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vboxmanage: A simple personal cheatsheet

Note: This document is not completed.
This is my personal virtualbox command line interface vboxmanage cheatsheet.

Tip: the VBoxManage command also works.

Setup VM:

vboxmanage list ostypes  
vboxmanage list vms  
vboxmanage list runningvms  
vboxmanage startvm "$NAME"  --type headless
vboxmanage controlvm "$NAME" poweroff
vboxmanage unregister "$NAME" --delete
vboxmanage unregister "$NAME"
vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --name
vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --memory 2048 --cpus 2 --vram 64  --vrde on \
  --vrdemulticon on --vrdeport 5555
vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --nicpromisc1 allow-all
vboxmanage createhd --filename "$PATH_TO_DISK.vdi" --size 4000 
vboxmanage storagectl "$NAME" --name "IDE" --add ide
vboxmanage storagectl "$NAME" --name "SATA" --add sata
vboxmanage storageattach "$NAME" --storagectl "SATA" --port 0 --type hdd \
 --medium "$PATH_TO_DISK.vdi"
vboxmanage storageattach "$NAME" --storagectl "IDE" --port 0 --device 0 \
 --type dvddrive --medium "$PATH_TO_OS_SETUP_DISK.iso"
vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --nic1 nat --natpf1 "ssh,tcp,,2222,,22"
vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --nic2 bridged --bridgeadapter1 enp2s0

After install os:

vboxmanage storageattach "$NAME" --storagectl "IDE" --port 0 --device 0 \
  --type dvddrive --medium none
# vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --natpf1 delete "ssh"
vboxmanage modifyvm "$NAME" --boot1 disk --boot2 dvd --boot3 none --boot4 none

Running VM modifly

vboxmanage controlvm "$NAME" setlinkstate1 off
vboxmanage controlvm "$NAME" setlinkstate1 on 
vboxmanage controlvm "$NAME" nicpromisc2 allow-all
vboxmanage controlvm "$NAME" nic2 hostonly

Snapshots

vboxmanage snapshot "$NAME" take "$SNAPSHOT_NAME" --description "$DESCRIPTION"
vboxmanage snapshot "$NAME" delete ""$SNAPSHOT_NAME""
vboxmanage snapshot "$NAME" list
vboxmanage snapshot "$NAME" restore "$SNAPSHOT_NAME"

Backups

vboxmanage export "$NAME" --output "$PATH_TO_EXPORT.ova>"
vboxmanage import "$NAME" "$PATH_TO_IMPORT_FILE.ova>"

Scripts:

The scripts are available at vboxmanage-scripts directory.

More info:

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