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<refentry id="vboxmanage-setextradata" lang="en">
  <refentryinfo>
    <pubdate>August 2019</pubdate>
    <title>VBoxManage setextradata</title>
  </refentryinfo>

  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>VBoxManage-setextradata</refentrytitle>
    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VBoxManage-setextradata</refname>
    <refpurpose>set a keyword value that is associated with a virtual machine or
      configuration</refpurpose>
    <refclass>Oracle VM VirtualBox</refclass>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <cmdsynopsis id="synopsis-vboxmanage-setextradata">
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      <command>VBoxManage setextradata</command>
      <group choice="req">
        <arg choice="plain">global</arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>uuid</replaceable></arg>
        <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>vmname</replaceable></arg>
      </group>
      <arg choice="req"><replaceable>keyword</replaceable></arg>
      <arg><replaceable>value</replaceable></arg>
    </cmdsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      The <command>VBoxManage setextradata</command> command enables you
      to set a keyword value that is associated with a virtual machine
      (VM) or with an &product-name; configuration.
    </para>
    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><literal>global</literal></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Sets information about the configuration rather than a VM.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><replaceable>uuid</replaceable>|<replaceable>vmname</replaceable></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) or name
            of the VM.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><replaceable>keyword</replaceable></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the keyword for which to set its value.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
        <term><replaceable>value</replaceable></term>
        <listitem><para>
            Specifies the keyword value. Specifying no value removes the
            keyword.
          </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Examples</title>
    <remark role="help-scope" condition="GLOBAL"/>
    <para>
      The following command sets the <literal>installdate</literal>
      keyword value for the <literal>Fedora5</literal> VM to
      <literal>2019.01.01</literal>:
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage setextradata Fedora5 installdate 2019.01.01</screen>
    <para>
      The following command unsets the value of the
      <literal>installdate</literal> keyword for the
      <literal>Fedora5</literal> VM:
    </para>
<screen>$ VBoxManage setextradata Fedora5 installdate</screen>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <para>
      <xref linkend="vboxmanage-getextradata" />
    </para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>