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1	<?xml version="1.0" ?>
2
3	<!--
4	* :tabSize=2:indentSize=2:noTabs=true:
5	* :folding=explicit:collapseFolds=1:
6	*
7	* Master declaration for VirtualBox's Main API, represented
8	* by COM/XPCOM and web service interfaces.
9	*
10	* From this document, the build system generates several files
11	* via XSLT that are then used during the build process.
12	*
13	* Below is the list of XSL templates that operate on this file and
14	* output files they generate. These XSL templates must be updated
15	* whenever the schema of this file changes:
16	*
17	* 1. src/VBox/Main/idl/midl.xsl =>
18	* out/<platform>/bin/sdk/idl/VirtualBox.idl
19	* (MS COM interface definition file for Main API)
20	*
21	* 2. src/VBox/Main/idl/xpidl.xsl =>
22	* out/<platform>/bin/sdk/idl/VirtualBox_XPCOM.idl
23	* (XPCOM interface definition file for Main API)
24	*
25	* 3. src/VBox/Main/idl/doxygen.xsl =>
26	* out/<platform>/obj/src/VBox/Main/VirtualBox.idl
27	* (pseudo-IDL for Doxygen to generate the official Main API
28	* documentation)
29	*
30	* 4. src/VBox/Main/webservice/*.xsl =>
31	* a bunch of WSDL and C++ files
32	* (VirtualBox web service sources and SOAP mappers;
33	* see src/VBox/Main/webservice/Makefile.kmk for details)
34	*
35	* 5. src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/include/COMWrappers.xsl =>
36	* out/<platform>/obj/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/VirtualBox/include/COMWrappers.h
37	* (smart Qt-based C++ wrapper classes for COM interfaces
38	* of the Main API)
39	*
40	* 6. src/VBox/Installer/win32/VirtualBox_TypeLib.xsl =>
41	* out/<platform>/obj/src/VBox/Installer/win32/VirtualBox_TypeLib.wxi
42	* (Main API TypeLib block for the WiX installer)
43	*
44	* 7. src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsgvboxcom.xsl =>
45	* out/<platform>/obj/Runtime/errmsgvboxcomdata.h
46	* (<result> extraction for the %Rhrc format specifier)
47	*
48	Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
49
50	This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
51	available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
52	you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
53	General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
54	Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
55	VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
56	hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
57
58	Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa
59	Clara, CA 95054 USA or visit http://www.sun.com if you need
60	additional information or have any questions.
61	-->
62
63	<idl>
64
65	<desc>
66	Welcome to the <b>VirtualBox Main API documentation</b>. This documentation
67	describes the so-called <i>VirtualBox Main API</i> which comprises all public
68	COM interfaces and components provided by the VirtualBox server and by the
69	VirtualBox client library.
70
71	VirtualBox employs a client-server design, meaning that whenever any part of
72	VirtualBox is running -- be it the Qt GUI, the VBoxManage command-line
73	interface or any virtual machine --, a dedicated server process named
74	VBoxSVC runs in the background. This allows multiple processes working with
75	VirtualBox to cooperate without conflicts. These processes communicate to each
76	other using inter-process communication facilities provided by the COM
77	implementation of the host computer.
78
79	On Windows platforms, the VirtualBox Main API uses Microsoft COM, a native COM
80	implementation. On all other platforms, Mozilla XPCOM, an open-source COM
81	implementation, is used.
82
83	All the parts that a typical VirtualBox user interacts with (the Qt GUI,
84	the VBoxManage command-line interface and the VBoxVRDP server) are technically
85	front-ends to the Main API and only use the interfaces that are documented
86	in this Main API documentation. This ensures that, with any given release
87	version of VirtualBox, all capabilities of the product that could be useful
88	to an external client program are always exposed by way of this API.
89
90	The VirtualBox Main API (also called the <i>VirtualBox COM library</i>)
91	contains two public component classes:
92	<tt>%VirtualBox.VirtualBox</tt> and <tt>%VirtualBox.Session</tt>, which
93	implement IVirtualBox and ISession interfaces respectively. These two classes
94	are of supreme importance and will be needed in order for any front-end
95	program to do anything useful. It is recommended to read the documentation of
96	the mentioned interfaces first.
97
98	The <tt>%VirtualBox.VirtualBox</tt> class is a singleton. This means that
99	there can be only one object of this class on the local machine at any given
100	time. This object is a parent of many other objects in the VirtualBox COM
101	library and lives in the VBoxSVC process. In fact, when you create an instance
102	of the <tt>VirtualBox.VirtualBox</tt>, the COM subsystem checks if the VBoxSVC
103	process is already running, starts it if not, and returns you a reference to
104	the <tt>VirtualBox</tt> object created in this process. When the last reference
105	to this object is released, the VBoxSVC process ends (with a 5 second delay to
106	protect from too frequent restarts).
107
108	The <tt>%VirtualBox.Session</tt> class is a regular component. You can create
109	as many <tt>Session</tt> objects as you need but all of them will live in a
110	process which issues the object instantiation call. <tt>Session</tt> objects
111	represent virtual machine sessions which are used to configure virtual
112	machines and control their execution.
113	</desc>
114
115	<if target="midl">
116	<cpp line="enum {"/>
117	<cpp line=" kTypeLibraryMajorVersion = 1,"/>
118	<cpp line=" kTypeLibraryMinorVersion = 0"/>
119	<cpp line="};"/>
120	</if>
121
122	<if target="xpidl">
123	<!-- NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTSxx_CI macros are placed here, for convenience -->
124	<cpp>
125	/* currently, nsISupportsImpl.h lacks the below-like macros */
126
127	#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_CI
128	#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_CI
129	#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_CI
130
131	#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_CI
132	# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_CI(_class, _interface) \
133	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
134	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
135	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_CI(_class, _interface) \
136	NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER1(_class, _interface)
137	#endif
138
139	#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_CI
140	# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_CI(_class, _i1, _i2) \
141	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
142	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
143	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_CI(_class, _i1, _i2) \
144	NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER2(_class, _i1, _i2)
145	#endif
146
147	#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_CI
148	# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_CI(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3) \
149	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
150	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
151	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_CI(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3) \
152	NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER3(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3)
153	#endif
154
155	#ifndef NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI
156	# define NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1) \
157	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_BEGIN(_class) \
158	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i1, _ic1) \
159	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(nsISupports, _ic1) \
160	NS_IMPL_QUERY_CLASSINFO(_class) \
161	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_END
162	#endif
163
164	#ifndef NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI
165	# define NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
166	_i2, _ic2) \
167	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_BEGIN(_class) \
168	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i1, _ic1) \
169	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i2, _ic2) \
170	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(nsISupports, _ic1) \
171	NS_IMPL_QUERY_CLASSINFO(_class) \
172	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_END
173	#endif
174
175	#ifndef NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI
176	# define NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
177	_i2, _ic2, _i3, _ic3) \
178	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_BEGIN(_class) \
179	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i1, _ic1) \
180	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i2, _ic2) \
181	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i3, _ic3) \
182	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(nsISupports, _ic1) \
183	NS_IMPL_QUERY_CLASSINFO(_class) \
184	NS_INTERFACE_MAP_END
185	#endif
186
187	#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI
188	#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI
189	#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI
190
191	#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_AMBIGUOUS_CI
192	# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1) \
193	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
194	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
195	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1) \
196	NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER1(_class, _i1)
197	#endif
198
199	#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_AMBIGUOUS_CI
200	# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
201	_i2, _ic2) \
202	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
203	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
204	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
205	_i2, _ic2) \
206	NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER2(_class, _i1, _i2)
207	#endif
208
209	#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_AMBIGUOUS_CI
210	# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
211	_i2, _ic2, _i3, _ic3) \
212	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
213	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
214	NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
215	_i2, _ic2, _i3, _ic3) \
216	NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER3(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3)
217	#endif
218
219	</cpp>
220	</if>
221
222	<library
223	name="VirtualBox"
224	uuid="46137EEC-703B-4fe5-AFD4-7C9BBBBA0259"
225	version="1.3"
226	desc="VirtualBox Type Library"
227	appUuid="819B4D85-9CEE-493C-B6FC-64FFE759B3C9"
228	supportsErrorInfo="yes"
229	>
230
231
232	<!--
233	// COM result codes for VirtualBox
234	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
235	-->
236
237	<descGroup id="VirtualBox_COM_result_codes" title="VirtualBox COM result codes">
238	<desc>
239	This section describes all VirtualBox-specific COM result codes that may
240	be returned by methods of VirtualBox COM interfaces in addition to
241	standard COM result codes.
242
243	Note that along with the result code, every VirtualBox method returns
244	extended error information through the IVirtualBoxErrorInfo interface on
245	failure. This interface is a preferred way to present the error to the end
246	user because it contains a human readable description of the error. Raw
247	result codes, both standard and described in this section, are intended to
248	be used by programs to analyze the reason of a failure and select an
249	appropriate course of action without involving the end user (for example,
250	retry the operation later or make a different call).
251
252	The standard COM result codes that may originate from our methods include:
253
254	<table>
255	<tr><td>E_INVALIDARG</td>
256	<td>
257	Returned when the value of the method's argument is not within the range
258	of valid values. This should not be confused with situations when the
259	value is within the range but simply doesn't suit the current object
260	state and there is a possibility that it will be accepted later (in such
261	cases VirtualBox-specific codes are returned, for example,
262	<link to="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND"/>).
263	</td>
264	</tr>
265	<tr><td>E_POINTER</td>
266	<td>
267	Returned if a memory pointer for the output argument is invalid (for
268	example, @c null). Note that when pointers representing input
269	arguments (such as strings) are invalid, E_INVALIDARG is returned.
270	</td>
271	</tr>
272	<tr><td>E_ACCESSDENIED</td>
273	<td>
274	Returned when the called object is not ready. Since the lifetime of a
275	public COM object cannot be fully controlled by the implementation,
276	VirtualBox maintains the readiness state for all objects it creates and
277	returns this code in response to any method call on the object that was
278	deactivated by VirtualBox and is not functioning any more.
279	</td>
280	</tr>
281	<tr><td>E_OUTOFMEMORY</td>
282	<td>
283	Returned when a memory allocation operation fails.
284	</td>
285	</tr>
286	</table>
287	</desc>
288	</descGroup>
289
290	<!--
291	Note that src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsgvboxcom.xsl will ignore
292	everything in <result>/<desc> after (and including) the first dot, so express
293	the matter of the error code in the first sentence and keep it short.
294	-->
295
296	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND" value="0x80BB0001">
297	<desc>
298	Object corresponding to the supplied arguments does not exist.
299	</desc>
300	</result>
301
302	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE" value="0x80BB0002">
303	<desc>
304	Current virtual machine state prevents the operation.
305	</desc>
306	</result>
307
308	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR" value="0x80BB0003">
309	<desc>
310	Virtual machine error occurred attempting the operation.
311	</desc>
312	</result>
313
314	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR" value="0x80BB0004">
315	<desc>
316	File not accessible or erroneous file contents.
317	</desc>
318	</result>
319
320	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR" value="0x80BB0005">
321	<desc>
322	Runtime subsystem error.
323	</desc>
324	</result>
325
326	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR" value="0x80BB0006">
327	<desc>
328	Pluggable Device Manager error.
329	</desc>
330	</result>
331
332	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE" value="0x80BB0007">
333	<desc>
334	Current object state prohibits operation.
335	</desc>
336	</result>
337
338	<result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR" value="0x80BB0008">
339	<desc>
340	Host operating system related error.
341	</desc>
342	</result>
343
344	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED" value="0x80BB0009">
345	<desc>
346	Requested operation is not supported.
347	</desc>
348	</result>
349
350	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR" value="0x80BB000A">
351	<desc>
352	Invalid XML found.
353	</desc>
354	</result>
355
356	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_SESSION_STATE" value="0x80BB000B">
357	<desc>
358	Current session state prohibits operation.
359	</desc>
360	</result>
361
362	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE" value="0x80BB000C">
363	<desc>
364	Object being in use prohibits operation.
365	</desc>
366	</result>
367
368	<!--
369	Note that src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsgvboxcom.xsl will ignore
370	everything in <result>/<desc> after (and including) the first dot, so express
371	the matter of the error code in the first sentence and keep it short.
372	-->
373
374	<descGroup/>
375
376	<!--
377	// all common enums
378	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
379	-->
380
381	<enum name="SettingsVersion"
382	uuid="6e151282-c338-428a-989d-5f2402d87e6f"
383	>
384	<desc>Settings version of VirtualBox settings files. This is written to
385	the "version" attribute of the root "VirtualBox" element in the settings
386	file XML and indicates which VirtualBox version wrote the file.
387	</desc>
388
389	<const name="Null" value="0">
390	<desc>Null value, indicates invalid version.</desc>
391	</const>
392	<const name="v1_0" value="1">
393	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
394	</const>
395	<const name="v1_1" value="2">
396	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
397	</const>
398	<const name="v1_2" value="3">
399	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
400	</const>
401	<const name="v1_3pre" value="4">
402	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
403	</const>
404	<const name="v1_3" value="5">
405	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
406	</const>
407	<const name="v1_4" value="6">
408	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
409	</const>
410	<const name="v1_5" value="7">
411	<desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
412	<!-- 2008-09-04: 2.0.0 released
413	2008-11-20: settings version 1.5 introduced
414	2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
415	-->
416	</const>
417	<const name="v1_6" value="8">
418	<desc>Settings version "1.6", written by VirtualBox 2.1.4 (at least).</desc>
419	<!-- 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
420	2008-12-19: settings version 1.6 introduced (is in 2.1 branch)
421	2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
422	-->
423	</const>
424	<const name="v1_7" value="9">
425	<desc>Settings version "1.7", written by VirtualBox 2.2.x and 3.0.x.</desc>
426	<!-- 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
427	2009-03-11: settings version 1.7 introduced (is in 2.2 branch)
428	2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
429	VirtualBox.xml additions: NetserviceRegistry with DHCPServers
430	Machine changes: HardDiskAttachments is now StorageControllers
431	-->
432	</const>
433	<const name="v1_8" value="10">
434	<desc>Settings version "1.8", written by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
435	<!-- Machine additions: Display/@accelerate2DVideo
436	-->
437	</const>
438	</enum>
439
440	<enum
441	name="AccessMode"
442	uuid="1da0007c-ddf7-4be8-bcac-d84a1558785f"
443	>
444	<desc>
445	Access mode for opening files.
446	</desc>
447
448	<const name="ReadOnly" value="1"/>
449	<const name="ReadWrite" value="2"/>
450	</enum>
451
452	<enum
453	name="MachineState"
454	uuid="73bf04d0-7c4f-4684-9abf-d65a9ad74343"
455	>
456	<desc>
457	Virtual machine execution state.
458
459	This enumeration represents possible values of the <link
460	to="IMachine::state"/> attribute.
461
462	Below is the basic virtual machine state diagram. It shows how the state
463	changes during virtual machine execution. The text in square braces shows
464	a method of the IConsole interface that performs the given state
465	transition.
466
467	<pre>
468	+---------[powerDown()] <- Stuck <--[failure]-+
469	V \|
470	+-> PoweredOff --+-->[powerUp()]--> Starting --+ \| +-----[resume()]-----+
471	\| \| \| \| V \|
472	\| Aborted -----+ +--> Running --[pause()]--> Paused
473	\| \| ^ \| ^ \|
474	\| Saved -----------[powerUp()]--> Restoring -+ \| \| \| \|
475	\| ^ \| \| \| \|
476	\| \| +-----------------------------------------+-\|-------------------+ +
477	\| \| \| \| \|
478	\| \| +-- Saving <--------[takeSnapshot()]<-------+---------------------+
479	\| \| \| \|
480	\| +-------- Saving <--------[saveState()]<----------+---------------------+
481	\| \| \|
482	+-------------- Stopping -------[powerDown()]<----------+---------------------+
483	</pre>
484
485	Note that states to the right from PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved in the
486	above diagram are called <i>online VM states</i>. These states
487	represent the virtual machine which is being executed in a dedicated
488	process (usually with a GUI window attached to it where you can see the
489	activity of the virtual machine and interact with it). There are two
490	special pseudo-states, FirstOnline and LastOnline, that can be used in
491	relational expressions to detect if the given machine state is online or
492	not:
493
494	<pre>
495	if (machine.GetState() >= MachineState_FirstOnline &&
496	machine.GetState() <= MachineState_LastOnline)
497	{
498	...the machine is being executed...
499	}
500	</pre>
501
502	When the virtual machine is in one of the online VM states (that is, being
503	executed), only a few machine settings can be modified. Methods working
504	with such settings contain an explicit note about that. An attempt to
505	change any oter setting or perform a modifying operation during this time
506	will result in the <link to="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE"/> error.
507
508	All online states except Running, Paused and Stuck are transitional: they
509	represent temporary conditions of the virtual machine that will last as
510	long as the operation that initiated such a condition.
511
512	The Stuck state is a special case. It means that execution of the machine
513	has reached the "Guru Meditation" condition. This condition indicates an
514	internal VMM (virtual machine manager) failure which may happen as a
515	result of either an unhandled low-level virtual hardware exception or one
516	of the recompiler exceptions (such as the <i>too-many-traps</i>
517	condition).
518
519	Note also that any online VM state may transit to the Aborted state. This
520	happens if the process that is executing the virtual machine terminates
521	unexpectedly (for example, crashes). Other than that, the Aborted state is
522	equivalent to PoweredOff.
523
524	There are also a few additional state diagrams that do not deal with
525	virtual machine execution and therefore are shown separately. The states
526	shown on these diagrams are called <i>offline VM states</i> (this includes
527	PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved too).
528
529	The first diagram shows what happens when a lengthy setup operation is
530	being executed (such as <link to="IMachine::attachHardDisk"/>).
531
532	<pre>
533	+----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
534	\| \|
535	+-> PoweredOff --+ \|
536	\| \| \|
537	\|-> Aborted -----+-->[lengthy VM configuration call] --> SettingUp -----+
538	\| \|
539	+-> Saved -------+
540	</pre>
541
542	The next two diagrams demonstrate the process of taking a snapshot of a
543	powered off virtual machine and performing one of the "discard..."
544	operations, respectively.
545
546	<pre>
547	+----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
548	\| \|
549	+-> PoweredOff --+ \|
550	\| +-->[takeSnapshot()] -------------------> Saving ------+
551	+-> Aborted -----+
552
553	+-> PoweredOff --+
554	\| \|
555	\| Aborted -----+-->[discardSnapshot() ]-------------> Discarding --+
556	\| \| [discardCurrentState()] \|
557	+-> Saved -------+ [discardCurrentSnapshotAndState()] \|
558	\| \|
559	+---(Saved if restored from an online snapshot, PoweredOff otherwise)---+
560	</pre>
561
562	Note that the Saving state is present in both the offline state group and
563	online state group. Currently, the only way to determine what group is
564	assumed in a particular case is to remember the previous machine state: if
565	it was Running or Paused, then Saving is an online state, otherwise it is
566	an offline state. This inconsistency may be removed in one of the future
567	versions of VirtualBox by adding a new state.
568
569	<note internal="yes">
570	For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
571	comparisons involving FirstOnline and LastOnline pseudo-states valid,
572	the numeric values of these states must be correspondingly updated if
573	needed: for any online VM state, the condition
574	<tt>FirstOnline <= state <= LastOnline</tt> must be
575	@c true. The same relates to transient states for which
576	the condition <tt>FirstOnline <= state <= LastOnline</tt> must be
577	@c true.
578	</note>
579	</desc>
580
581	<const name="Null" value="0">
582	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
583	</const>
584	<const name="PoweredOff" value="1">
585	<desc>
586	The machine is not running and has no saved execution state; it has
587	either never been started or been shut down successfully.
588	</desc>
589	</const>
590	<const name="Saved" value="2">
591	<desc>
592	The machine is not currently running, but the execution state of the machine
593	has been saved to an external file when it was running, from where
594	it can be resumed.
595	</desc>
596	</const>
597	<const name="Aborted" value="3">
598	<desc>
599	The process running the machine has terminated abnormally. This may
600	indicate a crash of the VM process in host execution context, or
601	the VM process has been terminated externally.
602	</desc>
603	</const>
604	<const name="Running" value="4">
605	<desc>
606	The machine is currently being executed.
607	<note internal="yes">
608	For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
609	comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
610	precede the Paused state.
611	</note>
612	</desc>
613	</const>
614	<const name="Paused" value="5">
615	<desc>
616	Execution of the machine has been paused.
617	<note internal="yes">
618	For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
619	comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
620	follow the Running state.
621	</note>
622	</desc>
623	</const>
624	<const name="Stuck" value="6">
625	<desc>
626	Execution of the machine has reached the "Guru Meditation"
627	condition. This indicates a severe error in the hypervisor itself.
628	</desc>
629	</const>
630	<const name="Starting" value="7">
631	<desc>
632	Machine is being started after powering it on from a
633	zero execution state.
634	</desc>
635	</const>
636	<const name="Stopping" value="8">
637	<desc>
638	Machine is being normally stopped powering it off, or after the guest OS
639	has initiated a shutdown sequence.
640	</desc>
641	</const>
642	<const name="Saving" value="9">
643	<desc>
644	Machine is saving its execution state to a file, or an online
645	snapshot of the machine is being taken.
646	</desc>
647	</const>
648	<const name="Restoring" value="10">
649	<desc>
650	Execution state of the machine is being restored from a file
651	after powering it on from the saved execution state.
652	</desc>
653	</const>
654	<const name="Discarding" value="11">
655	<desc>
656	Snapshot of the machine is being discarded.
657	</desc>
658	</const>
659	<const name="SettingUp" value="12">
660	<desc>
661	Lengthy setup operation is in progress.
662	</desc>
663	</const>
664
665	<const name="FirstOnline" value="4" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Running -->
666	<desc>
667	Pseudo-state: first online state (for use in relational expressions).
668	</desc>
669	</const>
670	<const name="LastOnline" value="10" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Restoring -->
671	<desc>
672	Pseudo-state: last online state (for use in relational expressions).
673	</desc>
674	</const>
675
676	<const name="FirstTransient" value="7" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Starting -->
677	<desc>
678	Pseudo-state: first transient state (for use in relational expressions).
679	</desc>
680	</const>
681	<const name="LastTransient" value="12" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- SettingUp -->
682	<desc>
683	Pseudo-state: last transient state (for use in relational expressions).
684	</desc>
685	</const>
686
687	</enum>
688
689	<enum
690	name="SessionState"
691	uuid="CF2700C0-EA4B-47ae-9725-7810114B94D8"
692	>
693	<desc>
694	Session state. This enumeration represents possible values of
695	<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/> and <link to="ISession::state"/>
696	attributes. See individual enumerator descriptions for the meaning for
697	every value.
698	</desc>
699
700	<const name="Null" value="0">
701	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
702	</const>
703	<const name="Closed" value="1">
704	<desc>
705	The machine has no open sessions (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
706	the session is closed (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
707	</desc>
708	</const>
709	<const name="Open" value="2">
710	<desc>
711	The machine has an open direct session (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
712	the session is open (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
713	</desc>
714	</const>
715	<const name="Spawning" value="3">
716	<desc>
717	A new (direct) session is being opened for the machine
718	as a result of <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>
719	call (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
720	the session is currently being opened
721	as a result of <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>
722	call (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
723	</desc>
724	</const>
725	<const name="Closing" value="4">
726	<desc>
727	The direct session is being closed (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
728	the session is being closed (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
729	</desc>
730	</const>
731	</enum>
732
733	<enum
734	name="SessionType"
735	uuid="A13C02CB-0C2C-421E-8317-AC0E8AAA153A"
736	>
737	<desc>
738	Session type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
739	<link to="ISession::type"/> attribute.
740	</desc>
741
742	<const name="Null" value="0">
743	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
744	</const>
745	<const name="Direct" value="1">
746	<desc>
747	Direct session
748	(opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>)
749	</desc>
750	</const>
751	<const name="Remote" value="2">
752	<desc>
753	Remote session
754	(opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>)
755	</desc>
756	</const>
757	<const name="Existing" value="3">
758	<desc>
759	Existing session
760	(opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/>)
761	</desc>
762	</const>
763	</enum>
764
765	<enum
766	name="DeviceType"
767	uuid="6d9420f7-0b56-4636-99f9-7346f1b01e57"
768	>
769	<desc>
770	Device type.
771	</desc>
772	<const name="Null" value="0">
773	<desc>
774	Null value, may also mean "no device" (not allowed for
775	<link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>).
776	</desc>
777	</const>
778	<const name="Floppy" value="1">
779	<desc>Floppy device.</desc>
780	</const>
781	<const name="DVD" value="2">
782	<desc>CD/DVD-ROM device.</desc>
783	</const>
784	<const name="HardDisk" value="3">
785	<desc>Hard disk device.</desc>
786	</const>
787	<const name="Network" value="4">
788	<desc>Network device.</desc>
789	</const>
790	<const name="USB" value="5">
791	<desc>USB device.</desc>
792	</const>
793	<const name="SharedFolder" value="6">
794	<desc>Shared folder device.</desc>
795	</const>
796	</enum>
797
798	<enum
799	name="DeviceActivity"
800	uuid="6FC8AEAA-130A-4eb5-8954-3F921422D707"
801	>
802	<desc>
803	Device activity for <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>.
804	</desc>
805
806	<const name="Null" value="0"/>
807	<const name="Idle" value="1"/>
808	<const name="Reading" value="2"/>
809	<const name="Writing" value="3"/>
810	</enum>
811
812	<enum
813	name="ClipboardMode"
814	uuid="33364716-4008-4701-8f14-be0fa3d62950"
815	>
816	<desc>
817	Host-Guest clipboard interchange mode.
818	</desc>
819
820	<const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
821	<const name="HostToGuest" value="1"/>
822	<const name="GuestToHost" value="2"/>
823	<const name="Bidirectional" value="3"/>
824	</enum>
825
826	<enum
827	name="Scope"
828	uuid="7c91096e-499e-4eca-9f9b-9001438d7855"
829	>
830	<desc>
831	Scope of the operation.
832
833	A generic enumeration used in various methods to define the action or
834	argument scope.
835	</desc>
836
837	<const name="Global" value="0"/>
838	<const name="Machine" value="1"/>
839	<const name="Session" value="2"/>
840	</enum>
841
842	<enum
843	name="GuestStatisticType"
844	uuid="aa7c1d71-aafe-47a8-9608-27d2d337cf55"
845	>
846	<desc>
847	Statistics type for <link to="IGuest::getStatistic"/>.
848	</desc>
849
850	<const name="CPULoad_Idle" value="0">
851	<desc>
852	Idle CPU load (0-100%) for last interval.
853	</desc>
854	</const>
855	<const name="CPULoad_Kernel" value="1">
856	<desc>
857	Kernel CPU load (0-100%) for last interval.
858	</desc>
859	</const>
860	<const name="CPULoad_User" value="2">
861	<desc>
862	User CPU load (0-100%) for last interval.
863	</desc>
864	</const>
865	<const name="Threads" value="3">
866	<desc>
867	Total number of threads in the system.
868	</desc>
869	</const>
870	<const name="Processes" value="4">
871	<desc>
872	Total number of processes in the system.
873	</desc>
874	</const>
875	<const name="Handles" value="5">
876	<desc>
877	Total number of handles in the system.
878	</desc>
879	</const>
880	<const name="MemoryLoad" value="6">
881	<desc>
882	Memory load (0-100%).
883	</desc>
884	</const>
885	<const name="PhysMemTotal" value="7">
886	<desc>
887	Total physical memory in megabytes.
888	</desc>
889	</const>
890	<const name="PhysMemAvailable" value="8">
891	<desc>
892	Free physical memory in megabytes.
893	</desc>
894	</const>
895	<const name="PhysMemBalloon" value="9">
896	<desc>
897	Ballooned physical memory in megabytes.
898	</desc>
899	</const>
900	<const name="MemCommitTotal" value="10">
901	<desc>
902	Total amount of memory in the committed state in megabytes.
903	</desc>
904	</const>
905	<const name="MemKernelTotal" value="11">
906	<desc>
907	Total amount of memory used by the guest OS's kernel in megabytes.
908	</desc>
909	</const>
910	<const name="MemKernelPaged" value="12">
911	<desc>
912	Total amount of paged memory used by the guest OS's kernel in megabytes.
913	</desc>
914	</const>
915	<const name="MemKernelNonpaged" value="13">
916	<desc>
917	Total amount of non-paged memory used by the guest OS's kernel in megabytes.
918	</desc>
919	</const>
920	<const name="MemSystemCache" value="14">
921	<desc>
922	Total amount of memory used by the guest OS's system cache in megabytes.
923	</desc>
924	</const>
925	<const name="PageFileSize" value="15">
926	<desc>
927	Pagefile size in megabytes.
928	</desc>
929	</const>
930	<const name="SampleNumber" value="16">
931	<desc>
932	Statistics sample number
933	</desc>
934	</const>
935	<const name="MaxVal" value="17"/>
936	</enum>
937
938	<enum
939	name="BIOSBootMenuMode"
940	uuid="ae4fb9f7-29d2-45b4-b2c7-d579603135d5"
941	>
942	<desc>
943	BIOS boot menu mode.
944	</desc>
945
946	<const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
947	<const name="MenuOnly" value="1"/>
948	<const name="MessageAndMenu" value="2"/>
949	</enum>
950
951	<enum
952	name="DriveState"
953	uuid="cb7233b7-c519-42a5-8310-1830953cacbc"
954	>
955	<const name="Null" value="0">
956	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
957	</const>
958	<const name="NotMounted" value="1"/>
959	<const name="ImageMounted" value="2"/>
960	<const name="HostDriveCaptured" value="3"/>
961	</enum>
962
963	<enum
964	name="ProcessorFeature"
965	uuid="b8353b35-705d-4796-9967-ebfb7ba54af4"
966	>
967	<desc>
968	CPU features.
969	</desc>
970
971	<const name="HWVirtEx" value="0"/>
972	<const name="PAE" value="1"/>
973	<const name="LongMode" value="2"/>
974	</enum>
975
976
977	<!--
978	// IVirtualBoxErrorInfo
979	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
980	-->
981
982	<interface
983	name="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" extends="$errorinfo"
984	uuid="4b86d186-407e-4f9e-8be8-e50061be8725"
985	supportsErrorInfo="no"
986	wsmap="managed"
987	>
988	<desc>
989	The IVirtualBoxErrorInfo interface represents extended error information.
990
991	Extended error information can be set by VirtualBox components after
992	unsuccessful or partially successful method invocation. This information
993	can be retrieved by the calling party as an IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object
994	and then shown to the client in addition to the plain 32-bit result code.
995
996	In MS COM, this interface extends the IErrorInfo interface,
997	in XPCOM, it extends the nsIException interface. In both cases,
998	it provides a set of common attributes to retrieve error
999	information.
1000
1001	Sometimes invocation of some component's method may involve methods of
1002	other components that may also fail (independently of this method's
1003	failure), or a series of non-fatal errors may precede a fatal error that
1004	causes method failure. In cases like that, it may be desirable to preserve
1005	information about all errors happened during method invocation and deliver
1006	it to the caller. The <link to="#next"/> attribute is intended
1007	specifically for this purpose and allows to represent a chain of errors
1008	through a single IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object set after method invocation.
1009
1010	Note that errors are stored to a chain in the reverse order, i.e. the
1011	initial error object you query right after method invocation is the last
1012	error set by the callee, the object it points to in the @a next attribute
1013	is the previous error and so on, up to the first error (which is the last
1014	in the chain).
1015	</desc>
1016
1017	<attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
1018	<desc>
1019	Result code of the error.
1020	Usually, it will be the same as the result code returned
1021	by the method that provided this error information, but not
1022	always. For example, on Win32, CoCreateInstance() will most
1023	likely return E_NOINTERFACE upon unsuccessful component
1024	instantiation attempt, but not the value the component factory
1025	returned. Value is typed 'long', not 'result',
1026	to make interface usable from scripting languages.
1027	<note>
1028	In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1029	In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::result.
1030	</note>
1031	</desc>
1032	</attribute>
1033
1034	<attribute name="interfaceID" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1035	<desc>
1036	UUID of the interface that defined the error.
1037	<note>
1038	In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetGUID, except for the
1039	data type.
1040	In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1041	</note>
1042	</desc>
1043	</attribute>
1044
1045	<attribute name="component" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1046	<desc>
1047	Name of the component that generated the error.
1048	<note>
1049	In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetSource.
1050	In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1051	</note>
1052	</desc>
1053	</attribute>
1054
1055	<attribute name="text" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1056	<desc>
1057	Text description of the error.
1058	<note>
1059	In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetDescription.
1060	In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::message.
1061	</note>
1062	</desc>
1063	</attribute>
1064
1065	<attribute name="next" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
1066	<desc>
1067	Next error object if there is any, or @c null otherwise.
1068	<note>
1069	In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1070	In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::inner.
1071	</note>
1072	</desc>
1073	</attribute>
1074
1075	</interface>
1076
1077	<interface
1078	name="ILocalOwner" extends="$dispatched"
1079	uuid="308ff42a-dc45-49d4-a950-b1eee5e00bb5" wsmap="suppress"
1080	>
1081	<desc>
1082	The ILocalOwner interface allows to register local objects
1083	(created without COM calls, but with new()).
1084	Once registered, calls to methods of such objects can be made
1085	from remote COM processes.
1086	The main usecase is the event callback implementation where
1087	API clients provide callback objects.
1088	</desc>
1089	<method name="setLocalObject">
1090	<desc>
1091	Set local object.
1092	</desc>
1093	<param name="object" type="$unknown" dir="in">
1094	<desc>Local object to forward requests to.
1095	If null, clears currently set local object.</desc>
1096	</param>
1097	</method>
1098	</interface>
1099
1100	<!--
1101	// IVirtualBox
1102	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1103	-->
1104
1105	<interface
1106	name="IVirtualBoxCallback" extends="$unknown"
1107	uuid="2990059f-5bc8-4635-8415-658917cd3186"
1108	wsmap="suppress"
1109	>
1110
1111	<method name="onMachineStateChange">
1112	<desc>
1113	The execution state of the given machine has changed.
1114	<see>IMachine::state</see>
1115	</desc>
1116	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1117	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1118	</param>
1119	<param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in">
1120	<desc>New execution state.</desc>
1121	</param>
1122	</method>
1123
1124	<method name="onMachineDataChange">
1125	<desc>
1126	Any of the settings of the given machine has changed.
1127	</desc>
1128	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1129	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1130	</param>
1131	</method>
1132
1133	<method name="onExtraDataCanChange">
1134	<desc>
1135	Notification when someone tries to change extra data for
1136	either the given machine or (if @c null) global extra data.
1137	This gives the chance to veto against changes.
1138	</desc>
1139	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1140	<desc>
1141	ID of the machine this event relates to
1142	(@c null ID for global extra data change requests).
1143	</desc>
1144	</param>
1145	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
1146	<desc>
1147	Extra data key for the attempted write.
1148	</desc>
1149	</param>
1150	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
1151	<desc>
1152	Extra data value for the given key.
1153	</desc>
1154	</param>
1155	<param name="error" type="wstring" dir="out">
1156	<desc>
1157	Optional error message describing the reason of the
1158	veto (ignored if this notification returns @c true).
1159	</desc>
1160	</param>
1161	<param name="allowChange" type="boolean" dir="return">
1162	<desc>
1163	Flag to indicate whether the callee agrees (@c true)
1164	or vetoes against the change (@c false).
1165	</desc>
1166	</param>
1167	</method>
1168
1169	<method name="onExtraDataChange">
1170	<desc>
1171	Notification when machine specific or global extra data
1172	has changed.
1173	</desc>
1174	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1175	<desc>
1176	ID of the machine this event relates to.
1177	Null for global extra data changes.
1178	</desc>
1179	</param>
1180	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
1181	<desc>
1182	Extra data key that has changed.
1183	</desc>
1184	</param>
1185	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
1186	<desc>
1187	Extra data value for the given key.
1188	</desc>
1189	</param>
1190	</method>
1191
1192	<method name="onMediaRegistered">
1193	<desc>
1194	The given media was registered or unregistered
1195	within this VirtualBox installation.
1196
1197	The @a mediaType parameter describes what type of
1198	media the specified @a mediaId refers to. Possible
1199	values are:
1200
1201	<ul>
1202	<li><link to="DeviceType_HardDisk"/>: the media is a hard disk
1203	that, if registered, can be obtained using the
1204	<link to="IVirtualBox::getHardDisk"/> call.</li>
1205	<li><link to="DeviceType_DVD"/>: the media is a CD/DVD image
1206	that, if registered, can be obtained using the
1207	<link to="IVirtualBox::getDVDImage"/> call.</li>
1208	<li><link to="DeviceType_Floppy"/>: the media is a Floppy image
1209	that, if registered, can be obtained using the
1210	<link to="IVirtualBox::getFloppyImage"/> call.</li>
1211	</ul>
1212
1213	Note that if this is a deregistration notification,
1214	there is no way to access the object representing the
1215	unregistered media. It is supposed that the
1216	application will do required cleanup based on the
1217	@a mediaId value.
1218	</desc>
1219	<param name="mediaId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1220	<desc>ID of the media this event relates to.</desc>
1221	</param>
1222	<param name="mediaType" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1223	<desc>Type of the media this event relates to.</desc>
1224	</param>
1225	<param name="registered" type="boolean" dir="in">
1226	<desc>
1227	If @c true, the media was registered, otherwise it was
1228	unregistered.
1229	</desc>
1230	</param>
1231	</method>
1232
1233	<method name="onMachineRegistered">
1234	<desc>
1235	The given machine was registered or unregistered
1236	within this VirtualBox installation.
1237	</desc>
1238	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1239	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1240	</param>
1241	<param name="registered" type="boolean" dir="in">
1242	<desc>
1243	If @c true, the machine was registered, otherwise it was
1244	unregistered.
1245	</desc>
1246	</param>
1247	</method>
1248
1249	<method name="onSessionStateChange">
1250	<desc>
1251	The state of the session for the given machine was changed.
1252	<see>IMachine::sessionState</see>
1253	</desc>
1254	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1255	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1256	</param>
1257	<param name="state" type="SessionState" dir="in">
1258	<desc>New session state.</desc>
1259	</param>
1260	</method>
1261
1262	<method name="onSnapshotTaken">
1263	<desc>
1264	A new snapshot of the machine has been taken.
1265	<see>ISnapshot</see>
1266	</desc>
1267	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1268	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1269	</param>
1270	<param name="snapshotId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1271	<desc>ID of the new snapshot.</desc>
1272	</param>
1273	</method>
1274
1275	<method name="onSnapshotDiscarded">
1276	<desc>
1277	Snapshot of the given machine has been discarded.
1278
1279	<note>
1280	This notification is delivered <b>after</b> the snapshot
1281	object has been uninitialized on the server (so that any
1282	attempt to call its methods will return an error).
1283	</note>
1284
1285	<see>ISnapshot</see>
1286	</desc>
1287	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1288	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1289	</param>
1290	<param name="snapshotId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1291	<desc>
1292	ID of the discarded snapshot. @c null means the current machine
1293	state has been discarded (restored from the current snapshot).
1294	</desc>
1295	</param>
1296	</method>
1297
1298	<method name="onSnapshotChange">
1299	<desc>
1300	Snapshot properties (name and/or description) have been changed.
1301	<see>ISnapshot</see>
1302	</desc>
1303	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1304	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1305	</param>
1306	<param name="snapshotId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1307	<desc>ID of the changed snapshot.</desc>
1308	</param>
1309	</method>
1310
1311	<method name="onGuestPropertyChange">
1312	<desc>
1313	Notification when a guest property has changed.
1314	</desc>
1315	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1316	<desc>
1317	ID of the machine this event relates to.
1318	</desc>
1319	</param>
1320	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1321	<desc>
1322	The name of the property that has changed.
1323	</desc>
1324	</param>
1325	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
1326	<desc>
1327	The new property value.
1328	</desc>
1329	</param>
1330	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
1331	<desc>
1332	The new property flags.
1333	</desc>
1334	</param>
1335	</method>
1336
1337	</interface>
1338
1339	<interface
1340	name="IDHCPServer" extends="$unknown"
1341	uuid="6cfe387c-74fb-4ca7-bff6-973bec8af7a3"
1342	wsmap="managed"
1343	>
1344	<desc>
1345	The IDHCPServer interface represents the vbox dhcp server configuration.
1346
1347	To enumerate all the dhcp servers on the host, use the
1348	<link to="IVirtualBox::DHCPServers"/> attribute.
1349	</desc>
1350
1351	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
1352	<desc>
1353	specifies if the dhcp server is enabled
1354	</desc>
1355	</attribute>
1356
1357	<attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1358	<desc>
1359	specifies server IP
1360	</desc>
1361	</attribute>
1362
1363	<attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1364	<desc>
1365	specifies server network mask
1366	</desc>
1367	</attribute>
1368
1369	<attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1370	<desc>
1371	specifies internal network name the server is used for
1372	</desc>
1373	</attribute>
1374
1375	<attribute name="lowerIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1376	<desc>
1377	specifies from IP adrres in server address range
1378	</desc>
1379	</attribute>
1380
1381	<attribute name="upperIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1382	<desc>
1383	specifies to IP adrres in server address range
1384	</desc>
1385	</attribute>
1386
1387	<method name="setConfiguration">
1388	<desc>
1389	configures the server
1390	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1391	invalid configuration supplied
1392	</result>
1393	</desc>
1394	<param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1395	<desc>
1396	server IP address
1397	</desc>
1398	</param>
1399	<param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
1400	<desc>
1401	server network mask
1402	</desc>
1403	</param>
1404	<param name="FromIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1405	<desc>
1406	server From IP address for address range
1407	</desc>
1408	</param>
1409	<param name="ToIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1410	<desc>
1411	server To IP address for address range
1412	</desc>
1413	</param>
1414	</method>
1415
1416	<method name="start">
1417	<desc>
1418	Starts DHCP server process.
1419	<result name="E_FAIL">
1420	Failed to start the process.
1421	</result>
1422	</desc>
1423	<param name="networkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1424	<desc>
1425	Name of internal network DHCP server should attach to.
1426	</desc>
1427	</param>
1428	<param name="trunkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1429	<desc>
1430	Name of internal network trunk.
1431	</desc>
1432	</param>
1433	<param name="trunkType" type="wstring" dir="in">
1434	<desc>
1435	Type of internal network trunk.
1436	</desc>
1437	</param>
1438	</method>
1439
1440	<method name="stop">
1441	<desc>
1442	Stops DHCP server process.
1443	<result name="E_FAIL">
1444	Failed to stop the process.
1445	</result>
1446	</desc>
1447	</method>
1448	</interface>
1449
1450	<interface
1451	name="IVirtualBox" extends="$dispatched"
1452	uuid="3f4ab53a-199b-4526-a91a-93ff62e456b8"
1453	wsmap="managed"
1454	>
1455	<desc>
1456	The IVirtualBox interface represents the main interface exposed by the
1457	product that provides virtual machine management.
1458
1459	An instance of IVirtualBox is required for the product to do anything
1460	useful. Even though the interface does not expose this, internally,
1461	IVirtualBox is implemented as a singleton and actually lives in the
1462	process of the VirtualBox server (VBoxSVC.exe). This makes sure that
1463	IVirtualBox can track the state of all virtual machines on a particular
1464	host, regardless of which frontend started them.
1465
1466	To enumerate all the virtual machines on the host, use the
1467	<link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute.
1468	</desc>
1469
1470	<attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1471	<desc>
1472	A string representing the version number of the product. The
1473	format is 3 integer numbers divided by dots (e.g. 1.0.1). The
1474	last number represents the build number and will frequently change.
1475	</desc>
1476	</attribute>
1477
1478	<attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
1479	<desc>
1480	The internal build revision number of the product.
1481	</desc>
1482	</attribute>
1483
1484	<attribute name="packageType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1485	<desc>
1486	A string representing the package type of this product. The
1487	format is OS_ARCH_DIST where OS is either WINDOWS, LINUX,
1488	SOLARIS, DARWIN. ARCH is either 32BITS or 64BITS. DIST
1489	is either GENERIC, UBUNTU_606, UBUNTU_710, or something like
1490	this.
1491	</desc>
1492	</attribute>
1493
1494	<attribute name="homeFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1495	<desc>
1496	Full path to the directory where the global settings file,
1497	<tt>VirtualBox.xml</tt>, is stored.
1498
1499	In this version of VirtualBox, the value of this property is
1500	always <tt><user_dir>/.VirtualBox</tt> (where
1501	<tt><user_dir></tt> is the path to the user directory,
1502	as determined by the host OS), and cannot be changed.
1503
1504	This path is also used as the base to resolve relative paths in
1505	places where relative paths are allowed (unless otherwise
1506	expressly indicated).
1507	</desc>
1508	</attribute>
1509
1510	<attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1511	<desc>
1512	Full name of the global settings file.
1513	The value of this property corresponds to the value of
1514	<link to="#homeFolder"/> plus <tt>/VirtualBox.xml</tt>.
1515	</desc>
1516	</attribute>
1517
1518	<attribute name="host" type="IHost" readonly="yes">
1519	<desc>Associated host object.</desc>
1520	</attribute>
1521
1522	<attribute name="systemProperties" type="ISystemProperties" readonly="yes">
1523	<desc>Associated system information object.</desc>
1524	</attribute>
1525
1526	<attribute name="machines" type="IMachine" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1527	<desc>
1528	Array of machine objects registered within this VirtualBox instance.
1529	</desc>
1530	</attribute>
1531
1532	<attribute name="hardDisks" type="IHardDisk" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1533	<desc>
1534	Array of hard disk objects known to this VirtualBox installation.
1535
1536	This array contains only base (root) hard disks. All differencing
1537	hard disks of the given base hard disk can be enumerated using
1538	<link to="IHardDisk::children"/>.
1539	</desc>
1540	</attribute>
1541
1542	<attribute name="DVDImages" type="IDVDImage" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1543	<desc>
1544	Array of CD/DVD image objects registered with this VirtualBox instance.
1545	</desc>
1546	</attribute>
1547
1548	<attribute name="floppyImages" type="IFloppyImage" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1549	<desc>
1550	Array of floppy image objects registered with this VirtualBox instance.
1551	</desc>
1552	</attribute>
1553
1554	<attribute name="progressOperations" type="IProgress" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1555
1556	<attribute name="guestOSTypes" type="IGuestOSType" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1557
1558	<attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1559	<desc>
1560	Collection of global shared folders. Global shared folders are
1561	available to all virtual machines.
1562
1563	New shared folders are added to the collection using
1564	<link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
1565	removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
1566
1567	<note>
1568	In the current version of the product, global shared folders are not
1569	implemented and therefore this collection is always empty.
1570	</note>
1571	</desc>
1572	</attribute>
1573
1574	<attribute name="performanceCollector" type="IPerformanceCollector" readonly="yes">
1575	<desc>
1576	Associated performance collector object.
1577	</desc>
1578	</attribute>
1579
1580	<attribute name="DHCPServers" type="IDHCPServer" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1581	<desc>
1582	dhcp server settings.
1583	</desc>
1584	</attribute>
1585
1586	<method name="createMachine">
1587	<desc>
1588	Creates a new virtual machine.
1589
1590	The new machine is created unregistered, with the initial configuration
1591	set according to the specified guest OS type. A typical sequence of
1592	actions to create a new virtual machine is as follows:
1593
1594	<ol>
1595	<li>
1596	Call this method to have a new machine created. The returned machine
1597	object will be "mutable" allowing to change any machine property.
1598	</li>
1599
1600	<li>
1601	Configure the machine using the appropriate attributes and methods.
1602	</li>
1603
1604	<li>
1605	Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to write the settings
1606	to the machine's XML settings file. The configuration of the newly
1607	created machine will not be saved to disk until this method is
1608	called.
1609	</li>
1610
1611	<li>
1612	Call <link to="#registerMachine" /> to add the machine to the list
1613	of machines known to VirtualBox.
1614	</li>
1615	</ol>
1616
1617	You should specify valid name for the newly created machine when calling
1618	this method. See the <link to="IMachine::name"/> attribute description
1619	for more details about the machine name.
1620
1621	The specified guest OS type identifier must match an ID of one of known
1622	guest OS types listed in the <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/>
1623	array.
1624
1625	Every machine has a <i>settings file</i> that is used to store
1626	the machine configuration. This file is stored in a directory called the
1627	<i>machine settings subfolder</i>. Both the settings subfolder and file
1628	will have a name that corresponds to the name of the virtual machine.
1629	You can specify where to create the machine setting subfolder using the
1630	@a baseFolder argument. The base folder can be absolute (full path) or
1631	relative to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home
1632	directory</link>.
1633
1634	If @a baseFolder is a @c null or empty string (which is recommended), the
1635	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder">default machine
1636	settings folder</link> will be used as a base folder for the created
1637	machine. Otherwise the given base folder will be used. In either case,
1638	the full path to the resulting settings file has the following
1639	structure:
1640	<pre>
1641	<base_folder>/<machine_name>/<machine_name>.xml
1642	</pre>
1643
1644	Note that if the resulting settings file already exists, this method
1645	will fail with <link to="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR"/>.
