This is part of a saga about managing RouterOS updates, which is a sad story - anyway attempt no 4 is to set up the Dude for that purpose and others.
I downloaded chr-6.40.8.vdi and set up a guest in Virtualbox using the command line - this is in a headless, Linux server host OS. The guest starts fine, but I can't reach it...
It appears it doesn't have any IP address by default and must be accessed by console. That is a bit crazy (192.168.88.1 might be helpful guys) but whatever. And, since the Virtualbox host is headless, I don't have a GUI console available.
My problem is that although VRDE is listening on the specified port 8001 as shown by lsof (on *:8001), it won't allow an RDP connection. I have:
Video mode: 720x400x0 at 0,0 enabled
VRDE: enabled (Address 0.0.0.0, Ports 8001, MultiConn: on, ReuseSingleConn: off, Authentication type: external)
VRDE port: 8001
Video redirection: disabled
VRDE property: TCP/Ports = "8001"
VRDE property: TCP/Address = <not set>
VRDE property: VideoChannel/Enabled = <not set>
VRDE property: VideoChannel/Quality = <not set>
VRDE property: VideoChannel/DownscaleProtection = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableDisplay = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableInput = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableAudio = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableUSB = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableClipboard = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableUpstreamAudio = <not set>
VRDE property: Client/DisableRDPDR = <not set>
VRDE property: H3DRedirect/Enabled = <not set>
VRDE property: Security/Method = <not set>
VRDE property: Security/ServerCertificate = <not set>
VRDE property: Security/ServerPrivateKey = <not set>
VRDE property: Security/CACertificate = <not set>
VRDE property: Audio/RateCorrectionMode = <not set>
VRDE property: Audio/LogPath = <not set>
tcpdump shows my Windows workstation RDP client exchanging 20-odd TCP packets with the Dude server, but RDP then reports "the client can't connect". Similar result using rdesktop on Linux to localhost:8001.
Can anyone help identify what's going wrong here? Thanks in advance!