[vbox-dev] Guest property limit?

[Knut St. Osmundsen]

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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