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I would like to provide potential customers a working / turnkey installation of our software and all related components installed as a VirtualBox appliance file (similar to what Oracle is doing for Demonstration Days appliance/s).

However, I would like the appliance be expired after a certain time - end of a certain demonstration period.

I would like to know if currently such capability (expiration of the virtual appliance or the virtual machine) is available in VirtualBox ? And if there is, any help how to implement is greatly appreciated.

Best regards and thank you for your precious time.
Zafer

No, there is no such capability built into VirtualBox, and I'll remind you that you may not have rights to impose additional conditions on the use of open source software. You can of course add a timeout date to your own software.

Thank you. The restriction was never meant to be on the use of VirtualBox (hosting software itself), but applies only to the appliance which will include our software. Anyway, during my search today - I found out that VMWare Workstation version 10 - included such capability - which is also supported by their latest VMWare Player during execution as well. That sounds like to way to go at the moment to achieve what we are planning to do - simply limit the demonstration period of our software and also encrypt the VM as well. Thank you again for your precious time.
r/ Zaf.

I wasn't so much thinking about VirtualBox - thought that too of course - but of the guest OS you're distributing in the VM. By definition it would have to be freely distributable.

that was not part of the question - however thank you for reminding it to others who might visit this tread.
We do know what guest OS we can distribute with the appliance. It is a JeOS, created from a freely available Linux distro.
Thanx again
Cheers
Zaf