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Hiding a guest window
Posted: 30. Jan 2013, 23:21
by Gavin_Wilby
Hi,
I have a couple of servers that I run in VB, but to be honest they only have small jobs to do (ones a DC, and ones and RDG), and so dont really need to see the desktop?
Is there any way that these can be run "headless" so to speak, so they load up, but unless I invoke them I dont see them??
Thanks,
Gavin.
Mac OSX 10.8.2 Core i5. 16GB RAM
VB 4.2.6 r82870
Guest OS: Server 2008R2. Windows 8.
Re: Hiding a guest window
Posted: 31. Jan 2013, 09:52
by noteirak
Re: Hiding a guest window
Posted: 31. Jan 2013, 10:47
by Gavin_Wilby
Thats great, thank you.
Can I convert a machine that already exists however? Or go through these steps and use an existing VDI?
Re: Hiding a guest window
Posted: 31. Jan 2013, 13:24
by noteirak
You're using the VMs available in Virtualbox already. VBoxheadless is just another "front-end" for the Virtualbox core code. So you will have access to the VMs, etc.
Just open a command prompt and type
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vboxmanage startvm "VMNAME" --type headless
you might need to be into the virtualbox install folder, I am not sure if vboxmanage is acessible from everywhere on OSX
Re: Hiding a guest window
Posted: 31. Jan 2013, 17:23
by ChipMcK
noteirak wrote:you might need to be into the virtualbox install folder, I am not sure if vboxmanage is acessible from everywhere on OSX
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$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
$ ls -ale /usr/bin/vbox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 77 Dec 19 09:25 /usr/bin/vboxwebsrv
$ ls -ale /usr/bin/VBox*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 80 Dec 19 09:25 /usr/bin/VBoxAutostart
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 82 Dec 19 09:25 /usr/bin/VBoxBalloonCtrl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 79 Dec 19 09:25 /usr/bin/VBoxHeadless
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 77 Dec 19 09:25 /usr/bin/VBoxManage
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 79 Dec 19 09:25 /usr/bin/VBoxVRDP
My system says
YES. Probably the same in any *nix system.
Re: Hiding a guest window
Posted: 31. Jan 2013, 20:07
by Gavin_Wilby
Thats just what Im looking for, many thanks.
Works in any directory in Terminal too!