On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Pablo Sanchez <pa...@blueoakdb.com> wrote:
> On Friday 23 January 2009 at 9:56 am, Brett Serkez penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] Run VirtualBox as a service in Windows" > > > To clarify, in this alternative the idea would be that would run the > > GUI exactly as you do today, the difference being the longevity the > > service provides. That is you would bring up the GUI, manipulate > > the Guests exactly as you do today, the difference being that if you > > close the GUI and/or logout, the Guests continue to run as they are > > children of the Service not the GUI. > > Ah, I see where you're going with it ... for me, it'd depend on how > `heaviness' of the daemon/service. I have two machines that I use: > desktop and laptop. On my desktop, I have VBox running constantly; or > nearly constantly. But I do shut it down. On my laptop, I only run > VBox when I'm traveling thus the resources are never used until I > demand them. > 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. FC
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