[Solved] headless troubles, connection refused
Posted: 9. Aug 2009, 05:20
Hi All,
Host: CentOS 5.3
Guest: WinXP-Pro-Sp3
Vm: VBox 3.0.4
I am testing the feasibility of converting a couple of my customer's servers over to use their Windows Guests as headless machines. The benefit of that is the ability to write a shutdown script in my rc5/3.d's that will "acpi power off" my VM's when the server get rebooted/shutdown. (There is a kernel update about twice a month that required a reboot. And, the users love to reboot whenever Charter goes down.)
So, I have been RTFM'ing the the manual, pages 94-96. I opened the console, went into my XP test VM's settings and told "Display", "Remote Display=enable server", "server port=3389", Authentication Method= Null", "Authentication Timeout=5000".
Then I started my test XP VM with:
The console said it was running. And
And "rdesktop" works to one of my other customer's Terminal Server over the Internet.
When I tried to get into the test XP, I get:
<rant> AAHHHHHHHHHH!!! Okay, it did not get to me that much, so "aaaaahhhh!".</rant>
What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks,
-T
Host: CentOS 5.3
Guest: WinXP-Pro-Sp3
Vm: VBox 3.0.4
I am testing the feasibility of converting a couple of my customer's servers over to use their Windows Guests as headless machines. The benefit of that is the ability to write a shutdown script in my rc5/3.d's that will "acpi power off" my VM's when the server get rebooted/shutdown. (There is a kernel update about twice a month that required a reboot. And, the users love to reboot whenever Charter goes down.)
So, I have been RTFM'ing the the manual, pages 94-96. I opened the console, went into my XP test VM's settings and told "Display", "Remote Display=enable server", "server port=3389", Authentication Method= Null", "Authentication Timeout=5000".
Then I started my test XP VM with:
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$ $ VBoxHeadless --startvm VB-WinXP &
[1] 13472
VirtualBox Headless Interface 3.0.4
(C) 2008-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Listening on port 3389Code: Select all
$ ping 192.168.255.197
PING 192.168.255.197 (192.168.255.197) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.255.197: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=1.12 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.255.197: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=0.504 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.255.197: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=0.693 msWhen I tried to get into the test XP, I get:
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$ rdesktop -a 16 -N 192.168.255.197:3389 &
[1] 13922
$ Autoselected keyboard map en-us
ERROR: connect: Connection refused
What am I doing wrong?
Many thanks,
-T