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Скрипт управления VirtualBox машинами

31.07.12 15:40

Description

VirtualBox Control is a shell script application to manage virtual machines using the console.

It was originally written by Carlos Acosta, and published on his website, to manage VirtualBox virtual machines without using the graphical interface. It is written in bash script and uses VBoxManage intensively.

It handles basic start/stop/pause/resume functions, load/unload of removable media and configuration of the remote console port to access the virtual machine's console via vrdp protocol (Oracle VirtualBox extensions must be installed).

Enhancements

The original script works as intended and it manages virtual machines but I felt it lacked visual impact. There were some minor inconsistencies between menus and lack of color. There was also a problem with machines containing white spaces in their names that were simply not detected correctly.

So I changed the code and added more features:

V1.3
- Use UUID instead of name for all functions;
- Handle machine names with spaces in loops;
- Code cleaning and ANSI colors on menus;
- Animation while reading machines status;
- New option to change VRDE port;
V1.4
- New option to load and eject cd/dvd images;
- Removal of temporary files on exit;
V1.5
- Added support for floppy images;
- Corrected some minor language mistakes;