Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 - Manual (Page 117)

8 VBoxManage reference
• --hostonlyadapter<1-N> none|: If host-only networking
has been enabled for a virtual network card (see the –nic option above; otherwise
this setting has no effect), use this option to specify which host-only networking
interface the given virtual network interface will use. For details, please see
chapter
6.6 , Host-only networking , page 94 .
• --intnet<1-N> network: If internal networking has been enabled for a vir-
tual network card (see the --nic option above; otherwise this setting has no
effect), use this option to specify the name of the internal network (see chapter
6.5 , Internal networking , page 93 ).
• --macaddress<1-N> auto|: With this option you can set the MAC
address of the virtual network card. Normally, each virtual network card is as-
signed a random address by VirtualBox at VM creation.
8.5.3 Serial port, audio, clipboard, VRDP and USB settings
The following other settings are available through VBoxManage modifyvm:
• --uart<1-N> off| : With this option you can configure
virtual serial ports for the VM; see chapter 3.9 , Serial ports , page 55 for an intro-
duction.
• --uartmode<1-N> : This setting controls how VirtualBox connects a
given virtual serial port (previously configured with the --uartX setting, see
above) to the host on which the virtual machine is running. As described in
detail in chapter
3.9 , Serial ports , page 55 , for each such port, you can specify
as one of the following options:
– disconnected: Even though the serial port is shown to the guest, it has
no “other end” – like a real COM port without a cable.
– server : On a Windows host, this tells VirtualBox to create
a named pipe on the host named and connect the virtual
serial device to it. Note that Windows requires that the name of a named
pipe begin with \\.\pipe\.
On a Linux host, instead of a named pipe, a local domain socket is used.
– client : This operates just like server ..., except that
the pipe (or local domain socket) is not created by VirtualBox, but assumed
to exist already.
– : If, instead of the above, the device name of a physical
hardware serial port of the host is specified, the virtual serial port is con-
nected to that hardware port. On a Windows host, the device name will
be a COM port such as COM1; on a Linux host, the device name will look
like /dev/ttyS0. This allows you to “wire” a real serial port to a virtual
machine.
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