Virtualbox - how to remote desktop from win 2007 to virtual box (with win2008)?

Question

I have installed VirtualBox on Win7, and created a new VM with Win2008. This seems to be working OK.

I'm now interested in remote desktop from my Win7 to the VM, but can't get that to work. Can anyone help me?

I tried to use 127.0.0.2:3389, as mentioned in the virtualbox doc: http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch07.html#rdp-viewers

When I try to connect, it seems like the address is found, but can connect with the standard Administrator account.

I am thinking there are some network configurations here that I'm missing? Any help will be appreciated...

Answer 1

The problem is, by default, your guest operating system shares the IP of the host through NAT which means you cannot access any ports on the guest directly.

You need to do one of these:

• Change the virtual NIC to use bridged connection and configure the IP address of the guest (if no DHCP)
• Use host only network and configure the IP address of the guest
• Set-up port forwarding for the NAT network

The details can be found at http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html