[OpenIndiana-discuss] Running VirtualBox

[Carl Brewer]

On 9/08/2012 11:57 AM, James C. McPherson wrote:
> On  9/08/12 11:23 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
> ...
>> For headless startup/shutdown of prepared VMs (as usual SMF service
>> instances), again, see the http://vboxsvc.sourceforge.net/ project,
>> feel free to ask questions or add RFEs if I still missed something
>> useful ;)
>> The method script can also be used as a CLI script to switch VMs
>> from SMF to GUI mode and back via "savestate" to disk.
>>
>> For most of the time you can use RDP consoles to VMs instead, but
>> yes GUI can be useful. Alternately, there are some Web-GUIs to
>> VirtualBox which essentially recreate the X11 GUI equivalent in
>> HTML (for general administrative tasks without need for X11), and
>> often include an RDP client to conveniently connect to consoles.
>
> If you're using bridged networking, then you can ssh in, or use
> xdmcp (if you set it up). The vboxheadless service is handy to have
> as well too. I've got it configured, but haven't needed to use it
> in quite a while since my use-cases changed.

I've used x11vnc to attach remotely to running console sessions too, 
works well.

Carl