diff --git a/pages/common/vboxmanage-import.md b/pages/common/vboxmanage-import.md
index 53655433e11f55..812bfe50fda48b 100644
--- a/pages/common/vboxmanage-import.md
+++ b/pages/common/vboxmanage-import.md
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@
 
 - Set the guest OS type (one of `VBoxManage list ostypes`) for the imported VM:
 
-`VBoxManage import {{path/to/file.ovf}} --ostype={{ostype}}`
+`VBoxManage import {{path/to/file.ovf}} --ostype {{ostype}}`
 
 - Set the memory (in megabytes) for the imported VM:
 
-`VBoxManage import {{path/to/file.ovf}} --memory={{1}}`
+`VBoxManage import {{path/to/file.ovf}} --memory {{1}}`
 
 - Set the number of CPUs for the imported VM:
 
-`VBoxManage import {{path/to/file.ovf}} --cpus={{1}}`
+`VBoxManage import {{path/to/file.ovf}} --cpus {{1}}`
diff --git a/pages/common/vboxmanage-startvm.md b/pages/common/vboxmanage-startvm.md
index f38e088875c5f0..1ff7d947dc6f2f 100644
--- a/pages/common/vboxmanage-startvm.md
+++ b/pages/common/vboxmanage-startvm.md
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@
 
 - Start a virtual machine with an environment variable pair name value:
 
-`VBoxManage startvm {{vm_name|uuid}} --put-env={{name}}={{value}}`
+`VBoxManage startvm {{vm_name|uuid}} {{[-E|--putenv]}} {{name}}={{value}}`