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 (to resome //saved// machines see above) (to resome //saved// machines see above)
  
-found [[http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14754|here]]+==== Connect to headless machine by RDP ==== 
 +assuming, you're using a german keyboard: 
 + 
 +  rdesktop -k de localhost  
 + 
 +(Provided the VM is running on your local machine and ''VBoxHeadless'' told you VRDE server is listening on port 3389) 
 + 
 +====== rc.vbox ====== 
 +This is some very basic start-stop script suited more to support your memory then to be used as a init.d script ... 
 +  #!/bin/sh 
 +   
 +  vm="${2:-MyDefaultVM}" 
 +   
 +  case "$1" in 
 +  "start"      VBoxHeadless --startvm "$vm" -vrde on & ;; 
 +  "show"|"view") /opt/local/bin/rdesktop -k de localhost   ;; 
 +  "stop"       VBoxManage controlvm "$vm" savestate    ;; 
 +  *)             echo "Usage: ${0##*/} start|stop|show" >&1 ; exit 42 ;; 
 +  esac 
 + 
 +__Credits:__ 
 + 
 +Information from [[http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14754|here]] and from my experience.
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