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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="gui-vmgroups">
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| 4 | <title>Using VM Groups</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>Create VM groups if you want to manage several VMs together, and perform functions on them collectively, as well
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| 8 | as individually. </p>
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| 9 | <p>The following features are available for groups: </p>
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| 10 | <ul>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p>Create a group using <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/>. Do one of the following: </p>
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| 13 | <ul>
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| 14 | <li>
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| 15 | <p>Drag a VM on top of another VM. </p>
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| 16 | </li>
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| 17 | <li>
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| 18 | <p>Select multiple VMs and select <b outputclass="bold">Group</b> from the right-click menu. </p>
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| 19 | </li>
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| 20 | </ul>
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| 21 | </li>
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| 22 | <li>
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| 23 | <p>Create and manage a group using the command line. Do one of the following: </p>
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| 24 | <ul>
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| 25 | <li>
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| 26 | <p>Create a group and assign a VM. For example: </p>
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| 27 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage modifyvm "vm01" --groups "/TestGroup"</pre>
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| 28 | <p>This command creates a group <codeph>TestGroup</codeph> and attaches the VM <codeph>vm01</codeph> to that
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| 29 | group. </p>
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| 30 | </li>
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| 31 | <li>
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| 32 | <p>Detach a VM from the group, and delete the group if empty. For example: </p>
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| 33 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage modifyvm "vm01" --groups ""</pre>
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| 34 | <p>This command detaches all groups from the VM <codeph>vm01</codeph> and deletes the empty group. </p>
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| 35 | </li>
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| 36 | </ul>
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| 37 | </li>
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| 38 | <li>
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| 39 | <p>Create multiple groups. For example: </p>
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| 40 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage modifyvm "vm01" --groups "/TestGroup,/TestGroup2"</pre>
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| 41 | <p>This command creates the groups <codeph>TestGroup</codeph> and <codeph>TestGroup2</codeph>, if they do not
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| 42 | exist, and attaches the VM <codeph>vm01</codeph> to both of them. </p>
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| 43 | </li>
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| 44 | <li>
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| 45 | <p>Create nested groups, having a group hierarchy. For example: </p>
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| 46 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage modifyvm "vm01" --groups "/TestGroup/TestGroup2"</pre>
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| 47 | <p>This command attaches the VM <codeph>vm01</codeph> to the subgroup <codeph>TestGroup2</codeph> of the
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| 48 | <codeph>TestGroup</codeph> group. </p>
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| 49 | </li>
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| 50 | <li>
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| 51 | <p>Use <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> menu options to control and manage all the VMs in a
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| 52 | group. For example: <b outputclass="bold">Start</b>, <b outputclass="bold">Pause</b>, <b outputclass="bold"
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| 53 | >Reset</b>, <b outputclass="bold">Close</b> (save state, send shutdown signal, poweroff), <b
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| 54 | outputclass="bold">Discard Saved State</b>, <b outputclass="bold">Show in Explorer</b>, <b
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| 55 | outputclass="bold">Sort</b>. </p>
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| 56 | </li>
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| 57 | </ul>
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| 58 | </body>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | </topic>
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