| 1 | Notes and bug reports for the VirtualBox service on briccs-1 |
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| 5 | == VirtualBox GUI over SSH |
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| 7 | There is a know issue with the latest version of VirtualBox GUI when accessing it via a SHH connection. |
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| 9 | * [http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8175 GUI is very slow when running it via an ssh tunnel] |
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| 11 | This bug makes it almost impossible to use the full VirtualBox GUI via a remote connection. |
| 12 | It takes several minutes to display a simple pop-up dialogue box. |
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| 14 | {{{ |
| 15 | ssh -X root@briccs-1.rcs.le.ac.uk |
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| 17 | briccs-1:~ # VirtualBox |
| 18 | }}} |
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| 20 | The bug only affects the main VirtualBox GUI, so the simpler per-vm GUI is still usable. |
| 21 | {{{ |
| 22 | ssh -X root@briccs-1.rcs.le.ac.uk |
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| 24 | briccs-1:~ # VBoxManage startvm briccs-7 |
| 25 | }}} |
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