VirtualBox

Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #2962


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Jan 5, 2009 7:54:48 AM (15 years ago)
Author:
Frank Mehnert
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  • Ticket #2962 – Description

    initial v1  
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    33Create a new guest.
     4{{{
    45$ VBoxManage createvm -name WinXP -register
     6}}}
    57
    68Verify that the guest is created and is fine.
     9{{{
    710$ VBoxManage showvminfo WinXP
     11}}}
    812
    913Set the first nic to use bridged networking.  Notice we don't specify the hostifdev.
     14{{{
    1015$ VBoxManage modifyvm WinXP -nic1 hostif
     16}}}
    1117
    1218The showvminfo command now shows ambiguous errors.
     19{{{
    1320$ VBoxManage showvminfo WinXP
     21}}}
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    1523It took me a while to figure out what was going on.  I also had a problem with corruption when I copied and pasted some commands for creating a headless setup from the Internet.  It turns out that if you specify the guest name using "" quotation marks works, but if you have “” style quotation marks the showvminfo also chokes.

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