Hello Chris, Installing the VirtualBox guest additions might solve your mouse pointer problem. As to rdp-ing directly to the guest, I wonder if that is due to the guest's firewall settings?
Regards, Michael chris wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
