VBoxManage controlvm 'setlinkstateN' and 'nictraceN' don't work in 7.0 => fixed in svn/7.0.0

[HaotongYang]

"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxmanage.exe" controlvm "VMname" setlinkstate1 on Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 7.0.0_BETA2 Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates

VBoxManage.exe: error: Invalid link state 'on'.

Usage:

VBoxManage controlvm <uuid | vmname> setlinkstateN <on | off>

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"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxmanage.exe" controlvm "VMname" nictrace1 on Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 7.0.0_BETA2 Copyright (C) 2005-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates

VBoxManage.exe: error: Invalid nictrace1 argument 'on'.

Usage:

VBoxManage controlvm <uuid | vmname> nictraceN <on | off>

[HaotongYang]

7.0.0_BETA2r153583

[paulson]

Thanks for the report. The VBoxManage controlvm suboptions 'setlinkstateN' and 'nictraceN' are indeed unable to parse the boolean argument supplied due to accidentally using the wrong argument index as a result of some recent changes. This has been addressed in r153817 of the development branch of VirtualBox and will be part of any development snapshot Testbuilds which includes this revision.

[paulson]

This has been addressed in the 7.0.0_BETA3 as well:

​https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.0_BETA3/

[paulson]

This issue is specific to the VirtualBox 7.0 BETA, i.e. VirtualBox 6.1.x is not impacted. This issue has been resolved in VirtualBox 7.0.0 which was released on October 10th, 2022 and is available for download here.