[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2011-01-06 Thread Tim Towers
A further update to my comment, the feature seems to work mostly correctly - there seems to be some keyboard issues with using vnc through VBoxHeadless which do not occurr when using vnc provided by the client operating system. (e.g. shift key does not work, keys can get stuck). As the version that

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2011-01-05 Thread Tim Towers
Update to my comment above - VBoxHeadless does know about vlc, so as long as you invoke that directly this feature works correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420190 Title: VBoxHe

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2011-01-05 Thread Tim Towers
This issue is very interesting to me too. I enabled lucid-backports and downloaded the newer version of virtualbox. Unfortunately it does not seem to have the VNC option enabled any more as of 5th Jan 2011. ~# VBoxManage --version 3.2.8_OSEr64453 Typing 'VBoxManage --help' includes the following

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2010-06-04 Thread Felix Geyer
The VNC server has been enabled in maverick and lucid-backports. ** Changed in: virtualbox-ose (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420190 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2010-05-20 Thread Derek Simkowiak
I second the request. FreeBSD already has a package for this called virtualbox-ose-vnc: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd- emulation/2010-January/007360.html In my case, I have some server VMs that use full-disk encryption. I can't use them in VirtualBox OSE, because the headless mode

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
I apologize for marking this as a bug. I meant to make it a feature improvement request. -- VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. --

[Bug 420190] Re: VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console

2009-08-27 Thread Jeremy Wilkins
** Attachment added: "Virtualbox VNC Headless Console" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30915157/vboxpatch.gz -- VBoxHeadless has no way of accessing graphical console https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420190 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subs