Virtualbox vnc options

Question

I have been looking for a way to connect to my virtualbox vm guest by a vnc client.
By that I mean, not installing a vnc client/server on the vm, but as an addition to virtualbox; The same way as vps providers do.
I have searched for this, nothing came up.

How do I do this?

Solution 1

I'm having the same problems because the PEUL is not an option for me. From what I can tell VNC is available if you build it yourself and use the --enable-vnc option when running configure.

Solution 2

Is vnc a requirement? or are you simply referring to being able to access the "physical screen" of your virtual machine without having to use a network enabled vm?

If so, The Virtual Box way of doing it ,is using Oracles implementation of the remote desktop protocol (RDP) which they call VRDP.

This allows you control of the guest with any rdesktop client.

You can see Oracles instructions for installing the vrdp here

If you really require / prefer VNC , or dont want the proprietary vbox extension you can enable vnc support with some tinkering according to this post

Comments

[Admin]

Only RDP is supported, you may find some add-ons. I don't know...

[Dr_Bunsen]

Thanks I will take a look at it. But not really the answer I was looking for.

[Dr_Bunsen]

vnc is a must, since I am used to it, and have a jar as viewer, which I can really run everywhere(even school/work computer with limitation). But this looks very promising, I will try this tomorrow.

[Dr_Bunsen]

I am sorry but the VBoxHeadless keeps saying there is no such thing as -vnc.

[Dr_Bunsen]

that's indeed as far as I have come. But I just want a vm, so I can run normally while I am at school(school computers suck XD)