1646
1647	Optionally, you may specify an UUID of to assign to the created machine.
1648	However, this is not recommended and you should normally pass an empty
1649	(@c null) UUID to this method so that a new UUID will be automatically
1650	generated for every created machine. You can use UUID
1651	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 as @c null value.
1652
1653	<note>
1654	There is no way to change the name of the settings file or
1655	subfolder of the created machine directly.
1656	</note>
1657
1658	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1659	@a osTypeId is invalid.
1660	</result>
1661	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1662	Resulting settings file name is invalid or the settings file already
1663	exists or could not be created due to an I/O error.
1664	</result>
1665	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1666	@a name is empty or @c null.
1667	</result>
1668	</desc>
1669
1670	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1671	<desc>Machine name.</desc>
1672	</param>
1673	<param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1674	<desc>Guest OS Type ID.</desc>
1675	</param>
1676	<param name="baseFolder" type="wstring" dir="in">
1677	<desc>Base machine folder (optional).</desc>
1678	</param>
1679	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
1680	<desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1681	</param>
1682	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1683	<desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1684	</param>
1685	</method>
1686
1687	<method name="createLegacyMachine">
1688	<desc>
1689	Creates a new virtual machine in "legacy" mode, using the specified
1690	settings file to store machine settings.
1691
1692	As opposed to machines created by <link to="#createMachine"/>,
1693	the settings file of the machine created in "legacy" mode is not
1694	automatically renamed when the machine name is changed -- it will always
1695	remain the same as specified in this method call.
1696
1697	The specified settings file name can be absolute (full path) or relative
1698	to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home
1699	directory</link>. If the file name doesn't contain an extension, the
1700	default extension (.xml) will be appended.
1701
1702	Note that the configuration of the newly created machine is not
1703	saved to disk (and therefore no settings file is created)
1704	until <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called. If the
1705	specified settings file already exists, this method
1706	will fail with <link to="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR"/>.
1707
1708	See <link to="#createMachine"/> for more information.
1709
1710	@deprecated This method may be removed later. Use <link
1711	to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> instead.
1712
1713	<note>
1714	There is no way to change the name of the settings file
1715	of the machine created in "legacy" mode.
1716	</note>
1717
1718	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1719	@a osTypeId is invalid.
1720	</result>
1721	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1722	@a settingsFile is invalid or the settings file already exists or
1723	could not be created due to an I/O error.
1724	</result>
1725	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1726	@a name or @a settingsFile is empty or @c null.
1727	</result>
1728	</desc>
1729
1730	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1731	<desc>Machine name.</desc>
1732	</param>
1733	<param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1734	<desc>Machine OS Type ID.</desc>
1735	</param>
1736	<param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1737	<desc>Name of the machine settings file.</desc>
1738	</param>
1739	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
1740	<desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1741	</param>
1742	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1743	<desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1744	</param>
1745	</method>
1746
1747	<method name="openMachine">
1748	<desc>
1749	Opens a virtual machine from the existing settings file.
1750	The opened machine remains unregistered until you call
1751	<link to="#registerMachine"/>.
1752
1753	The specified settings file name can be absolute
1754	(full path) or relative to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">
1755	VirtualBox home directory</link>. This file must exist
1756	and must be a valid machine settings file whose contents
1757	will be used to construct the machine object.
1758
1759	@deprecated Will be removed soon.
1760	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1761	Settings file name invalid, not found or sharing violation.
1762	</result>
1763	</desc>
1764	<param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1765	<desc>
1766	Name of the machine settings file.
1767	</desc>
1768	</param>
1769	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1770	<desc>Opened machine object.</desc>
1771	</param>
1772	<note>
1773	<link to="IMachine::settingsModified"/> will return
1774	@c false for the created machine, until any of machine settings
1775	are changed.
1776	</note>
1777	</method>
1778
1779	<method name="registerMachine">
1780	<desc>
1781
1782	Registers the machine previously created using
1783	<link to="#createMachine"/> or opened using
1784	<link to="#openMachine"/> within this VirtualBox installation. After
1785	successful method invocation, the
1786	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onMachineRegistered"/> signal is sent
1787	to all registered callbacks.
1788
1789	<note>
1790	This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
1791	to save all current machine settings before registering it.
1792	</note>
1793
1794	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1795	No matching virtual machine found.
1796	</result>
1797	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1798	Virtual machine was not created within this VirtualBox instance.
1799	</result>
1800
1801	</desc>
1802	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
1803	</method>
1804
1805	<method name="getMachine">
1806	<desc>
1807	Attempts to find a virtual machine given its UUID.
1808	To look up a machine by name, use <link to="IVirtualBox::findMachine" />
1809	instead.
1810
1811	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1812	Could not find registered machine matching @a id.
1813	</result>
1814
1815	</desc>
1816	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
1817	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return"/>
1818	</method>
1819
1820	<method name="findMachine">
1821	<desc>
1822	Attempts to find a virtual machine given its name.
1823	To look up a machine by UUID, use <link to="IVirtualBox::getMachine" />
1824	instead.
1825
1826	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1827	Could not find registered machine matching @a name.
1828	</result>
1829
1830	</desc>
1831	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
1832	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return"/>
1833	</method>
1834
1835	<method name="unregisterMachine">
1836	<desc>
1837
1838	Unregisters the machine previously registered using
1839	<link to="#registerMachine"/>. After successful method invocation, the
1840	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onMachineRegistered"/> signal is sent
1841	to all registered callbacks.
1842
1843	<note>
1844	The specified machine must not be in the Saved state, have an open
1845	(or a spawning) direct session associated with it, have snapshots or
1846	have hard disks attached.
1847	</note>
1848
1849	<note>
1850	This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
1851	save all current machine settings before unregistering it.
1852	</note>
1853
1854	<note>
1855	If the given machine is inaccessible (see
1856	<link to="IMachine::accessible"/>), it will be unregistered and
1857	fully uninitialized right afterwards. As a result, the returned
1858	machine object will be unusable and an attempt to call
1859	<b>any</b> method will return the "Object not ready" error.
1860	</note>
1861
1862	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1863	Could not find registered machine matching @a id.
1864	</result>
1865	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
1866	Machine is in Saved state.
1867	</result>
1868	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1869	Machine has snapshot or open session or hard disk attached.
1870	</result>
1871
1872	</desc>
1873	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
1874	<desc>UUID of the machine to unregister.</desc>
1875	</param>
1876	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1877	<desc>Unregistered machine object.</desc>
1878	</param>
1879	</method>
1880
1881	<method name="createAppliance">
1882	<desc>
1883	Creates a new appliance object, which represents an appliance in the Open Virtual Machine
1884	Format (OVF). This can then be used to import an OVF appliance into VirtualBox or to export
1885	machines as an OVF appliance; see the documentation for <link to="IAppliance" /> for details.
1886	</desc>
1887	<param name="appliance" type="IAppliance" dir="return">
1888	<desc>New appliance.</desc>
1889	</param>
1890	</method>
1891
1892	<method name="createHardDisk">
1893	<desc>
1894	Creates a new base hard disk object that will use the given storage
1895	format and location for hard disk data.
1896
1897	Note that the actual storage unit is not created by this method. In
1898	order to do it, and before you are able to attach the created hard disk
1899	to virtual machines, you must call one of the following methods to
1900	allocate a format-specific storage unit at the specified location:
1901	<ul>
1902	<li><link to="IHardDisk::createBaseStorage"/></li>
1903	<li><link to="IHardDisk::createDiffStorage"/></li>
1904	</ul>
1905
1906	Some hard disk attributes, such as <link to="IHardDisk::id"/>, may
1907	remain uninitialized until the hard disk storage unit is successfully
1908	created by one of the above methods.
1909
1910	After the storage unit is successfully created, the hard disk gets
1911	remembered by this VirtualBox installation and will be accessible
1912	through <link to="#getHardDisk"/> and <link to="#findHardDisk"/>
1913	methods. Remembered root (base) hard disks are also returned as part of
1914	the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array. See IHardDisk for more details.
1915
1916	The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
1917	installation can be obtained using
1918	<link to="ISystemProperties::hardDiskFormats"/>. If the @a format
1919	attribute is empty or @c null then the default storage format
1920	specified by <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFormat"/> will
1921	be used for creating a storage unit of the hard disk.
1922
1923	Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
1924	See <link to="IMedium::location"/>, IHardDisk and
1925	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"/> for more details.
1926
1927	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1928	@a format identifier is invalid. See
1929	<link to="ISystemProperties::hardDiskFormats"/>.
1930	</result>
1931	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1932	@a location is a not valid file name (for file-based formats only).
1933	</result>
1934	</desc>
1935	<param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
1936	<desc>
1937	Identifier of the storage format to use for the new hard disk.
1938	</desc>
1939	</param>
1940	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1941	<desc>
1942	Location of the storage unit for the new hard disk.
1943	</desc>
1944	</param>
1945	<param name="hardDisk" type="IHardDisk" dir="return">
1946	<desc>Created hard disk object.</desc>
1947	</param>
1948	</method>
1949
1950	<method name="openHardDisk">
1951	<desc>
1952	Opens a hard disk from an existing location, optionally replacing
1953	the image UUID and/or parent UUID.
1954
1955	After the hard disk is successfully opened by this method, it gets
1956	remembered by (known to) this VirtualBox installation and will be
1957	accessible through <link to="#getHardDisk"/> and
1958	<link to="#findHardDisk"/> methods. Remembered root (base) hard disks
1959	are also returned as part of the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array and can
1960	be attached to virtual machines. See IHardDisk for more details.
1961
1962	If a differencing hard disk is to be opened by this method, the
1963	operation will succeed only if its parent hard disk and all ancestors,
1964	if any, are already known to this VirtualBox installation (for example,
1965	were opened by this method before).
1966
1967	This method tries to guess the storage format of the specified hard disk
1968	by reading hard disk data at the specified location.
1969
1970	If @a write is ReadWrite (which it should be), the image is opened for
1971	read/write access and must have according permissions, as VirtualBox
1972	may actually write status information into the disk's metadata sections.
1973
1974	Note that write access is required for all typical image usage in VirtualBox,
1975	since VirtualBox may need to write metadata such as a UUID into the image.
1976	The only exception is opening a source image temporarily for copying and
1977	cloning when the image will quickly be closed again.
1978
1979	Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
1980	See <link to="IMedium::location"/>, IHardDisk and
1981	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"/> for more details.
1982
1983	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1984	Invalid hard disk storage file location or could not find the hard
1985	disk at the specified location.
1986	</result>
1987	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
1988	Could not get hard disk storage format.
1989	</result>
1990	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1991	Invalid hard disk storage format.
1992	</result>
1993
1994	</desc>
1995	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1996	<desc>
1997	Location of the storage unit that contains hard disk data in one of
1998	the supported storage formats.
1999	</desc>
2000	</param>
2001	<param name="accessMode" type="AccessMode" dir="in">
2002	<desc>
2003	Determines whether to open the image in read/write or read-only mode.
2004	</desc>
2005	</param>
2006	<param name="setImageId" type="boolean" dir="in">
2007	<desc>
2008	Select whether a new image UUID is set or not.
2009	</desc>
2010	</param>
2011	<param name="imageId" type="wstring" dir="in">
2012	<desc>
2013	New UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a new
2014	UUID is automatically created. Specifying a zero UUIDs is not valid.
2015	</desc>
2016	</param>
2017	<param name="setParentId" type="boolean" dir="in">
2018	<desc>
2019	Select whether a new parent UUID is set or not.
2020	</desc>
2021	</param>
2022	<param name="parentId" type="wstring" dir="in">
2023	<desc>
2024	New parent UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a
2025	new UUID is automatically created, provided @a setParentId is
2026	@c true. A zero UUID is valid.
2027	</desc>
2028	</param>
2029	<param name="hardDisk" type="IHardDisk" dir="return">
2030	<desc>Opened hard disk object.</desc>
2031	</param>
2032	</method>
2033
2034	<method name="getHardDisk" const="yes">
2035	<desc>
2036	Returns a hard disk with the given UUID.
2037
2038	The hard disk with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2039	installation, i.e. it must be previously created by
2040	<link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened by <link
2041	to="#openHardDisk"/>, or attached to some known virtual machine.
2042
2043	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2044	No hard disk object matching @a id found.
2045	</result>
2046
2047	</desc>
2048	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
2049	<desc>UUID of the hard disk to look for.</desc>
2050	</param>
2051	<param name="hardDisk" type="IHardDisk" dir="return">
2052	<desc>Found hard disk object.</desc>
2053	</param>
2054	</method>
2055
2056	<method name="findHardDisk">
2057	<desc>
2058	Returns a hard disk that uses the given location to store hard
2059	disk data.
2060
2061	The given hard disk must be known to this VirtualBox installation, i.e.
2062	it must be previously created by
2063	<link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened by <link
2064	to="#openHardDisk"/>, or attached to some known virtual machine.
2065
2066	The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
2067	the <link to="IHardDisk::location"/> attribute of each known hard
2068	disk.
2069
2070	For locations represented by file names in the host's file system, the
2071	requested location can be a path relative to the
2072	<link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link>. If
2073	only a file name without any path is given, the
2074	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
2075	folder</link> will be prepended to the file name before searching. Note
2076	that on case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is
2077	performed, otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
2078
2079	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2080	No hard disk object matching @a location found.
2081	</result>
2082
2083	</desc>
2084	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2085	<desc>Location string to search for.</desc>
2086	</param>
2087	<param name="hardDisk" type="IHardDisk" dir="return">
2088	<desc>Found hard disk object.</desc>
2089	</param>
2090	</method>
2091
2092	<method name="openDVDImage">
2093	<desc>
2094	Opens a CD/DVD image contained in the specified file of the supported
2095	format and assigns it the given UUID.
2096
2097	After the image is successfully opened by this method, it gets
2098	remembered by (known to) this VirtualBox installation and will be
2099	accessible through <link to="#getDVDImage"/> and
2100	<link to="#findDVDImage"/> methods. Remembered images are also
2101	returned as part of the <link to="#DVDImages"/> array and can be mounted
2102	to virtual machines. See IMedium for more details.
2103
2104	See <link to="IMedium::location"/> to get more details about the format
2105	of the location string.
2106
2107	<note>
2108	Currently only ISO 9960 CD/DVD images are supported by VirtualBox.
2109	</note>
2110
2111	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2112	Invalid CD/DVD image file location or could not find the CD/DVD
2113	image at the specified location.
2114	</result>
2115	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2116	CD/DVD image already exists in the media registry.
2117	</result>
2118
2119	</desc>
2120	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2121	<desc>
2122	Full path to the file that contains a valid CD/DVD image.
2123	</desc>
2124	</param>
2125	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
2126	<desc>
2127	UUID to assign to the given image within this VirtualBox installation.
2128	If an empty (@c null) UUID is specified, the system will randomly
2129	generate a new UUID.
2130	</desc>
2131	</param>
2132	<param name="image" type="IDVDImage" dir="return">
2133	<desc>Opened CD/DVD image object.</desc>
2134	</param>
2135	</method>
2136
2137	<method name="getDVDImage">
2138	<desc>
2139	Returns a CD/DVD image with the given UUID.
2140
2141	The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2142	installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2143	to="#openDVDImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2144
2145	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2146	No matching DVD image found in the media registry.
2147	</result>
2148
2149	</desc>
2150	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
2151	<desc>UUID of the image to look for.</desc>
2152	</param>
2153	<param name="image" type="IDVDImage" dir="return">
2154	<desc>Found CD/DVD image object.</desc>
2155	</param>
2156	</method>
2157
2158	<method name="findDVDImage">
2159	<desc>
2160	Returns a CD/DVD image with the given image location.
2161
2162	The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2163	installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2164	to="#openDVDImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2165
2166	The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
2167	the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute of each known CD/DVD image.
2168
2169	The requested location can be a path relative to the
2170	<link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link>. If
2171	only a file name without any path is given, the
2172	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
2173	folder</link> will be prepended to the file name before searching. Note
2174	that on case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is
2175	performed, otherwise the case in the file path is ignored.
2176
2177	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2178	Invalid image file location.
2179	</result>
2180	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2181	No matching DVD image found in the media registry.
2182	</result>
2183
2184	</desc>
2185	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2186	<desc>CD/DVD image file path to look for.</desc>
2187	</param>
2188	<param name="image" type="IDVDImage" dir="return">
2189	<desc>Found CD/DVD image object.</desc>
2190	</param>
2191	</method>
2192
2193	<method name="openFloppyImage">
2194	<desc>
2195	Opens a floppy image contained in the specified file of the supported
2196	format and assigns it the given UUID.
2197
2198	After the image is successfully opened by this method, it gets
2199	remembered by (known to) this VirtualBox installation and will be
2200	accessible through <link to="#getFloppyImage"/> and
2201	<link to="#findFloppyImage"/> methods. Remembered images are also
2202	returned as part of the <link to="#floppyImages"/> array and can be
2203	mounted to virtual machines. See IMedium for more details.
2204
2205	See <link to="IMedium::location"/> to get more details about the format
2206	of the location string.
2207
2208	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2209	Invalid floppy image file location or could not find the floppy
2210	image at the specified location.
2211	</result>
2212	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2213	Floppy image already exists in the media registry.
2214	</result>
2215
2216	<note>
2217	Currently, only raw floppy images are supported by VirtualBox.
2218	</note>
2219	</desc>
2220	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2221	<desc>
2222	Full path to the file that contains a valid floppy image.
2223	</desc>
2224	</param>
2225	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
2226	<desc>
2227	UUID to assign to the given image file within this VirtualBox
2228	installation. If an empty (@c null) UUID is specified, the system will
2229	randomly generate a new UUID.
2230	</desc>
2231	</param>
2232	<param name="image" type="IFloppyImage" dir="return">
2233	<desc>Opened floppy image object.</desc>
2234	</param>
2235	</method>
2236
2237	<method name="getFloppyImage">
2238	<desc>
2239	Returns a floppy image with the given UUID.
2240
2241	The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2242	installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2243	to="#openFloppyImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2244
2245	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2246	No matching floppy image found in the media registry.
2247	</result>
2248
2249	</desc>
2250	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
2251	<desc>UUID of the image to look for.</desc>
2252	</param>
2253	<param name="image" type="IFloppyImage" dir="return">
2254	<desc>Found floppy image object.</desc>
2255	</param>
2256	</method>
2257
2258	<method name="findFloppyImage">
2259	<desc>
2260	Returns a floppy image with the given image location.
2261
2262	The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2263	installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2264	to="#openFloppyImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2265
2266	The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
2267	the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute of each known floppy image.
2268
2269	The requested location can be a path relative to the
2270	<link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link>. If
2271	only a file name without any path is given, the
2272	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
2273	folder</link> will be prepended to the file name before searching. Note
2274	that on case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is
2275	performed, otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
2276
2277	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2278	Invalid image file location.
2279	</result>
2280	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2281	No matching floppy image found in the media registry.
2282	</result>
2283
2284	</desc>
2285	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2286	<desc>Floppy image file path to look for.</desc>
2287	</param>
2288	<param name="image" type="IFloppyImage" dir="return">
2289	<desc>Found floppy image object.</desc>
2290	</param>
2291	</method>
2292
2293	<method name="getGuestOSType">
2294	<desc>
2295	Returns an object describing the specified guest OS type.
2296
2297	The requested guest OS type is specified using a string which is a
2298	mnemonic identifier of the guest operating system, such as
2299	<tt>"win31"</tt> or <tt>"ubuntu"</tt>. The guest OS type ID of a
2300	particular virtual machine can be read or set using the
2301	<link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/> attribute.
2302
2303	The <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/> collection contains all
2304	available guest OS type objects. Each object has an
2305	<link to="IGuestOSType::id"/> attribute which contains an identifier of
2306	the guest OS this object describes.
2307
2308	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2309	@a id is not a valid Guest OS type.
2310	</result>
2311
2312	</desc>
2313	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
2314	<desc>Guest OS type ID string.</desc>
2315	</param>
2316	<param name="type" type="IGuestOSType" dir="return">
2317	<desc>Guest OS type object.</desc>
2318	</param>
2319	</method>
2320
2321	<method name="createSharedFolder">
2322	<desc>
2323	Creates a new global shared folder by associating the given logical
2324	name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
2325	folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
2326	<link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
2327	<note>
2328	In the current implementation, this operation is not
2329	implemented.
2330	</note>
2331	</desc>
2332	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2333	<desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
2334	</param>
2335	<param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
2336	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
2337	</param>
2338	<param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
2339	<desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
2340	</param>
2341	</method>
2342
2343	<method name="removeSharedFolder">
2344	<desc>
2345	Removes the global shared folder with the given name previously
2346	created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
2347	shared folders and stops sharing it.
2348	<note>
2349	In the current implementation, this operation is not
2350	implemented.
2351	</note>
2352	</desc>
2353	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2354	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
2355	</param>
2356	</method>
2357
2358	<method name="getExtraDataKeys">
2359	<desc>
2360	Returns an array representing the global extra data keys which currently
2361	have values defined.
2362	</desc>
2363	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2364	<desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
2365	</param>
2366	</method>
2367
2368	<method name="getExtraData">
2369	<desc>
2370	Returns associated global extra data.
2371
2372	If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
2373	succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
2374
2375	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2376	Settings file not accessible.
2377	</result>
2378	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2379	Could not parse the settings file.
2380	</result>
2381
2382	</desc>
2383	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2384	<desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
2385	</param>
2386	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
2387	<desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
2388	</param>
2389	</method>
2390
2391	<method name="setExtraData">
2392	<desc>
2393	Sets associated global extra data.
2394
2395	If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
2396	will be deleted.
2397
2398	<note>
2399	Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
2400	registered callbacks using the
2401	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataCanChange"/>
2402	notification for a permission. If one of the callbacks refuses the
2403	new value, the change will not be performed.
2404	</note>
2405	<note>
2406	On success, the
2407	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataChange"/> notification
2408	is called to inform all registered callbacks about a successful data
2409	change.
2410	</note>
2411
2412	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2413	Settings file not accessible.
2414	</result>
2415	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2416	Could not parse the settings file.
2417	</result>
2418	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2419	Modification request refused.
2420	</result>
2421
2422	</desc>
2423	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2424	<desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
2425	</param>
2426	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
2427	<desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
2428	</param>
2429	</method>
2430
2431	<method name="openSession">
2432	<desc>
2433	Opens a new direct session with the given virtual machine.
2434
2435	A direct session acts as a local lock on the given VM.
2436	There can be only one direct session open at a time for every
2437	virtual machine, protecting the VM from being manipulated by
2438	conflicting actions from different processes. Only after a
2439	direct session has been opened, one can change all VM settings
2440	and execute the VM in the process space of the session object.
2441
2442	Sessions therefore can be compared to mutex semaphores that
2443	lock a given VM for modification and execution.
2444	See <link to="ISession">ISession</link> for details.
2445
2446	<note>Unless you are writing a new VM frontend, you will not
2447	want to execute a VM in the current process. To spawn a new
2448	process that executes a VM, use
2449	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession" />
2450	instead.</note>
2451
2452	Upon successful return, the session object can be used to
2453	get access to the machine and to the VM console.
2454
2455	In VirtualBox terminology, the machine becomes "mutable" after
2456	a session has been opened. Note that the "mutable" machine
2457	object, on which you may invoke IMachine methods to change its
2458	settings, will be a different object from the immutable IMachine
2459	objects returned by various IVirtualBox methods. To obtain a
2460	mutable IMachine object (upon which you can invoke settings methods),
2461	use the <link to="ISession::machine" /> attribute.
2462
2463	One must always call <link to="ISession::close" /> to release the
2464	lock on the machine, or the machine's state will eventually be
2465	set to "Aborted".
2466
2467	In other words, to change settings on a machine, the following
2468	sequence is typically performed:
2469
2470	<ol>
2471	<li>Call this method (openSession) to have a machine locked for
2472	the current session.</li>
2473
2474	<li>Obtain a mutable IMachine object from <link to="ISession::machine" />.</li>
2475
2476	<li>Change the settings of the machine.</li>
2477
2478	<li>Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" />.</li>
2479
2480	<li>Close the session by calling <link to="ISession::close"/>.</li>
2481	</ol>
2482
2483	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
2484	Virtual machine not registered.
2485	</result>
2486	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2487	Process not started by OpenRemoteSession.
2488	</result>
2489	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2490	No matching virtual machine found.
2491	</result>
2492	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2493	Session already open or being opened.
2494	</result>
2495	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
2496	Failed to assign machine to session.
2497	</result>
2498
2499	</desc>
2500	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
2501	<desc>
2502	Session object that will represent the opened session after
2503	successful method invocation. This object must not represent
2504	the already open session.
2505	<note>
2506	This session will be automatically closed if the
2507	VirtualBox server is terminated for some reason.
2508	</note>
2509	</desc>
2510	</param>
2511	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
2512	<desc>ID of the virtual machine to open a session with.</desc>
2513	</param>
2514	</method>
2515
2516	<method name="openRemoteSession">
2517	<desc>
2518	Spawns a new process that executes a virtual machine (called a
2519	"remote session").
2520
2521	Opening a remote session causes the VirtualBox server to start a new
2522	process that opens a direct session with the given VM. As a result, the
2523	VM is locked by that direct session in the new process, preventing
2524	conflicting changes from other processes. Since sessions act as locks
2525	that prevent conflicting changes, one cannot open a remote session
2526	for a VM that already has another open session (direct or remote), or
2527	is currently in the process of opening one (see <link
2528	to="IMachine::sessionState"/>).
2529
2530	While the remote session still provides some level of control over the
2531	VM execution to the caller (using the <link to="IConsole" /> interface),
2532	not all VM settings are available for modification within the remote
2533	session context.
2534
2535	This operation can take some time (a new VM is started in a new process,
2536	for which memory and other resources need to be set up). Because of this,
2537	an <link to="IProgress" /> is returned to allow the caller to wait for this
2538	asynchronous operation to be completed. Until then, the remote session
2539	object remains in the closed state, and accessing the machine or its
2540	console through it is invalid. It is recommended to use
2541	<link to="IProgress::waitForCompletion" /> or similar calls to wait for
2542	completion.
2543
2544	As with all <link to="ISession" /> objects, it is recommended to call
2545	<link to="ISession::close" /> on the local session object once openRemoteSession()
2546	has been called. However, the session's state (see <link to="ISession::state" />)
2547	will not return to "Closed" until the remote session has also closed (i.e.
2548	until the VM is no longer running). In that case, however, the state of
2549	the session will automatically change back to "Closed".
2550
2551	Currently supported session types (values of the @a type
2552	argument) are:
2553	<ul>
2554	<li><tt>"gui"</tt>: VirtualBox Qt GUI session</li>
2555	<li><tt>"vrdp"</tt>: VirtualBox VRDP Server session</li>
2556	<li><tt>"sdl"</tt>: VirtualBox SDL GUI session</li>
2557	</ul>
2558
2559	The @a environment argument is a string containing definitions of
2560	environment variables in the following format:
2561	@code
2562	NAME[=VALUE]\n
2563	NAME[=VALUE]\n
2564	...
2565	@endcode
2566	where <tt>\\n</tt> is the new line character. These environment
2567	variables will be appended to the environment of the VirtualBox server
2568	process. If an environment variable exists both in the server process
2569	and in this list, the value from this list takes precedence over the
2570	server's variable. If the value of the environment variable is
2571	omitted, this variable will be removed from the resulting environment.
2572	If the environment string is @c null or empty, the server environment
2573	is inherited by the started process as is.
2574
2575	<see>openExistingSession</see>
2576
2577	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
2578	Virtual machine not registered.
2579	</result>
2580	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2581	Invalid session type @a type.
2582	</result>
2583	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2584	No machine matching @a machineId found.
2585	</result>
2586	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2587	Session already open or being opened.
2588	</result>
2589	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
2590	Launching process for machine failed.
2591	</result>
2592	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
2593	Failed to assign machine to session.
2594	</result>
2595
2596	</desc>
2597	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
2598	<desc>
2599	Session object that will represent the opened remote session
2600	after successful method invocation (this object must not
2601	represent an already open session).
2602	</desc>
2603	</param>
2604	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
2605	<desc>ID of the virtual machine to open a session with.</desc>
2606	</param>
2607	<param name="type" type="wstring" dir="in">
2608	<desc>
2609	Type of the remote session (case sensitive).
2610	</desc>
2611	</param>
2612	<param name="environment" type="wstring" dir="in">
2613	<desc>
2614	Environment to pass to the opened session.
2615	</desc>
2616	</param>
2617	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2618	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2619	</param>
2620	</method>
2621
2622	<method name="openExistingSession">
2623	<desc>
2624	Opens a new remote session with the virtual machine for
2625	which a direct session is already open.
2626
2627	The remote session provides some level of control over the VM
2628	execution (using the IConsole interface) to the caller; however,
2629	within the remote session context, not all VM settings are available
2630	for modification.
2631
2632	As opposed to <link to="#openRemoteSession"/>, the number of
2633	remote sessions opened this way is not limited by the API
2634
2635	<note>
2636	It is an error to open a remote session with the machine that
2637	doesn't have an open direct session.
2638	</note>
2639
2640	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
2641	Virtual machine not registered.
2642	</result>
2643	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2644	No machine matching @a machineId found.
2645	</result>
2646	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2647	Session already open or being opened.
2648	</result>
2649	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_SESSION_STATE">
2650	Direct session state not Open.
2651	</result>
2652	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
2653	Failed to get console object from direct session or assign
2654	machine to session.
2655	</result>
2656
2657	<see>openRemoteSession</see>
2658	</desc>
2659	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
2660	<desc>
2661	Session object that will represent the open remote session
2662	after successful method invocation. This object must not
2663	represent an already open session.
2664	<note>
2665	This session will be automatically closed when the peer
2666	(direct) session dies or gets closed.
2667	</note>
2668	</desc>
2669	</param>
2670	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
2671	<desc>ID of the virtual machine to open a session with.</desc>
2672	</param>
2673	</method>
2674
2675	<method name="registerCallback">
2676	<desc>
2677	Registers a new global VirtualBox callback. The methods of the given
2678	callback object will be called by VirtualBox when an appropriate
2679	event occurs.
2680
2681	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2682	A @c null callback cannot be registered.
2683	</result>
2684
2685	</desc>
2686	<param name="callback" type="IVirtualBoxCallback" dir="in">
2687	<desc>Callback object to register.</desc>
2688	</param>
2689	</method>
2690
2691	<method name="unregisterCallback">
2692	<desc>
2693	Unregisters the previously registered global VirtualBox callback.
2694
2695	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2696	Specified @a callback not registered.
2697	</result>
2698
2699	</desc>
2700	<param name="callback" type="IVirtualBoxCallback" dir="in">
2701	<desc>Callback object to unregister.</desc>
2702	</param>
2703	</method>
2704
2705	<method name="waitForPropertyChange">
2706	<desc>
2707	Blocks the caller until any of the properties represented by the
2708	@a what argument changes the value or until the given timeout interval
2709	expires.
2710
2711	The @a what argument is a comma separated list of property masks that
2712	describe properties the caller is interested in. The property mask is
2713	a string in the following format:
2714
2715	<pre>
2716	[[group.]subgroup.]name
2717	</pre>
2718
2719	where @c name is the property name and @c group, @c subgroup are zero
2720	or more property group specifiers. Each element (group or name) in
2721	the property mask may be either a Latin string or an asterisk symbol
2722	(@c "*") which is used to match any string for the given element. A
2723	property mask that doesn't contain asterisk symbols represents a
2724	single fully qualified property name.
2725
2726	Groups in the fully qualified property name go from more generic (the
2727	left-most part) to more specific (the right-most part). The first
2728	element is usually a name of the object the property belongs to. The
2729	second element may be either a property name, or a child object name,
2730	or an index if the preceding element names an object which is one of
2731	many objects of the same type. This way, property names form a
2732	hierarchy of properties. Here are some examples of property names:
2733
2734	<table>
2735	<tr>
2736	<td><tt>VirtualBox.version</tt></td>
2737	<td><link to="IVirtualBox::version"/> property</td>
2738	</tr>
2739	<tr>
2740	<td><tt>Machine.<UUID>.name</tt></td>
2741	<td><link to="IMachine::name"/> property of the machine with the
2742	given UUID</td>
2743	</tr>
2744	</table>
2745
2746	Most property names directly correspond to the properties of objects
2747	(components) provided by the VirtualBox library and may be used to
2748	track changes to these properties. However, there may be
2749	pseudo-property names that don't correspond to any existing object's
2750	property directly, as well as there may be object properties that
2751	don't have a corresponding property name that is understood by this
2752	method, and therefore changes to such properties cannot be
2753	tracked. See individual object's property descriptions to get a
2754	fully qualified property name that can be used with this method (if
2755	any).
2756
2757	There is a special property mask @c "*" (i.e. a string consisting of a
2758	single asterisk symbol) that can be used to match all properties.
2759	Below are more examples of property masks:
2760
2761	<table>
2762	<tr>
2763	<td><tt>VirtualBox.*</tt></td>
2764	<td>Track all properties of the VirtualBox object</td>
2765	</tr>
2766	<tr>
2767	<td><tt>Machine.*.name</tt></td>
2768	<td>Track changes to the <link to="IMachine::name"/> property of
2769	all registered virtual machines</td>
2770	</tr>
2771	</table>
2772
2773	<note>
2774	This function is not implemented in the current version of the
2775	product.
2776	</note>
2777	</desc>
2778	<param name="what" type="wstring" dir="in">
2779	<desc>Comma separated list of property masks.</desc>
2780	</param>
2781	<param name="timeout" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
2782	<desc>
2783	Wait timeout in milliseconds.
2784	Specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
2785	</desc>
2786	</param>
2787	<param name="changed" type="wstring" dir="out">
2788	<desc>
2789	Comma separated list of properties that have been changed and caused
2790	this method to return to the caller.
2791	</desc>
2792	</param>
2793	<param name="values" type="wstring" dir="out">
2794	<desc>Reserved, not currently used.</desc>
2795	</param>
2796	</method>
2797
2798	<!--method name="createDHCPServerForInterface">
2799	<desc>
2800	Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2801	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2802	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2803	</result>
2804	</desc>
2805	<param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2806	<desc>Network Interface</desc>
2807	</param>
2808	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2809	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2810	</param>
2811	</method-->
2812
2813	<method name="createDHCPServer">
2814	<desc>
2815	Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2816	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2817	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2818	</result>
2819	</desc>
2820	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2821	<desc>server name</desc>
2822	</param>
2823	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2824	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2825	</param>
2826	</method>
2827
2828	<method name="findDHCPServerByNetworkName">
2829	<desc>
2830	Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2831	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2832	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2833	</result>
2834
2835	</desc>
2836	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2837	<desc>server name</desc>
2838	</param>
2839	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2840	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2841	</param>
2842	</method>
2843
2844	<!--method name="findDHCPServerForInterface">
2845	<desc>
2846	Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2847	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2848	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2849	</result>
2850	</desc>
2851	<param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2852	<desc>Network Interface</desc>
2853	</param>
2854	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2855	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2856	</param>
2857	</method-->
2858
2859	<method name="removeDHCPServer">
2860	<desc>
2861	Removes the dhcp server settings
2862	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2863	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2864	</result>
2865	</desc>
2866	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="in">
2867	<desc>Dhcp server settings to be removed</desc>
2868	</param>
2869	</method>
2870
2871	</interface>
2872
2873	<!--
2874	// IVFSExplorer
2875	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2876	-->
2877
2878	<enum
2879	name="VFSType"
2880	uuid="813999ba-b949-48a8-9230-aadc6285e2f2"
2881	>
2882	<desc>
2883	Virtual file systems supported by VFSExplorer.
2884	</desc>
2885
2886	<const name="File" value="1" />
2887	<const name="Cloud" value="2" />
2888	<const name="S3" value="3" />
2889	<const name="WebDav" value="4" />
2890	</enum>
2891
2892	<enum
2893	name="VFSFileType"
2894	uuid="714333cd-44e2-415f-a245-d378fa9b1242"
2895	>
2896	<desc>
2897	File types known by VFSExplorer.
2898	</desc>
2899
2900	<const name="Unknown" value="1" />
2901	<const name="Fifo" value="2" />
2902	<const name="DevChar" value="3" />
2903	<const name="Directory" value="4" />
2904	<const name="DevBlock" value="5" />
2905	<const name="File" value="6" />
2906	<const name="SymLink" value="7" />
2907	<const name="Socket" value="8" />
2908	<const name="WhiteOut" value="9" />
2909	</enum>
2910
2911	<interface
2912	name="IVFSExplorer" extends="$unknown"
2913	uuid="2bb864a1-02a3-4474-a1d4-fb5f23b742e1"
2914	wsmap="managed"
2915	>
2916	<desc>
2917	The VFSExplorer interface unifies access to different file system
2918	types. This includes local file systems as well remote file systems like
2919	S3. For a list of supported types see <link to="VFSType" />.
2920	An instance of this is returned by <link to="IAppliance::createVFSExplorer" />.
2921	</desc>
2922
2923	<attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2924	<desc>Returns the current path in the virtual file system.</desc>
2925	</attribute>
2926
2927	<attribute name="type" type="VFSType" readonly="yes">
2928	<desc>Returns the file system type which is currently in use.</desc>
2929	</attribute>
2930
2931	<method name="update">
2932	<desc>Updates the internal list of files/directories from the
2933	current directory level. Use <link to="#entryList" /> to get the full list
2934	after a call to this method.</desc>
2935
2936	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2937	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2938	</param>
2939	</method>
2940
2941	<method name="cd">
2942	<desc>Change the current directory level.</desc>
2943
2944	<param name="aDir" type="wstring" dir="in">
2945	<desc>The name of the directory to go in.</desc>
2946	</param>
2947
2948	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2949	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2950	</param>
2951	</method>
2952
2953	<method name="cdUp">
2954	<desc>Go one directory upwards from the current directory level.</desc>
2955
2956	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2957	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2958	</param>
2959	</method>
2960
2961	<method name="entryList">
2962	<desc>Returns a list of files/directories after a call to <link
2963	to="#update" />. The user is responsible for keeping this internal
2964	list up do date.</desc>
2965
2966	<param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2967	<desc>The list of names for the entries.</desc>
2968	</param>
2969
2970	<param name="aTypes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2971	<desc>The list of types for the entries.</desc>
2972	</param>
2973	</method>
2974
2975	<method name="exists">
2976	<desc>Checks if the given file list exists in the current directory
2977	level.</desc>
2978
2979	<param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2980	<desc>The names to check.</desc>
2981	</param>
2982
2983	<param name="aExists" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
2984	<desc>The names which exist.</desc>
2985	</param>
2986	</method>
2987
2988	<method name="remove">
2989	<desc>Deletes the given files in the current directory level.</desc>
2990
2991	<param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2992	<desc>The names to remove.</desc>
2993	</param>
2994
2995	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2996	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2997	</param>
2998	</method>
2999
3000	</interface>
3001
3002	<!--
3003	// IAppliance
3004	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3005	-->
3006
3007	<interface
3008	name="IAppliance" extends="$unknown"
3009	uuid="e3ba9ab9-ac2c-4266-8bd2-91c4bf721ceb"
3010	wsmap="managed"
3011	>
3012	<desc>
3013	Represents a platform-independent appliance in OVF format. An instance of this is returned
3014	by <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />, which can then be used to import and export
3015	appliances with VirtualBox.
3016
3017	The OVF standard suggests two different physical file formats:
3018
3019	<ol>
3020	<li>If the OVF is distributed as a set of files, then @a file must be a fully qualified
3021	path name to an existing OVF descriptor file with an <tt>.ovf</tt> file extension. If
3022	this descriptor file references other files, as OVF appliances distributed as a set of
3023	files most likely do, those files must be in the same directory as the descriptor file.</li>
3024
3025	<li>If the OVF is distributed as a single file, it must be in TAR format and have the
3026	<tt>.ova</tt> file extension. This TAR file must then contain at least the OVF descriptor
3027	files and optionally other files.
3028
3029	At this time, VirtualBox does not not yet support the packed (TAR) variant; support will
3030	be added with a later version.</li>
3031	</ol>
3032
3033	<b>Importing</b> an OVF appliance into VirtualBox as instances of
3034	<link to="IMachine" /> involves the following sequence of API calls:
3035
3036	<ol>
3037	<li>Call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />. This will create an empty IAppliance object.
3038	</li>
3039
3040	<li>On the new object, call <link to="#read" /> with the full path of the OVF file you
3041	would like to import. So long as this file is syntactically valid, this will succeed
3042	and return an instance of IAppliance that contains the parsed data from the OVF file.
3043	</li>
3044
3045	<li>Next, call <link to="#interpret" />, which analyzes the OVF data and sets up the
3046	contents of the IAppliance attributes accordingly. These can be inspected by a
3047	VirtualBox front-end such as the GUI, and the suggestions can be displayed to the
3048	user. In particular, the <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array contains
3049	instances of <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> which represent the virtual
3050	systems in the OVF, which in turn describe the virtual hardware prescribed by the
3051	OVF (network and hardware adapters, virtual disk images, memory size and so on).
3052	The GUI can then give the user the option to confirm and/or change these suggestions.
3053	</li>
3054
3055	<li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
3056	virtual system to override the suggestions made by the interpret() routine.
3057	</li>
3058
3059	<li>Finally, call <link to="#importMachines" /> to create virtual machines in
3060	VirtualBox as instances of <link to="IMachine" /> that match the information in the
3061	virtual system descriptions.
3062	</li>
3063	</ol>
3064
3065	<b>Exporting</b> VirtualBox machines into an OVF appliance involves the following steps:
3066
3067	<ol>
3068	<li>As with importing, first call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" /> to create
3069	an empty IAppliance object.
3070	</li>
3071
3072	<li>For each machine you would like to export, call <link to="IMachine::export" />
3073	with the IAppliance object you just created. This creates an instance of
3074	<link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> inside the appliance.
3075	</li>
3076
3077	<li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
3078	virtual system to override the suggestions made by the export() routine.
3079	</li>
3080
3081	<li>Finally, call <link to="#write" /> with a path specification to have the OVF
3082	file written.</li>
3083	</ol>
3084
3085	</desc>
3086
3087	<attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3088	<desc>Path to the main file of the OVF appliance, which is either the <tt>.ovf</tt> or
3089	the <tt>.ova</tt> file passed to <link to="#read" /> (for import) or
3090	<link to="#write" /> (for export).
3091	This attribute is empty until one of these methods has been called.
3092	</desc>
3093	</attribute>
3094
3095	<attribute name="disks" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3096	<desc>
3097	Array of virtual disk definitions. One such description exists for each
3098	disk definition in the OVF; each string array item represents one such piece of
3099	disk information, with the information fields separated by tab (\\t) characters.
3100
3101	The caller should be prepared for additional fields being appended to
3102	this string in future versions of VirtualBox and therefore check for
3103	the number of tabs in the strings returned.
3104
3105	In the current version, the following eight fields are returned per string
3106	in the array:
3107
3108	<ol>
3109	<li>Disk ID (unique string identifier given to disk)</li>
3110
3111	<li>Capacity (unsigned integer indicating the maximum capacity of the disk)</li>
3112
3113	<li>Populated size (optional unsigned integer indicating the current size of the
3114	disk; can be approximate; -1 if unspecified)</li>
3115
3116	<li>Format (string identifying the disk format, typically
3117	"http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse")</li>
3118
3119	<li>Reference (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty,
3120	then the disk should be created on import)</li>
3121
3122	<li>Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image,
3123	which need not necessarily be the same as the values specified above, since
3124	the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified)</li>
3125
3126	<li>Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks;
3127	presently unsupported and always -1)</li>
3128
3129	<li>Compression (optional string equalling "gzip" if the image is gzip-compressed)</li>
3130	</ol>
3131	</desc>
3132	</attribute>
3133
3134	<attribute name="virtualSystemDescriptions" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3135	<desc> Array of virtual system descriptions. One such description is created
3136	for each virtual system found in the OVF.
3137	This array is empty until either <link to="#interpret" /> (for import) or <link to="IMachine::export" />
3138	(for export) has been called.
3139	</desc>
3140	</attribute>
3141
3142	<method name="read">
3143	<desc>
3144	Reads an OVF file into the appliance object.
3145
3146	This method succeeds if the OVF is syntactically valid and, by itself, without errors. The
3147	mere fact that this method returns successfully does not mean that VirtualBox supports all
3148	features requested by the appliance; this can only be examined after a call to <link to="#interpret" />.
3149	</desc>
3150	<param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
3151	<desc>
3152	Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
3153	on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
3154	</desc>
3155	</param>
3156	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3157	<desc></desc>
3158	</param>
3159	</method>
3160
3161	<method name="interpret">
3162	<desc>
3163	Interprets the OVF data that was read when the appliance was constructed. After
3164	calling this method, one can inspect the
3165	<link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array attribute, which will then contain
3166	one <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> for each virtual machine found in
3167	the appliance.
3168
3169	Calling this method is the second step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
3170	see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
3171
3172	After calling this method, one should call <link to="#getWarnings" /> to find out
3173	if problems were encountered during the processing which might later lead to
3174	errors.
3175	</desc>
3176	</method>
3177
3178	<method name="importMachines">
3179	<desc>
3180	Imports the appliance into VirtualBox by creating instances of <link to="IMachine" />
3181	and other interfaces that match the information contained in the appliance as
3182	closely as possible, as represented by the import instructions in the
3183	<link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
3184
3185	Calling this method is the final step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
3186	see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
3187
3188	Since importing the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
3189	disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
3190	returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
3191	</desc>
3192
3193	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3194	<desc></desc>
3195	</param>
3196	</method>
3197
3198	<method name="createVFSExplorer">
3199	<desc>Returns a <link to="IVFSExplorer" /> object for the given URI.</desc>
3200
3201	<param name="aUri" type="wstring" dir="in">
3202	<desc>The URI describing the file system to use.</desc>
3203	</param>
3204
3205	<param name="aExplorer" type="IVFSExplorer" dir="return">
3206	<desc></desc>
3207	</param>
3208	</method>
3209
3210	<method name="write">
3211	<desc>
3212	Writes the contents of the appliance exports into a new OVF file.
3213
3214	Calling this method is the final step of exporting an appliance from VirtualBox;
3215	see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
3216
3217	Since exporting the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
3218	disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
3219	returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
3220	</desc>
3221	<param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
3222	<desc>
3223	Output format, as a string. Currently supported formats are "ovf-0.9" and "ovf-1.0";
3224	future versions of VirtualBox may support additional formats.
3225	</desc>
3226	</param>
3227	<param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
3228	<desc>
3229	Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
3230	on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
3231	</desc>
3232	</param>
3233	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3234	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3235	</param>
3236	</method>
3237
3238	<method name="getWarnings">
3239	<desc>Returns textual warnings which occured during execution of <link to="#interpret" />.</desc>
3240
3241	<param name="aWarnings" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
3242	<desc></desc>
3243	</param>
3244	</method>
3245
3246	</interface>
3247
3248	<enum
3249	name="VirtualSystemDescriptionType"
3250	uuid="aacc58de-5b45-4f82-ae2e-dd9a824fc3b5"
3251	>
3252	<desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> to describe the type of
3253	a configuration value.</desc>
3254
3255	<const name="Ignore" value="1" />
3256	<const name="OS" value="2" />
3257	<const name="Name" value="3" />
3258	<const name="Product" value="4" />
3259	<const name="Vendor" value="5" />
3260	<const name="Version" value="6" />
3261	<const name="ProductUrl" value="7" />
3262	<const name="VendorUrl" value="8" />
3263	<const name="Description" value="9" />
3264	<const name="License" value="10" />
3265	<const name="Miscellaneous" value="11" />
3266	<const name="CPU" value="12" />
3267	<const name="Memory" value="13" />
3268	<const name="HardDiskControllerIDE" value="14" />
3269	<const name="HardDiskControllerSATA" value="15" />
3270	<const name="HardDiskControllerSCSI" value="16" />
3271	<const name="HardDiskImage" value="17" />
3272	<const name="Floppy" value="18" />
3273	<const name="CDROM" value="19" />
3274	<const name="NetworkAdapter" value="20" />
3275	<const name="USBController" value="21" />
3276	<const name="SoundCard" value="22" />
3277
3278	</enum>
3279
3280	<enum
3281	name="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType"
3282	uuid="56d9403f-3425-4118-9919-36f2a9b8c77c"
3283	>
3284	<desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::getValuesByType" /> to describe the value
3285	type to fetch.</desc>
3286
3287	<const name="Reference" value="1" />
3288	<const name="Original" value="2" />
3289	<const name="Auto" value="3" />
3290	<const name="ExtraConfig" value="4" />
3291
3292	</enum>
3293
3294	<interface
3295	name="IVirtualSystemDescription" extends="$unknown"
3296	uuid="d7525e6c-531a-4c51-8e04-41235083a3d8"
3297	wsmap="managed"
3298	>
3299
3300	<desc>This interface is used in the <link to="IAppliance::virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
3301	After <link to="IAppliance::interpret" /> has been called, that array contains
3302	information about how the virtual systems described in the OVF should best be imported into VirtualBox
3303	virtual machines. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the steps required to import an OVF
3304	into VirtualBox.
