Help with virtual/host situation, please

[Mollee]

I have successfully installed VirtualBox and an XP guest OS on a Vista machine. My MagicJacks work on both the guest and host, but the guest machine has to be started manually after log in. My problem is that my host machine loads the two MagicJacks in a different order everytime it starts up. I haven't been able to start MJ as a service on my host Vista. I went through the steps, and it just isn't working.

So, my process is:

Star Vista and login
MJ starts on host
Start VBox XP
Connect other MJ to VBox

Any suggestions as to how to make this easier would be greatly appreciated. I need the machine to do all of this itself. If the power goes out, I need it to startup and get everything going when it has power again. I also want to be able to specify which MJ goes to which machine at startup.

[huntergreenAR15]

Well I may very wel be wrong, but a USB device isn't going to know the difference. Basically is is just a VM running in Vista, so the only way I could imagine it would work would be to follow the "running MJ dongle-less" guides on the vista computer for 1 MJ and then using the same guide on the VM of XP. Basically an ATA would do you wonders if you can get it setup with 2 MJ on 1 router.

[Mollee]

Thanks!! I'm going to try running 2 virtuals. If my machine can handle the load, it just might work. The plan is to assign a MJ to each virtual. I've litterally tried every tip, trick and hack in this forum. Vista is not my friend; I should have installed XP as my host. Here I go.....

[Atari Man]

Thanks!! I'm going to try running 2 virtuals. If my machine can handle the load, it just might work. The plan is to assign a MJ to each virtual. I've litterally tried every tip, trick and hack in this forum. Vista is not my friend; I should have installed XP as my host. Here I go.....

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Whats the maximum amount of virtual machines one can install on one computer? Anybody know?

[Atari Man]

also when you do the guests on the virtual machine can you use one ethernet connection for multiple internet connections of each virtual machine?

[FunkyBoss]

Whats the maximum amount of virtual machines one can install on one computer? Anybody know?

I don't know about VirtualBox, but with VMWare, your pretty much just limited by the amount of RAM. The more memory, the more machines.

[FunkyBoss]

also when you do the guests on the virtual machine can you use one ethernet connection for multiple internet connections of each virtual machine?

Yes, all guest machines that are running on a 'host' machine will share the host's ethernet connection.