Greetings. I have been using Virtualbox for headless servers for some time and is very pleased with it.
Since I run the servers headless, I use VNC for console on the servers. I'm running virtualbox-ose-4.1.18 on 9.0-RELEASE amd64, and I start my servers with /usr/local/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm someserver --vnc --vncport 5901 --vncpass=somepass Im now building a new box, and installed 4.2.6 on 9.1-RELEASE amd64 I've made my first guest, via the X11 GUI, and it works. But I cannot get VNC running in headless. I installed from ports, and enabled VNC option [root@foo /var/db/ports/virtualbox-ose]# cat options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # Options for virtualbox-ose-4.2.6 _OPTIONS_READ=virtualbox-ose-4.2.6 _FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=DBUS DEBUG GUESTADDITIONS NLS PULSEAUDIO QT4 UDPTUNNEL VDE VNC WEBSERVICE X11 OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=DBUS OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DEBUG OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=GUESTADDITIONS OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=NLS OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PULSEAUDIO OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=QT4 OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=UDPTUNNEL OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=VDE OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=VNC OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=WEBSERVICE OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=X11 /usr/local/bin/VBoxHeadless --startvm someserver --vnc --vncport 5901 --vncpass=somepass Oracle VM VirtualBox Headless Interface 4.2.6_OSE (C) 2008-2013 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. VBoxHeadless: error: Unknown option: '--vnc' Usage: -s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid> Start given VM (required argument) -v, -vrde, --vrde on|off|config Enable (default) or disable the VRDE server or don't change the setting -e, -vrdeproperty, --vrdeproperty <name=[value]> Set a VRDE property: "TCP/Ports" - comma-separated list of ports the VRDE server can bind to. Use a dash between two port numbers to specify a range "TCP/Address" - interface IP the VRDE server will bind to --settingspw <pw> Specify the settings password --settingspwfile <file> Specify a file containing the settings password -c, -capture, --capture Record the VM screen output to a file -w, --width Frame width when recording -h, --height Frame height when recording -r, --bitrate Recording bit rate when recording -f, --filename File name when recording. The codec used will be chosen based on the file extension it seems VNC is now in "extpacks", and it seems like its "usable" VBoxManage list extpacks Password: Extension Packs: 1 Pack no. 0: VNC Version: 4.2.6_OSE Revision: 82870 Edition: Description: VNC plugin module VRDE Module: VBoxVNC Usable: true Why unusable: but I cannot figure how to make console via VNC in 4.2 Any pointers ? -- Søren Schrøder. Obey Gravity - It's the law ! _______________________________________________ freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-emulation To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-emulation-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"