VirtualBox OSE VNC Server

[madverb]

Does anyone know how to setup guests with a VNC server? From what I can find, the OSE version supports VNC server to access headless setups.
I am looking at this because I need to enter in the passphrase for an encrypted partition on boot.
I wanted to see if I can get this working before installing the full version of virtualbox to access the VRDP server.
Cheers

[madverb]

Yay! There was an update for virtualbox-ose and it seems to have resolved my problem.
It now has the VNC server option by default.

Usage:
-s, -startvm, --startvm <name|uuid> Start given VM (required argument)
-n, --vnc Enable the built in VNC server
-m, --vncport <port> TCP port number to use for the VNC server
-o, --vncpass <pw> Set the VNC server password
-c, -capture, --capture Record the VM screen output to a file
-w, --width Frame width when recording
-h, --height Frame height when recording
-r, --bitrate Recording bit rate when recording
-f, --filename File name when recording. The codec
used will be chosen based on the
file extension

[chrisinspace]

Sounds like you got it worked out, but you might also want to look at FreeNX. I like it much better than VNC.

[madverb]

Virtualbox doesn't have support for FreeNX. Yes, I could use it to access the guest once it's loaded, but I wouldn't be able to enter in the password prior to the system loading.

[TheFu]

According to your other posts, I guess a newer version of VBox supports VNC at the host level. My OSE 3.1.6 install does not. So the solution for me to have VNC support in a client OS install is to run a VNC server inside the client and connect to it. The HostOS doesn't know anything about the VNC running in the quest.

Anyway, I figured someone else might need this information. If the client OS supports RDP (Windows Professional or greater), then simply enable that service like normal for RDP support in the client.