VirtualBox GUI to manage other systems

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VirtualBox GUI to manage other systems

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Is there a way to use the VirtualBox GUI to manage VMs on remote systems?
I have done a similar thing with another virtualization solution but have found no documentation about that (my possible fault).
TIA
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Re: VirtualBox GUI to manage other systems

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If you ask if it is possible to attach to a remote VM (either started by 'VBoxHeadless --startvm' or by 'VBoxManage startvm --type headless') then the answer is 'no'. But you can start the GUI on the remote machine and use X11 forwarding (makes only sense if you have a fast network connection) or start the VM selector on the remote machine to have at least a small preview window. Otherwise use VBoxManage to control remote VMs and use an RDP client to connect to remote VMs.
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Re: VirtualBox GUI to manage other systems

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Frank Mehnert wrote:If you ask if it is possible to attach to a remote VM (either started by 'VBoxHeadless --startvm' or by 'VBoxManage startvm --type headless') then the answer is 'no'. But you can start the GUI on the remote machine and use X11 forwarding (makes only sense if you have a fast network connection) or start the VM selector on the remote machine to have at least a small preview window. Otherwise use VBoxManage to control remote VMs and use an RDP client to connect to remote VMs.
Nope. My idea is not to have any GUI-related software on the remote server (as it's a ... uh ... server) and X is.
No problem and the CLI is so powerful.
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