| 1 | <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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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="vmencryption-addpassword">
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| 4 | <title>Opening the Encrypted VM</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>When <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> has just started up the encrypted VM cannot be opened
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| 8 | and it stays inaccessible. Also, the encrypted VM stays inaccessible if it was just registered without a password
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| 9 | or the password is incorrect. The user needs to provide the password using <ph
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| 10 | conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> or with the following <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> command: </p>
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| 11 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage encryptvm <varname>uuid</varname>|<varname>vmname</varname> addpassword --password <varname>filename</varname>|- --password-id <varname>ID</varname>
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| 12 | </pre>
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| 13 | <p>To supply the encryption password point <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> to the file where the password is
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| 14 | stored or specify <codeph>-</codeph> to let <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> prompt for the password on the
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| 15 | command line. </p>
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| 16 | <p>If <varname>ID</varname> is the same as the password identifier supplied when encrypting the VM it updates the
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| 17 | accessibility state. </p>
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| 18 | <p>To remove the entered password from the VM memory, use <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> as follows: </p>
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| 19 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage encryptvm <varname>uuid</varname>|<varname>vmname</varname> removepassword <varname>ID</varname>
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| 20 | </pre>
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| 21 | <p>If <varname>ID</varname> is the same as the password identifier supplied when encrypting the VM it updates the
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| 22 | accessibility state. </p>
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| 23 | <note>
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| 24 | <p>If a machine becomes inaccessible all passwords are purged. You have to add required passwords again, using the
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| 25 | <userinput>VBoxManage encryptvm <varname>vmname</varname> addpassword</userinput> command. See <xref
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| 26 | href="#vmencryption-addpassword"/>. </p>
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| 27 | </note>
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| 28 | </body>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | </topic>
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