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Mutahir
Asked: 2011-01-22 08:54:53 +0800 CST

VboxManage in a Batch File

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I have the command below in a windows batch file, whenever I run the above batch (ipconfig.bat) to get the ip of my linux vm, it outputs the ip fine but doesn't ends the batch file, I have to press control + c and then press "y" to end the batch file. Even after adding @exit it doesn't exits.

VBoxManage --nologo guestcontrol execute "nixvm" "/root/scripts/ipconfig.sh" --username root --password mypassword --verbose --wait-for stdout @exit

Any suggestions ?

The Bash Script (which gets executed by a windows batch file) 

#!/bin/bash
echo "IP Address of "LinuxVM"
ifconfig eth0 | egrep '(inet addr|RX bytes|TX bytes)'
sleep 1s
#echo "MySQL Service Status"
service mysql status
chkconfig mysql --list
sleep 1s
#echo "Displaying MySQL DBs"
mysqlshow -uroot -pmypassword

Windows Batch File

VBoxManage --nologo guestcontrol execute "LinuxVM" "/root/scripts/ipconfig.sh" --username root --password password --verbose --wait-for stdout
windows virtualbox batch

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can use --timeout to supply a time out in milliseconds which tells VBoxManage how long to wait for the script to exit.

    VBoxManage --nologo guestcontrol execute "nixvm" "/root/scripts/ipconfig.sh" --username root --password mypassword --verbose --timeout 10000 --wait-for stdout
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