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| 4 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vboxmanage-intro">
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| 5 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p><userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> is the CLI to <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. With it, you can control <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> from the command line of the host operating system. <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> supports all the features that the graphical user interface gives you access to, plus the features of the virtualization engine that can't be accessed from the GUI. </p>
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| 9 | <p>You need to use the command line to do the following: </p>
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| 10 | <ul>
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| 11 | <li>
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| 12 | <p>
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| 13 | Use a different user interface than the main GUI such as the
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| 14 | VBoxHeadless server.
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| 15 | </p>
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| 16 | </li>
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| 17 | <li>
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| 18 | <p> Control some more advanced and experimental configuration settings for a VM. </p>
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| 19 | </li>
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| 20 | </ul>
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| 21 | <p>For more information, refer to the VBoxManage command <xref href="../topics/vboxmanage-common-description.dita"/> and <xref href="../topics/vboxmanage-common-examples.dita"/>.</p>
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| 22 | </body>
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| 24 | </topic>
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