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

[Brad Robinson]

Hi Josh,

Under windows, when running as a logged on user yep, ugly black console
window appears.  But I can use CreateProcess to launch VBoxHeadless and get
it running hidden.  Still to get this working properly in-process would be
much nicer.

I haven't looked at VBoxWeb - I only installed VirtualBox for the first time
last Thursday, so this is all new to me.

Brad

-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Wright [mailto:jshwright at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 12:28 AM
To: Brad Robinson
Cc: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Custom front-end using non-OSE SDK

OpenRemoteSession(... "vrdp"...) opens a console for you?

You might want to look at the VBoxWeb code, since it also starts
headless/vrdp sessions.

http://code.google.com/p/vboxweb/source/browse/trunk/VBoxWebSrv.py#398

~JW

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Brad Robinson
<brobinson at cantabilesoftware.com> wrote:
> 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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