How to create a virtual machine using vboxmanager?

2 years ago
Sophia Anderson
2 minutes

To create a virtual machine using the vboxmanage command, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the Command Prompt or terminal window and navigate to the subdirectory of the VirtualBox installation directory (usually located at C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox).
  2. Create a virtual machine using the following command.
  3. Create a new virtual machine using the name, operating system type, and registration specified.
  4. The is the name of the virtual machine you want to create, and is the operating system type of the virtual machine, such as “Ubuntu_64” or “Windows10_64”.
  5. Configure the hardware settings of the virtual machine using the following commands:
  6. Edit the virtual machine’s memory and CPU settings using the command “vboxmanage modifyvm –memory –cpus “.
  7. is the allocated memory size for the virtual machine in megabytes (MB), and is the number of CPUs allocated to the virtual machine.
  8. Create and connect a virtual hard disk using the following command.
  9. Create a virtual hard drive with a specific size using vboxmanage. Add a SATA controller named “SATA Controller” to the virtual machine, and then attach the virtual hard drive to it.
  10. Among them, is the path of the virtual hard disk file, and is the size of the virtual hard disk (unit is MB).
  11. Set the ISO image file for the virtual machine using the following command:
  12. Attach an ISO image file to the virtual machine named <虚拟机名称> on SATA Controller at port 1, device 0 using the command “vboxmanage storageattach”.
  13. “其中， represents the path to the ISO image file.”
  14. Start the virtual machine using the following command:
  15. start the virtual machine using vboxmanage
  16. The virtual machine will be opened in the VirtualBox interface.

These are the basic steps for creating a virtual machine using the vboxmanage command, which you can further configure and modify according to your own needs.

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