3305	</desc>
3306
3307	<attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
3308	<desc>Return the number of virtual system description entries.</desc>
3309	</attribute>
3310
3311	<method name="getDescription">
3312	<desc>Returns information about the virtual system as arrays of instruction items. In each array, the
3313	items with the same indices correspond and jointly represent an import instruction for VirtualBox.
3314
3315	The list below identifies the value sets that are possible depending on the
3316	<link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" /> enum value in the array item in aTypes[]. In each case,
3317	the array item with the same index in aOvfValues[] will contain the original value as contained
3318	in the OVF file (just for informational purposes), and the corresponding item in aVBoxValues[]
3319	will contain a suggested value to be used for VirtualBox. Depending on the description type,
3320	the aExtraConfigValues[] array item may also be used.
3321
3322	<ul>
3323	<li>
3324	"OS": the guest operating system type. There must be exactly one such array item on import. The
3325	corresponding item in aVBoxValues[] contains the suggested guest operating system for VirtualBox.
3326	This will be one of the values listed in <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes" />. The corresponding
3327	item in aOvfValues[] will contain a numerical value that described the operating system in the OVF.
3328	</li>
3329	<li>
3330	"Name": the name to give to the new virtual machine. There can be at most one such array item;
3331	if none is present on import, then an automatic name will be created from the operating system
3332	type. The correponding item im aOvfValues[] will contain the suggested virtual machine name
3333	from the OVF file, and aVBoxValues[] will contain a suggestion for a unique VirtualBox
3334	<link to="IMachine" /> name that does not exist yet.
3335	</li>
3336	<li>
3337	"Description": an arbitrary description.
3338	</li>
3339	<li>
3340	"License": the EULA section from the OVF, if present. It is the responsibility of the calling
3341	code to display such a license for agreement; the Main API does not enforce any such policy.
3342	</li>
3343	<li>
3344	Miscellaneous: reserved for future use.
3345	</li>
3346	<li>
3347	"CPU": the number of CPUs. There can be at most one such item, which will presently be ignored.
3348	</li>
3349	<li>
3350	"Memory": the amount of guest RAM, in bytes. There can be at most one such array item; if none
3351	is present on import, then VirtualBox will set a meaningful default based on the operating system
3352	type.
3353	</li>
3354	<li>
3355	"HarddiskControllerIDE": an IDE hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
3356	has no value in aOvfValues[] or aVBoxValues[].
3357	The matching item in the aRefs[] array will contain an integer that items of the "Harddisk"
3358	type can use to specify which hard disk controller a virtual disk should be connected to.
3359	</li>
3360	<li>
3361	"HarddiskControllerSATA": an SATA hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
3362	has no value in aOvfValues[] or aVBoxValues[].
3363	The matching item in the aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
3364	</li>
3365	<li>
3366	"HarddiskControllerSCSI": a SCSI hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item.
3367	The items in aOvfValues[] and aVBoxValues[] will either be "LsiLogic" or "BusLogic".
3368	The matching item in the aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
3369	</li>
3370	<li>
3371	"HardDiskImage": a virtual hard disk, most probably as a reference to an image file. There can be an
3372	arbitrary number of these items, one for each virtual disk image that accompanies the OVF.
3373
3374	The array item in aOvfValues[] will contain the file specification from the OVF file (without
3375	a path since the image file should be in the same location as the OVF file itself), whereas the
3376	item in aVBoxValues[] will contain a qualified path specification to where VirtualBox uses the
3377	hard disk image. This means that on import the image will be copied and converted from the
3378	"ovf" location to the "vbox" location; on export, this will be handled the other way round.
3379	On import, the target image will also be registered with VirtualBox.
3380
3381	The matching item in the aExtraConfigValues[] array must contain a string of the following
3382	format: "controller=<index>;channel=<c>"
3383	In this string, <index> must be an integer specifying the hard disk controller to connect
3384	the image to. That number must be the index of an array item with one of the hard disk controller
3385	types (HarddiskControllerSCSI, HarddiskControllerSATA, HarddiskControllerIDE).
3386	In addition, <c> must specify the channel to use on that controller. For IDE controllers,
3387	this can range from 0-2 (which VirtualBox will interpret as primary master, primary slave,
3388	secondary slave; VirtualBox reserves the secondary master for the CD-ROM drive). For SATA and
3389	SCSI conrollers, the channel can range from 0-29.
3390	</li>
3391	<li>
3392	"NetworkAdapter": a network adapter. The array item in aVBoxValues[] will specify the hardware
3393	for the network adapter, whereas the array item in aExtraConfigValues[] will have a string
3394	of the "type=<X>" format, where <X> must be either "NAT" or "Bridged".
3395	</li>
3396	<li>
3397	"USBController": a USB controller. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an
3398	item ispresent, USB support will be enabled for the new virtual machine.
3399	</li>
3400	<li>
3401	"SoundCard": a sound card. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an item is
3402	present, sound support will be enabled for the new virtual machine. Note that the virtual
3403	machine in VirtualBox will always be presented with the standard VirtualBox soundcard, which
3404	may be different from the virtual soundcard expected by the appliance.
3405	</li>
3406	</ul>
3407
3408	</desc>
3409
3410	<param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3411	<desc></desc>
3412	</param>
3413
3414	<param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3415	<desc></desc>
3416	</param>
3417
3418	<param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3419	<desc></desc>
3420	</param>
3421
3422	<param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3423	<desc></desc>
3424	</param>
3425
3426	<param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3427	<desc></desc>
3428	</param>
3429
3430	</method>
3431
3432	<method name="getDescriptionByType">
3433	<desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescription" /> except that you can specify which types
3434	should be returned.</desc>
3435
3436	<param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
3437	<desc></desc>
3438	</param>
3439
3440	<param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3441	<desc></desc>
3442	</param>
3443
3444	<param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3445	<desc></desc>
3446	</param>
3447
3448	<param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3449	<desc></desc>
3450	</param>
3451
3452	<param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3453	<desc></desc>
3454	</param>
3455
3456	<param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3457	<desc></desc>
3458	</param>
3459
3460	</method>
3461
3462	<method name="getValuesByType">
3463	<desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescriptionByType" /> except that you can specify which
3464	value types should be returned. See <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" /> for possible
3465	values.</desc>
3466
3467	<param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
3468	<desc></desc>
3469	</param>
3470
3471	<param name="aWhich" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" dir="in">
3472	<desc></desc>
3473	</param>
3474
3475	<param name="aValues" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
3476	<desc></desc>
3477	</param>
3478
3479	</method>
3480
3481	<method name="setFinalValues">
3482	<desc>
3483	This method allows the appliance's user to change the configuration for the virtual
3484	system descriptions. For each array item returned from <link to="#getDescription" />,
3485	you must pass in one boolean value and one configuration value.
3486
3487	Each item in the boolean array determines whether the particular configuration item
3488	should be enabled.
3489	You can only disable items of the types HardDiskControllerIDE, HardDiskControllerSATA,
3490	HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskImage, CDROM, Floppy, NetworkAdapter, USBController
3491	and SoundCard.
3492
3493	For the "vbox" and "extra configuration" values, if you pass in the same arrays
3494	as returned in the aVBoxValues and aExtraConfigValues arrays from getDescription(),
3495	the configuration remains unchanged. Please see the documentation for getDescription()
3496	for valid configuration values for the individual array item types. If the
3497	corresponding item in the aEnabled array is @c false, the configuration value is ignored.
3498	</desc>
3499
3500	<param name="aEnabled" type="boolean" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3501	<desc></desc>
3502	</param>
3503
3504	<param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3505	<desc></desc>
3506	</param>
3507
3508	<param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3509	<desc></desc>
3510	</param>
3511	</method>
3512
3513	<method name="addDescription">
3514	<desc>
3515	This method adds an additional description entry to the stack of already
3516	available descriptions for this virtual system. This is handy for writing
3517	values which aren't directly supported by VirtualBox. One example would
3518	be the License type of <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" />.
3519	</desc>
3520
3521	<param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
3522	<desc></desc>
3523	</param>
3524
3525	<param name="aVBoxValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
3526	<desc></desc>
3527	</param>
3528
3529	<param name="aExtraConfigValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
3530	<desc></desc>
3531	</param>
3532	</method>
3533	</interface>
3534
3535
3536	<!--
3537	// IMachine
3538	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3539	-->
3540
3541	<interface
3542	name="IInternalMachineControl" extends="$unknown"
3543	uuid="ce8087d7-de92-4bbb-8140-a22fb07f37ba"
3544	internal="yes"
3545	wsmap="suppress"
3546	>
3547	<method name="setRemoveSavedState">
3548	<desc>
3549	Updates the flag whether saved state is removed on a machine state
3550	change from Saved to PoweredOff.
3551	</desc>
3552	<param name="aRemove" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3553	</method>
3554
3555	<method name="updateState">
3556	<desc>
3557	Updates the VM state.
3558	<note>
3559	This operation will also update the settings file with
3560	the correct information about the saved state file
3561	and delete this file from disk when appropriate.
3562	</note>
3563	</desc>
3564	<param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
3565	</method>
3566
3567	<method name="getIPCId">
3568	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
3569	</method>
3570
3571	<method name="runUSBDeviceFilters">
3572	<desc>
3573	Asks the server to run USB devices filters of the associated
3574	machine against the given USB device and tell if there is
3575	a match.
3576	<note>
3577	Intended to be used only for remote USB devices. Local
3578	ones don't require to call this method (this is done
3579	implicitly by the Host and USBProxyService).
3580	</note>
3581	</desc>
3582	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
3583	<param name="matched" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
3584	<param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
3585	</method>
3586
3587	<method name="captureUSBDevice">
3588	<desc>
3589	Requests a capture of the given host USB device.
3590	When the request is completed, the VM process will
3591	get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3592	notification.
3593	</desc>
3594	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
3595	</method>
3596
3597	<method name="detachUSBDevice">
3598	<desc>
3599	Notification that a VM is going to detach (@a done = @c false) or has
3600	already detached (@a done = @c true) the given USB device.
3601	When the @a done = @c true request is completed, the VM process will
3602	get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceDetach"/>
3603	notification.
3604	<note>
3605	In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3606	and filters of all VMs but this one on the detached device
3607	as if it were just attached to the host computer.
3608	</note>
3609	</desc>
3610	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
3611	<param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3612	</method>
3613
3614	<method name="autoCaptureUSBDevices">
3615	<desc>
3616	Requests a capture all matching USB devices attached to the host.
3617	When the request is completed, the VM process will
3618	get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3619	notification per every captured device.
3620	</desc>
3621	</method>
3622
3623	<method name="detachAllUSBDevices">
3624	<desc>
3625	Notification that a VM that is being powered down. The done
3626	parameter indicates whether which stage of the power down
3627	we're at. When @a done = @c false the VM is announcing its
3628	intentions, while when @a done = @c true the VM is reporting
3629	what it has done.
3630	<note>
3631	In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3632	and filters of all VMs but this one on all detach devices as
3633	if they were just attached to the host computer.
3634	</note>
3635	</desc>
3636	<param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3637	</method>
3638
3639	<method name="onSessionEnd">
3640	<desc>
3641	Triggered by the given session object when the session is about
3642	to close normally.
3643	</desc>
3644	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
3645	<desc>Session that is being closed</desc>
3646	</param>
3647	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3648	<desc>
3649	Used to wait until the corresponding machine is actually
3650	dissociated from the given session on the server.
3651	Returned only when this session is a direct one.
3652	</desc>
3653	</param>
3654	</method>
3655
3656	<method name="beginSavingState">
3657	<desc>
3658	Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3659	save the current state and stop the VM execution.
3660	</desc>
3661	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3662	<desc>
3663	Progress object created by the VM process to wait until
3664	the state is saved.
3665	</desc>
3666	</param>
3667	<param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3668	<desc>
3669	File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3670	</desc>
3671	</param>
3672	</method>
3673
3674	<method name="endSavingState">
3675	<desc>
3676	Called by the VM process to inform the server that saving
3677	the state previously requested by #beginSavingState is either
3678	successfully finished or there was a failure.
3679
3680	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3681	Settings file not accessible.
3682	</result>
3683	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3684	Could not parse the settings file.
3685	</result>
3686
3687	</desc>
3688
3689	<param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3690	<desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise.
3691	</desc>
3692	</param>
3693	</method>
3694
3695	<method name="adoptSavedState">
3696	<desc>
3697	Gets called by IConsole::adoptSavedState.
3698	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3699	Invalid saved state file path.
3700	</result>
3701	</desc>
3702	<param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
3703	<desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
3704	</param>
3705	</method>
3706
3707	<method name="beginTakingSnapshot">
3708	<desc>
3709	Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3710	take a snapshot.
3711
3712	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3713	Settings file not accessible.
3714	</result>
3715	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3716	Could not parse the settings file.
3717	</result>
3718	</desc>
3719	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3720	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3721	</param>
3722	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3723	<desc>Snapshot name.</desc>
3724	</param>
3725	<param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
3726	<desc>Snapshot description.</desc>
3727	</param>
3728	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3729	<desc>
3730	Progress object created by the VM process to wait until
3731	the state is saved (only for online snapshots).
3732	</desc>
3733	</param>
3734	<param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3735	<desc>
3736	File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3737	</desc>
3738	</param>
3739	<param name="serverProgress" type="IProgress" dir="out">
3740	<desc>
3741	Progress object created by the server process to wait until
3742	the snapshot is taken (VDI diff creation, etc.).
3743	</desc>
3744	</param>
3745	</method>
3746
3747	<method name="endTakingSnapshot">
3748	<desc>
3749	Called by the VM process to inform the server that the snapshot
3750	previously requested by #beginTakingSnapshot is either
3751	successfully taken or there was a failure.
3752	</desc>
3753
3754	<param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3755	<desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise</desc>
3756	</param>
3757	</method>
3758
3759	<method name="discardSnapshot">
3760	<desc>
3761	Gets called by IConsole::discardSnapshot.
3762	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3763	Snapshot has more than one child snapshot.
3764	</result>
3765	</desc>
3766	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3767	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3768	</param>
3769	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
3770	<desc>UUID of the snapshot to discard.</desc>
3771	</param>
3772	<param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3773	<desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3774	</param>
3775	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3776	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3777	</param>
3778	</method>
3779
3780	<method name="discardCurrentState">
3781	<desc>
3782	Gets called by IConsole::discardCurrentState.
3783	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3784	Virtual machine does not have any snapshot.
3785	</result>
3786	</desc>
3787	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3788	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3789	</param>
3790	<param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3791	<desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3792	</param>
3793	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3794	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3795	</param>
3796	</method>
3797
3798	<method name="discardCurrentSnapshotAndState">
3799	<desc>
3800	Gets called by IConsole::discardCurrentSnapshotAndState.
3801	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3802	Virtual machine does not have any snapshot.
3803	</result>
3804	</desc>
3805	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3806	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3807	</param>
3808	<param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3809	<desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3810	</param>
3811	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3812	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3813	</param>
3814	</method>
3815
3816	<method name="pullGuestProperties">
3817	<desc>
3818	Get the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3819	with their values, time stamps and flags and give responsibility for
3820	managing properties to the console.
3821	</desc>
3822	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3823	<desc>
3824	The names of the properties returned.
3825	</desc>
3826	</param>
3827	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3828	<desc>
3829	The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3830	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3831	</desc>
3832	</param>
3833	<param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3834	<desc>
3835	The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
3836	the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3837	</desc>
3838	</param>
3839	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3840	<desc>
3841	The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3842	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3843	</desc>
3844	</param>
3845	</method>
3846
3847	<method name="pushGuestProperties">
3848	<desc>
3849	Set the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3850	with their values, time stamps and flags and return responsibility for
3851	managing properties to IMachine.
3852	</desc>
3853	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3854	<desc>
3855	The names of the properties.
3856	</desc>
3857	</param>
3858	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3859	<desc>
3860	The values of the properties. The array entries match the
3861	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3862	</desc>
3863	</param>
3864	<param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3865	<desc>
3866	The time stamps of the properties. The array entries match
3867	the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3868	</desc>
3869	</param>
3870	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3871	<desc>
3872	The flags of the properties. The array entries match the
3873	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3874	</desc>
3875	</param>
3876	</method>
3877	<method name="pushGuestProperty">
3878	<desc>
3879	Update a single guest property in IMachine.
3880	</desc>
3881	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3882	<desc>
3883	The name of the property to be updated.
3884	</desc>
3885	</param>
3886	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
3887	<desc>
3888	The value of the property.
3889	</desc>
3890	</param>
3891	<param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="in">
3892	<desc>
3893	The timestamp of the property.
3894	</desc>
3895	</param>
3896	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
3897	<desc>
3898	The flags of the property.
3899	</desc>
3900	</param>
3901	</method>
3902
3903	<method name="lockMedia">
3904	<desc>
3905	Locks all media attached to the machine for writing and parents of
3906	attahced different hard disks (if any) for reading. This operation is
3907	atomic so that if it fails no media is actually locked.
3908
3909	This method is intended to be called when the machine is in Starting or
3910	Restoring state. The locked media will be automatically unlocked when
3911	the machine is powered off or crashed.
3912	</desc>
3913	</method>
3914	</interface>
3915
3916	<interface
3917	name="IBIOSSettings" extends="$unknown"
3918	uuid="38b54279-dc35-4f5e-a431-835b867c6b5e"
3919	wsmap="managed"
3920	>
3921	<desc>
3922	The IBIOSSettings interface represents BIOS settings of the virtual
3923	machine. This is used only in the <link to="IMachine::BIOSSettings" /> attribute.
3924	</desc>
3925	<attribute name="logoFadeIn" type="boolean">
3926	<desc>Fade in flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3927	</attribute>
3928
3929	<attribute name="logoFadeOut" type="boolean">
3930	<desc>Fade out flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3931	</attribute>
3932
3933	<attribute name="logoDisplayTime" type="unsigned long">
3934	<desc>BIOS logo display time in milliseconds (0 = default).</desc>
3935	</attribute>
3936
3937	<attribute name="logoImagePath" type="wstring">
3938	<desc>Local file system path for external BIOS image.</desc>
3939	</attribute>
3940
3941	<attribute name="bootMenuMode" type="BIOSBootMenuMode">
3942	<desc>Mode of the BIOS boot device menu.</desc>
3943	</attribute>
3944
3945	<attribute name="ACPIEnabled" type="boolean">
3946	<desc>ACPI support flag.</desc>
3947	</attribute>
3948
3949	<attribute name="IOAPICEnabled" type="boolean">
3950	<desc>
3951	IO APIC support flag. If set, VirtualBox will provide an IO APIC
3952	and support IRQs above 15.
3953	</desc>
3954	</attribute>
3955
3956	<attribute name="timeOffset" type="long long">
3957	<desc>
3958	Offset in milliseconds from the host system time. This allows for
3959	guests running with a different system date/time than the host.
3960	It is equivalent to setting the system date/time in the BIOS except
3961	it is not an absolute value but a relative one. Guest Additions
3962	time synchronization honors this offset.
3963	</desc>
3964	</attribute>
3965
3966	<attribute name="PXEDebugEnabled" type="boolean">
3967	<desc>
3968	PXE debug logging flag. If set, VirtualBox will write extensive
3969	PXE trace information to the release log.
3970	</desc>
3971	</attribute>
3972
3973	</interface>
3974
3975	<interface
3976	name="IMachine" extends="$unknown"
3977	uuid="5293aa45-5ab5-4f70-852e-bb43f5a46491"
3978	wsmap="managed"
3979	>
3980	<desc>
3981	The IMachine interface represents a virtual machine, or guest, created
3982	in VirtualBox.
3983
3984	This interface is used in two contexts. First of all, a collection of
3985	objects implementing this interface is stored in the
3986	<link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute which lists all the virtual
3987	machines that are currently registered with this VirtualBox
3988	installation. Also, once a session has been opened for the given virtual
3989	machine (e.g. the virtual machine is running), the machine object
3990	associated with the open session can be queried from the session object;
3991	see <link to="ISession"/> for details.
3992
3993	The main role of this interface is to expose the settings of the virtual
3994	machine and provide methods to change various aspects of the virtual
3995	machine's configuration. For machine objects stored in the
3996	<link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> collection, all attributes are
3997	read-only unless explicitly stated otherwise in individual attribute
3998	and method descriptions. In order to change a machine setting, a session
3999	for this machine must be opened using one of
4000	<link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>,
4001	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> or
4002	<link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/> methods. After the
4003	session has been successfully opened, a mutable machine object needs to
4004	be queried from the session object and then the desired settings changes
4005	can be applied to the returned object using IMachine attributes and
4006	methods. See the <link to="ISession"/> interface description for more
4007	information about sessions.
4008
4009	Note that IMachine does not provide methods to control virtual machine
4010	execution (such as start the machine, or power it down) -- these methods
4011	are grouped in a separate interface called <link to="IConsole" />.
4012
4013	<see>ISession, IConsole</see>
4014	</desc>
4015
4016	<attribute name="parent" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
4017	<desc>Associated parent object.</desc>
4018	</attribute>
4019
4020	<attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4021	<desc>
4022	Whether this virtual machine is currently accessible or not.
4023
4024	A machine is always deemed accessible unless it is registered <i>and</i>
4025	its settings file cannot be read or parsed (either because the file itself
4026	is unavailable or has invalid XML contents).
4027
4028	Every time this property is read, the accessibility state of
4029	this machine is re-evaluated. If the returned value is @c false,
4030	the <link to="#accessError"/> property may be used to get the
4031	detailed error information describing the reason of
4032	inaccessibility, including XML error messages.
4033
4034	When the machine is inaccessible, only the following properties
4035	can be used on it:
4036	<ul>
4037	<li><link to="#parent"/></li>
4038	<li><link to="#id"/></li>
4039	<li><link to="#settingsFilePath"/></li>
4040	<li><link to="#accessible"/></li>
4041	<li><link to="#accessError"/></li>
4042	</ul>
4043
4044	An attempt to access any other property or method will return
4045	an error.
4046
4047	The only possible action you can perform on an inaccessible
4048	machine is to unregister it using the
4049	<link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/> call (or, to check
4050	for the accessibility state once more by querying this
4051	property).
4052
4053	<note>
4054	In the current implementation, once this property returns
4055	@c true, the machine will never become inaccessible
4056	later, even if its settings file cannot be successfully
4057	read/written any more (at least, until the VirtualBox
4058	server is restarted). This limitation may be removed in
4059	future releases.
4060	</note>
4061	</desc>
4062	</attribute>
4063
4064	<attribute name="accessError" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
4065	<desc>
4066	Error information describing the reason of machine
4067	inaccessibility.
4068
4069	Reading this property is only valid after the last call to
4070	<link to="#accessible"/> returned @c false (i.e. the
4071	machine is currently unaccessible). Otherwise, a @c null
4072	IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object will be returned.
4073	</desc>
4074	</attribute>
4075
4076	<attribute name="name" type="wstring">
4077	<desc>
4078	Name of the virtual machine.
4079
4080	Besides being used for human-readable identification purposes
4081	everywhere in VirtualBox, the virtual machine name is also used
4082	as a name of the machine's settings file and as a name of the
4083	subdirectory this settings file resides in. Thus, every time you
4084	change the value of this property, the settings file will be
4085	renamed once you call <link to="#saveSettings"/> to confirm the
4086	change. The containing subdirectory will be also renamed, but
4087	only if it has exactly the same name as the settings file
4088	itself prior to changing this property (for backward compatibility
4089	with previous API releases). The above implies the following
4090	limitations:
4091	<ul>
4092	<li>The machine name cannot be empty.</li>
4093	<li>The machine name can contain only characters that are valid
4094	file name characters according to the rules of the file
4095	system used to store VirtualBox configuration.</li>
4096	<li>You cannot have two or more machines with the same name
4097	if they use the same subdirectory for storing the machine
4098	settings files.</li>
4099	<li>You cannot change the name of the machine if it is running,
4100	or if any file in the directory containing the settings file
4101	is being used by another running machine or by any other
4102	process in the host operating system at a time when
4103	<link to="#saveSettings"/> is called.
4104	</li>
4105	</ul>
4106	If any of the above limitations are hit, <link to="#saveSettings"/>
4107	will return an appropriate error message explaining the exact
4108	reason and the changes you made to this machine will not be
4109	saved.
4110	<note>
4111	For "legacy" machines created using the
4112	<link to="IVirtualBox::createLegacyMachine"/> call,
4113	the above naming limitations do not apply because the
4114	machine name does not affect the settings file name.
4115	The settings file name remains the same as it was specified
4116	during machine creation and never changes.
4117	</note>
4118	</desc>
4119	</attribute>
4120
4121	<attribute name="description" type="wstring">
4122	<desc>
4123	Description of the virtual machine.
4124
4125	The description attribute can contain any text and is
4126	typically used to describe the hardware and software
4127	configuration of the virtual machine in detail (i.e. network
4128	settings, versions of the installed software and so on).
4129	</desc>
4130	</attribute>
4131
4132	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4133	<desc>UUID of the virtual machine.</desc>
4134	</attribute>
4135
4136	<attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring">
4137	<desc>
4138	User-defined identifier of the Guest OS type.
4139	You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
4140	an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
4141	Guest OS type.
4142	<note>
4143	This value may differ from the value returned by
4144	<link to="IGuest::OSTypeId"/> if Guest Additions are
4145	installed to the guest OS.
4146	</note>
4147	</desc>
4148	</attribute>
4149
4150	<attribute name="HardwareVersion" type="wstring">
4151	<desc>Hardware version identifier. Internal use only for now.</desc>
4152	</attribute>
4153
4154	<attribute name="CPUCount" type="unsigned long">
4155	<desc>Number of virtual CPUs in the VM.</desc>
4156	</attribute>
4157
4158	<attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long">
4159	<desc>System memory size in megabytes.</desc>
4160	</attribute>
4161
4162	<attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
4163	<desc>Initial memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
4164	</attribute>
4165
4166	<attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
4167	<desc>Initial interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
4168	</attribute>
4169
4170	<attribute name="VRAMSize" type="unsigned long">
4171	<desc>Video memory size in megabytes.</desc>
4172	</attribute>
4173
4174	<attribute name="accelerate3DEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4175	<desc>
4176	This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
4177	use of the 3D graphics support available on the host.</desc>
4178	</attribute>
4179
4180	<attribute name="accelerate2DVideoEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4181	<desc>
4182	This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
4183	use of the 2D video acceleration support available on the host.</desc>
4184	</attribute>
4185
4186	<attribute name="monitorCount" type="unsigned long">
4187	<desc>
4188	Number of virtual monitors.
4189	<note>
4190	Only effective on Windows XP and later guests with
4191	Guest Additions installed.
4192	</note>
4193	</desc>
4194	</attribute>
4195
4196	<attribute name="BIOSSettings" type="IBIOSSettings" readonly="yes">
4197	<desc>Object containing all BIOS settings.</desc>
4198	</attribute>
4199
4200	<attribute name="HWVirtExEnabled" type="boolean">
4201	<desc>
4202	This setting determines whether VirtualBox will try to make use of
4203	the host CPU's hardware virtualization extensions such as Intel VT-x
4204	and AMD-V. Note that in case such extensions are not available,
4205	they will not be used.
4206	</desc>
4207	</attribute>
4208
4209	<attribute name="HWVirtExNestedPagingEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4210	<desc>
4211	This setting determines whether VirtualBox will try to make use of
4212	the nested paging extension of Intel VT-x and AMD-V. Note that in case
4213	such extensions are not available, they will not be used.
4214	</desc>
4215	</attribute>
4216
4217	<attribute name="HWVirtExVPIDEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4218	<desc>
4219	This setting determines whether VirtualBox will try to make use of
4220	the VPID extension of Intel VT-x. Note that in case such extensions are
4221	not available, they will not be used.
4222	</desc>
4223	</attribute>
4224
4225	<attribute name="PAEEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4226	<desc>
4227	This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose the Physical Address
4228	Extension (PAE) feature of the host CPU to the guest. Note that in case PAE
4229	is not available, it will not be reported.
4230	</desc>
4231	</attribute>
4232
4233	<attribute name="snapshotFolder" type="wstring">
4234	<desc>
4235	Full path to the directory used to store snapshot data
4236	(differencing hard disks and saved state files) of this machine.
4237
4238	The initial value of this property is
4239	<tt><</tt><link to="#settingsFilePath">
4240	path_to_settings_file</link><tt>>/<</tt>
4241	<link to="#id">machine_uuid</link>
4242	<tt>></tt>.
4243
4244	Currently, it is an error to try to change this property on
4245	a machine that has snapshots (because this would require to
4246	move possibly large files to a different location).
4247	A separate method will be available for this purpose later.
4248
4249	<note>
4250	Setting this property to @c null or to an empty string will restore
4251	the initial value.
4252	</note>
4253	<note>
4254	When setting this property, the specified path can be
4255	absolute (full path) or relative to the directory where the
4256	<link to="#settingsFilePath">machine settings file</link>
4257	is located. When reading this property, a full path is
4258	always returned.
4259	</note>
4260	<note>
4261	The specified path may not exist, it will be created
4262	when necessary.
4263	</note>
4264	</desc>
4265	</attribute>
4266
4267	<attribute name="VRDPServer" type="IVRDPServer" readonly="yes">
4268	<desc>VRDP server object.</desc>
4269	</attribute>
4270
4271	<attribute name="hardDiskAttachments" type="IHardDiskAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4272	<desc>Array of hard disks attached to this machine.</desc>
4273	</attribute>
4274
4275	<attribute name="DVDDrive" type="IDVDDrive" readonly="yes">
4276	<desc>Associated DVD drive object.</desc>
4277	</attribute>
4278
4279	<attribute name="floppyDrive" type="IFloppyDrive" readonly="yes">
4280	<desc>Associated floppy drive object.</desc>
4281	</attribute>
4282
4283	<attribute name="USBController" type="IUSBController" readonly="yes">
4284	<desc>
4285	Associated USB controller object.
4286
4287	<note>
4288	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
4289	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
4290	</note>
4291	</desc>
4292	</attribute>
4293
4294	<attribute name="audioAdapter" type="IAudioAdapter" readonly="yes">
4295	<desc>Associated audio adapter, always present.</desc>
4296	</attribute>
4297
4298	<attribute name="storageControllers" type="IStorageController" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4299	<desc>Array of storage controllers attached to this machine.</desc>
4300	</attribute>
4301
4302	<attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4303	<desc>
4304	Full name of the file containing machine settings data.
4305	</desc>
4306	</attribute>
4307
4308	<attribute name="settingsModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4309	<desc>
4310	Whether the settings of this machine have been modified
4311	(but neither yet saved nor discarded).
4312	<note>
4313	Reading this property is only valid on instances returned
4314	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4315	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened
4316	by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
4317	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4318	<link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>. For all other
4319	cases, the settings can never be modified.
4320	</note>
4321	<note>
4322	For newly created unregistered machines, the value of this
4323	property is always @c true until <link to="#saveSettings"/>
4324	is called (no matter if any machine settings have been
4325	changed after the creation or not). For opened machines
4326	the value is set to @c false (and then follows to normal rules).
4327	</note>
4328	</desc>
4329	</attribute>
4330
4331	<attribute name="sessionState" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
4332	<desc>Current session state for this machine.</desc>
4333	</attribute>
4334
4335	<attribute name="sessionType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4336	<desc>
4337	Type of the session. If <link to="#sessionState"/> is
4338	SessionSpawning or SessionOpen, this attribute contains the
4339	same value as passed to the
4340	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> method in the
4341	@a type parameter. If the session was opened directly using
4342	<link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>, or if
4343	<link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionClosed, the value of this
4344	attribute is an empty string.
4345	</desc>
4346	</attribute>
4347
4348	<attribute name="sessionPid" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
4349	<desc>
4350	Identifier of the session process. This attribute contains the
4351	platform-dependent identifier of the process that has opened a
4352	direct session for this machine using the
4353	<link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> call. The returned value
4354	is only valid if <link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionOpen or
4355	SessionClosing (i.e. a session is currently open or being
4356	closed) by the time this property is read.
4357	</desc>
4358	</attribute>
4359
4360	<attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
4361	<desc>Current execution state of this machine.</desc>
4362	</attribute>
4363
4364	<attribute name="lastStateChange" type="long long" readonly="yes">
4365	<desc>
4366	Time stamp of the last execution state change,
4367	in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
4368	</desc>
4369	</attribute>
4370
4371	<attribute name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4372	<desc>
4373	Full path to the file that stores the execution state of
4374	the machine when it is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state.
4375	<note>
4376	When the machine is not in the Saved state, this attribute is
4377	an empty string.
4378	</note>
4379	</desc>
4380	</attribute>
4381
4382	<attribute name="logFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4383	<desc>
4384	Full path to the folder that stores a set of rotated log files
4385	recorded during machine execution. The most recent log file is
4386	named <tt>VBox.log</tt>, the previous log file is
4387	named <tt>VBox.log.1</tt> and so on (up to <tt>VBox.log.3</tt>
4388	in the current version).
4389	</desc>
4390	</attribute>
4391
4392	<attribute name="currentSnapshot" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
4393	<desc>
4394	Current snapshot of this machine. This is @c null if the machine
4395	currently has no snapshots. Otherwise, this is always the last snapshot
4396	in the current implementation; see <link to="ISnapshot"/> for details.
4397	</desc>
4398	</attribute>
4399
4400	<attribute name="snapshotCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
4401	<desc>
4402	Number of snapshots taken on this machine. Zero means the
4403	machine doesn't have any snapshots.
4404	</desc>
4405	</attribute>
4406
4407	<attribute name="currentStateModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4408	<desc>
4409	Returns @c true if the current state of the machine is not
4410	identical to the state stored in the current snapshot.
4411
4412	The current state is identical to the current snapshot right
4413	after one of the following calls are made:
4414	<ul>
4415	<li><link to="IConsole::discardCurrentState"/> or
4416	<link to="IConsole::discardCurrentSnapshotAndState"/>
4417	</li>
4418	<li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> (issued on a
4419	powered off or saved machine, for which
4420	<link to="#settingsModified"/> returns @c false)
4421	</li>
4422	<li><link to="IMachine::setCurrentSnapshot"/>
4423	</li>
4424	</ul>
4425
4426	The current state remains identical until one of the following
4427	happens:
4428	<ul>
4429	<li>settings of the machine are changed</li>
4430	<li>the saved state is discarded</li>
4431	<li>the current snapshot is discarded</li>
4432	<li>an attempt to execute the machine is made</li>
4433	</ul>
4434
4435	<note>
4436	For machines that don't have snapshots, this property is
4437	always @c false.
4438	</note>
4439	</desc>
4440	</attribute>
4441
4442	<attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4443	<desc>
4444	Collection of shared folders for this machine (permanent shared
4445	folders). These folders are shared automatically at machine startup
4446	and available only to the guest OS installed within this machine.
4447
4448	New shared folders are added to the collection using
4449	<link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
4450	removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
4451	</desc>
4452	</attribute>
4453
4454	<attribute name="clipboardMode" type="ClipboardMode">
4455	<desc>
4456	Synchronization mode between the host OS clipboard
4457	and the guest OS clipboard.
4458	</desc>
4459	</attribute>
4460
4461	<attribute name="guestPropertyNotificationPatterns" type="wstring">
4462	<desc>
4463	A comma-separated list of simple glob patterns. Changes to guest
4464	properties whose name matches one of the patterns will generate an
4465	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onGuestPropertyChange"/> signal.
4466	</desc>
4467	</attribute>
4468
4469	<method name="setBootOrder">
4470	<desc>
4471	Puts the given device to the specified position in
4472	the boot order.
4473
4474	To indicate that no device is associated with the given position,
4475	<link to="DeviceType_Null"/> should be used.
4476
4477	@todo setHardDiskBootOrder(), setNetworkBootOrder()
4478
4479	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4480	Boot @a position out of range.
4481	</result>
4482	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
4483	Booting from USB @a device currently not supported.
4484	</result>
4485
4486	</desc>
4487	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4488	<desc>
4489	Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4490	devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4491	<link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4492	</desc>
4493	</param>
4494	<param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4495	<desc>
4496	The type of the device used to boot at the given position.
4497	</desc>
4498	</param>
4499	</method>
4500
4501	<method name="getBootOrder" const="yes">
4502	<desc>
4503	Returns the device type that occupies the specified
4504	position in the boot order.
4505
4506	@todo [remove?]
4507	If the machine can have more than one device of the returned type
4508	(such as hard disks), then a separate method should be used to
4509	retrieve the individual device that occupies the given position.
4510
4511	If here are no devices at the given position, then
4512	<link to="DeviceType_Null"/> is returned.
4513
4514	@todo getHardDiskBootOrder(), getNetworkBootOrder()
4515
4516	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4517	Boot @a position out of range.
4518	</result>
4519
4520	</desc>
4521	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4522	<desc>
4523	Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4524	devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4525	<link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4526	</desc>
4527	</param>
4528	<param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="return">
4529	<desc>
4530	Device at the given position.
4531	</desc>
4532	</param>
4533	</method>
4534
4535	<method name="attachHardDisk">
4536	<desc>
4537	Attaches a virtual hard disk (<link to="IHardDisk" />, identified
4538	by the given UUID @a id) to the given hard disk controller
4539	(<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4540	at the indicated port and device.
4541
4542	For the IDE bus, the @a controllerPort parameter can be either
4543	@c 0 or @c 1, to specify the primary or secondary IDE controller,
4544	respectively. For the primary controller of the IDE bus,
4545	@a device can be either @c 0 or @c 1, to specify the master or the
4546	slave device, respectively. For the secondary IDE controller, the
4547	device number must be @c 1 because VirtualBox reserves the
4548	secondary master for the CD-ROM drive.
4549
4550	For an SATA controller, @a controllerPort must be a number ranging
4551	from @c 0 to @c 29. For a SCSI controller, @a controllerPort must
4552	be a number ranging from @c 0 to @c 15.
4553
4554	For both SCSI and SATA, the @a device parameter is unused and must
4555	be @c 0.
4556
4557	The specified device slot must not have another disk attached to it, or
4558	this method will fail.
4559
4560	See <link to="IHardDisk"/> for more detailed information about
4561	attaching hard disks.
4562
4563	<note>
4564	You cannot attach a hard disk to a running machine. Also, you cannot
4565	attach a hard disk to a newly created machine until this machine's
4566	settings are saved to disk using <link to="#saveSettings"/>.
4567	</note>
4568	<note>
4569	If the hard disk is being attached indirectly, a new differencing hard
4570	disk will implicitly be created for it and attached instead. If the
4571	changes made to the machine settings (including this indirect
4572	attachment) are later cancelled using <link to="#discardSettings"/>,
4573	this implicitly created differencing hard disk will implicitly
4574	be deleted.
4575	</note>
4576
4577	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4578	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4579	</result>
4580	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4581	Attempt to attach hard disk to an unregistered virtual machine.
4582	</result>
4583	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4584	Invalid machine state.
4585	</result>
4586	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4587	Hard disk already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4588	</result>
4589
4590	</desc>
4591	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
4592	<desc>UUID of the hard disk to attach.</desc>
4593	</param>
4594	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4595	<desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the hard disk to.</desc>
4596	</param>
4597	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4598	<desc>Port to attach the hard disk to.</desc>
4599	</param>
4600	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4601	<desc>
4602	Device slot in the given port to attach the hard disk to.
4603	</desc>
4604	</param>
4605	</method>
4606
4607	<method name="getHardDisk" const="yes">
4608	<desc>
4609	Returns the virtual hard disk attached to a device slot of the specified
4610	bus.
4611
4612	Note that if the hard disk was indirectly attached by
4613	<link to="#attachHardDisk"/> to the given device slot then this
4614	method will return not the same object as passed to the
4615	<link to="#attachHardDisk"/> call. See <link to="IHardDisk"/> for
4616	more detailed information about attaching hard disks.
4617
4618	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4619	No hard disk attached to given slot/bus.
4620	</result>
4621
4622	</desc>
4623	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4624	<desc>Name of the storage controller the hard disk is attached to.</desc>
4625	</param>
4626	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4627	<desc>Port to query.</desc>
4628	</param>
4629	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4630	<desc>Device slot in the given port to query.</desc>
4631	</param>
4632	<param name="hardDisk" type="IHardDisk" dir="return">
4633	<desc>Attached hard disk object.</desc>
4634	</param>
4635	</method>
4636
4637	<method name="detachHardDisk">
4638	<desc>
4639	Detaches the virtual hard disk attached to a device slot of the
4640	specified bus.
4641
4642	Detaching the hard disk from the virtual machine is deferred. This means
4643	that the hard disk remains associated with the machine when this method
4644	returns and gets actually de-associated only after a successful
4645	<link to="#saveSettings"/> call. See <link to="IHardDisk"/>
4646	for more detailed information about attaching hard disks.
4647
4648	<note>
4649	You cannot detach the hard disk from a running machine.
4650	</note>
4651	<note>
4652	Detaching differencing hard disks implicitly created by <link
4653	to="#attachHardDisk"/> for the indirect attachment using this
4654	method will <b>not</b> implicitly delete them. The
4655	<link to="IHardDisk::deleteStorage"/> operation should be
4656	explicitly performed by the caller after the hard disk is successfully
4657	detached and the settings are saved with
4658	<link to="#saveSettings"/>, if it is the desired action.
4659	</note>
4660
4661	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4662	Attempt to detach hard disk from a running virtual machine.
4663	</result>
4664	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4665	No hard disk attached to given slot/bus.
4666	</result>
4667	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4668	Hard disk format does not support storage deletion.
4669	</result>
4670
4671	</desc>
4672	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4673	<desc>name of the storage controller to detach the hard disk from.</desc>
4674	</param>
4675	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4676	<desc>Port number to detach the hard disk from.</desc>
4677	</param>
4678	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4679	<desc>Device slot number to detach the hard disk from.</desc>
4680	</param>
4681	</method>
4682
4683	<method name="getHardDiskAttachmentsOfController" const="yes">
4684	<desc>
4685	Returns an array of hard disk attachments which are attached to the
4686	the controller with the given name.
4687
4688	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4689	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4690	</result>
4691	</desc>
4692	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4693	<param name="hardDiskAttachments" type="IHardDiskAttachment" safearray="yes" dir="return"/>
4694	</method>
4695
4696	<method name="getNetworkAdapter" const="yes">
4697	<desc>
4698	Returns the network adapter associated with the given slot.
4699	Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4700	number of adapters per machine is defined by the
4701	<link to="ISystemProperties::networkAdapterCount"/> property,
4702	so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4703
4704	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4705	Invalid @a slot number.
4706	</result>
4707
4708	</desc>
4709	<param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4710	<param name="adapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="return"/>
4711	</method>
4712
4713	<method name="addStorageController">
4714	<desc>
4715	Adds a new storage controller (SCSI or SATA controller) to the
4716	machine and returns it as an instance of
4717	<link to="IStorageController" />.
4718
4719	@a name identifies the controller for subsequent calls such as
4720	<link to="#getStorageControllerByName" /> or
4721	<link to="#removeStorageController" /> or
4722	<link to="#attachHardDisk" />.
4723
4724	After the controller has been added, you can set its exact
4725	type by setting the <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
4726
4727	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4728	A storage controller with given name exists already.
4729	</result>
4730	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4731	Invalid @a controllerType.
4732	</result>
4733	</desc>
4734	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4735	<param name="connectionType" type="StorageBus" dir="in"/>
4736	<param name="controller" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4737	</method>
4738
4739	<method name="getStorageControllerByName" const="yes">
4740	<desc>
4741	Returns a storage controller with the given name.
4742
4743	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4744	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4745	</result>
4746	</desc>
4747	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4748	<param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4749	</method>
4750
4751	<method name="removeStorageController">
4752	<desc>
4753	Removes a storage controller from the machine.
4754
4755	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4756	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4757	</result>
4758	</desc>
4759	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4760	</method>
4761
4762	<method name="getSerialPort" const="yes">
4763	<desc>
4764	Returns the serial port associated with the given slot.
4765	Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4766	number of serial ports per machine is defined by the
4767	<link to="ISystemProperties::serialPortCount"/> property,
4768	so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4769
4770	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4771	Invalid @a slot number.
4772	</result>
4773
4774	</desc>
4775	<param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4776	<param name="port" type="ISerialPort" dir="return"/>
4777	</method>
4778
4779	<method name="getParallelPort" const="yes">
4780	<desc>
4781	Returns the parallel port associated with the given slot.
4782	Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4783	number of parallel ports per machine is defined by the
4784	<link to="ISystemProperties::parallelPortCount"/> property,
4785	so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4786
4787	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4788	Invalid @a slot number.
4789	</result>
4790
4791	</desc>
4792	<param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4793	<param name="port" type="IParallelPort" dir="return"/>
4794	</method>
4795
4796	<method name="getExtraDataKeys">
4797	<desc>
4798	Returns an array representing the machine-specific extra data keys
4799	which currently have values defined.
4800	</desc>
4801	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
4802	<desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
4803	</param>
4804	</method>
4805
4806	<method name="getExtraData">
4807	<desc>
4808	Returns associated machine-specific extra data.
4809
4810	If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
4811	succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
4812
4813	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4814	Settings file not accessible.
4815	</result>
4816	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4817	Could not parse the settings file.
4818	</result>
4819
4820	</desc>
4821	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
4822	<desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
4823	</param>
4824	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
4825	<desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
4826	</param>
4827	</method>
4828
4829	<method name="setExtraData">
4830	<desc>
4831	Sets associated machine-specific extra data.
4832
4833	If you pass @c null or an empty string as a key @a value, the given
4834	@a key will be deleted.
4835
4836	<note>
4837	Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
4838	registered callbacks using the
4839	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataCanChange"/>
4840	notification for a permission. If one of the callbacks refuses the
4841	new value, the change will not be performed.
4842	</note>
4843	<note>
4844	On success, the
4845	<link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataChange"/> notification
4846	is called to inform all registered callbacks about a successful data
4847	change.
4848	</note>
4849	<note>
4850	This method can be called outside the machine session and therefore
4851	it's a caller's responsibility to handle possible race conditions
4852	when several clients change the same key at the same time.
4853	</note>
4854
4855	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4856	Settings file not accessible.
4857	</result>
4858	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4859	Could not parse the settings file.
4860	</result>
4861
4862	</desc>
4863	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
4864	<desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
4865	</param>
4866	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
4867	<desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
4868	</param>
4869	</method>
4870
4871	<method name="saveSettings">
4872	<desc>
4873	Saves any changes to machine settings made since the session
4874	has been opened or a new machine has been created, or since the
4875	last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/> or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
4876	For registered machines, new settings become visible to all
4877	other VirtualBox clients after successful invocation of this
4878	method.
4879	<note>
4880	The method sends <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onMachineDataChange"/>
4881	notification event after the configuration has been successfully
4882	saved (only for registered machines).
4883	</note>
4884	<note>
4885	Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
4886	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4887	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> but not
4888	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4889	<link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>.
4890	</note>
4891
4892	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4893	Settings file not accessible.
4894	</result>
4895	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4896	Could not parse the settings file.
4897	</result>
4898	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
4899	Modification request refused.
4900	</result>
4901
4902	</desc>
4903	</method>
4904
4905	<method name="discardSettings">
4906	<desc>
4907	Discards any changes to the machine settings made since the session
4908	has been opened or since the last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/>
4909	or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
4910	<note>
4911	Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
4912	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4913	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
4914	opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
4915	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4916	<link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>.
4917	</note>
4918
4919	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4920	Virtual machine is not mutable.
4921	</result>
4922
4923	</desc>
4924	</method>
4925
4926	<method name="deleteSettings">
4927	<desc>
4928	Deletes the settings file of this machine from disk.
4929	The machine must not be registered in order for this operation
4930	to succeed.
4931	<note>
4932	<link to="#settingsModified"/> will return @c true after this
4933	method successfully returns.
4934	</note>
4935	<note>
4936	Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
4937	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4938	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
4939	opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
4940	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4941	<link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>.
4942	</note>
4943	<note>
4944	The deleted machine settings file can be restored (saved again)
4945	by calling <link to="#saveSettings"/>.
4946	</note>
4947
4948	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4949	Cannot delete settings of a registered machine or
4950	machine not mutable.
4951	</result>
4952	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
4953	Could not delete the settings file.
4954	</result>
4955
4956	</desc>
4957	</method>
4958
4959	<method name="export">
4960	<desc>Exports the machine to an OVF appliance. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the
4961	steps required to export VirtualBox machines to OVF.
4962	</desc>
4963
4964	<param name="aAppliance" type="IAppliance" dir="in">
4965	<desc>Appliance to export this machine to.</desc>
4966	</param>
4967	<param name="aDescription" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" dir="return">
4968	<desc>VirtualSystemDescription object which is created for this machine.</desc>
4969	</param>
4970	</method >
4971
4972	<method name="getSnapshot">
4973	<desc>
4974	Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given UUID.
