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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vmencryption-encryption">
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| 4 | <title>Encrypting a VM</title>
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>Encrypting a VM can be done either using <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/vbox-mgr"/> or the
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| 8 | <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>. To encrypt an unencrypted VM with <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput>, use: </p>
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| 9 | <pre xml:space="preserve">VBoxManage encryptvm <varname>uuid</varname>|<varname>vmname</varname> setencryption --new-password <varname>filename</varname>|- \
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| 10 | --cipher <varname>cipher-ID</varname> --new-password-id <varname>ID</varname>
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| 11 | </pre>
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| 12 | <p>To supply the encryption password, point <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> to the file where the password is
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| 13 | stored or specify <codeph>-</codeph> to let <userinput>VBoxManage</userinput> prompt for the password on the
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| 14 | command line. </p>
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| 15 | <p>The cipher parameter specifies the cipher to use for encryption and can be either <codeph>AES-128</codeph> or
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| 16 | <codeph>AES-256</codeph>. The appropriate mode of operation, such as GCM, CTR, or XTS will be selected by the VM
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| 17 | depending on the encrypting component. The specified password identifier can be freely chosen by the user and is
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| 18 | used for correct identification when supplying multiple passwords for the VM. </p>
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| 19 | </body>
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| 21 | </topic>
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