[vbox-dev] [PROPOSAL] Userdata Interface

Alex Crawford alex.crawford at coreos.com
Fri Sep 16 18:17:20 GMT 2016


On 09/16, Klaus Espenlaub wrote:
> apologies for spreading incorrect information below. The guest 
> properties have much lower size restrictions than I thought.
> 
> The limit for the guest property key length is 128 bytes (including the 
> string termination), and for the guest property value it's 256 bytes.

Hmm, that is a bit restrictive. The first thing that comes to mind is to
break the config into 256-byte pages and just piece them back together
within the guest. I'll have to figure something out. Thanks for the
heads-up though!

-Alex
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