> Well, this is on Kubuntu Edgy, though that's also a popular distro. Some > other particulars: > Video card is nvidia 7600 and X screen is very large -- 2560 x 1600 > > I'm surprised that vbox needs guest additions to handle the mouse and > keyboard. It's very hard to use it without them. A number of other > virtualizers I have seen have no problem with having their synthetic mouse > and keyboard devices simply act idle when the window does not have focus, > and provide mouse events when the mouse passes over the window and keyboard > events when the window has focus. I realize that guest additions are > needed for advanced video modes, and much easier for sound and shared drives. > > For my linux guests, I don't even want them to run X. Without that, > at least for me, the guest additions did not appear to work in console mode. > What I end up doing is creating an ssh tunnel into the VM. That would be > another handy feature, in natted mode, to allow the specification of port > forwarding. That would mean that, for example, I could forward a port on > the host machine I specify to port 22 on the guest machine. Then I could > fire up the guest machine as a virgin machine, no guest additions, and no > keyboard interaction of any kind, and ssh to it, pretty much the way you > connect to remote servers anyway. If one is testing from there you can > copy in files, or create other forwarded ports via ssh if that's easier > to test web serving, email etc.
Well - actually VirtualBox does not supports port-forwarding natively (unlike VMware and Qemu), but as a workaround, you can use host-networking (as described in the VBox official docs, and my VBOX-on-SUSE article) and then use iptables to forward ports. My article can be downloaded here: (NOTE: link will expire in 7 days) http://download.yousendit.com/6E957103384F0318 While the article is for SUSErs, it might partially apply to Ubuntu as well. -Alexey _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
