VirtualBox starts SAME virtual machine multiple times
Posted: 15. Mar 2020, 19:17
Hello everyone.
I have Virtualbox 6.1.4 r136177 (Qt5.11.3) running on Debian Buster + i3wm and I have encountered a strange issue. When starting a virtual machine with VBoxManage it allows me to start the SAME machine multiple times. So for example, if I have a Windows10 machine running and I run the command ' VBoxmanage startvm "Windows10" ' again it will open another instance of the same machine! Basically I have the same WIndows10 booted twice. Is this normal? Wouldn't this corrupt the disk image, have having two or more machines using the same disk? Also if i start a machine using VBoxManage it doesn't show up as running in the GUI so I can start it again from there...
I have Virtualbox 6.1.4 r136177 (Qt5.11.3) running on Debian Buster + i3wm and I have encountered a strange issue. When starting a virtual machine with VBoxManage it allows me to start the SAME machine multiple times. So for example, if I have a Windows10 machine running and I run the command ' VBoxmanage startvm "Windows10" ' again it will open another instance of the same machine! Basically I have the same WIndows10 booted twice. Is this normal? Wouldn't this corrupt the disk image, have having two or more machines using the same disk? Also if i start a machine using VBoxManage it doesn't show up as running in the GUI so I can start it again from there...