On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Amit k. Saha <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: >> Question: why is it possible to open several instances of the Virtualbox >> GUI? What is the purpose?. >> >> I often end up clickin on the virtualbox icon without realizing I have >> acopy already open and end up with 2, 3, five copies of the GUI running. > > I am guessing this: This is probably because what we see as VirtualBox > is *only* a front-end. > > Sorry, if I am foolishly wrong.
No that's OK actually. I know it's only a front-end. And your explanation makes sense. But it should detect if there's a front-end already running and switch to that. FC > > -Amit > >> >> It's useless. It serves no purpose. >> >> Shouldn't there be a semaphore in there to stop loading of further >> instances if there's one already? Or do like Mozilla / Seamonkey... if a >> second instance is loaded and finds a copy already runing, it brings the >> running copy to the foreground then exits itself. >> >> FC >> FC >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users >> > > > > -- > Amit Kumar Saha > http://amitksaha.blogspot.com > http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ > Skype: amitkumarsaha > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > -- Dream of the Daily Mail It is the Holy Grail And then the BBC Your life would be complete -Manic Street Preachers, "Royal Correspondent" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
