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Greetings All,

First of all let me say that I have been using VirtualBox off and on for a while and think that it is a great product which much potential to compete against other similar implementations.

Now for the question of my post. I am now also doing some testing with the latest 4.1.2 version of VirtualBox on a Windows XP machine. The testing is along the lines of being able to service a number of Thin-Clients via each having a VM connected via RDP. I am also testing having a number of applications served via VirtualBox using the seamless mode from the VRDP server.

I have know that you can use RDP to connect to a the VRDP server (ie. the VirtualBox main instance), and also know that you can easily start up multiple concurrent OS's from the main VirtualBox instance.

If you start up concurrent multiple VM instances of Windows for example (call the each VM win1 and win2, for example) then how can I do an RDP connection to each of them?

It seems to me that the VirtualBox VRPD server would be running on port 3389 and from another machine you could do a standard RDP connection to the server, but how do you specify which VM from within the VRDP server to connect?

I would think that somewhere you might need to specify either "win1" or "win2", or something like that, or do you have to set up a port for each VM concurrently running which would not make since to me to have to do?

I would like to have a number of concurrent instances of OS's running from VirtualBox and then do seamless connections to some applications in all of them but would like, if at all possible, to only have to use a single VRDP server port since it does not make since to have to have a different port for each VM and then each application within each VM.

Could someone please clarify this for me?

Thanks in advance for your help and guidance,
Lonnie

Why would you try to do that through the host? I would RDP directly to the guests. In other words set up you network as if each vm was another machine on the LAN.