Settings Menu in Guest additions

[lonixlon]

Hi, i have windows 10 running in a virtual environment, i access this virtual machine using RDP in windows,

It would be nice if i could alter the settings of the virtual machine from the guest,
It would be nice if the Guest additions had an interface that could alter settings on the host machine.

might be impractical, but would be useful.

[scottgus1]

Some of the settings that you can't access while the guest is running would be similar to BIOS settings, as well as hardware choices. Neither of these are things that can be changed while the guest is running. All of the settings (at least I think it's all of them) that can be changed while the guest is running are available in the guest window menu and the fullscreen/seamless mini bar.

However you want to be able to change these settings from within the guest itself, perhaps while RDPing into the guest OS..... That's not possible now. You can put an Enhancement Request in on the Bugtracker.

Meanwhile, if you are good at scripting, you can make a host script that can monitor a vboxmanage get/setextradata key for vboxmanage commands that you could set inside the guest (as long as the guest has Guest Additions installed) and then run the commands on the host to change the guest settings. Sanitize the command input from within the host script so folks who find out about this capability can't just run any command on the host - it's a major security leak depending on how it's programmed. (By sanitizing, I mean, don't have the host script blindly run whatever is in the extradata key at a command prompt. Have the script expect only vboxmanage commands and switches, and have the script insert the actual "vboxmanage" part, so only vboxmanage commands and switches will work. There's probably other things that can be done too.)

[socratis]

It would be nice if i could alter the settings of the virtual machine from the guest

Out of curiosity, what settings exactly did you have in mind?

[gimbleguy]

That's what I want to know too

[socratis]

gimbleguy,

Isn't it interesting that a first-post/generic-question, asked from someone in Australia (lonixlon), is replied with a first-post/generic-comment, also from Australia? Just sayin' that statistics are weird sometimes...