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Hi everyone,

I am looking to run the same VM on different users (Windows host), not at the same time of course.

I already have the VM setup on the first user, and the .vdi is located in a folder which can be accessed by both users.

The way I am thinking is to login as the second user, open Virtualbox, create a new VM, but use the same disk image (.vdi) instead of creating a new disk image.

So would this work to run the same VM on the second user? Or is there a better way? I already tried to run Virtualbox as a different user, then startup the VM, but Virtualbox didn't like that and threw me errors.

Thanks!

It is not recommended, but, you could build the same "recipe" around the VDI. Just make sure that both users have read/write permissions for the VDI location.

Ok thanks I will try it. However why is it not recommended?

Because it was designed as a single-user application. It still is supposed to be a single-user application.