Comments on: Running Windows applications natively and seamlessly on Linux with SeamlessRDP and Virtualbox or KVM

By: alj

alj — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:55:47 +0000

Strange; my entry was copied from my test machine.

By: Axel

Axel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:58:21 +0000

Thank you for the tutorial. I used the part which deals with setting up Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) to set up ufw for my bridged Virtualbox.

Now it works fine for me. But there where to spelling mistakes in part 4 of this section, that crashed my system:
You wrote:
> 4. In the same file (/etc/ufw/before.rules), locate the line -A ufw-before-output -o lo -j ACCEPT and add these lines right after:
> -A ufw-before-input -i tap0 -j ACCEPT
> -A ufw-before-output -o tap0 -j ACCEPT

Instead of ufw-before-output -o … it has to be ufw-before-output -i

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:48:26 +0000

Gregory:

You can install your copy of Windows on *one* machine, virtual or not. You CANNOT legally use the same copy of Windows on two or more logically-unique machines. The fact that one machine is virtual does not circumvent this restriction. Read the full EULA here:

http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/Default.aspx

As for your “Single User (Student)” copy, because *you* bought the software, *you* are licensing it from Microsoft. I would imagine it follows the same license restrictions as any copy of Windows. (“Single user” actually means “single machine;” any number of people can use it while it’s installed to that machine, even if they have separate user accounts [hence, "install for all users"].)

As to differences, there’s only one that I can see, and it’s negligible since Windows 7 uses RDP 7.0. When you edit group policy (gpedit.msc) to change the max color depth, it’s under “Local Computer Policy > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Remote Session Environment > Limit maximum color depth.” By default it’s set to “No,” so you don’t even need to change it.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:33:04 +0000

Important to point out that there are *2* RDP servers involved here when using VirtualBox. One being VirtualBox itself, in this post, its listening at port 1337. If you connect to this RDP server, you will always get full screen.
The second RDP server is within Windows XP itself – which is why you must be able to connect direct to the IP address of the Windows XP VM. You need to connect to this RDP server if you want to use seamlessrdp.

By: Gregory Norris

Gregory Norris — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:43:46 +0000

I just came across this article and decided to try it, I’m now to the “Getting things running” section and realized that you don’t mention Windows 7 at all in this article (Not to surprising considering the date). So, I was wondering what modifications I need to make to your directions to make this work in Ubuntu 10.04 (x86_x64) with Windows 7.

There are two reasons I wish to use 7:
My copy is supposed to be a Single User (Student) copy and it happens to be my primary Operating System on this computer. I know Microsoft doesn’t usually do anything if you install these to ‘multiple machines’.

1.) Reason one is the legal reason, although I’d technically be installing it twice I’m still only using Win7 on one machine (and only one at a time).

2.) Since Win 7 is my Primary OS it will be much easier to keep my settings in sync if I use Win 7 in my Virtual Machine.

Speaking synchronizing settings: I was curious if I could somehow set this up to a folder and use Symbolic Links to keep certain data synced (that’s what I do with WINE but, Wine doesn’t always support the newest versions like I keep on Windows and is still extremely limited).

Lastly (before I forget): I was wondering if I could somehow use this sort of virtualization setup to work with Compressed NTFS files better (at current Mail and Torrents won’t work compressed).

By: nacho

nacho — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 02:44:24 +0000

Mustafa, you need “autoconf” package installed in order to run autoconf.
sudo apt-get install autoconf

By: alj

alj — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:28:35 +0000

If you are running Ubuntu/Debuan, install the package “autoconf”

By: Mustafa

Mustafa — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:23:14 +0000

Hi
please let me first clarify that I am a noob when it comes to ubuntu and linux .. :-( these are my first steps into the world of linux
I have followed the steps mentioned in your blog to the letter i have managed to install the virtualbox server and configure a winxp environment but when I try to compile the redesktop-cvs module I get the following errors any help will be greatly appreciated.

$./bootstrap
./bootstrap: 3: autoreconf: not found

$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

am I missing a package or something ?? I installed the gcc and easyinstall packages etc. but to no use..
Please help i really do not want to go back to windows because my office (ERP) apps can’t be ported to linux.

PLEASE HELP !!!

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:30:04 +0000

Similar environment (a Windows XP guest in Ubuntu Karmic) and similar effects. The “winrun” script does not work out of the box (it always leads to a long rdesktop usage error message): what does work, somewhat erratically (segmentation faults every two trials but after a successful one I sometimes get *two* seamless notepads on the screen), is entering every instruction in a terminal. Might be just some quote mismatch in the patch, because the output of
ls $HOME/.rdesktop
(when not empty) is “socket=” instead of “socket”.

By: impact

impact — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:41:37 +0000

I followed your guide twice, but I am stuck on running winrun:
ERROR: connect: Connection refused

And, if I use

rdesktop-cvs -A -s “c:\seamlessrdp\seamlessrdpshell.exe notepad” localhost:1337

I am getting full screen mode.