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Is there a way to connect to a virtualbox guest os without the use of vrdp?

I have a virtualbox test server that seems to halt somewhere during early boot and I would like to connect to it from a terminal on the host in a similar fashion as vrdp. I don't have access to any GUI stuff on the host. Both the guest and the host are ubuntu servers. Regular networking on the guest is not enable by the time it halts. (Is serverfault more appropriate?)

EDIT: I ended up installing X on a related host then used rdesktop in the usual fashion.

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One possible workaround is if you have an X server on the system you are connecting from, you could always use ssh -X to connect to the host and then use X11 forwarding to use the VirtualBox GUI. – sbtkd85 Sep 12 '11 at 16:58
@sbtkd Which VBox GUI would that be? As it sits I have access to the VBoxManage tools, and rdesktop-vrdp . rdesktop-vrdp gives me "Failed to open display", i quite often use ssh -X to other systems where it works great. – Captain Giraffe Sep 12 '11 at 17:11
Sorry I'm not sure of the exact command to invoke as I don't have an Ubuntu host with virtualbox installed, but I would think that rdesktop-vrdp or virtualbox should work. – sbtkd85 Sep 12 '11 at 17:20
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