VirtualBox

Opened 4 years ago

Closed 4 years ago

#19371 closed defect (fixed)

Wrong usage statment of "VBoxManage clonevm" => fixed in SVN/next 6.1.x

Reported by: Jin Yang Owned by:
Component: other Version: VirtualBox 6.1.4
Keywords: clonevm Cc:
Guest type: other Host type: Linux

Description

"--group" should be "--groups" in the usage of "VBoxManage clonevm".

root@sea:~# VBoxManage clonevm test --group "/UBUNTU 18.04 LTS" --name testb --register Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 6.1.4 (C) 2005-2020 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved.

VBoxManage: error: Unknown option: --group Usage - Create a clone of an existing Oracle VM VirtualBox virtual machine:

VBoxManage clonevm <vmname|uuid> [--basefolder=basefolder] [--group=group,...] [--mode=machine | --mode=machinechildren | --mode=all] [--name=name] [--options=option,...] [--register] [--snapshot=snapshot-name] [--uuid=uuid]

root@sea:~# VBoxManage clonevm test --groups "/UBUNTU 18.04 LTS" --name testb --register 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% Machine has been successfully cloned as "testb" root@sea:~# VBoxManage clonevm test --group="/UBUNTU 18.04 LTS" --name testc --register Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 6.1.4 (C) 2005-2020 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved.

VBoxManage: error: Unknown option: --group=/UBUNTU 18.04 LTS Usage - Create a clone of an existing Oracle VM VirtualBox virtual machine:

VBoxManage clonevm <vmname|uuid> [--basefolder=basefolder] [--group=group,...] [--mode=machine | --mode=machinechildren | --mode=all] [--name=name] [--options=option,...] [--register] [--snapshot=snapshot-name] [--uuid=uuid]

root@sea:~# VBoxManage clonevm test --groups="/UBUNTU 18.04 LTS" --name testc --register 0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% Machine has been successfully cloned as "testc" root@sea:~# root@sea:~# uname -a

Linux sea 4.15.0-88-generic #88-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 11 20:11:34 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The statement has the same issue in "User Manual" as follows:

8.40 VBoxManage clonevm Create a clone of an existing Oracle VM VirtualBox virtual machine Synopsis VBoxManage clonevm <vmname|uuid> [--basefolder=basefolder] [--group=group,...] [--mode=machine | --mode=machinechildren | --mode=all] [--name=name] [--options=option,...] [--register] [--snapshot=snapshot-name] [--uuid=uuid]

Change History (2)

comment:1 by aeichner, 4 years ago

Summary: Wrong usage statment of "VBoxManage clonevm"Wrong usage statment of "VBoxManage clonevm" => fixed in SVN/next 6.1.x

Thanks, for the report. Will be fixed in the next maintenance release.

comment:2 by aeichner, 4 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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