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[SOLVED] VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 4. May 2020, 08:48
by Rainemaker
Like the subject says, Versions match, VRDE still not working, am I missing a prereq or something? attached is a zipped version of my latest log file.
I don't know what exactly is wrong, but basically
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00:00:00.064940 VRDE: VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension is not available.
is the error I'm getting
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 4. May 2020, 18:33
by scottgus1
I don't have a Linux host, so I am not sure why that log line appears. Do you actually have the RDP server enabled in the guest's Settings?
Maybe the Extension Pack did not get installed correctly? Try re-downloading from
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads, then uninstall what you have now and reinstall the new download.
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 5. May 2020, 10:35
by Rainemaker
I have reinstalled, downgraded, upgraded, all making sure that the EXTPACK was the same version each time, 5.2.34 is the Ubuntu/dkms version of the program, extpack matched for that as well,
I've also tried setting vrde on and off in the machine multiple times. Unless there's a separate variable that I'm missing, or a prerequisite for vrde I'm missing, I'm totally stumped.
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 5. May 2020, 15:36
by mpack
Please post a screenshot of the VM settings, Display, Remote Display tab.
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 5. May 2020, 16:17
by Rainemaker
I use a Headless host, so the settings will be plain text anyway, I'll post the vboxmanage showvminfo output here, as a zipped txt file and with a code flag for the vrde section
The VRDE area
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Audio: enabled (Driver: ALSA, Controller: AC97, Codec: STAC9700)
Audio playback: disabled
Audio capture: disabled
Clipboard Mode: disabled
Drag and drop Mode: disabled
VRDE: enabled (Address 0.0.0.0, Ports 5000, MultiConn: off, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: null)
Video redirection: disabled
USB: disabled
EHCI: disabled
XHCI: disabled
The Display area
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VRAM size: 128MB
CPU exec cap: 100%
HPET: off
Chipset: ich9
Firmware: BIOS
Number of CPUs: 8
PAE: on
Long Mode: off
Triple Fault Reset: off
APIC: on
X2APIC: off
CPUID Portability Level: 0
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): HardDisk
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: on
BIOS APIC mode: APIC
Time offset: 0ms
RTC: local time
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Nested Paging: on
Large Pages: off
VT-x VPID: on
VT-x unr. exec.: on
Paravirt. Provider: Default
Effective Paravirt. Provider: HyperV
State: powered off (since 2020-05-05T08:41:53.000000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: on
EDIT: I decided to upload a matching Vbox.log zip file for you to peruse alongside the latest settings config
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 9. May 2020, 16:50
by fth0
Did you change the VRDP port from 3389 to 5000? I'm asking because there is usually a timeout value of 5000 involved, and maybe your VM configuration is corrupt. Please post the Win10.vbox file, which will show us the VM configuration uninterpreted.
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 29. May 2020, 02:02
by Rainemaker
Here's the requested file, Sorry for the long delay, I've been quite busy, sorry also to anyone else following this thread hoping for updates.
To answer your question I did change the port to 5000, but I've changed it back to 3389 to no avail.
Re: VRDE not working, Fresh install, EXTPACK installed
Posted: 29. May 2020, 04:31
by Rainemaker
I found out I had the wrong EXTpack set in system. I issued the below and it fixed VRDE.
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VBoxManage setproperty vrdeextpack "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"
I'm now having a seperate issue with the guest OS but I'll fix that with information gleamed from other posts.
Thank you so much for all your help!