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The following example demonstrates starting a guest machine in headless mode
on a host system. This is just the type of operation that the Solaris Service Manage
Facility (SMF) could easily automate.
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VBoxHeadless --startvm "Windows XP"
Sun VirtualBox Headless Interface 3.1.4
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Listening on port 3389.
To connect to this guest from a remote system, we will use an RDP client. This
example shows the use of
rdesktop
on an Oracle Solaris system to connect to
the newly created Windows XP guest machine, which is running on a host named
pandora
.
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rdesktop pandora:3389
On the remote system, a new window is opened showing the guest desktop
that is running on
pandora
. Figure 5.21 shows the guest desktop running the
Windows XP installation program.
Figure 5.21
Displaying the Remote Desktop
A guest is typically shut down by using its native method. Nevertheless, other op-
tions for stopping a virtual machine are available. Regardless of the method used
to create the guest, it can be stopped from the host either through the command
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