[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Starting a VM remotely

[Frank Mehnert]

On Thursday 31 January 2008, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> it looks like my $SEARCH_ENGINE skills are limited somehow, because I'm
> not able to find 1. whether it is possible to remotely start a VM
> (through an ssh connection, for example, but without -X); I know that
> resetting an already launched session is possible, though; 2. how to do
> so in case the answer to 1. is “yes”.
>
> Use case: you're travelling, you're far from your host box. For whatever
> reason, it reboots, and you need to restart every VM, but you can't
> afford having them displayed through ssh -X (either because of low BW or
> because you need to disconnect from time to time).

Login into the remote site with ssh, open a screen, start VBoxVRDP from that
screen session and then connect with rdesktop to that remote session.

Hmm yes, this is only possible with the non-free version (builtin VRDP
server), but free of charge for personal use.

But what about vnc/xvnc?

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert    innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de
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