script listing VirtualBox machines and RAM usage

!/bin/bash

script listing VirtualBox machines and their RAM and State

for name in $(VBoxManage list vms | grep \" | awk '{print $1}' | tr -d '"')

do echo $name VBoxManage showvminfo $name | grep -E 'Memory|State|VRDP' done

exit 0

SCRIPT EXPLAINED

VBoxManage list vms //lists all of the virtual machines the current user has defined | //pipe operator passes the output to the next program grep \" //only finds lines with a " | awk '{print $1}' //only displays the first column of data (white space delimited) | tr -d '"' //removes the quote character, e.g. "vmname" now becomes vmname //could be character replacement: tr '"' '-'

FOR LOOP

for ((i=1; i<5; i++))

do

echo $i

done

echo $name //display the name of each item from the list generated above VBoxManage showvminfo $name //lists the info for each VirtualBox virtual machine (by name variable) | grep -E 'Memory|State|VRDP' //Only list the info from lines contained Memory or State or VRDP