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Runing VirtualBox GUI together with VBoxVmService

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Only Fang edited this page Dec 8, 2018 · 2 revisions

Runing VirtualBox GUI together with VBoxVmService

It's possible to run VirtualBox GUI and VBoxVmService at the same time. Both the GUI and VBoxVmService will create an interface to VirtualBox DCOM server, resulting two running VBoxSVC.exe processes. Those two VBoxSVC.exe processes don't see each other which do bring two side effects:

  • The status of the VMs started by VBoxVmService can not be shared with VirtualBox GUI.
  • If you change VM settings on GUI, and the VM is running in VBoxVmService, the change might get discarded.
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