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            <title>Introduction</title>
            
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               <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>
               <p>You need to use the command line to do the following: </p>
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          Use a different user interface than the main GUI such as the
          VBoxHeadless server.
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                     <p> Control some more advanced and experimental configuration settings for a VM. </p>
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               <p>For more information, refer to the VBoxManage command <xref href="../cli_topics/vboxmanage-common-description.dita"/> and <xref href="../cli_topics/vboxmanage-common-examples.dita"/>.</p>
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