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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="52bd6f5f-1adb-4493-975d-581a9c4b803f"
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>Settings version "1.3", written by VirtualBox 2.0.12.</desc>
406 <!--
407 Machine XML: Capitalization of Uart, Lpt elements and many attributes changed.
408 -->
409 </const>
410 <const name="v1_4" value="6">
411 <desc>Intermediate settings version, understood by VirtualBox 2.1.x.</desc>
412 <!--
413 VirtualBox.xml: big DiskRegistry -> MediaRegistry revamp, various HardDisk types merged
414 (was VirtualDiskImage, VMDKImage, VHDImage, ISCSIHardDisk, CustomHardDisk, DiffHardDisk)
415 -->
416 </const>
417 <const name="v1_5" value="7">
418 <desc>Intermediate settings version, understood by VirtualBox 2.1.x.</desc>
419 <!-- 2008-09-04: 2.0.0 released
420 2008-11-20: settings version 1.5 introduced
421 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
422 Machine changes:
423 guest OS identifiers changed;
424 Machine/Hardware/Display/MonitorCount renamed to monitorCount;
425 Machine/Hardware/Display/Accelerate3D renamed to accelerate3D;
426 Machine/Hardware/CPU/CPUCount/@count changed to CPU/@count
427 -->
428 </const>
429 <const name="v1_6" value="8">
430 <desc>Settings version "1.6", written by VirtualBox 2.1.4 (at least).</desc>
431 <!-- 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
432 2008-12-19: settings version 1.6 introduced (is in 2.1 branch)
433 2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
434 Machine changes: remove all Machine/Hardware/Network/Adapter/HostInterface[@TAPSetup or @TAPTerminate]/ attributes (done)
435 -->
436 </const>
437 <const name="v1_7" value="9">
438 <desc>Settings version "1.7", written by VirtualBox 2.2.x and 3.0.x.</desc>
439 <!-- 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
440 2009-03-11: settings version 1.7 introduced (is in 2.2 branch)
441 2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
442 VirtualBox.xml additions: NetserviceRegistry with DHCPServers (done)
443 Machine changes: HardDiskAttachments is now StorageControllers (done)
444 -->
445 </const>
446 <const name="v1_8" value="10">
447 <desc>Intermediate settings version "1.8", understood by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
448 <!-- Machine additions: Display/@accelerate2DVideo (done)
449 -->
450 </const>
451 <const name="v1_9" value="11">
452 <desc>Settings version "1.9", written by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
453 <!-- The big storage controller / DVD / Floppy rework (done)
454 -->
455 </const>
456 <const name="Future" value="12">
457 <desc>Settings version greater than "1.9", written by a future VirtualBox version.</desc>
458 </const>
459 </enum>
460
461 <enum
462 name="AccessMode"
463 uuid="1da0007c-ddf7-4be8-bcac-d84a1558785f"
464 >
465 <desc>
466 Access mode for opening files.
467 </desc>
468
469 <const name="ReadOnly" value="1"/>
470 <const name="ReadWrite" value="2"/>
471 </enum>
472
473 <enum
474 name="MachineState"
475 uuid="36518cf6-cdf0-4d0d-ad2a-5ee9c60c7494"
476 >
477 <desc>
478 Virtual machine execution state.
479
480 This enumeration represents possible values of the <link
481 to="IMachine::state"/> attribute.
482
483 Below is the basic virtual machine state diagram. It shows how the state
484 changes during virtual machine execution. The text in square braces shows
485 a method of the IConsole interface that performs the given state
486 transition.
487
488 <pre>
489 +---------[powerDown()] &lt;- Stuck &lt;--[failure]-+
490 V |
491 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+--&gt;[powerUp()]--&gt; Starting --+ | +-----[resume()]-----+
492 | | | | V |
493 | Aborted -----+ +--&gt; Running --[pause()]--&gt; Paused
494 | | ^ | ^ |
495 | Saved -----------[powerUp()]--&gt; Restoring -+ | | | |
496 | ^ | | | |
497 | | +-----------------------------------------+-|-------------------+ +
498 | | | | |
499 | | +-- Saving &lt;--------[takeSnapshot()]&lt;-------+---------------------+
500 | | | |
501 | +-------- Saving &lt;--------[saveState()]&lt;----------+---------------------+
502 | | |
503 +-------------- Stopping -------[powerDown()]&lt;----------+---------------------+
504 </pre>
505
506 Note that states to the right from PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved in the
507 above diagram are called <i>online VM states</i>. These states
508 represent the virtual machine which is being executed in a dedicated
509 process (usually with a GUI window attached to it where you can see the
510 activity of the virtual machine and interact with it). There are two
511 special pseudo-states, FirstOnline and LastOnline, that can be used in
512 relational expressions to detect if the given machine state is online or
513 not:
514
515 <pre>
516 if (machine.GetState() &gt;= MachineState_FirstOnline &amp;&amp;
517 machine.GetState() &lt;= MachineState_LastOnline)
518 {
519 ...the machine is being executed...
520 }
521 </pre>
522
523 When the virtual machine is in one of the online VM states (that is, being
524 executed), only a few machine settings can be modified. Methods working
525 with such settings contain an explicit note about that. An attempt to
526 change any oter setting or perform a modifying operation during this time
527 will result in the <link to="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE"/> error.
528
529 All online states except Running, Paused and Stuck are transitional: they
530 represent temporary conditions of the virtual machine that will last as
531 long as the operation that initiated such a condition.
532
533 The Stuck state is a special case. It means that execution of the machine
534 has reached the "Guru Meditation" condition. This condition indicates an
535 internal VMM (virtual machine manager) failure which may happen as a
536 result of either an unhandled low-level virtual hardware exception or one
537 of the recompiler exceptions (such as the <i>too-many-traps</i>
538 condition).
539
540 Note also that any online VM state may transit to the Aborted state. This
541 happens if the process that is executing the virtual machine terminates
542 unexpectedly (for example, crashes). Other than that, the Aborted state is
543 equivalent to PoweredOff.
544
545 There are also a few additional state diagrams that do not deal with
546 virtual machine execution and therefore are shown separately. The states
547 shown on these diagrams are called <i>offline VM states</i> (this includes
548 PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved too).
549
550 The first diagram shows what happens when a lengthy setup operation is
551 being executed (such as <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>).
552
553 <pre>
554 +----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
555 | |
556 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+ |
557 | | |
558 |-&gt; Aborted -----+--&gt;[lengthy VM configuration call] --&gt; SettingUp -----+
559 | |
560 +-&gt; Saved -------+
561 </pre>
562
563 The next two diagrams demonstrate the process of taking a snapshot of a
564 powered off virtual machine and performing one of the "discard..."
565 operations, respectively.
566
567 <pre>
568 +----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
569 | |
570 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+ |
571 | +--&gt;[takeSnapshot()] -------------------&gt; Saving ------+
572 +-&gt; Aborted -----+
573
574 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+
575 | |
576 | Aborted -----+--&gt;[restoreSnapshot() ]-------&gt; RestoringSnapshot -+
577 | | [deleteSnapshot() ]-------&gt; DeletingSnapshot --+
578 +-&gt; Saved -------+ |
579 | |
580 +---(Saved if restored from an online snapshot, PoweredOff otherwise)---+
581 </pre>
582
583 Note that the Saving state is present in both the offline state group and
584 online state group. Currently, the only way to determine what group is
585 assumed in a particular case is to remember the previous machine state: if
586 it was Running or Paused, then Saving is an online state, otherwise it is
587 an offline state. This inconsistency may be removed in one of the future
588 versions of VirtualBox by adding a new state.
589
590 <note internal="yes">
591 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
592 comparisons involving FirstOnline and LastOnline pseudo-states valid,
593 the numeric values of these states must be correspondingly updated if
594 needed: for any online VM state, the condition
595 <tt>FirstOnline &lt;= state &lt;= LastOnline</tt> must be
596 @c true. The same relates to transient states for which
597 the condition <tt>FirstOnline &lt;= state &lt;= LastOnline</tt> must be
598 @c true.
599 </note>
600 </desc>
601
602 <const name="Null" value="0">
603 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
604 </const>
605 <const name="PoweredOff" value="1">
606 <desc>
607 The machine is not running and has no saved execution state; it has
608 either never been started or been shut down successfully.
609 </desc>
610 </const>
611 <const name="Saved" value="2">
612 <desc>
613 The machine is not currently running, but the execution state of the machine
614 has been saved to an external file when it was running, from where
615 it can be resumed.
616 </desc>
617 </const>
618 <const name="Teleported" value="3">
619 <desc>
620 The machine was teleported to a different host (or process) and then
621 powered off. Take care when powering it on again may corrupt resources
622 it shares with the teleportation target (e.g. disk and network).
623 </desc>
624 </const>
625 <const name="Aborted" value="4">
626 <desc>
627 The process running the machine has terminated abnormally. This may
628 indicate a crash of the VM process in host execution context, or
629 the VM process has been terminated externally.
630 </desc>
631 </const>
632 <const name="Running" value="5">
633 <desc>
634 The machine is currently being executed.
635 <note internal="yes">
636 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
637 comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
638 precede the Paused state.
639 TODO: Lift this spectacularly wonderful restriction.
640 </note>
641 </desc>
642 </const>
643 <const name="Paused" value="6">
644 <desc>
645 Execution of the machine has been paused.
646 <note internal="yes">
647 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
648 comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
649 follow the Running state.
650 TODO: Lift this spectacularly wonderful restriction.
651 </note>
652 </desc>
653 </const>
654 <const name="Stuck" value="7">
655 <desc>
656 Execution of the machine has reached the "Guru Meditation"
657 condition. This indicates a severe error in the hypervisor itself.
658 <note internal="yes">
659 bird: Why this uncool name? Could we rename it to "GuruMeditation" or
660 "Guru", perhaps? Or are there some other VMM states that are
661 intended to be lumped in here as well?
662 </note>
663 </desc>
664 </const>
665 <const name="Teleporting" value="8">
666 <desc>
667 The machine is about to be teleported to a different host or process.
668 It is possible to pause a machine in this state, but it will go to the
669 <link to="MachineState::PausedTeleporting"/> state and it will not be
670 possible to resume it again unless the teleportation fails.
671 </desc>
672 </const>
673 <const name="LiveSnapshotting" value="9">
674 <desc>
675 A live snapshot is being taken. The machine is running normally, but
676 some of the runtime configuration options are inaccessible. Also, if
677 paused while in this state it will transition to
678 <link to="MachineState::Saving"/> and it will not be resume the
679 execution until the snapshot operation has completed.
680 </desc>
681 </const>
682 <const name="Starting" value="10">
683 <desc>
684 Machine is being started after powering it on from a
685 zero execution state.
686 </desc>
687 </const>
688 <const name="Stopping" value="11">
689 <desc>
690 Machine is being normally stopped powering it off, or after the guest OS
691 has initiated a shutdown sequence.
692 </desc>
693 </const>
694 <const name="Saving" value="12">
695 <desc>
696 Machine is saving its execution state to a file, or an online
697 snapshot of the machine is being taken.
698 </desc>
699 </const>
700 <const name="Restoring" value="13">
701 <desc>
702 Execution state of the machine is being restored from a file
703 after powering it on from the saved execution state.
704 </desc>
705 </const>
706 <const name="TeleportingPausedVM" value="14">
707 <desc>
708 The machine is being teleported to another host or process, but it is
709 not running. This is the paused variant of the
710 <link to="MachineState::Teleporting"/> state.
711 </desc>
712 </const>
713 <const name="TeleportingIn" value="15">
714 <desc>
715 Teleporting the machine state in from another host or process.
716 </desc>
717 </const>
718 <const name="RestoringSnapshot" value="16">
719 <desc>
720 A machine snapshot is being restored; this typically does not take long.
721 </desc>
722 </const>
723 <const name="DeletingSnapshot" value="17">
724 <desc>
725 A machine snapshot is being deleted; this can take a long time since this
726 may require merging differencing media.
727 </desc>
728 </const>
729 <const name="SettingUp" value="18">
730 <desc>
731 Lengthy setup operation is in progress.
732 </desc>
733 </const>
734
735 <const name="FirstOnline" value="5" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Running -->
736 <desc>
737 Pseudo-state: first online state (for use in relational expressions).
738 </desc>
739 </const>
740 <const name="LastOnline" value="13" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- TeleportingIn -->
741 <desc>
742 Pseudo-state: last online state (for use in relational expressions).
743 </desc>
744 </const>
745
746 <const name="FirstTransient" value="8" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Teleporting -->
747 <desc>
748 Pseudo-state: first transient state (for use in relational expressions).
749 </desc>
750 </const>
751 <const name="LastTransient" value="18" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- SettingUp -->
752 <desc>
753 Pseudo-state: last transient state (for use in relational expressions).
754 </desc>
755 </const>
756
757 </enum>
758
759 <enum
760 name="SessionState"
761 uuid="cf2700c0-ea4b-47ae-9725-7810114b94d8"
762 >
763 <desc>
764 Session state. This enumeration represents possible values of
765 <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/> and <link to="ISession::state"/>
766 attributes. See individual enumerator descriptions for the meaning for
767 every value.
768 </desc>
769
770 <const name="Null" value="0">
771 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
772 </const>
773 <const name="Closed" value="1">
774 <desc>
775 The machine has no open sessions (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
776 the session is closed (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
777 </desc>
778 </const>
779 <const name="Open" value="2">
780 <desc>
781 The machine has an open direct session (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
782 the session is open (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
783 </desc>
784 </const>
785 <const name="Spawning" value="3">
786 <desc>
787 A new (direct) session is being opened for the machine as a result of
788 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> call
789 (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/> or <link to="ISession::state"/>).
790 This state also occurs as a short transient state when a new direct
791 session is opened by calling <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>.
792 </desc>
793 </const>
794 <const name="Closing" value="4">
795 <desc>
796 The direct session is being closed (<link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>);
797 the session is being closed (<link to="ISession::state"/>)
798 </desc>
799 </const>
800 </enum>
801
802 <enum
803 name="CpuPropertyType"
804 uuid="af7bb668-eeb1-4404-b77f-a114b30c92d6"
805 >
806 <desc>
807 Virtual CPU property type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
808 IMachine get- and setCpuProperty methods.
809 </desc>
810 <const name="Null" value="0">
811 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
812 </const>
813 <const name="PAE" value="1">
814 <desc>
815 This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose the Physical Address
816 Extension (PAE) feature of the host CPU to the guest. Note that in case PAE
817 is not available, it will not be reported.
818 </desc>
819 </const>
820 <const name="Synthetic" value="2">
821 <desc>
822 This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose a synthetic CPU to the guest to allow
823 teleporting between host systems that differ significantly.
824 </desc>
825 </const>
826 </enum>
827
828
829 <enum
830 name="HWVirtExPropertyType"
831 uuid="ce81dfdd-d2b8-4a90-bbea-40ee8b7ffcee"
832 >
833 <desc>
834 Hardware virtualization property type. This enumeration represents possible values
835 for the <link to="IMachine::getHWVirtExProperty"/> and
836 <link to="IMachine::setHWVirtExProperty"/> methods.
837 </desc>
838 <const name="Null" value="0">
839 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
840 </const>
841 <const name="Enabled" value="1">
842 <desc>
843 Whether hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) is enabled at all. If
844 such extensions are not available, they will not be used.
845 </desc>
846 </const>
847 <const name="Exclusive" value="2">
848 <desc>
849 Whether hardware virtualization is used exclusively by VirtualBox. When enabled,
850 VirtualBox assumes it can acquire full and exclusive access to the VT-x or AMD-V
851 feature of the host. To share these with other hypervisors, you must disable this property.
852 </desc>
853 </const>
854 <const name="VPID" value="3">
855 <desc>
856 Whether VT-x VPID is enabled. If this extension is not available, it will not be used.
857 </desc>
858 </const>
859 <const name="NestedPaging" value="4">
860 <desc>
861 Whether Nested Paging is enabled. If this extension is not available, it will not be used.
862 </desc>
863 </const>
864 </enum>
865
866 <enum
867 name="SessionType"
868 uuid="A13C02CB-0C2C-421E-8317-AC0E8AAA153A"
869 >
870 <desc>
871 Session type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
872 <link to="ISession::type"/> attribute.
873 </desc>
874
875 <const name="Null" value="0">
876 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
877 </const>
878 <const name="Direct" value="1">
879 <desc>
880 Direct session
881 (opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>)
882 </desc>
883 </const>
884 <const name="Remote" value="2">
885 <desc>
886 Remote session
887 (opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>)
888 </desc>
889 </const>
890 <const name="Existing" value="3">
891 <desc>
892 Existing session
893 (opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/>)
894 </desc>
895 </const>
896 </enum>
897
898 <enum
899 name="DeviceType"
900 uuid="6d9420f7-0b56-4636-99f9-7346f1b01e57"
901 >
902 <desc>
903 Device type.
904 </desc>
905 <const name="Null" value="0">
906 <desc>
907 Null value, may also mean "no device" (not allowed for
908 <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>).
909 </desc>
910 </const>
911 <const name="Floppy" value="1">
912 <desc>Floppy device.</desc>
913 </const>
914 <const name="DVD" value="2">
915 <desc>CD/DVD-ROM device.</desc>
916 </const>
917 <const name="HardDisk" value="3">
918 <desc>Hard disk device.</desc>
919 </const>
920 <const name="Network" value="4">
921 <desc>Network device.</desc>
922 </const>
923 <const name="USB" value="5">
924 <desc>USB device.</desc>
925 </const>
926 <const name="SharedFolder" value="6">
927 <desc>Shared folder device.</desc>
928 </const>
929 </enum>
930
931 <enum
932 name="DeviceActivity"
933 uuid="6FC8AEAA-130A-4eb5-8954-3F921422D707"
934 >
935 <desc>
936 Device activity for <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>.
937 </desc>
938
939 <const name="Null" value="0"/>
940 <const name="Idle" value="1"/>
941 <const name="Reading" value="2"/>
942 <const name="Writing" value="3"/>
943 </enum>
944
945 <enum
946 name="ClipboardMode"
947 uuid="33364716-4008-4701-8f14-be0fa3d62950"
948 >
949 <desc>
950 Host-Guest clipboard interchange mode.
951 </desc>
952
953 <const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
954 <const name="HostToGuest" value="1"/>
955 <const name="GuestToHost" value="2"/>
956 <const name="Bidirectional" value="3"/>
957 </enum>
958
959 <enum
960 name="Scope"
961 uuid="7c91096e-499e-4eca-9f9b-9001438d7855"
962 >
963 <desc>
964 Scope of the operation.
965
966 A generic enumeration used in various methods to define the action or
967 argument scope.
968 </desc>
969
970 <const name="Global" value="0"/>
971 <const name="Machine" value="1"/>
972 <const name="Session" value="2"/>
973 </enum>
974
975 <enum
976 name="GuestStatisticType"
977 uuid="aa7c1d71-aafe-47a8-9608-27d2d337cf55"
978 >
979 <desc>
980 Statistics type for <link to="IGuest::getStatistic"/>.
981 </desc>
982
983 <const name="CPULoad_Idle" value="0">
984 <desc>
985 Idle CPU load (0-100%) for last interval.
986 </desc>
987 </const>
988 <const name="CPULoad_Kernel" value="1">
989 <desc>
990 Kernel CPU load (0-100%) for last interval.
991 </desc>
992 </const>
993 <const name="CPULoad_User" value="2">
994 <desc>
995 User CPU load (0-100%) for last interval.
996 </desc>
997 </const>
998 <const name="Threads" value="3">
999 <desc>
1000 Total number of threads in the system.
1001 </desc>
1002 </const>
1003 <const name="Processes" value="4">
1004 <desc>
1005 Total number of processes in the system.
1006 </desc>
1007 </const>
1008 <const name="Handles" value="5">
1009 <desc>
1010 Total number of handles in the system.
1011 </desc>
1012 </const>
1013 <const name="MemoryLoad" value="6">
1014 <desc>
1015 Memory load (0-100%).
1016 </desc>
1017 </const>
1018 <const name="PhysMemTotal" value="7">
1019 <desc>
1020 Total physical memory in megabytes.
1021 </desc>
1022 </const>
1023 <const name="PhysMemAvailable" value="8">
1024 <desc>
1025 Free physical memory in megabytes.
1026 </desc>
1027 </const>
1028 <const name="PhysMemBalloon" value="9">
1029 <desc>
1030 Ballooned physical memory in megabytes.
1031 </desc>
1032 </const>
1033 <const name="MemCommitTotal" value="10">
1034 <desc>
1035 Total amount of memory in the committed state in megabytes.
1036 </desc>
1037 </const>
1038 <const name="MemKernelTotal" value="11">
1039 <desc>
1040 Total amount of memory used by the guest OS's kernel in megabytes.
1041 </desc>
1042 </const>
1043 <const name="MemKernelPaged" value="12">
1044 <desc>
1045 Total amount of paged memory used by the guest OS's kernel in megabytes.
1046 </desc>
1047 </const>
1048 <const name="MemKernelNonpaged" value="13">
1049 <desc>
1050 Total amount of non-paged memory used by the guest OS's kernel in megabytes.
1051 </desc>
1052 </const>
1053 <const name="MemSystemCache" value="14">
1054 <desc>
1055 Total amount of memory used by the guest OS's system cache in megabytes.
1056 </desc>
1057 </const>
1058 <const name="PageFileSize" value="15">
1059 <desc>
1060 Pagefile size in megabytes.
1061 </desc>
1062 </const>
1063 <const name="SampleNumber" value="16">
1064 <desc>
1065 Statistics sample number
1066 </desc>
1067 </const>
1068 <const name="MaxVal" value="17"/>
1069 </enum>
1070
1071 <enum
1072 name="BIOSBootMenuMode"
1073 uuid="ae4fb9f7-29d2-45b4-b2c7-d579603135d5"
1074 >
1075 <desc>
1076 BIOS boot menu mode.
1077 </desc>
1078
1079 <const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
1080 <const name="MenuOnly" value="1"/>
1081 <const name="MessageAndMenu" value="2"/>
1082 </enum>
1083
1084 <enum
1085 name="ProcessorFeature"
1086 uuid="64c38e6b-8bcf-45ad-ac03-9b406287c5bf"
1087 >
1088 <desc>
1089 CPU features.
1090 </desc>
1091
1092 <const name="HWVirtEx" value="0"/>
1093 <const name="PAE" value="1"/>
1094 <const name="LongMode" value="2"/>
1095 <const name="NestedPaging" value="3"/>
1096 </enum>
1097
1098 <enum
1099 name="FirmwareType"
1100 uuid="7ceea938-8b49-41e2-bb47-667219c0d586"
1101 >
1102 <desc>
1103 Firmware type.
1104 </desc>
1105 <const name="BIOS" value="1">
1106 <desc>BIOS Firmware.</desc>
1107 </const>
1108 <const name="EFI" value="2">
1109 <desc>Efi firmware.</desc>
1110 </const>
1111 </enum>
1112
1113 <!--
1114 // IVirtualBoxErrorInfo
1115 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1116 -->
1117
1118 <interface
1119 name="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" extends="$errorinfo"
1120 uuid="4b86d186-407e-4f9e-8be8-e50061be8725"
1121 supportsErrorInfo="no"
1122 wsmap="managed"
1123 >
1124 <desc>
1125 The IVirtualBoxErrorInfo interface represents extended error information.
1126
1127 Extended error information can be set by VirtualBox components after
1128 unsuccessful or partially successful method invocation. This information
1129 can be retrieved by the calling party as an IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object
1130 and then shown to the client in addition to the plain 32-bit result code.
1131
1132 In MS COM, this interface extends the IErrorInfo interface,
1133 in XPCOM, it extends the nsIException interface. In both cases,
1134 it provides a set of common attributes to retrieve error
1135 information.
1136
1137 Sometimes invocation of some component's method may involve methods of
1138 other components that may also fail (independently of this method's
1139 failure), or a series of non-fatal errors may precede a fatal error that
1140 causes method failure. In cases like that, it may be desirable to preserve
1141 information about all errors happened during method invocation and deliver
1142 it to the caller. The <link to="#next"/> attribute is intended
1143 specifically for this purpose and allows to represent a chain of errors
1144 through a single IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object set after method invocation.
1145
1146 Note that errors are stored to a chain in the reverse order, i.e. the
1147 initial error object you query right after method invocation is the last
1148 error set by the callee, the object it points to in the @a next attribute
1149 is the previous error and so on, up to the first error (which is the last
1150 in the chain).
1151 </desc>
1152
1153 <attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
1154 <desc>
1155 Result code of the error.
1156 Usually, it will be the same as the result code returned
1157 by the method that provided this error information, but not
1158 always. For example, on Win32, CoCreateInstance() will most
1159 likely return E_NOINTERFACE upon unsuccessful component
1160 instantiation attempt, but not the value the component factory
1161 returned. Value is typed 'long', not 'result',
1162 to make interface usable from scripting languages.
1163 <note>
1164 In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1165 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::result.
1166 </note>
1167 </desc>
1168 </attribute>
1169
1170 <attribute name="interfaceID" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
1171 <desc>
1172 UUID of the interface that defined the error.
1173 <note>
1174 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetGUID, except for the
1175 data type.
1176 In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1177 </note>
1178 </desc>
1179 </attribute>
1180
1181 <attribute name="component" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1182 <desc>
1183 Name of the component that generated the error.
1184 <note>
1185 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetSource.
1186 In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1187 </note>
1188 </desc>
1189 </attribute>
1190
1191 <attribute name="text" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1192 <desc>
1193 Text description of the error.
1194 <note>
1195 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetDescription.
1196 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::message.
1197 </note>
1198 </desc>
1199 </attribute>
1200
1201 <attribute name="next" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
1202 <desc>
1203 Next error object if there is any, or @c null otherwise.
1204 <note>
1205 In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1206 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::inner.
1207 </note>
1208 </desc>
1209 </attribute>
1210
1211 </interface>
1212
1213 <interface
1214 name="ILocalOwner" extends="$dispatched"
1215 uuid="308FF42A-DC45-49D4-A950-B1EEE5E00BB5" wsmap="suppress"
1216 >
1217 <desc>
1218 The ILocalOwner interface allows to register local objects
1219 (created without COM calls, but with new()).
1220 Once registered, calls to methods of such objects can be made
1221 from remote COM processes.
1222 The main usecase is the event callback implementation where
1223 API clients provide callback objects.
1224 </desc>
1225 <method name="setLocalObject">
1226 <desc>
1227 Set local object.
1228 </desc>
1229 <param name="object" type="$unknown" dir="in">
1230 <desc>Local object to forward requests to.
1231 If null, clears currently set local object.</desc>
1232 </param>
1233 </method>
1234 </interface>
1235
1236 <!--
1237 // IVirtualBox
1238 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1239 -->
1240
1241 <interface
1242 name="IVirtualBoxCallback" extends="$unknown"
1243 uuid="9a65adf2-3ee6-406b-bca2-2b1fa05f0d0b"
1244 wsmap="suppress"
1245 >
1246
1247 <method name="onMachineStateChange">
1248 <desc>
1249 The execution state of the given machine has changed.
1250 <see>IMachine::state</see>
1251 </desc>
1252 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1253 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1254 </param>
1255 <param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in">
1256 <desc>New execution state.</desc>
1257 </param>
1258 </method>
1259
1260 <method name="onMachineDataChange">
1261 <desc>
1262 Any of the settings of the given machine has changed.
1263 </desc>
1264 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1265 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1266 </param>
1267 </method>
1268
1269 <method name="onExtraDataCanChange">
1270 <desc>
1271 Notification when someone tries to change extra data for
1272 either the given machine or (if @c null) global extra data.
1273 This gives the chance to veto against changes.
1274 </desc>
1275 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1276 <desc>
1277 ID of the machine this event relates to
1278 (@c null ID for global extra data change requests).
1279 </desc>
1280 </param>
1281 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
1282 <desc>
1283 Extra data key for the attempted write.
1284 </desc>
1285 </param>
1286 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
1287 <desc>
1288 Extra data value for the given key.
1289 </desc>
1290 </param>
1291 <param name="error" type="wstring" dir="out">
1292 <desc>
1293 Optional error message describing the reason of the
1294 veto (ignored if this notification returns @c true).
1295 </desc>
1296 </param>
1297 <param name="allowChange" type="boolean" dir="return">
1298 <desc>
1299 Flag to indicate whether the callee agrees (@c true)
1300 or vetoes against the change (@c false).
1301 </desc>
1302 </param>
1303 </method>
1304
1305 <method name="onExtraDataChange">
1306 <desc>
1307 Notification when machine specific or global extra data
1308 has changed.
1309 </desc>
1310 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1311 <desc>
1312 ID of the machine this event relates to.
1313 Null for global extra data changes.
1314 </desc>
1315 </param>
1316 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
1317 <desc>
1318 Extra data key that has changed.
1319 </desc>
1320 </param>
1321 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
1322 <desc>
1323 Extra data value for the given key.
1324 </desc>
1325 </param>
1326 </method>
1327
1328 <method name="onMediumRegistered">
1329 <desc>
1330 The given medium was registered or unregistered
1331 within this VirtualBox installation.
1332
1333 The @a mediumType parameter describes what type of
1334 medium the specified @a mediumId refers to. Possible
1335 values are:
1336
1337 <ul>
1338 <li><link to="DeviceType_HardDisk"/>: the medium is a hard disk
1339 that, if registered, can be obtained using the
1340 <link to="IVirtualBox::getHardDisk"/> call.</li>
1341 <li><link to="DeviceType_DVD"/>: the medium is a CD/DVD image
1342 that, if registered, can be obtained using the
1343 <link to="IVirtualBox::getDVDImage"/> call.</li>
1344 <li><link to="DeviceType_Floppy"/>: the medium is a Floppy image
1345 that, if registered, can be obtained using the
1346 <link to="IVirtualBox::getFloppyImage"/> call.</li>
1347 </ul>
1348
1349 Note that if this is a deregistration notification,
1350 there is no way to access the object representing the
1351 unregistered medium. It is supposed that the
1352 application will do required cleanup based on the
1353 @a mediumId value.
1354 </desc>
1355 <param name="mediumId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1356 <desc>ID of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
1357 </param>
1358 <param name="mediumType" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1359 <desc>Type of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
1360 </param>
1361 <param name="registered" type="boolean" dir="in">
1362 <desc>
1363 If @c true, the medium was registered, otherwise it was
1364 unregistered.
1365 </desc>
1366 </param>
1367 </method>
1368
1369 <method name="onMachineRegistered">
1370 <desc>
1371 The given machine was registered or unregistered
1372 within this VirtualBox installation.
1373 </desc>
1374 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1375 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1376 </param>
1377 <param name="registered" type="boolean" dir="in">
1378 <desc>
1379 If @c true, the machine was registered, otherwise it was
1380 unregistered.
1381 </desc>
1382 </param>
1383 </method>
1384
1385 <method name="onSessionStateChange">
1386 <desc>
1387 The state of the session for the given machine was changed.
1388 <see>IMachine::sessionState</see>
1389 </desc>
1390 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1391 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1392 </param>
1393 <param name="state" type="SessionState" dir="in">
1394 <desc>New session state.</desc>
1395 </param>
1396 </method>
1397
1398 <method name="onSnapshotTaken">
1399 <desc>
1400 A new snapshot of the machine has been taken.
1401 <see>ISnapshot</see>
1402 </desc>
1403 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1404 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1405 </param>
1406 <param name="snapshotId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1407 <desc>ID of the new snapshot.</desc>
1408 </param>
1409 </method>
1410
1411 <method name="onSnapshotDiscarded">
1412 <desc>
1413 Snapshot of the given machine has been discarded.
1414
1415 <note>
1416 This notification is delivered <b>after</b> the snapshot
1417 object has been uninitialized on the server (so that any
1418 attempt to call its methods will return an error).
1419 </note>
1420
1421 <see>ISnapshot</see>
1422 </desc>
1423 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1424 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1425 </param>
1426 <param name="snapshotId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1427 <desc>
1428 ID of the discarded snapshot. @c null means the current machine
1429 state has been discarded (restored from the current snapshot).
