Hello everyone,


I am running fedora 20 64bit using KDE. and running VirtualBox. I have 2 Virtuabox sessions, one with windows 8.1 and the other is running OpenSUSE Linux.

Is there a way for me to create a PCoIP boot CD OR connect via VNC or remote desktop vmware player to connect my Windows 8.1 and OpenSUSE VirtualBox session remotely. I have looked and researched online but I cannot find a suitable way for me find a way to connect to my GUEST OS from outside world WAN?

Can I use VMWare? Is VMware free? open source?

Any help is greatly appreciated. If you can provide any links or guide for this.

thanks in advance

The technology you noted pcoip is licensed to vmware. To use that product it may be best to use vmware's products but not all products are free. Only two or one of them are free to private use. They are closed source.
VMware has very good documentation for their products.

There are many many ways to access a system remotely. For the most part, a vm is a real computer. You may have to study up a bit on the slight difference in networking features to learn how to enable it on your system.

Is there a way to use VirtualBox. I am using VirtualBox right now. Found this online.

http://www.sysprobs.com/multiple-rem...sun-virtualbox,

Just don't know where to start. Do you know of any guides? either for VirtualBox. What VMWare products are free?

All software has some form of agreement that you'd have to read. Some opensource software isn't exactly free. It still has some rules that govern it. Read the EULA's or software agreements to be in compliance.

The link you shared it one way. I believe it still is enabled in both versions of Virtualbox. If you do use RDP then be sure to consider changing ports. The web is full of crooks that sweep for the common open RDP and other ports. Set limits on logon's. Use private certificates or strong passwords that change often.


The only thing I can do is try to break this issue down to some smaller parts.

For the most part, any computer to computer tcp/ip connection that you can do in real computers tends to work in VM's.

Difference would be unique networking issues in VM's. They then to be connected via NAT or Bridged mode. All VM's have documentation on how to set that up.

All remote access may have to have other features and devices adjusted. Modem/router may need NAT or forwarding or ports open.

Host computer may need firewall rules and ports open too. May need to use unique IP configuration.

So, now you'd need to pick a remote access method and tell us, then we might be able to guide you a bit more. There are many ways and each one has pro's and cons'.

Hi there

One of the problems when trying to access a machine from OUTSIDE (I.e OUTSIDE your home LAN / Router) your Internet address (the one you have when you logon to your ISP to use the Internet) is not a STATIC IP address so RDP / VNC or whatever won't find the it.

Second problem is that you will need to enable PORT FORWARDING on your router so that the outside command will reach the right machine (doesn't matter if it's a Virtual or Real VM).

For the FIRST problem you need something that runs every so often on your REMOTE system so you can get the dynamic IP address -- something like no-Ip. Although Windows program it runs OK on Wine - just run the.exe to install it on WINE. What this does is give you a domain name and attaches your IP address to it - if the IP address changes then the little program updates the domain to point to the new IP address -- so all your remote access needs to do is simply enter the domain name in your browser etc.

You also need to set your REMOTE machine to allow INCOMING requests (and the firewall too). Also open the ports.

Note - if your remote machine (i.e the machine you are trying to reach) is WINDOWS then youll need the PRO version or above - the home versions don't allow RDP connections. (You can still set up server functions though such as WAMP / LAMP (Linux).

DynDNS used to provide this service for free but they've gone all "Pro" i.e PAY now. No-IP is still free.

Cheers