Turning the output of showvminfo into modifyvm

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paulehoffman
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Turning the output of showvminfo into modifyvm

Post by paulehoffman »

Greetings. Is there a program that will take the output of

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VBoxManage showvminfo mybox --machinereadable
and turn it into the appropriate (and quite likely long) set of arguments for

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VBoxManage modifyvm mybox
I would prefer a program that comes with the distribution, but could use someone's converter if needed.
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Re: Turning the output of showvminfo into modifyvm

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Moving to "Using VirtualBox" as unrelated to the API itself.
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Re: Turning the output of showvminfo into modifyvm

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Not that I know of. I'm afraid that you'd have to write the parsing script yourself.

How about starting from a cloning? Most of the parameters will not need to be changed.
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