On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 02:01:54PM -0800, Kenneth Wolcott wrote: > I'd like to give them a choice to rename the name of the VirtualBox > Guest OS from a script that is running VBoxManage to configure > VirtualBox so that they don't need to make the configuration changes > from the VirtualBox GUI.
You can't do this using vboxmanage as far as I know. You might be able to import, do vboxmanage unregistervm, rename files/xml elements in the .pref files, and the disk images, and do vboxmanage registervm, but I haven't tried this. > > I've read the VIrtualBox Users Guide several times now and I've > missed how I could use VBoxManage to change the name of an imported > appliance. > > More generally, I'm not even certain how to import the *ova image > via VBoxManage, and I need to be able to do that (obviously). vboxmanage import --help will give you the syntax. > > One more (slightly related) question is how to make certain that the > "NAT Network" and "Host-only" VirtualBox network types are enabled > prior to starting the VirtualBox guest OS that I've imported, as I'm > making use of those two network types and I'd rather not explain how > to make certain that these network types have already been enabled (or > not) via the VirtualBox GUI. vboxmanage modifyvm vmname --nic<n> nat vboxmanage modifyvm vmname --nic<n> hostonly where vmname is the name of the guest, and <n> is the network interface number Greg -- web site: http://www.gregn.net gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-mana...@eu.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
