Mac – Remote Access over the Network to a Virtual Box Machine

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I am trying to remotely access a machine on Virtual Box, which is on a terminal server, but I don't want to have to log onto the terminal server first.

I have enabled the Remote Display Settings in Virtual Box Manager.

Virtual Box Remote Display Settings

The firewall on the Virtual Machine is not blocking access, as I can ping the machine from my local machine, and from the terminal server.

The issue is when I try to RDP into the machine, it asks me for the username and password, which I give the correct information, but says it fails to connect.

Is this just my issue, or am I doing something wrong?

Best Answer

I assume that your virtualbox has not a own IP address, but rather some nat or host-only network.

So when you RDP to your TSE, it's the TSE login you see.

I would do the following:

  • Make the VM use a bridged network and assign it it's own IP address
  • In Virtualbox don't enable remote display
  • In the guest OS, activate the RDP access

This way you can directly authenticate against the guest OS

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