Introduction

This is a set of Virtualbox tools written for general management of Virtualbox VMs, such as turning a VM on or off through console. Please note, this toolset's primary use is to do things to a headless VM server through the console.

My own personal usage of these tools is to better manipulate environments where server to server communication is the norm.

Setup

In your vm.list file, add the list of VMs you want available to the tool.

Example:

test1
test2

I typically symlink the tools in /usr/bin though up to you.

Usage

Tools

vmon
vmoff
vmstate
vmlist

Commands

vmon

vmon --all
vmon <vm>
vmon --head <vm>
vmon <vm1> --head <vm2> ...
vmon <vm1> <vm2> ...

vmoff

vmoff --all
vmoff <vm>
vmoff <vm1> <vm2> ...

vmstate

vmstate --all
vmstate <vm name>

vmlist

vmlist
vmlist --all
vmlist --valid
vmlist <vm name>