decoherence
March 24th, 2009, 01:46 PM
Hi all,
What's the best way of doing headless guests on a headless host? I tried doing it with VirtualBox but the OSE version won't let you run in "vrdp" mode, which you evidently need to do to get a guest to start up headless (@#$@# I just want to send video to /dev/null!! I don't care from RPD!)
I know this is easy to do with VMWare. Unfortunately VMWare demands I recompile its kernel module every time I update, which I want to avoid (I don't really mind but my co-workers are not savvy to this.)
So... looking for either some way of getting it to work with VBox (which I know and love) or I'm looking at KVM or Xen?
Suggestions and pointers to how-tos are much appreciated! If I find anything I'll update the thread.
What's the best way of doing headless guests on a headless host? I tried doing it with VirtualBox but the OSE version won't let you run in "vrdp" mode, which you evidently need to do to get a guest to start up headless (@#$@# I just want to send video to /dev/null!! I don't care from RPD!)
I know this is easy to do with VMWare. Unfortunately VMWare demands I recompile its kernel module every time I update, which I want to avoid (I don't really mind but my co-workers are not savvy to this.)
So... looking for either some way of getting it to work with VBox (which I know and love) or I'm looking at KVM or Xen?
Suggestions and pointers to how-tos are much appreciated! If I find anything I'll update the thread.