBox - be it via RDP or local X11 -
is more like a KVM (Keyboard-Video-Mouse) redirection in an IPMI
BIOS for a server. You can access virtual BIOS, bootloader, kmdb
and other stages of non-OS, where guest-OS-hosted SSH or VNC or
X11 servers won't be accessible (or even running yet).
The VirtualBox GUI console mode is superior to RDP one in providing
a menu with controls to shutdown/pause/savestate the VM, to turn
on and off some components (CD/DVD redirection, networks, etc.)
IIRC same can be done via CLI, but less conveniently, or wrapped
in the third-party HTML consoles with I did not test extensively.
Also the GUI console allows for window integration of guest's
programs into your window manages so they seem like native
graphical-interfaced programs.
//Jim
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