1430 </desc>
1431 </param>
1432 </method>
1433
1434 <method name="onSnapshotChange">
1435 <desc>
1436 Snapshot properties (name and/or description) have been changed.
1437 <see>ISnapshot</see>
1438 </desc>
1439 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1440 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
1441 </param>
1442 <param name="snapshotId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1443 <desc>ID of the changed snapshot.</desc>
1444 </param>
1445 </method>
1446
1447 <method name="onGuestPropertyChange">
1448 <desc>
1449 Notification when a guest property has changed.
1450 </desc>
1451 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1452 <desc>
1453 ID of the machine this event relates to.
1454 </desc>
1455 </param>
1456 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1457 <desc>
1458 The name of the property that has changed.
1459 </desc>
1460 </param>
1461 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
1462 <desc>
1463 The new property value.
1464 </desc>
1465 </param>
1466 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
1467 <desc>
1468 The new property flags.
1469 </desc>
1470 </param>
1471 </method>
1472
1473 </interface>
1474
1475 <interface
1476 name="IDHCPServer" extends="$unknown"
1477 uuid="6cfe387c-74fb-4ca7-bff6-973bec8af7a3"
1478 wsmap="managed"
1479 >
1480 <desc>
1481 The IDHCPServer interface represents the vbox dhcp server configuration.
1482
1483 To enumerate all the dhcp servers on the host, use the
1484 <link to="IVirtualBox::DHCPServers"/> attribute.
1485 </desc>
1486
1487 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
1488 <desc>
1489 specifies if the dhcp server is enabled
1490 </desc>
1491 </attribute>
1492
1493 <attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1494 <desc>
1495 specifies server IP
1496 </desc>
1497 </attribute>
1498
1499 <attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1500 <desc>
1501 specifies server network mask
1502 </desc>
1503 </attribute>
1504
1505 <attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1506 <desc>
1507 specifies internal network name the server is used for
1508 </desc>
1509 </attribute>
1510
1511 <attribute name="lowerIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1512 <desc>
1513 specifies from IP adrres in server address range
1514 </desc>
1515 </attribute>
1516
1517 <attribute name="upperIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1518 <desc>
1519 specifies to IP adrres in server address range
1520 </desc>
1521 </attribute>
1522
1523 <method name="setConfiguration">
1524 <desc>
1525 configures the server
1526 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1527 invalid configuration supplied
1528 </result>
1529 </desc>
1530 <param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1531 <desc>
1532 server IP address
1533 </desc>
1534 </param>
1535 <param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
1536 <desc>
1537 server network mask
1538 </desc>
1539 </param>
1540 <param name="FromIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1541 <desc>
1542 server From IP address for address range
1543 </desc>
1544 </param>
1545 <param name="ToIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1546 <desc>
1547 server To IP address for address range
1548 </desc>
1549 </param>
1550 </method>
1551
1552 <method name="start">
1553 <desc>
1554 Starts DHCP server process.
1555 <result name="E_FAIL">
1556 Failed to start the process.
1557 </result>
1558 </desc>
1559 <param name="networkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1560 <desc>
1561 Name of internal network DHCP server should attach to.
1562 </desc>
1563 </param>
1564 <param name="trunkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1565 <desc>
1566 Name of internal network trunk.
1567 </desc>
1568 </param>
1569 <param name="trunkType" type="wstring" dir="in">
1570 <desc>
1571 Type of internal network trunk.
1572 </desc>
1573 </param>
1574 </method>
1575
1576 <method name="stop">
1577 <desc>
1578 Stops DHCP server process.
1579 <result name="E_FAIL">
1580 Failed to stop the process.
1581 </result>
1582 </desc>
1583 </method>
1584 </interface>
1585
1586 <interface
1587 name="IVirtualBox" extends="$dispatched"
1588 uuid="c1b8d85d-8f44-4314-94fc-072332bdf852"
1589 wsmap="managed"
1590 >
1591 <desc>
1592 The IVirtualBox interface represents the main interface exposed by the
1593 product that provides virtual machine management.
1594
1595 An instance of IVirtualBox is required for the product to do anything
1596 useful. Even though the interface does not expose this, internally,
1597 IVirtualBox is implemented as a singleton and actually lives in the
1598 process of the VirtualBox server (VBoxSVC.exe). This makes sure that
1599 IVirtualBox can track the state of all virtual machines on a particular
1600 host, regardless of which frontend started them.
1601
1602 To enumerate all the virtual machines on the host, use the
1603 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute.
1604 </desc>
1605
1606 <attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1607 <desc>
1608 A string representing the version number of the product. The
1609 format is 3 integer numbers divided by dots (e.g. 1.0.1). The
1610 last number represents the build number and will frequently change.
1611 </desc>
1612 </attribute>
1613
1614 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
1615 <desc>
1616 The internal build revision number of the product.
1617 </desc>
1618 </attribute>
1619
1620 <attribute name="packageType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1621 <desc>
1622 A string representing the package type of this product. The
1623 format is OS_ARCH_DIST where OS is either WINDOWS, LINUX,
1624 SOLARIS, DARWIN. ARCH is either 32BITS or 64BITS. DIST
1625 is either GENERIC, UBUNTU_606, UBUNTU_710, or something like
1626 this.
1627 </desc>
1628 </attribute>
1629
1630 <attribute name="homeFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1631 <desc>
1632 Full path to the directory where the global settings file,
1633 <tt>VirtualBox.xml</tt>, is stored.
1634
1635 In this version of VirtualBox, the value of this property is
1636 always <tt>&lt;user_dir&gt;/.VirtualBox</tt> (where
1637 <tt>&lt;user_dir&gt;</tt> is the path to the user directory,
1638 as determined by the host OS), and cannot be changed.
1639
1640 This path is also used as the base to resolve relative paths in
1641 places where relative paths are allowed (unless otherwise
1642 expressly indicated).
1643 </desc>
1644 </attribute>
1645
1646 <attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1647 <desc>
1648 Full name of the global settings file.
1649 The value of this property corresponds to the value of
1650 <link to="#homeFolder"/> plus <tt>/VirtualBox.xml</tt>.
1651 </desc>
1652 </attribute>
1653
1654 <attribute name="host" type="IHost" readonly="yes">
1655 <desc>Associated host object.</desc>
1656 </attribute>
1657
1658 <attribute name="systemProperties" type="ISystemProperties" readonly="yes">
1659 <desc>Associated system information object.</desc>
1660 </attribute>
1661
1662 <attribute name="machines" type="IMachine" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1663 <desc>
1664 Array of machine objects registered within this VirtualBox instance.
1665 </desc>
1666 </attribute>
1667
1668 <attribute name="hardDisks" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1669 <desc>
1670 Array of medium objects known to this VirtualBox installation.
1671
1672 This array contains only base media. All differencing
1673 media of the given base medium can be enumerated using
1674 <link to="IMedium::children"/>.
1675 </desc>
1676 </attribute>
1677
1678 <attribute name="DVDImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1679 <desc>
1680 Array of CD/DVD image objects registered with this VirtualBox instance.
1681 </desc>
1682 </attribute>
1683
1684 <attribute name="floppyImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1685 <desc>
1686 Array of floppy image objects registered with this VirtualBox instance.
1687 </desc>
1688 </attribute>
1689
1690 <attribute name="progressOperations" type="IProgress" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1691
1692 <attribute name="guestOSTypes" type="IGuestOSType" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1693
1694 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1695 <desc>
1696 Collection of global shared folders. Global shared folders are
1697 available to all virtual machines.
1698
1699 New shared folders are added to the collection using
1700 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
1701 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
1702
1703 <note>
1704 In the current version of the product, global shared folders are not
1705 implemented and therefore this collection is always empty.
1706 </note>
1707 </desc>
1708 </attribute>
1709
1710 <attribute name="performanceCollector" type="IPerformanceCollector" readonly="yes">
1711 <desc>
1712 Associated performance collector object.
1713 </desc>
1714 </attribute>
1715
1716 <attribute name="DHCPServers" type="IDHCPServer" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1717 <desc>
1718 dhcp server settings.
1719 </desc>
1720 </attribute>
1721
1722 <method name="createMachine">
1723 <desc>
1724 Creates a new virtual machine.
1725
1726 The new machine is created unregistered, with the initial configuration
1727 set according to the specified guest OS type. A typical sequence of
1728 actions to create a new virtual machine is as follows:
1729
1730 <ol>
1731 <li>
1732 Call this method to have a new machine created. The returned machine
1733 object will be "mutable" allowing to change any machine property.
1734 </li>
1735
1736 <li>
1737 Configure the machine using the appropriate attributes and methods.
1738 </li>
1739
1740 <li>
1741 Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to write the settings
1742 to the machine's XML settings file. The configuration of the newly
1743 created machine will not be saved to disk until this method is
1744 called.
1745 </li>
1746
1747 <li>
1748 Call <link to="#registerMachine" /> to add the machine to the list
1749 of machines known to VirtualBox.
1750 </li>
1751 </ol>
1752
1753 You should specify valid name for the newly created machine when calling
1754 this method. See the <link to="IMachine::name"/> attribute description
1755 for more details about the machine name.
1756
1757 The specified guest OS type identifier must match an ID of one of known
1758 guest OS types listed in the <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/>
1759 array.
1760
1761 Every machine has a <i>settings file</i> that is used to store
1762 the machine configuration. This file is stored in a directory called the
1763 <i>machine settings subfolder</i>. Both the settings subfolder and file
1764 will have a name that corresponds to the name of the virtual machine.
1765 You can specify where to create the machine setting subfolder using the
1766 @a baseFolder argument. The base folder can be absolute (full path) or
1767 relative to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home
1768 directory</link>.
1769
1770 If @a baseFolder is a @c null or empty string (which is recommended), the
1771 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder">default machine
1772 settings folder</link> will be used as a base folder for the created
1773 machine. Otherwise the given base folder will be used. In either case,
1774 the full path to the resulting settings file has the following
1775 structure:
1776 <pre>
1777 &lt;base_folder&gt;/&lt;machine_name&gt;/&lt;machine_name&gt;.xml
1778 </pre>
1779
1780 Note that if the resulting settings file already exists, this method
1781 will fail with <link to="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR"/>.
1782
1783 Optionally, you may specify an UUID of to assign to the created machine.
1784 However, this is not recommended and you should normally pass an empty
1785 (@c null) UUID to this method so that a new UUID will be automatically
1786 generated for every created machine. You can use UUID
1787 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 as @c null value.
1788
1789 <note>
1790 There is no way to change the name of the settings file or
1791 subfolder of the created machine directly.
1792 </note>
1793
1794 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1795 @a osTypeId is invalid.
1796 </result>
1797 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1798 Resulting settings file name is invalid or the settings file already
1799 exists or could not be created due to an I/O error.
1800 </result>
1801 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1802 @a name is empty or @c null.
1803 </result>
1804 </desc>
1805
1806 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1807 <desc>Machine name.</desc>
1808 </param>
1809 <param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1810 <desc>Guest OS Type ID.</desc>
1811 </param>
1812 <param name="baseFolder" type="wstring" dir="in">
1813 <desc>Base machine folder (optional).</desc>
1814 </param>
1815 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1816 <desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1817 </param>
1818 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1819 <desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1820 </param>
1821 </method>
1822
1823 <method name="createLegacyMachine">
1824 <desc>
1825 Creates a new virtual machine in "legacy" mode, using the specified
1826 settings file to store machine settings.
1827
1828 As opposed to machines created by <link to="#createMachine"/>,
1829 the settings file of the machine created in "legacy" mode is not
1830 automatically renamed when the machine name is changed -- it will always
1831 remain the same as specified in this method call.
1832
1833 The specified settings file name can be absolute (full path) or relative
1834 to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home
1835 directory</link>. If the file name doesn't contain an extension, the
1836 default extension (.xml) will be appended.
1837
1838 Note that the configuration of the newly created machine is not
1839 saved to disk (and therefore no settings file is created)
1840 until <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called. If the
1841 specified settings file already exists, this method
1842 will fail with <link to="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR"/>.
1843
1844 See <link to="#createMachine"/> for more information.
1845
1846 @deprecated This method may be removed later. Use <link
1847 to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> instead.
1848
1849 <note>
1850 There is no way to change the name of the settings file
1851 of the machine created in "legacy" mode.
1852 </note>
1853
1854 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1855 @a osTypeId is invalid.
1856 </result>
1857 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1858 @a settingsFile is invalid or the settings file already exists or
1859 could not be created due to an I/O error.
1860 </result>
1861 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1862 @a name or @a settingsFile is empty or @c null.
1863 </result>
1864 </desc>
1865
1866 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1867 <desc>Machine name.</desc>
1868 </param>
1869 <param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1870 <desc>Machine OS Type ID.</desc>
1871 </param>
1872 <param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1873 <desc>Name of the machine settings file.</desc>
1874 </param>
1875 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1876 <desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1877 </param>
1878 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1879 <desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1880 </param>
1881 </method>
1882
1883 <method name="openMachine">
1884 <desc>
1885 Opens a virtual machine from the existing settings file.
1886 The opened machine remains unregistered until you call
1887 <link to="#registerMachine"/>.
1888
1889 The specified settings file name can be absolute
1890 (full path) or relative to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">
1891 VirtualBox home directory</link>. This file must exist
1892 and must be a valid machine settings file whose contents
1893 will be used to construct the machine object.
1894
1895 @deprecated Will be removed soon.
1896 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1897 Settings file name invalid, not found or sharing violation.
1898 </result>
1899 </desc>
1900 <param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1901 <desc>
1902 Name of the machine settings file.
1903 </desc>
1904 </param>
1905 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1906 <desc>Opened machine object.</desc>
1907 </param>
1908 <note>
1909 <link to="IMachine::settingsModified"/> will return
1910 @c false for the created machine, until any of machine settings
1911 are changed.
1912 </note>
1913 </method>
1914
1915 <method name="registerMachine">
1916 <desc>
1917
1918 Registers the machine previously created using
1919 <link to="#createMachine"/> or opened using
1920 <link to="#openMachine"/> within this VirtualBox installation. After
1921 successful method invocation, the
1922 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onMachineRegistered"/> signal is sent
1923 to all registered callbacks.
1924
1925 <note>
1926 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
1927 to save all current machine settings before registering it.
1928 </note>
1929
1930 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1931 No matching virtual machine found.
1932 </result>
1933 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1934 Virtual machine was not created within this VirtualBox instance.
1935 </result>
1936
1937 </desc>
1938 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
1939 </method>
1940
1941 <method name="getMachine">
1942 <desc>
1943 Attempts to find a virtual machine given its UUID.
1944 To look up a machine by name, use <link to="IVirtualBox::findMachine" />
1945 instead.
1946
1947 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1948 Could not find registered machine matching @a id.
1949 </result>
1950
1951 </desc>
1952 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
1953 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return"/>
1954 </method>
1955
1956 <method name="findMachine">
1957 <desc>
1958 Attempts to find a virtual machine given its name.
1959 To look up a machine by UUID, use <link to="IVirtualBox::getMachine" />
1960 instead.
1961
1962 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1963 Could not find registered machine matching @a name.
1964 </result>
1965
1966 </desc>
1967 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
1968 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return"/>
1969 </method>
1970
1971 <method name="unregisterMachine">
1972 <desc>
1973
1974 Unregisters the machine previously registered using
1975 <link to="#registerMachine"/>. After successful method invocation, the
1976 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onMachineRegistered"/> signal is sent
1977 to all registered callbacks.
1978
1979 <note>
1980 The specified machine must not be in the Saved state, have an open
1981 (or a spawning) direct session associated with it, have snapshots or
1982 have any medium attached.
1983 </note>
1984
1985 <note>
1986 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
1987 save all current machine settings before unregistering it.
1988 </note>
1989
1990 <note>
1991 If the given machine is inaccessible (see
1992 <link to="IMachine::accessible"/>), it will be unregistered and
1993 fully uninitialized right afterwards. As a result, the returned
1994 machine object will be unusable and an attempt to call
1995 <b>any</b> method will return the "Object not ready" error.
1996 </note>
1997
1998 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1999 Could not find registered machine matching @a id.
2000 </result>
2001 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
2002 Machine is in Saved state.
2003 </result>
2004 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2005 Machine has snapshot or open session or medium attached.
2006 </result>
2007
2008 </desc>
2009 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2010 <desc>UUID of the machine to unregister.</desc>
2011 </param>
2012 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
2013 <desc>Unregistered machine object.</desc>
2014 </param>
2015 </method>
2016
2017 <method name="createAppliance">
2018 <desc>
2019 Creates a new appliance object, which represents an appliance in the Open Virtual Machine
2020 Format (OVF). This can then be used to import an OVF appliance into VirtualBox or to export
2021 machines as an OVF appliance; see the documentation for <link to="IAppliance" /> for details.
2022 </desc>
2023 <param name="appliance" type="IAppliance" dir="return">
2024 <desc>New appliance.</desc>
2025 </param>
2026 </method>
2027
2028 <method name="createHardDisk">
2029 <desc>
2030 Creates a new base medium object that will use the given storage
2031 format and location for medium data.
2032
2033 Note that the actual storage unit is not created by this method. In
2034 order to do it, and before you are able to attach the created medium
2035 to virtual machines, you must call one of the following methods to
2036 allocate a format-specific storage unit at the specified location:
2037 <ul>
2038 <li><link to="IMedium::createBaseStorage"/></li>
2039 <li><link to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/></li>
2040 </ul>
2041
2042 Some medium attributes, such as <link to="IMedium::id"/>, may
2043 remain uninitialized until the medium storage unit is successfully
2044 created by one of the above methods.
2045
2046 After the storage unit is successfully created, the medium gets
2047 remembered by this VirtualBox installation and will be accessible
2048 through <link to="#getHardDisk"/> and <link to="#findHardDisk"/>
2049 methods. Remembered base medium are also returned as part of
2050 the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array. See IMedium for more details.
2051
2052 The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
2053 installation can be obtained using
2054 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>. If the @a format
2055 attribute is empty or @c null then the default storage format
2056 specified by <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFormat"/> will
2057 be used for creating a storage unit of the medium.
2058
2059 Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
2060 See <link to="IMedium::location"/>, IMedium and
2061 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"/> for more details.
2062
2063 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2064 @a format identifier is invalid. See
2065 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
2066 </result>
2067 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2068 @a location is a not valid file name (for file-based formats only).
2069 </result>
2070 </desc>
2071 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
2072 <desc>
2073 Identifier of the storage format to use for the new medium.
2074 </desc>
2075 </param>
2076 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2077 <desc>
2078 Location of the storage unit for the new medium.
2079 </desc>
2080 </param>
2081 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2082 <desc>Created medium object.</desc>
2083 </param>
2084 </method>
2085
2086 <method name="openHardDisk">
2087 <desc>
2088 Opens a medium from an existing location, optionally replacing
2089 the image UUID and/or parent UUID.
2090
2091 After the medium is successfully opened by this method, it gets
2092 remembered by (known to) this VirtualBox installation and will be
2093 accessible through <link to="#getHardDisk"/> and
2094 <link to="#findHardDisk"/> methods. Remembered base media
2095 are also returned as part of the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array and can
2096 be attached to virtual machines. See IMedium for more details.
2097
2098 If a differencing medium is to be opened by this method, the
2099 operation will succeed only if its parent medium and all ancestors,
2100 if any, are already known to this VirtualBox installation (for example,
2101 were opened by this method before).
2102
2103 This method tries to guess the storage format of the specified medium
2104 by reading medium data at the specified location.
2105
2106 If @a write is ReadWrite (which it should be), the image is opened for
2107 read/write access and must have according permissions, as VirtualBox
2108 may actually write status information into the disk's metadata sections.
2109
2110 Note that write access is required for all typical image usage in VirtualBox,
2111 since VirtualBox may need to write metadata such as a UUID into the image.
2112 The only exception is opening a source image temporarily for copying and
2113 cloning when the image will quickly be closed again.
2114
2115 Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
2116 See <link to="IMedium::location"/>, IMedium and
2117 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"/> for more details.
2118
2119 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2120 Invalid medium storage file location or could not find the medium
2121 at the specified location.
2122 </result>
2123 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
2124 Could not get medium storage format.
2125 </result>
2126 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2127 Invalid medium storage format.
2128 </result>
2129
2130 </desc>
2131 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2132 <desc>
2133 Location of the storage unit that contains medium data in one of
2134 the supported storage formats.
2135 </desc>
2136 </param>
2137 <param name="accessMode" type="AccessMode" dir="in">
2138 <desc>
2139 Determines whether to open the image in read/write or read-only mode.
2140 </desc>
2141 </param>
2142 <param name="setImageId" type="boolean" dir="in">
2143 <desc>
2144 Select whether a new image UUID is set or not.
2145 </desc>
2146 </param>
2147 <param name="imageId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2148 <desc>
2149 New UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a new
2150 UUID is automatically created. Specifying a zero UUIDs is not valid.
2151 </desc>
2152 </param>
2153 <param name="setParentId" type="boolean" dir="in">
2154 <desc>
2155 Select whether a new parent UUID is set or not.
2156 </desc>
2157 </param>
2158 <param name="parentId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2159 <desc>
2160 New parent UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a
2161 new UUID is automatically created, provided @a setParentId is
2162 @c true. A zero UUID is valid.
2163 </desc>
2164 </param>
2165 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2166 <desc>Opened medium object.</desc>
2167 </param>
2168 </method>
2169
2170 <method name="getHardDisk" const="yes">
2171 <desc>
2172 Returns a medium with the given UUID.
2173
2174 The medium with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2175 installation, i.e. it must be previously created by
2176 <link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened by <link
2177 to="#openHardDisk"/>, or attached to some known virtual machine.
2178
2179 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2180 No medium object matching @a id found.
2181 </result>
2182
2183 </desc>
2184 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2185 <desc>UUID of the medium to look for.</desc>
2186 </param>
2187 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2188 <desc>Found medium object.</desc>
2189 </param>
2190 </method>
2191
2192 <method name="findHardDisk">
2193 <desc>
2194 Returns a medium that uses the given location to store medium data.
2195
2196 The given medium must be known to this VirtualBox installation, i.e.
2197 it must be previously created by
2198 <link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened by <link
2199 to="#openHardDisk"/>, or attached to some known virtual machine.
2200
2201 The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
2202 the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute of each known medium.
2203
2204 For locations represented by file names in the host's file system, the
2205 requested location can be a path relative to the
2206 <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link>. If
2207 only a file name without any path is given, the
2208 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default medium
2209 folder</link> will be prepended to the file name before searching. Note
2210 that on case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is
2211 performed, otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
2212
2213 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2214 No medium object matching @a location found.
2215 </result>
2216
2217 </desc>
2218 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2219 <desc>Location string to search for.</desc>
2220 </param>
2221 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2222 <desc>Found medium object.</desc>
2223 </param>
2224 </method>
2225
2226 <method name="openDVDImage">
2227 <desc>
2228 Opens a CD/DVD image contained in the specified file of the supported
2229 format and assigns it the given UUID.
2230
2231 After the image is successfully opened by this method, it gets
2232 remembered by (known to) this VirtualBox installation and will be
2233 accessible through <link to="#getDVDImage"/> and
2234 <link to="#findDVDImage"/> methods. Remembered images are also
2235 returned as part of the <link to="#DVDImages"/> array and can be mounted
2236 to virtual machines. See IMedium for more details.
2237
2238 See <link to="IMedium::location"/> to get more details about the format
2239 of the location string.
2240
2241 <note>
2242 Currently only ISO 9960 CD/DVD images are supported by VirtualBox.
2243 </note>
2244
2245 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2246 Invalid CD/DVD image file location or could not find the CD/DVD
2247 image at the specified location.
2248 </result>
2249 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2250 CD/DVD image already exists in the media registry.
2251 </result>
2252
2253 </desc>
2254 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2255 <desc>
2256 Full path to the file that contains a valid CD/DVD image.
2257 </desc>
2258 </param>
2259 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2260 <desc>
2261 UUID to assign to the given image within this VirtualBox installation.
2262 If an empty (@c null) UUID is specified, the system will randomly
2263 generate a new UUID.
2264 </desc>
2265 </param>
2266 <param name="image" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2267 <desc>Opened CD/DVD image object.</desc>
2268 </param>
2269 </method>
2270
2271 <method name="getDVDImage">
2272 <desc>
2273 Returns a CD/DVD image with the given UUID.
2274
2275 The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2276 installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2277 to="#openDVDImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2278
2279 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2280 No matching DVD image found in the media registry.
2281 </result>
2282
2283 </desc>
2284 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2285 <desc>UUID of the image to look for.</desc>
2286 </param>
2287 <param name="image" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2288 <desc>Found CD/DVD image object.</desc>
2289 </param>
2290 </method>
2291
2292 <method name="findDVDImage">
2293 <desc>
2294 Returns a CD/DVD image with the given image location.
2295
2296 The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2297 installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2298 to="#openDVDImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2299
2300 The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
2301 the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute of each known CD/DVD image.
2302
2303 The requested location can be a path relative to the
2304 <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link>. If
2305 only a file name without any path is given, the
2306 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
2307 folder</link> will be prepended to the file name before searching. Note
2308 that on case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is
2309 performed, otherwise the case in the file path is ignored.
2310
2311 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2312 Invalid image file location.
2313 </result>
2314 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2315 No matching DVD image found in the media registry.
2316 </result>
2317
2318 </desc>
2319 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2320 <desc>CD/DVD image file path to look for.</desc>
2321 </param>
2322 <param name="image" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2323 <desc>Found CD/DVD image object.</desc>
2324 </param>
2325 </method>
2326
2327 <method name="openFloppyImage">
2328 <desc>
2329 Opens a floppy image contained in the specified file of the supported
2330 format and assigns it the given UUID.
2331
2332 After the image is successfully opened by this method, it gets
2333 remembered by (known to) this VirtualBox installation and will be
2334 accessible through <link to="#getFloppyImage"/> and
2335 <link to="#findFloppyImage"/> methods. Remembered images are also
2336 returned as part of the <link to="#floppyImages"/> array and can be
2337 mounted to virtual machines. See IMedium for more details.
2338
2339 See <link to="IMedium::location"/> to get more details about the format
2340 of the location string.
2341
2342 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2343 Invalid floppy image file location or could not find the floppy
2344 image at the specified location.
2345 </result>
2346 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2347 Floppy image already exists in the media registry.
2348 </result>
2349
2350 <note>
2351 Currently, only raw floppy images are supported by VirtualBox.
2352 </note>
2353 </desc>
2354 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2355 <desc>
2356 Full path to the file that contains a valid floppy image.
2357 </desc>
2358 </param>
2359 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2360 <desc>
2361 UUID to assign to the given image file within this VirtualBox
2362 installation. If an empty (@c null) UUID is specified, the system will
2363 randomly generate a new UUID.
2364 </desc>
2365 </param>
2366 <param name="image" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2367 <desc>Opened floppy image object.</desc>
2368 </param>
2369 </method>
2370
2371 <method name="getFloppyImage">
2372 <desc>
2373 Returns a floppy image with the given UUID.
2374
2375 The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2376 installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2377 to="#openFloppyImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2378
2379 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2380 No matching floppy image found in the media registry.
2381 </result>
2382
2383 </desc>
2384 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2385 <desc>UUID of the image to look for.</desc>
2386 </param>
2387 <param name="image" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2388 <desc>Found floppy image object.</desc>
2389 </param>
2390 </method>
2391
2392 <method name="findFloppyImage">
2393 <desc>
2394 Returns a floppy image with the given image location.
2395
2396 The image with the given UUID must be known to this VirtualBox
2397 installation, i.e. it must be previously opened by <link
2398 to="#openFloppyImage"/>, or mounted to some known virtual machine.
2399
2400 The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
2401 the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute of each known floppy image.
2402
2403 The requested location can be a path relative to the
2404 <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link>. If
2405 only a file name without any path is given, the
2406 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
2407 folder</link> will be prepended to the file name before searching. Note
2408 that on case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is
2409 performed, otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
2410
2411 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2412 Invalid image file location.
2413 </result>
2414 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2415 No matching floppy image found in the media registry.
2416 </result>
2417
2418 </desc>
2419 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
2420 <desc>Floppy image file path to look for.</desc>
2421 </param>
2422 <param name="image" type="IMedium" dir="return">
2423 <desc>Found floppy image object.</desc>
2424 </param>
2425 </method>
2426
2427 <method name="getGuestOSType">
2428 <desc>
2429 Returns an object describing the specified guest OS type.
2430
2431 The requested guest OS type is specified using a string which is a
2432 mnemonic identifier of the guest operating system, such as
2433 <tt>"win31"</tt> or <tt>"ubuntu"</tt>. The guest OS type ID of a
2434 particular virtual machine can be read or set using the
2435 <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/> attribute.
2436
2437 The <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/> collection contains all
2438 available guest OS type objects. Each object has an
2439 <link to="IGuestOSType::id"/> attribute which contains an identifier of
2440 the guest OS this object describes.
2441
2442 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2443 @a id is not a valid Guest OS type.
2444 </result>
2445
2446 </desc>
2447 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2448 <desc>Guest OS type ID string.</desc>
2449 </param>
2450 <param name="type" type="IGuestOSType" dir="return">
2451 <desc>Guest OS type object.</desc>
2452 </param>
2453 </method>
2454
2455 <method name="createSharedFolder">
2456 <desc>
2457 Creates a new global shared folder by associating the given logical
2458 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
2459 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
2460 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
2461 <note>
2462 In the current implementation, this operation is not
2463 implemented.
2464 </note>
2465 </desc>
2466 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2467 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
2468 </param>
2469 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
2470 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
2471 </param>
2472 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
2473 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
2474 </param>
2475 </method>
2476
2477 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
2478 <desc>
2479 Removes the global shared folder with the given name previously
2480 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
2481 shared folders and stops sharing it.
2482 <note>
2483 In the current implementation, this operation is not
2484 implemented.
2485 </note>
2486 </desc>
2487 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2488 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
2489 </param>
2490 </method>
2491
2492 <method name="getExtraDataKeys">
2493 <desc>
2494 Returns an array representing the global extra data keys which currently
2495 have values defined.
2496 </desc>
2497 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2498 <desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
2499 </param>
2500 </method>
2501
2502 <method name="getExtraData">
2503 <desc>
2504 Returns associated global extra data.
2505
2506 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
2507 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
2508
2509 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2510 Settings file not accessible.
2511 </result>
2512 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2513 Could not parse the settings file.
2514 </result>
2515
2516 </desc>
2517 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2518 <desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
2519 </param>
2520 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
2521 <desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
2522 </param>
2523 </method>
2524
2525 <method name="setExtraData">
2526 <desc>
2527 Sets associated global extra data.
2528
2529 If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
2530 will be deleted.
2531
2532 <note>
2533 Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
2534 registered callbacks using the
2535 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataCanChange"/>
2536 notification for a permission. If one of the callbacks refuses the
2537 new value, the change will not be performed.
2538 </note>
2539 <note>
2540 On success, the
2541 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataChange"/> notification
2542 is called to inform all registered callbacks about a successful data
2543 change.
2544 </note>
2545
2546 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2547 Settings file not accessible.
2548 </result>
2549 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2550 Could not parse the settings file.
2551 </result>
2552 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2553 Modification request refused.
2554 </result>
2555
2556 </desc>
2557 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2558 <desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
2559 </param>
2560 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
2561 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
2562 </param>
2563 </method>
2564
2565 <method name="openSession">
2566 <desc>
2567 Opens a new direct session with the given virtual machine.
2568
2569 A direct session acts as a local lock on the given VM.
2570 There can be only one direct session open at a time for every
2571 virtual machine, protecting the VM from being manipulated by
2572 conflicting actions from different processes. Only after a
2573 direct session has been opened, one can change all VM settings
2574 and execute the VM in the process space of the session object.
2575
2576 Sessions therefore can be compared to mutex semaphores that
2577 lock a given VM for modification and execution.
2578 See <link to="ISession">ISession</link> for details.
2579
2580 <note>Unless you are writing a new VM frontend, you will not
2581 want to execute a VM in the current process. To spawn a new
2582 process that executes a VM, use
2583 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession" />
2584 instead.</note>
2585
2586 Upon successful return, the session object can be used to
2587 get access to the machine and to the VM console.
