More GUI commands

[Reiner]

Hi,

it would be nice to have more gui commands available. For instance the duplication, compacting (, resizing) of a virtual harddisk.

Greets Reiner

[markba]

See also: ​http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/118

[markba]

See also: ​http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=2477

[kookyman]

I agree, this is long overdue. Virtualbox is becoming more and more mainstream in the general computing community, and a lot of the useful commands are 'hidden' behind that cryptic "CLI" that a lot of people are scared of.

Most, if not all, of VBoxManage should be integrated into the GUI Front End or Virtual Media Manager as appropriate.

[Frank Mehnert]

kookyman, your comment is close to an insult.

VBoxManage is a powerful command line interface which allows to take advantage of almost every API function of the VirtualBox API. After adding a new API function, VBoxManage is the first frontend which is extended to make use of that extension. So firstly it is an example on how to use the VirtualBox API. Second this tool allows to setup/modify/control VMs without any GUI at all (e.g. for remote access). Useful API functions will be integrated into the graphical GUI but we will definitely not add everything to the GUI.

[Technologov]

Added myself as CC to this wish.

-Technologov