help text for vboxheadless wrong or misleading

[Al]

When you run VBoxHeadless with no arguments or otherwise make it dump its help it says:

-v -vvrdp, --brdp on|off|config

This is misleading since it should be --vrdp=on|off|config

Note that --startvm doesn't take an = and is correctly noted in the help.

[Al]

Obviously I mistyped the help line but you know what I mean:

-v -vrdp --vrdp on|off|config

[Frank Mehnert]

There is a comma between -v, -vrdp and --vrdp. All of the following forms work:

VBoxHeadless -v off VM_NAME
VBoxHeadless -vrdp off VM_NAME
VBoxHeadless --vrdp off VM_NAME
VBoxHeadless -v=off VM_NAME
VBoxHeadless -vrdp=off VM_NAME
VBoxHeadless --vrdp=off VM_NAME

I agree that the help line

''-v, -vrdp, --vrdp on|off|config''

is not 100% correct but

-v|-vrdp|--vrdp on|off|config''

would look even more confusing.

[Al]

Yesterday I could not get it to work but I think it was because of the --starvm parameter.

In fact: VBoxHeadless -vrdp off BBB does not work

Nor does: VBoxHeadless -startvm -vrdp off BBB

But this does: VBoxHeadless -startvm BBB -vrdp off

Sorry. My mistake.

[Frank Mehnert]

Right, in my example the --startvm parameter was missing. I hope that we can agree that the current help text is probably not 100% correct but don't need to be changed.

[Al]

Yes, absolutely. It was my mistake with the startvm parameter that made me think the "=" was required. Sorry about that.