vboxmanage.js

A wrapper for VirtualBox CLI with Promises.

Includes:

• Full stdout/stderr output
• Possibility to run an "unimplemented" vboxmanage feature using the .manage(...) call
• Interfaces for many of the common features like starting/stopping a VM, taking snapshots, running and killing processes, moving/copying files between host and guest etc.
• Supports both Windows and Linux hosts and guests.

Installation:

npm install --save vboxmanage.js

Usage example:

var VBox = require('vboxmanage.js');

VBox
  .startvm(['Ubuntu x64'])
  .then(function () {
    return VBox.execOnVm('Ubuntu x64', 'user', 'password', 'my-program', ['--my-argument', 'another argument']);
  })
  .then(function () {
    return VBox.mkdir('Ubuntu x64', 'user', 'password', '/var/usr/test', true /* recursive */);
  })
  .then(function () {
    return VBox.takeSnapshot('Ubuntu x64', 'my snapshot name');
  })
  .then(function () {
    return VBox.powerOff('Ubuntu x64');
  })
  .catch(function (err) {
    console.log(err);
  })

Contributing

If you have anything to contribute, or functionality that you lack - you are more than welcome to participate in this! If anyone wishes to contribute unit tests - that also would be great :-)

Me

• Hi! I am Daniel Cohen Gindi. Or in short- Daniel.
• danielgindi@gmail.com is my email address.
• That's all you need to know.

Help

If you want to buy me a beer, you are very welcome to Thanks :-)

License

All the code here is under MIT license. Which means you could do virtually anything with the code. I will appreciate it very much if you keep an attribution where appropriate.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Daniel Cohen Gindi (danielgindi@gmail.com)

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of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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