8 VBoxManage reference
lun Logical Unit Number of the target resource (optional). Often, this value is zero.
username, password Username and password for target authentication, if required (optional).
Note: Currently, username and password are stored without encryption (i.e. in cleartext) in the machine configuration file.
type Defines what kind of hard disk type this image should be.
comment Any description that you want to have stored with this item (optional; e.g. “Big storage server downstairs”). This is stored internally only and not needed for operation.
intnet Connect to the iSCSI target via Internal Networking. This needs further con- figuration which is described in chapter 5.8.1, Access iSCSI targets via Internal Networking, page 86.
8.20 VBoxManage getextradata/setextradata
These commands let you attach and retrieve string data to a virtual machine or to a VirtualBox configuration (by specifying global instead of a virtual machine name). You must specify a key (as a text string) to associate the data with, which you can later use to retrieve it. For example:
VBoxManage setextradata Fedora5 installdate 2006.01.01
VBoxManage setextradata SUSE10 installdate 2006.02.02
would associate the string “2006.01.01” with the key installdate for the virtual ma- chine Fedora5, and “2006.02.02” on the machine SUSE10. You could retrieve the information as follows:
VBoxManage getextradata Fedora5 installdate
which would return
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.1.0
(C)
Value: 2006.01.01
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