2588
2589 In VirtualBox terminology, the machine becomes "mutable" after
2590 a session has been opened. Note that the "mutable" machine
2591 object, on which you may invoke IMachine methods to change its
2592 settings, will be a different object from the immutable IMachine
2593 objects returned by various IVirtualBox methods. To obtain a
2594 mutable IMachine object (upon which you can invoke settings methods),
2595 use the <link to="ISession::machine" /> attribute.
2596
2597 One must always call <link to="ISession::close" /> to release the
2598 lock on the machine, or the machine's state will eventually be
2599 set to "Aborted".
2600
2601 In other words, to change settings on a machine, the following
2602 sequence is typically performed:
2603
2604 <ol>
2605 <li>Call this method (openSession) to have a machine locked for
2606 the current session.</li>
2607
2608 <li>Obtain a mutable IMachine object from <link to="ISession::machine" />.</li>
2609
2610 <li>Change the settings of the machine.</li>
2611
2612 <li>Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" />.</li>
2613
2614 <li>Close the session by calling <link to="ISession::close"/>.</li>
2615 </ol>
2616
2617 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
2618 Virtual machine not registered.
2619 </result>
2620 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2621 Process not started by OpenRemoteSession.
2622 </result>
2623 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2624 No matching virtual machine found.
2625 </result>
2626 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2627 Session already open or being opened.
2628 </result>
2629 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
2630 Failed to assign machine to session.
2631 </result>
2632
2633 </desc>
2634 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
2635 <desc>
2636 Session object that will represent the opened session after
2637 successful method invocation. This object must not represent
2638 the already open session.
2639 <note>
2640 This session will be automatically closed if the
2641 VirtualBox server is terminated for some reason.
2642 </note>
2643 </desc>
2644 </param>
2645 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2646 <desc>ID of the virtual machine to open a session with.</desc>
2647 </param>
2648 </method>
2649
2650 <method name="openRemoteSession">
2651 <desc>
2652 Spawns a new process that executes a virtual machine (called a
2653 "remote session").
2654
2655 Opening a remote session causes the VirtualBox server to start a new
2656 process that opens a direct session with the given VM. As a result, the
2657 VM is locked by that direct session in the new process, preventing
2658 conflicting changes from other processes. Since sessions act as locks
2659 that prevent conflicting changes, one cannot open a remote session
2660 for a VM that already has another open session (direct or remote), or
2661 is currently in the process of opening one (see <link
2662 to="IMachine::sessionState"/>).
2663
2664 While the remote session still provides some level of control over the
2665 VM execution to the caller (using the <link to="IConsole" /> interface),
2666 not all VM settings are available for modification within the remote
2667 session context.
2668
2669 This operation can take some time (a new VM is started in a new process,
2670 for which memory and other resources need to be set up). Because of this,
2671 an <link to="IProgress" /> is returned to allow the caller to wait for this
2672 asynchronous operation to be completed. Until then, the remote session
2673 object remains in the closed state, and accessing the machine or its
2674 console through it is invalid. It is recommended to use
2675 <link to="IProgress::waitForCompletion" /> or similar calls to wait for
2676 completion.
2677
2678 As with all <link to="ISession" /> objects, it is recommended to call
2679 <link to="ISession::close" /> on the local session object once openRemoteSession()
2680 has been called. However, the session's state (see <link to="ISession::state" />)
2681 will not return to "Closed" until the remote session has also closed (i.e.
2682 until the VM is no longer running). In that case, however, the state of
2683 the session will automatically change back to "Closed".
2684
2685 Currently supported session types (values of the @a type
2686 argument) are:
2687 <ul>
2688 <li><tt>"gui"</tt>: VirtualBox Qt GUI session</li>
2689 <li><tt>"vrdp"</tt>: VirtualBox VRDP Server session</li>
2690 <li><tt>"sdl"</tt>: VirtualBox SDL GUI session</li>
2691 </ul>
2692
2693 The @a environment argument is a string containing definitions of
2694 environment variables in the following format:
2695 @code
2696 NAME[=VALUE]\n
2697 NAME[=VALUE]\n
2698 ...
2699 @endcode
2700 where <tt>\\n</tt> is the new line character. These environment
2701 variables will be appended to the environment of the VirtualBox server
2702 process. If an environment variable exists both in the server process
2703 and in this list, the value from this list takes precedence over the
2704 server's variable. If the value of the environment variable is
2705 omitted, this variable will be removed from the resulting environment.
2706 If the environment string is @c null or empty, the server environment
2707 is inherited by the started process as is.
2708
2709 <see>openExistingSession</see>
2710
2711 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
2712 Virtual machine not registered.
2713 </result>
2714 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2715 Invalid session type @a type.
2716 </result>
2717 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2718 No machine matching @a machineId found.
2719 </result>
2720 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2721 Session already open or being opened.
2722 </result>
2723 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
2724 Launching process for machine failed.
2725 </result>
2726 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
2727 Failed to assign machine to session.
2728 </result>
2729
2730 </desc>
2731 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
2732 <desc>
2733 Session object that will represent the opened remote session
2734 after successful method invocation (this object must not
2735 represent an already open session).
2736 </desc>
2737 </param>
2738 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2739 <desc>ID of the virtual machine to open a session with.</desc>
2740 </param>
2741 <param name="type" type="wstring" dir="in">
2742 <desc>
2743 Type of the remote session (case sensitive).
2744 </desc>
2745 </param>
2746 <param name="environment" type="wstring" dir="in">
2747 <desc>
2748 Environment to pass to the opened session.
2749 </desc>
2750 </param>
2751 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2752 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2753 </param>
2754 </method>
2755
2756 <method name="openExistingSession">
2757 <desc>
2758 Opens a new remote session with the virtual machine for
2759 which a direct session is already open.
2760
2761 The remote session provides some level of control over the VM
2762 execution (using the IConsole interface) to the caller; however,
2763 within the remote session context, not all VM settings are available
2764 for modification.
2765
2766 As opposed to <link to="#openRemoteSession"/>, the number of
2767 remote sessions opened this way is not limited by the API
2768
2769 <note>
2770 It is an error to open a remote session with the machine that
2771 doesn't have an open direct session.
2772 </note>
2773
2774 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
2775 Virtual machine not registered.
2776 </result>
2777 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
2778 No machine matching @a machineId found.
2779 </result>
2780 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
2781 Session already open or being opened.
2782 </result>
2783 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_SESSION_STATE">
2784 Direct session state not Open.
2785 </result>
2786 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
2787 Failed to get console object from direct session or assign
2788 machine to session.
2789 </result>
2790
2791 <see>openRemoteSession</see>
2792 </desc>
2793 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
2794 <desc>
2795 Session object that will represent the open remote session
2796 after successful method invocation. This object must not
2797 represent an already open session.
2798 <note>
2799 This session will be automatically closed when the peer
2800 (direct) session dies or gets closed.
2801 </note>
2802 </desc>
2803 </param>
2804 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
2805 <desc>ID of the virtual machine to open a session with.</desc>
2806 </param>
2807 </method>
2808
2809 <method name="registerCallback">
2810 <desc>
2811 Registers a new global VirtualBox callback. The methods of the given
2812 callback object will be called by VirtualBox when an appropriate
2813 event occurs.
2814
2815 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2816 A @c null callback cannot be registered.
2817 </result>
2818
2819 </desc>
2820 <param name="callback" type="IVirtualBoxCallback" dir="in">
2821 <desc>Callback object to register.</desc>
2822 </param>
2823 </method>
2824
2825 <method name="unregisterCallback">
2826 <desc>
2827 Unregisters the previously registered global VirtualBox callback.
2828
2829 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2830 Specified @a callback not registered.
2831 </result>
2832
2833 </desc>
2834 <param name="callback" type="IVirtualBoxCallback" dir="in">
2835 <desc>Callback object to unregister.</desc>
2836 </param>
2837 </method>
2838
2839 <method name="waitForPropertyChange">
2840 <desc>
2841 Blocks the caller until any of the properties represented by the
2842 @a what argument changes the value or until the given timeout interval
2843 expires.
2844
2845 The @a what argument is a comma separated list of property masks that
2846 describe properties the caller is interested in. The property mask is
2847 a string in the following format:
2848
2849 <pre>
2850 [[group.]subgroup.]name
2851 </pre>
2852
2853 where @c name is the property name and @c group, @c subgroup are zero
2854 or more property group specifiers. Each element (group or name) in
2855 the property mask may be either a Latin string or an asterisk symbol
2856 (@c "*") which is used to match any string for the given element. A
2857 property mask that doesn't contain asterisk symbols represents a
2858 single fully qualified property name.
2859
2860 Groups in the fully qualified property name go from more generic (the
2861 left-most part) to more specific (the right-most part). The first
2862 element is usually a name of the object the property belongs to. The
2863 second element may be either a property name, or a child object name,
2864 or an index if the preceding element names an object which is one of
2865 many objects of the same type. This way, property names form a
2866 hierarchy of properties. Here are some examples of property names:
2867
2868 <table>
2869 <tr>
2870 <td><tt>VirtualBox.version</tt></td>
2871 <td><link to="IVirtualBox::version"/> property</td>
2872 </tr>
2873 <tr>
2874 <td><tt>Machine.&lt;UUID&gt;.name</tt></td>
2875 <td><link to="IMachine::name"/> property of the machine with the
2876 given UUID</td>
2877 </tr>
2878 </table>
2879
2880 Most property names directly correspond to the properties of objects
2881 (components) provided by the VirtualBox library and may be used to
2882 track changes to these properties. However, there may be
2883 pseudo-property names that don't correspond to any existing object's
2884 property directly, as well as there may be object properties that
2885 don't have a corresponding property name that is understood by this
2886 method, and therefore changes to such properties cannot be
2887 tracked. See individual object's property descriptions to get a
2888 fully qualified property name that can be used with this method (if
2889 any).
2890
2891 There is a special property mask @c "*" (i.e. a string consisting of a
2892 single asterisk symbol) that can be used to match all properties.
2893 Below are more examples of property masks:
2894
2895 <table>
2896 <tr>
2897 <td><tt>VirtualBox.*</tt></td>
2898 <td>Track all properties of the VirtualBox object</td>
2899 </tr>
2900 <tr>
2901 <td><tt>Machine.*.name</tt></td>
2902 <td>Track changes to the <link to="IMachine::name"/> property of
2903 all registered virtual machines</td>
2904 </tr>
2905 </table>
2906
2907 <note>
2908 This function is not implemented in the current version of the
2909 product.
2910 </note>
2911 </desc>
2912 <param name="what" type="wstring" dir="in">
2913 <desc>Comma separated list of property masks.</desc>
2914 </param>
2915 <param name="timeout" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
2916 <desc>
2917 Wait timeout in milliseconds.
2918 Specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
2919 </desc>
2920 </param>
2921 <param name="changed" type="wstring" dir="out">
2922 <desc>
2923 Comma separated list of properties that have been changed and caused
2924 this method to return to the caller.
2925 </desc>
2926 </param>
2927 <param name="values" type="wstring" dir="out">
2928 <desc>Reserved, not currently used.</desc>
2929 </param>
2930 </method>
2931
2932 <!--method name="createDHCPServerForInterface">
2933 <desc>
2934 Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2935 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2936 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2937 </result>
2938 </desc>
2939 <param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2940 <desc>Network Interface</desc>
2941 </param>
2942 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2943 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2944 </param>
2945 </method-->
2946
2947 <method name="createDHCPServer">
2948 <desc>
2949 Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2950 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2951 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2952 </result>
2953 </desc>
2954 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2955 <desc>server name</desc>
2956 </param>
2957 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2958 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2959 </param>
2960 </method>
2961
2962 <method name="findDHCPServerByNetworkName">
2963 <desc>
2964 Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2965 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2966 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2967 </result>
2968
2969 </desc>
2970 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2971 <desc>server name</desc>
2972 </param>
2973 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2974 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2975 </param>
2976 </method>
2977
2978 <!--method name="findDHCPServerForInterface">
2979 <desc>
2980 Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2981 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2982 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2983 </result>
2984 </desc>
2985 <param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2986 <desc>Network Interface</desc>
2987 </param>
2988 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2989 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2990 </param>
2991 </method-->
2992
2993 <method name="removeDHCPServer">
2994 <desc>
2995 Removes the dhcp server settings
2996 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2997 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2998 </result>
2999 </desc>
3000 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="in">
3001 <desc>Dhcp server settings to be removed</desc>
3002 </param>
3003 </method>
3004
3005 </interface>
3006
3007 <!--
3008 // IVFSExplorer
3009 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3010 -->
3011
3012 <enum
3013 name="VFSType"
3014 uuid="813999ba-b949-48a8-9230-aadc6285e2f2"
3015 >
3016 <desc>
3017 Virtual file systems supported by VFSExplorer.
3018 </desc>
3019
3020 <const name="File" value="1" />
3021 <const name="Cloud" value="2" />
3022 <const name="S3" value="3" />
3023 <const name="WebDav" value="4" />
3024 </enum>
3025
3026 <enum
3027 name="VFSFileType"
3028 uuid="714333cd-44e2-415f-a245-d378fa9b1242"
3029 >
3030 <desc>
3031 File types known by VFSExplorer.
3032 </desc>
3033
3034 <const name="Unknown" value="1" />
3035 <const name="Fifo" value="2" />
3036 <const name="DevChar" value="3" />
3037 <const name="Directory" value="4" />
3038 <const name="DevBlock" value="5" />
3039 <const name="File" value="6" />
3040 <const name="SymLink" value="7" />
3041 <const name="Socket" value="8" />
3042 <const name="WhiteOut" value="9" />
3043 </enum>
3044
3045 <interface
3046 name="IVFSExplorer" extends="$unknown"
3047 uuid="2bb864a1-02a3-4474-a1d4-fb5f23b742e1"
3048 wsmap="managed"
3049 >
3050 <desc>
3051 The VFSExplorer interface unifies access to different file system
3052 types. This includes local file systems as well remote file systems like
3053 S3. For a list of supported types see <link to="VFSType" />.
3054 An instance of this is returned by <link to="IAppliance::createVFSExplorer" />.
3055 </desc>
3056
3057 <attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3058 <desc>Returns the current path in the virtual file system.</desc>
3059 </attribute>
3060
3061 <attribute name="type" type="VFSType" readonly="yes">
3062 <desc>Returns the file system type which is currently in use.</desc>
3063 </attribute>
3064
3065 <method name="update">
3066 <desc>Updates the internal list of files/directories from the
3067 current directory level. Use <link to="#entryList" /> to get the full list
3068 after a call to this method.</desc>
3069
3070 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3071 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3072 </param>
3073 </method>
3074
3075 <method name="cd">
3076 <desc>Change the current directory level.</desc>
3077
3078 <param name="aDir" type="wstring" dir="in">
3079 <desc>The name of the directory to go in.</desc>
3080 </param>
3081
3082 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3083 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3084 </param>
3085 </method>
3086
3087 <method name="cdUp">
3088 <desc>Go one directory upwards from the current directory level.</desc>
3089
3090 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3091 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3092 </param>
3093 </method>
3094
3095 <method name="entryList">
3096 <desc>Returns a list of files/directories after a call to <link
3097 to="#update" />. The user is responsible for keeping this internal
3098 list up do date.</desc>
3099
3100 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
3101 <desc>The list of names for the entries.</desc>
3102 </param>
3103
3104 <param name="aTypes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
3105 <desc>The list of types for the entries.</desc>
3106 </param>
3107 </method>
3108
3109 <method name="exists">
3110 <desc>Checks if the given file list exists in the current directory
3111 level.</desc>
3112
3113 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
3114 <desc>The names to check.</desc>
3115 </param>
3116
3117 <param name="aExists" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
3118 <desc>The names which exist.</desc>
3119 </param>
3120 </method>
3121
3122 <method name="remove">
3123 <desc>Deletes the given files in the current directory level.</desc>
3124
3125 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
3126 <desc>The names to remove.</desc>
3127 </param>
3128
3129 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3130 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3131 </param>
3132 </method>
3133
3134 </interface>
3135
3136 <!--
3137 // IAppliance
3138 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3139 -->
3140
3141 <interface
3142 name="IAppliance" extends="$unknown"
3143 uuid="e3ba9ab9-ac2c-4266-8bd2-91c4bf721ceb"
3144 wsmap="managed"
3145 >
3146 <desc>
3147 Represents a platform-independent appliance in OVF format. An instance of this is returned
3148 by <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />, which can then be used to import and export
3149 appliances with VirtualBox.
3150
3151 The OVF standard suggests two different physical file formats:
3152
3153 <ol>
3154 <li>If the OVF is distributed as a set of files, then @a file must be a fully qualified
3155 path name to an existing OVF descriptor file with an <tt>.ovf</tt> file extension. If
3156 this descriptor file references other files, as OVF appliances distributed as a set of
3157 files most likely do, those files must be in the same directory as the descriptor file.</li>
3158
3159 <li>If the OVF is distributed as a single file, it must be in TAR format and have the
3160 <tt>.ova</tt> file extension. This TAR file must then contain at least the OVF descriptor
3161 files and optionally other files.
3162
3163 At this time, VirtualBox does not not yet support the packed (TAR) variant; support will
3164 be added with a later version.</li>
3165 </ol>
3166
3167 <b>Importing</b> an OVF appliance into VirtualBox as instances of
3168 <link to="IMachine" /> involves the following sequence of API calls:
3169
3170 <ol>
3171 <li>Call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />. This will create an empty IAppliance object.
3172 </li>
3173
3174 <li>On the new object, call <link to="#read" /> with the full path of the OVF file you
3175 would like to import. So long as this file is syntactically valid, this will succeed
3176 and return an instance of IAppliance that contains the parsed data from the OVF file.
3177 </li>
3178
3179 <li>Next, call <link to="#interpret" />, which analyzes the OVF data and sets up the
3180 contents of the IAppliance attributes accordingly. These can be inspected by a
3181 VirtualBox front-end such as the GUI, and the suggestions can be displayed to the
3182 user. In particular, the <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array contains
3183 instances of <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> which represent the virtual
3184 systems in the OVF, which in turn describe the virtual hardware prescribed by the
3185 OVF (network and hardware adapters, virtual disk images, memory size and so on).
3186 The GUI can then give the user the option to confirm and/or change these suggestions.
3187 </li>
3188
3189 <li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
3190 virtual system to override the suggestions made by the interpret() routine.
3191 </li>
3192
3193 <li>Finally, call <link to="#importMachines" /> to create virtual machines in
3194 VirtualBox as instances of <link to="IMachine" /> that match the information in the
3195 virtual system descriptions.
3196 </li>
3197 </ol>
3198
3199 <b>Exporting</b> VirtualBox machines into an OVF appliance involves the following steps:
3200
3201 <ol>
3202 <li>As with importing, first call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" /> to create
3203 an empty IAppliance object.
3204 </li>
3205
3206 <li>For each machine you would like to export, call <link to="IMachine::export" />
3207 with the IAppliance object you just created. This creates an instance of
3208 <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> inside the appliance.
3209 </li>
3210
3211 <li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
3212 virtual system to override the suggestions made by the export() routine.
3213 </li>
3214
3215 <li>Finally, call <link to="#write" /> with a path specification to have the OVF
3216 file written.</li>
3217 </ol>
3218
3219 </desc>
3220
3221 <attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3222 <desc>Path to the main file of the OVF appliance, which is either the <tt>.ovf</tt> or
3223 the <tt>.ova</tt> file passed to <link to="#read" /> (for import) or
3224 <link to="#write" /> (for export).
3225 This attribute is empty until one of these methods has been called.
3226 </desc>
3227 </attribute>
3228
3229 <attribute name="disks" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3230 <desc>
3231 Array of virtual disk definitions. One such description exists for each
3232 disk definition in the OVF; each string array item represents one such piece of
3233 disk information, with the information fields separated by tab (\\t) characters.
3234
3235 The caller should be prepared for additional fields being appended to
3236 this string in future versions of VirtualBox and therefore check for
3237 the number of tabs in the strings returned.
3238
3239 In the current version, the following eight fields are returned per string
3240 in the array:
3241
3242 <ol>
3243 <li>Disk ID (unique string identifier given to disk)</li>
3244
3245 <li>Capacity (unsigned integer indicating the maximum capacity of the disk)</li>
3246
3247 <li>Populated size (optional unsigned integer indicating the current size of the
3248 disk; can be approximate; -1 if unspecified)</li>
3249
3250 <li>Format (string identifying the disk format, typically
3251 "http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse")</li>
3252
3253 <li>Reference (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty,
3254 then the disk should be created on import)</li>
3255
3256 <li>Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image,
3257 which need not necessarily be the same as the values specified above, since
3258 the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified)</li>
3259
3260 <li>Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks;
3261 presently unsupported and always -1)</li>
3262
3263 <li>Compression (optional string equalling "gzip" if the image is gzip-compressed)</li>
3264 </ol>
3265 </desc>
3266 </attribute>
3267
3268 <attribute name="virtualSystemDescriptions" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3269 <desc> Array of virtual system descriptions. One such description is created
3270 for each virtual system found in the OVF.
3271 This array is empty until either <link to="#interpret" /> (for import) or <link to="IMachine::export" />
3272 (for export) has been called.
3273 </desc>
3274 </attribute>
3275
3276 <method name="read">
3277 <desc>
3278 Reads an OVF file into the appliance object.
3279
3280 This method succeeds if the OVF is syntactically valid and, by itself, without errors. The
3281 mere fact that this method returns successfully does not mean that VirtualBox supports all
3282 features requested by the appliance; this can only be examined after a call to <link to="#interpret" />.
3283 </desc>
3284 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
3285 <desc>
3286 Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
3287 on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
3288 </desc>
3289 </param>
3290 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3291 <desc></desc>
3292 </param>
3293 </method>
3294
3295 <method name="interpret">
3296 <desc>
3297 Interprets the OVF data that was read when the appliance was constructed. After
3298 calling this method, one can inspect the
3299 <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array attribute, which will then contain
3300 one <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> for each virtual machine found in
3301 the appliance.
3302
3303 Calling this method is the second step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
3304 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
3305
3306 After calling this method, one should call <link to="#getWarnings" /> to find out
3307 if problems were encountered during the processing which might later lead to
3308 errors.
3309 </desc>
3310 </method>
3311
3312 <method name="importMachines">
3313 <desc>
3314 Imports the appliance into VirtualBox by creating instances of <link to="IMachine" />
3315 and other interfaces that match the information contained in the appliance as
3316 closely as possible, as represented by the import instructions in the
3317 <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
3318
3319 Calling this method is the final step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
3320 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
3321
3322 Since importing the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
3323 disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
3324 returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
3325 </desc>
3326
3327 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3328 <desc></desc>
3329 </param>
3330 </method>
3331
3332 <method name="createVFSExplorer">
3333 <desc>Returns a <link to="IVFSExplorer" /> object for the given URI.</desc>
3334
3335 <param name="aUri" type="wstring" dir="in">
3336 <desc>The URI describing the file system to use.</desc>
3337 </param>
3338
3339 <param name="aExplorer" type="IVFSExplorer" dir="return">
3340 <desc></desc>
3341 </param>
3342 </method>
3343
3344 <method name="write">
3345 <desc>
3346 Writes the contents of the appliance exports into a new OVF file.
3347
3348 Calling this method is the final step of exporting an appliance from VirtualBox;
3349 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
3350
3351 Since exporting the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
3352 disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
3353 returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
3354 </desc>
3355 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
3356 <desc>
3357 Output format, as a string. Currently supported formats are "ovf-0.9" and "ovf-1.0";
3358 future versions of VirtualBox may support additional formats.
3359 </desc>
3360 </param>
3361 <param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
3362 <desc>
3363 Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
3364 on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
3365 </desc>
3366 </param>
3367 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3368 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3369 </param>
3370 </method>
3371
3372 <method name="getWarnings">
3373 <desc>Returns textual warnings which occured during execution of <link to="#interpret" />.</desc>
3374
3375 <param name="aWarnings" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
3376 <desc></desc>
3377 </param>
3378 </method>
3379
3380 </interface>
3381
3382 <enum
3383 name="VirtualSystemDescriptionType"
3384 uuid="aacc58de-5b45-4f82-ae2e-dd9a824fc3b5"
3385 >
3386 <desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> to describe the type of
3387 a configuration value.</desc>
3388
3389 <const name="Ignore" value="1" />
3390 <const name="OS" value="2" />
3391 <const name="Name" value="3" />
3392 <const name="Product" value="4" />
3393 <const name="Vendor" value="5" />
3394 <const name="Version" value="6" />
3395 <const name="ProductUrl" value="7" />
3396 <const name="VendorUrl" value="8" />
3397 <const name="Description" value="9" />
3398 <const name="License" value="10" />
3399 <const name="Miscellaneous" value="11" />
3400 <const name="CPU" value="12" />
3401 <const name="Memory" value="13" />
3402 <const name="HardDiskControllerIDE" value="14" />
3403 <const name="HardDiskControllerSATA" value="15" />
3404 <const name="HardDiskControllerSCSI" value="16" />
3405 <const name="HardDiskImage" value="17" />
3406 <const name="Floppy" value="18" />
3407 <const name="CDROM" value="19" />
3408 <const name="NetworkAdapter" value="20" />
3409 <const name="USBController" value="21" />
3410 <const name="SoundCard" value="22" />
3411
3412 </enum>
3413
3414 <enum
3415 name="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType"
3416 uuid="56d9403f-3425-4118-9919-36f2a9b8c77c"
3417 >
3418 <desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::getValuesByType" /> to describe the value
3419 type to fetch.</desc>
3420
3421 <const name="Reference" value="1" />
3422 <const name="Original" value="2" />
3423 <const name="Auto" value="3" />
3424 <const name="ExtraConfig" value="4" />
3425
3426 </enum>
3427
3428 <interface
3429 name="IVirtualSystemDescription" extends="$unknown"
3430 uuid="d7525e6c-531a-4c51-8e04-41235083a3d8"
3431 wsmap="managed"
3432 >
3433
3434 <desc>This interface is used in the <link to="IAppliance::virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
3435 After <link to="IAppliance::interpret" /> has been called, that array contains
3436 information about how the virtual systems described in the OVF should best be imported into VirtualBox
3437 virtual machines. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the steps required to import an OVF
3438 into VirtualBox.
3439 </desc>
3440
3441 <attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
3442 <desc>Return the number of virtual system description entries.</desc>
3443 </attribute>
3444
3445 <method name="getDescription">
3446 <desc>Returns information about the virtual system as arrays of instruction items. In each array, the
3447 items with the same indices correspond and jointly represent an import instruction for VirtualBox.
3448
3449 The list below identifies the value sets that are possible depending on the
3450 <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" /> enum value in the array item in aTypes[]. In each case,
3451 the array item with the same index in aOvfValues[] will contain the original value as contained
3452 in the OVF file (just for informational purposes), and the corresponding item in aVBoxValues[]
3453 will contain a suggested value to be used for VirtualBox. Depending on the description type,
3454 the aExtraConfigValues[] array item may also be used.
3455
3456 <ul>
3457 <li>
3458 "OS": the guest operating system type. There must be exactly one such array item on import. The
3459 corresponding item in aVBoxValues[] contains the suggested guest operating system for VirtualBox.
3460 This will be one of the values listed in <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes" />. The corresponding
3461 item in aOvfValues[] will contain a numerical value that described the operating system in the OVF.
3462 </li>
3463 <li>
3464 "Name": the name to give to the new virtual machine. There can be at most one such array item;
3465 if none is present on import, then an automatic name will be created from the operating system
3466 type. The correponding item im aOvfValues[] will contain the suggested virtual machine name
3467 from the OVF file, and aVBoxValues[] will contain a suggestion for a unique VirtualBox
3468 <link to="IMachine" /> name that does not exist yet.
3469 </li>
3470 <li>
3471 "Description": an arbitrary description.
3472 </li>
3473 <li>
3474 "License": the EULA section from the OVF, if present. It is the responsibility of the calling
3475 code to display such a license for agreement; the Main API does not enforce any such policy.
3476 </li>
3477 <li>
3478 Miscellaneous: reserved for future use.
3479 </li>
3480 <li>
3481 "CPU": the number of CPUs. There can be at most one such item, which will presently be ignored.
3482 </li>
3483 <li>
3484 "Memory": the amount of guest RAM, in bytes. There can be at most one such array item; if none
3485 is present on import, then VirtualBox will set a meaningful default based on the operating system
3486 type.
3487 </li>
3488 <li>
3489 "HarddiskControllerIDE": an IDE hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
3490 has no value in aOvfValues[] or aVBoxValues[].
3491 The matching item in the aRefs[] array will contain an integer that items of the "Harddisk"
3492 type can use to specify which hard disk controller a virtual disk should be connected to.
3493 </li>
3494 <li>
3495 "HarddiskControllerSATA": an SATA hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
3496 has no value in aOvfValues[] or aVBoxValues[].
3497 The matching item in the aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
3498 </li>
3499 <li>
3500 "HarddiskControllerSCSI": a SCSI hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item.
3501 The items in aOvfValues[] and aVBoxValues[] will either be "LsiLogic" or "BusLogic".
3502 The matching item in the aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
3503 </li>
3504 <li>
3505 "HardDiskImage": a virtual hard disk, most probably as a reference to an image file. There can be an
3506 arbitrary number of these items, one for each virtual disk image that accompanies the OVF.
3507
3508 The array item in aOvfValues[] will contain the file specification from the OVF file (without
3509 a path since the image file should be in the same location as the OVF file itself), whereas the
3510 item in aVBoxValues[] will contain a qualified path specification to where VirtualBox uses the
3511 hard disk image. This means that on import the image will be copied and converted from the
3512 "ovf" location to the "vbox" location; on export, this will be handled the other way round.
3513 On import, the target image will also be registered with VirtualBox.
3514
3515 The matching item in the aExtraConfigValues[] array must contain a string of the following
3516 format: "controller=&lt;index&gt;;channel=&lt;c&gt;"
3517 In this string, &lt;index&gt; must be an integer specifying the hard disk controller to connect
3518 the image to. That number must be the index of an array item with one of the hard disk controller
3519 types (HarddiskControllerSCSI, HarddiskControllerSATA, HarddiskControllerIDE).
3520 In addition, &lt;c&gt; must specify the channel to use on that controller. For IDE controllers,
3521 this can range from 0-3 (which VirtualBox will interpret as primary master, primary slave, secondary master and
3522 secondary slave. For SATA and SCSI controllers, the channel can range from 0-29.
3523 </li>
3524 <li>
3525 "NetworkAdapter": a network adapter. The array item in aVBoxValues[] will specify the hardware
3526 for the network adapter, whereas the array item in aExtraConfigValues[] will have a string
3527 of the "type=&lt;X&gt;" format, where &lt;X&gt; must be either "NAT" or "Bridged".
3528 </li>
3529 <li>
3530 "USBController": a USB controller. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an
3531 item ispresent, USB support will be enabled for the new virtual machine.
3532 </li>
3533 <li>
3534 "SoundCard": a sound card. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an item is
3535 present, sound support will be enabled for the new virtual machine. Note that the virtual
3536 machine in VirtualBox will always be presented with the standard VirtualBox soundcard, which
3537 may be different from the virtual soundcard expected by the appliance.
3538 </li>
3539 </ul>
3540
3541 </desc>
3542
3543 <param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3544 <desc></desc>
3545 </param>
3546
3547 <param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3548 <desc></desc>
3549 </param>
3550
3551 <param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3552 <desc></desc>
3553 </param>
3554
3555 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3556 <desc></desc>
3557 </param>
3558
3559 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3560 <desc></desc>
3561 </param>
3562
3563 </method>
3564
3565 <method name="getDescriptionByType">
3566 <desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescription" /> except that you can specify which types
3567 should be returned.</desc>
3568
3569 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
3570 <desc></desc>
3571 </param>
3572
3573 <param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3574 <desc></desc>
3575 </param>
3576
3577 <param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3578 <desc></desc>
3579 </param>
3580
3581 <param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3582 <desc></desc>
3583 </param>
3584
3585 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3586 <desc></desc>
3587 </param>
3588
3589 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3590 <desc></desc>
3591 </param>
3592
3593 </method>
3594
3595 <method name="getValuesByType">
3596 <desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescriptionByType" /> except that you can specify which
3597 value types should be returned. See <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" /> for possible
3598 values.</desc>
3599
3600 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
3601 <desc></desc>
3602 </param>
3603
3604 <param name="aWhich" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" dir="in">
3605 <desc></desc>
3606 </param>
3607
3608 <param name="aValues" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
3609 <desc></desc>
3610 </param>
3611
3612 </method>
3613
3614 <method name="setFinalValues">
3615 <desc>
3616 This method allows the appliance's user to change the configuration for the virtual
3617 system descriptions. For each array item returned from <link to="#getDescription" />,
3618 you must pass in one boolean value and one configuration value.
