VirtualBox clone and start headless vm from command-line

Jbn1233
Aug 20, 2021

VirtualBox is my best friend for my Ansible testing and I need to re-create VMs all the time this is how

cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBoxVBoxManage clonevm s201 --name="s201c1"  --snapshot s1 --options=keepallmacs,Link  --registerVBoxManage clonevm s202 --name="s202c1"  --snapshot s1 --options=keepallmacs,Link  --registerVBoxManage clonevm s203 --name="s203c1"  --snapshot s1 --options=keepallmacs,Link  --registerVBoxManage clonevm w204 --name="w204c1"  --snapshot s1 --options=keepallmacs,Link  --registerVBoxManage startvm s201c1 --type headlessVBoxManage startvm s202c1 --type headlessVBoxManage startvm s203c1 --type headlessVBoxManage startvm w204c1 --type headless

that’s all

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