Virtualbox control cli

vm

#! /bin/sh

case $1 in
    list)
        vboxmanage list vms
        ;;
    ps)
        vboxmanage list runningvms
        ;;
    create)
        # template file name: ubuntu-01.ova (name: ubuntu-01)
        next=$(($(vboxmanage list vms | sort | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f1 | cut -d "\"" -f2 | cut -d "-" -f2)+1))
        vboxmanage import $2 --vsys 0 --vmname "ubuntu-$(printf %02d $next)" 
        ;;
    delete)
        vboxmanage controlvm $2 poweroff
        VBoxManage unregistervm $2 --delete
        ;;
    start)
        vboxmanage startvm $2 --type headless
        sleep 20   # sleep while vm starts
        vmip $2   # see https://gist.github.com/mhewedy/352ddb55d4740945d0462df91aece198
        while [ $? -ne 0 ]; do vmip $2; done
        ;;
    stop)
        vboxmanage controlvm $2 poweroff
        ;;
    *)
        echo "usage vm (list|ps|create|delete|start|stop) [options]"
        ;;
esac

see also vmip.go

see https://github.com/mhewedy/vm