RDP'ing to Host causing issues

[jamesdcarroll]

I have a Win7 laptop that I use for most work and when I am on the road. Everything works fine when I log into the machine directly. But when I am at home, I prefer to sit at my Linux (Ubuntu) workstation and RDP (Remmina) into my laptop; nice big monitor, ergo keyboard, etc.

When I do however, I get errors when trying to make changes to VM's (access errors on a very long "tinderbox" folder) and one VM flat out won't start because it has my laptop's CD drive attached. So I log into my laptop, fire it up, and then RDP into my laptop. Everything's fine then.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not convinced that this is really a VBox issue. I'm just hoping that maybe a fellow VBox user has run into this and can help.

THANKS!

[vbox4me2]

The RDP session might be connecting to the console or a second user session which is unaware of the user which is actually running the VM's. One thing since vista is that you can login into a second RDP session with the same user that looks like a session already running but isn't.