3619
3620 Each item in the boolean array determines whether the particular configuration item
3621 should be enabled.
3622 You can only disable items of the types HardDiskControllerIDE, HardDiskControllerSATA,
3623 HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskImage, CDROM, Floppy, NetworkAdapter, USBController
3624 and SoundCard.
3625
3626 For the "vbox" and "extra configuration" values, if you pass in the same arrays
3627 as returned in the aVBoxValues and aExtraConfigValues arrays from getDescription(),
3628 the configuration remains unchanged. Please see the documentation for getDescription()
3629 for valid configuration values for the individual array item types. If the
3630 corresponding item in the aEnabled array is @c false, the configuration value is ignored.
3631 </desc>
3632
3633 <param name="aEnabled" type="boolean" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3634 <desc></desc>
3635 </param>
3636
3637 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3638 <desc></desc>
3639 </param>
3640
3641 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3642 <desc></desc>
3643 </param>
3644 </method>
3645
3646 <method name="addDescription">
3647 <desc>
3648 This method adds an additional description entry to the stack of already
3649 available descriptions for this virtual system. This is handy for writing
3650 values which aren't directly supported by VirtualBox. One example would
3651 be the License type of <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" />.
3652 </desc>
3653
3654 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
3655 <desc></desc>
3656 </param>
3657
3658 <param name="aVBoxValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
3659 <desc></desc>
3660 </param>
3661
3662 <param name="aExtraConfigValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
3663 <desc></desc>
3664 </param>
3665 </method>
3666 </interface>
3667
3668
3669 <!--
3670 // IMachine
3671 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
3672 -->
3673
3674 <interface
3675 name="IInternalMachineControl" extends="$unknown"
3676 uuid="4e2b8f0f-6575-49d2-bb19-5cd15a6ca2f0"
3677 internal="yes"
3678 wsmap="suppress"
3679 >
3680 <method name="setRemoveSavedState">
3681 <desc>
3682 Updates the flag whether saved state is removed on a machine state
3683 change from Saved to PoweredOff.
3684 </desc>
3685 <param name="aRemove" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3686 </method>
3687
3688 <method name="updateState">
3689 <desc>
3690 Updates the VM state.
3691 <note>
3692 This operation will also update the settings file with
3693 the correct information about the saved state file
3694 and delete this file from disk when appropriate.
3695 </note>
3696 </desc>
3697 <param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
3698 </method>
3699
3700 <method name="getIPCId">
3701 <param name="id" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
3702 </method>
3703
3704 <method name="runUSBDeviceFilters">
3705 <desc>
3706 Asks the server to run USB devices filters of the associated
3707 machine against the given USB device and tell if there is
3708 a match.
3709 <note>
3710 Intended to be used only for remote USB devices. Local
3711 ones don't require to call this method (this is done
3712 implicitly by the Host and USBProxyService).
3713 </note>
3714 </desc>
3715 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
3716 <param name="matched" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
3717 <param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
3718 </method>
3719
3720 <method name="captureUSBDevice">
3721 <desc>
3722 Requests a capture of the given host USB device.
3723 When the request is completed, the VM process will
3724 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3725 notification.
3726 </desc>
3727 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3728 </method>
3729
3730 <method name="detachUSBDevice">
3731 <desc>
3732 Notification that a VM is going to detach (@a done = @c false) or has
3733 already detached (@a done = @c true) the given USB device.
3734 When the @a done = @c true request is completed, the VM process will
3735 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceDetach"/>
3736 notification.
3737 <note>
3738 In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3739 and filters of all VMs but this one on the detached device
3740 as if it were just attached to the host computer.
3741 </note>
3742 </desc>
3743 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3744 <param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3745 </method>
3746
3747 <method name="autoCaptureUSBDevices">
3748 <desc>
3749 Requests a capture all matching USB devices attached to the host.
3750 When the request is completed, the VM process will
3751 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3752 notification per every captured device.
3753 </desc>
3754 </method>
3755
3756 <method name="detachAllUSBDevices">
3757 <desc>
3758 Notification that a VM that is being powered down. The done
3759 parameter indicates whether which stage of the power down
3760 we're at. When @a done = @c false the VM is announcing its
3761 intentions, while when @a done = @c true the VM is reporting
3762 what it has done.
3763 <note>
3764 In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3765 and filters of all VMs but this one on all detach devices as
3766 if they were just attached to the host computer.
3767 </note>
3768 </desc>
3769 <param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3770 </method>
3771
3772 <method name="onSessionEnd">
3773 <desc>
3774 Triggered by the given session object when the session is about
3775 to close normally.
3776 </desc>
3777 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
3778 <desc>Session that is being closed</desc>
3779 </param>
3780 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3781 <desc>
3782 Used to wait until the corresponding machine is actually
3783 dissociated from the given session on the server.
3784 Returned only when this session is a direct one.
3785 </desc>
3786 </param>
3787 </method>
3788
3789 <method name="beginSavingState">
3790 <desc>
3791 Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3792 save the current state and stop the VM execution.
3793 </desc>
3794 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3795 <desc>
3796 Progress object created by the VM process to wait until
3797 the state is saved.
3798 </desc>
3799 </param>
3800 <param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3801 <desc>
3802 File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3803 </desc>
3804 </param>
3805 </method>
3806
3807 <method name="endSavingState">
3808 <desc>
3809 Called by the VM process to inform the server that saving
3810 the state previously requested by #beginSavingState is either
3811 successfully finished or there was a failure.
3812
3813 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3814 Settings file not accessible.
3815 </result>
3816 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3817 Could not parse the settings file.
3818 </result>
3819
3820 </desc>
3821
3822 <param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3823 <desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise.
3824 </desc>
3825 </param>
3826 </method>
3827
3828 <method name="adoptSavedState">
3829 <desc>
3830 Gets called by IConsole::adoptSavedState.
3831 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3832 Invalid saved state file path.
3833 </result>
3834 </desc>
3835 <param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
3836 <desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
3837 </param>
3838 </method>
3839
3840 <method name="beginTakingSnapshot">
3841 <desc>
3842 Called from the VM process to request from the server to perform the
3843 server-side actions of creating a snapshot (creating differencing images
3844 and the snapshot object).
3845
3846 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3847 Settings file not accessible.
3848 </result>
3849 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3850 Could not parse the settings file.
3851 </result>
3852 </desc>
3853 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3854 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3855 </param>
3856 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3857 <desc>Snapshot name.</desc>
3858 </param>
3859 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
3860 <desc>Snapshot description.</desc>
3861 </param>
3862 <param name="consoleProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3863 <desc>
3864 Progress object created by the VM process tracking the
3865 snapshot's progress. This has the following sub-operations:
3866 <ul>
3867 <li>setting up (weight 1);</li>
3868 <li>one for each medium attachment that needs a differencing image (weight 1 each);</li>
3869 <li>another one to copy the VM state (if offline with saved state, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3870 <li>another one to save the VM state (if online, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3871 <li>finishing up (weight 1)</li>
3872 </ul>
3873 </desc>
3874 </param>
3875 <param name="fTakingSnapshotOnline" type="boolean" dir="in">
3876 <desc>
3877 Whether this is an online snapshot (i.e. the machine is running).
3878 </desc>
3879 </param>
3880 <param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3881 <desc>
3882 File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3883 </desc>
3884 </param>
3885 </method>
3886
3887 <method name="endTakingSnapshot">
3888 <desc>
3889 Called by the VM process to inform the server that the snapshot
3890 previously requested by #beginTakingSnapshot is either
3891 successfully taken or there was a failure.
3892 </desc>
3893
3894 <param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3895 <desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise</desc>
3896 </param>
3897 </method>
3898
3899 <method name="deleteSnapshot">
3900 <desc>
3901 Gets called by IConsole::deleteSnapshot.
3902 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3903 Snapshot has more than one child snapshot.
3904 </result>
3905 </desc>
3906 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3907 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3908 </param>
3909 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
3910 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to discard.</desc>
3911 </param>
3912 <param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3913 <desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3914 </param>
3915 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3916 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3917 </param>
3918 </method>
3919
3920 <method name="restoreSnapshot">
3921 <desc>
3922 Gets called by IConsole::RestoreSnapshot.
3923 </desc>
3924 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3925 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3926 </param>
3927 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
3928 <desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
3929 </param>
3930 <param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3931 <desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3932 </param>
3933 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3934 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3935 </param>
3936 </method>
3937
3938 <method name="pullGuestProperties">
3939 <desc>
3940 Get the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3941 with their values, time stamps and flags and give responsibility for
3942 managing properties to the console.
3943 </desc>
3944 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3945 <desc>
3946 The names of the properties returned.
3947 </desc>
3948 </param>
3949 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3950 <desc>
3951 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3952 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3953 </desc>
3954 </param>
3955 <param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3956 <desc>
3957 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
3958 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3959 </desc>
3960 </param>
3961 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3962 <desc>
3963 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3964 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3965 </desc>
3966 </param>
3967 </method>
3968
3969 <method name="pushGuestProperties">
3970 <desc>
3971 Set the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3972 with their values, time stamps and flags and return responsibility for
3973 managing properties to IMachine.
3974 </desc>
3975 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3976 <desc>
3977 The names of the properties.
3978 </desc>
3979 </param>
3980 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3981 <desc>
3982 The values of the properties. The array entries match the
3983 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3984 </desc>
3985 </param>
3986 <param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3987 <desc>
3988 The time stamps of the properties. The array entries match
3989 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3990 </desc>
3991 </param>
3992 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
3993 <desc>
3994 The flags of the properties. The array entries match the
3995 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3996 </desc>
3997 </param>
3998 </method>
3999 <method name="pushGuestProperty">
4000 <desc>
4001 Update a single guest property in IMachine.
4002 </desc>
4003 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4004 <desc>
4005 The name of the property to be updated.
4006 </desc>
4007 </param>
4008 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
4009 <desc>
4010 The value of the property.
4011 </desc>
4012 </param>
4013 <param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="in">
4014 <desc>
4015 The timestamp of the property.
4016 </desc>
4017 </param>
4018 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
4019 <desc>
4020 The flags of the property.
4021 </desc>
4022 </param>
4023 </method>
4024
4025 <method name="lockMedia">
4026 <desc>
4027 Locks all media attached to the machine for writing and parents of
4028 attached differencing media (if any) for reading. This operation is
4029 atomic so that if it fails no media is actually locked.
4030
4031 This method is intended to be called when the machine is in Starting or
4032 Restoring state. The locked media will be automatically unlocked when
4033 the machine is powered off or crashed.
4034 </desc>
4035 </method>
4036 </interface>
4037
4038 <interface
4039 name="IBIOSSettings" extends="$unknown"
4040 uuid="38b54279-dc35-4f5e-a431-835b867c6b5e"
4041 wsmap="managed"
4042 >
4043 <desc>
4044 The IBIOSSettings interface represents BIOS settings of the virtual
4045 machine. This is used only in the <link to="IMachine::BIOSSettings" /> attribute.
4046 </desc>
4047 <attribute name="logoFadeIn" type="boolean">
4048 <desc>Fade in flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
4049 </attribute>
4050
4051 <attribute name="logoFadeOut" type="boolean">
4052 <desc>Fade out flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
4053 </attribute>
4054
4055 <attribute name="logoDisplayTime" type="unsigned long">
4056 <desc>BIOS logo display time in milliseconds (0 = default).</desc>
4057 </attribute>
4058
4059 <attribute name="logoImagePath" type="wstring">
4060 <desc>Local file system path for external BIOS image.</desc>
4061 </attribute>
4062
4063 <attribute name="bootMenuMode" type="BIOSBootMenuMode">
4064 <desc>Mode of the BIOS boot device menu.</desc>
4065 </attribute>
4066
4067 <attribute name="ACPIEnabled" type="boolean">
4068 <desc>ACPI support flag.</desc>
4069 </attribute>
4070
4071 <attribute name="IOAPICEnabled" type="boolean">
4072 <desc>
4073 IO APIC support flag. If set, VirtualBox will provide an IO APIC
4074 and support IRQs above 15.
4075 </desc>
4076 </attribute>
4077
4078 <attribute name="timeOffset" type="long long">
4079 <desc>
4080 Offset in milliseconds from the host system time. This allows for
4081 guests running with a different system date/time than the host.
4082 It is equivalent to setting the system date/time in the BIOS except
4083 it is not an absolute value but a relative one. Guest Additions
4084 time synchronization honors this offset.
4085 </desc>
4086 </attribute>
4087
4088 <attribute name="PXEDebugEnabled" type="boolean">
4089 <desc>
4090 PXE debug logging flag. If set, VirtualBox will write extensive
4091 PXE trace information to the release log.
4092 </desc>
4093 </attribute>
4094
4095 </interface>
4096
4097 <interface
4098 name="IMachine" extends="$unknown"
4099 uuid="e2e5bab4-16ff-4ef4-b9df-f0b4433c1d1b"
4100 wsmap="managed"
4101 >
4102 <desc>
4103 The IMachine interface represents a virtual machine, or guest, created
4104 in VirtualBox.
4105
4106 This interface is used in two contexts. First of all, a collection of
4107 objects implementing this interface is stored in the
4108 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute which lists all the virtual
4109 machines that are currently registered with this VirtualBox
4110 installation. Also, once a session has been opened for the given virtual
4111 machine (e.g. the virtual machine is running), the machine object
4112 associated with the open session can be queried from the session object;
4113 see <link to="ISession"/> for details.
4114
4115 The main role of this interface is to expose the settings of the virtual
4116 machine and provide methods to change various aspects of the virtual
4117 machine's configuration. For machine objects stored in the
4118 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> collection, all attributes are
4119 read-only unless explicitly stated otherwise in individual attribute
4120 and method descriptions. In order to change a machine setting, a session
4121 for this machine must be opened using one of
4122 <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>,
4123 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> or
4124 <link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/> methods. After the
4125 session has been successfully opened, a mutable machine object needs to
4126 be queried from the session object and then the desired settings changes
4127 can be applied to the returned object using IMachine attributes and
4128 methods. See the <link to="ISession"/> interface description for more
4129 information about sessions.
4130
4131 Note that IMachine does not provide methods to control virtual machine
4132 execution (such as start the machine, or power it down) -- these methods
4133 are grouped in a separate interface called <link to="IConsole" />.
4134
4135 <see>ISession, IConsole</see>
4136 </desc>
4137
4138 <attribute name="parent" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
4139 <desc>Associated parent object.</desc>
4140 </attribute>
4141
4142 <attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4143 <desc>
4144 Whether this virtual machine is currently accessible or not.
4145
4146 A machine is always deemed accessible unless it is registered <i>and</i>
4147 its settings file cannot be read or parsed (either because the file itself
4148 is unavailable or has invalid XML contents).
4149
4150 Every time this property is read, the accessibility state of
4151 this machine is re-evaluated. If the returned value is @c false,
4152 the <link to="#accessError"/> property may be used to get the
4153 detailed error information describing the reason of
4154 inaccessibility, including XML error messages.
4155
4156 When the machine is inaccessible, only the following properties
4157 can be used on it:
4158 <ul>
4159 <li><link to="#parent"/></li>
4160 <li><link to="#id"/></li>
4161 <li><link to="#settingsFilePath"/></li>
4162 <li><link to="#accessible"/></li>
4163 <li><link to="#accessError"/></li>
4164 </ul>
4165
4166 An attempt to access any other property or method will return
4167 an error.
4168
4169 The only possible action you can perform on an inaccessible
4170 machine is to unregister it using the
4171 <link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/> call (or, to check
4172 for the accessibility state once more by querying this
4173 property).
4174
4175 <note>
4176 In the current implementation, once this property returns
4177 @c true, the machine will never become inaccessible
4178 later, even if its settings file cannot be successfully
4179 read/written any more (at least, until the VirtualBox
4180 server is restarted). This limitation may be removed in
4181 future releases.
4182 </note>
4183 </desc>
4184 </attribute>
4185
4186 <attribute name="accessError" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
4187 <desc>
4188 Error information describing the reason of machine
4189 inaccessibility.
4190
4191 Reading this property is only valid after the last call to
4192 <link to="#accessible"/> returned @c false (i.e. the
4193 machine is currently unaccessible). Otherwise, a @c null
4194 IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object will be returned.
4195 </desc>
4196 </attribute>
4197
4198 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
4199 <desc>
4200 Name of the virtual machine.
4201
4202 Besides being used for human-readable identification purposes
4203 everywhere in VirtualBox, the virtual machine name is also used
4204 as a name of the machine's settings file and as a name of the
4205 subdirectory this settings file resides in. Thus, every time you
4206 change the value of this property, the settings file will be
4207 renamed once you call <link to="#saveSettings"/> to confirm the
4208 change. The containing subdirectory will be also renamed, but
4209 only if it has exactly the same name as the settings file
4210 itself prior to changing this property (for backward compatibility
4211 with previous API releases). The above implies the following
4212 limitations:
4213 <ul>
4214 <li>The machine name cannot be empty.</li>
4215 <li>The machine name can contain only characters that are valid
4216 file name characters according to the rules of the file
4217 system used to store VirtualBox configuration.</li>
4218 <li>You cannot have two or more machines with the same name
4219 if they use the same subdirectory for storing the machine
4220 settings files.</li>
4221 <li>You cannot change the name of the machine if it is running,
4222 or if any file in the directory containing the settings file
4223 is being used by another running machine or by any other
4224 process in the host operating system at a time when
4225 <link to="#saveSettings"/> is called.
4226 </li>
4227 </ul>
4228 If any of the above limitations are hit, <link to="#saveSettings"/>
4229 will return an appropriate error message explaining the exact
4230 reason and the changes you made to this machine will not be
4231 saved.
4232 <note>
4233 For "legacy" machines created using the
4234 <link to="IVirtualBox::createLegacyMachine"/> call,
4235 the above naming limitations do not apply because the
4236 machine name does not affect the settings file name.
4237 The settings file name remains the same as it was specified
4238 during machine creation and never changes.
4239 </note>
4240 </desc>
4241 </attribute>
4242
4243 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
4244 <desc>
4245 Description of the virtual machine.
4246
4247 The description attribute can contain any text and is
4248 typically used to describe the hardware and software
4249 configuration of the virtual machine in detail (i.e. network
4250 settings, versions of the installed software and so on).
4251 </desc>
4252 </attribute>
4253
4254 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
4255 <desc>UUID of the virtual machine.</desc>
4256 </attribute>
4257
4258 <attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring">
4259 <desc>
4260 User-defined identifier of the Guest OS type.
4261 You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
4262 an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
4263 Guest OS type.
4264 <note>
4265 This value may differ from the value returned by
4266 <link to="IGuest::OSTypeId"/> if Guest Additions are
4267 installed to the guest OS.
4268 </note>
4269 </desc>
4270 </attribute>
4271
4272 <attribute name="HardwareVersion" type="wstring">
4273 <desc>Hardware version identifier. Internal use only for now.</desc>
4274 </attribute>
4275
4276 <attribute name="hardwareUUID" type="uuid" mod="string">
4277 <desc>
4278 The UUID presented to the guest via memory tables, hardware and guest
4279 properties. For most VMs this is the same as the @a id, but for VMs
4280 which have been cloned or teleported it may be the same as the source
4281 VM. This latter is because the guest shouldn't notice that it was
4282 cloned or teleported.
4283 </desc>
4284 </attribute>
4285
4286 <attribute name="CPUCount" type="unsigned long">
4287 <desc>Number of virtual CPUs in the VM.</desc>
4288 </attribute>
4289
4290 <attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long">
4291 <desc>System memory size in megabytes.</desc>
4292 </attribute>
4293
4294 <attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
4295 <desc>Initial memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
4296 </attribute>
4297
4298 <attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
4299 <desc>Initial interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
4300 </attribute>
4301
4302 <attribute name="VRAMSize" type="unsigned long">
4303 <desc>Video memory size in megabytes.</desc>
4304 </attribute>
4305
4306 <attribute name="accelerate3DEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4307 <desc>
4308 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
4309 use of the 3D graphics support available on the host.</desc>
4310 </attribute>
4311
4312 <attribute name="accelerate2DVideoEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
4313 <desc>
4314 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
4315 use of the 2D video acceleration support available on the host.</desc>
4316 </attribute>
4317
4318 <attribute name="monitorCount" type="unsigned long">
4319 <desc>
4320 Number of virtual monitors.
4321 <note>
4322 Only effective on Windows XP and later guests with
4323 Guest Additions installed.
4324 </note>
4325 </desc>
4326 </attribute>
4327
4328 <attribute name="BIOSSettings" type="IBIOSSettings" readonly="yes">
4329 <desc>Object containing all BIOS settings.</desc>
4330 </attribute>
4331
4332 <attribute name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType">
4333 <desc>Type of firmware (such as legacy BIOS or EFI), used for initial
4334 bootstrap in this VM.</desc>
4335 </attribute>
4336
4337 <attribute name="snapshotFolder" type="wstring">
4338 <desc>
4339 Full path to the directory used to store snapshot data
4340 (differencing media and saved state files) of this machine.
4341
4342 The initial value of this property is
4343 <tt>&lt;</tt><link to="#settingsFilePath">
4344 path_to_settings_file</link><tt>&gt;/&lt;</tt>
4345 <link to="#id">machine_uuid</link>
4346 <tt>&gt;</tt>.
4347
4348 Currently, it is an error to try to change this property on
4349 a machine that has snapshots (because this would require to
4350 move possibly large files to a different location).
4351 A separate method will be available for this purpose later.
4352
4353 <note>
4354 Setting this property to @c null or to an empty string will restore
4355 the initial value.
4356 </note>
4357 <note>
4358 When setting this property, the specified path can be
4359 absolute (full path) or relative to the directory where the
4360 <link to="#settingsFilePath">machine settings file</link>
4361 is located. When reading this property, a full path is
4362 always returned.
4363 </note>
4364 <note>
4365 The specified path may not exist, it will be created
4366 when necessary.
4367 </note>
4368 </desc>
4369 </attribute>
4370
4371 <attribute name="VRDPServer" type="IVRDPServer" readonly="yes">
4372 <desc>VRDP server object.</desc>
4373 </attribute>
4374
4375 <attribute name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4376 <desc>Array of media attached to this machine.</desc>
4377 </attribute>
4378
4379 <attribute name="USBController" type="IUSBController" readonly="yes">
4380 <desc>
4381 Associated USB controller object.
4382
4383 <note>
4384 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
4385 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
4386 </note>
4387 </desc>
4388 </attribute>
4389
4390 <attribute name="audioAdapter" type="IAudioAdapter" readonly="yes">
4391 <desc>Associated audio adapter, always present.</desc>
4392 </attribute>
4393
4394 <attribute name="storageControllers" type="IStorageController" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4395 <desc>Array of storage controllers attached to this machine.</desc>
4396 </attribute>
4397
4398 <attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4399 <desc>
4400 Full name of the file containing machine settings data.
4401 </desc>
4402 </attribute>
4403
4404 <attribute name="settingsModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4405 <desc>
4406 Whether the settings of this machine have been modified
4407 (but neither yet saved nor discarded).
4408 <note>
4409 Reading this property is only valid on instances returned
4410 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4411 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened
4412 by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
4413 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4414 <link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>. For all other
4415 cases, the settings can never be modified.
4416 </note>
4417 <note>
4418 For newly created unregistered machines, the value of this
4419 property is always @c true until <link to="#saveSettings"/>
4420 is called (no matter if any machine settings have been
4421 changed after the creation or not). For opened machines
4422 the value is set to @c false (and then follows to normal rules).
4423 </note>
4424 </desc>
4425 </attribute>
4426
4427 <attribute name="sessionState" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
4428 <desc>Current session state for this machine.</desc>
4429 </attribute>
4430
4431 <attribute name="sessionType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4432 <desc>
4433 Type of the session. If <link to="#sessionState"/> is
4434 SessionSpawning or SessionOpen, this attribute contains the
4435 same value as passed to the
4436 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> method in the
4437 @a type parameter. If the session was opened directly using
4438 <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>, or if
4439 <link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionClosed, the value of this
4440 attribute is an empty string.
4441 </desc>
4442 </attribute>
4443
4444 <attribute name="sessionPid" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
4445 <desc>
4446 Identifier of the session process. This attribute contains the
4447 platform-dependent identifier of the process that has opened a
4448 direct session for this machine using the
4449 <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> call. The returned value
4450 is only valid if <link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionOpen or
4451 SessionClosing (i.e. a session is currently open or being
4452 closed) by the time this property is read.
4453 </desc>
4454 </attribute>
4455
4456 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
4457 <desc>Current execution state of this machine.</desc>
4458 </attribute>
4459
4460 <attribute name="lastStateChange" type="long long" readonly="yes">
4461 <desc>
4462 Time stamp of the last execution state change,
4463 in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
4464 </desc>
4465 </attribute>
4466
4467 <attribute name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4468 <desc>
4469 Full path to the file that stores the execution state of
4470 the machine when it is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state.
4471 <note>
4472 When the machine is not in the Saved state, this attribute is
4473 an empty string.
4474 </note>
4475 </desc>
4476 </attribute>
4477
4478 <attribute name="logFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4479 <desc>
4480 Full path to the folder that stores a set of rotated log files
4481 recorded during machine execution. The most recent log file is
4482 named <tt>VBox.log</tt>, the previous log file is
4483 named <tt>VBox.log.1</tt> and so on (up to <tt>VBox.log.3</tt>
4484 in the current version).
4485 </desc>
4486 </attribute>
4487
4488 <attribute name="currentSnapshot" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
4489 <desc>
4490 Current snapshot of this machine. This is @c null if the machine
4491 currently has no snapshots. If it is not @c null, then it was
4492 set by one of <link to="Console::takeSnapshot" />,
4493 <link to="Console::deleteSnapshot" />
4494 or <link to="Console::restoreSnapshot" />, depending on which
4495 was called last. See <link to="ISnapshot"/> for details.
4496 </desc>
4497 </attribute>
4498
4499 <attribute name="snapshotCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
4500 <desc>
4501 Number of snapshots taken on this machine. Zero means the
4502 machine doesn't have any snapshots.
4503 </desc>
4504 </attribute>
4505
4506 <attribute name="currentStateModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4507 <desc>
4508 Returns @c true if the current state of the machine is not
4509 identical to the state stored in the current snapshot.
4510
4511 The current state is identical to the current snapshot only
4512 directly after one of the following calls are made:
4513
4514 <ul>
4515 <li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/>
4516 </li>
4517 <li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> (issued on a
4518 "powered off" or "saved" machine, for which
4519 <link to="#settingsModified"/> returns @c false)
4520 </li>
4521 <li><link to="IMachine::setCurrentSnapshot"/>
4522 </li>
4523 </ul>
4524
4525 The current state remains identical until one of the following
4526 happens:
4527 <ul>
4528 <li>settings of the machine are changed</li>
4529 <li>the saved state is discarded</li>
4530 <li>the current snapshot is discarded</li>
4531 <li>an attempt to execute the machine is made</li>
4532 </ul>
4533
4534 <note>
4535 For machines that don't have snapshots, this property is
4536 always @c false.
4537 </note>
4538 </desc>
4539 </attribute>
4540
4541 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4542 <desc>
4543 Collection of shared folders for this machine (permanent shared
4544 folders). These folders are shared automatically at machine startup
4545 and available only to the guest OS installed within this machine.
4546
4547 New shared folders are added to the collection using
4548 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
4549 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
4550 </desc>
4551 </attribute>
4552
4553 <attribute name="clipboardMode" type="ClipboardMode">
4554 <desc>
4555 Synchronization mode between the host OS clipboard
4556 and the guest OS clipboard.
4557 </desc>
4558 </attribute>
4559
4560 <attribute name="guestPropertyNotificationPatterns" type="wstring">
4561 <desc>
4562 A comma-separated list of simple glob patterns. Changes to guest
4563 properties whose name matches one of the patterns will generate an
4564 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onGuestPropertyChange"/> signal.
4565 </desc>
4566 </attribute>
4567
4568 <attribute name="teleporterEnabled" type="boolean">
4569 <desc>
4570 When set to @a true, the virtual machine becomes a target teleporter
4571 the next time it is powered on. This can only set to @a true when the
4572 VM is in the @a PoweredOff or @a Aborted state.
4573
4574 This property is automatically set to @a false when the VM is powered
4575 on.
4576 </desc>
4577 </attribute>
4578
4579 <attribute name="teleporterPort" type="unsigned long">
4580 <desc>
4581 The TCP port the target teleporter will listen for incoming
4582 teleportations on.
4583
4584 0 means the port is automatically selected upon power on. The actual
4585 value can be read from this property while the machine is waiting for
4586 incoming teleportations.
4587 </desc>
4588 </attribute>
4589
4590 <attribute name="teleporterAddress" type="wstring">
4591 <desc>
4592 The address the target teleporter will listen on. If set to an empty
4593 string, it will listen on all addresses.
4594 </desc>
4595 </attribute>
4596
4597 <attribute name="teleporterPassword" type="wstring">
4598 <desc>
4599 The password the to check for on the target teleporter. This is just a
4600 very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
4601 beaming a virtual machine to the wrong place.
4602 </desc>
4603 </attribute>
4604
4605 <method name="setBootOrder">
4606 <desc>
4607 Puts the given device to the specified position in
4608 the boot order.
4609
4610 To indicate that no device is associated with the given position,
4611 <link to="DeviceType_Null"/> should be used.
4612
4613 @todo setHardDiskBootOrder(), setNetworkBootOrder()
4614
4615 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4616 Boot @a position out of range.
4617 </result>
4618 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
4619 Booting from USB @a device currently not supported.
4620 </result>
4621
4622 </desc>
4623 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4624 <desc>
4625 Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4626 devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4627 <link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4628 </desc>
4629 </param>
4630 <param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4631 <desc>
4632 The type of the device used to boot at the given position.
4633 </desc>
4634 </param>
4635 </method>
4636
4637 <method name="getBootOrder" const="yes">
4638 <desc>
4639 Returns the device type that occupies the specified
4640 position in the boot order.
4641
4642 @todo [remove?]
4643 If the machine can have more than one device of the returned type
4644 (such as hard disks), then a separate method should be used to
4645 retrieve the individual device that occupies the given position.
4646
4647 If here are no devices at the given position, then
4648 <link to="DeviceType_Null"/> is returned.
4649
4650 @todo getHardDiskBootOrder(), getNetworkBootOrder()
4651
4652 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4653 Boot @a position out of range.
4654 </result>
4655
4656 </desc>
4657 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4658 <desc>
4659 Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4660 devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4661 <link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4662 </desc>
4663 </param>
4664 <param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="return">
4665 <desc>
4666 Device at the given position.
4667 </desc>
4668 </param>
4669 </method>
4670
4671 <method name="attachDevice">
4672 <desc>
4673 Attaches a device and optionally mounts a medium to the given storage
4674 controller (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4675 at the indicated port and device.
4676
4677 This method is intended for managing storage devices in general (it works
4678 for both fixed and removable media). For storage devices supporting removable
4679 media (such as DVDs and floppies), you can also use <link to="IMedium::mountMedium"/>
4680 for changing the media while the machine is running.
4681
4682 For the IDE bus, the @a controllerPort parameter can be either
4683 @c 0 or @c 1, to specify the primary or secondary IDE controller,
4684 respectively. For each of these, @a device can then be either @c 0 or @c 1,
4685 to specify the master or the slave device, respectively. (In the
4686 default configuration of virtual machines, the secondary master is
4687 used for a CD/DVD drive.)
