Opened 11 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#11903 new enhancement
Add VboxControl guestproperty with vm's name.
| Reported by: | Fat-Zer | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | guest control | Version: | VirtualBox 4.2.14 |
| Keywords: | feature-request VboxControl guestproperty | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | all |
Description
Please add a property to access virtual machine's name via VboxControl it will be very nice for e.g. automatically set hostname of cloned machines.
Attachments (2)
Change History (8)
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | virtualbox-add_vbox_name_to_propetties.patch added |
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comment:1 by , 11 years ago
The patch is quite naive but it works it would be nice if some other virtual machine parametrs would be enable from the guest. But this should be done my somebody who is more experienced then I am.
comment:2 by , 8 years ago
Is there any reason this patch can't be applied to 4.x or 5.x release? I too would find this to be a very useful feature.
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Can someone please mainline this patch. It would be of considerable utility; being able to create a VM template that can autoconfig itself vis-a-vis hostname would be extremely useful and create a very lightweight alternative to having a DHCP/DNS/Kerberos/PXE-boot framework for spinning up simple labs.
comment:4 by , 8 years ago
While this would be technically quite easy to do, we (still) did not make up our minds whether we want to include (and enable by default) this functionality. So we need to re-evaluate this internally first.
comment:5 by , 3 years ago
pentagonik, any chance this has been re-evaluated?
Fat-Zer, happen to port this to 6.x?
by , 3 years ago
| Attachment: | patch-src_VBox_Main_src-client_ConsoleImpl.cpp added |
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6.x version to add /VirtualBox/VirtualMachine/Name with VM's name viewed via guest VBoxControl
a sample patch