Installing VirtualBox on Hardy

Michael Hipp Michael at Hipp.com
Tue Jul 1 22:12:23 UTC 2008


Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:48:13PM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
>> VB has their feature known as "headless" that says it does allow full
>> remote control with no control software on the host. Can't find any
>> explanation other than in the pdf manual in section 7.4.1:
>> http://www.virtualbox.org/download/1.6.2/UserManual.pdf
> 
> Indeed. However, looking at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions,
> you'll see the following under the "Closed-source features" heading:
> 
> 
>   * Remote Display Protocol (RDP) Server 
> 	
> 	This component implements a complete RDP server on top of the
> 	virtual hardware and allows users to connect to a virtual machine
> 	remotely using any RDP compatible client.

Yes, you're correct. I wasn't thinking about the difference between the two 
different versions.

Thanks,
Michael




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