On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > Question: why is it possible to open several instances of the Virtualbox > GUI? What is the purpose?. > > I often end up clickin on the virtualbox icon without realizing I have > acopy already open and end up with 2, 3, five copies of the GUI running.
I am guessing this: This is probably because what we see as VirtualBox is *only* a front-end. Sorry, if I am foolishly wrong. -Amit > > It's useless. It serves no purpose. > > Shouldn't there be a semaphore in there to stop loading of further > instances if there's one already? Or do like Mozilla / Seamonkey... if a > second instance is loaded and finds a copy already runing, it brings the > running copy to the foreground then exits itself. > > FC > FC > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > -- Amit Kumar Saha http://amitksaha.blogspot.com http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ Skype: amitkumarsaha _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
