guest control give bogus error message over username

[ToddAndMargo]

Host: CentOS 5.5, VB 3.2.10 Guest: Windows Server 2003 R2, SP2

Hi Guys,

Would you guys please improve your guestcontrol error messages?

This from a larger script to control VM before backup:

su $DefaultUser -c "/usr/bin/VBoxManage --nologo guestcontrol \

execute "$VM_Name" "C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe" \ --arguments "/t 5 /s /d p:2:3" --username "$WinAdminUser" \ --password "$WinAdminPassword" --wait-for stdout"

echo "su $DefaultUser -c "/usr/bin/VBoxManage --nologo guestcontrol \

execute "$VM_Name" "C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe" \ --arguments "/t 5 /s /d p:2:3" --username "$WinAdminUser" \ --password $WinAdminPassword --wait-for stdout""

And here is the result:

Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.10 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved.

Usage:

VBoxManage guestcontrol execute <vmname>|<uuid>

<path to program> --username <name> --password <password> [--arguments "<arguments>"] [--environment "<NAME>=<VALUE> [<NAME>=<VALUE>]"] [--flags <flags>] [--timeout <msec>]

[--verbose] [--wait-for exit,stdout,stderr

]

Syntax error: No user name specified! su todd -c /usr/bin/VBoxManage --nologo guestcontrol execute VB-ABC C:\Windows\system32\shutdown.exe --arguments /t 5 /s /d p:2:3 --username admin --password nottellin --wait-for stdout

You will note that "Syntax error: No user name specified!" does not match up to "--username winadmin"

If I ever figure out what is really wrong, I will report back. In the mean time, I would appreciate it if you made your error messages match up with the real error.

Many thanks, -T