I retract my previous statement about VirtualBox’s RDP server. Although VRDP was impressive over the LAN, my upstream bandwidth leaves something to be desired. It was great fun trying to remotely change Gnome’s screen resolution – the 15-second revert timer would count down before the screen could redraw, and the resolution would change back.

A few times back and forth of that and suddenly my page went offline. Remote desktop would connect and authenticate but served up a meditative quantity of inky darkness.

Turns out I crashed the virtual machine. Seems VRDP is rather finicky.