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zoran119

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Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 33

Cannot connect to VRDE session

I'm trying to connect to a headless virtual machine, but the connection keeps on being closed:

    $ rdesktop 192.168.1.8:5012
    Autoselected keyboard map en-us
    ERROR: Connection closed

VRDE seems to be enabled (as reported by VBoxManage showvminfo):

    VRDE:            enabled (Address 192.168.1.8, Ports 5012, MultiConn: off, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: null)
    VRDE port:       5012

The host is Arch Linux. This is the output of VBoxManage list extpacks:

    Extension Packs: 2
    Pack no. 0:   VNC
    Version:      5.0.4_OSE
    Revision:     102546
    Edition:      
    Description:  VNC plugin module
    VRDE Module:  VBoxVNC
    Usable:       true 
    Why unusable: 
    
    Pack no. 1:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
    Version:      5.0.4
    Revision:     102546
    Edition:      
    Description:  USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM, Disk Encryption.
    VRDE Module:  VBoxVRDP
    Usable:       true 
    Why unusable: 

Also, 192.168.1.8 is the IP address of the host.

Any idea why I cannot connect using rdesktop?

MisterChoc

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 74

Re: Cannot connect to VRDE session

Have you tried other client? I use xfreerdp and remmina and it doesn't work since few days ago... No idea why

mbovo

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Registered: 2017-04-15

Posts: 1

Re: Cannot connect to VRDE session

Sorry for resurrect this post.

I had the same error and after 2 hours of debugs and various configuration i just uninstalled package virtualbox-ext-vnc  so installed extpacks now is only one

 [root@odin ~]# vboxmanage list extpacks
Extension Packs: 1
Pack no. 0:   Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
Version:      5.1.18
Revision:     114002
Edition:      
Description:  USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 Host Controller, Host Webcam, VirtualBox RDP, PXE ROM, Disk Encryption, NVMe.
VRDE Module:  VBoxVRDP
Usable:       true 
Why unusable: 

And rdp is fully functional again (tested with rdesktop and xfreerdp)
Conclusion is two VRDE modules at the same time seems to break things, i cannot find a valid configuration to exclude only one at runtime, i will investigate further.
Regards,

m.