How to change common settings for All or for Multiple VMs?

[Stamimail]

Like if I want all VMs to have the same settings for Mini ToolBar or Drag n Drop etc.
It's very annoying not to have such possibility.

[loukingjr]

Since Drag n Drop doesn't work with all Host/Guest combinations it wouldn't make much sense or be of much use to enabled it in all guests. I don't use the Mini ToolBar so I just disable it when I create a guest. I don't know what the etc. settings you are referring to are.

[Stamimail]

I'm referring to all common settings.
It could be: Base Memory (Like if I want to set all XP machines to 521 MB and all W7 machines to 1024 MB), Video Memory, Network, Shared Folders...

[socratis]

Actually that's not a bad idea. Something like "VBoxManage <command> <uuid|vmname|vmpattern> where vmpattern could be "*", Win"*", "Win9?" or anything similar. I could see uses for something like that...

But currently such a capability doesn't exist as far as I know. The only thing you can do at the moment, is to use something like (for Linux/Solaris/OSX):

for i in `VBoxManage list vms | cut -d{ -f2 | cut -d} -f1`; do VBoxManage modifyvm $i <YourModificationHere>; done

Haven't tried out a similar trick for Windows. If I do, I'll update the post.

[scottgus1]

Windows version here:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=61861&p=288668#p288668

[Stamimail]

Is this possible now (in version 5.0.16) from the GUI?
How can I apply for all my machines at once:
"Shared Clipboard"/"Drag and drop" = Bidirectional

[scottgus1]

Check the Changelogs, where the downloads are posted, for new commands, or the help file for the Vboxmanage commands.

If this were posted as an Enhancement in the Bugtracker, the developers would have weighed in in whether they would implement it. (No response isn't a no, though; they'll say no if they don't want to program an Enhancement.) If this were implemented, they would have mentioned it in the changelogs.