this is the scenario In order to use a raw disk as vmdk, need to start vbox as admin. Is this true? from my experience, this seems to be the case. For other regular vms, can do it from UAC account. Is it possible to open virtualbox.xml using lower privilege? so two vboxsvc.exe processes can modify it.
--- On Wed, 8/12/09, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: From: Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Vista UAC problems To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 12:13 AM Hi, On Monday 03 August 2009, Huihong Luo wrote: > On Vista or Windows 7, when UAC is on > > (1) Launch one VirtualBox as Administrator, and start a vm. > (2) Launch another VirtualBox as normal (UAC), and try to create a vm. > > Sometimes, it will throw permission denied errors in modifying > virtualbox.xml file. > The problem is that two VBoxSVC.exe processes running with different > privilege competing for the same file, and thus causes the error. > Any solution for this? I'm not sure if this is a bug or feature. As you said, two VBoxSVC daemons are running with different privileges. Why do you need to start a VM as administrator at all? We don't recommend that for security reasons. A possible solution would be to use different XML settings by specifying the VBOX_USER_HOME variable before starting a VBox instance, see section 9.1 of the user manual. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
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