4975	A @c null UUID can be used to obtain the first snapshot
4976	taken on this machine. This is useful if you want to traverse
4977	the whole tree of snapshots starting from the root.
4978
4979	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4980	Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
4981	</result>
4982
4983	</desc>
4984	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
4985	<desc>UUID of the snapshot to get</desc>
4986	</param>
4987	<param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
4988	<desc>Snapshot object with the given UUID.</desc>
4989	</param>
4990	</method>
4991
4992	<method name="findSnapshot">
4993	<desc>
4994	Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given name.
4995
4996	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4997	Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
4998	</result>
4999
5000	</desc>
5001	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5002	<desc>Name of the snapshot to find</desc>
5003	</param>
5004	<param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
5005	<desc>Snapshot object with the given name.</desc>
5006	</param>
5007	</method>
5008
5009	<method name="setCurrentSnapshot">
5010	<desc>
5011	Sets the current snapshot of this machine.
5012	<note>
5013	In the current implementation, this operation is not
5014	implemented.
5015	</note>
5016	</desc>
5017	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
5018	<desc>UUID of the snapshot to set as the current snapshot.</desc>
5019	</param>
5020	</method>
5021
5022	<method name="createSharedFolder">
5023	<desc>
5024	Creates a new permanent shared folder by associating the given logical
5025	name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
5026	folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
5027	<link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
5028
5029	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5030	Shared folder already exists.
5031	</result>
5032	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5033	Shared folder @a hostPath not accessible.
5034	</result>
5035
5036	</desc>
5037	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5038	<desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
5039	</param>
5040	<param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
5041	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
5042	</param>
5043	<param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
5044	<desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
5045	</param>
5046	</method>
5047
5048	<method name="removeSharedFolder">
5049	<desc>
5050	Removes the permanent shared folder with the given name previously
5051	created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
5052	shared folders and stops sharing it.
5053
5054	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5055	Virtual machine is not mutable.
5056	</result>
5057	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5058	Shared folder @a name does not exist.
5059	</result>
5060
5061	</desc>
5062	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5063	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
5064	</param>
5065	</method>
5066
5067	<method name="canShowConsoleWindow">
5068	<desc>
5069	Returns @c true if the VM console process can activate the
5070	console window and bring it to foreground on the desktop of
5071	the host PC.
5072	<note>
5073	This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5074	currently open.
5075	</note>
5076
5077	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5078	Machine session is not open.
5079	</result>
5080
5081	</desc>
5082	<param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
5083	<desc>
5084	@c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
5085	</desc>
5086	</param>
5087	</method>
5088
5089	<method name="showConsoleWindow">
5090	<desc>
5091	Activates the console window and brings it to foreground on
5092	the desktop of the host PC. Many modern window managers on
5093	many platforms implement some sort of focus stealing
5094	prevention logic, so that it may be impossible to activate
5095	a window without the help of the currently active
5096	application. In this case, this method will return a non-zero
5097	identifier that represents the top-level window of the VM
5098	console process. The caller, if it represents a currently
5099	active process, is responsible to use this identifier (in a
5100	platform-dependent manner) to perform actual window
5101	activation.
5102	<note>
5103	This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5104	currently open.
5105	</note>
5106
5107	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5108	Machine session is not open.
5109	</result>
5110
5111	</desc>
5112	<param name="winId" type="unsigned long long" dir="return">
5113	<desc>
5114	Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
5115	window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
5116	necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
5117	the given platform and/or VirtualBox front-end.
5118	</desc>
5119	</param>
5120	</method>
5121
5122	<method name="getGuestProperty">
5123	<desc>
5124	Reads an entry from the machine's guest property store.
5125
5126	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5127	Machine session is not open.
5128	</result>
5129
5130	</desc>
5131	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5132	<desc>
5133	The name of the property to read.
5134	</desc>
5135	</param>
5136	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out">
5137	<desc>
5138	The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5139	will be empty.
5140	</desc>
5141	</param>
5142	<param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out">
5143	<desc>
5144	The time at which the property was last modified, as seen by the
5145	server process.
5146	</desc>
5147	</param>
5148	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out">
5149	<desc>
5150	Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5151	"name=value" type entries.
5152	</desc>
5153	</param>
5154	</method>
5155
5156	<method name="getGuestPropertyValue">
5157	<desc>
5158	Reads a value from the machine's guest property store.
5159
5160	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5161	Machine session is not open.
5162	</result>
5163
5164	</desc>
5165	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5166	<desc>
5167	The name of the property to read.
5168	</desc>
5169	</param>
5170	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5171	<desc>
5172	The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5173	will be empty.
5174	</desc>
5175	</param>
5176	</method>
5177
5178	<method name="getGuestPropertyTimestamp">
5179	<desc>
5180	Reads a property timestamp from the machine's guest property store.
5181
5182	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5183	Machine session is not open.
5184	</result>
5185
5186	</desc>
5187	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5188	<desc>
5189	The name of the property to read.
5190	</desc>
5191	</param>
5192	<param name="value" type="unsigned long long" dir="return">
5193	<desc>
5194	The timestamp. If the property does not exist then this will be
5195	empty.
5196	</desc>
5197	</param>
5198	</method>
5199
5200	<method name="setGuestProperty">
5201	<desc>
5202	Sets, changes or deletes an entry in the machine's guest property
5203	store.
5204
5205	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5206	Property cannot be changed.
5207	</result>
5208	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5209	Invalid @a flags.
5210	</result>
5211	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5212	Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5213	</result>
5214	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5215	Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5216	</result>
5217
5218	</desc>
5219	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5220	<desc>
5221	The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5222	</desc>
5223	</param>
5224	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5225	<desc>
5226	The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5227	property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5228	created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5229	deleted if it exists.
5230	</desc>
5231	</param>
5232	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
5233	<desc>
5234	Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5235	"name=value" type entries.
5236	</desc>
5237	</param>
5238	</method>
5239
5240	<method name="setGuestPropertyValue">
5241	<desc>
5242	Sets, changes or deletes a value in the machine's guest property
5243	store. The flags field will be left unchanged or created empty for a
5244	new property.
5245
5246	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5247	Property cannot be changed.
5248	</result>
5249	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5250	Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5251	</result>
5252	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5253	Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5254	</result>
5255	</desc>
5256
5257	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5258	<desc>
5259	The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5260	</desc>
5261	</param>
5262	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5263	<desc>
5264	The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5265	property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5266	created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5267	deleted if it exists.
5268	</desc>
5269	</param>
5270	</method>
5271
5272	<method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
5273	<desc>
5274	Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
5275	with their values, time stamps and flags.
5276	</desc>
5277	<param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
5278	<desc>
5279	The patterns to match the properties against, separated by '\|'
5280	characters. If this is empty or @c null, all properties will match.
5281	</desc>
5282	</param>
5283	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5284	<desc>
5285	The names of the properties returned.
5286	</desc>
5287	</param>
5288	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5289	<desc>
5290	The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5291	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5292	</desc>
5293	</param>
5294	<param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5295	<desc>
5296	The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
5297	the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5298	</desc>
5299	</param>
5300	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5301	<desc>
5302	The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5303	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5304	</desc>
5305	</param>
5306	</method>
5307	</interface>
5308
5309	<!--
5310	// IConsole
5311	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
5312	-->
5313
5314	<interface
5315	name="IConsoleCallback" extends="$unknown"
5316	uuid="13dfbef3-b74d-487d-bada-2304529aefa6"
5317	wsmap="suppress"
5318	>
5319
5320	<desc>
5321	This interface is used by a client of the Main API that need to
5322	be notified of events. For example, a graphical user interface
5323	can use this to learn about machine state changes so they can
5324	update the list of virtual machines without having to rely
5325	on polling.
5326
5327	Whenever relevant events occur in VirtualBox, the callbacks in
5328	objects of this interface are called. In order for this to be
5329	useful, a client needs to create its own subclass that implements
5330	this interface in which the methods for the relevant callbacks
5331	are overridden. An instance of this subclass interface can then
5332	be passed to <link to="IConsole::registerCallback" />.
5333	</desc>
5334
5335	<method name="onMousePointerShapeChange">
5336	<desc>
5337	Notification when the guest mouse pointer shape has
5338	changed. The new shape data is given.
5339	</desc>
5340	<param name="visible" type="boolean" dir="in">
5341	<desc>
5342	Flag whether the pointer is visible.
5343	</desc>
5344	</param>
5345	<param name="alpha" type="boolean" dir="in">
5346	<desc>
5347	Flag whether the pointer has an alpha channel.
5348	</desc>
5349	</param>
5350	<param name="xHot" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5351	<desc>
5352	The pointer hot spot x coordinate.
5353	</desc>
5354	</param>
5355	<param name="yHot" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5356	<desc>
5357	The pointer hot spot y coordinate.
5358	</desc>
5359	</param>
5360	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5361	<desc>
5362	Width of the pointer shape in pixels.
5363	</desc>
5364	</param>
5365	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5366	<desc>
5367	Height of the pointer shape in pixels.
5368	</desc>
5369	</param>
5370	<param name="shape" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
5371	<desc>
5372	Address of the shape buffer.
5373
5374	The @a shape buffer contains a 1-bpp (bits per pixel) AND mask
5375	followed by a 32-bpp XOR (color) mask.
5376
5377	For pointers without alpha channel the XOR mask pixels are 32
5378	bit values: (lsb)BGR0(msb). For pointers with alpha channel
5379	the XOR mask consists of (lsb)BGRA(msb) 32 bit values.
5380
5381	An AND mask is used for pointers with alpha channel, so if the
5382	callback does not support alpha, the pointer could be
5383	displayed as a normal color pointer.
5384
5385	The AND mask is a 1-bpp bitmap with byte aligned scanlines. The
5386	size of the AND mask therefore is <tt>cbAnd = (width + 7) / 8 *
5387	height</tt>. The padding bits at the end of each scanline are
5388	undefined.
5389
5390	The XOR mask follows the AND mask on the next 4-byte aligned
5391	offset: <tt>uint8_t *pXor = pAnd + (cbAnd + 3) & ~3</tt>.
5392	Bytes in the gap between the AND and the XOR mask are undefined.
5393	The XOR mask scanlines have no gap between them and the size of
5394	the XOR mask is: <tt>cXor = width * 4 * height</tt>.
5395
5396	<note>
5397	If @a shape is 0, only the pointer visibility is changed.
5398	</note>
5399	</desc>
5400	</param>
5401	</method>
5402
5403	<method name="onMouseCapabilityChange">
5404	<desc>
5405	Notification when the mouse capabilities reported by the
5406	guest have changed. The new capabilities are passed.
5407	</desc>
5408	<param name="supportsAbsolute" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5409	<param name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5410	</method>
5411
5412	<method name="onKeyboardLedsChange">
5413	<desc>
5414	Notification when the guest OS executes the KBD_CMD_SET_LEDS command
5415	to alter the state of the keyboard LEDs.
5416	</desc>
5417	<param name="numLock" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5418	<param name="capsLock" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5419	<param name="scrollLock" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5420	</method>
5421
5422	<method name="onStateChange">
5423	<desc>
5424	Notification when the execution state of the machine has changed.
5425	The new state will be given.
5426	</desc>
5427	<param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
5428	</method>
5429
5430	<method name="onAdditionsStateChange">
5431	<desc>
5432	Notification when a Guest Additions property changes.
5433	Interested callees should query IGuest attributes to
5434	find out what has changed.
5435	</desc>
5436	</method>
5437
5438	<method name="onDVDDriveChange">
5439	<desc>
5440	Notification when a property of the
5441	virtual <link to="IMachine::DVDDrive">DVD drive</link> changes.
5442	Interested callees should use IDVDDrive methods to find out what has
5443	changed.
5444	</desc>
5445	</method>
5446
5447	<method name="onFloppyDriveChange">
5448	<desc>
5449	Notification when a property of the
5450	virtual <link to="IMachine::floppyDrive">floppy drive</link> changes.
5451	Interested callees should use IFloppyDrive methods to find out what
5452	has changed.
5453	</desc>
5454	</method>
5455
5456	<method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
5457	<desc>
5458	Notification when a property of one of the
5459	virtual <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter">network adapters</link>
5460	changes. Interested callees should use INetworkAdapter methods and
5461	attributes to find out what has changed.
5462	</desc>
5463	<param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in">
5464	<desc>Network adapter that is subject to change.</desc>
5465	</param>
5466	</method>
5467
5468	<method name="onSerialPortChange">
5469	<desc>
5470	Notification when a property of one of the
5471	virtual <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort">serial ports</link> changes.
5472	Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and attributes
5473	to find out what has changed.
5474	</desc>
5475	<param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in">
5476	<desc>Serial port that is subject to change.</desc>
5477	</param>
5478	</method>
5479
5480	<method name="onParallelPortChange">
5481	<desc>
5482	Notification when a property of one of the
5483	virtual <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort">parallel ports</link>
5484	changes. Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and
5485	attributes to find out what has changed.
5486	</desc>
5487	<param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in">
5488	<desc>Parallel port that is subject to change.</desc>
5489	</param>
5490	</method>
5491
5492	<method name="onStorageControllerChange">
5493	<desc>
5494	Notification when a property of one of the
5495	virtual <link to="IMachine::storageControllers">storage controllers</link>
5496	changes. Interested callees should query the corresponding collections
5497	to find out what has changed.
5498	</desc>
5499	</method>
5500
5501	<method name="onVRDPServerChange">
5502	<desc>
5503	Notification when a property of the
5504	<link to="IMachine::VRDPServer">VRDP server</link> changes.
5505	Interested callees should use IVRDPServer methods and attributes to
5506	find out what has changed.
5507	</desc>
5508	</method>
5509
5510	<method name="onUSBControllerChange">
5511	<desc>
5512	Notification when a property of the virtual
5513	<link to="IMachine::USBController">USB controller</link> changes.
5514	Interested callees should use IUSBController methods and attributes to
5515	find out what has changed.
5516	</desc>
5517	</method>
5518
5519	<method name="onUSBDeviceStateChange">
5520	<desc>
5521	Notification when a USB device is attached to or detached from
5522	the virtual USB controller.
5523
5524	This notification is sent as a result of the indirect
5525	request to attach the device because it matches one of the
5526	machine USB filters, or as a result of the direct request
5527	issued by <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/> or
5528	<link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>.
5529
5530	This notification is sent in case of both a succeeded and a
5531	failed request completion. When the request succeeds, the
5532	@a error parameter is @c null, and the given device has been
5533	already added to (when @a attached is @c true) or removed from
5534	(when @a attached is @c false) the collection represented by
5535	<link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/>. On failure, the collection
5536	doesn't change and the @a error parameter represents the error
5537	message describing the failure.
5538
5539	</desc>
5540	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in">
5541	<desc>Device that is subject to state change.</desc>
5542	</param>
5543	<param name="attached" type="boolean" dir="in">
5544	<desc>
5545	@c true if the device was attached and @c false otherwise.
5546	</desc>
5547	</param>
5548	<param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in">
5549	<desc>
5550	@c null on success or an error message object on failure.
5551	</desc>
5552	</param>
5553	</method>
5554
5555	<method name="onSharedFolderChange">
5556	<desc>
5557	Notification when a shared folder is added or removed.
5558	The @a scope argument defines one of three scopes:
5559	<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders">global shared folders</link>
5560	(<link to="Scope_Global">Global</link>),
5561	<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders">permanent shared folders</link> of
5562	the machine (<link to="Scope_Machine">Machine</link>) or <link
5563	to="IConsole::sharedFolders">transient shared folders</link> of the
5564	machine (<link to="Scope_Session">Session</link>). Interested callees
5565	should use query the corresponding collections to find out what has
5566	changed.
5567	</desc>
5568	<param name="scope" type="Scope" dir="in">
5569	<desc>Scope of the notification.</desc>
5570	</param>
5571	</method>
5572
5573	<method name="onRuntimeError">
5574	<desc>
5575	Notification when an error happens during the virtual
5576	machine execution.
5577
5578	There are three kinds of runtime errors:
5579	<ul>
5580	<li><i>fatal</i></li>
5581	<li><i>non-fatal with retry</i></li>
5582	<li><i>non-fatal warnings</i></li>
5583	</ul>
5584
5585	<b>Fatal</b> errors are indicated by the @a fatal parameter set
5586	to @c true. In case of fatal errors, the virtual machine
5587	execution is always paused before calling this notification, and
5588	the notification handler is supposed either to immediately save
5589	the virtual machine state using <link to="IConsole::saveState"/>
5590	or power it off using <link to="IConsole::powerDown"/>.
5591	Resuming the execution can lead to unpredictable results.
5592
5593	<b>Non-fatal</b> errors and warnings are indicated by the
5594	@a fatal parameter set to @c false. If the virtual machine
5595	is in the Paused state by the time the error notification is
5596	received, it means that the user can <i>try to resume</i> the machine
5597	execution after attempting to solve the problem that caused the
5598	error. In this case, the notification handler is supposed
5599	to show an appropriate message to the user (depending on the
5600	value of the @a id parameter) that offers several actions such
5601	as <i>Retry</i>, <i>Save</i> or <i>Power Off</i>. If the user
5602	wants to retry, the notification handler should continue
5603	the machine execution using the <link to="IConsole::resume"/>
5604	call. If the machine execution is not Paused during this
5605	notification, then it means this notification is a <i>warning</i>
5606	(for example, about a fatal condition that can happen very soon);
5607	no immediate action is required from the user, the machine
5608	continues its normal execution.
5609
5610	Note that in either case the notification handler
5611	<b>must not</b> perform any action directly on a thread
5612	where this notification is called. Everything it is allowed to
5613	do is to post a message to another thread that will then talk
5614	to the user and take the corresponding action.
5615
5616	Currently, the following error identifiers are known:
5617	<ul>
5618	<li><tt>"HostMemoryLow"</tt></li>
5619	<li><tt>"HostAudioNotResponding"</tt></li>
5620	<li><tt>"VDIStorageFull"</tt></li>
5621	<li><tt>"3DSupportIncompatibleAdditions"</tt></li>
5622	</ul>
5623
5624	<note>
5625	This notification is not designed to be implemented by
5626	more than one callback at a time. If you have multiple
5627	IConsoleCallback instances registered on the given
5628	IConsole object, make sure you simply do nothing but
5629	return @c S_OK from all but one of them that does actual
5630	user notification and performs necessary actions.
5631	</note>
5632
5633	</desc>
5634	<param name="fatal" type="boolean" dir="in">
5635	<desc>Whether the error is fatal or not</desc>
5636	</param>
5637	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
5638	<desc>Error identifier</desc>
5639	</param>
5640	<param name="message" type="wstring" dir="in">
5641	<desc>Optional error message</desc>
5642	</param>
5643	</method>
5644
5645	<method name="onCanShowWindow">
5646	<desc>
5647	Notification when a call to
5648	<link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> is made by a
5649	front-end to check if a subsequent call to
5650	<link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> can succeed.
5651
5652	The callee should give an answer appropriate to the current
5653	machine state in the @a canShow argument. This answer must
5654	remain valid at least until the next
5655	<link to="IConsole::state">machine state</link> change.
5656
5657	<note>
5658	This notification is not designed to be implemented by
5659	more than one callback at a time. If you have multiple
5660	IConsoleCallback instances registered on the given
5661	IConsole object, make sure you simply do nothing but
5662	return @c true and @c S_OK from all but one of them that
5663	actually manages console window activation.
5664	</note>
5665	</desc>
5666	<param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
5667	<desc>
5668	@c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
5669	</desc>
5670	</param>
5671	</method>
5672
5673	<method name="onShowWindow">
5674	<desc>
5675	Notification when a call to
5676	<link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/>
5677	requests the console window to be activated and brought to
5678	foreground on the desktop of the host PC.
5679
5680	This notification should cause the VM console process to
5681	perform the requested action as described above. If it is
5682	impossible to do it at a time of this notification, this
5683	method should return a failure.
5684
5685	Note that many modern window managers on many platforms
5686	implement some sort of focus stealing prevention logic, so
5687	that it may be impossible to activate a window without the
5688	help of the currently active application (which is supposedly
5689	an initiator of this notification). In this case, this method
5690	must return a non-zero identifier that represents the
5691	top-level window of the VM console process. The caller, if it
5692	represents a currently active process, is responsible to use
5693	this identifier (in a platform-dependent manner) to perform
5694	actual window activation.
5695
5696	This method must set @a winId to zero if it has performed all
5697	actions necessary to complete the request and the console
5698	window is now active and in foreground, to indicate that no
5699	further action is required on the caller's side.
5700
5701	<note>
5702	This notification is not designed to be implemented by
5703	more than one callback at a time. If you have multiple
5704	IConsoleCallback instances registered on the given
5705	IConsole object, make sure you simply do nothing but
5706	return @c S_OK from all but one of them that actually
5707	manages console window activation.
5708	</note>
5709	</desc>
5710	<param name="winId" type="unsigned long long" dir="return">
5711	<desc>
5712	Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
5713	window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
5714	necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
5715	the given platform and/or this VirtualBox front-end.
5716	</desc>
5717	</param>
5718	</method>
5719
5720	</interface>
5721
5722	<interface
5723	name="IRemoteDisplayInfo" extends="$unknown"
5724	uuid="550104cd-2dfd-4a6c-857d-f6f8e088e62c"
5725	wsmap="struct"
5726	>
5727	<desc>
5728	Contains information about the remote display (VRDP) capabilities and status.
5729	This is used in the <link to="IConsole::remoteDisplayInfo" /> attribute.
5730	</desc>
5731
5732	<attribute name="active" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
5733	<desc>
5734	Whether the remote display connection is active.
5735	</desc>
5736	</attribute>
5737
5738	<attribute name="numberOfClients" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5739	<desc>
5740	How many times a client connected.
5741	</desc>
5742	</attribute>
5743
5744	<attribute name="beginTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5745	<desc>
5746	When the last connection was established, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
5747	</desc>
5748	</attribute>
5749
5750	<attribute name="endTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5751	<desc>
5752	When the last connection was terminated or the current time, if
5753	connection is still active, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
5754	</desc>
5755	</attribute>
5756
5757	<attribute name="bytesSent" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
5758	<desc>
5759	How many bytes were sent in last or current, if still active, connection.
5760	</desc>
5761	</attribute>
5762
5763	<attribute name="bytesSentTotal" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
5764	<desc>
5765	How many bytes were sent in all connections.
5766	</desc>
5767	</attribute>
5768
5769	<attribute name="bytesReceived" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
5770	<desc>
5771	How many bytes were received in last or current, if still active, connection.
5772	</desc>
5773	</attribute>
5774
5775	<attribute name="bytesReceivedTotal" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
5776	<desc>
5777	How many bytes were received in all connections.
5778	</desc>
5779	</attribute>
5780
5781	<attribute name="user" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5782	<desc>
5783	Login user name supplied by the client.
5784	</desc>
5785	</attribute>
5786
5787	<attribute name="domain" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5788	<desc>
5789	Login domain name supplied by the client.
5790	</desc>
5791	</attribute>
5792
5793	<attribute name="clientName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5794	<desc>
5795	The client name supplied by the client.
5796	</desc>
5797	</attribute>
5798
5799	<attribute name="clientIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5800	<desc>
5801	The IP address of the client.
5802	</desc>
5803	</attribute>
5804
5805	<attribute name="clientVersion" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5806	<desc>
5807	The client software version number.
5808	</desc>
5809	</attribute>
5810
5811	<attribute name="encryptionStyle" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5812	<desc>
5813	Public key exchange method used when connection was established.
5814	Values: 0 - RDP4 public key exchange scheme.
5815	1 - X509 certificates were sent to client.
5816	</desc>
5817	</attribute>
5818
5819	</interface>
5820
5821	<interface
5822	name="IConsole" extends="$unknown"
5823	uuid="0a51994b-cbc6-4686-94eb-d4e4023280e2"
5824	wsmap="managed"
5825	>
5826	<desc>
5827	The IConsole interface represents an interface to control virtual
5828	machine execution.
5829
5830	The console object that implements the IConsole interface is obtained
5831	from a session object after the session for the given machine has been
5832	opened using one of <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>,
5833	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> or
5834	<link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/> methods.
5835
5836	Methods of the IConsole interface allow the caller to query the current
5837	virtual machine execution state, pause the machine or power it down, save
5838	the machine state or take a snapshot, attach and detach removable media
5839	and so on.
5840
5841	<see>ISession</see>
5842	</desc>
5843
5844	<attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
5845	<desc>
5846	Machine object this console is sessioned with.
5847	<note>
5848	This is a convenience property, it has the same value as
5849	<link to="ISession::machine"/> of the corresponding session
5850	object.
5851	</note>
5852	</desc>
5853	</attribute>
5854
5855	<attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
5856	<desc>
5857	Current execution state of the machine.
5858	<note>
5859	This property always returns the same value as the corresponding
5860	property of the IMachine object this console is sessioned with.
5861	For the process that owns (executes) the VM, this is the
5862	preferable way of querying the VM state, because no IPC
5863	calls are made.
5864	</note>
5865	</desc>
5866	</attribute>
5867
5868	<attribute name="guest" type="IGuest" readonly="yes">
5869	<desc>Guest object.</desc>
5870	</attribute>
5871
5872	<attribute name="keyboard" type="IKeyboard" readonly="yes">
5873	<desc>
5874	Virtual keyboard object.
5875	<note>
5876	If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
5877	the returned object will result in an error.
5878	</note>
5879	</desc>
5880	</attribute>
5881
5882	<attribute name="mouse" type="IMouse" readonly="yes">
5883	<desc>
5884	Virtual mouse object.
5885	<note>
5886	If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
5887	the returned object will result in an error.
5888	</note>
5889	</desc>
5890	</attribute>
5891
5892	<attribute name="display" type="IDisplay" readonly="yes">
5893	<desc>Virtual display object.
5894	<note>
5895	If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
5896	the returned object will result in an error.
5897	</note>
5898	</desc>
5899	</attribute>
5900
5901	<attribute name="debugger" type="IMachineDebugger" readonly="yes">
5902	<desc>Debugging interface.</desc>
5903	</attribute>
5904
5905	<attribute name="USBDevices" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
5906	<desc>
5907	Collection of USB devices currently attached to the virtual
5908	USB controller.
5909	<note>
5910	The collection is empty if the machine is not running.
5911	</note>
5912	</desc>
5913	</attribute>
5914
5915	<attribute name="remoteUSBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
5916	<desc>
5917	List of USB devices currently attached to the remote VRDP client.
5918	Once a new device is physically attached to the remote host computer,
5919	it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
5920	</desc>
5921	</attribute>
5922
5923	<attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
5924	<desc>
5925	Collection of shared folders for the current session. These folders
5926	are called transient shared folders because they are available to the
5927	guest OS running inside the associated virtual machine only for the
5928	duration of the session (as opposed to
5929	<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/> which represent permanent shared
5930	folders). When the session is closed (e.g. the machine is powered down),
5931	these folders are automatically discarded.
5932
5933	New shared folders are added to the collection using
5934	<link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
5935	removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
5936	</desc>
5937	</attribute>
5938
5939	<attribute name="remoteDisplayInfo" type="IRemoteDisplayInfo" readonly="yes">
5940	<desc>
5941	Interface that provides information on Remote Display (VRDP) connection.
5942	</desc>
5943	</attribute>
5944
5945	<method name="powerUp">
5946	<desc>
5947	Starts the virtual machine execution using the current machine
5948	state (that is, its current execution state, current settings and
5949	current hard disks).
5950
5951	If the machine is powered off or aborted, the execution will
5952	start from the beginning (as if the real hardware were just
5953	powered on).
5954
5955	If the machine is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state,
5956	it will continue its execution the point where the state has
5957	been saved.
5958
5959	<note>
5960	Unless you are trying to write a new VirtualBox front-end that
5961	performs direct machine execution (like the VirtualBox or VBoxSDL
5962	front-ends), don't call <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> in a direct
5963	session opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> and use this
5964	session only to change virtual machine settings. If you simply want to
5965	start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
5966	(for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), simply use
5967	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>; these front-ends will
5968	power up the machine automatically for you.
5969	</note>
5970
5971	<see>#saveState</see>
5972	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5973	Virtual machine already running.
5974	</result>
5975	<result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
5976	Host interface does not exist or name not set.
5977	</result>
5978	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5979	Invalid saved state file.
5980	</result>
5981	</desc>
5982	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
5983	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
5984	</param>
5985	</method>
5986
5987	<method name="powerUpPaused">
5988	<desc>
5989	Identical to powerUp except that the VM will enter the
5990	<link to="MachineState_Paused"/> state, instead of
5991	<link to="MachineState_Running"/>.
5992
5993	<see>#powerUp</see>
5994	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5995	Virtual machine already running.
5996	</result>
5997	<result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
5998	Host interface does not exist or name not set.
5999	</result>
6000	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6001	Invalid saved state file.
6002	</result>
6003	</desc>
6004	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6005	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6006	</param>
6007	</method>
6008
6009	<method name="powerDown">
6010	<desc>
6011	Initiates the power down procedure to stop the virtual machine
6012	execution.
6013
6014	The completion of the power down procedure is tracked using the returned
6015	IProgress object. After the operation is complete, the machine will go
6016	to the PoweredOff state.
6017	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6018	Virtual machine must be Running, Paused or Stuck to be powered down.
6019	</result>
6020	</desc>
6021	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6022	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6023	</param>
6024	</method>
6025
6026	<method name="reset">
6027	<desc>Resets the virtual machine.
6028	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6029	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6030	</result>
6031	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6032	Virtual machine error in reset operation.
6033	</result>
6034	</desc>
6035	</method>
6036
6037	<method name="pause">
6038	<desc>Pauses the virtual machine execution.
6039	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6040	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6041	</result>
6042	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6043	Virtual machine error in suspend operation.
6044	</result>
6045	</desc>
6046	</method>
6047
6048	<method name="resume">
6049	<desc>Resumes the virtual machine execution.
6050	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6051	Virtual machine not in Paused state.
6052	</result>
6053	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6054	Virtual machine error in resume operation.
6055	</result>
6056	</desc>
6057	</method>
6058
6059	<method name="powerButton">
6060	<desc>Sends the ACPI power button event to the guest.
6061	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6062	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6063	</result>
6064	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6065	Controlled power off failed.
6066	</result>
6067	</desc>
6068	</method>
6069
6070	<method name="sleepButton">
6071	<desc>Sends the ACPI sleep button event to the guest.
6072	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6073	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6074	</result>
6075	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6076	Sending sleep button event failed.
6077	</result>
6078	</desc>
6079	</method>
6080
6081	<method name="getPowerButtonHandled">
6082	<desc>Checks if the last power button event was handled by guest.
6083	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6084	Checking if the event was handled by the guest OS failed.
6085	</result>
6086	</desc>
6087	<param name="handled" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6088	</method>
6089
6090	<method name="getGuestEnteredACPIMode">
6091	<desc>Checks if the guest entered the ACPI mode G0 (working) or
6092	G1 (sleeping). If this method returns @c false, the guest will
6093	most likely not respond to external ACPI events.
6094	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6095	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6096	</result>
6097	</desc>
6098	<param name="entered" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6099	</method>
6100
6101	<method name="saveState">
6102	<desc>
6103	Saves the current execution state of a running virtual machine
6104	and stops its execution.
6105
6106	After this operation completes, the machine will go to the
6107	Saved state. Next time it is powered up, this state will
6108	be restored and the machine will continue its execution from
6109	the place where it was saved.
6110
6111	This operation differs from taking a snapshot to the effect
6112	that it doesn't create new differencing hard disks. Also, once
6113	the machine is powered up from the state saved using this method,
6114	the saved state is deleted, so it will be impossible to return
6115	to this state later.
6116
6117	<note>
6118	On success, this method implicitly calls
6119	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to save all current machine
6120	settings (including runtime changes to the DVD drive, etc.).
6121	Together with the impossibility to change any VM settings when it is
6122	in the Saved state, this guarantees adequate hardware
6123	configuration of the machine when it is restored from the saved
6124	state file.
6125	</note>
6126
6127	<note>
6128	The machine must be in the Running or Paused state, otherwise
6129	the operation will fail.
6130	</note>
6131	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6132	Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6133	</result>
6134	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6135	Failed to create directory for saved state file.
6136	</result>
6137
6138	<see><link to="#takeSnapshot"/></see>
6139	</desc>
6140	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6141	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6142	</param>
6143	</method>
6144
6145	<method name="adoptSavedState">
6146	<desc>
6147	Associates the given saved state file to the virtual machine.
6148
6149	On success, the machine will go to the Saved state. Next time it is
6150	powered up, it will be restored from the adopted saved state and
6151	continue execution from the place where the saved state file was
6152	created.
6153
6154	The specified saved state file path may be absolute or relative to the
6155	folder the VM normally saves the state to (usually,
6156	<link to="IMachine::snapshotFolder"/>).
6157
6158	<note>
6159	It's a caller's responsibility to make sure the given saved state
6160	file is compatible with the settings of this virtual machine that
6161	represent its virtual hardware (memory size, hard disk configuration
6162	etc.). If there is a mismatch, the behavior of the virtual machine
6163	is undefined.
6164	</note>
6165	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6166	Virtual machine state neither PoweredOff nor Aborted.
6167	</result>
6168	</desc>
6169	<param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
6170	<desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
6171	</param>
6172	</method>
6173
6174	<method name="forgetSavedState">
6175	<desc>
6176	Forgets the saved state of the virtual machine previously created
6177	by <link to="#saveState"/>. Next time the machine is powered up, a
6178	clean boot will occur. If @a remove is @c true the saved state file
6179	is deleted.
6180	<note>
6181	This operation is equivalent to resetting or powering off
6182	the machine without doing a proper shutdown in the guest OS.
6183	</note>
6184	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6185	Virtual machine not in state Saved.
6186	</result>
6187	</desc>
6188	<param name="remove" type="boolean" dir="in">
6189	<desc>If @c true remove the saved state file.</desc>
6190	</param>
6191	</method>
6192
6193	<method name="getDeviceActivity">
6194	<desc>
6195	Gets the current activity type of a given device or device group.
6196	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6197	Invalid device type.
6198	</result>
6199	</desc>
6200	<param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in"/>
6201	<param name="activity" type="DeviceActivity" dir="return"/>
6202	</method>
6203
6204	<method name="attachUSBDevice">
6205	<desc>
6206	Attaches a host USB device with the given UUID to the
6207	USB controller of the virtual machine.
6208
6209	The device needs to be in one of the following states:
6210	<link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
6211	<link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/> or
6212	<link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>,
6213	otherwise an error is immediately returned.
6214
6215	When the device state is
6216	<link to="USBDeviceState_Busy">Busy</link>, an error may also
6217	be returned if the host computer refuses to release it for some reason.
6218
6219	<see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6220	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6221	Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6222	</result>
6223	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6224	Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6225	</result>
6226	</desc>
6227	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
6228	<desc>UUID of the host USB device to attach.</desc>
6229	</param>
6230	</method>
6231
6232	<method name="detachUSBDevice">
6233	<desc>
6234	Detaches an USB device with the given UUID from the USB controller
6235	of the virtual machine.
6236
6237	After this method succeeds, the VirtualBox server re-initiates
6238	all USB filters as if the device were just physically attached
6239	to the host, but filters of this machine are ignored to avoid
6240	a possible automatic re-attachment.
6241
6242	<see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6243
6244	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6245	Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6246	</result>
6247	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6248	USB device not attached to this virtual machine.
6249	</result>
6250	</desc>
6251	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
6252	<desc>UUID of the USB device to detach.</desc>
6253	</param>
6254	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6255	<desc>Detached USB device.</desc>
6256	</param>
6257	</method>
6258
6259	<method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
6260	<desc>
6261	Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
6262
6263	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6264	Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
6265	</result>
6266
6267	<see>IUSBDevice::address</see>
6268	</desc>
6269	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6270	<desc>
6271	Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
6272	search for.
6273	</desc>
6274	</param>
6275	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6276	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6277	</param>
6278	</method>
6279
6280	<method name="findUSBDeviceById">
6281	<desc>
6282	Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
6283
6284	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6285	Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
6286	</result>
6287
6288	<see>IUSBDevice::id</see>
6289	</desc>
6290	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
6291	<desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
6292	</param>
6293	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6294	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6295	</param>
6296	</method>
6297
6298	<method name="createSharedFolder">
6299	<desc>
6300	Creates a transient new shared folder by associating the given logical
6301	name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
6302	folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
6303	<link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
6304
6305	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6306	Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6307	</result>
6308	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6309	Shared folder already exists or not accessible.
6310	</result>
6311	</desc>
6312	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6313	<desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
6314	</param>
6315	<param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
6316	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
6317	</param>
6318	<param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
6319	<desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
6320	</param>
6321	</method>
6322
6323	<method name="removeSharedFolder">
6324	<desc>
6325	Removes a transient shared folder with the given name previously
6326	created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
6327	shared folders and stops sharing it.
6328	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6329	Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6330	</result>
6331	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6332	Shared folder does not exists.
6333	</result>
6334	</desc>
6335	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6336	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
6337	</param>
6338	</method>
6339
6340	<method name="takeSnapshot">
6341	<desc>
6342	Saves the current execution state
6343	and all settings of the machine and creates differencing images
6344	for all normal (non-independent) hard disks.
6345	See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6346
6347	This method can be called for a PoweredOff, Saved (see
6348	<link to="#saveState"/>), Running or
6349	Paused virtual machine. When the machine is PoweredOff, an
6350	offline snapshot is created, an online snapshot otherwise.
6351
6352	The taken snapshot is always based on the
6353	<link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot">current snapshot</link>
6354	of the associated virtual machine and becomes a new current snapshot.
6355
6356	<note>
6357	This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6358	save all current machine settings before taking an offline snapshot.
6359	</note>
6360
6361	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6362	Virtual machine currently changing state.
6363	</result>
6364	</desc>
6365	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6366	<desc>Short name for the snapshot.</desc>
6367	</param>
6368	<param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
6369	<desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
6370	</param>
6371	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6372	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6373	</param>
6374	</method>
6375
6376	<method name="discardSnapshot">
6377	<desc>
6378	Starts discarding the specified snapshot asynchronously.
6379	See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6380
6381	The execution state
6382	and settings of the associated machine stored in the snapshot
6383	will be deleted. The contents of all differencing hard disks of
6384	this snapshot will be merged with the contents of their
6385	dependent child hard disks to keep the disks valid (in other
6386	words, all changes represented by hard disks being discarded
6387	will be propagated to their child hard disks). After that, this
6388	snapshot's differencing hard disks will be deleted. The parent
6389	of this snapshot will become a new parent for all its child
6390	snapshots.
6391
6392	If the discarded snapshot is the current one, its parent
6393	snapshot will become a new current snapshot. The current machine
6394	state is not directly affected in this case, except that
6395	currently attached differencing hard disks based on hard disks
6396	of the discarded snapshot will be also merged as described
6397	above.
6398
6399	If the discarded snapshot is the first one (the root snapshot)
6400	and it has exactly one child snapshot, this child snapshot will
6401	become the first snapshot after discarding. If there are no
6402	children at all (i.e. the first snapshot is the only snapshot of
6403	the machine), both the current and the first snapshot of the
6404	machine will be set to @c null. In all other cases, the first
6405	snapshot cannot be discarded.
6406
6407	You cannot discard the snapshot if it
6408	stores <link to="HardDiskType_Normal">normal</link> (non-differencing)
6409	hard disks that have differencing hard disks based on them. Snapshots of
6410	such kind can be discarded only when every normal hard disk has either
6411	no children at all or exactly one child. In the former case, the normal
6412	hard disk simply becomes unused (i.e. not attached to any VM). In the
6413	latter case, it receives all the changes stored in the child hard disk,
6414	and then it replaces the child hard disk in the configuration of the
6415	corresponding snapshot or machine.
6416
6417	Also, you cannot discard the snapshot if it stores hard disks
6418	(of any type) having differencing child hard disks that belong
6419	to other machines. Such snapshots can be only discarded after
6420	you discard all snapshots of other machines containing "foreign"
6421	child disks, or detach these "foreign" child disks from machines
6422	they are attached to.
6423
6424	One particular example of the snapshot storing normal hard disks
6425	is the first snapshot of a virtual machine that had normal hard
6426	disks attached when taking the snapshot. Be careful when
6427	discarding such snapshots because this implicitly commits
6428	changes (made since the snapshot being discarded has been taken)
6429	to normal hard disks (as described above), which may be not what
6430	you want.
6431
6432	The virtual machine is put to
6433	the <link to="MachineState_Discarding">Discarding</link> state until
6434	the discard operation is completed.
6435
6436	<note>
6437	The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation
6438	will fail.
6439	</note>
6440
6441	<note>
6442	Child hard disks of all normal hard disks of the discarded snapshot
6443	must be accessible (see <link to="IMedium::state"/>) for this
6444	operation to succeed. In particular, this means that all virtual
6445	machines, whose hard disks are directly or indirectly based on the
6446	hard disks of discarded snapshot, must be powered off.
6447	</note>
6448	<note>
6449	Merging hard disk contents can be very time and disk space
6450	consuming, if these disks are big in size and have many
6451	children. However, if the snapshot being discarded is the last
6452	(head) snapshot on the branch, the operation will be rather
6453	quick.
6454	</note>
6455	<note>
6456	Note that discarding the current snapshot
6457	will implicitly call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6458	make all current machine settings permanent.
6459	</note>
6460	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6461	Virtual machine is running.
6462	</result>
6463	</desc>
6464	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
6465	<desc>UUID of the snapshot to discard.</desc>
6466	</param>
6467	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6468	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6469	</param>
6470	</method>
6471
6472	<method name="discardCurrentState">
6473	<desc>
6474	Starts resetting the machine's current state to the state contained
6475	in the current snapshot, asynchronously. All current settings of the
6476	machine will be reset and changes stored in differencing hard disks
6477	will be lost.
6478	See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6479
6480	After this operation is successfully completed, new empty differencing
6481	hard disks are created for all normal hard disks of the machine.
6482
6483	If the current snapshot of the machine is an online snapshot, the
6484	machine will go to the <link to="MachineState_Saved"> saved
6485	state</link>, so that the next time it is powered on, the execution
6486	state will be restored from the current snapshot.
6487
6488	<note>
6489	The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation will fail.
6490	</note>
6491
6492	<note>
6493	If the machine state is <link to="MachineState_Saved">Saved</link>
6494	prior to this operation, the saved state file will be implicitly
6495	discarded (as if <link to="IConsole::forgetSavedState"/> were
6496	called).
6497	</note>
6498
6499	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6500	Virtual machine is running.
6501	</result>
6502	</desc>
6503	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6504	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6505	</param>
6506	</method>
6507
6508	<method name="discardCurrentSnapshotAndState">
6509	<desc>
6510
6511	This method is equivalent to
6512	doing <link to="IConsole::discardSnapshot">discardSnapshot</link>
6513	(currentSnapshot.id(), progress) followed by
6514	<link to="IConsole::discardCurrentState"/>.
6515
6516	As a result, the machine will be fully restored from the
6517	snapshot preceding the current snapshot, while both the current
6518	snapshot and the current machine state will be discarded.
6519
6520	If the current snapshot is the first snapshot of the machine (i.e. it
6521	has the only snapshot), the current machine state will be
6522	discarded <b>before</b> discarding the snapshot. In other words, the
6523	machine will be restored from its last snapshot, before discarding
6524	it. This differs from performing a single
6525	<link to="IConsole::discardSnapshot"/> call (note that no
6526	<link to="IConsole::discardCurrentState"/> will be possible after it)
6527	to the effect that the latter will preserve the current state instead of
6528	discarding it.
6529
6530	Unless explicitly mentioned otherwise, all remarks and
6531	limitations of the above two methods also apply to this method.
6532
6533	<note>
6534	The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation
6535	will fail.
6536	</note>
6537
6538	<note>
6539	If the machine state is <link to="MachineState_Saved">Saved</link>
6540	prior to this operation, the saved state file will be implicitly
6541	discarded (as if <link to="#forgetSavedState"/> were
6542	called).
6543	</note>
6544
6545	<note>
6546	This method is more efficient than calling both of the above
6547	methods separately: it requires less IPC calls and provides
6548	a single progress object.
6549	</note>
6550
6551	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6552	Virtual machine is running.
6553	</result>
6554	</desc>
6555	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6556	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6557	</param>
6558	</method>
6559
6560	<method name="registerCallback">
6561	<desc>
6562	Registers a new console callback on this instance. The methods of the
6563	callback interface will be called by this instance when the appropriate
6564	event occurs.
6565	</desc>
6566	<param name="callback" type="IConsoleCallback" dir="in"/>
6567	</method>
6568
6569	<method name="unregisterCallback">
6570	<desc>
6571	Unregisters the console callback previously registered using
6572	<link to="#registerCallback"/>.
6573	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6574	Given @a callback handler is not registered.
6575	</result>
6576	</desc>
6577	<param name="callback" type="IConsoleCallback" dir="in"/>
6578	</method>
6579	</interface>
6580
6581	<!--
6582	// IHost
6583	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
6584	-->
6585
6586	<interface
6587	name="IHostDVDDrive" extends="$unknown"
6588	uuid="21f86694-202d-4ce4-8b05-a63ff82dbf4c"
6589	wsmap="managed"
6590	>
6591	<desc>
6592	The IHostDVDDrive interface represents the physical CD/DVD drive
6593	hardware on the host. Used indirectly in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives"/>.
6594	</desc>
6595
6596	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6597	<desc>
6598	Returns the platform-specific device identifier.
6599	On DOS-like platforms, it is a drive name (e.g. R:).
6600	On Unix-like platforms, it is a device name (e.g. /dev/hdc).
6601	</desc>
6602	</attribute>
6603	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6604	<desc>
6605	Returns a human readable description for the drive. This
6606	description usually contains the product and vendor name. An
6607	empty string is returned if the description is not available.
6608	</desc>
6609	</attribute>
6610	<attribute name="udi" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6611	<desc>
6612	Returns the unique device identifier for the drive. This
6613	attribute is reserved for future use instead of
6614	<link to="#name"/>. Currently it is not used and may return
6615	an empty string on some platforms.
6616	</desc>
6617	</attribute>
6618
6619	</interface>
6620
6621	<interface
6622	name="IHostFloppyDrive" extends="$unknown"
6623	uuid="3f02d604-e908-4919-9fd1-8a4afd68fc63"
6624	wsmap="managed"
6625	>
6626	<desc>
6627	The IHostFloppyDrive interface represents the physical floppy drive
6628	hardware on the host. Used indirectly in <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>.
6629	</desc>
6630	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6631	<desc>
6632	Returns the platform-specific device identifier.
6633	On DOS-like platforms, it is a drive name (e.g. A:).
6634	On Unix-like platforms, it is a device name (e.g. /dev/fd0).
6635	</desc>
6636	</attribute>
6637	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6638	<desc>
6639	Returns a human readable description for the drive. This
6640	description usually contains the product and vendor name. An
6641	empty string is returned if the description is not available.
6642	</desc>
6643	</attribute>
6644	<attribute name="udi" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6645	<desc>
6646	Returns the unique device identifier for the drive. This
6647	attribute is reserved for future use instead of
6648	<link to="#name"/>. Currently it is not used and may return
6649	an empty string on some platforms.
6650	</desc>
6651	</attribute>
6652	</interface>
6653
6654	<enum
6655	name="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType"
6656	uuid="1aa54aaf-2497-45a2-bfb1-8eb225e93d5b"
6657	>
6658	<desc>
6659	Type of encapsulation. Ethernet encapsulation includes both wired and
6660	wireless Ethernet connections.
6661	<see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
6662	</desc>
6663
6664	<const name="Unknown" value="0">
6665	<desc>
6666	The type of interface cannot be determined.
6667	</desc>
6668	</const>
6669	<const name="Ethernet" value="1">
6670	<desc>
6671	Ethernet frame encapsulation.
6672	</desc>
6673	</const>
6674	<const name="PPP" value="2">
6675	<desc>
6676	Point-to-point protocol encapsulation.
6677	</desc>
6678	</const>
6679	<const name="SLIP" value="3">
6680	<desc>
6681	Serial line IP encapsulation.
6682	</desc>
6683	</const>
6684	</enum>
6685
6686	<enum
6687	name="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus"
6688	uuid="CC474A69-2710-434B-8D99-C38E5D5A6F41"
6689	>
6690	<desc>
6691	Current status of the interface.
6692	<see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
6693	</desc>
6694
6695	<const name="Unknown" value="0">
6696	<desc>
6697	The state of interface cannot be determined.
6698	</desc>
6699	</const>
6700	<const name="Up" value="1">
6701	<desc>
6702	The interface is fully operational.
6703	</desc>
6704	</const>
6705	<const name="Down" value="2">
6706	<desc>
6707	The interface is not functioning.
6708	</desc>
6709	</const>
6710	</enum>
6711
6712	<enum
6713	name="HostNetworkInterfaceType"
6714	uuid="67431b00-9946-48a2-bc02-b25c5919f4f3"
6715	>
6716	<desc>
6717	Network interface type.
6718	</desc>
6719	<const name="Bridged" value="1"/>
6720	<const name="HostOnly" value="2"/>
6721	</enum>
6722
6723	<interface
6724	name="IHostNetworkInterface" extends="$unknown"
6725	uuid="ce6fae58-7642-4102-b5db-c9005c2320a8"
6726	wsmap="managed"
6727	>
6728	<desc>
6729	Represents one of host's network interfaces. IP V6 address and network
6730	mask are strings of 32 hexdecimal digits grouped by four. Groups are
6731	separated by colons.
