[vbox-dev] Make a program that list all VBoxHeadless process, and VRDE port number, using internal protocol ?

[Klaus Espenlaub]

On 20.08.2012 11:24, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure how should this work, I want to list all names of running
> VMs (that started by VBoxHeadless), and its VRDE port number,
>
> Then make a very simple client that utilize rdesktop to connect.
>
> I can't just parse the .xml config for the machine, since some machine
> doesn't specify a port number in its config (that VBoxHeadless will find
> a random port number).
>
> So I'm wondering, if any internal protocol could use here

Use the API... there are ways of enumerating all VMs, then you can check 
which ones are running and then further filter by having VRDP enabled 
and so on. See the SDK.

Klaus

>
> Thanks !
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