4688
4689 For an SATA controller, @a controllerPort must be a number ranging
4690 from @c 0 to @c 29. For a SCSI controller, @a controllerPort must
4691 be a number ranging from @c 0 to @c 15.
4692
4693 For both SCSI and SATA, the @a device parameter is unused and must
4694 be @c 0.
4695
4696 For fixed media such as hard disks, the given medium identifier cannot
4697 be a zero UUID. It may be a zero UUID for removable media such as DVDs
4698 and floppies.
4699
4700 After calling this returns successfully, a new instance of
4701 <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> will appear in the machine's list of medium
4702 attachments (<link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/>).
4703
4704 The specified device slot must not have a device attached to it,
4705 or this method will fail.
4706
4707 See <link to="IMedium"/> and <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> for more
4708 information about attaching media.
4709
4710 <note>
4711 You cannot attach a device to a running machine. Also, you cannot
4712 attach a device to a newly created machine until this machine's
4713 settings are saved to disk using <link to="#saveSettings"/>.
4714 </note>
4715 <note>
4716 If the medium is being attached indirectly, a new differencing medium
4717 will implicitly be created for it and attached instead. If the
4718 changes made to the machine settings (including this indirect
4719 attachment) are later cancelled using <link to="#discardSettings"/>,
4720 this implicitly created differencing medium will implicitly
4721 be deleted.
4722 </note>
4723
4724 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4725 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4726 </result>
4727 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4728 Attempt to attach medium to an unregistered virtual machine.
4729 </result>
4730 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4731 Invalid machine state.
4732 </result>
4733 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4734 Hard disk already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4735 </result>
4736
4737 </desc>
4738 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4739 <desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the device to.</desc>
4740 </param>
4741 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4742 <desc>Port to attach the device to.</desc>
4743 </param>
4744 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4745 <desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the device to.</desc>
4746 </param>
4747 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4748 <desc>Device type of the attached device.</desc>
4749 </param>
4750 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
4751 <desc>UUID of the medium to mount. Zero UUID means do not mount any
4752 medium.</desc>
4753 </param>
4754 </method>
4755
4756 <method name="detachDevice">
4757 <desc>
4758 Detaches the device attached to a device slot of the specified bus.
4759
4760 Detaching the device from the virtual machine is deferred. This means
4761 that the medium remains associated with the machine when this method
4762 returns and gets actually de-associated only after a successful
4763 <link to="#saveSettings"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/>
4764 for more detailed information about attaching media.
4765
4766 <note>
4767 You cannot detach a device from a running machine.
4768 </note>
4769 <note>
4770 Detaching differencing media implicitly created by <link
4771 to="#attachDevice"/> for the indirect attachment using this
4772 method will <b>not</b> implicitly delete them. The
4773 <link to="IMedium::deleteStorage"/> operation should be
4774 explicitly performed by the caller after the medium is successfully
4775 detached and the settings are saved with
4776 <link to="#saveSettings"/>, if it is the desired action.
4777 </note>
4778
4779 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4780 Attempt to detach medium from a running virtual machine.
4781 </result>
4782 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4783 No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4784 </result>
4785 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4786 Medium format does not support storage deletion.
4787 </result>
4788
4789 </desc>
4790 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4791 <desc>Name of the storage controller to detach the medium from.</desc>
4792 </param>
4793 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4794 <desc>Port number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4795 </param>
4796 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4797 <desc>Device slot number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4798 </param>
4799 </method>
4800
4801 <method name="passthroughDevice">
4802 <desc>
4803 Sets the passthrough mode of an existing DVD device. Changing the
4804 setting while the VM is running is forbidden. The setting is only used
4805 if at VM start the device is configured as a host DVD drive, in all
4806 other cases it is ignored. The device must already exist; see
4807 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4808
4809 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4810 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4811
4812 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4813 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4814 </result>
4815 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4816 Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4817 </result>
4818 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4819 Invalid machine state.
4820 </result>
4821
4822 </desc>
4823 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4824 <desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4825 </param>
4826 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4827 <desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4828 </param>
4829 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4830 <desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4831 </param>
4832 <param name="passthrough" type="boolean" dir="in">
4833 <desc>New value for the passthrough setting.</desc>
4834 </param>
4835 </method>
4836
4837 <method name="mountMedium">
4838 <desc>
4839 Mounts a medium (<link to="IMedium" />, identified
4840 by the given UUID @a id) to the given storage controller
4841 (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4842 at the indicated port and device. The device must already exist;
4843 see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4844
4845 This method is intended only for managing removable media, where the
4846 device is fixed but media is changeable at runtime (such as DVDs
4847 and floppies). It cannot be used for fixed media such as hard disks.
4848
4849 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4850 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4851
4852 The specified device slot can have a medium mounted, which will be
4853 unmounted first. Specifying a zero UUID (or an empty string) for
4854 @a medium does just an unmount.
4855
4856 See <link to="IMedium"/> for more detailed information about
4857 attaching media.
4858
4859 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4860 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4861 </result>
4862 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4863 Attempt to attach medium to an unregistered virtual machine.
4864 </result>
4865 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4866 Invalid machine state.
4867 </result>
4868 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4869 Medium already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4870 </result>
4871
4872 </desc>
4873 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4874 <desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the medium to.</desc>
4875 </param>
4876 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4877 <desc>Port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4878 </param>
4879 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4880 <desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4881 </param>
4882 <param name="medium" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
4883 <desc>UUID of the medium to attach. A zero UUID means unmount the
4884 currently mounted medium.</desc>
4885 </param>
4886 </method>
4887
4888 <method name="getMedium" const="yes">
4889 <desc>
4890 Returns the virtual medium attached to a device slot of the specified
4891 bus.
4892
4893 Note that if the medium was indirectly attached by
4894 <link to="#mountMedium"/> to the given device slot then this
4895 method will return not the same object as passed to the
4896 <link to="#mountMedium"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/> for
4897 more detailed information about mounting a medium.
4898
4899 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4900 No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4901 </result>
4902
4903 </desc>
4904 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4905 <desc>Name of the storage controller the medium is attached to.</desc>
4906 </param>
4907 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4908 <desc>Port to query.</desc>
4909 </param>
4910 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4911 <desc>Device slot in the given port to query.</desc>
4912 </param>
4913 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
4914 <desc>Attached medium object.</desc>
4915 </param>
4916 </method>
4917
4918 <method name="getMediumAttachmentsOfController" const="yes">
4919 <desc>
4920 Returns an array of medium attachments which are attached to the
4921 the controller with the given name.
4922
4923 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4924 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4925 </result>
4926 </desc>
4927 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4928 <param name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" safearray="yes" dir="return"/>
4929 </method>
4930
4931 <method name="getMediumAttachment" const="yes">
4932 <desc>
4933 Returns a medium attachment which corresponds to the controller with
4934 the given name, on the given port and device slot.
4935
4936 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4937 No attachment exists for the given controller/port/device combination.
4938 </result>
4939 </desc>
4940 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4941 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in"/>
4942 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in"/>
4943 <param name="attachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="return"/>
4944 </method>
4945
4946 <method name="getNetworkAdapter" const="yes">
4947 <desc>
4948 Returns the network adapter associated with the given slot.
4949 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4950 number of adapters per machine is defined by the
4951 <link to="ISystemProperties::networkAdapterCount"/> property,
4952 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4953
4954 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4955 Invalid @a slot number.
4956 </result>
4957
4958 </desc>
4959 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4960 <param name="adapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="return"/>
4961 </method>
4962
4963 <method name="addStorageController">
4964 <desc>
4965 Adds a new storage controller (SCSI or SATA controller) to the
4966 machine and returns it as an instance of
4967 <link to="IStorageController" />.
4968
4969 @a name identifies the controller for subsequent calls such as
4970 <link to="#getStorageControllerByName" />,
4971 <link to="#getStorageControllerByInstance" />,
4972 <link to="#removeStorageController" />,
4973 <link to="#attachDevice" /> or <link to="#mountMedium" />.
4974
4975 After the controller has been added, you can set its exact
4976 type by setting the <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
4977
4978 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4979 A storage controller with given name exists already.
4980 </result>
4981 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4982 Invalid @a controllerType.
4983 </result>
4984 </desc>
4985 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4986 <param name="connectionType" type="StorageBus" dir="in"/>
4987 <param name="controller" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4988 </method>
4989
4990 <method name="getStorageControllerByName" const="yes">
4991 <desc>
4992 Returns a storage controller with the given name.
4993
4994 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4995 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4996 </result>
4997 </desc>
4998 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4999 <param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
5000 </method>
5001
5002 <method name="getStorageControllerByInstance" const="yes">
5003 <desc>
5004 Returns a storage controller with the given instance number.
5005
5006 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5007 A storage controller with given instance number doesn't exist.
5008 </result>
5009 </desc>
5010 <param name="instance" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
5011 <param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
5012 </method>
5013
5014 <method name="removeStorageController">
5015 <desc>
5016 Removes a storage controller from the machine.
5017
5018 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5019 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
5020 </result>
5021 </desc>
5022 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
5023 </method>
5024
5025 <method name="getSerialPort" const="yes">
5026 <desc>
5027 Returns the serial port associated with the given slot.
5028 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
5029 number of serial ports per machine is defined by the
5030 <link to="ISystemProperties::serialPortCount"/> property,
5031 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
5032
5033 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5034 Invalid @a slot number.
5035 </result>
5036
5037 </desc>
5038 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
5039 <param name="port" type="ISerialPort" dir="return"/>
5040 </method>
5041
5042 <method name="getParallelPort" const="yes">
5043 <desc>
5044 Returns the parallel port associated with the given slot.
5045 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
5046 number of parallel ports per machine is defined by the
5047 <link to="ISystemProperties::parallelPortCount"/> property,
5048 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
5049
5050 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5051 Invalid @a slot number.
5052 </result>
5053
5054 </desc>
5055 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
5056 <param name="port" type="IParallelPort" dir="return"/>
5057 </method>
5058
5059 <method name="getExtraDataKeys">
5060 <desc>
5061 Returns an array representing the machine-specific extra data keys
5062 which currently have values defined.
5063 </desc>
5064 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5065 <desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
5066 </param>
5067 </method>
5068
5069 <method name="getExtraData">
5070 <desc>
5071 Returns associated machine-specific extra data.
5072
5073 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
5074 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
5075
5076 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5077 Settings file not accessible.
5078 </result>
5079 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5080 Could not parse the settings file.
5081 </result>
5082
5083 </desc>
5084 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
5085 <desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
5086 </param>
5087 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5088 <desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
5089 </param>
5090 </method>
5091
5092 <method name="setExtraData">
5093 <desc>
5094 Sets associated machine-specific extra data.
5095
5096 If you pass @c null or an empty string as a key @a value, the given
5097 @a key will be deleted.
5098
5099 <note>
5100 Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
5101 registered callbacks using the
5102 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataCanChange"/>
5103 notification for a permission. If one of the callbacks refuses the
5104 new value, the change will not be performed.
5105 </note>
5106 <note>
5107 On success, the
5108 <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onExtraDataChange"/> notification
5109 is called to inform all registered callbacks about a successful data
5110 change.
5111 </note>
5112 <note>
5113 This method can be called outside the machine session and therefore
5114 it's a caller's responsibility to handle possible race conditions
5115 when several clients change the same key at the same time.
5116 </note>
5117
5118 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5119 Settings file not accessible.
5120 </result>
5121 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5122 Could not parse the settings file.
5123 </result>
5124
5125 </desc>
5126 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
5127 <desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
5128 </param>
5129 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5130 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
5131 </param>
5132 </method>
5133
5134 <method name="getCpuProperty" const="yes">
5135 <desc>
5136 Returns the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
5137
5138 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5139 Invalid property.
5140 </result>
5141
5142 </desc>
5143 <param name="property" type="CpuPropertyType" dir="in">
5144 <desc>
5145 Property type to query.
5146 </desc>
5147 </param>
5148 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
5149 <desc>
5150 Property value.
5151 </desc>
5152 </param>
5153 </method>
5154
5155 <method name="setCpuProperty">
5156 <desc>
5157 Sets the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
5158
5159 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5160 Invalid property.
5161 </result>
5162
5163 </desc>
5164 <param name="property" type="CpuPropertyType" dir="in">
5165 <desc>
5166 Property type to query.
5167 </desc>
5168 </param>
5169 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
5170 <desc>
5171 Property value.
5172 </desc>
5173 </param>
5174 </method>
5175
5176 <method name="getCpuIdLeaf" const="yes">
5177 <desc>
5178 Returns the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
5179
5180 Currently supported index values for cpuid:
5181 Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
5182 Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
5183
5184 See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
5185 about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
5186 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5187 Invalid id.
5188 </result>
5189
5190 </desc>
5191 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5192 <desc>
5193 Cpuid leaf index.
5194 </desc>
5195 </param>
5196 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5197 <desc>
5198 Cpuid leaf value for register eax.
5199 </desc>
5200 </param>
5201 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5202 <desc>
5203 Cpuid leaf value for register ebx.
5204 </desc>
5205 </param>
5206 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5207 <desc>
5208 Cpuid leaf value for register ecx.
5209 </desc>
5210 </param>
5211 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5212 <desc>
5213 Cpuid leaf value for register edx.
5214 </desc>
5215 </param>
5216 </method>
5217
5218 <method name="setCpuIdLeaf" const="yes">
5219 <desc>
5220 Sets the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf. Note that these values
5221 are not passed unmodified. VirtualBox clears features that it doesn't support.
5222
5223 Currently supported index values for cpuid:
5224 Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
5225 Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
5226
5227 See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
5228 about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
5229
5230 Do not use this method unless you know exactly what you're doing. Misuse can lead to
5231 random crashes inside VMs.
5232 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5233 Invalid id.
5234 </result>
5235
5236 </desc>
5237 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5238 <desc>
5239 Cpuid leaf index.
5240 </desc>
5241 </param>
5242 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5243 <desc>
5244 Cpuid leaf value for register eax.
5245 </desc>
5246 </param>
5247 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5248 <desc>
5249 Cpuid leaf value for register ebx.
5250 </desc>
5251 </param>
5252 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5253 <desc>
5254 Cpuid leaf value for register ecx.
5255 </desc>
5256 </param>
5257 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5258 <desc>
5259 Cpuid leaf value for register edx.
5260 </desc>
5261 </param>
5262 </method>
5263
5264 <method name="removeCpuIdLeaf" const="yes">
5265 <desc>
5266 Removes the virtual CPU cpuid leaf for the specified index
5267
5268 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5269 Invalid id.
5270 </result>
5271
5272 </desc>
5273 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5274 <desc>
5275 Cpuid leaf index.
5276 </desc>
5277 </param>
5278 </method>
5279
5280 <method name="removeAllCpuIdLeafs" const="yes">
5281 <desc>
5282 Removes all the virtual CPU cpuid leafs
5283 </desc>
5284 </method>
5285
5286 <method name="getHWVirtExProperty" const="yes">
5287 <desc>
5288 Returns the value of the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
5289
5290 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5291 Invalid property.
5292 </result>
5293
5294 </desc>
5295 <param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
5296 <desc>
5297 Property type to query.
5298 </desc>
5299 </param>
5300 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
5301 <desc>
5302 Property value.
5303 </desc>
5304 </param>
5305 </method>
5306
5307 <method name="setHWVirtExProperty">
5308 <desc>
5309 Sets a new value for the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
5310
5311 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5312 Invalid property.
5313 </result>
5314
5315 </desc>
5316 <param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
5317 <desc>
5318 Property type to set.
5319 </desc>
5320 </param>
5321 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
5322 <desc>
5323 New property value.
5324 </desc>
5325 </param>
5326 </method>
5327
5328 <method name="saveSettings">
5329 <desc>
5330 Saves any changes to machine settings made since the session
5331 has been opened or a new machine has been created, or since the
5332 last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/> or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
5333 For registered machines, new settings become visible to all
5334 other VirtualBox clients after successful invocation of this
5335 method.
5336 <note>
5337 The method sends <link to="IVirtualBoxCallback::onMachineDataChange"/>
5338 notification event after the configuration has been successfully
5339 saved (only for registered machines).
5340 </note>
5341 <note>
5342 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5343 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5344 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> but not
5345 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5346 <link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>.
5347 </note>
5348
5349 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5350 Settings file not accessible.
5351 </result>
5352 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5353 Could not parse the settings file.
5354 </result>
5355 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5356 Modification request refused.
5357 </result>
5358
5359 </desc>
5360 </method>
5361
5362 <method name="discardSettings">
5363 <desc>
5364 Discards any changes to the machine settings made since the session
5365 has been opened or since the last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/>
5366 or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
5367 <note>
5368 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5369 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5370 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
5371 opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
5372 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5373 <link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>.
5374 </note>
5375
5376 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5377 Virtual machine is not mutable.
5378 </result>
5379
5380 </desc>
5381 </method>
5382
5383 <method name="deleteSettings">
5384 <desc>
5385 Deletes the settings file of this machine from disk.
5386 The machine must not be registered in order for this operation
5387 to succeed.
5388 <note>
5389 <link to="#settingsModified"/> will return @c true after this
5390 method successfully returns.
5391 </note>
5392 <note>
5393 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5394 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5395 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
5396 opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
5397 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5398 <link to="IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine"/>.
5399 </note>
5400 <note>
5401 The deleted machine settings file can be restored (saved again)
5402 by calling <link to="#saveSettings"/>.
5403 </note>
5404
5405 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5406 Cannot delete settings of a registered machine or
5407 machine not mutable.
5408 </result>
5409 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
5410 Could not delete the settings file.
5411 </result>
5412
5413 </desc>
5414 </method>
5415
5416 <method name="export">
5417 <desc>Exports the machine to an OVF appliance. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the
5418 steps required to export VirtualBox machines to OVF.
5419 </desc>
5420
5421 <param name="aAppliance" type="IAppliance" dir="in">
5422 <desc>Appliance to export this machine to.</desc>
5423 </param>
5424 <param name="aDescription" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" dir="return">
5425 <desc>VirtualSystemDescription object which is created for this machine.</desc>
5426 </param>
5427 </method >
5428
5429 <method name="getSnapshot">
5430 <desc>
5431 Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given UUID.
5432 A @c null UUID can be used to obtain the first snapshot
5433 taken on this machine. This is useful if you want to traverse
5434 the whole tree of snapshots starting from the root.
5435
5436 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5437 Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
5438 </result>
5439
5440 </desc>
5441 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
5442 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to get</desc>
5443 </param>
5444 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
5445 <desc>Snapshot object with the given UUID.</desc>
5446 </param>
5447 </method>
5448
5449 <method name="findSnapshot">
5450 <desc>
5451 Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given name.
5452
5453 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5454 Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
5455 </result>
5456
5457 </desc>
5458 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5459 <desc>Name of the snapshot to find</desc>
5460 </param>
5461 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
5462 <desc>Snapshot object with the given name.</desc>
5463 </param>
5464 </method>
5465
5466 <method name="setCurrentSnapshot">
5467 <desc>
5468 Sets the current snapshot of this machine.
5469 <note>
5470 In the current implementation, this operation is not
5471 implemented.
5472 </note>
5473 </desc>
5474 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
5475 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to set as the current snapshot.</desc>
5476 </param>
5477 </method>
5478
5479 <method name="createSharedFolder">
5480 <desc>
5481 Creates a new permanent shared folder by associating the given logical
5482 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
5483 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
5484 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
5485
5486 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5487 Shared folder already exists.
5488 </result>
5489 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5490 Shared folder @a hostPath not accessible.
5491 </result>
5492
5493 </desc>
5494 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5495 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
5496 </param>
5497 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
5498 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
5499 </param>
5500 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
5501 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
5502 </param>
5503 </method>
5504
5505 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
5506 <desc>
5507 Removes the permanent shared folder with the given name previously
5508 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
5509 shared folders and stops sharing it.
5510
5511 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5512 Virtual machine is not mutable.
5513 </result>
5514 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5515 Shared folder @a name does not exist.
5516 </result>
5517
5518 </desc>
5519 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5520 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
5521 </param>
5522 </method>
5523
5524 <method name="canShowConsoleWindow">
5525 <desc>
5526 Returns @c true if the VM console process can activate the
5527 console window and bring it to foreground on the desktop of
5528 the host PC.
5529 <note>
5530 This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5531 currently open.
5532 </note>
5533
5534 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5535 Machine session is not open.
5536 </result>
5537
5538 </desc>
5539 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
5540 <desc>
5541 @c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
5542 </desc>
5543 </param>
5544 </method>
5545
5546 <method name="showConsoleWindow">
5547 <desc>
5548 Activates the console window and brings it to foreground on
5549 the desktop of the host PC. Many modern window managers on
5550 many platforms implement some sort of focus stealing
5551 prevention logic, so that it may be impossible to activate
5552 a window without the help of the currently active
5553 application. In this case, this method will return a non-zero
5554 identifier that represents the top-level window of the VM
5555 console process. The caller, if it represents a currently
5556 active process, is responsible to use this identifier (in a
5557 platform-dependent manner) to perform actual window
5558 activation.
5559 <note>
5560 This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5561 currently open.
5562 </note>
5563
5564 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5565 Machine session is not open.
5566 </result>
5567
5568 </desc>
5569 <param name="winId" type="unsigned long long" dir="return">
5570 <desc>
5571 Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
5572 window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
5573 necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
5574 the given platform and/or VirtualBox front-end.
5575 </desc>
5576 </param>
5577 </method>
5578
5579 <method name="getGuestProperty">
5580 <desc>
5581 Reads an entry from the machine's guest property store.
5582
5583 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5584 Machine session is not open.
5585 </result>
5586
5587 </desc>
5588 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5589 <desc>
5590 The name of the property to read.
5591 </desc>
5592 </param>
5593 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out">
5594 <desc>
5595 The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5596 will be empty.
5597 </desc>
5598 </param>
5599 <param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out">
5600 <desc>
5601 The time at which the property was last modified, as seen by the
5602 server process.
5603 </desc>
5604 </param>
5605 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out">
5606 <desc>
5607 Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5608 "name=value" type entries.
5609 </desc>
5610 </param>
5611 </method>
5612
5613 <method name="getGuestPropertyValue">
5614 <desc>
5615 Reads a value from the machine's guest property store.
5616
5617 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5618 Machine session is not open.
5619 </result>
5620
5621 </desc>
5622 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5623 <desc>
5624 The name of the property to read.
5625 </desc>
5626 </param>
5627 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5628 <desc>
5629 The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5630 will be empty.
5631 </desc>
5632 </param>
5633 </method>
5634
5635 <method name="getGuestPropertyTimestamp">
5636 <desc>
5637 Reads a property timestamp from the machine's guest property store.
5638
5639 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5640 Machine session is not open.
5641 </result>
5642
5643 </desc>
5644 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5645 <desc>
5646 The name of the property to read.
5647 </desc>
5648 </param>
5649 <param name="value" type="unsigned long long" dir="return">
5650 <desc>
5651 The timestamp. If the property does not exist then this will be
5652 empty.
5653 </desc>
5654 </param>
5655 </method>
5656
5657 <method name="setGuestProperty">
5658 <desc>
5659 Sets, changes or deletes an entry in the machine's guest property
5660 store.
5661
5662 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5663 Property cannot be changed.
5664 </result>
5665 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5666 Invalid @a flags.
5667 </result>
5668 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5669 Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5670 </result>
5671 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5672 Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5673 </result>
5674
5675 </desc>
5676 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5677 <desc>
5678 The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5679 </desc>
5680 </param>
5681 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5682 <desc>
5683 The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5684 property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5685 created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5686 deleted if it exists.
5687 </desc>
5688 </param>
5689 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
5690 <desc>
5691 Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5692 "name=value" type entries.
5693 </desc>
5694 </param>
5695 </method>
5696
5697 <method name="setGuestPropertyValue">
5698 <desc>
5699 Sets, changes or deletes a value in the machine's guest property
5700 store. The flags field will be left unchanged or created empty for a
5701 new property.
5702
5703 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5704 Property cannot be changed.
5705 </result>
5706 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5707 Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5708 </result>
5709 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5710 Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5711 </result>
5712 </desc>
5713
5714 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5715 <desc>
5716 The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5717 </desc>
5718 </param>
5719 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5720 <desc>
5721 The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5722 property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5723 created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5724 deleted if it exists.
5725 </desc>
5726 </param>
5727 </method>
5728
5729 <method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
5730 <desc>
5731 Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
5732 with their values, time stamps and flags.
5733 </desc>
5734 <param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
5735 <desc>
5736 The patterns to match the properties against, separated by '|'
5737 characters. If this is empty or @c null, all properties will match.
5738 </desc>
5739 </param>
5740 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5741 <desc>
5742 The names of the properties returned.
5743 </desc>
5744 </param>
5745 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5746 <desc>
5747 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5748 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5749 </desc>
5750 </param>
5751 <param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5752 <desc>
5753 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
5754 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5755 </desc>
5756 </param>
5757 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5758 <desc>
5759 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5760 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5761 </desc>
5762 </param>
5763 </method>
5764</interface>
5765
5766 <!--
5767 // IConsole
5768 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
5769 -->
5770
5771 <interface
5772 name="IConsoleCallback" extends="$unknown"
5773 uuid="d6239535-bda2-4ef7-83f4-f4722e4a3b2c"
5774 wsmap="suppress"
5775 >
5776
5777 <desc>
5778 This interface is used by a client of the Main API that need to
5779 be notified of events. For example, a graphical user interface
5780 can use this to learn about machine state changes so they can
5781 update the list of virtual machines without having to rely
5782 on polling.
5783
5784 Whenever relevant events occur in VirtualBox, the callbacks in
5785 objects of this interface are called. In order for this to be
5786 useful, a client needs to create its own subclass that implements
5787 this interface in which the methods for the relevant callbacks
5788 are overridden. An instance of this subclass interface can then
5789 be passed to <link to="IConsole::registerCallback" />.
5790 </desc>
5791
5792 <method name="onMousePointerShapeChange">
5793 <desc>
5794 Notification when the guest mouse pointer shape has
5795 changed. The new shape data is given.
5796 </desc>
5797 <param name="visible" type="boolean" dir="in">
5798 <desc>
5799 Flag whether the pointer is visible.
5800 </desc>
5801 </param>
5802 <param name="alpha" type="boolean" dir="in">
5803 <desc>
5804 Flag whether the pointer has an alpha channel.
5805 </desc>
5806 </param>
5807 <param name="xHot" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5808 <desc>
5809 The pointer hot spot x coordinate.
5810 </desc>
5811 </param>
5812 <param name="yHot" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5813 <desc>
5814 The pointer hot spot y coordinate.
5815 </desc>
5816 </param>
5817 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5818 <desc>
5819 Width of the pointer shape in pixels.
5820 </desc>
5821 </param>
5822 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5823 <desc>
5824 Height of the pointer shape in pixels.
5825 </desc>
5826 </param>
5827 <param name="shape" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
5828 <desc>
5829 Address of the shape buffer.
5830
5831 The @a shape buffer contains a 1-bpp (bits per pixel) AND mask
5832 followed by a 32-bpp XOR (color) mask.
5833
5834 For pointers without alpha channel the XOR mask pixels are 32
5835 bit values: (lsb)BGR0(msb). For pointers with alpha channel
5836 the XOR mask consists of (lsb)BGRA(msb) 32 bit values.
5837
5838 An AND mask is used for pointers with alpha channel, so if the
5839 callback does not support alpha, the pointer could be
5840 displayed as a normal color pointer.
5841
5842 The AND mask is a 1-bpp bitmap with byte aligned scanlines. The
5843 size of the AND mask therefore is <tt>cbAnd = (width + 7) / 8 *
5844 height</tt>. The padding bits at the end of each scanline are
5845 undefined.
5846
5847 The XOR mask follows the AND mask on the next 4-byte aligned
5848 offset: <tt>uint8_t *pXor = pAnd + (cbAnd + 3) &amp; ~3</tt>.
5849 Bytes in the gap between the AND and the XOR mask are undefined.
5850 The XOR mask scanlines have no gap between them and the size of
5851 the XOR mask is: <tt>cXor = width * 4 * height</tt>.
5852
5853 <note>
5854 If @a shape is 0, only the pointer visibility is changed.
5855 </note>
5856 </desc>
5857 </param>
5858 </method>
5859
5860 <method name="onMouseCapabilityChange">
5861 <desc>
5862 Notification when the mouse capabilities reported by the
5863 guest have changed. The new capabilities are passed.
5864 </desc>
5865 <param name="supportsAbsolute" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5866 <param name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5867 </method>
5868
5869 <method name="onKeyboardLedsChange">
5870 <desc>
5871 Notification when the guest OS executes the KBD_CMD_SET_LEDS command
5872 to alter the state of the keyboard LEDs.
5873 </desc>
5874 <param name="numLock" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5875 <param name="capsLock" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5876 <param name="scrollLock" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5877 </method>
5878
5879 <method name="onStateChange">
5880 <desc>
5881 Notification when the execution state of the machine has changed.
5882 The new state will be given.
5883 </desc>
5884 <param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
5885 </method>
5886
5887 <method name="onAdditionsStateChange">
5888 <desc>
5889 Notification when a Guest Additions property changes.
5890 Interested callees should query IGuest attributes to
5891 find out what has changed.
5892 </desc>
5893 </method>
5894
5895 <method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
5896 <desc>
5897 Notification when a property of one of the
5898 virtual <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter">network adapters</link>
5899 changes. Interested callees should use INetworkAdapter methods and
5900 attributes to find out what has changed.
5901 </desc>
5902 <param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in">
5903 <desc>Network adapter that is subject to change.</desc>
5904 </param>
5905 </method>
5906
5907 <method name="onSerialPortChange">
5908 <desc>
5909 Notification when a property of one of the
5910 virtual <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort">serial ports</link> changes.
5911 Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and attributes
5912 to find out what has changed.
5913 </desc>
5914 <param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in">
5915 <desc>Serial port that is subject to change.</desc>
5916 </param>
5917 </method>
5918
5919 <method name="onParallelPortChange">
5920 <desc>
5921 Notification when a property of one of the
5922 virtual <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort">parallel ports</link>
5923 changes. Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and
5924 attributes to find out what has changed.
5925 </desc>
5926 <param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in">
5927 <desc>Parallel port that is subject to change.</desc>
5928 </param>
5929 </method>
5930
5931 <method name="onStorageControllerChange">
5932 <desc>
5933 Notification when a property of one of the
5934 virtual <link to="IMachine::storageControllers">storage controllers</link>
5935 changes. Interested callees should query the corresponding collections
5936 to find out what has changed.
5937 </desc>
5938 </method>
5939
5940 <method name="onMediumChange">
5941 <desc>
5942 Notification when a
5943 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
5944 changes.
5945 </desc>
5946 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
5947 <desc>Medium attachment that is subject to change.</desc>
5948 </param>
5949 </method>
5950
5951 <method name="onVRDPServerChange">
5952 <desc>
5953 Notification when a property of the
5954 <link to="IMachine::VRDPServer">VRDP server</link> changes.
5955 Interested callees should use IVRDPServer methods and attributes to
5956 find out what has changed.
5957 </desc>
5958 </method>
5959
5960 <method name="onRemoteDisplayInfoChange">
5961 <desc>
5962 Notification when the status of the VRDP server changes. Interested callees
5963 should use <link to="IConsole::RemoteDisplayInfo">IRemoteDisplayInfo</link>
5964 attributes to find out what is the current status.
5965 </desc>
5966 </method>
5967
5968 <method name="onUSBControllerChange">
5969 <desc>
5970 Notification when a property of the virtual
5971 <link to="IMachine::USBController">USB controller</link> changes.
5972 Interested callees should use IUSBController methods and attributes to
5973 find out what has changed.
5974 </desc>
5975 </method>
5976
5977 <method name="onUSBDeviceStateChange">
5978 <desc>
5979 Notification when a USB device is attached to or detached from
5980 the virtual USB controller.
5981
5982 This notification is sent as a result of the indirect
5983 request to attach the device because it matches one of the
5984 machine USB filters, or as a result of the direct request
5985 issued by <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/> or
5986 <link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>.
5987
5988 This notification is sent in case of both a succeeded and a
5989 failed request completion. When the request succeeds, the
5990 @a error parameter is @c null, and the given device has been
5991 already added to (when @a attached is @c true) or removed from
5992 (when @a attached is @c false) the collection represented by
5993 <link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/>. On failure, the collection
5994 doesn't change and the @a error parameter represents the error
5995 message describing the failure.
