On 02/05/2015 12:46 AM, Matthias Hanft wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> Yes, you need to enable Remote Desktop on the windows guest. > > No, you need to enable Remote Desktop in the VirtualBox settings. > > VBoxManage modifyvm <name> --vrde on --vrdeport 3389 --vrdeauthtype ... > > And then connect to the host's IP, not to the guest's. > > The benefit is that you can connect to a Windows which doesn't have > an RDP server included ("Home" versions of "modern" Windows, or even > a very old Windows 2000, and all that).
I confirm that rdesktop-1.8.3 is very broken, at least when used the way you use it, and 1.8.2 works perfectly. Very strange for a minor version bump.