Headless back-end (Re: Notes on VirtualBox)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Jarod Wilson <jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> VRDP is for accessing the console of the virtual machine, a la remote
>> desktop (in fact, its an extension to microsoft's remote desktop
>> protocol). That's per-guest. And at the guest level, not at the
>> host-side VM management level. There's no "power on this guest" or
>> "add memory to this guest" its simply "here's the console of this
>> guest". Less than useful if you need to alter network interfaces,
>> disks, memory, cpus, etc. allocated to a guest. So you still need
>> their gui, or to ssh into the host and use vboxmanage to alter guest
>> bits.
>
> What's the security model of VRDP?  Is the connection to the console
> protected (ala SSL)?  Can I control who can use VRDP to access a console
> for a particular guest?   If so, this would certainly give me some of
> the features I need.

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#vrdp-auth says you can have
per-guest auth, and just below that, there there is data stream
encryption using RC4.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org