On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:02 AM, fcassia <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Definitely. When we start multiple VMs using "VBoxManage", it is probably necessary to have as many VirtualBox instances. But, in the former case, not much sense. -Amit > > 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 > -- 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