6732	For example, fe80:0000:0000:0000:021e:c2ff:fed2:b030.
6733	</desc>
6734	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6735	<desc>Returns the host network interface name.</desc>
6736	</attribute>
6737
6738	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6739	<desc>Returns the interface UUID.</desc>
6740	</attribute>
6741
6742	<attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6743	<desc>Returns the name of a virtual network the interface gets attached to.</desc>
6744	</attribute>
6745
6746	<attribute name="dhcpEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6747	<desc>Specifies whether the DHCP is enabled for the interface.</desc>
6748	</attribute>
6749
6750	<attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6751	<desc>Returns the IP V4 address of the interface.</desc>
6752	</attribute>
6753
6754	<attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6755	<desc>Returns the network mask of the interface.</desc>
6756	</attribute>
6757
6758	<attribute name="IPV6Supported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6759	<desc>Specifies whether the IP V6 is supported/enabled for the interface.</desc>
6760	</attribute>
6761
6762	<attribute name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6763	<desc>Returns the IP V6 address of the interface.</desc>
6764	</attribute>
6765
6766	<attribute name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6767	<desc>Returns the length IP V6 network mask prefix of the interface.</desc>
6768	</attribute>
6769
6770	<attribute name="hardwareAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6771	<desc>Returns the hardware address. For Ethernet it is MAC address.</desc>
6772	</attribute>
6773
6774	<attribute name="mediumType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType" readonly="yes">
6775	<desc>Type of protocol encapsulation used.</desc>
6776	</attribute>
6777
6778	<attribute name="status" type="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus" readonly="yes">
6779	<desc>Status of the interface.</desc>
6780	</attribute>
6781
6782	<attribute name="interfaceType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" readonly="yes">
6783	<desc>specifies the host interface type.</desc>
6784	</attribute>
6785
6786	<method name="enableStaticIpConfig">
6787	<desc>sets and enables the static IP V4 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
6788	<param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
6789	<desc>
6790	IP address.
6791	</desc>
6792	</param>
6793	<param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
6794	<desc>
6795	network mask.
6796	</desc>
6797	</param>
6798	</method>
6799
6800	<method name="enableStaticIpConfigV6">
6801	<desc>sets and enables the static IP V6 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
6802	<param name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" dir="in">
6803	<desc>
6804	IP address.
6805	</desc>
6806	</param>
6807	<param name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6808	<desc>
6809	network mask.
6810	</desc>
6811	</param>
6812	</method>
6813
6814	<method name="enableDynamicIpConfig">
6815	<desc>enables the dynamic IP configuration.</desc>
6816	</method>
6817
6818	<method name="dhcpRediscover">
6819	<desc>refreshes the IP configuration for dhcp-enabled interface.</desc>
6820	</method>
6821
6822	</interface>
6823
6824	<interface
6825	name="IHost" extends="$unknown"
6826	uuid="4129f721-30cc-4f5a-bbed-0614ce4c2cb4"
6827	wsmap="managed"
6828	>
6829	<desc>
6830	The IHost interface represents the physical machine that this VirtualBox
6831	installation runs on.
6832
6833	An object implementing this interface is returned by the
6834	<link to="IVirtualBox::host" /> attribute. This interface contains
6835	read-only information about the host's physical hardware (such as what
6836	processors and disks are available, what the host operating system is,
6837	and so on) and also allows for manipulating some of the host's hardware,
6838	such as global USB device filters and host interface networking.
6839
6840	</desc>
6841	<attribute name="DVDDrives" type="IHostDVDDrive" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6842	<desc>List of DVD drives available on the host.</desc>
6843	</attribute>
6844
6845	<attribute name="floppyDrives" type="IHostFloppyDrive" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6846	<desc>List of floppy drives available on the host.</desc>
6847	</attribute>
6848
6849	<attribute name="USBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6850	<desc>
6851	List of USB devices currently attached to the host.
6852	Once a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
6853	it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
6854
6855	<note>
6856	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
6857	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
6858	</note>
6859	</desc>
6860	</attribute>
6861
6862	<attribute name="USBDeviceFilters" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6863	<desc>
6864	List of USB device filters in action.
6865	When a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
6866	filters from this list are applied to it (in order they are stored
6867	in the list). The first matched filter will determine the
6868	<link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::action">action</link>
6869	performed on the device.
6870
6871	Unless the device is ignored by these filters, filters of all
6872	currently running virtual machines
6873	(<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are applied to it.
6874
6875	<note>
6876	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
6877	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
6878	</note>
6879
6880	<see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
6881	</desc>
6882	</attribute>
6883
6884	<attribute name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
6885	<desc>List of host network interfaces currently defined on the host.</desc>
6886	</attribute>
6887
6888	<attribute name="processorCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6889	<desc>Number of (logical) CPUs installed in the host system.</desc>
6890	</attribute>
6891
6892	<attribute name="processorOnlineCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6893	<desc>Number of (logical) CPUs online in the host system.</desc>
6894	</attribute>
6895
6896	<method name="getProcessorSpeed">
6897	<desc>Query the (approximate) maximum speed of a specified host CPU in
6898	Megahertz.
6899	</desc>
6900	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6901	<desc>
6902	Identifier of the CPU.
6903	</desc>
6904	</param>
6905	<param name="speed" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
6906	<desc>
6907	Speed value. 0 is returned if value is not known or @a cpuId is
6908	invalid.
6909	</desc>
6910	</param>
6911	</method>
6912
6913	<method name="getProcessorFeature">
6914	<desc>Query whether a CPU feature is supported or not.</desc>
6915	<param name="feature" type="ProcessorFeature" dir="in">
6916	<desc>
6917	CPU Feature identifier.
6918	</desc>
6919	</param>
6920	<param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return">
6921	<desc>
6922	Feature is supported or not.
6923	</desc>
6924	</param>
6925	</method>
6926
6927	<method name="getProcessorDescription">
6928	<desc>Query the model string of a specified host CPU.
6929	</desc>
6930	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6931	<desc>
6932	Identifier of the CPU.
6933	</desc>
6934	</param>
6935	<param name="description" type="wstring" dir="return">
6936	<desc>
6937	Model string. An empty string is returned if value is not known or
6938	@a cpuId is invalid.
6939	</desc>
6940	</param>
6941	</method>
6942
6943	<attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6944	<desc>Amount of system memory in megabytes installed in the host system.</desc>
6945	</attribute>
6946
6947	<attribute name="memoryAvailable" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6948	<desc>Available system memory in the host system.</desc>
6949	</attribute>
6950
6951	<attribute name="operatingSystem" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6952	<desc>Name of the host system's operating system.</desc>
6953	</attribute>
6954
6955	<attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6956	<desc>Host operating system's version string.</desc>
6957	</attribute>
6958
6959	<attribute name="UTCTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6960	<desc>Returns the current host time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.</desc>
6961	</attribute>
6962
6963	<attribute name="Acceleration3DAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6964	<desc>Returns @c true when the host supports 3D hardware acceleration.</desc>
6965	</attribute>
6966
6967	<method name="createHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
6968	<desc>
6969	Creates a new adapter for Host Only Networking.
6970	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6971	Host network interface @a name already exists.
6972	</result>
6973	</desc>
6974	<param name="hostInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="out">
6975	<desc>
6976	Created host interface object.
6977	</desc>
6978	</param>
6979	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6980	<desc>
6981	Progress object to track the operation completion.
6982	</desc>
6983	</param>
6984	</method>
6985
6986	<method name="removeHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
6987	<desc>
6988	Removes the given Host Only Networking interface.
6989	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6990	No host network interface matching @a id found.
6991	</result>
6992	</desc>
6993	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
6994	<desc>
6995	Adapter GUID.
6996	</desc>
6997	</param>
6998	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6999	<desc>
7000	Progress object to track the operation completion.
7001	</desc>
7002	</param>
7003	</method>
7004
7005	<method name="createUSBDeviceFilter">
7006	<desc>
7007	Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
7008	the filter name are set to empty (any match),
7009	<i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
7010
7011	The created filter can be added to the list of filters using
7012	<link to="#insertUSBDeviceFilter"/>.
7013
7014	<see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7015	</desc>
7016	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7017	<desc>
7018	Filter name. See <link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
7019	for more info.
7020	</desc>
7021	</param>
7022	<param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
7023	<desc>Created filter object.</desc>
7024	</param>
7025	</method>
7026
7027	<method name="insertUSBDeviceFilter">
7028	<desc>
7029	Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
7030	in the list of filters.
7031
7032	Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. If the specified
7033	position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7034	the list, the filter is added at the end of the collection.
7035
7036	<note>
7037	Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
7038	filter already in the list is an error.
7039	</note>
7040	<note>
7041	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7042	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7043	</note>
7044
7045	<see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7046
7047	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
7048	USB device filter is not created within this VirtualBox instance.
7049	</result>
7050	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7051	USB device filter already in list.
7052	</result>
7053
7054	</desc>
7055	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7056	<desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
7057	</param>
7058	<param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
7059	<desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
7060	</param>
7061	</method>
7062
7063	<method name="removeUSBDeviceFilter">
7064	<desc>
7065	Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
7066	list of filters.
7067
7068	Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. Specifying a
7069	position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7070	the list will produce an error.
7071
7072	<note>
7073	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7074	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7075	</note>
7076
7077	<see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7078
7079	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7080	USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
7081	</result>
7082
7083	</desc>
7084	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7085	<desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
7086	</param>
7087	</method>
7088
7089	<method name="findHostDVDDrive">
7090	<desc>
7091	Searches for a host DVD drive with the given @c name.
7092
7093	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7094	Given @c name does not correspond to any host drive.
7095	</result>
7096
7097	</desc>
7098	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7099	<desc>Name of the host drive to search for</desc>
7100	</param>
7101	<param name="drive" type="IHostDVDDrive" dir="return">
7102	<desc>Found host drive object</desc>
7103	</param>
7104	</method>
7105
7106	<method name="findHostFloppyDrive">
7107	<desc>
7108	Searches for a host floppy drive with the given @c name.
7109
7110	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7111	Given @c name does not correspond to any host floppy drive.
7112	</result>
7113
7114	</desc>
7115	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7116	<desc>Name of the host floppy drive to search for</desc>
7117	</param>
7118	<param name="drive" type="IHostFloppyDrive" dir="return">
7119	<desc>Found host floppy drive object</desc>
7120	</param>
7121	</method>
7122
7123	<method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceByName">
7124	<desc>
7125	Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7126	the given @c name.
7127	<note>
7128	The method returns an error if the given @c name does not
7129	correspond to any host network interface.
7130	</note>
7131	</desc>
7132	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7133	<desc>Name of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7134	</param>
7135	<param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7136	<desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7137	</param>
7138	</method>
7139	<method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceById">
7140	<desc>
7141	Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7142	the given GUID.
7143	<note>
7144	The method returns an error if the given GUID does not
7145	correspond to any host network interface.
7146	</note>
7147	</desc>
7148	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
7149	<desc>GUID of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7150	</param>
7151	<param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7152	<desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7153	</param>
7154	</method>
7155	<method name="findHostNetworkInterfacesOfType">
7156	<desc>
7157	Searches through all host network interfaces and returns a list of interfaces of the specified type
7158	</desc>
7159	<param name="type" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" dir="in">
7160	<desc>type of the host network interfaces to search for.</desc>
7161	</param>
7162	<param name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7163	<desc>Found host network interface objects.</desc>
7164	</param>
7165	</method>
7166
7167	<method name="findUSBDeviceById">
7168	<desc>
7169	Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
7170
7171	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7172	Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
7173	</result>
7174
7175	<see>IHostUSBDevice::id</see>
7176	</desc>
7177	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
7178	<desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
7179	</param>
7180	<param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7181	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7182	</param>
7183	</method>
7184
7185	<method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
7186	<desc>
7187	Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
7188
7189	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7190	Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
7191	</result>
7192
7193	<see>IHostUSBDevice::address</see>
7194	</desc>
7195	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7196	<desc>
7197	Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
7198	search for.
7199	</desc>
7200	</param>
7201	<param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7202	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7203	</param>
7204	</method>
7205
7206	</interface>
7207
7208	<!--
7209	// ISystemProperties
7210	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7211	-->
7212
7213	<interface
7214	name="ISystemProperties"
7215	extends="$unknown"
7216	uuid="9ca0f712-83f3-4631-b143-b75ef6568332"
7217	wsmap="managed"
7218	>
7219	<desc>
7220	The ISystemProperties interface represents global properties of the given
7221	VirtualBox installation.
7222
7223	These properties define limits and default values for various attributes
7224	and parameters. Most of the properties are read-only, but some can be
7225	changed by a user.
7226	</desc>
7227
7228	<attribute name="minGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7229	<desc>Minimum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7230	</attribute>
7231
7232	<attribute name="maxGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7233	<desc>Maximum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7234	</attribute>
7235
7236	<attribute name="minGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7237	<desc>Minimum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7238	</attribute>
7239
7240	<attribute name="maxGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7241	<desc>Maximum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7242	</attribute>
7243
7244	<attribute name="minGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7245	<desc>Minimum CPU count.</desc>
7246	</attribute>
7247
7248	<attribute name="maxGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7249	<desc>Maximum CPU count.</desc>
7250	</attribute>
7251
7252	<attribute name="maxVDISize" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
7253	<desc>Maximum size of a virtual disk image in Megabytes.</desc>
7254	</attribute>
7255
7256	<attribute name="networkAdapterCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7257	<desc>
7258	Number of network adapters associated with every
7259	<link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7260	</desc>
7261	</attribute>
7262
7263	<attribute name="serialPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7264	<desc>
7265	Number of serial ports associated with every
7266	<link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7267	</desc>
7268	</attribute>
7269
7270	<attribute name="parallelPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7271	<desc>
7272	Number of parallel ports associated with every
7273	<link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7274	</desc>
7275	</attribute>
7276
7277	<attribute name="maxBootPosition" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7278	<desc>
7279	Maximum device position in the boot order. This value corresponds
7280	to the total number of devices a machine can boot from, to make it
7281	possible to include all possible devices to the boot list.
7282	<see><link to="IMachine::setBootOrder"/></see>
7283	</desc>
7284	</attribute>
7285
7286	<attribute name="defaultMachineFolder" type="wstring">
7287	<desc>
7288	Full path to the default directory used to create new or open
7289	existing machines when a settings file name contains no
7290	path.
7291
7292	The initial value of this property is
7293	<tt><</tt><link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">
7294	VirtualBox_home</link><tt>>/Machines</tt>.
7295
7296	<note>
7297	Setting this property to @c null or an empty string will restore the
7298	initial value.
7299	</note>
7300	<note>
7301	When settings this property, the specified path can be
7302	absolute (full path) or relative
7303	to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">
7304	VirtualBox home directory</link>.
7305	When reading this property, a full path is
7306	always returned.
7307	</note>
7308	<note>
7309	The specified path may not exist, it will be created
7310	when necessary.
7311	</note>
7312
7313	<see>
7314	<link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>,
7315	<link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>
7316	</see>
7317	</desc>
7318	</attribute>
7319
7320	<attribute name="defaultHardDiskFolder" type="wstring">
7321	<desc>
7322	Full path to the default directory used to create new or open existing
7323	virtual disks.
7324
7325	This path is used when the storage unit of a hard disk is a regular file
7326	in the host's file system and only a file name that contains no path is
7327	given.
7328
7329	The initial value of this property is
7330	<tt><</tt>
7331	<link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox_home</link>
7332	<tt>>/HardDisks</tt>.
7333
7334	<note>
7335	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7336	initial value.
7337	</note>
7338	<note>
7339	When settings this property, the specified path can be relative
7340	to the
7341	<link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home directory</link> or
7342	absolute. When reading this property, a full path is
7343	always returned.
7344	</note>
7345	<note>
7346	The specified path may not exist, it will be created
7347	when necessary.
7348	</note>
7349
7350	<see>
7351	IHardDisk,
7352	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>,
7353	<link to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/>,
7354	<link to="IMedium::location"/>
7355	</see>
7356	</desc>
7357	</attribute>
7358
7359	<attribute name="hardDiskFormats" type="IHardDiskFormat" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7360	<desc>
7361	List of all hard disk storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
7362	installation.
7363
7364	Keep in mind that the hard disk format identifier
7365	(<link to="IHardDiskFormat::id"/>) used in other API calls like
7366	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to refer to a particular
7367	hard disk format is a case-insensitive string. This means that, for
7368	example, all of the following strings:
7369	<pre>
7370	"VDI"
7371	"vdi"
7372	"VdI"</pre>
7373	refer to the same hard disk format.
7374
7375	Note that the virtual hard disk framework is backend-based, therefore
7376	the list of supported formats depends on what backends are currently
7377	installed.
7378
7379	<see>
7380	<link to="IHardDiskFormat"/>,
7381	</see>
7382	</desc>
7383	</attribute>
7384
7385	<attribute name="defaultHardDiskFormat" type="wstring">
7386	<desc>
7387	Identifier of the default hard disk format used by VirtualBox.
7388
7389	The hard disk format set by this attribute is used by VirtualBox
7390	when the hard disk format was not specified explicitly. One example is
7391	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> with the empty
7392	format argument. A more complex example is implicit creation of
7393	differencing hard disks when taking a snapshot of a virtual machine:
7394	this operation will try to use a format of the parent hard disk first
7395	and if this format does not support differencing hard disks the default
7396	format specified by this argument will be used.
7397
7398	The list of supported hard disk formats may be obtained by the
7399	<link to="#hardDiskFormats"/> call. Note that the default hard disk
7400	format must have a capability to create differencing hard disks;
7401	otherwise opeartions that create hard disks implicitly may fail
7402	unexpectedly.
7403
7404	The initial value of this property is <tt>"VDI"</tt> in the current
7405	version of the VirtualBox product, but may change in the future.
7406
7407	<note>
7408	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7409	initial value.
7410	</note>
7411
7412	<see>
7413	<link to="#hardDiskFormats"/>,
7414	<link to="IHardDiskFormat::id"/>,
7415	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>
7416	</see>
7417	</desc>
7418	</attribute>
7419
7420	<attribute name="remoteDisplayAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7421	<desc>
7422	Library that provides authentication for VRDP clients. The library
7423	is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7424	in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration.
7425
7426	The system library extension (".DLL" or ".so") must be omitted.
7427	A full path can be specified; if not, then the library must reside on the
7428	system's default library path.
7429
7430	The default value of this property is <tt>"VRDPAuth"</tt>. There is a library
7431	of that name in one of the default VirtualBox library directories.
7432
7433	For details about VirtualBox authentication libraries and how to implement
7434	them, please refer to the VirtualBox manual.
7435
7436	<note>
7437	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7438	initial value.
7439	</note>
7440	</desc>
7441	</attribute>
7442
7443	<attribute name="webServiceAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7444	<desc>
7445	Library that provides authentication for webservice clients. The library
7446	is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7447	in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration and will be called from
7448	within the <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> implementation.
7449
7450	As opposed to <link to="ISystemProperties::remoteDisplayAuthLibrary" />,
7451	there is no per-VM setting for this, as the webservice is a global
7452	resource (if it is running). Only for this setting (for the webservice),
7453	setting this value to a literal <tt>"null"</tt> string disables authentication,
7454	meaning that <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> will always succeed,
7455	no matter what user name and password are supplied.
7456
7457	The initial value of this property is <tt>"VRDPAuth"</tt>,
7458	meaning that the webservice will use the same authentication
7459	library that is used by default for VBoxVRDP (again, see
7460	<link to="ISystemProperties::remoteDisplayAuthLibrary" />).
7461	The format and calling convention of authentication libraries
7462	is the same for the webservice as it is for VBoxVRDP.
7463
7464	<note>
7465	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7466	initial value.
7467	</note>
7468	</desc>
7469	</attribute>
7470
7471	<attribute name="LogHistoryCount" type="unsigned long">
7472	<desc>
7473	This value specifies how many old release log files are kept.
7474	</desc>
7475	</attribute>
7476
7477	<attribute name="defaultAudioDriver" type="AudioDriverType" readonly="yes">
7478	<desc>This value hold the default audio driver for the current
7479	system.</desc>
7480	</attribute>
7481	</interface>
7482
7483	<!--
7484	// IGuest
7485	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7486	-->
7487
7488	<interface
7489	name="IGuestOSType" extends="$unknown"
7490	uuid="cfe9e64c-4430-435b-9e7c-e3d8e417bd58"
7491	wsmap="struct"
7492	>
7493	<desc>
7494	</desc>
7495
7496	<attribute name="familyId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7497	<desc>Guest OS family identifier string.</desc>
7498	</attribute>
7499
7500	<attribute name="familyDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7501	<desc>Human readable description of the guest OS family.</desc>
7502	</attribute>
7503
7504	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7505	<desc>Guest OS identifier string.</desc>
7506	</attribute>
7507
7508	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7509	<desc>Human readable description of the guest OS.</desc>
7510	</attribute>
7511
7512	<attribute name="is64Bit" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7513	<desc>Returns @c true if the given OS is 64-bit</desc>
7514	</attribute>
7515
7516	<attribute name="recommendedIOAPIC" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7517	<desc>Returns @c true if IO APIC recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7518	</attribute>
7519
7520	<attribute name="recommendedVirtEx" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7521	<desc>Returns @c true if VT-x or AMD-V recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7522	</attribute>
7523
7524	<attribute name="recommendedRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7525	<desc>Recommended RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
7526	</attribute>
7527
7528	<attribute name="recommendedVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7529	<desc>Recommended video RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
7530	</attribute>
7531
7532	<attribute name="recommendedHDD" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7533	<desc>Recommended hard disk size in Megabytes.</desc>
7534	</attribute>
7535
7536	<attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType" readonly="yes">
7537	<desc>Returns recommended network adapter for this OS type.</desc>
7538	</attribute>
7539	</interface>
7540
7541	<interface
7542	name="IGuest" extends="$unknown"
7543	uuid="d8556fca-81bc-12af-fca3-365528fa38ca"
7544	wsmap="managed"
7545	>
7546	<desc>
7547	The IGuest interface represents information about the operating system
7548	running inside the virtual machine. Used in
7549	<link to="IConsole::guest"/>.
7550
7551	IGuest provides information about the guest operating system, whether
7552	Guest Additions are installed and other OS-specific virtual machine
7553	properties.
7554	</desc>
7555
7556	<attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7557	<desc>
7558	Identifier of the Guest OS type as reported by the Guest
7559	Additions.
7560	You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
7561	an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
7562	Guest OS type.
7563	<note>
7564	If Guest Additions are not installed, this value will be
7565	the same as <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/>.
7566	</note>
7567	</desc>
7568	</attribute>
7569
7570	<attribute name="additionsActive" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7571	<desc>
7572	Flag whether the Guest Additions are installed and active
7573	in which case their version will be returned by the
7574	<link to="#additionsVersion"/> property.
7575	</desc>
7576	</attribute>
7577
7578	<attribute name="additionsVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7579	<desc>
7580	Version of the Guest Additions (3 decimal numbers separated
7581	by dots) or empty when the Additions are not installed. The
7582	Additions may also report a version but yet not be active as
7583	the version might be refused by VirtualBox (incompatible) or
7584	other failures occurred.
7585	</desc>
7586	</attribute>
7587
7588	<attribute name="supportsSeamless" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7589	<desc>
7590	Flag whether seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
7591	integration) is supported.
7592	</desc>
7593	</attribute>
7594
7595	<attribute name="supportsGraphics" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7596	<desc>
7597	Flag whether the guest is in graphics mode. If it is not, then
7598	seamless rendering will not work, resize hints are not immediately
7599	acted on and guest display resizes are probably not initiated by
7600	the guest additions.
7601	</desc>
7602	</attribute>
7603
7604	<attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
7605	<desc>Guest system memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
7606	</attribute>
7607
7608	<attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
7609	<desc>Interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
7610	</attribute>
7611
7612	<method name="setCredentials">
7613	<desc>
7614	Store login credentials that can be queried by guest operating
7615	systems with Additions installed. The credentials are transient
7616	to the session and the guest may also choose to erase them. Note
7617	that the caller cannot determine whether the guest operating system
7618	has queried or made use of the credentials.
7619
7620	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
7621	VMM device is not available.
7622	</result>
7623
7624	</desc>
7625	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
7626	<desc>User name string, can be empty</desc>
7627	</param>
7628	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
7629	<desc>Password string, can be empty</desc>
7630	</param>
7631	<param name="domain" type="wstring" dir="in">
7632	<desc>Domain name (guest logon scheme specific), can be empty</desc>
7633	</param>
7634	<param name="allowInteractiveLogon" type="boolean" dir="in">
7635	<desc>
7636	Flag whether the guest should alternatively allow the user to
7637	interactively specify different credentials. This flag might
7638	not be supported by all versions of the Additions.
7639	</desc>
7640	</param>
7641	</method>
7642
7643	<method name="getStatistic">
7644	<desc>
7645	Query specified guest statistics as reported by the VirtualBox Additions.
7646	</desc>
7647	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7648	<desc>Virtual CPU id; not relevant for all statistic types</desc>
7649	</param>
7650	<param name="statistic" type="GuestStatisticType" dir="in">
7651	<desc>Statistic type.</desc>
7652	</param>
7653	<param name="statVal" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7654	<desc>Statistics value</desc>
7655	</param>
7656	</method>
7657
7658	</interface>
7659
7660
7661	<!--
7662	// IProgress
7663	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7664	-->
7665
7666	<interface
7667	name="IProgress" extends="$unknown"
7668	uuid="6fcd0198-7fc5-4c53-8c37-653ac76854b5"
7669	wsmap="managed"
7670	>
7671	<desc>
7672	The IProgress interface is used to track and control
7673	asynchronous tasks within VirtualBox.
7674
7675	An instance of this is returned every time VirtualBox starts
7676	an asynchronous task (in other words, a separate thread) which
7677	continues to run after a method call returns. For example,
7678	<link to="IConsole::saveState" />, which saves the state of
7679	a running virtual machine, can take a long time to complete.
7680	To be able to display a progress bar, a user interface such as
7681	the VirtualBox graphical user interface can use the IProgress
7682	object returned by that method.
7683
7684	Note that IProgress is a "read-only" interface in the sense
7685	that only the VirtualBox internals behind the Main API can
7686	create and manipulate progress objects, whereas client code
7687	can only use the IProgress object to monitor a task's
7688	progress and, if <link to="#cancelable" /> is @c true,
7689	cancel the task by calling <link to="#cancel" />.
7690
7691	A task represented by IProgress consists of either one or
7692	several sub-operations that run sequentially, one by one (see
7693	<link to="#operation" /> and <link to="#operationCount" />).
7694	Every operation is identified by a number (starting from 0)
7695	and has a separate description.
7696
7697	You can find the individual percentage of completion of the current
7698	operation in <link to="#operationPercent" /> and the
7699	percentage of completion of the task as a whole
7700	in <link to="#percent" />.
7701
7702	Similarly, you can wait for the completion of a particular
7703	operation via <link to="#waitForOperationCompletion" /> or
7704	for the completion of the whole task via
7705	<link to="#waitForCompletion" />.
7706	</desc>
7707
7708	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7709	<desc>ID of the task.</desc>
7710	</attribute>
7711
7712	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7713	<desc>Description of the task.</desc>
7714	</attribute>
7715
7716	<attribute name="initiator" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
7717	<desc>Initiator of the task.</desc>
7718	</attribute>
7719
7720	<attribute name="cancelable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7721	<desc>Whether the task can be interrupted.</desc>
7722	</attribute>
7723
7724	<attribute name="percent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7725	<desc>
7726	Current progress value of the task as a whole, in percent.
7727	This value depends on how many operations are already complete.
7728	Returns 100 if <link to="#completed" /> is @c true.
7729	</desc>
7730	</attribute>
7731
7732	<attribute name="timeRemaining" type="long" readonly="yes">
7733	<desc>
7734	Estimated remaining time until the task completes, in
7735	seconds. Returns 0 once the task has completed; returns -1
7736	if the remaining time cannot be computed, in particular if
7737	the current progress is 0.
7738
7739	Even if a value is returned, the estimate will be unreliable
7740	for low progress values. It will become more reliable as the
7741	task progresses; it is not recommended to display an ETA
7742	before at least 20% of a task have completed.
7743	</desc>
7744	</attribute>
7745
7746	<attribute name="completed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7747	<desc>Whether the task has been completed.</desc>
7748	</attribute>
7749
7750	<attribute name="canceled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7751	<desc>Whether the task has been canceled.</desc>
7752	</attribute>
7753
7754	<attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
7755	<desc>
7756	Result code of the progress task.
7757	Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true.
7758	</desc>
7759	</attribute>
7760
7761	<attribute name="errorInfo" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
7762	<desc>
7763	Extended information about the unsuccessful result of the
7764	progress operation. May be @c null if no extended information
7765	is available.
7766	Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true and
7767	<link to="#resultCode"/> indicates a failure.
7768	</desc>
7769	</attribute>
7770
7771	<attribute name="operationCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7772	<desc>
7773	Number of sub-operations this task is divided into.
7774	Every task consists of at least one suboperation.
7775	</desc>
7776	</attribute>
7777
7778	<attribute name="operation" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7779	<desc>Number of the sub-operation being currently executed.</desc>
7780	</attribute>
7781
7782	<attribute name="operationDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7783	<desc>
7784	Description of the sub-operation being currently executed.
7785	</desc>
7786	</attribute>
7787
7788	<attribute name="operationPercent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7789	<desc>Progress value of the current sub-operation only, in percent.</desc>
7790	</attribute>
7791
7792	<method name="waitForCompletion">
7793	<desc>
7794	Waits until the task is done (including all sub-operations)
7795	with a given timeout in milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
7796
7797	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
7798	Failed to wait for task completion.
7799	</result>
7800	</desc>
7801
7802	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
7803	<desc>
7804	Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
7805	</desc>
7806	</param>
7807	</method>
7808
7809	<method name="waitForOperationCompletion">
7810	<desc>
7811	Waits until the given operation is done with a given timeout in
7812	milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
7813
7814	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
7815	Failed to wait for operation completion.
7816	</result>
7817
7818	</desc>
7819	<param name="operation" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7820	<desc>
7821	Number of the operation to wait for.
7822	Must be less than <link to="#operationCount"/>.
7823	</desc>
7824	</param>
7825	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
7826	<desc>
7827	Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
7828	</desc>
7829	</param>
7830	</method>
7831
7832	<method name="cancel">
7833	<desc>
7834	Cancels the task.
7835	<note>
7836	If <link to="#cancelable"/> is @c false, then this method will fail.
7837	</note>
7838
7839	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
7840	Operation cannot be canceled.
7841	</result>
7842
7843	</desc>
7844	</method>
7845
7846	</interface>
7847
7848
7849	<!--
7850	// ISnapshot
7851	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7852	-->
7853
7854	<interface
7855	name="ISnapshot" extends="$unknown"
7856	uuid="1a2d0551-58a4-4107-857e-ef414fc42ffc"
7857	wsmap="managed"
7858	>
7859	<desc>
7860	The ISnapshot interface represents a snapshot of the virtual
7861	machine.
7862
7863	Together with the differencing hard disks that are created
7864	when a snapshot is taken, a machine can be brought back to
7865	the exact state it was in when the snapshot was taken.
7866
7867	The ISnapshot interface has no methods, only attributes; snapshots
7868	are controlled through methods of the <link to="IConsole" /> interface
7869	which also manage the hard disk images associated with the snapshot.
7870	The following operations exist:
7871
7872	<ul>
7873	<li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/>: creates a new snapshot
7874	by creating new, empty differencing images for the machine's
7875	hard disks and saving the VM settings and (if the VM is running)
7876	the current VM state in the snapshot.
7877
7878	The differencing images will then receive all data written to
7879	the machine's hard disks, while their parent (base) images
7880	remain unmodified after the snapshot has been taken (see
7881	<link to="IHardDisk" /> for details about differencing images).
7882	This simplifies restoring a machine to the state of a snapshot:
7883	only the differencing images need to be deleted.
7884
7885	The current machine state is not changed by taking a snapshot.
7886	If the machine is running, it will resume execution after the
7887	snapshot has been taken.
7888	</li>
7889
7890	<li><link to="IConsole::discardCurrentState"/>: this goes back to
7891	a previous snapshot. This resets the machine's state to that of
7892	the previous snapshot by deleting the differencing image of each
7893	of the machine's hard disks and setting the machine's settings
7894	and state to the state that was saved in the snapshot (if any).
7895
7896	This destroys the machine's current state.
7897	</li>
7898
7899	<li><link to="IConsole::discardSnapshot"/>: deletes a snapshot
7900	without affecting the current machine state.
7901
7902	This does not change the machine, but instead frees the resources
7903	allocated when the snapshot was taken: the settings and machine state
7904	is deleted (if any), and the snapshot's differencing image for each
7905	of the machine's hard disks gets merged with its parent image.
7906
7907	Neither the current machine state nor other snapshots are affected
7908	by this operation, except that parent disk images will be modified
7909	to contain the disk data associated with the snapshot being deleted.
7910	</li>
7911
7912	<li><link to="IConsole::discardCurrentSnapshotAndState"/>:
7913	this completely reverts the virtual machine to the state it was in
7914	before the current snapshot has been taken. Effectively, this goes
7915	back to the state before the current snapshot, which might be
7916	an earlier snapshot.
7917
7918	The current state, as well as the current snapshot, are lost.
7919	</li>
7920	</ul>
7921
7922	Each snapshot contains the settings of the virtual machine (hardware
7923	configuration etc.). In addition, if the machine was running when the
7924	snapshot was taken (<link to="IMachine::state"/> is <link to="MachineState_Running"/>),
7925	the current VM state is saved in the snapshot (similarly to what happens
7926	when a VM's state is saved). The snapshot is then said to
7927	be <i>online</i> because when restoring it, the VM will be running.
7928
7929	If the machine is saved (<link to="MachineState_Saved"/>), the snapshot
7930	receives a copy of the execution state file (<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/>).
7931
7932	Otherwise, if the machine was not running (<link to="MachineState_PoweredOff"/>
7933	or <link to="MachineState_Aborted"/>), the snapshot is <i>offline</i>;
7934	it then contains a so-called "zero execution state", representing a
7935	machine that is powered off.
7936
7937	<h3>Snapshot branches and the "current" snapshot</h3>
7938
7939	Snapshots can be chained, whereby every next snapshot is based on the
7940	previous one. This chaining is related to hard disk branching
7941	(see the <link to="IHardDisk"/> description) in that every time
7942	a new snapshot is created, a new differencing hard disk is implicitly
7943	created for all normal hard disks attached to the machine.
7944
7945	Each virtual machine has a "current snapshot", identified by
7946	<link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot"/>. Presently, this is always set
7947	to the last snapshot in the chain. In a future version of VirtualBox,
7948	it will be possible to reset a machine's current state to that of an
7949	earlier snapshot without discarding the current state so that it will be
7950	possible to create alternative snapshot paths in a snapshot tree.
7951
7952	In the current implementation, multiple snapshot branches within one
7953	virtual machine are not allowed. Every machine has a single branch,
7954	and <link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> operation adds a new
7955	snapshot to the top of that branch.
7956	</desc>
7957
7958	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7959	<desc>UUID of the snapshot.</desc>
7960	</attribute>
7961
7962	<attribute name="name" type="wstring">
7963	<desc>Short name of the snapshot.</desc>
7964	</attribute>
7965
7966	<attribute name="description" type="wstring">
7967	<desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
7968	</attribute>
7969
7970	<attribute name="timeStamp" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7971	<desc>
7972	Time stamp of the snapshot, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
7973	</desc>
7974	</attribute>
7975
7976	<attribute name="online" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7977	<desc>
7978	@c true if this snapshot is an online snapshot and @c false otherwise.
7979
7980	When this attribute is @c true, the
7981	<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/> attribute of the
7982	<link to="#machine"/> object associated with this snapshot
7983	will point to the saved state file. Otherwise, it will be
7984	an empty string.
7985	</desc>
7986	</attribute>
7987
7988	<attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
7989	<desc>
7990	Virtual machine this snapshot is taken on. This object
7991	stores all settings the machine had when taking this snapshot.
7992	<note>
7993	The returned machine object is immutable, i.e. no
7994	any settings can be changed.
7995	</note>
7996	</desc>
7997	</attribute>
7998
7999	<attribute name="parent" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
8000	<desc>
8001	Parent snapshot (a snapshot this one is based on), or
8002	@c null if the snapshot has no parent.
8003	</desc>
8004	</attribute>
8005
8006	<attribute name="children" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
8007	<desc>
8008	Child snapshots (all snapshots having this one as a parent).
8009	<note>
8010	In the current implementation, there can be only one
8011	child snapshot, or no children at all, meaning this is the
8012	last (head) snapshot.
8013	</note>
8014	</desc>
8015	</attribute>
8016
8017	</interface>
8018
8019
8020	<!--
8021	// IMedia
8022	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8023	-->
8024
8025	<enum
8026	name="MediaState"
8027	uuid="8b86e03c-2f1c-412a-8fbd-326f62701200"
8028	>
8029	<desc>
8030	Virtual media state.
8031	<see>IMedia</see>
8032	</desc>
8033
8034	<const name="NotCreated" value="0">
8035	<desc>
8036	Associated media storage does not exist (either was not created yet or
8037	was deleted).
8038	</desc>
8039	</const>
8040	<const name="Created" value="1">
8041	<desc>
8042	Associated storage exists and accessible.
8043	</desc>
8044	</const>
8045	<const name="LockedRead" value="2">
8046	<desc>
8047	Media is locked for reading, no data modification is possible.
8048	</desc>
8049	</const>
8050	<const name="LockedWrite" value="3">
8051	<desc>
8052	Media is locked for writing, no concurrent data reading or modification
8053	is possible.
8054	</desc>
8055	</const>
8056	<const name="Inaccessible" value="4">
8057	<desc>
8058	Associated media storage is not accessible.
8059	</desc>
8060	</const>
8061	<const name="Creating" value="5">
8062	<desc>
8063	Associated media storage is being created.
8064	</desc>
8065	</const>
8066	<const name="Deleting" value="6">
8067	<desc>
8068	Associated media storage is being deleted.
8069	</desc>
8070	</const>
8071	</enum>
8072
8073	<interface
8074	name="IMedium" extends="$unknown"
8075	uuid="f585787c-7728-40f6-853a-13705426e936"
8076	wsmap="managed"
8077	>
8078	<desc>
8079	The IMedium interface is a common interface for all objects representing
8080	virtual media such as hard disks, CD/DVD images and floppy images.
8081
8082	Each medium is associated with a storage unit (such as a file on the host
8083	computer or a network resource) that holds actual data. The location of
8084	the storage unit is represented by the #location attribute. The value of
8085	this attribute is media type dependent.
8086
8087	The exact media type may be determined by querying the appropriate
8088	interface such as:
8089	<ul>
8090	<li><link to="IHardDisk" /> (virtual hard disks)</li>
8091	<li><link to="IDVDImage" /> (standard CD/DVD ISO image files)</li>
8092	<li><link to="IFloppyImage" /> (raw floppy image files)</li>
8093	</ul>
8094
8095	Existing media are opened using the following methods, depending on the
8096	media type:
8097	<ul>
8098	<li><link to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/></li>
8099	<li><link to="IVirtualBox::openDVDImage"/></li>
8100	<li><link to="IVirtualBox::openFloppyImage"/></li>
8101	</ul>
8102
8103	New hard disk media are created using the
8104	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> method. CD/DVD and floppy
8105	images are created outside VirtualBox, usually by storing a copy
8106	of the real medium of the corresponding type in a regular file.
8107
8108	<h3>Known Media</h3>
8109
8110	When an existing medium gets opened for the first time, it gets
8111	automatically remembered by the given VirtualBox installation or, in other
8112	words, becomes a <i>known medium</i>. Known media are stored in the media
8113	registry transparently maintained by VirtualBox and stored in settings
8114	files so that this registry is preserved when VirtualBox is not running.
8115
8116	Newly created virtual hard disks get remembered only when the associated
8117	storage unit is actually created (see IHardDisk for more details).
8118
8119	All known media can be enumerated using
8120	<link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks"/>,
8121	<link to="IVirtualBox::DVDImages"/> and
8122	<link to="IVirtualBox::floppyImages"/> attributes. Individual media can be
8123	quickly found by UUID using <link to="IVirtualBox::getHardDisk"/>
8124	and similar methods or by location using
8125	<link to="IVirtualBox::findHardDisk"/> and similar methods.
8126
8127	Only known media can be attached to virtual machines.
8128
8129	Removing known media from the media registry is performed when the given
8130	medium is closed using the <link to="#close"/> method or when its
8131	associated storage unit is deleted (only for hard disks).
8132
8133	<h3>Accessibility Checks</h3>
8134
8135	The given medium (with the created storage unit) is considered to be
8136	<i>accessible</i> when its storage unit can be read.
8137	Accessible media are indicated by the <link to="MediaState_Created"/>
8138	value of the <link to="#state"/> attribute. When the storage unit cannot
8139	be read (for example, because it is located on a disconnected network
8140	resource, or was accidentally deleted outside VirtualBox), the medium is
8141	considered to be <i>inaccessible</i> which is indicated by the
8142	<link to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/> state. The details about the reason
8143	of being inaccessible can be obtained using the
8144	<link to="#lastAccessError"/> attribute.
8145
8146	A new accessibility check is performed each time the <link to="#state"/>
8147	attribute is read. Please note that this check may take long time (several
8148	seconds or even minutes, depending on the storage unit location and
8149	format), and will block the calling thread until finished. For this
8150	reason, it is recommended to never read this attribute on the main UI
8151	thread to avoid making the UI unresponsive.
8152
8153	Note that when VirtualBox starts up (e.g. the VirtualBox object gets
8154	created for the first time), all known media are in the
8155	<link to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/> state but the value of the <link
8156	to="#lastAccessError"/> attribute is an empty string because no actual
8157	accessibility check is made on startup. This is done to make the
8158	VirtualBox object ready for serving requests as
8159	fast as possible and let the end-user application decide if it needs to
8160	check media accessibility right away or not.
8161	</desc>
8162
8163	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8164	<desc>
8165	UUID of the medium. For a newly created medium, this value is a randomly
8166	generated UUID.
8167
8168	<note>
8169	For media in one of MediaState_NotCreated, MediaState_Creating or
8170	MediaState_Deleting states, the value of this property is undefined
8171	and will most likely be an empty UUID.
8172	</note>
8173	</desc>
8174	</attribute>
8175
8176	<attribute name="description" type="wstring">
8177	<desc>
8178	Optional description of the medium. For newly created media, the value
8179	of this attribute value is an empty string.
8180
8181	Media types that don't support this attribute will return E_NOTIMPL in
8182	attempt to get or set this attribute's value.
8183
8184	<note>
8185	For some storage types, reading this attribute may return an outdated
8186	(last known) value when <link to="#state"/> is <link
8187	to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/> or <link
8188	to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/> because the value of this attribute is
8189	stored within the storage unit itself. Also note that changing the
8190	attribute value is not possible in such case, as well as when the
8191	medium is the <link to="MediaState_LockedRead"/> state.
8192	</note>
8193	</desc>
8194	</attribute>
8195
8196	<attribute name="state" type="MediaState" readonly="yes">
8197	<desc>
8198	Current media state. Inspect <link to="MediaState"/> values for details.
8199
8200	Reading this attribute may take a long time because an accessibility
8201	check of the storage unit is performed each time the attribute is read.
8202	This check may cause a significant delay if the storage unit of the
8203	given medium is, for example, a file located on a network share which is
8204	not currently accessible due to connectivity problems -- the call will
8205	not return until a timeout interval defined by the host OS for this
8206	operation expires.
8207
8208	If the last known state of the medium is <link to="MediaState_Created"/>
8209	and the accessibility check fails then the state would be set to
8210	<link to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/> and <link to="#lastAccessError"/>
8211	may be used to get more details about the failure. If the state of the
8212	medium is <link to="MediaState_LockedRead"/> or
8213	<link to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/> then it remains the same, and a
8214	non-empty value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will indicate a failed
8215	accessibility check in this case.
8216
8217	Note that not all media states are applicable to all media types.
8218	For example, states <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/>,
8219	<link to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/>, <link to="MediaState_Creating"/>,
8220	<link to="MediaState_Deleting"/> are meaningless for IDVDImage and
8221	IFloppyImage media.
8222	</desc>
8223	</attribute>
8224
8225	<attribute name="location" type="wstring">
8226	<desc>
8227	Location of the storage unit holding media data.
8228
8229	The format of the location string is media type specific. For media
8230	types using regular files in a host's file system, the location
8231	string is the full file name.
8232
8233	Some media types may support changing the storage unit location by
8234	simply changing the value of this property. If this operation is not
8235	supported, the implementation will return E_NOTIMPL in attempt to set
8236	this attribute's value.
8237
8238	When setting a value of the location attribute which is a regular file
8239	in the host's file system, the given file name may be either relative to
8240	the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link> or
8241	absolute. Note that if the given location specification does not contain
8242	the file extension part then a proper default extension will be
8243	automatically appended by the implementation depending on the media type.
8244	</desc>
8245	</attribute>
8246
8247	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8248	<desc>
8249	Name of the storage unit holding media data.
8250
8251	The returned string is a short version of the <link to="#location"/>
8252	attribute that is suitable for representing the medium in situations
8253	where the full location specification is too long (such as lists
8254	and comboboxes in GUI frontends). This string is also used by frontends
8255	to sort the media list alphabetically when needed.
8256
8257	For example, for locations that are regular files in the host's file
8258	system, the value of this attribute is just the file name (+ extension),
8259	without the path specification.
8260
8261	Note that as opposed to the <link to="#location"/> attribute, the name
8262	attribute will not necessary be unique for a list of media of the
8263	given type and format.
8264	</desc>
8265	</attribute>
8266
8267	<attribute name="size" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
8268	<desc>
8269	Physical size of the storage unit used to hold media data (in bytes).
8270
8271	<note>
8272	For media whose <link to="#state"/> is <link
8273	to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
8274	last known size. For <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/> media,
8275	the returned value is zero.
8276	</note>
8277	</desc>
8278	</attribute>
8279
8280	<attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8281	<desc>
8282	Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
8283	check.
8284
8285	Accessibility checks are performed each time the <link to="#state"/>
8286	attribute is read. An empty string is returned if the last
8287	accessibility check was successful. A non-empty string indicates a
8288	failure and should normally describe a reason of the failure (for
8289	example, a file read error).
8290	</desc>
8291	</attribute>
8292
8293	<attribute name="machineIds" type="wstring" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
8294	<desc>
8295	Array of UUIDs of all machines this medium is attached to.
8296
8297	A @c null array is returned if this medium is not attached to any
8298	machine or to any machine's snapshot.
8299
8300	<note>
8301	The returned array will include a machine even if this medium is not
8302	attached to that machine in the current state but attached to it in
8303	one of the machine's snapshots. See <link to="#getSnapshotIds"/> for
8304	details.
8305	</note>
8306	</desc>
8307	</attribute>
8308
8309	<method name="getSnapshotIds">
8310	<desc>
8311	Returns an array of UUIDs of all snapshots of the given machine where
8312	this medium is attached to.
8313
8314	If the medium is attached to the machine in the current state, then the
8315	first element in the array will always be the ID of the queried machine
8316	(i.e. the value equal to the @c machineId argument), followed by
8317	snapshot IDs (if any).
8318
8319	If the medium is not attached to the machine in the current state, then
8320	the array will contain only snapshot IDs.
8321
8322	The returned array may be @c null if this medium is not attached
8323	to the given machine at all, neither in the current state nor in one of
8324	the snapshots.
8325	</desc>
8326	<param name="machineId" type="wstring" dir="in">
8327	<desc>
8328	UUID of the machine to query.
8329	</desc>
8330	</param>
8331	<param name="snapshotIds" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
8332	<desc>
8333	Array of snapshot UUIDs of the given machine using this medium.
8334	</desc>
8335	</param>
8336	</method>
8337
8338	<method name="lockRead">
8339	<desc>
8340	Locks this medium for reading.
8341
8342	The read lock is shared: many clients can simultaneously lock the
8343	same media for reading unless it is already locked for writing (see
8344	<link to="#lockWrite"/>) in which case an error is returned.
8345
8346	When the medium is locked for reading, it cannot be modified
8347	from within VirtualBox. This means that any method that changes
8348	the properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit
8349	will return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise) and
8350	that an attempt to start a virtual machine that wants to modify
8351	the medium will also fail.
