connect to a headless virtualbox instance in Linux?

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Published on 2012-06-28T14:59:14Z Indexed on 2012/06/28 15:18 UTC
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I've started a headless virtualbox instance with this command:

VBoxManage startvm "Ensembl67VirtualMachine" --type headless
Waiting for VM "Ensembl67VirtualMachine" to power on...
VM "Ensembl67VirtualMachine" has been successfully started.

It is set up with Remote Desktop Server Port:5555 with Authentication Method: Null and Extended Features: Allow Multiple Connections and it's now running, but I don't know how to connect to it from the same laptop where it's running. I would like to be able to have it running on a terminal. I tried this but nothing happens:

rdesktop localhost:5555
ERROR: localhost: unable to connect
rdesktop 192.168.1.1:5555

Any ideas?

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