Thank you for the pointers Michael. I completely misunderstood what the additions flag was. After reading the manual again, I got them installed and my double pointer is gone on the console.
I disabled the firewall on the vm but still can't get to it directly via rdp. Although at this point I'm not overly concerned as the console is usable now. Thank you very much for the help. Chris On 8/21/07, Michael Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
