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VBoxHeadless - Running Virtual Machines With VirtualBox 3.0 On A Headless Fedora 11 Server This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.0 (released on June 30, 2009) on a headless Fedora 11 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI.

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By: Anonymous
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Hi,

first thank you for your howto, that is helpful for me. but i want to say that:

1.I am not agree with you "...but a server does not have a desktop environment.", today most servers have GUI and just a simple one purpose server needs no GUI.

2.you don't need to create group for your user; in fedora when you add a user, that automatically add group for your user and /bin/bash is default.

3.to connect to guest with rdesktop you need to use guest IP and not host.

By: Anonymous
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 Good tutorial.

 But im a bit concerned about security when using VRDP.

 Do you know of a way to get authentication to work ?

Thanks