I finally got my Virtualbox setup on Gentoo running with vrdp
(headless).  I can RDP to the server itself and was able to get the
Guest OS (XP Pro) installed.

Once that was all done, I noticed I had 2 mouse pointers which made it
really hard to control the vm.

I Googled around and saw that emerge virtualbox-bin on Gentoo with the
additions use flag should solve the issue.  However it has been
installed with that flag, yet I still have the double pointers.
(Running 1.4.0).

So I figured I'll just bridge the machine so it gets its own IP and
then I can RDP directly to the vm.  So I setup the bridge and its
working fine.  The vm is getting an IP from the DHCP server fine and
is different from the host machine's. :)

Host - 172.x.x.4
Guest - 172.x.x.125

I go into the vm console (.4) by RDP to the host machine and tick the
box to allow rdp connections to it. (Yes, password is on the user
account).   I then shut that session down.

But when I try and RDP to the vm itself, it won't connect.  I get the
error saying that I can't.  However I can ping the vm and telnet to
3389 on the vm and get connected.  So I'm not exaclty sure why this
isn't working.

 ~ $ telnet 172.x.x.125 3389
Trying 172.x.x.125...
Connected to 172.x.x.125.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.

 ~ $ telnet 172.x.x.4 3389
Trying 172.x.x.4...
Connected to 172.x.x.4.
Escape character is '^]'.
^]
telnet> quit
Connection closed.


Does anyone have any ideas as to why I can't RDP to the vm directly?
I have the same setup with VMware and it works fine.  So I'm guessing
there is a knob I'm not turning right in vbox.  My goal is to either
get rid of the double mouse pointer on the console (.4) or rdp to the
vm itself on .125.

Thanks
chris

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