[vbox-dev] Custom front-end using non-OSE SDK

[Brad Robinson]

Thanks Frank,

I did look quickly at VBoxSDL, but couldn't really find anything that helped
with this specific problem.

Regarding the VRDP, it's a pity that a custom front-end can't support that
through the SDK.  Is that a deliberate measure, or should the SDK support
it, or could it export a method that wires up those frame buffers?

Regarding the sharing violation, I suspect the log file is just not getting
closed correctly.  In my case I was trying to run the same VM twice (once
after the other) in the one process.  All the standard front ends seem to
run one VM and then shutdown - which would hide an unreleased file handle.

My interim approach to this is going to be simply launching VBoxHeadless.exe
- it solves both problems for me but the code is a lot messier.

In short what I'm trying to do here is run a headless VM, but not have the
console window show up - so OpenRemoteSession(... "vrdp"...) is no go to me.

Anyway, I'll get you a sample project ASAP so you can investigate what I'm
seeing. 

Regards
Brad


-----Original Message-----
From: Frank.Mehnert at Sun.COM [mailto:Frank.Mehnert at Sun.COM] 
Sent: Monday, 26 October 2009 11:56 PM
To: Brad Robinson
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Custom front-end using non-OSE SDK

Brad,

please reply to the mailing list if possible because I get tons of mails
each day and probably other developers want to follow the discussion as
well.

On Monday 26 October 2009, Brad Robinson wrote:
> Thanks for getting back to me on this.  I'll put together a simpler 
> example as my real project brings in a couple of custom libraries you 
> won't be interested in.  Shall I just email it directly to you?

That would be possible. Or, if the compressed code isn't too long, you could
post it to the mailing list as well.

> Btw: I've noticed in the VBoxHeadless OSE source code there's code 
> that sets a "new VRDPFramebuffer" to each display of the console...  
> this is what I suspect I'm missing, but not sure how to implement with the
SDK.

Right, the VRDPFramebuffer is closed source and actually I'm not sure if you
will be able to write a custom frontend which can do RDP. Did you already
have a look at VBoxSDL?

Kind regards,

Frank
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