8352
8353	When the virtual machine is started up, it locks for reading all
8354	media it uses in read-only mode. If some media cannot be locked
8355	for reading, the startup procedure will fail.
8356
8357	The medium locked for reading must be unlocked using the <link
8358	to="#unlockRead"/> method. Calls to <link to="#lockRead"/>
8359	can be nested and must be followed by the same number of paired
8360	<link to="#unlockRead"/> calls.
8361
8362	This method sets the media state to <link
8363	to="MediaState_LockedRead" /> on success. The state prior to
8364	this call must be <link to="MediaState_Created" />,
8365	<link to="MediaState_Inaccessible" /> or
8366	<link to="MediaState_LockedRead" />.
8367	As you can see, inaccessible media can be locked too. This is
8368	not an error; this method performs a logical lock that prevents
8369	modifications of this media through the VirtualBox API, not a
8370	physical lock of the underlying storage unit.
8371
8372	This method returns the current state of the medium
8373	<b>before</b> the operation.
8374
8375	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8376	Invalid media state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
8377	creating, deleting).
8378	</result>
8379
8380	</desc>
8381	<param name="state" type="MediaState" dir="return">
8382	<desc>
8383	State of the medium after the operation.
8384	</desc>
8385	</param>
8386	</method>
8387
8388	<method name="unlockRead">
8389	<desc>
8390	Cancels the read lock previously set by <link to="#lockRead"/>.
8391
8392	For both, success and failure, this method returns the current state
8393	of the medium <b>after</b> the operation.
8394
8395	See <link to="#lockRead"/> for more details.
8396
8397	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8398	Medium not locked for reading.
8399	</result>
8400
8401	</desc>
8402	<param name="state" type="MediaState" dir="return">
8403	<desc>
8404	State of the medium after the operation.
8405	</desc>
8406	</param>
8407	</method>
8408
8409	<method name="lockWrite">
8410	<desc>
8411	Locks this medium for writing.
8412
8413	The write lock, as opposed to <link to="#lockRead"/>, is
8414	exclusive: there may be only one client holding a write lock
8415	and there may be no read locks while the write lock is held.
8416
8417	When the medium is locked for writing, it cannot be modified
8418	from within VirtualBox and it is not guaranteed that the values
8419	of its properties are up-to-date. Any method that changes the
8420	properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit will
8421	return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise) and an
8422	attempt to start a virtual machine wanting to modify or to
8423	read the medium will fail.
8424
8425	When the virtual machine is started up, it locks for writing all
8426	media it uses to write data to. If any medium could not be locked
8427	for writing, the startup procedure will fail.
8428
8429	The medium locked for writing must be unlocked using the <link
8430	to="#unlockWrite"/> method. Calls to <link to="#lockWrite"/>
8431	can <b>not</b> be nested and must be followed by a<link
8432	to="#unlockWrite"/> call before the next lockWrite call.
8433
8434	This method sets the media state to <link to="MediaState_LockedWrite" />
8435	on success. The state prior to this call must be <link to="MediaState_Created"/>
8436	or <link to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/>. As you can see, inaccessible
8437	media can be locked too. This is not an error; this method
8438	performs a logical lock preventing modifications of this
8439	media through the VirtualBox API, not a physical lock of the
8440	underlying storage unit.
8441
8442	For both, success and failure, this method returns the current
8443	state of the medium <b>before</b> the operation.
8444
8445	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8446	Invalid media state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
8447	creating, deleting).
8448	</result>
8449
8450	</desc>
8451	<param name="state" type="MediaState" dir="return">
8452	<desc>
8453	State of the medium after the operation.
8454	</desc>
8455	</param>
8456	</method>
8457
8458	<method name="unlockWrite">
8459	<desc>
8460	Cancels the write lock previously set by <link to="#lockWrite"/>.
8461
8462	For both, success and failure, this method returns the current
8463	state of the medium <b>after</b> the operation.
8464
8465	See <link to="#lockWrite"/> for more details.
8466
8467	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8468	Medium not locked for writing.
8469	</result>
8470
8471	</desc>
8472	<param name="state" type="MediaState" dir="return">
8473	<desc>
8474	State of the medium after the operation.
8475	</desc>
8476	</param>
8477	</method>
8478
8479	<method name="close">
8480	<desc>
8481	Closes this medium.
8482
8483	The hard disk must not be attached to any known virtual machine
8484	and must not have any known child hard disks, otherwise the
8485	operation will fail.
8486
8487	When the hard disk is successfully closed, it gets removed from
8488	the list of remembered hard disks, but its storage unit is not
8489	deleted. In particular, this means that this hard disk can be
8490	later opened again using the <link
8491	to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/> call.
8492
8493	Note that after this method successfully returns, the given hard
8494	disk object becomes uninitialized. This means that any attempt
8495	to call any of its methods or attributes will fail with the
8496	<tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error.
8497
8498	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8499	Invalid media state (other than not created, created or
8500	inaccessible).
8501	</result>
8502	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
8503	Medium attached to virtual machine.
8504	</result>
8505	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
8506	Settings file not accessible.
8507	</result>
8508	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
8509	Could not parse the settings file.
8510	</result>
8511
8512	</desc>
8513	</method>
8514
8515	</interface>
8516
8517
8518	<!--
8519	// IHardDisk
8520	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8521	-->
8522
8523	<enum
8524	name="HardDiskType"
8525	uuid="a348fafd-a64e-4643-ba65-eb3896bd7e0a"
8526	>
8527	<desc>
8528	Virtual hard disk type.
8529	<see>IHardDisk</see>
8530	</desc>
8531
8532	<const name="Normal" value="0">
8533	<desc>
8534	Normal hard disk (attached directly or indirectly, preserved
8535	when taking snapshots).
8536	</desc>
8537	</const>
8538	<const name="Immutable" value="1">
8539	<desc>
8540	Immutable hard disk (attached indirectly, changes are wiped out
8541	after powering off the virtual machine).
8542	</desc>
8543	</const>
8544	<const name="Writethrough" value="2">
8545	<desc>
8546	Write through hard disk (attached directly, ignored when
8547	taking snapshots).
8548	</desc>
8549	</const>
8550	</enum>
8551
8552	<enum
8553	name="HardDiskVariant"
8554	uuid="eb7fc6b3-ae23-4c5d-a1f6-e3522dd1efb0"
8555	>
8556	<desc>
8557	Virtual hard disk image variant. More than one flag may be set.
8558	<see>IHardDisk</see>
8559	</desc>
8560
8561	<const name="Standard" value="0">
8562	<desc>
8563	No particular variant requested, results in using the backend default.
8564	</desc>
8565	</const>
8566	<const name="VmdkSplit2G" value="0x01">
8567	<desc>
8568	VMDK image split in chunks of less than 2GByte.
8569	</desc>
8570	</const>
8571	<const name="VmdkStreamOptimized" value="0x04">
8572	<desc>
8573	VMDK streamOptimized image. Special import/export format which is
8574	read-only/append-only.
8575	</desc>
8576	</const>
8577	<const name="VmdkESX" value="0x08">
8578	<desc>
8579	VMDK format variant used on ESX products.
8580	</desc>
8581	</const>
8582	<const name="Fixed" value="0x10000">
8583	<desc>
8584	Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
8585	</desc>
8586	</const>
8587	<const name="Diff" value="0x20000">
8588	<desc>
8589	Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
8590	</desc>
8591	</const>
8592	</enum>
8593
8594	<interface
8595	name="IHardDiskAttachment" extends="$unknown"
8596	uuid="b1dd04bb-93c0-4ad3-a9cf-82316e595836"
8597	wsmap="struct"
8598	>
8599	<desc>
8600	The IHardDiskAttachment interface represents a hard disk attachment of a
8601	virtual machine.
8602
8603	Every hard disk attachment specifies a slot of the virtual hard disk
8604	controller and a virtual hard disk attached to this slot.
8605
8606	The array of hard disk attachments is returned by
8607	<link to="IMachine::hardDiskAttachments"/>.
8608	</desc>
8609
8610	<attribute name="hardDisk" type="IHardDisk" readonly="yes">
8611	<desc>Hard disk object associated with this attachment.</desc>
8612	</attribute>
8613
8614	<attribute name="controller" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8615	<desc>Interface bus of this attachment.</desc>
8616	</attribute>
8617
8618	<attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
8619	<desc>Port number of this attachment.</desc>
8620	</attribute>
8621
8622	<attribute name="device" type="long" readonly="yes">
8623	<desc>Device slot number of this attachment.</desc>
8624	</attribute>
8625
8626	</interface>
8627
8628	<interface
8629	name="IHardDisk" extends="IMedium"
8630	uuid="62551115-83b8-4d20-925f-79e9d3c00f96"
8631	wsmap="managed"
8632	>
8633	<desc>
8634	The IHardDisk interface represents a virtual hard disk drive
8635	used by a virtual machine. This is a subclass of <link to="IMedium" />; see remarks there.
8636
8637	<h3>Hard Disk Types</h3>
8638
8639	There are three types of hard disks:
8640	<link to="HardDiskType_Normal">Normal</link>,
8641	<link to="HardDiskType_Immutable">Immutable</link> and
8642	<link to="HardDiskType_Writethrough">Writethrough</link>. The type of the
8643	hard disk defines how the hard disk is attached to a virtual machine and
8644	what happens when a <link to="ISnapshot">snapshot</link> of the virtual
8645	machine with the attached hard disk is taken. The type of the hard disk is
8646	defined by the <link to="#type"/> attribute.
8647
8648	All hard disks can be also divided in two groups: <i>base</i> hard
8649	disks and <i>differencing</i> hard disks. A base hard disk contains all
8650	sectors of the hard disk data in its own storage and therefore can be
8651	used independently. On the contrary, a differencing hard disk is a
8652	"delta" to some other disk and contains only those sectors which differ
8653	from that other disk, which is then called a <i>parent</i>. The differencing
8654	hard disk is said to be <i>linked to</i> that parent.
8655	The parent may be itself a differencing image, thus forming a chain of
8656	linked hard disks. The last element in that chain (sometimes referred to as
8657	the root hard disk) must always be a base. Note that several differencing
8658	hard disks may be linked to the same parent hard disk.
8659
8660	Differencing hard disks can be distinguished from base hard disks by
8661	querying the <link to="#parent"/> attribute: base hard disks do not have
8662	parents they would depend on, so the value of this attribute is always
8663	@c null for them. Using this attribute, it is possible to walk up
8664	the hard disk tree (from the child hard disk to its parent). It is also
8665	possible to walk down the tree using the <link to="#children"/>
8666	attribute.
8667
8668	Note that the type of all differencing hard disks is
8669	<link to="HardDiskType_Normal" />; all other values are
8670	meaningless for them. Base hard disks may be of any type.
8671
8672	<h3>Creating Hard Disks</h3>
8673
8674	New base hard disks are created using
8675	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>. Existing hard disks are
8676	opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/>. Differencing hard
8677	disks are usually implicitly created by VirtualBox when needed but may
8678	also be created explicitly using <link to="#createDiffStorage"/>.
8679
8680	After the hard disk is successfully created (including the storage unit)
8681	or opened, it becomes a known hard disk (remembered in the internal media
8682	registry). Known hard disks can be attached to a virtual machine, accessed
8683	through <link to="IVirtualBox::getHardDisk"/> and
8684	<link to="IVirtualBox::findHardDisk"/> methods or enumerated using the
8685	<link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks"/> array (only for base hard disks).
8686
8687	The following methods, besides <link to="IMedium::close"/>,
8688	automatically remove the hard disk from the media registry:
8689	<ul>
8690	<li><link to="#deleteStorage"/></li>
8691	<li><link to="#mergeTo"/></li>
8692	</ul>
8693
8694	If the storage unit of the hard disk is a regular file in the host's
8695	file system then the rules stated in the description of the
8696	<link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute apply when setting its value. In
8697	addition, a plain file name without any path may be given, in which case
8698	the <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
8699	folder</link> will be prepended to it.
8700
8701	<h4>Automatic composition of the file name part</h4>
8702
8703	Another extension to the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute is that
8704	there is a possibility to cause VirtualBox to compose a unique value for
8705	the file name part of the location using the UUID of the hard disk. This
8706	applies only to hard disks in <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/> state,
8707	e.g. before the storage unit is created, and works as follows. You set the
8708	value of the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute to a location
8709	specification which only contains the path specification but not the file
8710	name part and ends with either a forward slash or a backslash character.
8711	In response, VirtualBox will generate a new UUID for the hard disk and
8712	compose the file name using the following pattern:
8713	<pre>
8714	<path>/{<uuid>}.<ext>
8715	</pre>
8716	where <tt><path></tt> is the supplied path specification,
8717	<tt><uuid></tt> is the newly generated UUID and <tt><ext></tt>
8718	is the default extension for the storage format of this hard disk. After
8719	that, you may call any of the methods that create a new hard disk storage
8720	unit and they will use the generated UUID and file name.
8721
8722	<h3>Attaching Hard Disks</h3>
8723
8724	Hard disks are attached to virtual machines using the
8725	<link to="IMachine::attachHardDisk"/> method and detached using the
8726	<link to="IMachine::detachHardDisk"/> method. Depending on their
8727	<link to="#type"/>, hard disks are attached either
8728	<i>directly</i> or <i>indirectly</i>.
8729
8730	When a hard disk is being attached directly, it is associated with the
8731	virtual machine and used for hard disk operations when the machine is
8732	running. When a hard disk is being attached indirectly, a new differencing
8733	hard disk linked to it is implicitly created and this differencing hard
8734	disk is associated with the machine and used for hard disk operations.
8735	This also means that if <link to="IMachine::attachHardDisk"/> performs
8736	a direct attachment then the same hard disk will be returned in response
8737	to the subsequent <link to="IMachine::getHardDisk"/> call; however if
8738	an indirect attachment is performed then
8739	<link to="IMachine::getHardDisk"/> will return the implicitly created
8740	differencing hard disk, not the original one passed to <link
8741	to="IMachine::attachHardDisk"/>. The following table shows the
8742	dependency of the attachment type on the hard disk type:
8743
8744	<table>
8745	<tr>
8746	<th>Hard Disk Type</th>
8747	<th>Direct or Indirect?</th>
8748	</tr>
8749	<tr>
8750	<td>Normal (Base)</td>
8751	<td>
8752	Normal base hard disks that do not have children (i.e. differencing
8753	hard disks linked to them) and that are not already attached to
8754	virtual machines in snapshots are attached <b>directly</b>.
8755	Otherwise, they are attached <b>indirectly</b> because having
8756	dependent children or being part of the snapshot makes it impossible
8757	to modify hard disk contents without breaking the integrity of the
8758	dependent party. The <link to="#readOnly"/> attribute allows to
8759	quickly determine the kind of the attachment for the given hard
8760	disk. Note that if a normal base hard disk is to be indirectly
8761	attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
8762	procedure called <i>smart attachment</i> is performed (see below).
8763	</td>
8764	</tr>
8765	<tr>
8766	<td>Normal (Differencing)</td>
8767	<td>
8768	Differencing hard disks are like normal base hard disks: attached
8769	<b>directly</b> if they do not have children and are not attached to
8770	virtual machines in snapshots, and <b>indirectly</b> otherwise. Note
8771	that the smart attachment procedure is never performed for
8772	differencing hard disks.
8773	</td>
8774	</tr>
8775	<tr>
8776	<td>Immutable</td>
8777	<td>
8778	Immutable hard disks are always attached <b>indirectly</b> because
8779	they are designed to be non-writable. If an immutable hard disk is
8780	attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
8781	procedure called smart attachment is performed (see below).
8782	</td>
8783	</tr>
8784	<tr>
8785	<td>Writethrough</td>
8786	<td>
8787	Writethrough hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>, also as
8788	designed. This also means that writethrough hard disks cannot have
8789	other hard disks linked to them at all.
8790	</td>
8791	</tr>
8792	</table>
8793
8794	Note that the same hard disk, regardless of its type, may be attached to
8795	more than one virtual machine at a time. In this case, the machine that is
8796	started first gains exclusive access to the hard disk and attempts to
8797	start other machines having this hard disk attached will fail until the
8798	first machine is powered down.
8799
8800	Detaching hard disks is performed in a <i>deferred</i> fashion. This means
8801	that the given hard disk remains associated with the given machine after a
8802	successful <link to="IMachine::detachHardDisk"/> call until
8803	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called to save all changes to
8804	machine settings to disk. This deferring is necessary to guarantee that
8805	the hard disk configuration may be restored at any time by a call to
8806	<link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> before the settings
8807	are saved (committed).
8808
8809	Note that if <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> is called after
8810	indirectly attaching some hard disks to the machine but before a call to
8811	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is made, it will implicitly delete
8812	all differencing hard disks implicitly created by
8813	<link to="IMachine::attachHardDisk"/> for these indirect attachments.
8814	Such implicitly created hard disks will also be immediately deleted when
8815	detached explicitly using the <link to="IMachine::detachHardDisk"/>
8816	call if it is made before <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>. This
8817	implicit deletion is safe because newly created differencing hard
8818	disks do not contain any user data.
8819
8820	However, keep in mind that detaching differencing hard disks that were
8821	implicitly created by <link to="IMachine::attachHardDisk"/>
8822	before the last <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call will
8823	<b>not</b> implicitly delete them as they may already contain some data
8824	(for example, as a result of virtual machine execution). If these hard
8825	disks are no more necessary, the caller can always delete them explicitly
8826	using <link to="#deleteStorage"/> after they are actually de-associated
8827	from this machine by the <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call.
8828
8829	<h3>Smart Attachment</h3>
8830
8831	When normal base or immutable hard disks are indirectly attached to a
8832	virtual machine then some additional steps are performed to make sure the
8833	virtual machine will have the most recent "view" of the hard disk being
8834	attached. These steps include walking through the machine's snapshots
8835	starting from the current one and going through ancestors up to the first
8836	snapshot. Hard disks attached to the virtual machine in all
8837	of the encountered snapshots are checked whether they are descendants of
8838	the given normal base or immutable hard disk. The first found child (which
8839	is the differencing hard disk) will be used instead of the normal base or
8840	immutable hard disk as a parent for creating a new differencing hard disk
8841	that will be actually attached to the machine. And only if no descendants
8842	are found or if the virtual machine does not have any snapshots then the
8843	normal base or immutable hard disk will be used itself as a parent for
8844	this differencing hard disk.
8845
8846	It is easier to explain what smart attachment does using the
8847	following example:
8848	<pre>
8849	BEFORE attaching B.vdi: AFTER attaching B.vdi:
8850
8851	Snapshot 1 (B.vdi) Snapshot 1 (B.vdi)
8852	Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi) Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi)
8853	Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi) Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi)
8854	Snapshot 4 (none) Snapshot 4 (none)
8855	CurState (none) CurState (D3->D2.vdi)
8856
8857	NOT
8858	...
8859	CurState (D3->B.vdi)
8860	</pre>
8861	The first column is the virtual machine configuration before the base hard
8862	disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> is attached, the second column shows the machine after
8863	this hard disk is attached. Constructs like <tt>D1->B.vdi</tt> and similar
8864	mean that the hard disk that is actually attached to the machine is a
8865	differencing hard disk, <tt>D1.vdi</tt>, which is linked to (based on)
8866	another hard disk, <tt>B.vdi</tt>.
8867
8868	As we can see from the example, the hard disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> was detached
8869	from the machine before taking Snapshot 4. Later, after Snapshot 4 was
8870	taken, the user decides to attach <tt>B.vdi</tt> again. <tt>B.vdi</tt> has
8871	dependent child hard disks (<tt>D1.vdi</tt>, <tt>D2.vdi</tt>), therefore
8872	it cannot be attached directly and needs an indirect attachment (i.e.
8873	implicit creation of a new differencing hard disk). Due to the smart
8874	attachment procedure, the new differencing hard disk
8875	(<tt>D3.vdi</tt>) will be based on <tt>D2.vdi</tt>, not on
8876	<tt>B.vdi</tt> itself, since <tt>D2.vdi</tt> is the most recent view of
8877	<tt>B.vdi</tt> existing for this snapshot branch of the given virtual
8878	machine.
8879
8880	Note that if there is more than one descendant hard disk of the given base
8881	hard disk found in a snapshot, and there is an exact device, channel and
8882	bus match, then this exact match will be used. Otherwise, the youngest
8883	descendant will be picked up.
8884
8885	There is one more important aspect of the smart attachment procedure which
8886	is not related to snapshots at all. Before walking through the snapshots
8887	as described above, the backup copy of the current list of hard disk
8888	attachment is searched for descendants. This backup copy is created when
8889	the hard disk configuration is changed for the first time after the last
8890	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call and used by
8891	<link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> to undo the recent hard disk
8892	changes. When such a descendant is found in this backup copy, it will be
8893	simply re-attached back, without creating a new differencing hard disk for
8894	it. This optimization is necessary to make it possible to re-attach the
8895	base or immutable hard disk to a different bus, channel or device slot
8896	without losing the contents of the differencing hard disk actually
8897	attached to the machine in place of it.
8898	</desc>
8899
8900	<attribute name="format" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8901	<desc>
8902	Storage format of this hard disk.
8903
8904	The value of this attribute is a string that specifies a backend used to
8905	store hard disk data. The storage format is defined when you create a
8906	new hard disk or automatically detected when you open an existing hard
8907	disk medium, and cannot be changed later.
8908
8909	The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
8910	installation can be obtained using
8911	<link to="ISystemProperties::hardDiskFormats"/>.
8912	</desc>
8913	</attribute>
8914
8915	<attribute name="type" type="HardDiskType">
8916	<desc>
8917	Type (role) of this hard disk.
8918
8919	The following constraints apply when changing the value of this
8920	attribute:
8921	<ul>
8922	<li>If a hard disk is attached to a virtual machine (either in the
8923	current state or in one of the snapshots), its type cannot be
8924	changed.
8925	</li>
8926	<li>As long as the hard disk has children, its type cannot be set
8927	to <link to="HardDiskType_Writethrough"/>.
8928	</li>
8929	<li>The type of all differencing hard disks is
8930	<link to="HardDiskType_Normal"/> and cannot be changed.
8931	</li>
8932	</ul>
8933
8934	The type of a newly created or opened hard disk is set to
8935	<link to="HardDiskType_Normal"/>.
8936	</desc>
8937	</attribute>
8938
8939	<attribute name="parent" type="IHardDisk" readonly="yes">
8940	<desc>
8941	Parent of this hard disk (a hard disk this hard disk is directly based
8942	on).
8943
8944	Only differencing hard disks have parents. For base (non-differencing)
8945	hard disks, @c null is returned.
8946	</desc>
8947	</attribute>
8948
8949	<attribute name="children" type="IHardDisk" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
8950	<desc>
8951	Children of this hard disk (all differencing hard disks directly based
8952	on this hard disk). A @c null array is returned if this hard disk
8953	does not have any children.
8954	</desc>
8955	</attribute>
8956
8957	<attribute name="root" type="IHardDisk" readonly="yes">
8958	<desc>
8959	Root hard disk of this hard disk.
8960
8961	If this is a differencing hard disk, its root hard disk is the base hard
8962	disk the given hard disk branch starts from. For all other types of hard
8963	disks, this property returns the hard disk object itself (i.e. the same
8964	object this property is read on).
8965	</desc>
8966	</attribute>
8967
8968	<attribute name="readOnly" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8969	<desc>
8970	Returns @c true if this hard disk is read-only and @c false otherwise.
8971
8972	A hard disk is considered to be read-only when its contents cannot be
8973	modified without breaking the integrity of other parties that depend on
8974	this hard disk such as its child hard disks or snapshots of virtual
8975	machines where this hard disk is attached to these machines. If there
8976	are no children and no such snapshots then there is no dependency and
8977	the hard disk is not read-only.
8978
8979	The value of this attribute can be used to determine the kind of the
8980	attachment that will take place when attaching this hard disk to a
8981	virtual machine. If the value is @c false then the hard disk will
8982	be attached directly. If the value is @c true then the hard disk
8983	will be attached indirectly by creating a new differencing child hard
8984	disk for that. See the interface description for more information.
8985
8986	Note that all <link to="HardDiskType_Immutable">Immutable</link> hard
8987	disks are always read-only while all
8988	<link to="HardDiskType_Writethrough">Writethrough</link> hard disks are
8989	always not.
8990
8991	<note>
8992	The read-only condition represented by this attribute is related to
8993	the hard disk type and usage, not to the current
8994	<link to="IMedium::state">media state</link> and not to the read-only
8995	state of the storage unit.
8996	</note>
8997	</desc>
8998	</attribute>
8999
9000	<attribute name="logicalSize" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
9001	<desc>
9002	Logical size of this hard disk (in megabytes), as reported to the
9003	guest OS running inside the virtual machine this disk is
9004	attached to. The logical size is defined when the hard disk is created
9005	and cannot be changed later.
9006
9007	<note>
9008	Reading this property on a differencing hard disk will return the size
9009	of its <link to="#root"/> hard disk.
9010	</note>
9011	<note>
9012	For hard disks whose state is <link to="#state"/> is <link
9013	to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9014	last known logical size. For <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/> hard
9015	disks, the returned value is zero.
9016	</note>
9017	</desc>
9018	</attribute>
9019
9020	<attribute name="autoReset" type="boolean">
9021	<desc>
9022	Whether this differencing hard disk will be automatically reset each
9023	time a virtual machine it is attached to is powered up.
9024
9025	See <link to="#reset()"/> for more information about resetting
9026	differencing hard disks.
9027
9028	<note>
9029	Reading this property on a base (non-differencing) hard disk will
9030	always @c false. Changing the value of this property in this
9031	case is not supported.
9032	</note>
9033
9034	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9035	This is not a differencing hard disk (when changing the attribute
9036	value).
9037	</result>
9038	</desc>
9039	</attribute>
9040
9041	<!-- storage methods -->
9042
9043	<method name="getProperty">
9044	<desc>
9045	Returns the value of the custom hard disk property with the given name.
9046
9047	The list of all properties supported by the given hard disk format can
9048	be obtained with <link to="IHardDiskFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9049
9050	Note that if this method returns an empty string in @a value, the
9051	requested property is supported but currently not assigned any value.
9052
9053	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9054	Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
9055	</result>
9056	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
9057	</desc>
9058	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
9059	<desc>Name of the property to get.</desc>
9060	</param>
9061	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
9062	<desc>Current property value.</desc>
9063	</param>
9064	</method>
9065
9066	<method name="setProperty">
9067	<desc>
9068	Sets the value of the custom hard disk property with the given name.
9069
9070	The list of all properties supported by the given hard disk format can
9071	be obtained with <link to="IHardDiskFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9072
9073	Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
9074	equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
9075	defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
9076	case.
9077
9078	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9079	Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
9080	</result>
9081	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
9082	</desc>
9083	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
9084	<desc>Name of the property to set.</desc>
9085	</param>
9086	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
9087	<desc>Property value to set.</desc>
9088	</param>
9089	</method>
9090
9091	<method name="getProperties">
9092	<desc>
9093	Returns values for a group of properties in one call.
9094
9095	The names of the properties to get are specified using the @a names
9096	argument which is a list of comma-separated property names or
9097	an empty string if all properties are to be returned. Note that currently
9098	the value of this argument is ignored and the method always returns all
9099	existing properties.
9100
9101	The list of all properties supported by the given hard disk format can
9102	be obtained with <link to="IHardDiskFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9103
9104	The method returns two arrays, the array of property names corresponding
9105	to the @a names argument and the current values of these properties.
9106	Both arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the
9107	given index in the first array corresponds to an element at the same
9108	index in the second array.
9109
9110	Note that for properties that do not have assigned values,
9111	an empty string is returned at the appropriate index in the
9112	@a returnValues array.
9113
9114	</desc>
9115	<param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in">
9116	<desc>
9117	Names of properties to get.
9118	</desc>
9119	</param>
9120	<param name="returnNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9121	<desc>Names of returned properties.</desc>
9122	</param>
9123	<param name="returnValues" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
9124	<desc>Values of returned properties.</desc>
9125	</param>
9126	</method>
9127
9128	<method name="setProperties">
9129	<desc>
9130	Sets values for a group of properties in one call.
9131
9132	The names of the properties to set are passed in the @a names
9133	array along with the new values for them in the @a values array. Both
9134	arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the given
9135	index in the first array corresponding to an element at the same index
9136	in the second array.
9137
9138	If there is at least one property name in @a names that is not valid,
9139	the method will fail before changing the values of any other properties
9140	from the @a names array.
9141
9142	Using this method over <link to="#setProperty"/> is preferred if you
9143	need to set several properties at once since it will result into less
9144	IPC calls.
9145
9146	The list of all properties supported by the given hard disk format can
9147	be obtained with <link to="IHardDiskFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9148
9149	Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
9150	equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
9151	defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
9152	case.
9153	</desc>
9154	<param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
9155	<desc>Names of properties to set.</desc>
9156	</param>
9157	<param name="values" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
9158	<desc>Values of properties to set.</desc>
9159	</param>
9160	</method>
9161
9162	<!-- storage methods -->
9163
9164	<method name="createBaseStorage">
9165	<desc>
9166	Starts creating a hard disk storage unit (fixed/dynamic, according
9167	to the variant flags) in in the background. The previous storage unit
9168	created for this object, if any, must first be deleted using
9169	<link to="#deleteStorage"/>, otherwise the operation will fail.
9170
9171	Before the operation starts, the hard disk is placed in
9172	<link to="MediaState_Creating"/> state. If the create operation
9173	fails, the media will be placed back in <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/>
9174	state.
9175
9176	After the returned progress object reports that the operation has
9177	successfully completed, the media state will be set to <link
9178	to="MediaState_Created"/>, the hard disk will be remembered by this
9179	VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9180
9181	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9182	The variant of storage creation operation is not supported. See <link
9183	to="IHardDiskFormat::capabilities"/>.
9184	</result>
9185	</desc>
9186	<param name="logicalSize" type="unsigned long long" dir="in">
9187	<desc>Maximum logical size of the hard disk in megabytes.</desc>
9188	</param>
9189	<param name="variant" type="HardDiskVariant" dir="in">
9190	<desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9191	</param>
9192	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9193	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9194	</param>
9195	</method>
9196
9197	<method name="deleteStorage">
9198	<desc>
9199	Starts deleting the storage unit of this hard disk.
9200
9201	The hard disk must not be attached to any known virtual machine and must
9202	not have any known child hard disks, otherwise the operation will fail.
9203	It will also fail if there is no storage unit to delete or if deletion
9204	is already in progress, or if the hard disk is being in use (locked for
9205	read or for write) or inaccessible. Therefore, the only valid state for
9206	this operation to succeed is <link to="MediaState_Created"/>.
9207
9208	Before the operation starts, the hard disk is placed to
9209	<link to="MediaState_Deleting"/> state and gets removed from the list
9210	of remembered hard disks (media registry). If the delete operation
9211	fails, the media will be remembered again and placed back to
9212	<link to="MediaState_Created"/> state.
9213
9214	After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9215	complete, the media state will be set to
9216	<link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/> and you will be able to use one of
9217	the storage creation methods to create it again.
9218
9219	<see>#close()</see>
9220
9221	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9222	Hard disk is attached to a virtual machine.
9223	</result>
9224	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9225	Storage deletion is not allowed because neither of storage creation
9226	operations are supported. See
9227	<link to="IHardDiskFormat::capabilities"/>.
9228	</result>
9229
9230	<note>
9231	If the deletion operation fails, it is not guaranteed that the storage
9232	unit still exists. You may check the <link to="IMedium::state"/> value
9233	to answer this question.
9234	</note>
9235	</desc>
9236	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9237	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9238	</param>
9239	</method>
9240
9241	<!-- diff methods -->
9242
9243	<method name="createDiffStorage">
9244	<desc>
9245	Starts creating an empty differencing storage unit based on this hard
9246	disk in the format and at the location defined by the @a target
9247	argument.
9248
9249	The target hard disk must be in <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/>
9250	state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit). Upon successful
9251	completion, this operation will set the type of the target hard disk to
9252	<link to="HardDiskType_Normal"/> and create a storage unit necessary to
9253	represent the differencing hard disk data in the given format (according
9254	to the storage format of the target object).
9255
9256	After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9257	successfully complete, the target hard disk gets remembered by this
9258	VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9259
9260	<note>
9261	The hard disk will be set to <link to="MediaState_LockedRead"/>
9262	state for the duration of this operation.
9263	</note>
9264	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9265	Hard disk not in @c NotCreated state.
9266	</result>
9267	</desc>
9268	<param name="target" type="IHardDisk" dir="in">
9269	<desc>Target hard disk.</desc>
9270	</param>
9271	<param name="variant" type="HardDiskVariant" dir="in">
9272	<desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9273	</param>
9274	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9275	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9276	</param>
9277	</method>
9278
9279	<method name="mergeTo">
9280	<desc>
9281	Starts merging the contents of this hard disk and all intermediate
9282	differencing hard disks in the chain to the given target hard disk.
9283
9284	The target hard disk must be either a descendant of this hard disk or
9285	its ancestor (otherwise this method will immediately return a failure).
9286	It follows that there are two logical directions of the merge operation:
9287	from ancestor to descendant (<i>forward merge</i>) and from descendant to
9288	ancestor (<i>backward merge</i>). Let us consider the following hard disk
9289	chain:
9290
9291	<pre>Base <- Diff_1 <- Diff_2</pre>
9292
9293	Here, calling this method on the <tt>Base</tt> hard disk object with
9294	<tt>Diff_2</tt> as an argument will be a forward merge; calling it on
9295	<tt>Diff_2</tt> with <tt>Base</tt> as an argument will be a backward
9296	merge. Note that in both cases the contents of the resulting hard disk
9297	will be the same, the only difference is the hard disk object that takes
9298	the result of the merge operation. In case of the forward merge in the
9299	above example, the result will be written to <tt>Diff_2</tt>; in case of
9300	the backward merge, the result will be written to <tt>Base</tt>. In
9301	other words, the result of the operation is always stored in the target
9302	hard disk.
9303
9304	Upon successful operation completion, the storage units of all hard
9305	disks in the chain between this (source) hard disk and the target hard
9306	disk, including the source hard disk itself, will be automatically
9307	deleted and the relevant hard disk objects (including this hard disk)
9308	will become uninitialized. This means that any attempt to call any of
9309	their methods or attributes will fail with the
9310	<tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error. Applied to the above
9311	example, the forward merge of <tt>Base</tt> to <tt>Diff_2</tt> will
9312	delete and uninitialize both <tt>Base</tt> and <tt>Diff_1</tt> hard
9313	disks. Note that <tt>Diff_2</tt> in this case will become a base hard
9314	disk itself since it will no longer be based on any other hard disk.
9315
9316	Considering the above, all of the following conditions must be met in
9317	order for the merge operation to succeed:
9318	<ul>
9319	<li>
9320	Neither this (source) hard disk nor any intermediate
9321	differencing hard disk in the chain between it and the target
9322	hard disk is attached to any virtual machine.
9323	</li>
9324	<li>
9325	Neither the source hard disk nor the target hard disk is an
9326	<link to="HardDiskType_Immutable"/> hard disk.
9327	</li>
9328	<li>
9329	The part of the hard disk tree from the source hard disk to the
9330	target hard disk is a linear chain, i.e. all hard disks in this
9331	chain have exactly one child which is the next hard disk in this
9332	chain. The only exception from this rule is the target hard disk in
9333	the forward merge operation; it is allowed to have any number of
9334	child hard disks because the merge operation will hot change its
9335	logical contents (as it is seen by the guest OS or by children).
9336	</li>
9337	<li>
9338	None of the involved hard disks are in
9339	<link to="MediaState_LockedRead"/> or
9340	<link to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/> state.
9341	</li>
9342	</ul>
9343
9344	<note>
9345	This (source) hard disk and all intermediates will be placed to <link
9346	to="MediaState_Deleting"/> state and the target hard disk will be
9347	placed to <link to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/> state and for the
9348	duration of this operation.
9349	</note>
9350	</desc>
9351	<param name="targetId" type="wstring" dir="in">
9352	<desc>UUID of the target ancestor or descendant hard disk.</desc>
9353	</param>
9354	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9355	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9356	</param>
9357	</method>
9358
9359	<!-- clone method -->
9360
9361	<method name="cloneTo">
9362	<desc>
9363	Starts creating a clone of this hard disk in the format and at the
9364	location defined by the @a target argument.
9365
9366	The target hard disk must be either in <link to="MediaState_NotCreated"/>
9367	state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit) or in
9368	<link to="MediaState_Created"/> state (i.e. created and not locked, and
9369	big enough to hold the data or else the copy will be partial). Upon
9370	successful completion, the cloned hard disk will contain exactly the
9371	same sector data as the hard disk being cloned, except that in the
9372	first case a new UUID for the clone will be randomly generated, and in
9373	the second case the UUID will remain unchanged.
9374
9375	The @a parent argument defines which hard disk will be the parent
9376	of the clone. Passing a @c null reference indicates that the clone will
9377	be a base image, i.e. completely independent. It is possible to specify
9378	an arbitrary hard disk for this parameter, including the parent of the
9379	hard disk which is being cloned. Even cloning to a child of the source
9380	hard disk is possible. Note that when cloning to an existing image, the
9381	@a parent irgument is ignored.
9382
9383	After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9384	successfully complete, the target hard disk gets remembered by this
9385	VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9386
9387	<note>
9388	This hard disk will be placed to <link to="MediaState_LockedRead"/>
9389	state for the duration of this operation.
9390	</note>
9391	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
9392	The specified cloning variant is not supported at the moment.
9393	</result>
9394	</desc>
9395	<param name="target" type="IHardDisk" dir="in">
9396	<desc>Target hard disk.</desc>
9397	</param>
9398	<param name="variant" type="HardDiskVariant" dir="in">
9399	<desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9400	</param>
9401	<param name="parent" type="IHardDisk" dir="in">
9402	<desc>Parent of the cloned hard disk.</desc>
9403	</param>
9404	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9405	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9406	</param>
9407	</method>
9408
9409	<!-- other methods -->
9410
9411	<method name="compact">
9412	<desc>
9413	Starts compacting of this hard disk. This means that the disk is
9414	transformed into a possibly more compact storage representation.
9415	This potentially creates temporary images, which can require a
9416	substantial amount of additional disk space.
9417
9418	This hard disk will be placed to <link to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/>
9419	state and all its parent hard disks (if any) will be placed to
9420	<link to="MediaState_LockedRead"/> state for the duration of this
9421	operation.
9422
9423	Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
9424	or later as the result of the background operation via the object
9425	returned via the @a progress parameter.
9426
9427	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9428	Hard disk format does not support compacting (but potentially
9429	needs it).
9430	</result>
9431	</desc>
9432	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9433	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9434	</param>
9435	</method>
9436
9437	<method name="reset">
9438	<desc>
9439	Starts erasing the contents of this differencing hard disk.
9440
9441	This operation will reset the differencing hard disk to its initial
9442	state when it does not contain any sector data and any read operation is
9443	redirected to its parent hard disk.
9444
9445	This hard disk will be placed to <link to="MediaState_LockedWrite"/>
9446	for the duration of this operation.
9447
9448	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9449	This is not a differencing hard disk.
9450	</result>
9451	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9452	Hard disk is not in <link to="MediaState_Created"/> or
9453	<link to="MediaState_Inaccessible"/> state.
9454	</result>
9455	</desc>
9456	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9457	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9458	</param>
9459	</method>
9460
9461	</interface>
9462
9463
9464	<!--
9465	// IHardDiskFormat
9466	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9467	-->
9468
9469	<enum
9470	name="DataType"
9471	uuid="d90ea51e-a3f1-4a01-beb1-c1723c0d3ba7"
9472	>
9473	<const name="Int32" value="0"/>
9474	<const name="Int8" value="1"/>
9475	<const name="String" value="2"/>
9476	</enum>
9477
9478	<enum
9479	name="DataFlags"
9480	uuid="86884dcf-1d6b-4f1b-b4bf-f5aa44959d60"
9481	>
9482	<const name="None" value="0x00"/>
9483	<const name="Mandatory" value="0x01"/>
9484	<const name="Expert" value="0x02"/>
9485	<const name="Array" value="0x04"/>
9486	<const name="FlagMask" value="0x07"/>
9487	</enum>
9488
9489	<enum
9490	name="HardDiskFormatCapabilities"
9491	uuid="1df1e4aa-d25a-4ba6-b2a2-02f60eb5903b"
9492	>
9493	<desc>
9494	Hard disk format capability flags.
9495	</desc>
9496
9497	<const name="Uuid" value="0x01">
9498	<desc>
9499	Supports UUIDs as expected by VirtualBox code.
9500	</desc>
9501	</const>
9502
9503	<const name="CreateFixed" value="0x02">
9504	<desc>
9505	Supports creating fixed size images, allocating all space instantly.
9506	</desc>
9507	</const>
9508
9509	<const name="CreateDynamic" value="0x04">
9510	<desc>
9511	Supports creating dynamically growing images, allocating space on
9512	demand.
9513	</desc>
9514	</const>
9515
9516	<const name="CreateSplit2G" value="0x08">
9517	<desc>
9518	Supports creating images split in chunks of a bit less than 2 GBytes.
9519	</desc>
9520	</const>
9521
9522	<const name="Differencing" value="0x10">
9523	<desc>
9524	Supports being used as a format for differencing hard disks (see <link
9525	to="IHardDisk::createDiffStorage"/>).
9526	</desc>
9527	</const>
9528
9529	<const name="Asynchronous" value="0x20">
9530	<desc>
9531	Supports asynchronous I/O operations for at least some configurations.
9532	</desc>
9533	</const>
9534
9535	<const name="File" value="0x40">
9536	<desc>
9537	The format backend operates on files (the <link to="IMedium::location"/>
9538	attribute of the hard disk specifies a file used to store hard disk
9539	data; for a list of supported file extensions see
9540	<link to="IHardDiskFormat::fileExtensions"/>).
9541	</desc>
9542	</const>
9543
9544	<const name="Properties" value="0x80">
9545	<desc>
9546	The format backend uses the property interface to configure the storage
9547	location and properties (the <link to="IHardDiskFormat::describeProperties"/>
9548	method is used to get access to properties supported by the given hard
9549	disk format).
9550	</desc>
9551	</const>
9552
9553	<const name="CapabilityMask" value="0xFF"/>
9554	</enum>
9555
9556	<interface
9557	name="IHardDiskFormat" extends="$unknown"
9558	uuid="7f3ba790-3a0b-4a8a-bac2-bb50150123c5"
9559	wsmap="managed"
9560	>
9561	<desc>
9562	The IHardDiskFormat interface represents a virtual hard disk format.
9563
9564	Each hard disk format has an associated backend which is used to handle
9565	hard disks stored in this format. This interface provides information
9566	about the properties of the associated backend.
9567
9568	Each hard disk format is identified by a string represented by the
9569	<link to="#id"/> attribute. This string is used in calls like
9570	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to specify the desired
9571	format.
9572
9573	The list of all supported hard disk formats can be obtained using
9574	<link to="ISystemProperties::hardDiskFormats"/>.
9575
9576	<see>IHardDisk</see>
9577	</desc>
9578
9579	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9580	<desc>
9581	Identifier of this format.
9582
9583	The format identifier is a non-@c null non-empty ASCII string. Note that
9584	this string is case-insensitive. This means that, for example, all of
9585	the following strings:
9586	<pre>
9587	"VDI"
9588	"vdi"
9589	"VdI"</pre>
9590	refer to the same hard disk format.
9591
9592	This string is used in methods of other interfaces where it is necessary
9593	to specify a hard disk format, such as
9594	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>.
9595	</desc>
9596	</attribute>
9597
9598	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9599	<desc>
9600	Human readable description of this format.
9601
9602	Mainly for use in file open dialogs.
9603	</desc>
9604	</attribute>
9605
9606	<attribute name="fileExtensions" type="wstring" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9607	<desc>
9608	Array of strings containing the supported file extensions.
9609
9610	The first extension in the array is the extension preferred by the
9611	backend. It is recommended to use this extension when specifying a
9612	location of the storage unit for a new hard disk.
9613
9614	Note that some backends do not work on files, so this array may be
9615	empty.
9616
9617	<see>IHardDiskFormat::capabilities</see>
9618	</desc>
9619	</attribute>
9620
9621	<attribute name="capabilities" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9622	<desc>
9623	Capabilities of the format as a set of bit flags.
9624
9625	For the meaning of individual capability flags see
9626	<link to="HardDiskFormatCapabilities"/>.
9627	</desc>
9628	</attribute>
9629
9630	<method name="describeProperties">
9631	<desc>
9632	Returns several arrays describing the properties supported by this
9633	format.
9634
9635	An element with the given index in each array describes one
9636	property. Thus, the number of elements in each returned array is the
9637	same and corresponds to the number of supported properties.
9638
9639	The returned arrays are filled in only if the
9640	<link to="HardDiskFormatCapabilities_Properties"/> flag is set.
9641	All arguments must be non-@c null.
9642
9643	<see>DataType</see>
9644	<see>DataFlags</see>
9645	</desc>
9646
9647	<param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9648	<desc>Array of property names.</desc>
9649	</param>
9650	<param name="description" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9651	<desc>Array of property descriptions.</desc>
9652	</param>
9653	<param name="types" type="DataType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9654	<desc>Array of property types.</desc>
9655	</param>
9656	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9657	<desc>Array of property flags.</desc>
9658	</param>
9659	<param name="defaults" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9660	<desc>Array of default property values.</desc>
9661	</param>
9662	</method>
9663
9664	</interface>
9665
9666
9667	<!--
9668	// IFloppyImage
9669	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9670	-->
9671
9672	<interface
9673	name="IFloppyImage" extends="IMedium"
9674	uuid="faa6101f-078c-4b3a-ab75-75670c8170b3"
9675	wsmap="managed"
9676	>
9677	<desc>
9678	The IFloppyImage interface represents a medium containing the image
9679	of a floppy disk. This is a subclass of <link to="IMedium" />; see remarks there.
9680	</desc>
9681
9682	</interface>
9683
9684
9685	<!--
9686	// IDVDImage
9687	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9688	-->
9689
9690	<interface
9691	name="IDVDImage" extends="IMedium"
9692	uuid="b1f90bbb-e8a9-4484-9af1-3638e943f763"
9693	wsmap="managed"
9694	>
9695	<desc>
9696	The IDVDImage interface represents a medium containing the image
9697	of a CD or DVD disk in the ISO format.
9698
9699	This is a subclass of <link to="IMedium" />; see remarks there.
9700	</desc>
9701
9702	</interface>
9703
9704
9705	<!--
9706	// IDVDDrive
9707	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9708	-->
9709
9710	<interface
9711	name="IDVDDrive" extends="$unknown"
9712	uuid="156944d1-4c6d-4812-8f12-ab3890767ab4"
9713	wsmap="managed"
9714	>
9715	<desc>
9716	The IDVDDrive interface represents the virtual CD/DVD drive of the
9717	virtual machine. An object of this type is returned by
9718	<link to="IMachine::DVDDrive"/>.
9719	</desc>
9720
9721	<attribute name="state" type="DriveState" readonly="yes">
9722	<desc>Current drive state.</desc>
9723	</attribute>
9724
9725	<attribute name="passthrough" type="boolean">
9726	<desc>
9727	When a host drive is mounted and passthrough is enabled
9728	the guest OS will be able to directly send SCSI commands to
9729	the host drive. This enables the guest OS to use CD/DVD writers
9730	but is potentially dangerous.
9731	</desc>
9732	</attribute>
9733
9734	<method name="mountImage">
9735	<desc>Mounts a CD/DVD image with the specified UUID.
9736
9737	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
9738	Invalid image file location.
9739	</result>
9740	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9741	Could not find a CD/DVD image matching @a imageId.
9742	</result>
9743	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9744	Invalid media state.
9745	</result>
9746
9747	</desc>
9748	<param name="imageId" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
9749	</method>
9750
9751	<method name="captureHostDrive">
9752	<desc>Captures the specified host CD/DVD drive.</desc>
9753	<param name="drive" type="IHostDVDDrive" dir="in"/>
9754	</method>
9755
9756	<method name="unmount">
9757	<desc>Unmounts the currently mounted image or host drive.</desc>
9758	</method>
9759
9760	<method name="getImage">
9761	<desc>Returns the currently mounted CD/DVD image.</desc>
9762	<param name="image" type="IDVDImage" dir="return"/>
9763	</method>
9764
9765	<method name="getHostDrive">
9766	<desc>Returns the currently mounted host CD/DVD drive.</desc>
9767	<param name="drive" type="IHostDVDDrive" dir="return"/>
9768	</method>
9769
9770	</interface>
9771
9772
9773	<!--
9774	// IFloppyDrive
9775	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9776	-->
9777
9778	<interface
9779	name="IFloppyDrive" extends="$unknown"
9780	uuid="a8676d38-5cf0-4b53-85b1-aa693611ab86"
9781	wsmap="managed"
9782	>
9783	<desc>
9784	The IFloppyDrive interface represents the virtual floppy drive of the
9785	virtual machine. An object of this type is returned by
9786	<link to="IMachine::floppyDrive" />.
