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<refentry id="vboxmanage-storagectl" lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <pubdate>$Date: 2023-04-21 21:59:02 +0000 (Fri, 21 Apr 2023) $</pubdate>
    <title>VBoxManage storagectl</title>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-storagectl</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VBoxManage-storagectl</refname>
    <refpurpose>manage a storage controller</refpurpose>
    <refclass>&product-name;</refclass>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-storagectl">
      <command>VBoxManage storagectl</command>
      <group choice="req">
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>vmname</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
      <arg choice="req">--name=<replaceable>controller-name</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--add=<group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain">floppy</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">ide</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">pcie</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">sas</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">sata</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">scsi</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">usb</arg>
        </group></arg>
      <arg>--controller=<group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain">BusLogic</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">I82078</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">ICH6</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">IntelAhci</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">LSILogic</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">LSILogicSAS</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">NVMe</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">PIIX3</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">PIIX4</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">USB</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">VirtIO</arg>
        </group></arg>
      <arg>--bootable=<group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain">on</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">off</arg>
        </group></arg>
      <arg>--hostiocache=<group choice="plain">
          <arg choice="plain">on</arg>
          <arg choice="plain">off</arg>
        </group></arg>
      <arg>--portcount=<replaceable>count</replaceable></arg>
      <arg>--remove</arg>
      <arg>--rename=<replaceable>new-controller-name</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-storagectl-description">
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      The <command>VBoxManage storagectl</command> command enables you
      to attach, modify, and remove a storage controller. After you
      configure the storage controller, you can use the
      <command>VBoxManage storageattach</command> command to attach
      virtual media to the controller.
    </para>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option><replaceable>uuid</replaceable> | <replaceable>vmname</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) or name
            of the virtual machine (VM).
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--name=<replaceable>controller-name</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the name of the storage controller.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--add=<replaceable>system-bus-type</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the type of the system bus to which to connect the
            storage controller. Valid values are
            <literal>floppy</literal>, <literal>ide</literal>,
            <literal>pcie</literal>, <literal>sas</literal>,
            <literal>sata</literal>, <literal>scsi</literal>, and
            <literal>usb</literal>.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--controller=<replaceable>chipset-type</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the chipset type to emulate for the specified
            storage controller. Valid values are
            <literal>BusLogic</literal>, <literal>I82078</literal>,
            <literal>ICH6</literal>, <literal>IntelAHCI</literal>,
            <literal>LSILogic</literal>, <literal>LSILogicSAS</literal>,
            <literal>NVMe</literal>, <literal>PIIX3</literal>,
            <literal>PIIX4</literal>, and <literal>USB</literal>.
          </para><para>
            The default value varies, according to the type of storage
            controller.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--portcount=<replaceable>count</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the number of ports that the storage controller
            supports. Valid values depend on the type of storage
            controller.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--hostiocache=on|off</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies whether to use the host I/O cache for all disk
            images attached to this storage controller. Valid values are
            <literal>on</literal> and <literal>off</literal>. See
            <xref linkend="iocaching" />.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--bootable=on|off</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies whether this controller is bootable. Valid values
            are <literal>on</literal> and <literal>off</literal>.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--rename=<replaceable>new-controller-name</replaceable></option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies a new name for the storage controller.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><option>--remove</option></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Removes a storage controller from the VM configuration.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-storagectl-examples">
    <title>Examples</title>
    <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL" />
    <para>
      The following command creates a SATA storage controller called
      <literal>sata01</literal> and adds it to the
      <literal>ol7</literal> VM. The storage controller emulates the
      IntelAHCI chipset.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage storagectl ol7 --name "sata01" --add sata --controller IntelAHCI</screen>
    <para>
      The following command creates an IDE storage controller called
      <literal>ide01</literal> and adds it to the <literal>ol7</literal>
      VM.
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage storagectl ol7 --name "ide01" --add ide</screen>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1 id="vboxmanage-storagectl-see-also">
    <title>See Also</title>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="vboxmanage-storageattach" />
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>