8.5. VBoxManage showvminfo

Oracle VM VirtualBox

8.5. VBoxManage showvminfo

The showvminfo command shows information about a particular virtual machine. This is the same information as VBoxManage list vms --long would show for all virtual machines.

You will get information that resembles the following example.

$ VBoxManage showvminfo "Windows XP"
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 5.2.4
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Name:            Windows XP
Guest OS:        Other/Unknown
UUID:            1bf3464d-57c6-4d49-92a9-a5cc3816b7e7
Config file:     /home/username/.config/VirtualBox/Machines/Windows XP/Windows XP.xml
Memory size:     512MB
VRAM size:       12MB
Number of CPUs:  2
Boot menu mode:  message and menu
Boot Device (1): DVD
Boot Device (2): HardDisk
Boot Device (3): Not Assigned
Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
...
    

Use the --machinereadable option to produce the same output, but in machine readable format: property="value" on a line by line basis, e.g.:

name="VBoxSDL --startvm OL7.2"
groups="/"
ostype="Oracle (64-bit)"
UUID="457af700-bc0a-4258-aa3c-13b03da171f2"
...