Opened 11 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#12935 closed defect (wontfix)
VBoxManage createvm and GUI Inconsistent
| Reported by: | rj45 | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | GUI | Version: | VirtualBox 4.3.10 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Guest type: | BSD | Host type: | Mac OS X |
Description
New .vbox XML files created using the GUI have a VRAMSize default of 9M and VBoxManage createvm has a default of 8M.
The GUI also creates the config with PAE enabled="false", VBoxManage sets this to "true" on new vms.
The GUI creates a vm with the AudioAdapter enabled="true", but VBoxManage sets this to "false" on new vms.
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I can confirm this behavior though it works as designed. You have to treat VBoxManage more as a tool for the basic work where the user has to know what he is doing while the GUI is more user friendly and selects certain defaults from the OS type.
The GUI is asking for more OS-related recommendations while VBoxManage uses standard values. The standard value for VRAM is 8MB for all VMs. The OS-related standard value for FreeBSD guests is 4MB. The GUI will adapt 4MB to a bigger value so that the VM can be switched to full screen. Same for audio and some other settings.