Sun Microsystems VERSION 3.1.0_BETA2 User Manual
8 VBoxManage reference
• --boot<1-4> none|floppy|dvd|disk|net: This specifies the boot order
for the virtual machine. There are four “slots”, which the VM will try to access
from 1 to 4, and for each of which you can set a device that the VM should
attempt to boot from.
from 1 to 4, and for each of which you can set a device that the VM should
attempt to boot from.
• --snapshotfolder default|<path>: This allows you to specify the folder
in which snapshots will be kept for a virtual machine.
• --firmware efi|bios: Specifies which firmware is used to boot particular
virtual machine: EFI or BIOS. Use EFI only if your fully understand what you’re
doing.
doing.
8.5.2 Networking settings
The following networking settings are available through VBoxManage modifyvm:
• --nic<1-N> none|null|nat|bridged|intnet|hostonly:
With this,
you can set, for each of the VM’s virtual network cards, what type of net-
working should be available. They can be not present (none), not connected
to the host (null), use network address translation (nat), bridged networking
(bridged) or communicate with other virtual machines using internal network-
ing (intnet) or host-only networking (hostonly). These options correspond
to the modes which are described in detail in chapter
working should be available. They can be not present (none), not connected
to the host (null), use network address translation (nat), bridged networking
(bridged) or communicate with other virtual machines using internal network-
ing (intnet) or host-only networking (hostonly). These options correspond
to the modes which are described in detail in chapter
, page
• --nictype<1-N> Am79C970A|Am79C973|82540EM: This allows you, for
each of the VM’s virtual network cards, to specify which networking hardware
VirtualBox presents to the guest; see chapter
VirtualBox presents to the guest; see chapter
page
• --cableconnected<1-N> on|off: This allows you to temporarily discon-
nect a virtual network interface, as if a network cable had been pulled from a
real network card. This might be useful for resetting certain software compo-
nents in the VM.
real network card. This might be useful for resetting certain software compo-
nents in the VM.
• With the “nictrace” options, you can optionally trace network traffic by dumping
it to a file, for debugging purposes.
With --nictrace<1-N> on|off, you can enable network tracing for a par-
ticular virtual network card.
ticular virtual network card.
If enabled, you must specify with --nictracefile<1-N> <filename> what
file the trace should be logged to.
file the trace should be logged to.
• --bridgeadapter<1-N> none|<devicename>: If bridged 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 interface the
given virtual network interface will use. For details, please see chapter
this setting has no effect), use this option to specify which host interface the
given virtual network interface will use. For details, please see chapter
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