9787	</desc>
9788
9789	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
9790	<desc>
9791	Flag whether the floppy drive is enabled. If it is disabled,
9792	the floppy drive will not be reported to the guest OS.
9793	</desc>
9794	</attribute>
9795
9796	<attribute name="state" type="DriveState" readonly="yes">
9797	<desc>Current drive state.</desc>
9798	</attribute>
9799
9800	<method name="mountImage">
9801	<desc>Mounts a floppy image with the specified UUID.
9802
9803	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
9804	Invalid image file location.
9805	</result>
9806	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9807	Could not find a floppy image matching @a imageID.
9808	</result>
9809	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9810	Invalid media state.
9811	</result>
9812
9813	</desc>
9814	<param name="imageId" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
9815	</method>
9816
9817	<method name="captureHostDrive">
9818	<desc>Captures the specified host floppy drive.</desc>
9819	<param name="drive" type="IHostFloppyDrive" dir="in"/>
9820	</method>
9821
9822	<method name="unmount">
9823	<desc>Unmounts the currently mounted image or host drive.</desc>
9824	</method>
9825
9826	<method name="getImage">
9827	<desc>Returns the currently mounted floppy image.</desc>
9828	<param name="image" type="IFloppyImage" dir="return"/>
9829	</method>
9830
9831	<method name="getHostDrive">
9832	<desc>Returns the currently mounted host floppy drive.</desc>
9833	<param name="drive" type="IHostFloppyDrive" dir="return"/>
9834	</method>
9835
9836	</interface>
9837
9838
9839	<!--
9840	// IKeyboard
9841	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9842	-->
9843
9844	<interface
9845	name="IKeyboard" extends="$unknown"
9846	uuid="2d1a531b-4c6e-49cc-8af6-5c857b78b5d7"
9847	wsmap="managed"
9848	>
9849	<desc>
9850	The IKeyboard interface represents the virtual machine's keyboard. Used
9851	in <link to="IConsole::keyboard"/>.
9852
9853	Use this interface to send keystrokes or the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence
9854	to the virtual machine.
9855
9856	</desc>
9857	<method name="putScancode">
9858	<desc>Sends a scancode to the keyboard.
9859
9860	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9861	Could not send scan code to virtual keyboard.
9862	</result>
9863
9864	</desc>
9865	<param name="scancode" type="long" dir="in"/>
9866	</method>
9867
9868	<method name="putScancodes">
9869	<desc>Sends an array of scancodes to the keyboard.
9870
9871	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9872	Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
9873	</result>
9874
9875	</desc>
9876	<param name="scancodes" type="long" dir="in" safearray="yes"/>
9877	<param name="codesStored" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
9878	</method>
9879
9880	<method name="putCAD">
9881	<desc>Sends the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence to the keyboard. This
9882	function is nothing special, it is just a convenience function
9883	calling <link to="IKeyboard::putScancodes"/> with the proper scancodes.
9884
9885	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9886	Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
9887	</result>
9888
9889	</desc>
9890	</method>
9891
9892	</interface>
9893
9894
9895	<!--
9896	// IMouse
9897	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9898	-->
9899
9900	<enum
9901	name="MouseButtonState"
9902	uuid="03131722-2EC5-4173-9794-0DACA46673EF"
9903	>
9904	<desc>
9905	Mouse button state.
9906	</desc>
9907
9908	<const name="LeftButton" value="0x01"/>
9909	<const name="RightButton" value="0x02"/>
9910	<const name="MiddleButton" value="0x04"/>
9911	<const name="WheelUp" value="0x08"/>
9912	<const name="WheelDown" value="0x10"/>
9913	<const name="MouseStateMask" value="0x1F"/>
9914	</enum>
9915
9916	<interface
9917	name="IMouse" extends="$unknown"
9918	uuid="FD443EC1-0006-4F5B-9282-D72760A66916"
9919	wsmap="managed"
9920	>
9921	<desc>
9922	The IMouse interface represents the virtual machine's mouse. Used in
9923	<link to="IConsole::mouse"/>.
9924
9925	Through this interface, the virtual machine's virtual mouse can be
9926	controlled.
9927	</desc>
9928
9929	<attribute name="absoluteSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9930	<desc>
9931	Whether the guest OS supports absolute mouse pointer positioning
9932	or not.
9933	<note>
9934	VirtualBox Guest Tools need to be installed to the guest OS
9935	in order to enable absolute mouse positioning support.
9936	You can use the <link to="IConsoleCallback::onMouseCapabilityChange"/>
9937	callback to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
9938	during virtual machine execution.
9939	</note>
9940	<see><link to="#putMouseEventAbsolute"/></see>
9941	</desc>
9942	</attribute>
9943
9944	<method name="putMouseEvent">
9945	<desc>
9946	Initiates a mouse event using relative pointer movements
9947	along x and y axis.
9948
9949	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
9950	Console not powered up.
9951	</result>
9952	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9953	Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
9954	</result>
9955
9956	</desc>
9957
9958	<param name="dx" type="long" dir="in">
9959	<desc>
9960	Amount of pixels the mouse should move to the right.
9961	Negative values move the mouse to the left.
9962	</desc>
9963	</param>
9964	<param name="dy" type="long" dir="in">
9965	<desc>
9966	Amount of pixels the mouse should move downwards.
9967	Negative values move the mouse upwards.
9968	</desc>
9969	</param>
9970	<param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
9971	<desc>
9972	Amount of mouse wheel moves.
9973	Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
9974	negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
9975	</desc>
9976	</param>
9977	<param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
9978	<desc>
9979	The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
9980	a mouse button as follows:
9981	<table>
9982	<tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
9983	<tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
9984	<tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
9985	</table>
9986	A value of <tt>1</tt> means the corresponding button is pressed.
9987	otherwise it is released.
9988	</desc>
9989	</param>
9990	</method>
9991
9992	<method name="putMouseEventAbsolute">
9993	<desc>
9994	Positions the mouse pointer using absolute x and y coordinates.
9995	These coordinates are expressed in pixels and
9996	start from <tt>[1,1]</tt> which corresponds to the top left
9997	corner of the virtual display.
9998
9999	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
10000	Console not powered up.
10001	</result>
10002	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10003	Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
10004	</result>
10005
10006	<note>
10007	This method will have effect only if absolute mouse
10008	positioning is supported by the guest OS.
10009	</note>
10010
10011	<see><link to="#absoluteSupported"/></see>
10012	</desc>
10013
10014	<param name="x" type="long" dir="in">
10015	<desc>
10016	X coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
10017	</desc>
10018	</param>
10019	<param name="y" type="long" dir="in">
10020	<desc>
10021	Y coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
10022	</desc>
10023	</param>
10024	<param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
10025	<desc>
10026	Amount of mouse wheel moves.
10027	Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
10028	negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
10029	</desc>
10030	</param>
10031	<param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
10032	<desc>
10033	The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
10034	a mouse button as follows:
10035	<table>
10036	<tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
10037	<tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
10038	<tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
10039	</table>
10040	A value of @c 1 means the corresponding button is pressed.
10041	otherwise it is released.
10042	</desc>
10043	</param>
10044	</method>
10045
10046	</interface>
10047
10048	<!--
10049	// IDisplay
10050	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10051	-->
10052
10053	<enum
10054	name="FramebufferPixelFormat"
10055	uuid="7acfd5ed-29e3-45e3-8136-73c9224f3d2d"
10056	>
10057	<desc>
10058	Format of the video memory buffer. Constants represented by this enum can
10059	be used to test for particular values of <link
10060	to="IFramebuffer::pixelFormat"/>. See also <link
10061	to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/>.
10062
10063	See also www.fourcc.org for more information about FOURCC pixel formats.
10064	</desc>
10065
10066	<const name="Opaque" value="0">
10067	<desc>
10068	Unknown buffer format (the user may not assume any particular format of
10069	the buffer).
10070	</desc>
10071	</const>
10072	<const name="FOURCC_RGB" value="0x32424752">
10073	<desc>
10074	Basic RGB format (<link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/> determines the
10075	bit layout).
10076	</desc>
10077	</const>
10078	</enum>
10079
10080	<interface
10081	name="IFramebuffer" extends="$unknown"
10082	uuid="b7ed347a-5765-40a0-ae1c-f543eb4ddeaf"
10083	wsmap="suppress"
10084	>
10085	<attribute name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" readonly="yes">
10086	<desc>Address of the start byte of the frame buffer.</desc>
10087	</attribute>
10088
10089	<attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10090	<desc>Frame buffer width, in pixels.</desc>
10091	</attribute>
10092
10093	<attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10094	<desc>Frame buffer height, in pixels.</desc>
10095	</attribute>
10096
10097	<attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10098	<desc>
10099	Color depth, in bits per pixel. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
10100	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, valid values
10101	are: 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32.
10102	</desc>
10103	</attribute>
10104
10105	<attribute name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10106	<desc>
10107	Scan line size, in bytes. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
10108	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, the
10109	size of the scan line must be aligned to 32 bits.
10110	</desc>
10111	</attribute>
10112
10113	<attribute name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10114	<desc>
10115	Frame buffer pixel format. It's either one of the values defined by <link
10116	to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/> or a raw FOURCC code.
10117	<note>
10118	This attribute must never return <link
10119	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> -- the format of the buffer
10120	<link to="#address"/> points to must be always known.
10121	</note>
10122	</desc>
10123	</attribute>
10124
10125	<attribute name="usesGuestVRAM" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10126	<desc>
10127	Defines whether this frame buffer uses the virtual video card's memory
10128	buffer (guest VRAM) directly or not. See <link
10129	to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/> for more information.
10130	</desc>
10131	</attribute>
10132
10133	<attribute name="heightReduction" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10134	<desc>
10135	Hint from the frame buffer about how much of the standard
10136	screen height it wants to use for itself. This information is
10137	exposed to the guest through the VESA BIOS and VMMDev interface
10138	so that it can use it for determining its video mode table. It
10139	is not guaranteed that the guest respects the value.
10140	</desc>
10141	</attribute>
10142
10143	<attribute name="overlay" type="IFramebufferOverlay" readonly="yes">
10144	<desc>
10145	An alpha-blended overlay which is superposed over the frame buffer.
10146	The initial purpose is to allow the display of icons providing
10147	information about the VM state, including disk activity, in front
10148	ends which do not have other means of doing that. The overlay is
10149	designed to controlled exclusively by IDisplay. It has no locking
10150	of its own, and any changes made to it are not guaranteed to be
10151	visible until the affected portion of IFramebuffer is updated. The
10152	overlay can be created lazily the first time it is requested. This
10153	attribute can also return @c null to signal that the overlay is not
10154	implemented.
10155	</desc>
10156	</attribute>
10157
10158	<attribute name="winId" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
10159	<desc>
10160	Platform-dependent identifier of the window where context of this
10161	frame buffer is drawn, or zero if there's no such window.
10162	</desc>
10163	</attribute>
10164
10165	<method name="lock">
10166	<desc>
10167	Locks the frame buffer.
10168	Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
10169	bound to.
10170	</desc>
10171	</method>
10172
10173	<method name="unlock">
10174	<desc>
10175	Unlocks the frame buffer.
10176	Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
10177	bound to.
10178	</desc>
10179	</method>
10180
10181	<method name="notifyUpdate">
10182	<desc>
10183	Informs about an update.
10184	Gets called by the display object where this buffer is
10185	registered.
10186	</desc>
10187	<param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10188	<param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10189	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10190	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10191	</method>
10192
10193	<method name="requestResize">
10194	<desc>
10195	Requests a size and pixel format change.
10196
10197	There are two modes of working with the video buffer of the virtual
10198	machine. The <i>indirect</i> mode implies that the IFramebuffer
10199	implementation allocates a memory buffer for the requested display mode
10200	and provides it to the virtual machine. In <i>direct</i> mode, the
10201	IFramebuffer implementation uses the memory buffer allocated and owned
10202	by the virtual machine. This buffer represents the video memory of the
10203	emulated video adapter (so called <i>guest VRAM</i>). The direct mode is
10204	usually faster because the implementation gets a raw pointer to the
10205	guest VRAM buffer which it can directly use for visualizing the contents
10206	of the virtual display, as opposed to the indirect mode where the
10207	contents of guest VRAM are copied to the memory buffer provided by
10208	the implementation every time a display update occurs.
10209
10210	It is important to note that the direct mode is really fast only when
10211	the implementation uses the given guest VRAM buffer directly, for
10212	example, by blitting it to the window representing the virtual machine's
10213	display, which saves at least one copy operation comparing to the
10214	indirect mode. However, using the guest VRAM buffer directly is not
10215	always possible: the format and the color depth of this buffer may be
10216	not supported by the target window, or it may be unknown (opaque) as in
10217	case of text or non-linear multi-plane VGA video modes. In this case,
10218	the indirect mode (that is always available) should be used as a
10219	fallback: when the guest VRAM contents are copied to the
10220	implementation-provided memory buffer, color and format conversion is
10221	done automatically by the underlying code.
10222
10223	The @a pixelFormat parameter defines whether the direct mode is
10224	available or not. If @a pixelFormat is <link
10225	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> then direct access to the guest
10226	VRAM buffer is not available -- the @a VRAM, @a bitsPerPixel and
10227	@a bytesPerLine parameters must be ignored and the implementation must use
10228	the indirect mode (where it provides its own buffer in one of the
10229	supported formats). In all other cases, @a pixelFormat together with
10230	@a bitsPerPixel and @a bytesPerLine define the format of the video memory
10231	buffer pointed to by the @a VRAM parameter and the implementation is
10232	free to choose which mode to use. To indicate that this frame buffer uses
10233	the direct mode, the implementation of the <link to="#usesGuestVRAM"/>
10234	attribute must return @c true and <link to="#address"/> must
10235	return exactly the same address that is passed in the @a VRAM parameter
10236	of this method; otherwise it is assumed that the indirect strategy is
10237	chosen.
10238
10239	The @a width and @a height parameters represent the size of the
10240	requested display mode in both modes. In case of indirect mode, the
10241	provided memory buffer should be big enough to store data of the given
10242	display mode. In case of direct mode, it is guaranteed that the given
10243	@a VRAM buffer contains enough space to represent the display mode of the
10244	given size. Note that this frame buffer's <link to="#width"/> and <link
10245	to="#height"/> attributes must return exactly the same values as
10246	passed to this method after the resize is completed (see below).
10247
10248	The @a finished output parameter determines if the implementation has
10249	finished resizing the frame buffer or not. If, for some reason, the
10250	resize cannot be finished immediately during this call, @a finished
10251	must be set to @c false, and the implementation must call
10252	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> after it has returned from
10253	this method as soon as possible. If @a finished is @c false, the
10254	machine will not call any frame buffer methods until
10255	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
10256
10257	Note that if the direct mode is chosen, the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>,
10258	<link to="#bytesPerLine"/> and <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attributes of
10259	this frame buffer must return exactly the same values as specified in the
10260	parameters of this method, after the resize is completed. If the
10261	indirect mode is chosen, these attributes must return values describing
10262	the format of the implementation's own memory buffer <link
10263	to="#address"/> points to. Note also that the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>
10264	value must always correlate with <link to="#pixelFormat"/>. Note that
10265	the <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attribute must never return <link
10266	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> regardless of the selected mode.
10267
10268	<note>
10269	This method is called by the IDisplay object under the
10270	<link to="#lock"/> provided by this IFramebuffer
10271	implementation. If this method returns @c false in @a finished, then
10272	this lock is not released until
10273	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
10274	</note>
10275	</desc>
10276	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10277	<desc>
10278	Logical screen number. Must be used in the corresponding call to
10279	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> if this call is made.
10280	</desc>
10281	</param>
10282	<param name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10283	<desc>
10284	Pixel format of the memory buffer pointed to by @a VRAM.
10285	See also <link to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/>.
10286	</desc>
10287	</param>
10288	<param name="VRAM" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10289	<desc>Pointer to the virtual video card's VRAM (may be @c null).</desc>
10290	</param>
10291	<param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10292	<desc>Color depth, bits per pixel.</desc>
10293	</param>
10294	<param name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10295	<desc>Size of one scan line, in bytes.</desc>
10296	</param>
10297	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10298	<desc>Width of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
10299	</param>
10300	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10301	<desc>Height of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
10302	</param>
10303	<param name="finished" type="boolean" dir="return">
10304	<desc>
10305	Can the VM start using the new frame buffer immediately
10306	after this method returns or it should wait for
10307	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/>.
10308	</desc>
10309	</param>
10310	</method>
10311
10312	<method name="videoModeSupported">
10313	<desc>
10314	Returns whether the frame buffer implementation is willing to
10315	support a given video mode. In case it is not able to render
10316	the video mode (or for some reason not willing), it should
10317	return @c false. Usually this method is called when the guest
10318	asks the VMM device whether a given video mode is supported
10319	so the information returned is directly exposed to the guest.
10320	It is important that this method returns very quickly.
10321	</desc>
10322	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10323	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10324	<param name="bpp" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10325	<param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
10326	</method>
10327
10328	<method name="getVisibleRegion">
10329	<desc>
10330	Returns the visible region of this frame buffer.
10331
10332	If the @a rectangles parameter is @c null then the value of the
10333	@a count parameter is ignored and the number of elements necessary to
10334	describe the current visible region is returned in @a countCopied.
10335
10336	If @a rectangles is not @c null but @a count is less
10337	than the required number of elements to store region data, the method
10338	will report a failure. If @a count is equal or greater than the
10339	required number of elements, then the actual number of elements copied
10340	to the provided array will be returned in @a countCopied.
10341
10342	<note>
10343	The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
10344	this IFramebuffer object.
10345	</note>
10346	<note>
10347	Method not yet implemented.
10348	</note>
10349	</desc>
10350	<param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10351	<desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array to receive region data.</desc>
10352	</param>
10353	<param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10354	<desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10355	</param>
10356	<param name="countCopied" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
10357	<desc>Number of elements copied to the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10358	</param>
10359	</method>
10360
10361	<method name="setVisibleRegion">
10362	<desc>
10363	Suggests a new visible region to this frame buffer. This region
10364	represents the area of the VM display which is a union of regions of
10365	all top-level windows of the guest operating system running inside the
10366	VM (if the Guest Additions for this system support this
10367	functionality). This information may be used by the frontends to
10368	implement the seamless desktop integration feature.
10369
10370	<note>
10371	The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
10372	this IFramebuffer object.
10373	</note>
10374	<note>
10375	The IFramebuffer implementation must make a copy of the provided
10376	array of rectangles.
10377	</note>
10378	<note>
10379	Method not yet implemented.
10380	</note>
10381	</desc>
10382	<param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10383	<desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array.</desc>
10384	</param>
10385	<param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10386	<desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10387	</param>
10388	</method>
10389
10390	<method name="processVHWACommand">
10391	<desc>
10392	Posts a Video HW Acceleration Command to the frame buffer for processing.
10393	The commands used for 2D video acceleration (DDraw surface creation/destroying, blitting, scaling, color covnersion, overlaying, etc.)
10394	are posted from quest to the host to be processed by the host hardware.
10395
10396	<note>
10397	The address of the provided command must be in the process space of
10398	this IFramebuffer object.
10399	</note>
10400	</desc>
10401
10402	<param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10403	<desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the command to execute.</desc>
10404	</param>
10405	</method>
10406
10407	</interface>
10408
10409	<interface
10410	name="IFramebufferOverlay" extends="IFramebuffer"
10411	uuid="0bcc1c7e-e415-47d2-bfdb-e4c705fb0f47"
10412	wsmap="suppress"
10413	>
10414	<desc>
10415	The IFramebufferOverlay interface represents an alpha blended overlay
10416	for displaying status icons above an IFramebuffer. It is always created
10417	not visible, so that it must be explicitly shown. It only covers a
10418	portion of the IFramebuffer, determined by its width, height and
10419	co-ordinates. It is always in packed pixel little-endian 32bit ARGB (in
10420	that order) format, and may be written to directly. Do re-read the
10421	width though, after setting it, as it may be adjusted (increased) to
10422	make it more suitable for the front end.
10423	</desc>
10424	<attribute name="x" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10425	<desc>X position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
10426	</attribute>
10427
10428	<attribute name="y" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10429	<desc>Y position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
10430	</attribute>
10431
10432	<attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="no">
10433	<desc>
10434	Whether the overlay is currently visible.
10435	</desc>
10436	</attribute>
10437
10438	<attribute name="alpha" type="unsigned long" readonly="no">
10439	<desc>
10440	The global alpha value for the overlay. This may or may not be
10441	supported by a given front end.
10442	</desc>
10443	</attribute>
10444
10445	<method name="move">
10446	<desc>
10447	Changes the overlay's position relative to the IFramebuffer.
10448	</desc>
10449	<param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10450	<param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10451	</method>
10452
10453	</interface>
10454
10455	<interface
10456	name="IDisplay" extends="$unknown"
10457	uuid="e2a38ebc-d854-4a3e-bc2e-fdf5ac4a0000"
10458	wsmap="managed"
10459	>
10460	<desc>
10461	The IDisplay interface represents the virtual machine's display.
10462
10463	The object implementing this interface is contained in each
10464	<link to="IConsole::display"/> attribute and represents the visual
10465	output of the virtual machine.
10466
10467	The virtual display supports pluggable output targets represented by the
10468	IFramebuffer interface. Examples of the output target are a window on
10469	the host computer or an RDP session's display on a remote computer.
10470	</desc>
10471	<attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10472	<desc>Current display width.</desc>
10473	</attribute>
10474
10475	<attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10476	<desc>Current display height.</desc>
10477	</attribute>
10478
10479	<attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10480	<desc>
10481	Current guest display color depth. Note that this may differ
10482	from <link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/>.
10483	</desc>
10484	</attribute>
10485
10486	<method name="setFramebuffer">
10487	<desc>
10488	Sets the framebuffer for given screen.
10489	</desc>
10490	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10491	<param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="in"/>
10492	</method>
10493
10494	<method name="getFramebuffer">
10495	<desc>
10496	Queries the framebuffer for given screen.
10497	</desc>
10498	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10499	<param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="out"/>
10500	<param name="xOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
10501	<param name="yOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
10502	</method>
10503
10504	<method name="setVideoModeHint">
10505	<desc>
10506	Asks VirtualBox to request the given video mode from
10507	the guest. This is just a hint and it cannot be guaranteed
10508	that the requested resolution will be used. Guest Additions
10509	are required for the request to be seen by guests. The caller
10510	should issue the request and wait for a resolution change and
10511	after a timeout retry.
10512
10513	Specifying @c 0 for either @a width, @a height or @a bitsPerPixel
10514	parameters means that the corresponding values should be taken from the
10515	current video mode (i.e. left unchanged).
10516
10517	If the guest OS supports multi-monitor configuration then the @a display
10518	parameter specifies the number of the guest display to send the hint to:
10519	@c 0 is the primary display, @c 1 is the first secondary and
10520	so on. If the multi-monitor configuration is not supported, @a display
10521	must be @c 0.
10522
10523	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
10524	The @a display is not associated with any monitor.
10525	</result>
10526
10527	</desc>
10528	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10529	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10530	<param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10531	<param name="display" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10532	</method>
10533
10534	<method name="setSeamlessMode">
10535	<desc>
10536	Enables or disables seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
10537	integration) mode.
10538	<note>
10539	Calling this method has no effect if <link
10540	to="IGuest::supportsSeamless"/> returns @c false.
10541	</note>
10542	</desc>
10543	<param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
10544	</method>
10545
10546	<method name="takeScreenShot">
10547	<desc>
10548	Takes a screen shot of the requested size and copies it to the
10549	32-bpp buffer allocated by the caller and pointed to by @a address.
10550
10551	<note>This API can be used only by the COM/XPCOM C++ API as it
10552	requires pointer support. Use <link to="#takeScreenShotSlow" />
10553	with other language bindings.
10554	</note>
10555
10556	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10557	Feature not implemented.
10558	</result>
10559	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10560	Could not take a screenshot.
10561	</result>
10562
10563	</desc>
10564	<param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
10565	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10566	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10567	</method>
10568
10569	<method name="takeScreenShotSlow">
10570	<desc>
10571	Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
10572	an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit ARGB format.
10573	This API is slow, but could be the only option to get guest screenshot
10574	for scriptable languages not allowed to manipulate with addresses
10575	directly.
10576
10577	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10578	Feature not implemented.
10579	</result>
10580	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10581	Could not take a screenshot.
10582	</result>
10583	</desc>
10584	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10585	<desc>
10586	Desired image width.
10587	</desc>
10588	</param>
10589	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10590	<desc>
10591	Desired image height.
10592	</desc>
10593	</param>
10594	<param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
10595	<desc>
10596	Array with resulting screen data.
10597	</desc>
10598	</param>
10599	</method>
10600
10601	<method name="drawToScreen">
10602	<desc>
10603	Draws a 32-bpp image of the specified size from the given buffer
10604	to the given point on the VM display.
10605
10606	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10607	Feature not implemented.
10608	</result>
10609	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10610	Could not draw to screen.
10611	</result>
10612
10613	</desc>
10614	<param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
10615	<param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10616	<param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10617	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10618	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10619	</method>
10620
10621	<method name="invalidateAndUpdate">
10622	<desc>
10623	Does a full invalidation of the VM display and instructs the VM
10624	to update it.
10625
10626	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10627	Could not invalidate and update screen.
10628	</result>
10629
10630	</desc>
10631	</method>
10632
10633	<method name="resizeCompleted">
10634	<desc>
10635	Signals that a framebuffer has completed the resize operation.
10636
10637	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10638	Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
10639	</result>
10640
10641	</desc>
10642	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10643	</method>
10644
10645	<method name="updateCompleted">
10646	<desc>
10647	Signals that a framebuffer has completed the update operation.
10648
10649	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10650	Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
10651	</result>
10652
10653	</desc>
10654	</method>
10655
10656	<method name="completeVHWACommand">
10657	<desc>
10658	Signals that the Video HW Acceleration command has completed.
10659	</desc>
10660
10661	<param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10662	<desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the completed command.</desc>
10663	</param>
10664	</method>
10665
10666	</interface>
10667
10668	<!--
10669	// INetworkAdapter
10670	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10671	-->
10672
10673	<enum
10674	name="NetworkAttachmentType"
10675	uuid="44bce1ee-99f7-4e8e-89fc-80597fd9eeaf"
10676	>
10677	<desc>
10678	Network attachment type.
10679	</desc>
10680
10681	<const name="Null" value="0">
10682	<desc>Null value, also means "not attached".</desc>
10683	</const>
10684	<const name="NAT" value="1"/>
10685	<const name="Bridged" value="2"/>
10686	<const name="Internal" value="3"/>
10687	<const name="HostOnly" value="4"/>
10688	</enum>
10689
10690	<enum
10691	name="NetworkAdapterType"
10692	uuid="50c3dfd8-07ac-4a31-baac-519c828fbf97"
10693	>
10694	<desc>
10695	Network adapter type.
10696	</desc>
10697
10698	<const name="Null" value="0">
10699	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
10700	</const>
10701	<const name="Am79C970A" value="1">
10702	<desc>AMD PCNet-PCI II network card (Am79C970A).</desc>
10703	</const>
10704	<const name="Am79C973" value="2">
10705	<desc>AMD PCNet-FAST III network card (Am79C973).</desc>
10706	</const>
10707	<const name="I82540EM" value="3">
10708	<desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop network card (82540EM).</desc>
10709	</const>
10710	<const name="I82543GC" value="4">
10711	<desc>Intel PRO/1000 T Server network card (82543GC).</desc>
10712	</const>
10713	<const name="I82545EM" value="5">
10714	<desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Server network card (82545EM).</desc>
10715	</const>
10716	</enum>
10717
10718	<interface
10719	name="INetworkAdapter" extends="$unknown"
10720	uuid="65607a27-2b73-4d43-b4cc-0ba2c817fbde"
10721	wsmap="managed"
10722	>
10723	<desc>
10724	Represents a virtual network adapter that is attached to a virtual machine.
10725	Each virtual machine has a fixed number of network adapter slots with one
10726	instance of this attached to each of them. Call
10727	<link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter" /> to get the network adapter that
10728	is attached to a given slot in a given machine.
10729
10730	Each network adapter can be in one of five attachment modes, which are
10731	represented by the <link to="NetworkAttachmentType" /> enumeration;
10732	see the <link to="#attachmentType" /> attribute.
10733	</desc>
10734
10735	<attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType">
10736	<desc>
10737	Type of the virtual network adapter. Depending on this value,
10738	VirtualBox will provide a different virtual network hardware
10739	to the guest.
10740	</desc>
10741	</attribute>
10742
10743	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10744	<desc>
10745	Slot number this adapter is plugged into. Corresponds to
10746	the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter"/>
10747	to obtain this instance.
10748	</desc>
10749	</attribute>
10750
10751	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
10752	<desc>
10753	Flag whether the network adapter is present in the
10754	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
10755	not contain this network adapter. Can only be changed when
10756	the VM is not running.
10757	</desc>
10758	</attribute>
10759
10760	<attribute name="MACAddress" type="wstring">
10761	<desc>
10762	Ethernet MAC address of the adapter, 12 hexadecimal characters. When setting
10763	it to @c null or an empty string, VirtualBox will generate a unique MAC address.
10764	</desc>
10765	</attribute>
10766
10767	<attribute name="attachmentType" type="NetworkAttachmentType" readonly="yes"/>
10768
10769	<attribute name="hostInterface" type="wstring">
10770	<desc>
10771	Name of the host network interface the VM is attached to.
10772	</desc>
10773	</attribute>
10774
10775	<attribute name="internalNetwork" type="wstring">
10776	<desc>
10777	Name of the internal network the VM is attached to.
10778	</desc>
10779	</attribute>
10780
10781	<attribute name="NATNetwork" type="wstring">
10782	<desc>
10783	Name of the NAT network the VM is attached to.
10784	</desc>
10785	</attribute>
10786
10787	<attribute name="cableConnected" type="boolean">
10788	<desc>
10789	Flag whether the adapter reports the cable as connected or not.
10790	It can be used to report offline situations to a VM.
10791	</desc>
10792	</attribute>
10793
10794	<attribute name="lineSpeed" type="unsigned long">
10795	<desc>
10796	Line speed reported by custom drivers, in units of 1 kbps.
10797	</desc>
10798	</attribute>
10799
10800	<attribute name="traceEnabled" type="boolean">
10801	<desc>
10802	Flag whether network traffic from/to the network card should be traced.
10803	Can only be toggled when the VM is turned off.
10804	</desc>
10805	</attribute>
10806
10807	<attribute name="traceFile" type="wstring">
10808	<desc>
10809	Filename where a network trace will be stored. If not set, VBox-pid.pcap
10810	will be used.
10811	</desc>
10812	</attribute>
10813
10814	<method name="attachToNAT">
10815	<desc>
10816	Attach the network adapter to the Network Address Translation (NAT) interface.
10817	</desc>
10818	</method>
10819
10820	<method name="attachToBridgedInterface">
10821	<desc>
10822	Attach the network adapter to a bridged host interface.
10823	</desc>
10824	</method>
10825
10826	<method name="attachToInternalNetwork">
10827	<desc>
10828	Attach the network adapter to an internal network.
10829	</desc>
10830	</method>
10831
10832	<method name="attachToHostOnlyInterface">
10833	<desc>
10834	Attach the network adapter to the host-only network.
10835	</desc>
10836	</method>
10837
10838	<method name="detach">
10839	<desc>
10840	Detach the network adapter
10841	</desc>
10842	</method>
10843	</interface>
10844
10845
10846	<!--
10847	// ISerialPort
10848	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10849	-->
10850
10851	<enum
10852	name="PortMode"
10853	uuid="533b5fe3-0185-4197-86a7-17e37dd39d76"
10854	>
10855	<desc>
10856	The PortMode enumeration represents possible communication modes for
10857	the virtual serial port device.
10858	</desc>
10859
10860	<const name="Disconnected" value="0">
10861	<desc>Virtual device is not attached to any real host device.</desc>
10862	</const>
10863	<const name="HostPipe" value="1">
10864	<desc>Virtual device is attached to a host pipe.</desc>
10865	</const>
10866	<const name="HostDevice" value="2">
10867	<desc>Virtual device is attached to a host device.</desc>
10868	</const>
10869	<const name="RawFile" value="3">
10870	<desc>Virtual device is attached to a raw file.</desc>
10871	</const>
10872	</enum>
10873
10874	<interface
10875	name="ISerialPort" extends="$unknown"
10876	uuid="937f6970-5103-4745-b78e-d28dcf1479a8"
10877	wsmap="managed"
10878	>
10879
10880	<desc>
10881	The ISerialPort interface represents the virtual serial port device.
10882
10883	The virtual serial port device acts like an ordinary serial port
10884	inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
10885	serial port hardware in one of two modes: host pipe or host device.
10886
10887	In host pipe mode, the #path attribute specifies the path to the pipe on
10888	the host computer that represents a serial port. The #server attribute
10889	determines if this pipe is created by the virtual machine process at
10890	machine startup or it must already exist before starting machine
10891	execution.
10892
10893	In host device mode, the #path attribute specifies the name of the
10894	serial port device on the host computer.
10895
10896	There is also a third communication mode: the disconnected mode. In this
10897	mode, the guest OS running inside the virtual machine will be able to
10898	detect the serial port, but all port write operations will be discarded
10899	and all port read operations will return no data.
10900
10901	<see>IMachine::getSerialPort</see>
10902	</desc>
10903
10904	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10905	<desc>
10906	Slot number this serial port is plugged into. Corresponds to
10907	the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort"/>
10908	to obtain this instance.
10909	</desc>
10910	</attribute>
10911
10912	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
10913	<desc>
10914	Flag whether the serial port is enabled. If disabled,
10915	the serial port will not be reported to the guest OS.
10916	</desc>
10917	</attribute>
10918
10919	<attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
10920	<desc>Base I/O address of the serial port.</desc>
10921	</attribute>
10922
10923	<attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
10924	<desc>IRQ number of the serial port.</desc>
10925	</attribute>
10926
10927	<attribute name="hostMode" type="PortMode">
10928	<desc>
10929	How is this port connected to the host.
10930	<note>
10931	Changing this attribute may fail if the conditions for
10932	<link to="#path"/> are not met.
10933	</note>
10934	</desc>
10935	</attribute>
10936
10937	<attribute name="server" type="boolean">
10938	<desc>
10939	Flag whether this serial port acts as a server (creates a new pipe on
10940	the host) or as a client (uses the existing pipe). This attribute is
10941	used only when <link to="#hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostPipe.
10942	</desc>
10943	</attribute>
10944
10945	<attribute name="path" type="wstring">
10946	<desc>
10947	Path to the serial port's pipe on the host when <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is
10948	PortMode_HostPipe, or the host serial device name when
10949	<link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostDevice. For both
10950	cases, setting a @c null or empty string as the attribute's value
10951	is an error. Otherwise, the value of this property is ignored.
10952	</desc>
10953	</attribute>
10954
10955	</interface>
10956
10957	<!--
10958	// IParallelPort
10959	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10960	-->
10961
10962	<interface
10963	name="IParallelPort" extends="$unknown"
10964	uuid="0c925f06-dd10-4b77-8de8-294d738c3214"
10965	wsmap="managed"
10966	>
10967
10968	<desc>
10969	The IParallelPort interface represents the virtual parallel port device.
10970
10971	The virtual parallel port device acts like an ordinary parallel port
10972	inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
10973	parallel port hardware using the name of the parallel device on the host
10974	computer specified in the #path attribute.
10975
10976	Each virtual parallel port device is assigned a base I/O address and an
10977	IRQ number that will be reported to the guest operating system and used
10978	to operate the given parallel port from within the virtual machine.
10979
10980	<see>IMachine::getParallelPort</see>
10981	</desc>
10982
10983	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10984	<desc>
10985	Slot number this parallel port is plugged into. Corresponds to
10986	the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort"/>
10987	to obtain this instance.
10988	</desc>
10989	</attribute>
10990
10991	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
10992	<desc>
10993	Flag whether the parallel port is enabled. If disabled,
10994	the parallel port will not be reported to the guest OS.
10995	</desc>
10996	</attribute>
10997
10998	<attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
10999	<desc>Base I/O address of the parallel port.</desc>
11000	</attribute>
11001
11002	<attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
11003	<desc>IRQ number of the parallel port.</desc>
11004	</attribute>
11005
11006	<attribute name="path" type="wstring">
11007	<desc>
11008	Host parallel device name. If this parallel port is enabled, setting a
11009	@c null or an empty string as this attribute's value will result into
11010	an error.
11011	</desc>
11012	</attribute>
11013
11014	</interface>
11015
11016
11017	<!--
11018	// IMachineDebugger
11019	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11020	-->
11021
11022	<interface
11023	name="IMachineDebugger" extends="$unknown"
11024	uuid="b0b2a2dd-0627-4502-91c2-ddc5e77609e0"
11025	wsmap="suppress"
11026	>
11027	<method name="resetStats">
11028	<desc>
11029	Reset VM statistics.
11030	</desc>
11031	<param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11032	<desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11033	</param>
11034	</method>
11035
11036	<method name="dumpStats">
11037	<desc>
11038	Dumps VM statistics.
11039	</desc>
11040	<param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11041	<desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11042	</param>
11043	</method>
11044
11045	<method name="getStats">
11046	<desc>
11047	Get the VM statistics in a XMLish format.
11048	</desc>
11049	<param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11050	<desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11051	</param>
11052	<param name="withDescriptions" type="boolean" dir="in">
11053	<desc>Whether to include the descriptions.</desc>
11054	</param>
11055	<param name="stats" type="wstring" dir="out">
11056	<desc>The XML document containing the statistics.</desc>
11057	</param>
11058	</method>
11059
11060	<method name="injectNMI">
11061	<desc>
11062	Inject an NMI into a running VT-x/AMD-V VM.
11063	</desc>
11064	</method>
11065
11066	<attribute name="singlestep" type="boolean">
11067	<desc>Switch for enabling singlestepping.</desc>
11068	</attribute>
11069
11070	<attribute name="recompileUser" type="boolean">
11071	<desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for user mode code.</desc>
11072	</attribute>
11073
11074	<attribute name="recompileSupervisor" type="boolean">
11075	<desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for supervisor mode code.</desc>
11076	</attribute>
11077
11078	<attribute name="PATMEnabled" type="boolean">
11079	<desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the PATM component.</desc>
11080	</attribute>
11081
11082	<attribute name="CSAMEnabled" type="boolean">
11083	<desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the CSAM component.</desc>
11084	</attribute>
11085
11086	<attribute name="logEnabled" type="boolean">
11087	<desc>Switch for enabling and disabling logging.</desc>
11088	</attribute>
11089
11090	<attribute name="HWVirtExEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11091	<desc>
11092	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of CPU hardware
11093	virtualization extensions.
11094	</desc>
11095	</attribute>
11096
11097	<attribute name="HWVirtExNestedPagingEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11098	<desc>
11099	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the nested paging
11100	CPU hardware virtualization extension.
11101	</desc>
11102	</attribute>
11103
11104	<attribute name="HWVirtExVPIDEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11105	<desc>
11106	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the VPID
11107	VT-x extension.
11108	</desc>
11109	</attribute>
11110
11111	<attribute name="PAEEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11112	<desc>
11113	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the Physical
11114	Address Extension CPU feature.
11115	</desc>
11116	</attribute>
11117
11118	<attribute name="virtualTimeRate" type="unsigned long">
11119	<desc>
11120	The rate at which the virtual time runs expressed as a percentage.
11121	The accepted range is 2% to 20000%.
11122	</desc>
11123	</attribute>
11124
11125	<!-- @todo method for setting log flags, groups and destination! -->
11126
11127	<attribute name="VM" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
11128	<desc>
11129	Gets the VM handle. This is only for internal use while
11130	we carve the details of this interface.
11131	</desc>
11132	</attribute>
11133
11134	</interface>
11135
11136	<!--
11137	// IUSBController
11138	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11139	-->
11140
11141	<interface
11142	name="IUSBController" extends="$unknown"
11143	uuid="238540fa-4b73-435a-a38e-4e1d9eab5c17"
11144	wsmap="managed"
11145	>
11146	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11147	<desc>
11148	Flag whether the USB controller is present in the
11149	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11150	not contain any USB controller. Can only be changed when
11151	the VM is powered off.
11152	</desc>
11153	</attribute>
11154
11155	<attribute name="enabledEhci" type="boolean">
11156	<desc>
11157	Flag whether the USB EHCI controller is present in the
11158	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11159	not contain a USB EHCI controller. Can only be changed when
11160	the VM is powered off.
11161	</desc>
11162	</attribute>
11163
11164	<attribute name="USBStandard" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11165	<desc>
11166	USB standard version which the controller implements.
11167	This is a BCD which means that the major version is in the
11168	high byte and minor version is in the low byte.
11169	</desc>
11170	</attribute>
11171
11172	<attribute name="deviceFilters" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
11173	<desc>
11174	List of USB device filters associated with the machine.
11175
11176	If the machine is currently running, these filters are activated
11177	every time a new (supported) USB device is attached to the host
11178	computer that was not ignored by global filters
11179	(<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>).
11180
11181	These filters are also activated when the machine is powered up.
11182	They are run against a list of all currently available USB
11183	devices (in states
11184	<link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/>,
11185	<link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
11186	<link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>) that were not previously
11187	ignored by global filters.
11188
11189	If at least one filter matches the USB device in question, this
11190	device is automatically captured (attached to) the virtual USB
11191	controller of this machine.
11192
11193	<see>IUSBDeviceFilter, ::IUSBController</see>
11194	</desc>
11195	</attribute>
11196
11197	<method name="createDeviceFilter">
11198	<desc>
11199	Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
11200	the filter name are set to empty (any match),
11201	<i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
11202
11203	The created filter can then be added to the list of filters using
11204	<link to="#insertDeviceFilter"/>.
11205
11206	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11207	The virtual machine is not mutable.
11208	</result>
11209
11210	<see>#deviceFilters</see>
11211	</desc>
11212	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
11213	<desc>
11214	Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
11215	for more info.
11216	</desc>
11217	</param>
11218	<param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
11219	<desc>Created filter object.</desc>
11220	</param>
11221	</method>
11222
11223	<method name="insertDeviceFilter">
11224	<desc>
11225	Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
11226	in the list of filters.
11227
11228	Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. If the specified
11229	position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
11230	the list, the filter is added to the end of the collection.
11231
11232	<note>
11233	Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
11234	filter that is already in the collection, will return an
11235	error.
11236	</note>
11237
11238	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11239	Virtual machine is not mutable.
11240	</result>
11241	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11242	USB device filter not created within this VirtualBox instance.
11243	</result>
11244	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
11245	USB device filter already in list.
11246	</result>
11247
11248	<see>#deviceFilters</see>
11249	</desc>
11250	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11251	<desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
11252	</param>
11253	<param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
11254	<desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
11255	</param>
11256	</method>
11257
11258	<method name="removeDeviceFilter">
11259	<desc>
11260	Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
11261	list of filters.
11262
11263	Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. Specifying a
11264	position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
11265	the list will produce an error.
11266
11267	<see>#deviceFilters</see>
11268
11269	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11270	Virtual machine is not mutable.
11271	</result>
11272	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11273	USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
11274	</result>
11275
11276	</desc>
11277	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11278	<desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
11279	</param>
11280	<param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
11281	<desc>Removed USB device filter.</desc>
11282	</param>
11283	</method>
11284
11285	</interface>
11286
11287
11288	<!--
11289	// IUSBDevice
11290	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11291	-->
11292
11293	<interface
11294	name="IUSBDevice" extends="$unknown"
11295	uuid="f8967b0b-4483-400f-92b5-8b675d98a85b"
11296	wsmap="managed"
11297	>
11298	<desc>
11299	The IUSBDevice interface represents a virtual USB device attached to the
11300	virtual machine.
11301
11302	A collection of objects implementing this interface is stored in the
11303	<link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/> attribute which lists all USB devices
11304	attached to a running virtual machine's USB controller.
11305	</desc>
11306
11307	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11308	<desc>
11309	Unique USB device ID. This ID is built from #vendorId,
11310	#productId, #revision and #serialNumber.
11311	</desc>
11312	</attribute>
11313
11314	<attribute name="vendorId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11315	<desc>Vendor ID.</desc>
11316	</attribute>
11317
11318	<attribute name="productId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11319	<desc>Product ID.</desc>
11320	</attribute>
11321
11322	<attribute name="revision" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11323	<desc>
11324	Product revision number. This is a packed BCD represented as
11325	unsigned short. The high byte is the integer part and the low
11326	byte is the decimal.
11327	</desc>
11328	</attribute>
11329
11330	<attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11331	<desc>Manufacturer string.</desc>
11332	</attribute>
11333
11334	<attribute name="product" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11335	<desc>Product string.</desc>
11336	</attribute>
11337
11338	<attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11339	<desc>Serial number string.</desc>
11340	</attribute>
11341
11342	<attribute name="address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11343	<desc>Host specific address of the device.</desc>
11344	</attribute>
11345
11346	<attribute name="port" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11347	<desc>
11348	Host USB port number the device is physically
11349	connected to.
11350	</desc>
11351	</attribute>
11352
11353	<attribute name="version" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11354	<desc>
11355	The major USB version of the device - 1 or 2.
11356	</desc>
11357	</attribute>
11358
11359	<attribute name="portVersion" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11360	<desc>
11361	The major USB version of the host USB port the device is
11362	physically connected to - 1 or 2. For devices not connected to
11363	anything this will have the same value as the version attribute.
11364	</desc>
11365	</attribute>
11366
11367	<attribute name="remote" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11368	<desc>
11369	Whether the device is physically connected to a remote VRDP
11370	client or to a local host machine.
11371	</desc>
11372	</attribute>
11373
11374	</interface>
11375
11376
11377	<!--
11378	// IUSBDeviceFilter
11379	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11380	-->
11381
11382	<interface
11383	name="IUSBDeviceFilter" extends="$unknown"
11384	uuid="d6831fb4-1a94-4c2c-96ef-8d0d6192066d"
11385	wsmap="managed"
11386	>
11387	<desc>
11388	The IUSBDeviceFilter interface represents an USB device filter used
11389	to perform actions on a group of USB devices.
11390
11391	This type of filters is used by running virtual machines to
11392	automatically capture selected USB devices once they are physically
11393	attached to the host computer.
11394
11395	A USB device is matched to the given device filter if and only if all
11396	attributes of the device match the corresponding attributes of the
11397	filter (that is, attributes are joined together using the logical AND
11398	operation). On the other hand, all together, filters in the list of
11399	filters carry the semantics of the logical OR operation. So if it is
11400	desirable to create a match like "this vendor id OR this product id",
11401	one needs to create two filters and specify "any match" (see below)
11402	for unused attributes.
11403
11404	All filter attributes used for matching are strings. Each string
11405	is an expression representing a set of values of the corresponding
11406	device attribute, that will match the given filter. Currently, the
11407	following filtering expressions are supported:
11408
11409	<ul>
11410	<li><i>Interval filters</i>. Used to specify valid intervals for
11411	integer device attributes (Vendor ID, Product ID and Revision).
11412	The format of the string is:
11413
11414	<tt>int:((m)\|([m]-[n]))(,(m)\|([m]-[n]))*</tt>
11415
11416	where <tt>m</tt> and <tt>n</tt> are integer numbers, either in octal
11417	(starting from <tt>0</tt>), hexadecimal (starting from <tt>0x</tt>)
11418	or decimal (otherwise) form, so that <tt>m < n</tt>. If <tt>m</tt>
11419	is omitted before a dash (<tt>-</tt>), the minimum possible integer
11420	is assumed; if <tt>n</tt> is omitted after a dash, the maximum
11421	possible integer is assumed.
11422	</li>
11423	<li><i>Boolean filters</i>. Used to specify acceptable values for
11424	boolean device attributes. The format of the string is:
11425
11426	<tt>true\|false\|yes\|no\|0\|1</tt>
11427
11428	</li>
11429	<li><i>Exact match</i>. Used to specify a single value for the given
11430	device attribute. Any string that doesn't start with <tt>int:</tt>
11431	represents the exact match. String device attributes are compared to
11432	this string including case of symbols. Integer attributes are first
11433	converted to a string (see individual filter attributes) and then
11434	compared ignoring case.
11435
11436	</li>
11437	<li><i>Any match</i>. Any value of the corresponding device attribute
11438	will match the given filter. An empty or @c null string is
11439	used to construct this type of filtering expressions.
11440
11441	</li>
11442	</ul>
11443
11444	<note>
11445	On the Windows host platform, interval filters are not currently
11446	available. Also all string filter attributes
11447	(<link to="#manufacturer"/>, <link to="#product"/>,
11448	<link to="#serialNumber"/>) are ignored, so they behave as
11449	<i>any match</i> no matter what string expression is specified.
11450	</note>
11451
11452	<see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
11453	</desc>
11454
11455	<attribute name="name" type="wstring">
11456	<desc>
11457	Visible name for this filter.
11458	This name is used to visually distinguish one filter from another,
11459	so it can neither be @c null nor an empty string.
