8.19.áVBoxManage setproperty

This command is used to change global settings which affect the entire VirtualBox installation. Some of these correspond to the settings in the "Global settings" dialog in the graphical user interface. The following properties are available:

vdifolder

This specifies the default folder that is used to keep Virtual Disk Image (VDI) files.

machinefolder

This specifies the default folder in which virtual machine definitions are kept; see Sectioná9.1, “VirtualBox configuration data” for details.

vrdpauthlibrary

This specifies which library to use when "external" VRDP authentication has been selected for a particular virtual machine; see Sectioná7.4.4, “RDP authentication” for details.

websrvauthlibrary

This specifies which library the webservice uses to authenticate users. For details about the VirtualBox webservice, please refer to the separate VirtualBox SDK reference (see Chapterá10, VirtualBox programming interfaces).

hwvirtexenabled

This selects whether or not hardware virtualization support is enabled by default.