VBoxManage made simple

As you might know, VirtualBox machines can be managed from the command-line. However, I find the syntax of the VBoxManage command-line utility cumbersome and hard to remember.

Copy this in .bash_aliases:



Now you can do the following:

vm-start starts a VM in headless mode
vm-savestate suspends a VM to disk
vm-powerbutton simulates a press on the power button
vm-poweroff simulates unplugging the power cord (some OS don't shutdown completely)
vm-running lists the running VMs

Autocompletion is enabled and dangerous actions will ask for confirmation.

(You will need to re-login or "source" .bash_aliases whenever you add / remove a VM.)
(The script doesn't support VM names with spaces.)