Give some kind of warning before rebooting VM when changing settings

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Red Squirrel
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Give some kind of warning before rebooting VM when changing settings

Post by Red Squirrel »

I was testing something that involved nested virtualization, was in middle of an OS install on the hypervisor that was in a VM in Virtualbox. I realized I forgot to set Promiscious mode so I did that. I had no idea that would reboot the whole VM! No warning, no nothing.

It was just a test environment so not a huge deal, but rather annoying as it botched the install I was doing. If the setting can't be changed live then just allow to change it, and show a message indicating it will take effect next reboot, instead of force rebooting the VM.
javispedro
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Re: Give some kind of warning before rebooting VM when changing settings

Post by javispedro »

Normally most settings (including ethernet adapter settings except for "cable connected") are disabled (aka "greyed out") when the VM is running .
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