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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>
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| 8 | When Oracle VM VirtualBox has just started up the encrypted VM cannot
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| 9 | be opened and it stays inaccessible. Also, the encrypted VM
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| 10 | stays inaccessible if it was just registered without a password
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| 11 | or the password is incorrect. The user needs to provide the
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| 12 | password using VirtualBox Manager or with the following
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| 13 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> command:
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| 14 | </p>
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| 15 | <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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| 16 | </pre>
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| 17 | <p>
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| 18 | To supply the encryption password point
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| 19 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> to the file where the password is
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| 20 | stored or specify <codeph>-</codeph> to let
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| 21 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> prompt for the password on the
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| 22 | command line.
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| 23 | </p>
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| 24 | <p>
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| 25 | If <varname>ID</varname> is the same as the password
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| 26 | identifier supplied when encrypting the VM it updates the
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| 27 | accessibility state.
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| 28 | </p>
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| 29 | <p>
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| 30 | To remove the entered password from the VM memory, use
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| 31 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> as follows:
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| 32 | </p>
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| 33 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage encryptvm <varname>uuid</varname>|<varname>vmname</varname> removepassword <varname>ID</varname>
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| 34 | </pre>
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| 35 | <p>
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| 36 | If <varname>ID</varname> is the same as the password
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| 37 | identifier supplied when encrypting the VM it updates the
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| 38 | accessibility state.
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| 39 | </p>
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| 40 | <note>
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| 41 | <p>
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| 42 | If a machine becomes inaccessible all passwords are purged.
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| 43 | You have to add required passwords again, using the
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| 44 | <userinput>VBoxManage encryptvm
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| 45 | <varname>vmname</varname> addpassword</userinput>
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| 46 | command. See <xref href="#vmencryption-addpassword"/>.
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| 47 | </p>
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| 48 | </note>
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| 49 | </body>
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| 50 |
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| 51 | </topic>
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