[vbox-dev] Guest property limit?

[Huihong Luo]

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 <knut.osmundsen at oracle.com> wrote:


From: Knut St. Osmundsen <knut.osmundsen at oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Guest property limit?
To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
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).

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