Disabling log files or changing their location

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Disabling log files or changing their location

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I'm mildly annoyed by

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VBoxSVC.log
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selectorwindow.log
log files (they are many of them) under ~/.VirtualBox in Linux.

It would be great if VirtualBox allowed to disable logging or change the location of the said log files.
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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Do you have more than 11 copies of each?
birdie wrote:It would be great if VirtualBox allowed to disable logging or change the location of the said log files.
Well, it does. Start reading with The VirtualBox/IPRT logging facility.
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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On my WIndows 10 host these files, 11 each, take up 160kB total. Since Virtualbox keeps logs of what it does to the guests and main settings, these logs can help find issues that happen, especially VboxSVC.log et al.

I don't know of a way to turn them off. But they don't seem to be a performance impact.
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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fth0 wrote:Do you have more than 11 copies of each?
birdie wrote:It would be great if VirtualBox allowed to disable logging or change the location of the said log files.
Well, it does. Start reading with The VirtualBox/IPRT logging facility.

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VBOX_RELEASE_LOG_DEST="dir=/tmp" VirtualBox
has moved VM logs to /tmp but these two files remain in ~/.VirtualBox.
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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birdie wrote:I'm mildly annoyed by
What annoys you about them?

Often a home-rolled script can do stuff that a program doesn't do like you want. Like a boot script that moves or deletes all files fitting a certain pattern in a certain folder.
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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scottgus1 wrote:
birdie wrote:I'm mildly annoyed by
What annoys you about them?

Often a home-rolled script can do stuff that a program doesn't do like you want. Like a boot script that moves or deletes all files fitting a certain pattern in a certain folder.
Application logs by their nature don't belong to the user home directory, as we have the temporary directory for a reason. I do understand the need to have logs for a VM though.

Anyways, I'm being nit-picky perhaps.
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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birdie wrote:I'm mildly annoyed by

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VBoxSVC.log
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selectorwindow.log
log files (they are many of them) under ~/.VirtualBox in Linux.

It would be great if VirtualBox allowed to disable logging or change the location of the said log files.
@administrator @klaus @bird

Don't use this trash software, it is most likely a spyware for the NSA, move to the free app vmware player. read this viewtopic.php?f=9&t=95139 (the thread is already archived)

They log your username, your ip address and you dns, and there is no way to disable that, I am going to start threads in other forums to warn users about this trash spyware

Not only you can disable/change location for logging in vmware player, but it is much faster and you wouldn't even notice it is a virtual machine,

what a trash company oracle is, They treated me with disrespect and accused me being a hacker because they think they are providing a free app, thankfully there are other free apps.

I wounder if oracle thinks that they are the only one provide free app would the trash moderators rape me?

What a trash company
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Re: Disabling log files or changing their location

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:(

I'm very sorry you had a bad experience in your other thread on this subject.

BTW my comment on hacking in the other topic was a joke, sorry it didn't go over well. I don't think you were personally hacking anything.

Any idea may be presented on the Bugtracker as an enhancement request. Just keep in mind that a lot of Oracle's paying customers will need to want this too before the devs add it. Or a code contribution from a user may be considered too.

In the interest of free speech I'm not going to lock this. But we would ask that you also keep your thought here on the now-unlocked topic instead of duplicating your concern to other topics.

And we hope that your interactions in the forum might go better in the future!
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