Hello Lonnie,
On 2021-07-02 15:00, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
Hello,
I am working on a project that needs a good VMM but the catch is that
I just need the VMM to run a single VM.
Virtualbox has done some great development and made huge advancements
over the years and I am wondering if it might be a viable approach to
consider trying to re-compile it to only run 1 VM instance.
There is no pre-canned build option to limit VirtualBox to a single VM.
It could be done with a non-negligible amount of work.
How much you can eliminate depends on what you want to achieve. All
currently available ways to run a VM assume that the API is present
which is a pretty big chunk. In the old days (until VirtualBox 4.2.x)
there used to be a VM frontend called VBoxBFE which offered a subset of
the functionality of the VirtualBox functionality without using the API.
Purely available as source code, mostly intended for the first few
experiments when porting VirtualBox to a new platform. It was never part
of the release packages.
It's doable, but for the VirtualBox product this wasn't considered an
important use case.
Klaus
Any thoughts?
Best Regards,
Lonnie
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