5996
5997 </desc>
5998 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in">
5999 <desc>Device that is subject to state change.</desc>
6000 </param>
6001 <param name="attached" type="boolean" dir="in">
6002 <desc>
6003 @c true if the device was attached and @c false otherwise.
6004 </desc>
6005 </param>
6006 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in">
6007 <desc>
6008 @c null on success or an error message object on failure.
6009 </desc>
6010 </param>
6011 </method>
6012
6013 <method name="onSharedFolderChange">
6014 <desc>
6015 Notification when a shared folder is added or removed.
6016 The @a scope argument defines one of three scopes:
6017 <link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders">global shared folders</link>
6018 (<link to="Scope_Global">Global</link>),
6019 <link to="IMachine::sharedFolders">permanent shared folders</link> of
6020 the machine (<link to="Scope_Machine">Machine</link>) or <link
6021 to="IConsole::sharedFolders">transient shared folders</link> of the
6022 machine (<link to="Scope_Session">Session</link>). Interested callees
6023 should use query the corresponding collections to find out what has
6024 changed.
6025 </desc>
6026 <param name="scope" type="Scope" dir="in">
6027 <desc>Scope of the notification.</desc>
6028 </param>
6029 </method>
6030
6031 <method name="onRuntimeError">
6032 <desc>
6033 Notification when an error happens during the virtual
6034 machine execution.
6035
6036 There are three kinds of runtime errors:
6037 <ul>
6038 <li><i>fatal</i></li>
6039 <li><i>non-fatal with retry</i></li>
6040 <li><i>non-fatal warnings</i></li>
6041 </ul>
6042
6043 <b>Fatal</b> errors are indicated by the @a fatal parameter set
6044 to @c true. In case of fatal errors, the virtual machine
6045 execution is always paused before calling this notification, and
6046 the notification handler is supposed either to immediately save
6047 the virtual machine state using <link to="IConsole::saveState"/>
6048 or power it off using <link to="IConsole::powerDown"/>.
6049 Resuming the execution can lead to unpredictable results.
6050
6051 <b>Non-fatal</b> errors and warnings are indicated by the
6052 @a fatal parameter set to @c false. If the virtual machine
6053 is in the Paused state by the time the error notification is
6054 received, it means that the user can <i>try to resume</i> the machine
6055 execution after attempting to solve the problem that caused the
6056 error. In this case, the notification handler is supposed
6057 to show an appropriate message to the user (depending on the
6058 value of the @a id parameter) that offers several actions such
6059 as <i>Retry</i>, <i>Save</i> or <i>Power Off</i>. If the user
6060 wants to retry, the notification handler should continue
6061 the machine execution using the <link to="IConsole::resume"/>
6062 call. If the machine execution is not Paused during this
6063 notification, then it means this notification is a <i>warning</i>
6064 (for example, about a fatal condition that can happen very soon);
6065 no immediate action is required from the user, the machine
6066 continues its normal execution.
6067
6068 Note that in either case the notification handler
6069 <b>must not</b> perform any action directly on a thread
6070 where this notification is called. Everything it is allowed to
6071 do is to post a message to another thread that will then talk
6072 to the user and take the corresponding action.
6073
6074 Currently, the following error identifiers are known:
6075 <ul>
6076 <li><tt>"HostMemoryLow"</tt></li>
6077 <li><tt>"HostAudioNotResponding"</tt></li>
6078 <li><tt>"VDIStorageFull"</tt></li>
6079 <li><tt>"3DSupportIncompatibleAdditions"</tt></li>
6080 </ul>
6081
6082 <note>
6083 This notification is not designed to be implemented by
6084 more than one callback at a time. If you have multiple
6085 IConsoleCallback instances registered on the given
6086 IConsole object, make sure you simply do nothing but
6087 return @c S_OK from all but one of them that does actual
6088 user notification and performs necessary actions.
6089 </note>
6090
6091 </desc>
6092 <param name="fatal" type="boolean" dir="in">
6093 <desc>Whether the error is fatal or not</desc>
6094 </param>
6095 <param name="id" type="wstring" dir="in">
6096 <desc>Error identifier</desc>
6097 </param>
6098 <param name="message" type="wstring" dir="in">
6099 <desc>Optional error message</desc>
6100 </param>
6101 </method>
6102
6103 <method name="onCanShowWindow">
6104 <desc>
6105 Notification when a call to
6106 <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> is made by a
6107 front-end to check if a subsequent call to
6108 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> can succeed.
6109
6110 The callee should give an answer appropriate to the current
6111 machine state in the @a canShow argument. This answer must
6112 remain valid at least until the next
6113 <link to="IConsole::state">machine state</link> change.
6114
6115 <note>
6116 This notification is not designed to be implemented by
6117 more than one callback at a time. If you have multiple
6118 IConsoleCallback instances registered on the given
6119 IConsole object, make sure you simply do nothing but
6120 return @c true and @c S_OK from all but one of them that
6121 actually manages console window activation.
6122 </note>
6123 </desc>
6124 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
6125 <desc>
6126 @c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
6127 </desc>
6128 </param>
6129 </method>
6130
6131 <method name="onShowWindow">
6132 <desc>
6133 Notification when a call to
6134 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/>
6135 requests the console window to be activated and brought to
6136 foreground on the desktop of the host PC.
6137
6138 This notification should cause the VM console process to
6139 perform the requested action as described above. If it is
6140 impossible to do it at a time of this notification, this
6141 method should return a failure.
6142
6143 Note that many modern window managers on many platforms
6144 implement some sort of focus stealing prevention logic, so
6145 that it may be impossible to activate a window without the
6146 help of the currently active application (which is supposedly
6147 an initiator of this notification). In this case, this method
6148 must return a non-zero identifier that represents the
6149 top-level window of the VM console process. The caller, if it
6150 represents a currently active process, is responsible to use
6151 this identifier (in a platform-dependent manner) to perform
6152 actual window activation.
6153
6154 This method must set @a winId to zero if it has performed all
6155 actions necessary to complete the request and the console
6156 window is now active and in foreground, to indicate that no
6157 further action is required on the caller's side.
6158
6159 <note>
6160 This notification is not designed to be implemented by
6161 more than one callback at a time. If you have multiple
6162 IConsoleCallback instances registered on the given
6163 IConsole object, make sure you simply do nothing but
6164 return @c S_OK from all but one of them that actually
6165 manages console window activation.
6166 </note>
6167 </desc>
6168 <param name="winId" type="unsigned long long" dir="return">
6169 <desc>
6170 Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
6171 window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
6172 necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
6173 the given platform and/or this VirtualBox front-end.
6174 </desc>
6175 </param>
6176 </method>
6177
6178 </interface>
6179
6180 <interface
6181 name="IRemoteDisplayInfo" extends="$unknown"
6182 uuid="b3741084-806f-4c3b-8c42-ebad1a81e45a"
6183 wsmap="struct"
6184 >
6185 <desc>
6186 Contains information about the remote display (VRDP) capabilities and status.
6187 This is used in the <link to="IConsole::remoteDisplayInfo" /> attribute.
6188 </desc>
6189
6190 <attribute name="active" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6191 <desc>
6192 Whether the remote display connection is active.
6193 </desc>
6194 </attribute>
6195
6196 <attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
6197 <desc>
6198 VRDP server port number. If this property is equal to <tt>0</tt>, then
6199 the VRDP server failed to start, usually because there are no free TCP
6200 ports to bind to. If this property is equal to <tt>-1</tt>, then the VRDP
6201 server has not yet been started.
6202 </desc>
6203 </attribute>
6204
6205 <attribute name="numberOfClients" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6206 <desc>
6207 How many times a client connected.
6208 </desc>
6209 </attribute>
6210
6211 <attribute name="beginTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6212 <desc>
6213 When the last connection was established, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
6214 </desc>
6215 </attribute>
6216
6217 <attribute name="endTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6218 <desc>
6219 When the last connection was terminated or the current time, if
6220 connection is still active, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
6221 </desc>
6222 </attribute>
6223
6224 <attribute name="bytesSent" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
6225 <desc>
6226 How many bytes were sent in last or current, if still active, connection.
6227 </desc>
6228 </attribute>
6229
6230 <attribute name="bytesSentTotal" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
6231 <desc>
6232 How many bytes were sent in all connections.
6233 </desc>
6234 </attribute>
6235
6236 <attribute name="bytesReceived" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
6237 <desc>
6238 How many bytes were received in last or current, if still active, connection.
6239 </desc>
6240 </attribute>
6241
6242 <attribute name="bytesReceivedTotal" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
6243 <desc>
6244 How many bytes were received in all connections.
6245 </desc>
6246 </attribute>
6247
6248 <attribute name="user" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6249 <desc>
6250 Login user name supplied by the client.
6251 </desc>
6252 </attribute>
6253
6254 <attribute name="domain" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6255 <desc>
6256 Login domain name supplied by the client.
6257 </desc>
6258 </attribute>
6259
6260 <attribute name="clientName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6261 <desc>
6262 The client name supplied by the client.
6263 </desc>
6264 </attribute>
6265
6266 <attribute name="clientIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6267 <desc>
6268 The IP address of the client.
6269 </desc>
6270 </attribute>
6271
6272 <attribute name="clientVersion" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6273 <desc>
6274 The client software version number.
6275 </desc>
6276 </attribute>
6277
6278 <attribute name="encryptionStyle" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6279 <desc>
6280 Public key exchange method used when connection was established.
6281 Values: 0 - RDP4 public key exchange scheme.
6282 1 - X509 certificates were sent to client.
6283 </desc>
6284 </attribute>
6285
6286 </interface>
6287
6288 <interface
6289 name="IConsole" extends="$unknown"
6290 uuid="55dd56a5-1d1d-4d81-b742-b082b9571be6"
6291 wsmap="managed"
6292 >
6293 <desc>
6294 The IConsole interface represents an interface to control virtual
6295 machine execution.
6296
6297 The console object that implements the IConsole interface is obtained
6298 from a session object after the session for the given machine has been
6299 opened using one of <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>,
6300 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/> or
6301 <link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/> methods.
6302
6303 Methods of the IConsole interface allow the caller to query the current
6304 virtual machine execution state, pause the machine or power it down, save
6305 the machine state or take a snapshot, attach and detach removable media
6306 and so on.
6307
6308 <see>ISession</see>
6309 </desc>
6310
6311 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
6312 <desc>
6313 Machine object this console is sessioned with.
6314 <note>
6315 This is a convenience property, it has the same value as
6316 <link to="ISession::machine"/> of the corresponding session
6317 object.
6318 </note>
6319 </desc>
6320 </attribute>
6321
6322 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
6323 <desc>
6324 Current execution state of the machine.
6325 <note>
6326 This property always returns the same value as the corresponding
6327 property of the IMachine object this console is sessioned with.
6328 For the process that owns (executes) the VM, this is the
6329 preferable way of querying the VM state, because no IPC
6330 calls are made.
6331 </note>
6332 </desc>
6333 </attribute>
6334
6335 <attribute name="guest" type="IGuest" readonly="yes">
6336 <desc>Guest object.</desc>
6337 </attribute>
6338
6339 <attribute name="keyboard" type="IKeyboard" readonly="yes">
6340 <desc>
6341 Virtual keyboard object.
6342 <note>
6343 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6344 the returned object will result in an error.
6345 </note>
6346 </desc>
6347 </attribute>
6348
6349 <attribute name="mouse" type="IMouse" readonly="yes">
6350 <desc>
6351 Virtual mouse object.
6352 <note>
6353 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6354 the returned object will result in an error.
6355 </note>
6356 </desc>
6357 </attribute>
6358
6359 <attribute name="display" type="IDisplay" readonly="yes">
6360 <desc>Virtual display object.
6361 <note>
6362 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6363 the returned object will result in an error.
6364 </note>
6365 </desc>
6366 </attribute>
6367
6368 <attribute name="debugger" type="IMachineDebugger" readonly="yes">
6369 <desc>Debugging interface.</desc>
6370 </attribute>
6371
6372 <attribute name="USBDevices" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6373 <desc>
6374 Collection of USB devices currently attached to the virtual
6375 USB controller.
6376 <note>
6377 The collection is empty if the machine is not running.
6378 </note>
6379 </desc>
6380 </attribute>
6381
6382 <attribute name="remoteUSBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6383 <desc>
6384 List of USB devices currently attached to the remote VRDP client.
6385 Once a new device is physically attached to the remote host computer,
6386 it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
6387 </desc>
6388 </attribute>
6389
6390 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6391 <desc>
6392 Collection of shared folders for the current session. These folders
6393 are called transient shared folders because they are available to the
6394 guest OS running inside the associated virtual machine only for the
6395 duration of the session (as opposed to
6396 <link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/> which represent permanent shared
6397 folders). When the session is closed (e.g. the machine is powered down),
6398 these folders are automatically discarded.
6399
6400 New shared folders are added to the collection using
6401 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
6402 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
6403 </desc>
6404 </attribute>
6405
6406 <attribute name="remoteDisplayInfo" type="IRemoteDisplayInfo" readonly="yes">
6407 <desc>
6408 Interface that provides information on Remote Display (VRDP) connection.
6409 </desc>
6410 </attribute>
6411
6412 <method name="powerUp">
6413 <desc>
6414 Starts the virtual machine execution using the current machine
6415 state (that is, its current execution state, current settings and
6416 current storage devices).
6417
6418 If the machine is powered off or aborted, the execution will
6419 start from the beginning (as if the real hardware were just
6420 powered on).
6421
6422 If the machine is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state,
6423 it will continue its execution the point where the state has
6424 been saved.
6425
6426 <note>
6427 Unless you are trying to write a new VirtualBox front-end that
6428 performs direct machine execution (like the VirtualBox or VBoxSDL
6429 front-ends), don't call <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> in a direct
6430 session opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> and use this
6431 session only to change virtual machine settings. If you simply want to
6432 start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
6433 (for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), simply use
6434 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>; these front-ends will
6435 power up the machine automatically for you.
6436 </note>
6437
6438 <see>#saveState</see>
6439 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6440 Virtual machine already running.
6441 </result>
6442 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6443 Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6444 </result>
6445 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6446 Invalid saved state file.
6447 </result>
6448 </desc>
6449 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6450 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6451 </param>
6452 </method>
6453
6454 <method name="powerUpPaused">
6455 <desc>
6456 Identical to powerUp except that the VM will enter the
6457 <link to="MachineState_Paused"/> state, instead of
6458 <link to="MachineState_Running"/>.
6459
6460 <see>#powerUp</see>
6461 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6462 Virtual machine already running.
6463 </result>
6464 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6465 Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6466 </result>
6467 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6468 Invalid saved state file.
6469 </result>
6470 </desc>
6471 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6472 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6473 </param>
6474 </method>
6475
6476 <method name="powerDown">
6477 <desc>
6478 Initiates the power down procedure to stop the virtual machine
6479 execution.
6480
6481 The completion of the power down procedure is tracked using the returned
6482 IProgress object. After the operation is complete, the machine will go
6483 to the PoweredOff state.
6484 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6485 Virtual machine must be Running, Paused or Stuck to be powered down.
6486 </result>
6487 </desc>
6488 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6489 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6490 </param>
6491 </method>
6492
6493 <method name="reset">
6494 <desc>Resets the virtual machine.
6495 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6496 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6497 </result>
6498 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6499 Virtual machine error in reset operation.
6500 </result>
6501 </desc>
6502 </method>
6503
6504 <method name="pause">
6505 <desc>Pauses the virtual machine execution.
6506 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6507 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6508 </result>
6509 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6510 Virtual machine error in suspend operation.
6511 </result>
6512 </desc>
6513 </method>
6514
6515 <method name="resume">
6516 <desc>Resumes the virtual machine execution.
6517 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6518 Virtual machine not in Paused state.
6519 </result>
6520 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6521 Virtual machine error in resume operation.
6522 </result>
6523 </desc>
6524 </method>
6525
6526 <method name="powerButton">
6527 <desc>Sends the ACPI power button event to the guest.
6528 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6529 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6530 </result>
6531 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6532 Controlled power off failed.
6533 </result>
6534 </desc>
6535 </method>
6536
6537 <method name="sleepButton">
6538 <desc>Sends the ACPI sleep button event to the guest.
6539 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6540 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6541 </result>
6542 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6543 Sending sleep button event failed.
6544 </result>
6545 </desc>
6546 </method>
6547
6548 <method name="getPowerButtonHandled">
6549 <desc>Checks if the last power button event was handled by guest.
6550 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6551 Checking if the event was handled by the guest OS failed.
6552 </result>
6553 </desc>
6554 <param name="handled" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6555 </method>
6556
6557 <method name="getGuestEnteredACPIMode">
6558 <desc>Checks if the guest entered the ACPI mode G0 (working) or
6559 G1 (sleeping). If this method returns @c false, the guest will
6560 most likely not respond to external ACPI events.
6561 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6562 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6563 </result>
6564 </desc>
6565 <param name="entered" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6566 </method>
6567
6568 <method name="saveState">
6569 <desc>
6570 Saves the current execution state of a running virtual machine
6571 and stops its execution.
6572
6573 After this operation completes, the machine will go to the
6574 Saved state. Next time it is powered up, this state will
6575 be restored and the machine will continue its execution from
6576 the place where it was saved.
6577
6578 This operation differs from taking a snapshot to the effect
6579 that it doesn't create new differencing media. Also, once
6580 the machine is powered up from the state saved using this method,
6581 the saved state is deleted, so it will be impossible to return
6582 to this state later.
6583
6584 <note>
6585 On success, this method implicitly calls
6586 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to save all current machine
6587 settings (including runtime changes to the DVD medium, etc.).
6588 Together with the impossibility to change any VM settings when it is
6589 in the Saved state, this guarantees adequate hardware
6590 configuration of the machine when it is restored from the saved
6591 state file.
6592 </note>
6593
6594 <note>
6595 The machine must be in the Running or Paused state, otherwise
6596 the operation will fail.
6597 </note>
6598 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6599 Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6600 </result>
6601 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6602 Failed to create directory for saved state file.
6603 </result>
6604
6605 <see><link to="#takeSnapshot"/></see>
6606 </desc>
6607 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6608 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6609 </param>
6610 </method>
6611
6612 <method name="adoptSavedState">
6613 <desc>
6614 Associates the given saved state file to the virtual machine.
6615
6616 On success, the machine will go to the Saved state. Next time it is
6617 powered up, it will be restored from the adopted saved state and
6618 continue execution from the place where the saved state file was
6619 created.
6620
6621 The specified saved state file path may be absolute or relative to the
6622 folder the VM normally saves the state to (usually,
6623 <link to="IMachine::snapshotFolder"/>).
6624
6625 <note>
6626 It's a caller's responsibility to make sure the given saved state
6627 file is compatible with the settings of this virtual machine that
6628 represent its virtual hardware (memory size, storage disk configuration
6629 etc.). If there is a mismatch, the behavior of the virtual machine
6630 is undefined.
6631 </note>
6632 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6633 Virtual machine state neither PoweredOff nor Aborted.
6634 </result>
6635 </desc>
6636 <param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
6637 <desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
6638 </param>
6639 </method>
6640
6641 <method name="forgetSavedState">
6642 <desc>
6643 Forgets the saved state of the virtual machine previously created
6644 by <link to="#saveState"/>. Next time the machine is powered up, a
6645 clean boot will occur. If @a remove is @c true the saved state file
6646 is deleted.
6647 <note>
6648 This operation is equivalent to resetting or powering off
6649 the machine without doing a proper shutdown in the guest OS.
6650 </note>
6651 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6652 Virtual machine not in state Saved.
6653 </result>
6654 </desc>
6655 <param name="remove" type="boolean" dir="in">
6656 <desc>If @c true remove the saved state file.</desc>
6657 </param>
6658 </method>
6659
6660 <method name="getDeviceActivity">
6661 <desc>
6662 Gets the current activity type of a given device or device group.
6663 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6664 Invalid device type.
6665 </result>
6666 </desc>
6667 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in"/>
6668 <param name="activity" type="DeviceActivity" dir="return"/>
6669 </method>
6670
6671 <method name="attachUSBDevice">
6672 <desc>
6673 Attaches a host USB device with the given UUID to the
6674 USB controller of the virtual machine.
6675
6676 The device needs to be in one of the following states:
6677 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
6678 <link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/> or
6679 <link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>,
6680 otherwise an error is immediately returned.
6681
6682 When the device state is
6683 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy">Busy</link>, an error may also
6684 be returned if the host computer refuses to release it for some reason.
6685
6686 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6687 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6688 Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6689 </result>
6690 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6691 Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6692 </result>
6693 </desc>
6694 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6695 <desc>UUID of the host USB device to attach.</desc>
6696 </param>
6697 </method>
6698
6699 <method name="detachUSBDevice">
6700 <desc>
6701 Detaches an USB device with the given UUID from the USB controller
6702 of the virtual machine.
6703
6704 After this method succeeds, the VirtualBox server re-initiates
6705 all USB filters as if the device were just physically attached
6706 to the host, but filters of this machine are ignored to avoid
6707 a possible automatic re-attachment.
6708
6709 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6710
6711 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6712 Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6713 </result>
6714 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6715 USB device not attached to this virtual machine.
6716 </result>
6717 </desc>
6718 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6719 <desc>UUID of the USB device to detach.</desc>
6720 </param>
6721 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6722 <desc>Detached USB device.</desc>
6723 </param>
6724 </method>
6725
6726 <method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
6727 <desc>
6728 Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
6729
6730 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6731 Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
6732 </result>
6733
6734 <see>IUSBDevice::address</see>
6735 </desc>
6736 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6737 <desc>
6738 Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
6739 search for.
6740 </desc>
6741 </param>
6742 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6743 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6744 </param>
6745 </method>
6746
6747 <method name="findUSBDeviceById">
6748 <desc>
6749 Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
6750
6751 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6752 Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
6753 </result>
6754
6755 <see>IUSBDevice::id</see>
6756 </desc>
6757 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6758 <desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
6759 </param>
6760 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6761 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6762 </param>
6763 </method>
6764
6765 <method name="createSharedFolder">
6766 <desc>
6767 Creates a transient new shared folder by associating the given logical
6768 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
6769 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
6770 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
6771
6772 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6773 Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6774 </result>
6775 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6776 Shared folder already exists or not accessible.
6777 </result>
6778 </desc>
6779 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6780 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
6781 </param>
6782 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
6783 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
6784 </param>
6785 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
6786 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
6787 </param>
6788 </method>
6789
6790 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
6791 <desc>
6792 Removes a transient shared folder with the given name previously
6793 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
6794 shared folders and stops sharing it.
6795 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6796 Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6797 </result>
6798 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6799 Shared folder does not exists.
6800 </result>
6801 </desc>
6802 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6803 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
6804 </param>
6805 </method>
6806
6807 <method name="takeSnapshot">
6808 <desc>
6809 Saves the current execution state
6810 and all settings of the machine and creates differencing images
6811 for all normal (non-independent) media.
6812 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6813
6814 This method can be called for a PoweredOff, Saved (see
6815 <link to="#saveState"/>), Running or
6816 Paused virtual machine. When the machine is PoweredOff, an
6817 offline snapshot is created. When the machine is Running a live
6818 snapshot is created, and an online snapshot is is created when Paused.
6819
6820 The taken snapshot is always based on the
6821 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot">current snapshot</link>
6822 of the associated virtual machine and becomes a new current snapshot.
6823
6824 <note>
6825 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6826 save all current machine settings before taking an offline snapshot.
6827 </note>
6828
6829 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6830 Virtual machine currently changing state.
6831 </result>
6832 </desc>
6833 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6834 <desc>Short name for the snapshot.</desc>
6835 </param>
6836 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
6837 <desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
6838 </param>
6839 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6840 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6841 </param>
6842 </method>
6843
6844 <method name="deleteSnapshot">
6845 <desc>
6846 Starts discarding the specified snapshot asynchronously.
6847 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6848
6849 The execution state and settings of the associated machine stored in
6850 the snapshot will be deleted. The contents of all differencing media of
6851 this snapshot will be merged with the contents of their dependent child
6852 media to keep the medium chain valid (in other words, all changes
6853 represented by media being discarded will be propagated to their child
6854 medium). After that, this snapshot's differencing medium will be
6855 deleted. The parent of this snapshot will become a new parent for all
6856 its child snapshots.
6857
6858 If the discarded snapshot is the current one, its parent
6859 snapshot will become a new current snapshot. The current machine
6860 state is not directly affected in this case, except that
6861 currently attached differencing media based on media
6862 of the discarded snapshot will be also merged as described
6863 above.
6864
6865 If the discarded snapshot is the first one (the root snapshot)
6866 and it has exactly one child snapshot, this child snapshot will
6867 become the first snapshot after discarding. If there are no
6868 children at all (i.e. the first snapshot is the only snapshot of
6869 the machine), both the current and the first snapshot of the
6870 machine will be set to @c null. In all other cases, the first
6871 snapshot cannot be discarded.
6872
6873 You cannot discard the snapshot if it
6874 stores <link to="MediumType_Normal">normal</link> (non-differencing)
6875 media that have differencing media based on them. Snapshots of
6876 such kind can be discarded only when every normal medium has either
6877 no children at all or exactly one child. In the former case, the normal
6878 medium simply becomes unused (i.e. not attached to any VM). In the
6879 latter case, it receives all the changes stored in the child medium,
6880 and then it replaces the child medium in the configuration of the
6881 corresponding snapshot or machine.
6882
6883 Also, you cannot discard the snapshot if it stores media
6884 (of any type) having differencing child media that belong
6885 to other machines. Such snapshots can be only discarded after
6886 you discard all snapshots of other machines containing "foreign"
6887 child media, or detach these "foreign" child media from machines
6888 they are attached to.
6889
6890 One particular example of the snapshot storing normal media
6891 is the first snapshot of a virtual machine that had normal media
6892 attached when taking the snapshot. Be careful when
6893 discarding such snapshots because this implicitly commits
6894 changes (made since the snapshot being discarded has been taken)
6895 to normal media (as described above), which may be not what
6896 you want.
6897
6898 The virtual machine is put to
6899 the <link to="MachineState_Discarding">Discarding</link> state until
6900 the discard operation is completed.
6901
6902 <note>
6903 The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation
6904 will fail.
6905 </note>
6906
6907 <note>
6908 Child media of all normal media of the discarded snapshot
6909 must be accessible (see <link to="IMedium::state"/>) for this
6910 operation to succeed. In particular, this means that all virtual
6911 machines, whose media are directly or indirectly based on the
6912 media of discarded snapshot, must be powered off.
6913 </note>
6914 <note>
6915 Merging medium contents can be very time and disk space
6916 consuming, if these media are big in size and have many
6917 children. However, if the snapshot being discarded is the last
6918 (head) snapshot on the branch, the operation will be rather
6919 quick.
6920 </note>
6921 <note>
6922 Note that discarding the current snapshot
6923 will implicitly call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6924 make all current machine settings permanent.
6925 </note>
6926 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6927 Virtual machine is running.
6928 </result>
6929 </desc>
6930 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6931 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to discard.</desc>
6932 </param>
6933 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6934 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6935 </param>
6936 </method>
6937
6938 <method name="restoreSnapshot">
6939 <desc>
6940 Starts resetting the machine's current state to the state contained
6941 in the given snapshot, asynchronously. All current settings of the
6942 machine will be reset and changes stored in differencing media
6943 will be lost.
6944 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6945
6946 After this operation is successfully completed, new empty differencing
6947 media are created for all normal media of the machine.
6948
6949 If the given snapshot is an online snapshot, the machine will go to
6950 the <link to="MachineState_Saved"> saved state</link>, so that the
6951 next time it is powered on, the execution state will be restored
6952 from the state of the snapshot.
6953
6954 <note>
6955 The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation will fail.
6956 </note>
6957
6958 <note>
6959 If the machine state is <link to="MachineState_Saved">Saved</link>
6960 prior to this operation, the saved state file will be implicitly
6961 discarded (as if <link to="IConsole::forgetSavedState"/> were
6962 called).
6963 </note>
6964
6965 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6966 Virtual machine is running.
6967 </result>
6968 </desc>
6969 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
6970 <desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
6971 </param>
6972 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6973 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6974 </param>
6975 </method>
6976
6977 <method name="teleport">
6978 <desc>
6979 Teleport the VM to a different host machine or process.
6980
6981 TODO explain the details.
6982
6983 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6984 Virtual machine not running or paused.
6985 </result>
6986 </desc>
6987 <param name="hostname" type="wstring" dir="in">
6988 <desc>The name or IP of the host to teleport to.</desc>
6989 </param>
6990 <param name="tcpport" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6991 <desc>The TCP port to connect to (1..65535).</desc>
6992 </param>
6993 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
6994 <desc>The password.</desc>
6995 </param>
6996 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6997 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6998 </param>
6999 </method>
7000
7001 <method name="registerCallback">
7002 <desc>
7003 Registers a new console callback on this instance. The methods of the
7004 callback interface will be called by this instance when the appropriate
7005 event occurs.
7006 </desc>
7007 <param name="callback" type="IConsoleCallback" dir="in"/>
7008 </method>
7009
7010 <method name="unregisterCallback">
7011 <desc>
7012 Unregisters the console callback previously registered using
7013 <link to="#registerCallback"/>.
7014 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7015 Given @a callback handler is not registered.
7016 </result>
7017 </desc>
7018 <param name="callback" type="IConsoleCallback" dir="in"/>
7019 </method>
7020 </interface>
7021
7022 <!--
7023 // IHost
7024 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7025 -->
7026
7027 <enum
7028 name="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType"
7029 uuid="1aa54aaf-2497-45a2-bfb1-8eb225e93d5b"
7030 >
7031 <desc>
7032 Type of encapsulation. Ethernet encapsulation includes both wired and
7033 wireless Ethernet connections.
7034 <see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
7035 </desc>
7036
7037 <const name="Unknown" value="0">
7038 <desc>
7039 The type of interface cannot be determined.
7040 </desc>
7041 </const>
7042 <const name="Ethernet" value="1">
7043 <desc>
7044 Ethernet frame encapsulation.
7045 </desc>
7046 </const>
7047 <const name="PPP" value="2">
7048 <desc>
7049 Point-to-point protocol encapsulation.
7050 </desc>
7051 </const>
7052 <const name="SLIP" value="3">
7053 <desc>
7054 Serial line IP encapsulation.
7055 </desc>
7056 </const>
7057 </enum>
7058
7059 <enum
7060 name="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus"
7061 uuid="CC474A69-2710-434B-8D99-C38E5D5A6F41"
7062 >
7063 <desc>
7064 Current status of the interface.
7065 <see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
7066 </desc>
7067
7068 <const name="Unknown" value="0">
7069 <desc>
7070 The state of interface cannot be determined.
7071 </desc>
7072 </const>
7073 <const name="Up" value="1">
7074 <desc>
7075 The interface is fully operational.
7076 </desc>
7077 </const>
7078 <const name="Down" value="2">
7079 <desc>
7080 The interface is not functioning.
7081 </desc>
7082 </const>
7083 </enum>
7084
7085 <enum
7086 name="HostNetworkInterfaceType"
7087 uuid="67431b00-9946-48a2-bc02-b25c5919f4f3"
7088 >
7089 <desc>
7090 Network interface type.
7091 </desc>
7092 <const name="Bridged" value="1"/>
7093 <const name="HostOnly" value="2"/>
7094 </enum>
7095
7096 <interface
7097 name="IHostNetworkInterface" extends="$unknown"
7098 uuid="ce6fae58-7642-4102-b5db-c9005c2320a8"
7099 wsmap="managed"
7100 >
7101 <desc>
7102 Represents one of host's network interfaces. IP V6 address and network
7103 mask are strings of 32 hexdecimal digits grouped by four. Groups are
7104 separated by colons.
