Ray Wadkins wrote: > Why do you recommend using VirtualBox or VBoxVRDP instead of VBoxManage?
Mainly because "VBoxManage startvm" works through VBoxSVC. It asks VBoxSVC (the COM/XPCOM server) to launch a new process. But as this server runs as a daemon, its childs cannot print anything to the console of the VBoxManage process. So while VBoxSVC executes the very same executables than a user running the frontends manually, there is some information loss. This is very minor for VirtualBox (the Qt GUI frontend), but more important for VBoxVRDP, because that cannot open a window with error messages. These days the error messages also get written to the release log file, but many people never check that. They just complain to us that the guest doesn't start, and that there was no error message. Which is correct, because VBoxManage startvm shows no error message as long VBoxSVC is operational. So chiefly technical reasons. There's no major functionality difference. -- Klaus Espenlaub InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, http://www.innotek.de _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
