savestate in windows guest: coming soon??

[seandarcy]

On a windows 7 guest, Fedora 14 host, VB4 with guest additions:

C:\Users\vbox>VBoxControl savestate
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions Command Line Management Interface Version 4
.0.0
(C) 2008-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

VBoxControl.exe: error: not implemented

It is in the Manual.

Is there anything I need to do, or is this still a coming attraction?

sean

[Perryg]

See section 8.2. Commands overview in your VirtualBox users manual

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VBoxManage controlvm        <uuid>|<name>
                            pause|resume|reset|poweroff|savestate|
                            acpipowerbutton|acpisleepbutton|

[seandarcy]

Here we're talking about the __Windows__ command vboxcontrol.exe in the windows guest.

C:\Users\vbox>vboxcontrol.exe /?
Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions Command Line Management Interface Version 4
.0.0
(C) 2008-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Usage:

vboxcontrol.exe [-v|-version] print version number and exit
vboxcontrol.exe -nologo ... suppress the logo

vboxcontrol.exe getvideoacceleration
vboxcontrol.exe setvideoacceleration <on|off>
vboxcontrol.exe listcustommodes
vboxcontrol.exe addcustommode <width> <height> <bpp>
vboxcontrol.exe removecustommode <width> <height> <bpp>
vboxcontrol.exe setvideomode <width> <height> <bpp> <screen>
vboxcontrol.exe guestproperty get <property> [-verbose]
vboxcontrol.exe guestproperty set <property> [<value> [-flags <flags>]]
vboxcontrol.exe guestproperty enumerate [-patterns <patterns>]
vboxcontrol.exe guestproperty wait <patterns>
[-timestamp <last timestamp>]
[-timeout <timeout in ms>
vboxcontrol.exe sharedfolder list [-automount]
vboxcontrol.exe writecoredump
vboxcontrol.exe takesnapshot
vboxcontrol.exe savestate
vboxcontrol.exe suspend
vboxcontrol.exe poweroff
vboxcontrol.exe help [command]
vboxcontrol.exe version

sean

[ChipMcK]

Is this what you are querying? http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=10823

[Perryg]

Nope it is not implemented yet. Some may work but the actual code seems to be absent. I know there were extra things that were supposed to be in the new version that had to be taken out due to problems and probably this was one of them. You should see the features when they are ready and it will be documented in the change log as well as your VirtualBox Users Manual when it is.