11460	</desc>
11461	</attribute>
11462
11463	<attribute name="active" type="boolean">
11464	<desc>Whether this filter active or has been temporarily disabled.</desc>
11465	</attribute>
11466
11467	<attribute name="vendorId" type="wstring">
11468	<desc>
11469	<link to="IUSBDevice::vendorId">Vendor ID</link> filter.
11470	The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
11471	has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
11472	(including leading zeroes).
11473	</desc>
11474	</attribute>
11475
11476	<attribute name="productId" type="wstring">
11477	<desc>
11478	<link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product ID</link> filter.
11479	The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
11480	has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
11481	(including leading zeroes).
11482	</desc>
11483	</attribute>
11484
11485	<attribute name="revision" type="wstring">
11486	<desc>
11487	<link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product revision number</link>
11488	filter. The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
11489	has the form <tt>IIFF</tt>, where <tt>I</tt> is the decimal digit
11490	of the integer part of the revision, and <tt>F</tt> is the
11491	decimal digit of its fractional part (including leading and
11492	trailing zeros).
11493	Note that for interval filters, it's best to use the hexadecimal
11494	form, because the revision is stored as a 16 bit packed BCD value;
11495	so the expression <tt>int:0x0100-0x0199</tt> will match any
11496	revision from <tt>1.0</tt> to <tt>1.99</tt>.
11497	</desc>
11498	</attribute>
11499
11500	<attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring">
11501	<desc>
11502	<link to="IUSBDevice::manufacturer">Manufacturer</link> filter.
11503	</desc>
11504	</attribute>
11505
11506	<attribute name="product" type="wstring">
11507	<desc>
11508	<link to="IUSBDevice::product">Product</link> filter.
11509	</desc>
11510	</attribute>
11511
11512	<attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring">
11513	<desc>
11514	<link to="IUSBDevice::serialNumber">Serial number</link> filter.
11515	</desc>
11516	</attribute>
11517
11518	<attribute name="port" type="wstring">
11519	<desc>
11520	<link to="IUSBDevice::port">Host USB port</link> filter.
11521	</desc>
11522	</attribute>
11523
11524	<attribute name="remote" type="wstring">
11525	<desc>
11526	<link to="IUSBDevice::remote">Remote state</link> filter.
11527	<note>
11528	This filter makes sense only for machine USB filters,
11529	i.e. it is ignored by IHostUSBDeviceFilter objects.
11530	</note>
11531	</desc>
11532	</attribute>
11533
11534	<attribute name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long">
11535	<desc>
11536	This is an advanced option for hiding one or more USB interfaces
11537	from the guest. The value is a bit mask where the bits that are set
11538	means the corresponding USB interface should be hidden, masked off
11539	if you like.
11540	This feature only works on Linux hosts.
11541	</desc>
11542	</attribute>
11543
11544	</interface>
11545
11546
11547	<!--
11548	// IHostUSBDevice
11549	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11550	-->
11551
11552	<enum
11553	name="USBDeviceState"
11554	uuid="b99a2e65-67fb-4882-82fd-f3e5e8193ab4"
11555	>
11556	<desc>
11557	USB device state. This enumeration represents all possible states
11558	of the USB device physically attached to the host computer regarding
11559	its state on the host computer and availability to guest computers
11560	(all currently running virtual machines).
11561
11562	Once a supported USB device is attached to the host, global USB
11563	filters (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>) are activated. They can
11564	either ignore the device, or put it to USBDeviceState_Held state, or do
11565	nothing. Unless the device is ignored by global filters, filters of all
11566	currently running guests (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are
11567	activated that can put it to USBDeviceState_Captured state.
11568
11569	If the device was ignored by global filters, or didn't match
11570	any filters at all (including guest ones), it is handled by the host
11571	in a normal way. In this case, the device state is determined by
11572	the host and can be one of USBDeviceState_Unavailable, USBDeviceState_Busy
11573	or USBDeviceState_Available, depending on the current device usage.
11574
11575	Besides auto-capturing based on filters, the device can be manually
11576	captured by guests (<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) if its
11577	state is USBDeviceState_Busy, USBDeviceState_Available or
11578	USBDeviceState_Held.
11579
11580	<note>
11581	Due to differences in USB stack implementations in Linux and Win32,
11582	states USBDeviceState_Busy and USBDeviceState_vailable are applicable
11583	only to the Linux version of the product. This also means that (<link
11584	to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) can only succeed on Win32 if the
11585	device state is USBDeviceState_Held.
11586	</note>
11587
11588	<see>IHostUSBDevice, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
11589	</desc>
11590
11591	<const name="NotSupported" value="0">
11592	<desc>
11593	Not supported by the VirtualBox server, not available to guests.
11594	</desc>
11595	</const>
11596	<const name="Unavailable" value="1">
11597	<desc>
11598	Being used by the host computer exclusively,
11599	not available to guests.
11600	</desc>
11601	</const>
11602	<const name="Busy" value="2">
11603	<desc>
11604	Being used by the host computer, potentially available to guests.
11605	</desc>
11606	</const>
11607	<const name="Available" value="3">
11608	<desc>
11609	Not used by the host computer, available to guests (the host computer
11610	can also start using the device at any time).
11611	</desc>
11612	</const>
11613	<const name="Held" value="4">
11614	<desc>
11615	Held by the VirtualBox server (ignored by the host computer),
11616	available to guests.
11617	</desc>
11618	</const>
11619	<const name="Captured" value="5">
11620	<desc>
11621	Captured by one of the guest computers, not available
11622	to anybody else.
11623	</desc>
11624	</const>
11625	</enum>
11626
11627	<interface
11628	name="IHostUSBDevice" extends="IUSBDevice"
11629	uuid="173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a"
11630	wsmap="managed"
11631	>
11632	<desc>
11633	The IHostUSBDevice interface represents a physical USB device attached
11634	to the host computer.
11635
11636	Besides properties inherited from IUSBDevice, this interface adds the
11637	<link to="#state"/> property that holds the current state of the USB
11638	device.
11639
11640	<see>IHost::USBDevices, IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
11641	</desc>
11642
11643	<attribute name="state" type="USBDeviceState" readonly="yes">
11644	<desc>
11645	Current state of the device.
11646	</desc>
11647	</attribute>
11648
11649	<!-- @todo add class, subclass, bandwidth, configs, interfaces endpoints and such later. -->
11650
11651	</interface>
11652
11653
11654	<!--
11655	// IHostUSBDeviceFilter
11656	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11657	-->
11658
11659	<enum
11660	name="USBDeviceFilterAction"
11661	uuid="cbc30a49-2f4e-43b5-9da6-121320475933"
11662	>
11663	<desc>
11664	Actions for host USB device filters.
11665	<see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
11666	</desc>
11667
11668	<const name="Null" value="0">
11669	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
11670	</const>
11671	<const name="Ignore" value="1">
11672	<desc>Ignore the matched USB device.</desc>
11673	</const>
11674	<const name="Hold" value="2">
11675	<desc>Hold the matched USB device.</desc>
11676	</const>
11677	</enum>
11678
11679	<interface
11680	name="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" extends="IUSBDeviceFilter"
11681	uuid="4cc70246-d74a-400f-8222-3900489c0374"
11682	wsmap="managed"
11683	>
11684	<desc>
11685	The IHostUSBDeviceFilter interface represents a global filter for a
11686	physical USB device used by the host computer. Used indirectly in
11687	<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>.
11688
11689	Using filters of this type, the host computer determines the initial
11690	state of the USB device after it is physically attached to the
11691	host's USB controller.
11692
11693	<note>
11694	The <link to="#remote"/> attribute is ignored by this type of
11695	filters, because it makes sense only for
11696	<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters">machine USB filters</link>.
11697	</note>
11698
11699	<see>IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
11700	</desc>
11701
11702	<attribute name="action" type="USBDeviceFilterAction">
11703	<desc>
11704	Action performed by the host when an attached USB device
11705	matches this filter.
11706	</desc>
11707	</attribute>
11708
11709	</interface>
11710
11711	<!--
11712	// IAudioAdapter
11713	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11714	-->
11715
11716	<enum
11717	name="AudioDriverType"
11718	uuid="4bcc3d73-c2fe-40db-b72f-0c2ca9d68496"
11719	>
11720	<desc>
11721	Host audio driver type.
11722	</desc>
11723
11724	<const name="Null" value="0">
11725	<desc>Null value, also means "dummy audio driver".</desc>
11726	</const>
11727	<const name="WinMM" value="1">
11728	<desc>Windows multimedia (Windows hosts only).</desc>
11729	</const>
11730	<const name="OSS" value="2">
11731	<desc>Open Sound System (Linux hosts only).</desc>
11732	</const>
11733	<const name="ALSA" value="3">
11734	<desc>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (Linux hosts only).</desc>
11735	</const>
11736	<const name="DirectSound" value="4">
11737	<desc>DirectSound (Windows hosts only).</desc>
11738	</const>
11739	<const name="CoreAudio" value="5">
11740	<desc>CoreAudio (Mac hosts only).</desc>
11741	</const>
11742	<const name="MMPM" value="6">
11743	<desc>Reserved for historical reasons.</desc>
11744	</const>
11745	<const name="Pulse" value="7">
11746	<desc>PulseAudio (Linux hosts only).</desc>
11747	</const>
11748	<const name="SolAudio" value="8">
11749	<desc>Solaris audio (Solaris hosts only).</desc>
11750	</const>
11751	</enum>
11752
11753	<enum
11754	name="AudioControllerType"
11755	uuid="7afd395c-42c3-444e-8788-3ce80292f36c"
11756	>
11757	<desc>
11758	Virtual audio controller type.
11759	</desc>
11760
11761	<const name="AC97" value="0"/>
11762	<const name="SB16" value="1"/>
11763	</enum>
11764
11765	<interface
11766	name="IAudioAdapter" extends="$unknown"
11767	uuid="921873db-5f3f-4b69-91f9-7be9e535a2cb"
11768	wsmap="managed"
11769	>
11770	<desc>
11771	The IAudioAdapter interface represents the virtual audio adapter of
11772	the virtual machine. Used in <link to="IMachine::audioAdapter"/>.
11773	</desc>
11774	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11775	<desc>
11776	Flag whether the audio adapter is present in the
11777	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11778	not contain any audio adapter. Can only be changed when
11779	the VM is not running.
11780	</desc>
11781	</attribute>
11782	<attribute name="audioController" type="AudioControllerType">
11783	<desc>
11784	The audio hardware we emulate.
11785	</desc>
11786	</attribute>
11787	<attribute name="audioDriver" type="AudioDriverType">
11788	<desc>
11789	Audio driver the adapter is connected to. This setting
11790	can only be changed when the VM is not running.
11791	</desc>
11792	</attribute>
11793	</interface>
11794
11795	<!--
11796	// IVRDPServer
11797	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11798	-->
11799
11800	<enum
11801	name="VRDPAuthType"
11802	uuid="3d91887a-b67f-4b33-85bf-2da7ab1ea83a"
11803	>
11804	<desc>
11805	VRDP authentication type.
11806	</desc>
11807
11808	<const name="Null" value="0">
11809	<desc>Null value, also means "no authentication".</desc>
11810	</const>
11811	<const name="External" value="1"/>
11812	<const name="Guest" value="2"/>
11813	</enum>
11814
11815	<interface
11816	name="IVRDPServer" extends="$unknown"
11817	uuid="f4584ae7-6bce-474b-83d6-17d235e6aa89"
11818	wsmap="managed"
11819	>
11820	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11821	<desc>VRDP server status.</desc>
11822	</attribute>
11823
11824	<attribute name="port" type="unsigned long">
11825	<desc>
11826	VRDP server port number.
11827	<note>
11828	Setting the value of this property to <tt>0</tt> will reset the port
11829	number to the default value which is
11830	currently <tt>3389</tt>. Reading this property will always return a
11831	real port number, even after it has been set to <tt>0</tt> (in which
11832	case the default port is returned).
11833	</note>
11834	</desc>
11835	</attribute>
11836
11837	<attribute name="netAddress" type="wstring">
11838	<desc>VRDP server address.</desc>
11839	</attribute>
11840
11841	<attribute name="authType" type="VRDPAuthType">
11842	<desc>VRDP authentication method.</desc>
11843	</attribute>
11844
11845	<attribute name="authTimeout" type="unsigned long">
11846	<desc>Timeout for guest authentication. Milliseconds.</desc>
11847	</attribute>
11848
11849	<attribute name="allowMultiConnection" type="boolean">
11850	<desc>
11851	Flag whether multiple simultaneous connections to the VM are permitted.
11852	Note that this will be replaced by a more powerful mechanism in the future.
11853	</desc>
11854	</attribute>
11855
11856	<attribute name="reuseSingleConnection" type="boolean">
11857	<desc>
11858	Flag whether the existing connection must be dropped and a new connection
11859	must be established by the VRDP server, when a new client connects in single
11860	connection mode.
11861	</desc>
11862	</attribute>
11863
11864	</interface>
11865
11866
11867	<!--
11868	// ISharedFolder
11869	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11870	-->
11871
11872	<interface
11873	name="ISharedFolder" extends="$unknown"
11874	uuid="64637bb2-9e17-471c-b8f3-f8968dd9884e"
11875	wsmap="struct"
11876	>
11877	<desc>
11878	The ISharedFolder interface represents a folder in the host computer's
11879	file system accessible from the guest OS running inside a virtual
11880	machine using an associated logical name.
11881
11882	There are three types of shared folders:
11883	<ul>
11884	<li><i>Global</i> (<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders"/>), shared
11885	folders available to all virtual machines.</li>
11886	<li><i>Permanent</i> (<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/>),
11887	VM-specific shared folders available to the given virtual machine at
11888	startup.</li>
11889	<li><i>Transient</i> (<link to="IConsole::sharedFolders"/>),
11890	VM-specific shared folders created in the session context (for
11891	example, when the virtual machine is running) and automatically
11892	discarded when the session is closed (the VM is powered off).</li>
11893	</ul>
11894
11895	Logical names of shared folders must be unique within the given scope
11896	(global, permanent or transient). However, they do not need to be unique
11897	across scopes. In this case, the definition of the shared folder in a
11898	more specific scope takes precedence over definitions in all other
11899	scopes. The order of precedence is (more specific to more general):
11900	<ol>
11901	<li>Transient definitions</li>
11902	<li>Permanent definitions</li>
11903	<li>Global definitions</li>
11904	</ol>
11905
11906	For example, if MyMachine has a shared folder named
11907	<tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points to <tt>C:\\</tt>), then creating a
11908	transient shared folder named <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points
11909	to <tt>C:\\\\WINDOWS</tt>) will change the definition
11910	of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> in the guest OS so
11911	that <tt>\\\\VBOXSVR\\C_DRIVE</tt> will give access
11912	to <tt>C:\\WINDOWS</tt> instead of <tt>C:\\</tt> on the host
11913	PC. Removing the transient shared folder <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> will restore
11914	the previous (permanent) definition of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> that points
11915	to <tt>C:\\</tt> if it still exists.
11916
11917	Note that permanent and transient shared folders of different machines
11918	are in different name spaces, so they don't overlap and don't need to
11919	have unique logical names.
11920
11921	<note>
11922	Global shared folders are not implemented in the current version of the
11923	product.
11924	</note>
11925	</desc>
11926
11927	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11928	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
11929	</attribute>
11930
11931	<attribute name="hostPath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11932	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
11933	</attribute>
11934
11935	<attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11936	<desc>
11937	Whether the folder defined by the host path is currently
11938	accessible or not.
11939	For example, the folder can be unaccessible if it is placed
11940	on the network share that is not available by the time
11941	this property is read.
11942	</desc>
11943	</attribute>
11944
11945	<attribute name="writable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11946	<desc>
11947	Whether the folder defined by the host path is writable or
11948	not.
11949	</desc>
11950	</attribute>
11951
11952	<attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11953	<desc>
11954	Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
11955	check.
11956
11957	Accessibility checks are performed each time the <link to="#accessible"/>
11958	attribute is read. An empty string is returned if the last
11959	accessibility check was successful. A non-empty string indicates a
11960	failure and should normally describe a reason of the failure (for
11961	example, a file read error).
11962	</desc>
11963	</attribute>
11964
11965	</interface>
11966
11967	<!--
11968	// ISession
11969	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11970	-->
11971
11972	<interface
11973	name="IInternalSessionControl" extends="$unknown"
11974	uuid="e28e19fb-23c2-4d1a-b6bf-ce147fa37b24"
11975	internal="yes"
11976	wsmap="suppress"
11977	>
11978	<method name="getPID">
11979	<desc>PID of the process that has created this Session object.
11980	</desc>
11981	<param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
11982	</method>
11983
11984	<method name="getRemoteConsole">
11985	<desc>
11986	Returns the console object suitable for remote control.
11987
11988	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11989	Session state prevents operation.
11990	</result>
11991	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
11992	Session type prevents operation.
11993	</result>
11994
11995	</desc>
11996	<param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="return"/>
11997	</method>
11998
11999	<method name="assignMachine">
12000	<desc>
12001	Assigns the machine object associated with this direct-type
12002	session or informs the session that it will be a remote one
12003	(if @a machine == @c null).
12004
12005	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12006	Session state prevents operation.
12007	</result>
12008	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12009	Session type prevents operation.
12010	</result>
12011
12012	</desc>
12013	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
12014	</method>
12015
12016	<method name="assignRemoteMachine">
12017	<desc>
12018	Assigns the machine and the (remote) console object associated with
12019	this remote-type session.
12020
12021	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12022	Session state prevents operation.
12023	</result>
12024
12025	</desc>
12026	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
12027	<param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="in"/>
12028	</method>
12029
12030	<method name="updateMachineState">
12031	<desc>
12032	Updates the machine state in the VM process.
12033	Must be called only in certain cases
12034	(see the method implementation).
12035
12036	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12037	Session state prevents operation.
12038	</result>
12039	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12040	Session type prevents operation.
12041	</result>
12042
12043	</desc>
12044	<param name="aMachineState" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
12045	</method>
12046
12047	<method name="uninitialize">
12048	<desc>
12049	Uninitializes (closes) this session. Used by VirtualBox to close
12050	the corresponding remote session when the direct session dies
12051	or gets closed.
12052
12053	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12054	Session state prevents operation.
12055	</result>
12056
12057	</desc>
12058	</method>
12059
12060	<method name="onDVDDriveChange">
12061	<desc>
12062	Triggered when settings of the DVD drive object of the
12063	associated virtual machine have changed.
12064
12065	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12066	Session state prevents operation.
12067	</result>
12068	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12069	Session type prevents operation.
12070	</result>
12071
12072	</desc>
12073	</method>
12074
12075	<method name="onFloppyDriveChange">
12076	<desc>
12077	Triggered when settings of the floppy drive object of the
12078	associated virtual machine have changed.
12079
12080	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12081	Session state prevents operation.
12082	</result>
12083	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12084	Session type prevents operation.
12085	</result>
12086
12087	</desc>
12088	</method>
12089
12090	<method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
12091	<desc>
12092	Triggered when settings of a network adapter of the
12093	associated virtual machine have changed.
12094
12095	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12096	Session state prevents operation.
12097	</result>
12098	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12099	Session type prevents operation.
12100	</result>
12101
12102	</desc>
12103	<param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in"/>
12104	<param name="changeAdapter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12105	</method>
12106
12107	<method name="onSerialPortChange">
12108	<desc>
12109	Triggered when settings of a serial port of the
12110	associated virtual machine have changed.
12111
12112	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12113	Session state prevents operation.
12114	</result>
12115	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12116	Session type prevents operation.
12117	</result>
12118
12119	</desc>
12120	<param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in"/>
12121	</method>
12122
12123	<method name="onParallelPortChange">
12124	<desc>
12125	Triggered when settings of a parallel port of the
12126	associated virtual machine have changed.
12127
12128	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12129	Session state prevents operation.
12130	</result>
12131	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12132	Session type prevents operation.
12133	</result>
12134
12135	</desc>
12136	<param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in"/>
12137	</method>
12138
12139	<method name="onStorageControllerChange">
12140	<desc>
12141	Triggered when settings of a storage controller of the
12142	associated virtual machine have changed.
12143
12144	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12145	Session state prevents operation.
12146	</result>
12147	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12148	Session type prevents operation.
12149	</result>
12150
12151	</desc>
12152	</method>
12153
12154	<method name="onVRDPServerChange">
12155	<desc>
12156	Triggered when settings of the VRDP server object of the
12157	associated virtual machine have changed.
12158
12159	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12160	Session state prevents operation.
12161	</result>
12162	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12163	Session type prevents operation.
12164	</result>
12165
12166	</desc>
12167	</method>
12168
12169	<method name="onUSBControllerChange">
12170	<desc>
12171	Triggered when settings of the USB controller object of the
12172	associated virtual machine have changed.
12173
12174	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12175	Session state prevents operation.
12176	</result>
12177	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12178	Session type prevents operation.
12179	</result>
12180
12181	</desc>
12182	</method>
12183
12184	<method name="onSharedFolderChange">
12185	<desc>
12186	Triggered when a permanent (global or machine) shared folder has been
12187	created or removed.
12188	<note>
12189	We don't pass shared folder parameters in this notification because
12190	the order in which parallel notifications are delivered is not defined,
12191	therefore it could happen that these parameters were outdated by the
12192	time of processing this notification.
12193	</note>
12194
12195	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12196	Session state prevents operation.
12197	</result>
12198	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12199	Session type prevents operation.
12200	</result>
12201
12202	</desc>
12203	<param name="global" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12204	</method>
12205
12206	<method name="onUSBDeviceAttach">
12207	<desc>
12208	Triggered when a request to capture a USB device (as a result
12209	of matched USB filters or direct call to
12210	<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
12211	A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
12212	describes a failure.
12213
12214	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12215	Session state prevents operation.
12216	</result>
12217	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12218	Session type prevents operation.
12219	</result>
12220
12221	</desc>
12222	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
12223	<param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
12224	<param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12225	</method>
12226
12227	<method name="onUSBDeviceDetach">
12228	<desc>
12229	Triggered when a request to release the USB device (as a result
12230	of machine termination or direct call to
12231	<link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
12232	A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
12233	describes a failure.
12234
12235	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12236	Session state prevents operation.
12237	</result>
12238	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12239	Session type prevents operation.
12240	</result>
12241
12242	</desc>
12243	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12244	<param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
12245	</method>
12246
12247	<method name="onShowWindow">
12248	<desc>
12249	Called by <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> and by
12250	<link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> in order to notify
12251	console callbacks
12252	<link to="IConsoleCallback::onCanShowWindow"/>
12253	and <link to="IConsoleCallback::onShowWindow"/>.
12254
12255	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12256	Session type prevents operation.
12257	</result>
12258
12259	</desc>
12260	<param name="check" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12261	<param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
12262	<param name="winId" type="unsigned long long" dir="out"/>
12263	</method>
12264
12265	<method name="accessGuestProperty">
12266	<desc>
12267	Called by <link to="IMachine::getGuestProperty"/> and by
12268	<link to="IMachine::setGuestProperty"/> in order to read and
12269	modify guest properties.
12270
12271	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12272	Machine session is not open.
12273	</result>
12274	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12275	Session type is not direct.
12276	</result>
12277
12278	</desc>
12279	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12280	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12281	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12282	<param name="isSetter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12283	<param name="retValue" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
12284	<param name="retTimestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out"/>
12285	<param name="retFlags" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
12286	</method>
12287
12288	<method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
12289	<desc>
12290	Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
12291	with their values, time stamps and flags.
12292
12293	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12294	Machine session is not open.
12295	</result>
12296	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12297	Session type is not direct.
12298	</result>
12299
12300	</desc>
12301	<param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
12302	<desc>
12303	The patterns to match the properties against as a comma-separated
12304	string. If this is empty, all properties currently set will be
12305	returned.
12306	</desc>
12307	</param>
12308	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12309	<desc>
12310	The key names of the properties returned.
12311	</desc>
12312	</param>
12313	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12314	<desc>
12315	The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
12316	corresponding entries in the @a key array.
12317	</desc>
12318	</param>
12319	<param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12320	<desc>
12321	The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
12322	the corresponding entries in the @a key array.
12323	</desc>
12324	</param>
12325	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12326	<desc>
12327	The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
12328	corresponding entries in the @a key array.
12329	</desc>
12330	</param>
12331	</method>
12332
12333	</interface>
12334
12335	<interface
12336	name="ISession" extends="$dispatched"
12337	uuid="12F4DCDB-12B2-4ec1-B7CD-DDD9F6C5BF4D"
12338	wsmap="managed"
12339	>
12340	<desc>
12341	The ISession interface represents a serialization primitive for virtual
12342	machines.
12343
12344	With VirtualBox, every time one wishes to manipulate a virtual machine
12345	(e.g. change its settings or start execution), a session object is
12346	required. Such an object must be passed to one of the session methods
12347	that open the given session, which then initiates the machine manipulation.
12348
12349	A session serves several purposes: it identifies to the inter-process VirtualBox
12350	code which process is currently working with the virtual machine, and it ensures
12351	that there are no incompatible requests from several processes for the
12352	same virtual machine. Session objects can therefore be thought of as mutex
12353	semaphores that lock virtual machines to prevent conflicting accesses from
12354	several processes.
12355
12356	How sessions objects are used depends on whether you use the Main API
12357	via COM or via the webservice:
12358
12359	<ul>
12360	<li>When using the COM API directly, an object of the Session class from the
12361	VirtualBox type library needs to be created. In regular COM C++ client code,
12362	this can be done by calling <tt>createLocalObject()</tt>, a standard COM API.
12363	This object will then act as a local session object in further calls to open
12364	a session.
12365	</li>
12366
12367	<li>In the webservice, the session manager (IWebsessionManager) instead creates
12368	one session object automatically when <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" />
12369	is called. A managed object reference to that session object can be retrieved by
12370	calling <link to="IWebsessionManager::getSessionObject" />. This session object
12371	reference can then be used to open sessions.
12372	</li>
12373	</ul>
12374
12375	Sessions are mainly used in two variations:
12376
12377	<ul>
12378	<li>
12379	To start a virtual machine in a separate process, one would call
12380	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>, which requires a session
12381	object as its first parameter. This session then identifies the caller
12382	and lets him control the started machine (for example, pause machine
12383	execution or power it down) as well as be notified about machine
12384	execution state changes.
12385	</li>
12386
12387	<li>To alter machine settings, or to start machine execution within the
12388	current process, one needs to open a direct session for the machine first by
12389	calling <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>. While a direct session
12390	is open within one process, no any other process may open another direct
12391	session for the same machine. This prevents the machine from being changed
12392	by other processes while it is running or while the machine is being configured.
12393	</li>
12394	</ul>
12395
12396	One also can attach to an existing direct session already opened by
12397	another process (for example, in order to send a control request to the
12398	virtual machine such as the pause or the reset request). This is done by
12399	calling <link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/>.
12400
12401	<note>
12402	Unless you are trying to write a new VirtualBox front-end that
12403	performs direct machine execution (like the VirtualBox or VBoxSDL
12404	front-ends), don't call <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> in a direct
12405	session opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> and use this
12406	session only to change virtual machine settings. If you simply want to
12407	start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
12408	(for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), simply use
12409	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>; these front-ends
12410	will power up the machine automatically for you.
12411	</note>
12412	</desc>
12413
12414	<attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
12415	<desc>Current state of this session.</desc>
12416	</attribute>
12417
12418	<attribute name="type" type="SessionType" readonly="yes">
12419	<desc>
12420	Type of this session. The value of this attribute is valid only
12421	if the session is currently open (i.e. its #state is
12422	SessionType_SessionOpen), otherwise an error will be returned.
12423	</desc>
12424	</attribute>
12425
12426	<attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
12427	<desc>Machine object associated with this session.</desc>
12428	</attribute>
12429
12430	<attribute name="console" type="IConsole" readonly="yes">
12431	<desc>Console object associated with this session.</desc>
12432	</attribute>
12433
12434	<method name="close">
12435	<desc>
12436	Closes a session that was previously opened.
12437
12438	It is recommended that every time an "open session" method (such as
12439	<link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession" /> or
12440	<link to="IVirtualBox::openSession" />) has been called to
12441	manipulate a virtual machine, the caller invoke
12442	ISession::close() when it's done doing so. Since sessions are
12443	serialization primitives much like ordinary mutexes, they are
12444	best used the same way: for each "open" call, there should be
12445	a matching "close" call, even when errors occur.
12446
12447	Otherwise, if a direct session for a machine opened with
12448	<link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> is not explicitly closed
12449	when the application terminates, the state of the machine will
12450	be set to <link to="MachineState_Aborted" /> on the server.
12451
12452	Generally, it is recommended to close all open sessions explicitly
12453	before terminating the application (regardless of the reason for
12454	the termination).
12455
12456	<note>
12457	Do not expect the session state (<link to="ISession::state" />
12458	to return to "Closed" immediately after you invoke
12459	ISession::close(), particularly if you have started a remote
12460	session to execute the VM in a new process. The session state will
12461	automatically return to "Closed" once the VM is no longer executing,
12462	which can of course take a very long time.
12463	</note>
12464
12465	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
12466	Session is not open.
12467	</result>
12468
12469	</desc>
12470	</method>
12471
12472	</interface>
12473
12474	<!--
12475	// IStorageController
12476	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12477	-->
12478
12479	<enum
12480	name="StorageBus"
12481	uuid="f381fdca-5953-41d0-b2bd-0542b012698d"
12482	>
12483	<desc>
12484	The connection type of the storage controller.
12485	</desc>
12486	<const name="Null" value="0">
12487	<desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
12488	</const>
12489	<const name="IDE" value="1"/>
12490	<const name="SATA" value="2"/>
12491	<const name="SCSI" value="3"/>
12492	</enum>
12493
12494	<enum
12495	name="StorageControllerType"
12496	uuid="685387db-a837-4320-a258-08f46a22f62a"
12497	>
12498	<desc>
12499	Storage controller type.
12500	</desc>
12501
12502	<const name="Null" value="0">
12503	<desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
12504	</const>
12505	<const name="LsiLogic" value="1"/>
12506	<const name="BusLogic" value="2"/>
12507	<const name="IntelAhci" value="3"/>
12508	<const name="PIIX3" value="4"/>
12509	<const name="PIIX4" value="5"/>
12510	<const name="ICH6" value="6"/>
12511	</enum>
12512
12513	<interface
12514	name="IStorageController" extends="$unknown"
12515	uuid="6bf8335b-d14a-44a5-9b45-ddc49ce7d5b2"
12516	wsmap="managed"
12517	>
12518	<desc>
12519	Represents a storage controller that is attached to a virtual machine
12520	(<link to="IMachine" />). Just as hard disks are attached to storage
12521	controllers in a real computer, virtual hard disks (represented by
12522	<link to="IHardDisk" />) are attached to virtual storage controllers,
12523	represented by this interface.
12524
12525	VirtualBox supports three types of virtual storage controller hardware:
12526	IDE, SCSI, and SATA (see <link to="#bus" />). Depending on which of
12527	these three is used, certain sub-types are available and can be
12528	selected in <link to="#controllerType" />.
12529	</desc>
12530
12531	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12532	<desc>
12533	Name of the storage controller, as originally specified with
12534	<link to="IMachine::addStorageController" />. This then uniquely
12535	identifies this controller with other method calls such as
12536	<link to="IMachine::attachHardDisk" />.
12537	</desc>
12538	</attribute>
12539
12540	<attribute name="maxDevicesPerPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12541	<desc>
12542	Maximum number of devices which can be attached to one port.
12543	</desc>
12544	</attribute>
12545
12546	<attribute name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12547	<desc>
12548	Minimum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
12549	</desc>
12550	</attribute>
12551
12552	<attribute name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12553	<desc>
12554	Maximum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
12555	</desc>
12556	</attribute>
12557
12558	<attribute name="instance" type="unsigned long">
12559	<desc>
12560	The instance number of the device in the running VM.
12561	</desc>
12562	</attribute>
12563
12564	<attribute name="portCount" type="unsigned long">
12565	<desc>
12566	The number of currently usable ports on the controller.
12567	The minimum and maximum number of ports for one controller are
12568	stored in <link to="IStorageController::minPortCount"/>
12569	and <link to="IStorageController::maxPortCount"/>.
12570	</desc>
12571	</attribute>
12572
12573	<attribute name="bus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
12574	<desc>
12575	The connection type of the storage controller.
12576	</desc>
12577	</attribute>
12578
12579	<attribute name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType">
12580	<desc>
12581	Type of the virtual storage controller. Depending on this value,
12582	VirtualBox will provide a different virtual storage controller hardware
12583	to the guest.
12584
12585	For SCSI controllers, the default type is LsiLogic.
12586	</desc>
12587	</attribute>
12588
12589	<method name="GetIDEEmulationPort">
12590	<desc>
12591	Gets the corresponding port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
12592
12593	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
12594	The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3.
12595	</result>
12596	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
12597	The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
12598	</result>
12599
12600	</desc>
12601	<param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
12602	<param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="return"/>
12603	</method>
12604
12605	<method name="SetIDEEmulationPort">
12606	<desc>
12607	Sets the port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
12608
12609	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
12610	The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3 or the
12611	@a portNumber is not in the range 0 to 29.
12612	</result>
12613	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
12614	The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
12615	</result>
12616
12617	</desc>
12618	<param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
12619	<param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="in"/>
12620	</method>
12621
12622	</interface>
12623
12624	<if target="wsdl">
12625
12626	<!--
12627	// IManagedObjectRef
12628	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12629	-->
12630
12631	<interface
12632	name="IManagedObjectRef" extends="$unknown"
12633	uuid="9474d09d-2313-46de-b568-a42b8718e8ed"
12634	internal="yes"
12635	wsmap="managed"
12636	wscpp="hardcoded"
12637	>
12638	<desc>
12639	Managed object reference.
12640
12641	Only within the webservice, a managed object reference (which is really
12642	an opaque number) allows a webservice client to address an object
12643	that lives in the address space of the webservice server.
12644
12645	Behind each managed object reference, there is a COM object that lives
12646	in the webservice server's address space. The COM object is not freed
12647	until the managed object reference is released, either by an explicit
12648	call to <link to="IManagedObjectRef::release" /> or by logging off from
12649	the webservice (<link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />), which releases
12650	all objects created during the webservice session.
12651
12652	Whenever a method call of the VirtualBox API returns a COM object, the
12653	webservice representation of that method will instead return a
12654	managed object reference, which can then be used to invoke methods
12655	on that object.
12656	</desc>
12657
12658	<method name="getInterfaceName">
12659	<desc>
12660	Returns the name of the interface that this managed object represents,
12661	for example, "IMachine", as a string.
12662	</desc>
12663	<param name="return" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
12664	</method>
12665
12666	<method name="release">
12667	<desc>
12668	Releases this managed object reference and frees the resources that
12669	were allocated for it in the webservice server process. After calling
12670	this method, the identifier of the reference can no longer be used.
12671	</desc>
12672	</method>
12673
12674	</interface>
12675
12676	<!--
12677	// IWebsessionManager
12678	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12679	-->
12680
12681	<interface
12682	name="IWebsessionManager" extends="$unknown"
12683	uuid="dea1b4c7-2de3-418a-850d-7868617f7733"
12684	internal="yes"
12685	wsmap="global"
12686	wscpp="hardcoded"
12687	>
12688	<desc>
12689	Websession manager. This provides essential services
12690	to webservice clients.
12691	</desc>
12692	<method name="logon">
12693	<desc>
12694	Logs a new client onto the webservice and returns a managed object reference to
12695	the IVirtualBox instance, which the client can then use as a basis to further
12696	queries, since all calls to the VirtualBox API are based on the IVirtualBox
12697	interface, in one way or the other.
12698	</desc>
12699	<param name="username" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12700	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12701	<param name="return" type="IVirtualBox" dir="return"/>
12702	</method>
12703
12704	<method name="getSessionObject">
12705	<desc>
12706	Returns a managed object reference to the internal ISession object that was created
12707	for this web service session when the client logged on.
12708
12709	<see>ISession</see>
12710	</desc>
12711	<param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
12712	<param name="return" type="ISession" dir="return"/>
12713	</method>
12714
12715	<method name="logoff">
12716	<desc>
12717	Logs off the client who has previously logged on with <link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />
12718	and destroys all resources associated with the session (most importantly, all
12719	managed objects created in the server while the session was active).
12720	</desc>
12721	<param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
12722	</method>
12723
12724	</interface>
12725
12726	</if>
12727
12728	<!--
12729	// IPerformanceCollector & friends
12730	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12731	-->
12732
12733	<interface
12734	name="IPerformanceMetric" extends="$unknown"
12735	uuid="2a1a60ae-9345-4019-ad53-d34ba41cbfe9" wsmap="managed"
12736	>
12737	<desc>
12738	The IPerformanceMetric interface represents parameters of the given
12739	performance metric.
12740	</desc>
12741
12742	<attribute name="metricName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12743	<desc>
12744	Name of the metric.
12745	</desc>
12746	</attribute>
12747
12748	<attribute name="object" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
12749	<desc>
12750	Object this metric belongs to.
12751	</desc>
12752	</attribute>
12753
12754	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12755	<desc>
12756	Textual description of the metric.
12757	</desc>
12758	</attribute>
12759
12760	<attribute name="period" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12761	<desc>
12762	Time interval between samples, measured in seconds.
12763	</desc>
12764	</attribute>
12765
12766	<attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12767	<desc>
12768	Number of recent samples retained by the performance collector for this
12769	metric.
12770
12771	When the collected sample count exceeds this number, older samples
12772	are discarded.
12773	</desc>
12774	</attribute>
12775
12776	<attribute name="unit" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12777	<desc>
12778	Unit of measurement.
12779	</desc>
12780	</attribute>
12781
12782	<attribute name="minimumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
12783	<desc>
12784	Minimum possible value of this metric.
12785	</desc>
12786	</attribute>
12787
12788	<attribute name="maximumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
12789	<desc>
12790	Maximum possible value of this metric.
12791	</desc>
12792	</attribute>
12793	</interface>
12794
12795	<interface
12796	name="IPerformanceCollector" extends="$unknown"
12797	uuid="e22e1acb-ac4a-43bb-a31c-17321659b0c6"
12798	wsmap="managed"
12799	>
12800	<desc>
12801	The IPerformanceCollector interface represents a service that collects and
12802	stores performance metrics data.
12803
12804	Performance metrics are associated with objects of interfaces like IHost and
12805	IMachine. Each object has a distinct set of performance metrics.
12806	The set can be obtained with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/>.
12807
12808	Metric data is collected at the specified intervals and is retained
12809	internally. The interval and the number of retained samples can be set
12810	with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />.
12811
12812	Metrics are organized hierarchically, with each level separated by a
12813	slash (/) character. Generally, the scheme for metric names is like this:
12814
12815	<tt>Category/Metric[/SubMetric][:aggregation]</tt>
12816
12817	"Category/Metric" together form the base metric name. A base metric is the
12818	smallest unit for which a sampling interval and the number of retained
12819	samples can be set. Only base metrics can be enabled and disabled. All
12820	sub-metrics are collected when their base metric is collected.
12821	Collected values for any set of sub-metrics can be queried with
12822	<link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />.
12823
12824	For example "CPU/Load/User:avg"
12825	metric name stands for the "CPU" category, "Load" metric, "User" submetric,
12826	"average" aggregate. An aggregate function is computed over all retained
12827	data. Valid aggregate functions are:
12828
12829	<ul>
12830	<li>avg -- average</li>
12831	<li>min -- minimum</li>
12832	<li>max -- maximum</li>
12833	</ul>
12834
12835	When setting up
12836	metric parameters, querying metric data, enabling or disabling metrics
12837	wildcards can be used in metric names to specify a subset of metrics. For
12838	example, to select all CPU-related metrics use <tt>CPU/*</tt>, all
12839	averages can be queried using <tt>*:avg</tt> and so on. To query metric
12840	values without aggregates <tt>*:</tt> can be used.
12841
12842	The valid names for base metrics are:
12843
12844	<ul>
12845	<li>CPU/Load</li>
12846	<li>CPU/MHz</li>
12847	<li>RAM/Usage</li>
12848	</ul>
12849
12850	The general sequence for collecting and retrieving the metrics is:
12851	<ul>
12852	<li>
12853	Obtain an instance of IPerformanceCollector with
12854	<link to="IVirtualBox::performanceCollector" />
12855	</li>
12856	<li>
12857	Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metrics
12858	will be collected for. Use references to IHost and IMachine objects.
12859	</li>
12860	<li>
12861	Allocate and populate an array with base metric names the data will be
12862	collected for.
12863	</li>
12864	<li>
12865	Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. From now on the
12866	metric data will be collected and stored.
12867	</li>
12868	<li>
12869	Wait for the data to get collected.
12870	</li>
12871	<li>
12872	Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metric
12873	values will be queried for. You can re-use the object array used for
12874	setting base metrics.
12875	</li>
12876	<li>
12877	Allocate and populate an array with metric names the data will be
12878	collected for. Note that metric names differ from base metric names.
12879	</li>
12880	<li>
12881	Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />. The data that
12882	have been collected so far are returned. Note that the values are still
12883	retained internally and data collection continues.
12884	</li>
12885	</ul>
12886
12887	For an example of usage refer to the following files in VirtualBox SDK:
12888	<ul>
12889	<li>
12890	Java: <tt>bindings/webservice/java/jax-ws/samples/metrictest.java</tt>
12891	</li>
12892	<li>
12893	Python: <tt>bindings/xpcom/python/sample/shellcommon.py</tt>
12894	</li>
12895	</ul>
12896	</desc>
12897
12898	<attribute name="metricNames" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
12899	<desc>
12900	Array of unique names of metrics.
12901
12902	This array represents all metrics supported by the performance
12903	collector. Individual objects do not necessarily support all of them.
12904	<link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/> can be used to get the
12905	list of supported metrics for a particular object.
12906	</desc>
12907	</attribute>
12908
12909	<method name="getMetrics">
12910	<desc>
12911	Returns parameters of specified metrics for a set of objects.
12912	<note>
12913	@c Null metrics array means all metrics. @c Null object array means
12914	all existing objects.
12915	</note>
12916	</desc>
12917	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12918	<desc>
12919	Metric name filter. Currently, only a comma-separated list of metrics
12920	is supported.
12921	</desc>
12922	</param>
12923	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12924	<desc>
12925	Set of objects to return metric parameters for.
12926	</desc>
12927	</param>
12928	<param name="metrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
12929	<desc>
12930	Array of returned metric parameters.
12931	</desc>
12932	</param>
12933	</method>
12934
12935	<method name="setupMetrics">
12936	<desc>
12937	Sets parameters of specified base metrics for a set of objects. Returns
12938	an array of <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have
12939	been affected.
12940	<note>
12941	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
12942	object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
12943	a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
12944	name array element is applied to each object array element to form
12945	metric/object pairs.
12946	</note>
12947	</desc>
12948	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12949	<desc>
12950	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
12951	support.
12952	</desc>
12953	</param>
12954	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12955	<desc>
12956	Set of objects to setup metric parameters for.
12957	</desc>
12958	</param>
12959	<param name="period" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12960	<desc>
12961	Time interval in seconds between two consecutive samples of performance
12962	data.
12963	</desc>
12964	</param>
12965	<param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12966	<desc>
12967	Number of samples to retain in performance data history. Older samples
12968	get discarded.
12969	</desc>
12970	</param>
12971	<param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
12972	<desc>
12973	Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
12974	</desc>
12975	</param>
12976	</method>
12977
12978	<method name="enableMetrics">
12979	<desc>
12980	Turns on collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
12981	<link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
12982	affected.
12983	<note>
12984	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
12985	object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
12986	a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
12987	name array element is applied to each object array element to form
12988	metric/object pairs.
12989	</note>
12990	</desc>
12991	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12992	<desc>
12993	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
12994	support.
12995	</desc>
12996	</param>
12997	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12998	<desc>
12999	Set of objects to enable metrics for.
13000	</desc>
13001	</param>
13002	<param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13003	<desc>
13004	Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13005	</desc>
13006	</param>
13007	</method>
13008
13009	<method name="disableMetrics">
13010	<desc>
13011	Turns off collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
13012	<link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
13013	affected.
13014	<note>
13015	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
13016	object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
13017	a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
13018	name array element is applied to each object array element to form
13019	metric/object pairs.
13020	</note>
13021	</desc>
13022	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13023	<desc>
13024	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13025	support.
13026	</desc>
13027	</param>
13028	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13029	<desc>
13030	Set of objects to disable metrics for.
13031	</desc>
13032	</param>
13033	<param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13034	<desc>
13035	Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13036	</desc>
13037	</param>
13038	</method>
13039
13040	<method name="queryMetricsData">
13041	<desc>
13042	Queries collected metrics data for a set of objects.
13043
13044	The data itself and related metric information are returned in seven
13045	parallel and one flattened array of arrays. Elements of
13046	<tt>returnMetricNames, returnObjects, returnUnits, returnScales,
13047	returnSequenceNumbers, returnDataIndices and returnDataLengths</tt> with
13048	the same index describe one set of values corresponding to a single
13049	metric.
13050
13051	The <tt>returnData</tt> parameter is a flattened array of arrays. Each
13052	start and length of a sub-array is indicated by
13053	<tt>returnDataIndices</tt> and <tt>returnDataLengths</tt>. The first
13054	value for metric <tt>metricNames[i]</tt> is at
13055	<tt>returnData[returnIndices[i]]</tt>.
13056
13057	<note>
13058	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
13059	object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
13060	a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
13061	name array element is applied to each object array element to form
13062	metric/object pairs.
13063	</note>
13064	<note>
13065	Data collection continues behind the scenes after call to
13066	@c queryMetricsData. The return data can be seen as the snapshot of
13067	the current state at the time of @c queryMetricsData call. The
13068	internally kept metric values are not cleared by the call. This makes
13069	possible querying different subsets of metrics or aggregates with
13070	subsequent calls. If periodic querying is needed it is highly
13071	suggested to query the values with @c interval*count period to avoid
13072	confusion. This way a completely new set of data values will be
13073	provided by each query.
13074	</note>
13075	</desc>
13076	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13077	<desc>
13078	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13079	support.
13080	</desc>
13081	</param>
13082	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13083	<desc>
13084	Set of objects to query metrics for.
13085	</desc>
13086	</param>
13087	<param name="returnMetricNames" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13088	<desc>
13089	Names of metrics returned in @c returnData.
13090	</desc>
13091	</param>
13092	<param name="returnObjects" type="$unknown" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13093	<desc>
13094	Objects associated with metrics returned in @c returnData.
13095	</desc>
13096	</param>
13097	<param name="returnUnits" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13098	<desc>
13099	Units of measurement for each returned metric.
13100	</desc>
13101	</param>
13102	<param name="returnScales" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13103	<desc>
13104	Divisor that should be applied to return values in order to get
13105	floating point values. For example:
13106	<tt>(double)returnData[returnDataIndices[0]+i] / returnScales[0]</tt>
13107	will retrieve the floating point value of i-th sample of the first
13108	metric.
13109	</desc>
13110	</param>
13111	<param name="returnSequenceNumbers" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13112	<desc>
13113	Sequence numbers of the first elements of value sequences of particular metrics
13114	returned in @c returnData. For aggregate metrics it is the sequence number of
13115	the sample the aggregate started calculation from.
13116	</desc>
13117	</param>
13118	<param name="returnDataIndices" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13119	<desc>
13120	Indices of the first elements of value sequences of particular metrics
13121	returned in @c returnData.
13122	</desc>
13123	</param>
13124	<param name="returnDataLengths" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13125	<desc>
13126	Lengths of value sequences of particular metrics.
13127	</desc>
13128	</param>
13129	<param name="returnData" type="long" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13130	<desc>
13131	Flattened array of all metric data containing sequences of values for
13132	each metric.
13133	</desc>
13134	</param>
13135	</method>
13136
13137	</interface>
13138
13139	<module name="VBoxSVC" context="LocalServer">
13140	<class name="VirtualBox" uuid="B1A7A4F2-47B9-4A1E-82B2-07CCD5323C3F"
13141	namespace="virtualbox.org">
13142	<interface name="IVirtualBox" default="yes"/>
13143	</class>
13144	</module>
13145
13146	<module name="VBoxC" context="InprocServer" threadingModel="Free">
13147	<class name="Session" uuid="3C02F46D-C9D2-4F11-A384-53F0CF917214"
13148	namespace="virtualbox.org">
13149	<interface name="ISession" default="yes"/>
13150	</class>
13151	<class name="CallbackWrapper" uuid="49EE8561-5563-4715-B18C-A4B1A490DAFE"
13152	namespace="virtualbox.org">
13153	<interface name="ILocalOwner" default="yes"/>
13154	<interface name="IVirtualBoxCallback"/>
13155	<interface name="IConsoleCallback"/>
13156	</class>
13157	</module>
13158
13159	</library>
13160
13161	</idl>
13162
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