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8 VBoxManage reference

• --audio none|null|oss: With this option, you can set whether the VM

should have audio support.

• --clipboard disabled|hosttoguest|guesttohost|bidirectional:

With this setting, you can select whether the guest operating system’s clipboard
should be shared with the host; see chapter

3.3

,

General settings

, page

46

. This

requires that the Guest Additions be installed in the virtual machine.

• --vrdp on|off: With the VirtualBox graphical user interface, this enables or

disables the built-in VRDP server. Note that if you are using VBoxHeadless
(see chapter

7.4.2

,

VBoxHeadless, the VRDP-only server

, page

101

), VRDP output

is always enabled.

• --vrdpport default|: A port or a range of ports the VRDP server

can bind to; “default” or “0” means port 3389, the standard port for RDP. You
can specify a comma-separated list of ports or ranges of ports. Use a dash be-
tween two port numbers to specify a range. The VRDP server will bind to one of
available ports from the specified list. Only one machine can use a given port at
a time. For example, the option --vrdpport 5000,5010-5012 will tell the
server to bind to one of following ports: 5000, 5010, 5011 or 5012.

• --vrdpauthtype null|external|guest:

This allows you to choose

whether and how authorization will be performed; see chapter

7.4.5

,

RDP

authentication

, page

104

for details.

• --vrdpmulticon on|off: This enables multiple VRDP connections to the

same VRDP server; see chapter

7.4.7

,

VRDP multiple connections

, page

105

.

• --monitorcount : This enables multi-monitor support for VRDP;

see chapter

9.7

,

Multiple monitors for the guest

, page

143

.

• --usb on|off: This option enables or disables the VM’s virtual USB controller;

see chapter

3.10.1

,

USB settings

, page

56

for details.

• --usbehci on|off: This option enables or disables the VM’s virtual USB 2.0

controller; see chapter

3.10.1

,

USB settings

, page

56

for details.

8.6 VBoxManage import

This command imports a virtual appliance in OVF format by copying the virtual disk
images and creating virtual machines in VirtualBox. See chapter

1.11

,

Importing and

exporting virtual machines

, page

29

for an introduction to appliances.

The import subcommand takes at least the path name of an OVF file as input

and expects the disk images, if needed, in the same directory as the OVF file. A lot
of additional command-line options are supported to control in detail what is being
imported and modify the import paramters, but the details depend on the content of
the OVF file.

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