Virtualbox Rdesktop & Seamlessrdp - Rocks !

[mat_london]

Has anyone managed to get the seamless windows effect with Virtualbox Rdesktop & Seamlessrdp ?

Friends and family who have seen my new laptop and edgy + Beryl are asking me to put Ubuntu on their laptop etc Its amazing to see how taken people are with the current state of Ubuntu.
However they all take the request back when they realise that that won't be able to run a particular vital application.

As a result I''ve spent some time trying to get XP applications running inside my fresh edgy install.

So when i came across this article:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...UnderQemuHowTo

I was very keen to get it all working. I reckon that if this could be made to work smoothly, a large new userbase of Ubuntu switchers will appear.

Unfortunately I haven't managed to get Qemu or Kqemu running at any usable speed and I can't get KVM working at all.
It was after trying this that I discovered Virtualbox http://www.virtualbox.org

Which I my system absolutely flies and is silky smooth, in fullscreen mode there is no sense that I am working in a virtualised environment.

The really neet thing I am trying to get done though is the rdesktop & seamlessrdp access.
This means I or my new Ubuntu loving friends could ulitmately just click a link and get a full speed XP app running in Ubuntu in its own window. (explained in the WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo link above)

Rdesktop & seamlessrdp access actually worked fine with Qemu using the command.

/usr/local/bin/rdesktop -A -s \ "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" -c "c:\seamlessrdp" 192.168.0.3

I've set up static host access in Virtualbox using a tap interface as per this page:

http://www.happyassassin.net/2007/02...to-virtualbox/

This works fine but I cannot get the rdesktop & seamlessrdp to work together, rdesktop logs in fine but I get the full desktop and not the seamless windows.

Has anyone managed to get the seamless windows effect with Virtualbox ?

Mat

[llamakc]

I'm doing something similar with VMWare. I have to make sure I am logged out of XP and at the Windows login screen if I want just one single application to run. I experimented with iTunes, which works perfectly for me.

[mat_london]

Could you give us the command you are using ?

I'm not familiar with Vmware, have you set up a bridged host network adaptor in Vmware or does VMware have an automatic RDP service.

I had it working fine in Qemu too.

mat

[llamakc]

Could you give us the command you are using ?

I'm not familiar with Vmware, have you set up a bridged host network adaptor in Vmware or does VMware have an automatic RDP service.

I had it working fine in Qemu too.

mat

rdesktop -rsound -A -s "c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe C:\Program Files\iTunes\iTunes.exe" 192.168.0.XXX -u USER -p PASSWORD

I had to create a password for my XP user to get rdesktop (Version 1.5.0-rc1) to work. My VMWare VM for XP is using a bridged network, and I installed SeamlessRDP on the Windows side.

I just made sure it was working (again). For some reason I have to run the command twice: the first time getting the full RDP session of the XP desktop, and after 'logging out', the second time getting iTunes to fire up on top of OpenBox.

[mat_london]

Thanks,

I've got full host networking going and can now do a proper terminal services type login, but for some reason Virtualbox is still ignoring the seamlessrdp instructions.

Virtualbox is very very fast on my laptop, shame I can't get this going.

Mat

[llamakc]

Thanks,

I've got full host networking going and can now do a proper terminal services type login, but for some reason Virtualbox is still ignoring the seamlessrdp instructions.

Virtualbox is very very fast on my laptop, shame I can't get this going.

Mat

You've enabled remote access on the Windows side, correct?

[Mike'sHardLinux]

Thanks for the info! I just managed to get this to work with VMware Server on my server.

For some reason, the VMware server installed on my desktop won't work properly - with NAT Networking, the VM can connect to the net and to my fileserver, but then it doesn't have an ip address in the same subnet, so I can't RDP into the VM...I can't even ping it; with Bridged networking, I can ping and rdesktop into the VM, but can't connect the VM to the net or to any network resource.

Anyway, my real question is: How do you plan to deal with the saving/loading of files using SeamlessRDP into a VM? Are you going to map the My Documents in the VM to a samba share on the Linux host?

[mat_london]

Not sure about VMware, with Virtualbox I've set up a samba share on my laptop which I open from and save to on the VM.

[veloce]

I have several windoze vms running under vmware server (not necessarily all the time) I too have found that rdp to them is great - though I haven't come across seamlessrdp.

The way I set it up was with a virtual firewall between the vms and the real world. I have two virtual networks set up on the host, host only and bridged. The vms are all on the host only network, the IPCop virtual firewall has two virtual network cards and is connected to the host only network and the bridged network to the real network.

• I rdp to the vms over the host only network.
  
• Transfers between virtual machines and the host are accomplished using a samba share on the host.
  
• I allow limited access to the real network from vms through the firewall.

This sounds complicated but was really easy to set up and works really well.

[Icarus3000]

Can anyone verify that they have Seamlessrdp/rdesktop working with virtualbox?