RDP does not refresh

[marc35]

Hi All

I recently upgraded my VirtualBox from 3.X to 4.0.4 (including the extension pack for RDP). Everything works fine except that on a Windows 2008 64bit guest, the RDP does not refresh, i.e., I connect and see the first screen but then it is frozen. Then I drop the RDP connection and reconnect again to see the next screen. Mouse movements and key strokes are passed to the server because I see the events/cursor movements through a Teamviewer session.

Other machines, including Ubuntu and Windows 2003 work fine with RDP on my new Virtualbox 4.0.4.

Any thoughts?
Marc

[vbox4me2]

Sounds like vRDP not RDP, does the same happen when teamviewer is not running? could be a conflict.

[marc35]

The vm was created with:
VBoxManage modifyvm "VM" --vrde on

And then started with:
VBoxManage startvm "VM" --type headless

I get the following output from showvminfo (related to VRDE):

VRDE: enabled (Address 0.0.0.0, Ports 3389, MultiConn: off, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: null)
VRDE port: 3389
Video redirection: disabled
VRDE property: TCP/Ports = "3389"
VRDE property: TCP/Address = <not set>
VRDE property: VideoChannel/Enabled = "false"
VRDE property: VideoChannel/Quality = "75"
VRDE property: Client/DisableDisplay = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableInput = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableAudio = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableUSB = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableClipboard = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableUpstreamAudio = <not set>

The TCP/Ports, VideoChannel/Enabled, and VideoChannel/Quality properties are set (this is not the case in the VMs where VRDE works).

Disabling Teamviewer did not help.

[vbox4me2]

Nobody else using 3389? the Host not blocking this port?

[marc35]

No one else using this port. Nothing blocking it. It used to work with my old VirtualBox 3.X and I did not change any firewall settings or anything else in the network.

[vbox4me2]

What if you use a different port for it on the Host side?

[marc35]

After an upgrade of the VirtualBox Guest Extensions from 3.X to 4.0.4. and a restart of the VM, it seems to work now. Problem solved

[Lazywolf]

I had the same problem after installing a fresh windows XP. All other VMs worked fine with 4.04, including my old XP for which I used port 3393. I removed this old XP and set up a new VM with same settings except number of CPUs, then installed XP and Guest Addons 4.04. After this, same effect. The screen of the XP only refreshes in the RDP window when I close the RDP-session and then reconnect. But: this only happend when I started the guest with VBoxHeadless. Starting the guest inside VM Manager and then connecting via RDP, all works fine (VBox rests on another machine then I use to connect to via RDP). When starting with VBoxHeadless and then starting VM Manager, I can see inside the little window that my XP reacts to mouse and keyboard.
Updating VBox to 4.08 didnt help. But then I updated the guest addons to 4.08 and now everything works fine.