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#HOW TO USE VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS#

I also chain VPN on it, thanks to Martin’s earlier article some time ago.

#HOW TO USE VIRTUALBOX WINDOWS#

Its way way ahead of any kind of Windows System Restore, and I use it for all testing. I keep up to 8 snapshots, and periodically delete the oldest ones. Just treating it rather tenderly, and with caution due to relative inexperience I guess! Memory allocation seems to be working well, and I rather leave it just as it is. I’ve Win7 on it, and the whole Virtual Disk Image is only just over 5GB, with loads of stuff on it. I use VirtualBox and I must say that its so stable, where others have reported issues or BSODs, that I feel I would have to have a very good reason to tinker with it.

Explanation: Sets the memory to 2048 MB.

Example: VBoxManage modifyvm "C:\Users\Martin\VirtualBox VMs\windows 7\windows 7.vdi" −−memory 2048.

Command: VBoxManage modifyvm "PathTOVDIImage" −−memory.

Example: VBoxManage modifyvm "C:\Users\Martin\VirtualBox VMs\windows 7\windows 7.vdi" −−cpuexecutioncap 50.

Command: VBoxManage modifyvm "PathTOVDIImage" −−cpuexecutioncap.

Explanation: This moves the virtual machine image to the new location.

Example: VBoxManage modifymedium "C:\Users\Martin\VirtualBox VMs\windows 7\windows 7.vdi" −−move "C:\virtual".

Command: VBoxManage modifymedium "PathTOVDIImage" −−move.

Explanation: This changes the size of the virtual hard drive to 40000 MB.

Example: VBoxManage modifyhd "C:\Users\Martin\VirtualBox VMs\windows 7\windows 7.vdi" −−resize 40000.

Command: VBoxManage modifyhd "PathTOVDIImage" −−resize.

Here is a short list of important commands:

Type cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox to switch to the VirtualBox root directory.

Tap on the Windows-key, type cmd.exe, and hit the Enter-key to start a command prompt window.

Make sure the virtual machine that you want to modify is shut down.

Tip: if you use the command regularly, consider adding it as a system path so that you can run the commands from anywhere. Start by opening a new command prompt window and navigating to the VirtualBox folder.

You find it under C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox by default. VBoxManage.exe is a file in the root directory of the VirtualBox installation on Windows. It is for instance not possible to change the size of the virtual hard drive that's reserved to the command line. You may have noticed already that you cannot change some virtual machine properties using the GUI. USB: Change the USB controller and add device filters.Īnd a lot more.Network > Adapter: add network adapters.Audio: Enable or disable audio, and configure it.Storage: Add or remove storage attachments.Display > Remote Display: enable server mode.Display > Screen: Change video memory, monitor count, and scale factor.System > Processor: Change number of processors.System > Motherboard: Change base memory and boot order.General > Advanced: Shared Clipboard and Drag and Drop.You open the Settings of any virtual machine image in Virtualbox by right-clicking on it and selecting settings from the context menu. You need to increase or decrease video memory.You want to increase or decrease the memory of the virtual machine.You want to enable or disable clipboard sharing or drag and drop.The disk size of the virtual machine image is not large enough or is too large.