[GRLUG] Starting virtualbox remotely

[Josh]

you can ssh in and start is with a command something like

virtualbox --start $NAME --headless

I believe there is an option for starting fullscreen or not, pretty sure
you need to have X already running and it will start there.

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:

> I have a win7 vm on my desktop.  I want to be able to ssh home, start it
> up, and then VNC into it.  I've never messed with headless, is that what
> I want?  I was thinking that I would need to start it normally on that
> xserver, and then vnc to it.
>
> So, question one, is headless what I want?
>
> Question too, if I need to ssh in and start it on that Xserver, how
> would I tell it to use that Xserver?
>
> Topher
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