[vbox-dev] VRDP and multiple consoles ...

[Joseph Smith]

Hi Klaus,

My Apologies.  You are so correct!  I did miss that <frown>.  Sorry about that.

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!


Thanks again!
Joe




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From: Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com>
To: Joseph Smith <joseph1962smith at yahoo.com>
Cc: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
Sent: Fri, October 22, 2010 7:06:25 AM
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] VRDP and multiple consoles ...

On 22.10.2010 12:41, Joseph Smith wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is it possible to use VRDP to a guest with multiple monitors and have a
> RDP connection for each/either monitor?
>
> Sure ... what's the point of having a VM with multiple monitors if you
> are going to access it remotely. Actually ... this setup is used mainly
> for testing a custom application which relies on a multi-monitor
> configuration.
>
> The goal is to be able to remotely access the VM periodically and
> connect to either or both monitors.
>
> The guest is running openSuse 11.2 and I am relying on the RDP
> capabilities of VirtualBox to connect to the console of the VM.
>
> Using IDisplay::getScreenResolution (monitor ID) I am able to get the
> display geometry details for each of the consoles.
>
> Using IConsole::remoteDisplayInfo only provides port information for one
> VRDP screen (seems to always be monitor ID = 0).
>
> Does this mean I will not be able to use VRDP to connect to a monitor
> other than the primary? Is it possible/likely in the future that
> IConsole::remoteDisplayInfo will return a list of objects where each
> entry in the list would be for each monitor of a multi-monitor
> configuration?
>
> Any ideas how to work around this ... or am I missing somthing ?

Seems you missed the "user side" documentation in the manual.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vrdp-multimonitor

I believe that should answer all your questions.

Klaus

>
> Thanks,
> Joe



      
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