How do I get my UUID and start my guest from command line?

[Punk]

How do I get my UUID and then start my Guest from cmd promt without the guest video output?

WinXP Host, Win 2003 Guest. This is all im getting so far:

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C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxHeadless.exe -s Win 2003
VirtualBox Headless Interface 2.0.2
(C) 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved

Invalid machine name!

C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>

Thanks.

[TerryE]

Do a

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VBoxManage list vms| findstr /c:"UUID" /c:"Name"

then you can just use the string inside the {} as the name. Alternatively try

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VBoxHeadless.exe -s "Win 2003" 

But I've had problems with VMs where there are spaces in the name, so either stick to UUIDs or do a

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VBoxManage modifyvm "Win 2003" -name Win2003

to get rid of the space.