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Feature Request: Multiple Disks

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2015-05-19
2015-08-05
  • Matthias Nott

    Matthias Nott - 2015-05-19

    Here's a small feature request that would help with having multiple locations for virtual box containers. I've e.g. two major disk location, let's call them

    /data-extern
    /data-intern

    where both are different mount points that point to different file systems. I currently have to reconfigure virtual box each time I want to modify groupings, since it will move around my machines wildly if I don't. I've container structures such as

    /data-extern/vms/cold/TEMPLATE/TEMPLATE_XP
    /data-extern/vms/warm/...
    /data-extern/vms/hot/...

    and similarly for /data-intern.

    Since I can configure only one file root location, I tried being clever and creating something like

    /vms/extern -> /data-extern/vms
    /vms/intern -> /data-intern/vms

    and to then declare /vms to virtual box. Yet that doesn't help at all: phpVirtualBox does not follow up on those symlink.

    So it would be great being able to manage virtual box containers fully through phpVirtualBox; right now I've to regularly unregister a VM, shift it around, and then re-register it and still hope that it'll get the location right.

    Thanks!

     
  • Ian Moore

    Ian Moore - 2015-08-05

    The underlying problem is that the file explorer in VirtualBox returns symlinks as regular files. IF your web server and virtualbox are on the same physical machine, setting $browserLocal to true in config.php should solve the problem.

     

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