Restricting concurrent running VMs
Restricting concurrent running VMs
Bit of an odd question perhaps, but is it possible to restrict the number of concurrent running VM's? I'd like to find a way to only allow one VM to be un at any one time, but to allow there to be several sat on the machine inactive.
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mpack
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Re: Restricting concurrent running VMs
Giving each VM about half the available host RAM should do it.
Re: Restricting concurrent running VMs
I had contemplated that, but pretty easy for the end user to change that.mpack wrote:Giving each VM about half the available host RAM should do it.
Is the UI required, i.e. if I deleted "VirtualBox.exe" off the machine and wrote a small app to launch given VM's in headless mode, I could prevent more than one being "easily" run at the same time.
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Re: Restricting concurrent running VMs
No, the GUI manager is not needed to run VMs. See the "VBoxManage" chapter in the user manual. Also check out the "create shortcut" feature (right click on a listed VM to see this), which also reveals another way to run VMs without opening the manager.
Re: Restricting concurrent running VMs
App written that uses VBoxManage, that was easy enough. Many thanks.mpack wrote:No, the GUI manager is not needed to run VMs. See the "VBoxManage" chapter in the user manual. Also check out the "create shortcut" feature (right click on a listed VM to see this), which also reveals another way to run VMs without opening the manager.