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What is Vboxmanage?

Kobe Glover

What is Vboxmanage?

As briefly mentioned in Section 1.17, “Alternative Front-Ends”, VBoxManage is the command-line interface to Oracle VM VirtualBox. With it, you can completely control Oracle VM VirtualBox from the command line of your host operating system.

Where do I enter Vboxmanage commands?

How to open and run Vboxmanage? Vboxmanage is available inside C:Program Files>Oracle>VirtualBox on Windows 10/8/7, thus you can either navigate to the directory using command prompt or Powershell or add it as a system PATH variable. On Linux, simply type vboxmanage in the command terminal.

How do I access VirtualBox from command line?

Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe, and hit the Enter-key to start a command prompt window. Type cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox to switch to the VirtualBox root directory.

How do I list virtual machines in VirtualBox?

An Introduction to the VirtualBox CLI

  1. To list all the registered VMs, simply run vboxmanage list vms .
  2. To list all the running VMs, use vboxmanage list runningvms .
  3. To start a VM, run vboxmanage startvm .
  4. Once a VM is running, you’ll switch to vboxmanage controlvm for most other operations.

How do I compact a VDI file?

kuznero/vdi-file-compacting.md

  1. Run defrag in the guest (Windows only)
  2. Nullify free space: With a Linux Guest run this: sudo dd if=/dev/zero | pv | sudo dd of=/bigemptyfile bs=4096k sudo rm -rf /bigemptyfile.
  3. Shutdown the guest VM.
  4. Now run VBoxManage’s modifyhd command with the –compact option:

Does vagrant require VirtualBox?

Vagrant comes with support out of the box for VirtualBox, a free, cross-platform consumer virtualization product. The VirtualBox provider is compatible with VirtualBox versions 4.0. x, 4.1. x, 4.2.

Where is VBoxManage located?

Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox
The file is located in Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox/VBoxManage.exe and is used as a command-line interface with VirtualBox.

How do I run a VM from the command line?

To power on a virtual machine from the command line:

  1. List the inventory ID of the virtual machine with the command: vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms |grep
  2. Check the power state of the virtual machine with the command: vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate
  3. Power-on the virtual machine with the command:

How would you get a list of all virtual machines?

Lists all of the virtual machines in the specified subscription. Use the nextLink property in the response to get the next page of virtual machines.

What does the vboxmanage movevm command do?

VBoxManage movevm. This command moves a virtual machine to a new location on the host. Associated files of the virtual machine, such as settings files and disk image files, are moved to the new location. The Oracle VM VirtualBox configuration is updated automatically.

How to modify the recording settings in vboxmanage?

The VBoxManage modifyvm command enables you to modify recording settings for video recording, audio recording, or both. Use the following options to update the recording settings: –recording on|off enables or disables the recording of a VM session into a WebM/VP8 file.

How to generate UUID of virtual disk in vboxmanage?

The path for the virtual disk contains a space, so it must be enclosed in double quotes to avoid it is parsed as two parameters. run VBoxManage internalcommands sethduuid “VDI/VMDK file” twice (the first time is just to conveniently generate an UUID, you could use any other UUID generation method instead)

How to set number of virtual CPUs in vboxmanage?

–cpus : Sets the number of virtual CPUs for the virtual machine, see Section 3.5.2, “Processor Tab”. If CPU hot-plugging is enabled, this then sets the maximum number of virtual CPUs that can be plugged into the virtual machines.