8.31. VBoxManage guestcontrol

The "guestcontrol" commands allow you to control certain things inside a guest from the host. Please see Section 4.7, “Guest control” for an introduction.

Generally, the syntax is as follows:

VBoxManage guestcontrol <command>

The following subcommands are available (where <vm>, in each case, can either be a VM name or a VM UUID, as with the other VBoxManage commands):