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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="ts_vboxbugreport">
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| 4 | <title>Using the VBoxBugReport Command to Collect Debug Information
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| 5 | Automatically</title>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p>The <userinput>VBoxBugReport</userinput> command is used to collect debug information automatically for an <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> installation. This command can be useful when you need to gather information to send to Oracle Support.</p>
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| 9 | <p>The following examples show how to use <userinput>VBoxBugReport</userinput>.</p>
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| 10 | <p>By default, the command collects <userinput>VBoxSVC</userinput> process logs, device settings, and global configuration data for an <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> host.</p>
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| 11 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxBugReport
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| 12 | ...
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| 13 | 0% - collecting VBoxSVC.log.10...
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| 14 | 7% - collecting VBoxSVC.log.9...
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| 15 | ...
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| 16 | 64% - collecting VBoxSVC.log.1...
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| 17 | 71% - collecting VBoxSVC.log...
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| 18 | 78% - collecting VirtualBox.xml...
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| 19 | 85% - collecting HostUsbDevices...
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| 20 | 92% - collecting HostUsbFilters...
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| 21 | 100% - compressing...
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| 22 |
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| 23 | Report was written to '2019-03-26-13-32-02-bugreport.tgz'</pre>
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| 24 | <p>The results are saved as a compressed tar file archive in the same directory where the command is run.</p>
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| 25 | <p>To specify a different output file location:</p>
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| 26 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxBugReport --output ~/debug/bug004.tgz</pre>
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| 27 | <p>To output all debug information to a single text file, rather than a <filepath>tgz</filepath> file:</p>
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| 28 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxBugReport --text</pre>
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| 29 | <p>To collect information for a specific VM, called <codeph>Windows_10</codeph>:</p>
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| 30 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxBugReport Windows_10</pre>
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| 31 | <p>This command collects machine settings, guest properties, and log files for the specified VM. Global configuration information for the host is also included.</p>
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| 32 | <p>To collect information for several VMs, called <codeph>Windows_7</codeph>, <codeph>Windows_8</codeph>, and <codeph>Windows_10</codeph>:</p>
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| 33 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxBugReport Windows_7 Windows_8 Windows_10</pre>
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| 34 | <p>To collect information for all VMs:</p>
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| 35 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ VBoxBugReport --all</pre>
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| 36 | <p>To show a full list of the available command options, run <userinput>VBoxBugReport --help</userinput>.</p>
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| 37 | </body>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | </topic>
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