Ok... one more question. I decided to tear down the bridge and just use NAT again.
However I don't seem to be able to get it back to NAT. The VM can't browse the net. This is what I did. vboxmanage modifyvm "Windows XP" -nic1 nat The manual said that in nat mode it will ignore -hostifdev1 settings... but I went ahead and did a vboxmanage modifyvm "Windows XP" -hostifdev1 none I then edit'ed my /etc/conf.d/net file to go back to jsut using eth1 for the ineterface (eth0 is shutdown and not used) and getting rid of the br0 and vbox0 interfaces for the bridge. I did reboot the host to make sure. Any pointers? Thanks Chris However the machine won't get a 10.x.x.x addy like it had before. 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
