<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi Klaus,<br><br>My Apologies. You are so correct! I did miss that <frown>. Sorry about that.<br><br>Wow ... and I tried to ensure I exhausted all the options before asking ... I missed the most obvious one! I spend most of my time looking through the API/technical documentation or source ... I did not think to check the user guide!<br><br><br>Thanks again!<br>Joe<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenlaub@oracle.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Joseph Smith
<joseph1962smith@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> vbox-dev@virtualbox.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, October 22, 2010 7:06:25 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [vbox-dev] VRDP and multiple consoles ...<br></font><br>
On 22.10.2010 12:41, Joseph Smith wrote:<br>> Hi All,<br>><br>> Is it possible to use VRDP to a guest with multiple monitors and have a<br>> RDP connection for each/either monitor?<br>><br>> Sure ... what's the point of having a VM with multiple monitors if you<br>> are going to access it remotely. Actually ... this setup is used mainly<br>> for testing a custom application which relies on a multi-monitor<br>> configuration.<br>><br>> The goal is to be able to remotely access the VM periodically and<br>> connect to either or both monitors.<br>><br>> The guest is running openSuse 11.2 and I am relying on the RDP<br>> capabilities of VirtualBox to connect to the console of the VM.<br>><br>> Using IDisplay::getScreenResolution (monitor ID) I am able to get the<br>> display geometry details for each of the consoles.<br>><br>> Using IConsole::remoteDisplayInfo only provides port information for
one<br>> VRDP screen (seems to always be monitor ID = 0).<br>><br>> Does this mean I will not be able to use VRDP to connect to a monitor<br>> other than the primary? Is it possible/likely in the future that<br>> IConsole::remoteDisplayInfo will return a list of objects where each<br>> entry in the list would be for each monitor of a multi-monitor<br>> configuration?<br>><br>> Any ideas how to work around this ... or am I missing somthing ?<br><br>Seems you missed the "user side" documentation in the manual.<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vrdp-multimonitor">http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vrdp-multimonitor</a></span><br><br>I believe that should answer all your questions.<br><br>Klaus<br><br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Joe<br></div></div>
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