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A way to 1) Get the command output and 2) Reduce the random timeouts would be nice. Maybe there is a more reliable way to get the command output or a switch that makes it work better. The powershell version is already using a not really documented command line switch to make it work ( -InputFormat n...

Well Iam actually not really happy about that switch since it may or may not hide the command output. While the command output may not required sometimes, it is NO solution for the problem.

While testing the behavior of vboxmanage guestcontrol run I noticed random timeouts happening. I wrote a script to further investigate this issue. It basically just executes the command 1000 times and counts non zero exit states with a fixed timeout of 1s (should be plenty for a simple echo "hi...