Run same machine in two users

[alexben]

Hello all, i have this problem:

I have to run same machine in two users (root and other) in virtualbox (Fedora 9), but i don't want to create a new machine in "other" user.

Therefore i want to create a launcher in "other" user and only create de new machine in root user.

tnks.

[TerryE]

In general it is a bad idea to run VBox as root. For example if you mount a shared folder then you will be accessing this as root and therefore bypassing all file security. If you want a shared account then do as Apache, and all the D/b products do and set up a unprivileged working account to do this. If you need privileges that you can always configure sudoers.

You can use sudoers and aliases, and VBOX_USER_HOME to let your other account manage this accounts VMs.