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Installing VirtualBox has broken my remote desktop - how can I resolve this?

Installing VirtualBox has broken my remote desktop - how can I resolve this?

Recently I installed VirtualBox (and the networking support that comes with it). Everything worked great, it's a lot nicer than the old VM I was using.

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Guest [Entry]

Do any of your VMs have remote display enabled? This binds by default to the standard Windows remote desktop port (3389). If a VM is using this port, Windows won't be able to use it for remote desktop. See the manual for more discussion on how to change the port.
Guest [Entry]

"I also installed VirtualBox remotely and it broke my Remote Desktop connection.

My experience is this: The Windows firewall seems to have been resetted.

One solution I can give you is this: Connect your keyboard, mouse, and your display to a remote machine and re-setup the firewall again. In my case, my HDTV does not have a VGA input and I don't have a VGA monitor, so I have to put in my video card with DVI-to-HDMI adapter to control my server directly.

It's a pain, but it seems to be the only way UNLESS there's a way to remotely configure the firewall (but a firewall is a firewall and I doubt this will happen).

PS: While in the subject of firewall and in a different subject from Remote Desktop and VirtualBox, from my computer in an internal network, I tried to access my website in my server and port 80 has been blocked. This is after I install VirtualBox with networking support."