[VirtualBox] useful command

Show VM list

VBoxManage list vms

```
"windowsXP" {4e7e6120-131c-4b55-80e8-a7c88427c1d0}
"winXP" {63999bea-f6f4-4b8d-bb6b-22cf6bf52ba3}
"gentoo" {95c51fce-6088-47f0-ae24-14d241eb5019}
"winXP2" {746a78d8-b60a-41e6-adb0-f63ea6d1257b}
"windowXP_1" {dd684655-1087-46d8-9fb3-e69b51088702}

```

Start VM

Open VM and put in the background
VBoxManage startvm "VM name || uuid" --type headless
VBoxManage startvm 63999bea-f6f4-4b8d-bb6b-22cf6bf52ba3  --type headless

With GUI
VBoxManage startvm 63999bea-f6f4-4b8d-bb6b-22cf6bf52ba3 --type gui

Shutdown ALL VM
vboxmanage list runningvms | sed -r 's/.*\{(.*)\}/\1/' | xargs -L1 -I {} VBoxManage controlvm {} savestate

Shutdown VM

Show help message
VBoxManage controlvm ?
VBoxManage controlvm 63999bea-f6f4-4b8d-bb6b-22cf6bf52ba3 poweroff

VM change network interface

    VBoxManage controlvm <vmname || uuid>  <vm virtual network interface> bridged <physical network interface>
    VBoxManage controlvm winXP  nic1 bridged eth1

VM take snapshot & restore snapshot

    Take a snapshot
    VBoxManage <Name_of_VM> take <Name_of_Snapshot>
    Restore a snapshot
    VBoxManage <Name_of_VM> restore <Name_of_Snapshot>
    List a snapshot

    VBoxManage <Name_of_VM> list

Reference :

• How to start a Virtualbox machine via command line (without GUI)?
• Shutting down all VirtualBox (vagrant) VMs in one easy to use bash command (that can be put into a bash file)