7105 For example, fe80:0000:0000:0000:021e:c2ff:fed2:b030.
7106 </desc>
7107 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7108 <desc>Returns the host network interface name.</desc>
7109 </attribute>
7110
7111 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
7112 <desc>Returns the interface UUID.</desc>
7113 </attribute>
7114
7115 <attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7116 <desc>Returns the name of a virtual network the interface gets attached to.</desc>
7117 </attribute>
7118
7119 <attribute name="dhcpEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7120 <desc>Specifies whether the DHCP is enabled for the interface.</desc>
7121 </attribute>
7122
7123 <attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7124 <desc>Returns the IP V4 address of the interface.</desc>
7125 </attribute>
7126
7127 <attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7128 <desc>Returns the network mask of the interface.</desc>
7129 </attribute>
7130
7131 <attribute name="IPV6Supported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7132 <desc>Specifies whether the IP V6 is supported/enabled for the interface.</desc>
7133 </attribute>
7134
7135 <attribute name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7136 <desc>Returns the IP V6 address of the interface.</desc>
7137 </attribute>
7138
7139 <attribute name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7140 <desc>Returns the length IP V6 network mask prefix of the interface.</desc>
7141 </attribute>
7142
7143 <attribute name="hardwareAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7144 <desc>Returns the hardware address. For Ethernet it is MAC address.</desc>
7145 </attribute>
7146
7147 <attribute name="mediumType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType" readonly="yes">
7148 <desc>Type of protocol encapsulation used.</desc>
7149 </attribute>
7150
7151 <attribute name="status" type="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus" readonly="yes">
7152 <desc>Status of the interface.</desc>
7153 </attribute>
7154
7155 <attribute name="interfaceType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" readonly="yes">
7156 <desc>specifies the host interface type.</desc>
7157 </attribute>
7158
7159 <method name="enableStaticIpConfig">
7160 <desc>sets and enables the static IP V4 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
7161 <param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
7162 <desc>
7163 IP address.
7164 </desc>
7165 </param>
7166 <param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
7167 <desc>
7168 network mask.
7169 </desc>
7170 </param>
7171 </method>
7172
7173 <method name="enableStaticIpConfigV6">
7174 <desc>sets and enables the static IP V6 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
7175 <param name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" dir="in">
7176 <desc>
7177 IP address.
7178 </desc>
7179 </param>
7180 <param name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7181 <desc>
7182 network mask.
7183 </desc>
7184 </param>
7185 </method>
7186
7187 <method name="enableDynamicIpConfig">
7188 <desc>enables the dynamic IP configuration.</desc>
7189 </method>
7190
7191 <method name="dhcpRediscover">
7192 <desc>refreshes the IP configuration for dhcp-enabled interface.</desc>
7193 </method>
7194
7195 </interface>
7196
7197 <interface
7198 name="IHost" extends="$unknown"
7199 uuid="e380cbfc-ae65-4fa6-899e-45ded6b3132a"
7200 wsmap="managed"
7201 >
7202 <desc>
7203 The IHost interface represents the physical machine that this VirtualBox
7204 installation runs on.
7205
7206 An object implementing this interface is returned by the
7207 <link to="IVirtualBox::host" /> attribute. This interface contains
7208 read-only information about the host's physical hardware (such as what
7209 processors and disks are available, what the host operating system is,
7210 and so on) and also allows for manipulating some of the host's hardware,
7211 such as global USB device filters and host interface networking.
7212
7213 </desc>
7214 <attribute name="DVDDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7215 <desc>List of DVD drives available on the host.</desc>
7216 </attribute>
7217
7218 <attribute name="floppyDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7219 <desc>List of floppy drives available on the host.</desc>
7220 </attribute>
7221
7222 <attribute name="USBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7223 <desc>
7224 List of USB devices currently attached to the host.
7225 Once a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
7226 it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
7227
7228 <note>
7229 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7230 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7231 </note>
7232 </desc>
7233 </attribute>
7234
7235 <attribute name="USBDeviceFilters" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7236 <desc>
7237 List of USB device filters in action.
7238 When a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
7239 filters from this list are applied to it (in order they are stored
7240 in the list). The first matched filter will determine the
7241 <link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::action">action</link>
7242 performed on the device.
7243
7244 Unless the device is ignored by these filters, filters of all
7245 currently running virtual machines
7246 (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are applied to it.
7247
7248 <note>
7249 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7250 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7251 </note>
7252
7253 <see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
7254 </desc>
7255 </attribute>
7256
7257 <attribute name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7258 <desc>List of host network interfaces currently defined on the host.</desc>
7259 </attribute>
7260
7261 <attribute name="processorCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7262 <desc>Number of (logical) CPUs installed in the host system.</desc>
7263 </attribute>
7264
7265 <attribute name="processorOnlineCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7266 <desc>Number of (logical) CPUs online in the host system.</desc>
7267 </attribute>
7268
7269 <method name="getProcessorSpeed">
7270 <desc>Query the (approximate) maximum speed of a specified host CPU in
7271 Megahertz.
7272 </desc>
7273 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7274 <desc>
7275 Identifier of the CPU.
7276 </desc>
7277 </param>
7278 <param name="speed" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7279 <desc>
7280 Speed value. 0 is returned if value is not known or @a cpuId is
7281 invalid.
7282 </desc>
7283 </param>
7284 </method>
7285
7286 <method name="getProcessorFeature">
7287 <desc>Query whether a CPU feature is supported or not.</desc>
7288 <param name="feature" type="ProcessorFeature" dir="in">
7289 <desc>
7290 CPU Feature identifier.
7291 </desc>
7292 </param>
7293 <param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return">
7294 <desc>
7295 Feature is supported or not.
7296 </desc>
7297 </param>
7298 </method>
7299
7300 <method name="getProcessorDescription">
7301 <desc>Query the model string of a specified host CPU.
7302 </desc>
7303 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7304 <desc>
7305 Identifier of the CPU.
7306 <note>
7307 The current implementation might not necessarily return the
7308 description for this exact CPU.
7309 </note>
7310 </desc>
7311 </param>
7312 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="return">
7313 <desc>
7314 Model string. An empty string is returned if value is not known or
7315 @a cpuId is invalid.
7316 </desc>
7317 </param>
7318 </method>
7319
7320 <method name="getProcessorCpuIdLeaf">
7321 <desc>
7322 Returns the CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
7323 </desc>
7324 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7325 <desc>
7326 Identifier of the CPU. The CPU most be online.
7327 <note>
7328 The current implementation might not necessarily return the
7329 description for this exact CPU.
7330 </note>
7331 </desc>
7332 </param>
7333 <param name="leaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7334 <desc>
7335 Cpuid leaf index (eax).
7336 </desc>
7337 </param>
7338 <param name="subLeaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7339 <desc>
7340 Cpuid leaf sub index (ecx). This currently only applies to cache
7341 information on Intel CPUs. Use 0 if retriving values for
7342 <link to="IMachine::setCpuIdLeaf"/>.
7343 </desc>
7344 </param>
7345 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7346 <desc>
7347 Cpuid leaf value for register eax.
7348 </desc>
7349 </param>
7350 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7351 <desc>
7352 Cpuid leaf value for register ebx.
7353 </desc>
7354 </param>
7355 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7356 <desc>
7357 Cpuid leaf value for register ecx.
7358 </desc>
7359 </param>
7360 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7361 <desc>
7362 Cpuid leaf value for register edx.
7363 </desc>
7364 </param>
7365 </method>
7366
7367 <attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7368 <desc>Amount of system memory in megabytes installed in the host system.</desc>
7369 </attribute>
7370
7371 <attribute name="memoryAvailable" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7372 <desc>Available system memory in the host system.</desc>
7373 </attribute>
7374
7375 <attribute name="operatingSystem" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7376 <desc>Name of the host system's operating system.</desc>
7377 </attribute>
7378
7379 <attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7380 <desc>Host operating system's version string.</desc>
7381 </attribute>
7382
7383 <attribute name="UTCTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7384 <desc>Returns the current host time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.</desc>
7385 </attribute>
7386
7387 <attribute name="Acceleration3DAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7388 <desc>Returns @c true when the host supports 3D hardware acceleration.</desc>
7389 </attribute>
7390
7391 <method name="createHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
7392 <desc>
7393 Creates a new adapter for Host Only Networking.
7394 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7395 Host network interface @a name already exists.
7396 </result>
7397 </desc>
7398 <param name="hostInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="out">
7399 <desc>
7400 Created host interface object.
7401 </desc>
7402 </param>
7403 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7404 <desc>
7405 Progress object to track the operation completion.
7406 </desc>
7407 </param>
7408 </method>
7409
7410 <method name="removeHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
7411 <desc>
7412 Removes the given Host Only Networking interface.
7413 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7414 No host network interface matching @a id found.
7415 </result>
7416 </desc>
7417 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7418 <desc>
7419 Adapter GUID.
7420 </desc>
7421 </param>
7422 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7423 <desc>
7424 Progress object to track the operation completion.
7425 </desc>
7426 </param>
7427 </method>
7428
7429 <method name="createUSBDeviceFilter">
7430 <desc>
7431 Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
7432 the filter name are set to empty (any match),
7433 <i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
7434
7435 The created filter can be added to the list of filters using
7436 <link to="#insertUSBDeviceFilter"/>.
7437
7438 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7439 </desc>
7440 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7441 <desc>
7442 Filter name. See <link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
7443 for more info.
7444 </desc>
7445 </param>
7446 <param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
7447 <desc>Created filter object.</desc>
7448 </param>
7449 </method>
7450
7451 <method name="insertUSBDeviceFilter">
7452 <desc>
7453 Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
7454 in the list of filters.
7455
7456 Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. If the specified
7457 position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7458 the list, the filter is added at the end of the collection.
7459
7460 <note>
7461 Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
7462 filter already in the list is an error.
7463 </note>
7464 <note>
7465 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7466 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7467 </note>
7468
7469 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7470
7471 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
7472 USB device filter is not created within this VirtualBox instance.
7473 </result>
7474 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7475 USB device filter already in list.
7476 </result>
7477
7478 </desc>
7479 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7480 <desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
7481 </param>
7482 <param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
7483 <desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
7484 </param>
7485 </method>
7486
7487 <method name="removeUSBDeviceFilter">
7488 <desc>
7489 Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
7490 list of filters.
7491
7492 Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. Specifying a
7493 position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7494 the list will produce an error.
7495
7496 <note>
7497 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7498 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7499 </note>
7500
7501 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7502
7503 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7504 USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
7505 </result>
7506
7507 </desc>
7508 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7509 <desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
7510 </param>
7511 </method>
7512
7513 <method name="findHostDVDDrive">
7514 <desc>
7515 Searches for a host DVD drive with the given @c name.
7516
7517 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7518 Given @c name does not correspond to any host drive.
7519 </result>
7520
7521 </desc>
7522 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7523 <desc>Name of the host drive to search for</desc>
7524 </param>
7525 <param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7526 <desc>Found host drive object</desc>
7527 </param>
7528 </method>
7529
7530 <method name="findHostFloppyDrive">
7531 <desc>
7532 Searches for a host floppy drive with the given @c name.
7533
7534 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7535 Given @c name does not correspond to any host floppy drive.
7536 </result>
7537
7538 </desc>
7539 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7540 <desc>Name of the host floppy drive to search for</desc>
7541 </param>
7542 <param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7543 <desc>Found host floppy drive object</desc>
7544 </param>
7545 </method>
7546
7547 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceByName">
7548 <desc>
7549 Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7550 the given @c name.
7551 <note>
7552 The method returns an error if the given @c name does not
7553 correspond to any host network interface.
7554 </note>
7555 </desc>
7556 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7557 <desc>Name of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7558 </param>
7559 <param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7560 <desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7561 </param>
7562 </method>
7563 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceById">
7564 <desc>
7565 Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7566 the given GUID.
7567 <note>
7568 The method returns an error if the given GUID does not
7569 correspond to any host network interface.
7570 </note>
7571 </desc>
7572 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7573 <desc>GUID of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7574 </param>
7575 <param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7576 <desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7577 </param>
7578 </method>
7579 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfacesOfType">
7580 <desc>
7581 Searches through all host network interfaces and returns a list of interfaces of the specified type
7582 </desc>
7583 <param name="type" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" dir="in">
7584 <desc>type of the host network interfaces to search for.</desc>
7585 </param>
7586 <param name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7587 <desc>Found host network interface objects.</desc>
7588 </param>
7589 </method>
7590
7591 <method name="findUSBDeviceById">
7592 <desc>
7593 Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
7594
7595 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7596 Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
7597 </result>
7598
7599 <see>IHostUSBDevice::id</see>
7600 </desc>
7601 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7602 <desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
7603 </param>
7604 <param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7605 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7606 </param>
7607 </method>
7608
7609 <method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
7610 <desc>
7611 Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
7612
7613 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7614 Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
7615 </result>
7616
7617 <see>IHostUSBDevice::address</see>
7618 </desc>
7619 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7620 <desc>
7621 Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
7622 search for.
7623 </desc>
7624 </param>
7625 <param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7626 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7627 </param>
7628 </method>
7629
7630 </interface>
7631
7632 <!--
7633 // ISystemProperties
7634 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7635 -->
7636
7637 <interface
7638 name="ISystemProperties"
7639 extends="$unknown"
7640 uuid="8030645c-8fef-4320-bb7b-c829f00069dc"
7641 wsmap="managed"
7642 >
7643 <desc>
7644 The ISystemProperties interface represents global properties of the given
7645 VirtualBox installation.
7646
7647 These properties define limits and default values for various attributes
7648 and parameters. Most of the properties are read-only, but some can be
7649 changed by a user.
7650 </desc>
7651
7652 <attribute name="minGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7653 <desc>Minimum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7654 </attribute>
7655
7656 <attribute name="maxGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7657 <desc>Maximum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7658 </attribute>
7659
7660 <attribute name="minGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7661 <desc>Minimum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7662 </attribute>
7663
7664 <attribute name="maxGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7665 <desc>Maximum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7666 </attribute>
7667
7668 <attribute name="minGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7669 <desc>Minimum CPU count.</desc>
7670 </attribute>
7671
7672 <attribute name="maxGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7673 <desc>Maximum CPU count.</desc>
7674 </attribute>
7675
7676 <attribute name="maxVDISize" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
7677 <desc>Maximum size of a virtual disk image in Megabytes.</desc>
7678 </attribute>
7679
7680 <attribute name="networkAdapterCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7681 <desc>
7682 Number of network adapters associated with every
7683 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7684 </desc>
7685 </attribute>
7686
7687 <attribute name="serialPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7688 <desc>
7689 Number of serial ports associated with every
7690 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7691 </desc>
7692 </attribute>
7693
7694 <attribute name="parallelPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7695 <desc>
7696 Number of parallel ports associated with every
7697 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7698 </desc>
7699 </attribute>
7700
7701 <attribute name="maxBootPosition" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7702 <desc>
7703 Maximum device position in the boot order. This value corresponds
7704 to the total number of devices a machine can boot from, to make it
7705 possible to include all possible devices to the boot list.
7706 <see><link to="IMachine::setBootOrder"/></see>
7707 </desc>
7708 </attribute>
7709
7710 <attribute name="defaultMachineFolder" type="wstring">
7711 <desc>
7712 Full path to the default directory used to create new or open
7713 existing machines when a settings file name contains no
7714 path.
7715
7716 The initial value of this property is
7717 <tt>&lt;</tt><link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">
7718 VirtualBox_home</link><tt>&gt;/Machines</tt>.
7719
7720 <note>
7721 Setting this property to @c null or an empty string will restore the
7722 initial value.
7723 </note>
7724 <note>
7725 When settings this property, the specified path can be
7726 absolute (full path) or relative
7727 to the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">
7728 VirtualBox home directory</link>.
7729 When reading this property, a full path is
7730 always returned.
7731 </note>
7732 <note>
7733 The specified path may not exist, it will be created
7734 when necessary.
7735 </note>
7736
7737 <see>
7738 <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>,
7739 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>
7740 </see>
7741 </desc>
7742 </attribute>
7743
7744 <attribute name="defaultHardDiskFolder" type="wstring">
7745 <desc>
7746 Full path to the default directory used to create new or open existing
7747 virtual disks.
7748
7749 This path is used when the storage unit of a hard disk is a regular file
7750 in the host's file system and only a file name that contains no path is
7751 given.
7752
7753 The initial value of this property is
7754 <tt>&lt;</tt>
7755 <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox_home</link>
7756 <tt>&gt;/HardDisks</tt>.
7757
7758 <note>
7759 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7760 initial value.
7761 </note>
7762 <note>
7763 When settings this property, the specified path can be relative
7764 to the
7765 <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home directory</link> or
7766 absolute. When reading this property, a full path is
7767 always returned.
7768 </note>
7769 <note>
7770 The specified path may not exist, it will be created
7771 when necessary.
7772 </note>
7773
7774 <see>
7775 IMedium,
7776 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>,
7777 <link to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/>,
7778 <link to="IMedium::location"/>
7779 </see>
7780 </desc>
7781 </attribute>
7782
7783 <attribute name="mediumFormats" type="IMediumFormat" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7784 <desc>
7785 List of all medium storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
7786 installation.
7787
7788 Keep in mind that the medium format identifier
7789 (<link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>) used in other API calls like
7790 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to refer to a particular
7791 medium format is a case-insensitive string. This means that, for
7792 example, all of the following strings:
7793 <pre>
7794 "VDI"
7795 "vdi"
7796 "VdI"</pre>
7797 refer to the same medium format.
7798
7799 Note that the virtual medium framework is backend-based, therefore
7800 the list of supported formats depends on what backends are currently
7801 installed.
7802
7803 <see>
7804 <link to="IMediumFormat"/>,
7805 </see>
7806 </desc>
7807 </attribute>
7808
7809 <attribute name="defaultHardDiskFormat" type="wstring">
7810 <desc>
7811 Identifier of the default medium format used by VirtualBox.
7812
7813 The medium format set by this attribute is used by VirtualBox
7814 when the medium format was not specified explicitly. One example is
7815 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> with the empty
7816 format argument. A more complex example is implicit creation of
7817 differencing media when taking a snapshot of a virtual machine:
7818 this operation will try to use a format of the parent medium first
7819 and if this format does not support differencing media the default
7820 format specified by this argument will be used.
7821
7822 The list of supported medium formats may be obtained by the
7823 <link to="#mediaFormats"/> call. Note that the default medium
7824 format must have a capability to create differencing media;
7825 otherwise operations that create media implicitly may fail
7826 unexpectedly.
7827
7828 The initial value of this property is <tt>"VDI"</tt> in the current
7829 version of the VirtualBox product, but may change in the future.
7830
7831 <note>
7832 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7833 initial value.
7834 </note>
7835
7836 <see>
7837 <link to="#mediaFormats"/>,
7838 <link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>,
7839 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>
7840 </see>
7841 </desc>
7842 </attribute>
7843
7844 <attribute name="remoteDisplayAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7845 <desc>
7846 Library that provides authentication for VRDP clients. The library
7847 is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7848 in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration.
7849
7850 The system library extension (".DLL" or ".so") must be omitted.
7851 A full path can be specified; if not, then the library must reside on the
7852 system's default library path.
7853
7854 The default value of this property is <tt>"VRDPAuth"</tt>. There is a library
7855 of that name in one of the default VirtualBox library directories.
7856
7857 For details about VirtualBox authentication libraries and how to implement
7858 them, please refer to the VirtualBox manual.
7859
7860 <note>
7861 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7862 initial value.
7863 </note>
7864 </desc>
7865 </attribute>
7866
7867 <attribute name="webServiceAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7868 <desc>
7869 Library that provides authentication for webservice clients. The library
7870 is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7871 in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration and will be called from
7872 within the <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> implementation.
7873
7874 As opposed to <link to="ISystemProperties::remoteDisplayAuthLibrary" />,
7875 there is no per-VM setting for this, as the webservice is a global
7876 resource (if it is running). Only for this setting (for the webservice),
7877 setting this value to a literal <tt>"null"</tt> string disables authentication,
7878 meaning that <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> will always succeed,
7879 no matter what user name and password are supplied.
7880
7881 The initial value of this property is <tt>"VRDPAuth"</tt>,
7882 meaning that the webservice will use the same authentication
7883 library that is used by default for VBoxVRDP (again, see
7884 <link to="ISystemProperties::remoteDisplayAuthLibrary" />).
7885 The format and calling convention of authentication libraries
7886 is the same for the webservice as it is for VBoxVRDP.
7887
7888 <note>
7889 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7890 initial value.
7891 </note>
7892 </desc>
7893 </attribute>
7894
7895 <attribute name="LogHistoryCount" type="unsigned long">
7896 <desc>
7897 This value specifies how many old release log files are kept.
7898 </desc>
7899 </attribute>
7900
7901 <attribute name="defaultAudioDriver" type="AudioDriverType" readonly="yes">
7902 <desc>This value hold the default audio driver for the current
7903 system.</desc>
7904 </attribute>
7905
7906 <method name="getMaxDevicesPerPortForStorageBus">
7907 <desc>Returns the maximum number of devices which can be attached to a port
7908 for the given storage bus.</desc>
7909
7910 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7911 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7912 </param>
7913
7914 <param name="maxDevicesPerPort" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7915 <desc>The maximum number of devices which can eb attached to the port for the given
7916 storage bus.</desc>
7917 </param>
7918 </method>
7919
7920 <method name="getMinPortCountForStorageBus">
7921 <desc>Returns the minimum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
7922
7923 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7924 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7925 </param>
7926
7927 <param name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7928 <desc>The minimum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
7929 </param>
7930 </method>
7931
7932 <method name="getMaxPortCountForStorageBus">
7933 <desc>Returns the maximum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
7934
7935 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7936 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7937 </param>
7938
7939 <param name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7940 <desc>The maximum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
7941 </param>
7942 </method>
7943
7944 <method name="getMaxInstancesOfStorageBus">
7945 <desc>Returns the maximum number of storage bus instances which
7946 can be configured for each VM. This corresponds to the number of
7947 storage controllers one can have.</desc>
7948
7949 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7950 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7951 </param>
7952
7953 <param name="maxInstances" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7954 <desc>The maximum number of instances for the given storage bus.</desc>
7955 </param>
7956 </method>
7957
7958 <method name="getDeviceTypesForStorageBus">
7959 <desc>Returns list of all the supported device types
7960 (<link to="DeviceType"/>) for the given type of storage
7961 bus.</desc>
7962
7963 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7964 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7965 </param>
7966
7967 <param name="deviceTypes" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7968 <desc>The list of all supported device types for the given storage bus.</desc>
7969 </param>
7970 </method>
7971 </interface>
7972
7973 <!--
7974 // IGuest
7975 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7976 -->
7977
7978 <interface
7979 name="IGuestOSType" extends="$unknown"
7980 uuid="cfe9e64c-4430-435b-9e7c-e3d8e417bd58"
7981 wsmap="struct"
7982 >
7983 <desc>
7984 </desc>
7985
7986 <attribute name="familyId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7987 <desc>Guest OS family identifier string.</desc>
7988 </attribute>
7989
7990 <attribute name="familyDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7991 <desc>Human readable description of the guest OS family.</desc>
7992 </attribute>
7993
7994 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7995 <desc>Guest OS identifier string.</desc>
7996 </attribute>
7997
7998 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7999 <desc>Human readable description of the guest OS.</desc>
8000 </attribute>
8001
8002 <attribute name="is64Bit" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8003 <desc>Returns @c true if the given OS is 64-bit</desc>
8004 </attribute>
8005
8006 <attribute name="recommendedIOAPIC" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8007 <desc>Returns @c true if IO APIC recommended for this OS type.</desc>
8008 </attribute>
8009
8010 <attribute name="recommendedVirtEx" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8011 <desc>Returns @c true if VT-x or AMD-V recommended for this OS type.</desc>
8012 </attribute>
8013
8014 <attribute name="recommendedRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8015 <desc>Recommended RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
8016 </attribute>
8017
8018 <attribute name="recommendedVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8019 <desc>Recommended video RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
8020 </attribute>
8021
8022 <attribute name="recommendedHDD" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8023 <desc>Recommended hard disk size in Megabytes.</desc>
8024 </attribute>
8025
8026 <attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType" readonly="yes">
8027 <desc>Returns recommended network adapter for this OS type.</desc>
8028 </attribute>
8029 </interface>
8030
8031 <interface
8032 name="IGuest" extends="$unknown"
8033 uuid="d8556fca-81bc-12af-fca3-365528fa38ca"
8034 wsmap="managed"
8035 >
8036 <desc>
8037 The IGuest interface represents information about the operating system
8038 running inside the virtual machine. Used in
8039 <link to="IConsole::guest"/>.
8040
8041 IGuest provides information about the guest operating system, whether
8042 Guest Additions are installed and other OS-specific virtual machine
8043 properties.
8044 </desc>
8045
8046 <attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8047 <desc>
8048 Identifier of the Guest OS type as reported by the Guest
8049 Additions.
8050 You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
8051 an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
8052 Guest OS type.
8053 <note>
8054 If Guest Additions are not installed, this value will be
8055 the same as <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/>.
8056 </note>
8057 </desc>
8058 </attribute>
8059
8060 <attribute name="additionsActive" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8061 <desc>
8062 Flag whether the Guest Additions are installed and active
8063 in which case their version will be returned by the
8064 <link to="#additionsVersion"/> property.
8065 </desc>
8066 </attribute>
8067
8068 <attribute name="additionsVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8069 <desc>
8070 Version of the Guest Additions (3 decimal numbers separated
8071 by dots) or empty when the Additions are not installed. The
8072 Additions may also report a version but yet not be active as
8073 the version might be refused by VirtualBox (incompatible) or
8074 other failures occurred.
8075 </desc>
8076 </attribute>
8077
8078 <attribute name="supportsSeamless" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8079 <desc>
8080 Flag whether seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
8081 integration) is supported.
8082 </desc>
8083 </attribute>
8084
8085 <attribute name="supportsGraphics" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8086 <desc>
8087 Flag whether the guest is in graphics mode. If it is not, then
8088 seamless rendering will not work, resize hints are not immediately
8089 acted on and guest display resizes are probably not initiated by
8090 the guest additions.
8091 </desc>
8092 </attribute>
8093
8094 <attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
8095 <desc>Guest system memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
8096 </attribute>
8097
8098 <attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
8099 <desc>Interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
8100 </attribute>
8101
8102 <method name="setCredentials">
8103 <desc>
8104 Store login credentials that can be queried by guest operating
8105 systems with Additions installed. The credentials are transient
8106 to the session and the guest may also choose to erase them. Note
8107 that the caller cannot determine whether the guest operating system
8108 has queried or made use of the credentials.
8109
8110 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
8111 VMM device is not available.
8112 </result>
8113
8114 </desc>
8115 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8116 <desc>User name string, can be empty</desc>
8117 </param>
8118 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8119 <desc>Password string, can be empty</desc>
8120 </param>
8121 <param name="domain" type="wstring" dir="in">
8122 <desc>Domain name (guest logon scheme specific), can be empty</desc>
8123 </param>
8124 <param name="allowInteractiveLogon" type="boolean" dir="in">
8125 <desc>
8126 Flag whether the guest should alternatively allow the user to
8127 interactively specify different credentials. This flag might
8128 not be supported by all versions of the Additions.
8129 </desc>
8130 </param>
8131 </method>
8132
8133 <method name="getStatistic">
8134 <desc>
8135 Query specified guest statistics as reported by the VirtualBox Additions.
8136 </desc>
8137 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8138 <desc>Virtual CPU id; not relevant for all statistic types</desc>
8139 </param>
8140 <param name="statistic" type="GuestStatisticType" dir="in">
8141 <desc>Statistic type.</desc>
8142 </param>
8143 <param name="statVal" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8144 <desc>Statistics value</desc>
8145 </param>
8146 </method>
8147
8148 </interface>
8149
8150
8151 <!--
8152 // IProgress
8153 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8154 -->
8155
8156 <interface
8157 name="IProgress" extends="$unknown"
8158 uuid="62827ef1-c098-40eb-be96-36d0508489a6"
8159 wsmap="managed"
8160 >
8161 <desc>
8162 The IProgress interface is used to track and control
8163 asynchronous tasks within VirtualBox.
8164
8165 An instance of this is returned every time VirtualBox starts
8166 an asynchronous task (in other words, a separate thread) which
8167 continues to run after a method call returns. For example,
8168 <link to="IConsole::saveState" />, which saves the state of
8169 a running virtual machine, can take a long time to complete.
8170 To be able to display a progress bar, a user interface such as
8171 the VirtualBox graphical user interface can use the IProgress
8172 object returned by that method.
8173
8174 Note that IProgress is a "read-only" interface in the sense
8175 that only the VirtualBox internals behind the Main API can
8176 create and manipulate progress objects, whereas client code
8177 can only use the IProgress object to monitor a task's
8178 progress and, if <link to="#cancelable" /> is @c true,
8179 cancel the task by calling <link to="#cancel" />.
8180
8181 A task represented by IProgress consists of either one or
8182 several sub-operations that run sequentially, one by one (see
8183 <link to="#operation" /> and <link to="#operationCount" />).
8184 Every operation is identified by a number (starting from 0)
8185 and has a separate description.
8186
8187 You can find the individual percentage of completion of the current
8188 operation in <link to="#operationPercent" /> and the
8189 percentage of completion of the task as a whole
8190 in <link to="#percent" />.
8191
8192 Similarly, you can wait for the completion of a particular
8193 operation via <link to="#waitForOperationCompletion" /> or
8194 for the completion of the whole task via
8195 <link to="#waitForCompletion" />.
8196 </desc>
8197
8198 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
8199 <desc>ID of the task.</desc>
8200 </attribute>
8201
8202 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8203 <desc>Description of the task.</desc>
8204 </attribute>
8205
8206 <attribute name="initiator" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
8207 <desc>Initiator of the task.</desc>
8208 </attribute>
8209
8210 <attribute name="cancelable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8211 <desc>Whether the task can be interrupted.</desc>
8212 </attribute>
8213
8214 <attribute name="percent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8215 <desc>
8216 Current progress value of the task as a whole, in percent.
8217 This value depends on how many operations are already complete.
8218 Returns 100 if <link to="#completed" /> is @c true.
8219 </desc>
8220 </attribute>
8221
8222 <attribute name="timeRemaining" type="long" readonly="yes">
8223 <desc>
8224 Estimated remaining time until the task completes, in
8225 seconds. Returns 0 once the task has completed; returns -1
8226 if the remaining time cannot be computed, in particular if
8227 the current progress is 0.
8228
8229 Even if a value is returned, the estimate will be unreliable
8230 for low progress values. It will become more reliable as the
8231 task progresses; it is not recommended to display an ETA
8232 before at least 20% of a task have completed.
8233 </desc>
8234 </attribute>
8235
8236 <attribute name="completed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8237 <desc>Whether the task has been completed.</desc>
8238 </attribute>
8239
8240 <attribute name="canceled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8241 <desc>Whether the task has been canceled.</desc>
8242 </attribute>
8243
8244 <attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
8245 <desc>
8246 Result code of the progress task.
8247 Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true.
8248 </desc>
8249 </attribute>
8250
8251 <attribute name="errorInfo" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
8252 <desc>
8253 Extended information about the unsuccessful result of the
8254 progress operation. May be @c null if no extended information
8255 is available.
8256 Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true and
8257 <link to="#resultCode"/> indicates a failure.
8258 </desc>
8259 </attribute>
8260
8261 <attribute name="operationCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8262 <desc>
8263 Number of sub-operations this task is divided into.
8264 Every task consists of at least one suboperation.
8265 </desc>
8266 </attribute>
8267
8268 <attribute name="operation" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8269 <desc>Number of the sub-operation being currently executed.</desc>
8270 </attribute>
8271
8272 <attribute name="operationDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8273 <desc>
8274 Description of the sub-operation being currently executed.
8275 </desc>
8276 </attribute>
8277
8278 <attribute name="operationPercent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8279 <desc>Progress value of the current sub-operation only, in percent.</desc>
8280 </attribute>
8281
8282 <method name="setCurrentOperationProgress">
8283 <desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
8284 <param name="percent" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
8285 </method>
8286 <method name="setNextOperation">
8287 <desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
8288 <param name="nextOperationDescription" type="wstring" dir="in" />
8289 <param name="nextOperationsWeight" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
8290 </method>
8291
8292 <method name="waitForCompletion">
8293 <desc>
8294 Waits until the task is done (including all sub-operations)
8295 with a given timeout in milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
8296
8297 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8298 Failed to wait for task completion.
