I've set up a Ubuntu machine which I intend to run in headless mode. After playing around with the settings, I managed to set up the remote display server to use the VNC extension pack. However, when connecting to it with Remmina, it asks for a password but the authentication method is set to "Null". I've looked everywhere and couldn't find a way around this annoying limitation.
Why is it asking for a password and how can I set it up as to not ask for one?
[Solved] VNC headless
[Solved] VNC headless
Last edited by socratis on 16. Dec 2017, 15:19, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Marked as [Solved].
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Perryg
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Re: VNC headless
The VNC extension pack inclusion was basically set up to aid users that did not want to install the official version of the extension. Usually this is only used from a distro or user self compiled versions of VirtualBox so as far as support there is not much. So the question is are you running the distros fork of VirtualBox or are you building your own shake-n-bake version?
Also is the password that is being asked for the remote login or the OS password?
A guests log file ( as an attachment ) would help to answer these questions.
Also is the password that is being asked for the remote login or the OS password?
A guests log file ( as an attachment ) would help to answer these questions.
Re: VNC headless
Hi Perryg!
Thanks for the reply.
The password being asked is for the remote login; no username is asked for, just a password. As for the version I'm using, it is 5.0.40_Ubuntur115130 on Ubuntu 16.04.03 and Linux 4.4.0-101-generic, installed via the distro's own package manager.
I've attached the latest guest log file, as per requested -- apologies for not doing so in my OP.
Thanks for the reply.
The password being asked is for the remote login; no username is asked for, just a password. As for the version I'm using, it is 5.0.40_Ubuntur115130 on Ubuntu 16.04.03 and Linux 4.4.0-101-generic, installed via the distro's own package manager.
I've attached the latest guest log file, as per requested -- apologies for not doing so in my OP.
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Perryg
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Re: VNC headless
You really should read section 9.23 of the users manual. Other than that you would need to ask the Ubuntu folks ( it is their fork ) or switch to the official version from virtualbox.org.
Re: VNC headless
Perfect! Reading the relevant section of the manual uncovered the setting I needed to tweak:Perryg wrote:You really should read section 9.23 of the users manual. Other than that you would need to ask the Ubuntu folks ( it is their fork ) or switch to the official version from virtualbox (dot) org.
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --vrdeproperty VNCPassword=secret
Once I set a password, I could then connect to the remove display.
Thanks Perryg!
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Re: VNC headless
Glad you got it going. Marking as [Solved].
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Re: [Solved] VNC headless
Did you compile virtualbox by yourself or how do you get vnc working ?
Re: VNC headless
Does the official vbox package installed from the vbox debian repo support VNC ootb ?Perryg wrote:You really should read... of the users manual. Other than that you would need to ask the Ubuntu folks ( it is their fork ) or switch to the official version from virtualbox.rg.