Thanks for the info. I see the max # of guest properties are 256, which explains the error messages I was getting. Since Windows 7 guest could easily have 256 shortcuts under its Start menu. Will try to increase the limit, and see if perf is still acceptable.
--- On Tue, 8/17/10, Knut St. Osmundsen <[email protected]> wrote: From: Knut St. Osmundsen <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Guest property limit? To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 4:25 AM Huihong Luo wrote: > It seems there is a limit for the amount of guest properties can be > stored inside the xml file. Is this true? if so, what is the limit? > > We store the shortcuts inside the vm as guest properties, and sometimes > gettting errors saying over limit. > You can find the limits here: http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/include/VBox/HostServices/GuestPropertySvc.h#L45 They are relatively restrictive at the moment to prevent creating a DoS vector and also because the code/data isn't fully optimized yet (linear searches, etc). -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Vennlig hilsen, bird -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Knut St. Osmundsen Werkstrasse 24 Senior Staff Engineer, VirtualBox 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 Muenchen Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRA 95603 Komplementaerin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschaeftsfuehrer: J. Kunz, M. van de Molen, A. van der Ven _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
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