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8 VBoxManage reference
• systemproperties displays some global VirtualBox settings, such as mini-
mum and maximum guest RAM and virtual hard disk size, folder settings and
the current authentication library in use.
• hddbackends lists all known hdd backends of VirtualBox. Beside the name of
the backend itself, descriptions about the capabilities, configuration and other
useful informations are displayed.
8.2 VBoxManage showvminfo
The showvminfo command shows information about a particular virtual machine.
This is the same information as VBoxManage list vms --long would show for
all virtual machines.
You will get information similar to the following:
$ VBoxManage showvminfo "Windows XP"
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Name: Windows XP
Guest OS: Other/Unknown
UUID: 1bf3464d-57c6-4d49-92a9-a5cc3816b7e7
Config file: /home/username/.VirtualBox/Machines/Windows XP/Windows XP.xml
Memory size: 512MB
VRAM size: 12MB
Number of CPUs: 2
Synthetic Cpu: off
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): DVD
Boot Device (2): HardDisk
Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI: on
IOAPIC: on
PAE: on
Time offset: 0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: on
Nested Paging: on
VT-x VPID: off
State: powered off (since 2009-10-20T14:52:19.000000000)
Monitor count: 1
3D Acceleration: off
2D Video Acceleration: off
Teleporter Enabled: off
Teleporter Port: 0
Teleporter Address:
Teleporter Password:
Storage Controller (0): IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (0): PIIX4
Storage Controller (1): Floppy Controller 1
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