Using vboxmanage to instantiate multiple guests...

[jtcowboy]

Howdy,

I was wonderin if this was even possible with VirtualBox:

I have a guest vm (Ubuntu) on my Mac Host. I want to be able to "startup" an instantiation of that Ubuntu guest using vboxmanage and then fire up 2 or 3 more...or 10 more instances of that one Ubuntu guest. I want to designate the mac addresses for each adapter on each instance.

Possible on VritualBox?

Thanks,

Cowboy

[vbox4me2]

As long as there is ram you can run many vm's.

[jtcowboy]

Howdy,

Thanks. But what I am asking is - Can I use a vm as a template and use vboxmanage to "fire up" multiple instances in ram of that SAME vm?

So lets say that my list of vms is:
servervm
desktopvm


Now can I "fire up"/"start up"/"instantiate", using vboxmanage, 7 running "servervm" and 3 running "desktopvm"? As of right now, it appears that I can only start up one of each.

Thanks,

Cowboy

[vbox4me2]

No you'd have to clone them to do what you want.

[jtcowboy]

Ok. Thanks.

[mlr]

Hi,

Funny I just posted a feature request related to this. In it I explained what I did to clone a VM at any snapshot state, you may be interested.
First I open a session on ISnapshot.Machine object and remove all HD from mutable VM (Session.Machine).
I then create the appliance on a temporary file.
I import this file as many time as I want clones of the VM.
Finally I reattached the removed HD on each clone.

Hope it will help.
Marc