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| 2 | <!--
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| 3 | Copyright (C) 2006-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as
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| 6 | available from https://www.virtualbox.org.
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| 7 |
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| 8 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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| 9 | modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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| 10 | as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the
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| 11 | License.
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| 12 |
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| 13 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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| 14 | WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 15 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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| 16 | General Public License for more details.
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| 17 |
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| 18 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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| 19 | along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
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| 22 | -->
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| 23 | <!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 24 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"[
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| 25 | <!ENTITY % all.entities SYSTEM "all-entities.ent">
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| 26 | %all.entities;
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| 27 | ]>
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| 28 | <chapter id="VirtualBoxAPI">
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <title>&product-name; Programming Interfaces</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | &product-name; comes with comprehensive support for third-party
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| 34 | developers. The so-called <emphasis>Main API</emphasis> of
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| 35 | &product-name; exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
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| 36 | engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
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| 37 | wishes to control &product-name; programmatically.
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| 38 | </para>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>
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| 41 | The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM on Windows
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| 42 | hosts or XPCOM on other hosts. Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
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| 43 | Python.
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| 44 | </para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>
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| 47 | All programming information such as documentation, reference
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| 48 | information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
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| 49 | have been split out to a separate <emphasis role="bold">Software
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| 50 | Development Kit (SDK)</emphasis>. The SDK is available for download
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| 51 | from
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| 52 | <ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org" />.
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| 53 | In particular, the SDK comes with a Programming Guide and Reference
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| 54 | manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
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| 55 | information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
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| 56 | </para>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | </chapter>
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