Hello, I have a kubuntu 10.04 box and it runs virtualbox with windows 2000. For the most part, the network cable will be plugged in and i should be able to rdp into my windows 2000 install just fine, however, for testing purposes and for backup server testing, I will not have the cable plugged in all of the time.

How would I rdp into that windows 2k install on the same machine if no cable is plugged into the ethernet port?

I have both the kubuntu install and the windows 2k install setup with static ip's, but it is not working.
-Thanks

Why do you want to RDP to it if it's already running a console window?

And do you mean the network cable to the Kubuntu machine is unplugged, or the "cable" in the guest OS?

Well, the vm is not run in a window, it's run automatically when the kubuntu machine starts up and the only way to access it is via rdp'ing in.

It's started with a boot script using this command: VBoxVRDP -startvm "win2k"

This way i can fire up the kubuntu machine and the vm will start automatically without me logging into kubuntu.

I could always open it up via the virtualbox gui but i'd have to kill the win2k's vm process to close it and then i'd be able to open it from the gui.

The cable is unplugged from the kubuntu machine, physically.

I can't speak with certainty how it is configured on Linux, but in Windows the same is accomplished by specifying VRDP "on" and the port number to run VRDP on (e.g. 12345), then connecting to that port on the localhost:

Then open up your RDP client and use localhost:12345 to connect. It does not seem to care if the network cable is unplugged or not.

Connecting via localhost works with the cable plugged in, but not with it unplugged

Any other ideas?

Is RDP listening on the IP tied to the cable? I started one up in linux and it was listening on 0.0.0.0:12345, and that's what I had to use to connect (localhost did not work), but it still worked fine whether or not the cable was plugged in.

How do you have the guest networking configured in Virtual Box settings (NAT, Internal, Host-only, etc.)?

It's setup via bridged and has it's own ip address. Could that be the issue?

Localhost, etc don't work when the cable is unplugged.

Yes, that could be the issue. Try changing it to NAT and see if that makes a difference.

Hmm, that probably won't work. I need to have it bridged so that it appears on the network with an ip address just like all the other computers on the network.

Then configure the VM with two network adapters.

If there is only one adapter in the physical machine, can that be done? Or do i need to install a second network adapter?

Set to local and get any other live cd running on a similar vm and access it that way.

VirtualBox allows up to four virtual network adapters to be defined per VM regardless of the number of real adapters.