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Is there a way to have multiple user accounts on a linux host use the same vm?

Thanks.

Thats called X-Server.

But thats not a VBox thing. Thats a Linux thing. Its better to ask this question in a Linux Forum, better specially for the distribution, how to make this.

I'm actually thinking in terms of a single user at a time on a single computer. If I install Windows in a vm on the computer, it would be nice if a coworker could use the instance I installed when he's using the computer, logged in as his own user, rather than having to install one of his own or having to log in as me.

Oh, i thought about a Linux Guest.

But here too: Its not a Vbox Problem, its a Guest Problem.

For this you need Windows Terminal Services and Remote Desktop.

I think: Forget it.

Copy the VM twice, if you have enough licenses.

stefan.becker wrote: Copy the VM twice, if you have enough licenses.

It's not so much an issue of licenses as hard drive space. Perhaps I should just tell my coworkers to screw off and leave my machine alone. They can install Windows in a vm on their precious macbooks, lazy bastards.

Yah, I kinda like that idea...

Ok, as I see it, you have one computer, with one VM and several users who log on to it. That should not be any prolems. All you have to do, is make all the users who want to run the VM be a member of the VBoxUsers group. Then add the VM to each of these users and you're done. Of course, you need to make sure that the users have read and write permission on the folder where the vdi file is located.