%all.entities; ]> August 2019 VBoxManage-setproperty 1 VBoxManage-setproperty change global settings Oracle VM VirtualBox VBoxManage setproperty property-name property-value The VBoxManage setproperty command enables you to change global settings that affect the entire &product-name; installation. Some of these settings correspond to the settings in the Preferences dialog in the VirtualBox Manager. The following properties are available: autostartdbpath Specifies the path to the autostart database. Valid values are null, which disables the autostart database, or the name of the folder that contains the database. See . defaultfrontend Specifies the global default VM frontend. Valid values are default, which specifies the default frontend, or the name of the frontend to use. hwvirtexclusive Specifies whether &product-name; makes exclusive use of the Intel VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization extensions of the host system's processor. See . Valid values are as follows: on enables &product-name; to make exclusive use of these extensions. This is the default value. off shares these extensions with other hypervisors that run simultaneously. Note that disabling this setting has negative performance implications. logginglevel Specifies the VBoxSVC release logging details. See . loghistorycount Specifies the number of rotated VM logs to retain. machinefolder Specifies the default folder in which virtual machine (VM) definitions are stored. Valid values are default, which specifies the default storage folder, or the name of the folder to use. See . proxymode Configures the mode for an HTTP proxy server. Valid values are as follows: manual Configure the URL of a HTTP proxy server manually, using the proxyurl property value. noproxy Do not use an HTTP proxy server. A direct connection to the Internet is used. system Detect the proxy settings automatically for the host network. This is the default value. proxyurl Specifies the URL for an HTTP proxy server when you specify a manual proxy by setting the proxymode property to manual. vrdeauthlibrary Specifies which library to use when external authentication has been configured for a particular VM. Valid values are default, which specifies the default library, or the name of the library to use. See . vrdeextpack Specifies the library that implements the VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (RDE). Valid values are null, which disables the RDE, or the name of the library to use. websrvauthlibrary Specifies which library the web service uses to authenticate users. Valid values are default, which specifies the default library, null, which disables authentication, or the name of the library to use. For information about the &product-name; web service, see . The following command configures &product-name; to use the specified HTTP proxy server. $ VBoxManage setproperty proxymode manual $ VBoxManage setproperty proxyurl "http://myproxy.com:8080"