Virtualboxplugin Vboxmanage

Hi !

I have installed the vboxplugin and have a running virtual machine (Ubuntu 12.04). This works fine.

Now i was playing around with vboxmanage and wanted to list the vm's

VBoxManage list vms

The problem is i get no output and so i cannot shutdown the VM with vboxmanage:

VBoxManage controlvm Server-VM acpipowerbutton

I get this error:

VBoxManage: error: Could not find a registered machine named 'Server-VM'
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80bb0001), component VirtualBox, interface IVirtualBox, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "FindMachine(Bstr(a->argv[0]).raw(), machine.asOutParam())" at line 95 of file VBoxManageControlVM.cpp

Do i need anything else to install ?

I cannot find the error.

Thanks for your reply.

Greets Karl.

seems that that solved my problem ... int the separate shell i can use the vboxmanage tool.

I want to make me a script which can be executed once a week by cron to backup the Vbox.

For this i first wanted to stop the VM, then copy the data to the backup location and then to restart the VM.

Or is that somehow out of the box possible with OMV or the vbox plugin ?