On Friday 23 January 2009 at 1:50 pm, fcassia penned about "Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows"
> > Running VirtualBox is user space has a lot of advantages, ie you can run it > without having root access. > > If you change it to work as a service then the user must first make sure he > has administrator privileges to launch a new service. > > Plus, I have seen instances (I admit on old NT4, not recently) where a > service refused to stop, or refused to launch, and the only solution to such > hosed machine was rebooting thesystem. Whereas on a process-based > architecture, you just kill the process and restart it. > Hi, My host O/S is Linux. On my laptop, I use wicd to manage my network card. And its architecture is client/server. The server runs as a daemon. When my host used to be Windows, I've seen all sorts of wonkiness with the O/S, services .. well, software in general! :o Cheers, -- Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc Ph: 819.459.1926 Fax: 760.860.5225 (US) _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
