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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

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

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

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

Ok. Thanks.

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