8299 </result>
8300 </desc>
8301
8302 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
8303 <desc>
8304 Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
8305 </desc>
8306 </param>
8307 </method>
8308
8309 <method name="waitForOperationCompletion">
8310 <desc>
8311 Waits until the given operation is done with a given timeout in
8312 milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
8313
8314 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8315 Failed to wait for operation completion.
8316 </result>
8317
8318 </desc>
8319 <param name="operation" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8320 <desc>
8321 Number of the operation to wait for.
8322 Must be less than <link to="#operationCount"/>.
8323 </desc>
8324 </param>
8325 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
8326 <desc>
8327 Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
8328 </desc>
8329 </param>
8330 </method>
8331
8332 <method name="cancel">
8333 <desc>
8334 Cancels the task.
8335 <note>
8336 If <link to="#cancelable"/> is @c false, then this method will fail.
8337 </note>
8338
8339 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8340 Operation cannot be canceled.
8341 </result>
8342
8343 </desc>
8344 </method>
8345
8346 </interface>
8347
8348
8349 <!--
8350 // ISnapshot
8351 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8352 -->
8353
8354 <interface
8355 name="ISnapshot" extends="$unknown"
8356 uuid="1a2d0551-58a4-4107-857e-ef414fc42ffc"
8357 wsmap="managed"
8358 >
8359 <desc>
8360 The ISnapshot interface represents a snapshot of the virtual
8361 machine.
8362
8363 Together with the differencing media that are created
8364 when a snapshot is taken, a machine can be brought back to
8365 the exact state it was in when the snapshot was taken.
8366
8367 The ISnapshot interface has no methods, only attributes; snapshots
8368 are controlled through methods of the <link to="IConsole" /> interface
8369 which also manage the media associated with the snapshot.
8370 The following operations exist:
8371
8372 <ul>
8373 <li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/>: creates a new snapshot
8374 by creating new, empty differencing images for the machine's
8375 media and saving the VM settings and (if the VM is running)
8376 the current VM state in the snapshot.
8377
8378 The differencing images will then receive all data written to
8379 the machine's media, while their parent (base) images
8380 remain unmodified after the snapshot has been taken (see
8381 <link to="IMedium" /> for details about differencing images).
8382 This simplifies restoring a machine to the state of a snapshot:
8383 only the differencing images need to be deleted.
8384
8385 The current machine state is not changed by taking a snapshot.
8386 If the machine is running, it will resume execution after the
8387 snapshot has been taken.
8388 </li>
8389
8390 <li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/>: this goes back to
8391 a previous snapshot. This resets the machine's state to that of
8392 the previous snapshot by deleting the differencing image of each
8393 of the machine's media and setting the machine's settings
8394 and state to the state that was saved in the snapshot (if any).
8395
8396 This destroys the machine's current state.
8397 </li>
8398
8399 <li><link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot"/>: deletes a snapshot
8400 without affecting the current machine state.
8401
8402 This does not change the machine, but instead frees the resources
8403 allocated when the snapshot was taken: the settings and machine state
8404 is deleted (if any), and the snapshot's differencing image for each
8405 of the machine's media gets merged with its parent image.
8406
8407 Neither the current machine state nor other snapshots are affected
8408 by this operation, except that parent media will be modified
8409 to contain the disk data associated with the snapshot being deleted.
8410 </li>
8411 </ul>
8412
8413 Each snapshot contains the settings of the virtual machine (hardware
8414 configuration etc.). In addition, if the machine was running when the
8415 snapshot was taken (<link to="IMachine::state"/> is <link to="MachineState_Running"/>),
8416 the current VM state is saved in the snapshot (similarly to what happens
8417 when a VM's state is saved). The snapshot is then said to
8418 be <i>online</i> because when restoring it, the VM will be running.
8419
8420 If the machine is saved (<link to="MachineState_Saved"/>), the snapshot
8421 receives a copy of the execution state file (<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/>).
8422
8423 Otherwise, if the machine was not running (<link to="MachineState_PoweredOff"/>
8424 or <link to="MachineState_Aborted"/>), the snapshot is <i>offline</i>;
8425 it then contains a so-called "zero execution state", representing a
8426 machine that is powered off.
8427
8428 <h3>Snapshot branches and the "current" snapshot</h3>
8429
8430 Snapshots can be chained, whereby every next snapshot is based on the
8431 previous one. This chaining is related to medium branching
8432 (see the <link to="IMedium"/> description) in that every time
8433 a new snapshot is created, a new differencing medium is implicitly
8434 created for all normal media attached to the machine.
8435
8436 Each virtual machine has a "current snapshot", identified by
8437 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot"/>. Presently, this is always set
8438 to the last snapshot in the chain. In a future version of VirtualBox,
8439 it will be possible to reset a machine's current state to that of an
8440 earlier snapshot without discarding the current state so that it will be
8441 possible to create alternative snapshot paths in a snapshot tree.
8442
8443 In the current implementation, multiple snapshot branches within one
8444 virtual machine are not allowed. Every machine has a single branch,
8445 and <link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> operation adds a new
8446 snapshot to the top of that branch.
8447 </desc>
8448
8449 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
8450 <desc>UUID of the snapshot.</desc>
8451 </attribute>
8452
8453 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
8454 <desc>Short name of the snapshot.</desc>
8455 </attribute>
8456
8457 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
8458 <desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
8459 </attribute>
8460
8461 <attribute name="timeStamp" type="long long" readonly="yes">
8462 <desc>
8463 Time stamp of the snapshot, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
8464 </desc>
8465 </attribute>
8466
8467 <attribute name="online" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8468 <desc>
8469 @c true if this snapshot is an online snapshot and @c false otherwise.
8470
8471 When this attribute is @c true, the
8472 <link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/> attribute of the
8473 <link to="#machine"/> object associated with this snapshot
8474 will point to the saved state file. Otherwise, it will be
8475 an empty string.
8476 </desc>
8477 </attribute>
8478
8479 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
8480 <desc>
8481 Virtual machine this snapshot is taken on. This object
8482 stores all settings the machine had when taking this snapshot.
8483 <note>
8484 The returned machine object is immutable, i.e. no
8485 any settings can be changed.
8486 </note>
8487 </desc>
8488 </attribute>
8489
8490 <attribute name="parent" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
8491 <desc>
8492 Parent snapshot (a snapshot this one is based on), or
8493 @c null if the snapshot has no parent.
8494 </desc>
8495 </attribute>
8496
8497 <attribute name="children" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
8498 <desc>
8499 Child snapshots (all snapshots having this one as a parent).
8500 <note>
8501 In the current implementation, there can be only one
8502 child snapshot, or no children at all, meaning this is the
8503 last (head) snapshot.
8504 </note>
8505 </desc>
8506 </attribute>
8507
8508 </interface>
8509
8510
8511 <!--
8512 // IMedium
8513 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8514 -->
8515
8516 <enum
8517 name="MediumState"
8518 uuid="ef41e980-e012-43cd-9dea-479d4ef14d13"
8519 >
8520 <desc>
8521 Virtual medium state.
8522 <see>IMedium</see>
8523 </desc>
8524
8525 <const name="NotCreated" value="0">
8526 <desc>
8527 Associated medium storage does not exist (either was not created yet or
8528 was deleted).
8529 </desc>
8530 </const>
8531 <const name="Created" value="1">
8532 <desc>
8533 Associated storage exists and accessible; this gets set if the
8534 accessibility check performed by <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />
8535 was successful.
8536 </desc>
8537 </const>
8538 <const name="LockedRead" value="2">
8539 <desc>
8540 Medium is locked for reading (see <link to="IMedium::lockRead"/>),
8541 no data modification is possible.
8542 </desc>
8543 </const>
8544 <const name="LockedWrite" value="3">
8545 <desc>
8546 Medium is locked for writing (see <link to="IMedium::lockWrite"/>),
8547 no concurrent data reading or modification is possible.
8548 </desc>
8549 </const>
8550 <const name="Inaccessible" value="4">
8551 <desc>
8552 Medium accessiblity check (see <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />) has
8553 not yet been performed, or else, associated medium storage is not
8554 accessible. In the first case, <link to="IMedium::lastAccessError"/>
8555 is empty, in the second case, it describes the error that occured.
8556 </desc>
8557 </const>
8558 <const name="Creating" value="5">
8559 <desc>
8560 Associated medium storage is being created.
8561 </desc>
8562 </const>
8563 <const name="Deleting" value="6">
8564 <desc>
8565 Associated medium storage is being deleted.
8566 </desc>
8567 </const>
8568 </enum>
8569
8570 <enum
8571 name="MediumType"
8572 uuid="11f6f7a5-0327-409a-9d42-7db6a0cec578"
8573 >
8574 <desc>
8575 Virtual medium type.
8576 <see>IMedium</see>
8577 </desc>
8578
8579 <const name="Normal" value="0">
8580 <desc>
8581 Normal medium (attached directly or indirectly, preserved
8582 when taking snapshots).
8583 </desc>
8584 </const>
8585 <const name="Immutable" value="1">
8586 <desc>
8587 Immutable medium (attached indirectly, changes are wiped out
8588 the next time the virtual machine is started).
8589 </desc>
8590 </const>
8591 <const name="Writethrough" value="2">
8592 <desc>
8593 Write through medium (attached directly, ignored when
8594 taking snapshots).
8595 </desc>
8596 </const>
8597 </enum>
8598
8599 <enum
8600 name="MediumVariant"
8601 uuid="584ea502-143b-4ab0-ad14-d1028fdf0316"
8602 >
8603 <desc>
8604 Virtual medium image variant. More than one flag may be set.
8605 <see>IMedium</see>
8606 </desc>
8607
8608 <const name="Standard" value="0">
8609 <desc>
8610 No particular variant requested, results in using the backend default.
8611 </desc>
8612 </const>
8613 <const name="VmdkSplit2G" value="0x01">
8614 <desc>
8615 VMDK image split in chunks of less than 2GByte.
8616 </desc>
8617 </const>
8618 <const name="VmdkStreamOptimized" value="0x04">
8619 <desc>
8620 VMDK streamOptimized image. Special import/export format which is
8621 read-only/append-only.
8622 </desc>
8623 </const>
8624 <const name="VmdkESX" value="0x08">
8625 <desc>
8626 VMDK format variant used on ESX products.
8627 </desc>
8628 </const>
8629 <const name="Fixed" value="0x10000">
8630 <desc>
8631 Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
8632 </desc>
8633 </const>
8634 <const name="Diff" value="0x20000">
8635 <desc>
8636 Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
8637 </desc>
8638 </const>
8639 </enum>
8640
8641 <interface
8642 name="IMediumAttachment" extends="$unknown"
8643 uuid="7bb6ac41-8c03-4863-9eea-d9c76561b8d1"
8644 wsmap="struct"
8645 >
8646 <desc>
8647 The IMediumAttachment interface represents the attachment
8648 of a storage medium to a virtual machine. Each machine contains
8649 an array of its medium attachments in <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/>.
8650
8651 Each medium attachment specifies a storage controller as well as a port
8652 and device number. Fixed media (hard disks) will always also specify
8653 an instance of IMedium in <link to="#medium" />, referring to the hard disk
8654 medium. For removeable media, the IMedia instance is optional; it can be
8655 @c null if no media is mounted (see <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />).
8656 </desc>
8657
8658 <attribute name="medium" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
8659 <desc>Medium object associated with this attachment; it
8660 can be @c null for removable devices.</desc>
8661 </attribute>
8662
8663 <attribute name="controller" type="IStorageController" readonly="yes">
8664 <desc>Storage controller object to which this attachment belongs.</desc>
8665 </attribute>
8666
8667 <attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
8668 <desc>Port number of this attachment.</desc>
8669 </attribute>
8670
8671 <attribute name="device" type="long" readonly="yes">
8672 <desc>Device slot number of this attachment.</desc>
8673 </attribute>
8674
8675 <attribute name="type" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
8676 <desc>Device type of this attachment.</desc>
8677 </attribute>
8678
8679 <attribute name="passthrough" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8680 <desc>Pass I/O requests through to a device on the host.</desc>
8681 </attribute>
8682
8683 </interface>
8684
8685 <interface
8686 name="IMedium" extends="$unknown"
8687 uuid="aa8167ba-df72-4738-b740-9b84377ba9f1"
8688 wsmap="managed"
8689 >
8690 <desc>
8691 The IMedium interface represents virtual storage for a machine's
8692 hard disks, CD/DVD or floppy drives. It will typically represent
8693 a disk image on the host, for example a VDI or VMDK file representing
8694 a virtual hard disk, or an ISO or RAW file representing virtual
8695 removable media, but can also point to a network location (e.g.
8696 for iSCSI targets).
8697
8698 Instances of IMedium are connected to virtual machines by way of
8699 medium attachments (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />), which link
8700 the storage medium to a particular device slot of a storage controller
8701 of the virtual machine.
8702 In the VirtualBox API, virtual storage is therefore always represented
8703 by the following chain of object links:
8704
8705 <ul>
8706 <li><link to="IMachine::storageControllers"/> contains an array of
8707 storage controllers (IDE, SATA, SCSI or a floppy controller;
8708 these are instances of <link to="IStorageController"/>).</li>
8709 <li><link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> contains an array of
8710 medium attachments (instances of <link to="IMediumAttachment"/>),
8711 each containing a storage controller from the above array, a
8712 port/device specification, and an instance of IMedium representing
8713 the medium storage (image file).
8714
8715 For removable media, the storage medium is optional; a medium
8716 attachment with no medium represents a CD/DVD or floppy drive
8717 with no medium inserted. By contrast, hard disk attachments
8718 will always have an IMedium object attached.</li>
8719 <li>Each IMedium in turn points to a storage unit (such as a file
8720 on the host computer or a network resource) that holds actual
8721 data. This location is represented by the <link to="#location"/>
8722 attribute.</li>
8723 </ul>
8724
8725 Existing media are opened using the following methods, depending on the
8726 media type:
8727 <ul>
8728 <li><link to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/></li>
8729 <li><link to="IVirtualBox::openDVDImage"/></li>
8730 <li><link to="IVirtualBox::openFloppyImage"/></li>
8731 </ul>
8732
8733 New hard disk media can be created with the VirtualBox API using the
8734 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> method.
8735
8736 CD/DVD and floppy images (ISO and RAW files) are usually created outside
8737 VirtualBox, e.g. by storing a copy of the real medium of the corresponding
8738 type in a regular file.
8739
8740 Only for CD/DVDs and floppies, an IMedium instance can also represent a host
8741 drive; in that case the <link to="#id" /> attribute contains the UUID of
8742 one of the drives in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives" />.
8743
8744 <h3>Known media</h3>
8745
8746 When an existing medium is opened for the first time, it is automatically
8747 remembered by the given VirtualBox installation or, in other words, becomes
8748 a <i>known medium</i>. Known media are stored in the media
8749 registry transparently maintained by VirtualBox and stored in settings
8750 files so that this registry is preserved when VirtualBox is not running.
8751
8752 Newly created virtual media are remembered only when the associated
8753 storage unit is actually created.
8754
8755 All known media can be enumerated using
8756 <link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks"/>,
8757 <link to="IVirtualBox::DVDImages"/> and
8758 <link to="IVirtualBox::floppyImages"/> attributes. Individual media can be
8759 quickly found by UUID using <link to="IVirtualBox::getHardDisk"/>
8760 and similar methods or by location using
8761 <link to="IVirtualBox::findHardDisk"/> and similar methods.
8762
8763 Only known media can be attached to virtual machines.
8764
8765 Removing known media from the media registry is performed when the given
8766 medium is closed using the <link to="#close"/> method or when its
8767 associated storage unit is deleted.
8768
8769 <h3>Accessibility checks</h3>
8770
8771 VirtualBox defers media accessibility checks until the <link to="#refreshState" />
8772 method is called explicitly on a medium. This is done to make the VirtualBox object
8773 ready for serving requests as fast as possible and let the end-user
8774 application decide if it needs to check media accessibility right away or not.
8775
8776 As a result, when VirtualBox starts up (e.g. the VirtualBox
8777 object gets created for the first time), all known media are in the
8778 "Inaccessible" state, but the value of the <link to="#lastAccessError"/>
8779 attribute is an empty string because no actual accessibility check has
8780 been made yet.
8781
8782 After calling <link to="#refreshState" />, a medium is considered
8783 <i>accessible</i> if its storage unit can be read. In that case, the
8784 <link to="#state"/> attribute has a value of "Created". If the storage
8785 unit cannot be read (for example, because it is located on a disconnected
8786 network resource, or was accidentally deleted outside VirtualBox),
8787 the medium is considered <i>inaccessible</i>, which is indicated by the
8788 "Inaccessible" state. The exact reason why the medium is inaccessible can be
8789 obtained by reading the <link to="#lastAccessError"/> attribute.
8790
8791 <h3>Medium types</h3>
8792
8793 There are three types of medium behavior (see <link to="MediumType" />):
8794 "normal", "immutable" and "writethrough", represented by the
8795 <link to="#type"/> attribute. The type of the medium defines how the
8796 medium is attached to a virtual machine and what happens when a
8797 <link to="ISnapshot">snapshot</link> of the virtual machine with the
8798 attached medium is taken. At the moment DVD and floppy media are always
8799 of type "writethrough".
8800
8801 All media can be also divided in two groups: <i>base</i> media and
8802 <i>differencing</i> media. A base medium contains all sectors of the
8803 medium data in its own storage and therefore can be used independently.
8804 In contrast, a differencing mediun is a "delta" to some other medium and
8805 contains only those sectors which differ from that other medium, which is
8806 then called a <i>parent</i>. The differencing medium is said to be
8807 <i>linked to</i> that parent. The parent may be itself a differencing
8808 medium, thus forming a chain of linked media. The last element in that
8809 chain must always be a base medium. Note that several differencing
8810 media may be linked to the same parent medium.
8811
8812 Differencing media can be distinguished from base media by querying the
8813 <link to="#parent"/> attribute: base media do not have parents they would
8814 depend on, so the value of this attribute is always @c null for them.
8815 Using this attribute, it is possible to walk up the medium tree (from the
8816 child medium to its parent). It is also possible to walk down the tree
8817 using the <link to="#children"/> attribute.
8818
8819 Note that the type of all differencing media is
8820 <link to="MediumType_Normal" />; all other values are meaningless for
8821 them. Base media may be of any type.
8822
8823 <h3>Creating hard disks</h3>
8824
8825 New base hard disks are created using
8826 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>. Existing hard disks are
8827 opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/>. Differencing hard
8828 disks are usually implicitly created by VirtualBox when needed but may
8829 also be created explicitly using <link to="#createDiffStorage"/>.
8830
8831 After the hard disk is successfully created (including the storage unit)
8832 or opened, it becomes a known hard disk (remembered in the internal media
8833 registry). Known hard disks can be attached to a virtual machine, accessed
8834 through <link to="IVirtualBox::getHardDisk"/> and
8835 <link to="IVirtualBox::findHardDisk"/> methods or enumerated using the
8836 <link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks"/> array (only for base hard disks).
8837
8838 The following methods, besides <link to="IMedium::close"/>,
8839 automatically remove the hard disk from the media registry:
8840 <ul>
8841 <li><link to="#deleteStorage"/></li>
8842 <li><link to="#mergeTo"/></li>
8843 </ul>
8844
8845 If the storage unit of the hard disk is a regular file in the host's
8846 file system then the rules stated in the description of the
8847 <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute apply when setting its value. In
8848 addition, a plain file name without any path may be given, in which case
8849 the <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFolder"> default hard disk
8850 folder</link> will be prepended to it.
8851
8852 <h4>Automatic composition of the file name part</h4>
8853
8854 Another extension to the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute is that
8855 there is a possibility to cause VirtualBox to compose a unique value for
8856 the file name part of the location using the UUID of the hard disk. This
8857 applies only to hard disks in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> state,
8858 e.g. before the storage unit is created, and works as follows. You set the
8859 value of the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute to a location
8860 specification which only contains the path specification but not the file
8861 name part and ends with either a forward slash or a backslash character.
8862 In response, VirtualBox will generate a new UUID for the hard disk and
8863 compose the file name using the following pattern:
8864 <pre>
8865 &lt;path&gt;/{&lt;uuid&gt;}.&lt;ext&gt;
8866 </pre>
8867 where <tt>&lt;path&gt;</tt> is the supplied path specification,
8868 <tt>&lt;uuid&gt;</tt> is the newly generated UUID and <tt>&lt;ext&gt;</tt>
8869 is the default extension for the storage format of this hard disk. After
8870 that, you may call any of the methods that create a new hard disk storage
8871 unit and they will use the generated UUID and file name.
8872
8873 <h3>Attaching Hard Disks</h3>
8874
8875 Hard disks are attached to virtual machines using the
8876 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> method and detached using the
8877 <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> method. Depending on their
8878 <link to="#type"/>, hard disks are attached either
8879 <i>directly</i> or <i>indirectly</i>.
8880
8881 When a hard disk is being attached directly, it is associated with the
8882 virtual machine and used for hard disk operations when the machine is
8883 running. When a hard disk is being attached indirectly, a new differencing
8884 hard disk linked to it is implicitly created and this differencing hard
8885 disk is associated with the machine and used for hard disk operations.
8886 This also means that if <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> performs
8887 a direct attachment then the same hard disk will be returned in response
8888 to the subsequent <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> call; however if
8889 an indirect attachment is performed then
8890 <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> will return the implicitly created
8891 differencing hard disk, not the original one passed to <link
8892 to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>. In detail:
8893
8894 <ul>
8895 <li><b>Normal base</b> hard disks that do not have children (i.e.
8896 differencing hard disks linked to them) and that are not already
8897 attached to virtual machines in snapshots are attached <b>directly</b>.
8898 Otherwise, they are attached <b>indirectly</b> because having
8899 dependent children or being part of the snapshot makes it impossible
8900 to modify hard disk contents without breaking the integrity of the
8901 dependent party. The <link to="#readOnly"/> attribute allows to
8902 quickly determine the kind of the attachment for the given hard
8903 disk. Note that if a normal base hard disk is to be indirectly
8904 attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
8905 procedure called <i>smart attachment</i> is performed (see below).</li>
8906 <li><b>Normal differencing</b> hard disks are like normal base hard disks:
8907 they are attached <b>directly</b> if they do not have children and are
8908 not attached to virtual machines in snapshots, and <b>indirectly</b>
8909 otherwise. Note that the smart attachment procedure is never performed
8910 for differencing hard disks.</li>
8911 <li><b>Immutable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>indirectly</b> because
8912 they are designed to be non-writable. If an immutable hard disk is
8913 attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
8914 procedure called smart attachment is performed (see below).</li>
8915 <li><b>Writethrough</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
8916 also as designed. This also means that writethrough hard disks cannot
8917 have other hard disks linked to them at all.</li>
8918 </ul>
8919
8920 Note that the same hard disk, regardless of its type, may be attached to
8921 more than one virtual machine at a time. In this case, the machine that is
8922 started first gains exclusive access to the hard disk and attempts to
8923 start other machines having this hard disk attached will fail until the
8924 first machine is powered down.
8925
8926 Detaching hard disks is performed in a <i>deferred</i> fashion. This means
8927 that the given hard disk remains associated with the given machine after a
8928 successful <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> call until
8929 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called to save all changes to
8930 machine settings to disk. This deferring is necessary to guarantee that
8931 the hard disk configuration may be restored at any time by a call to
8932 <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> before the settings
8933 are saved (committed).
8934
8935 Note that if <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> is called after
8936 indirectly attaching some hard disks to the machine but before a call to
8937 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is made, it will implicitly delete
8938 all differencing hard disks implicitly created by
8939 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for these indirect attachments.
8940 Such implicitly created hard disks will also be immediately deleted when
8941 detached explicitly using the <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/>
8942 call if it is made before <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>. This
8943 implicit deletion is safe because newly created differencing hard
8944 disks do not contain any user data.
8945
8946 However, keep in mind that detaching differencing hard disks that were
8947 implicitly created by <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>
8948 before the last <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call will
8949 <b>not</b> implicitly delete them as they may already contain some data
8950 (for example, as a result of virtual machine execution). If these hard
8951 disks are no more necessary, the caller can always delete them explicitly
8952 using <link to="#deleteStorage"/> after they are actually de-associated
8953 from this machine by the <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call.
8954
8955 <h3>Smart Attachment</h3>
8956
8957 When normal base or immutable hard disks are indirectly attached to a
8958 virtual machine then some additional steps are performed to make sure the
8959 virtual machine will have the most recent "view" of the hard disk being
8960 attached. These steps include walking through the machine's snapshots
8961 starting from the current one and going through ancestors up to the first
8962 snapshot. Hard disks attached to the virtual machine in all
8963 of the encountered snapshots are checked whether they are descendants of
8964 the given normal base or immutable hard disk. The first found child (which
8965 is the differencing hard disk) will be used instead of the normal base or
8966 immutable hard disk as a parent for creating a new differencing hard disk
8967 that will be actually attached to the machine. And only if no descendants
8968 are found or if the virtual machine does not have any snapshots then the
8969 normal base or immutable hard disk will be used itself as a parent for
8970 this differencing hard disk.
8971
8972 It is easier to explain what smart attachment does using the
8973 following example:
8974 <pre>
8975BEFORE attaching B.vdi: AFTER attaching B.vdi:
8976
8977Snapshot 1 (B.vdi) Snapshot 1 (B.vdi)
8978 Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi) Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi)
8979 Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi) Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi)
8980 Snapshot 4 (none) Snapshot 4 (none)
8981 CurState (none) CurState (D3->D2.vdi)
8982
8983 NOT
8984 ...
8985 CurState (D3->B.vdi)
8986 </pre>
8987 The first column is the virtual machine configuration before the base hard
8988 disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> is attached, the second column shows the machine after
8989 this hard disk is attached. Constructs like <tt>D1->B.vdi</tt> and similar
8990 mean that the hard disk that is actually attached to the machine is a
8991 differencing hard disk, <tt>D1.vdi</tt>, which is linked to (based on)
8992 another hard disk, <tt>B.vdi</tt>.
8993
8994 As we can see from the example, the hard disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> was detached
8995 from the machine before taking Snapshot 4. Later, after Snapshot 4 was
8996 taken, the user decides to attach <tt>B.vdi</tt> again. <tt>B.vdi</tt> has
8997 dependent child hard disks (<tt>D1.vdi</tt>, <tt>D2.vdi</tt>), therefore
8998 it cannot be attached directly and needs an indirect attachment (i.e.
8999 implicit creation of a new differencing hard disk). Due to the smart
9000 attachment procedure, the new differencing hard disk
9001 (<tt>D3.vdi</tt>) will be based on <tt>D2.vdi</tt>, not on
9002 <tt>B.vdi</tt> itself, since <tt>D2.vdi</tt> is the most recent view of
9003 <tt>B.vdi</tt> existing for this snapshot branch of the given virtual
9004 machine.
9005
9006 Note that if there is more than one descendant hard disk of the given base
9007 hard disk found in a snapshot, and there is an exact device, channel and
9008 bus match, then this exact match will be used. Otherwise, the youngest
9009 descendant will be picked up.
9010
9011 There is one more important aspect of the smart attachment procedure which
9012 is not related to snapshots at all. Before walking through the snapshots
9013 as described above, the backup copy of the current list of hard disk
9014 attachment is searched for descendants. This backup copy is created when
9015 the hard disk configuration is changed for the first time after the last
9016 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call and used by
9017 <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> to undo the recent hard disk
9018 changes. When such a descendant is found in this backup copy, it will be
9019 simply re-attached back, without creating a new differencing hard disk for
9020 it. This optimization is necessary to make it possible to re-attach the
9021 base or immutable hard disk to a different bus, channel or device slot
9022 without losing the contents of the differencing hard disk actually
9023 attached to the machine in place of it.
9024 </desc>
9025
9026 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
9027 <desc>
9028 UUID of the medium. For a newly created medium, this value is a randomly
9029 generated UUID.
9030
9031 <note>
9032 For media in one of MediumState_NotCreated, MediumState_Creating or
9033 MediumState_Deleting states, the value of this property is undefined
9034 and will most likely be an empty UUID.
9035 </note>
9036 </desc>
9037 </attribute>
9038
9039 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
9040 <desc>
9041 Optional description of the medium. For a newly created medium the value
9042 of this attribute is an empty string.
9043
9044 Medium types that don't support this attribute will return E_NOTIMPL in
9045 attempt to get or set this attribute's value.
9046
9047 <note>
9048 For some storage types, reading this attribute may return an outdated
9049 (last known) value when <link to="#state"/> is <link
9050 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> or <link
9051 to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> because the value of this attribute is
9052 stored within the storage unit itself. Also note that changing the
9053 attribute value is not possible in such case, as well as when the
9054 medium is the <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state.
9055 </note>
9056 </desc>
9057 </attribute>
9058
9059 <attribute name="state" type="MediumState" readonly="yes">
9060 <desc>
9061 Returns the current medium state, which is the last state set by
9062 the accessibility check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
9063 If that method has not yet been called on the medium, the state
9064 is "Inaccessible"; as opposed to truly inaccessible media, the
9065 value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will be an empty string in
9066 that case.
9067
9068 <note>As of version 3.1, this no longer performs an accessibility check
9069 automatically; call <link to="#refreshState"/> for that.
9070 </note>
9071 </desc>
9072 </attribute>
9073
9074 <attribute name="location" type="wstring">
9075 <desc>
9076 Location of the storage unit holding medium data.
9077
9078 The format of the location string is medium type specific. For medium
9079 types using regular files in a host's file system, the location
9080 string is the full file name.
9081
9082 Some medium types may support changing the storage unit location by
9083 simply changing the value of this property. If this operation is not
9084 supported, the implementation will return E_NOTIMPL in attempt to set
9085 this attribute's value.
9086
9087 When setting a value of the location attribute which is a regular file
9088 in the host's file system, the given file name may be either relative to
9089 the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link> or
9090 absolute. Note that if the given location specification does not contain
9091 the file extension part then a proper default extension will be
9092 automatically appended by the implementation depending on the medium type.
9093 </desc>
9094 </attribute>
9095
9096 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9097 <desc>
9098 Name of the storage unit holding medium data.
9099
9100 The returned string is a short version of the <link to="#location"/>
9101 attribute that is suitable for representing the medium in situations
9102 where the full location specification is too long (such as lists
9103 and comboboxes in GUI frontends). This string is also used by frontends
9104 to sort the media list alphabetically when needed.
9105
9106 For example, for locations that are regular files in the host's file
9107 system, the value of this attribute is just the file name (+ extension),
9108 without the path specification.
9109
9110 Note that as opposed to the <link to="#location"/> attribute, the name
9111 attribute will not necessary be unique for a list of media of the
9112 given type and format.
9113 </desc>
9114 </attribute>
9115
9116 <attribute name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
9117 <desc>Kind of device (DVD/Floppy/HardDisk) which is applicable to this
9118 medium.</desc>
9119 </attribute>
9120
9121 <attribute name="hostDrive" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9122 <desc>True if this corresponds to a drive on the host.</desc>
9123 </attribute>
9124
9125 <attribute name="size" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
9126 <desc>
9127 Physical size of the storage unit used to hold medium data (in bytes).
9128
9129 <note>
9130 For media whose <link to="#state"/> is <link
9131 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9132 last known size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> media,
9133 the returned value is zero.
9134 </note>
9135 </desc>
9136 </attribute>
9137
9138 <attribute name="format" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9139 <desc>
9140 Storage format of this medium.
9141
9142 The value of this attribute is a string that specifies a backend used
9143 to store medium data. The storage format is defined when you create a
9144 new medium or automatically detected when you open an existing medium,
9145 and cannot be changed later.
9146
9147 The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
9148 installation can be obtained using
9149 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
9150 </desc>
9151 </attribute>
9152
9153 <attribute name="type" type="MediumType">
9154 <desc>
9155 Type (role) of this medium.
9156
9157 The following constraints apply when changing the value of this
9158 attribute:
9159 <ul>
9160 <li>If a medium is attached to a virtual machine (either in the
9161 current state or in one of the snapshots), its type cannot be
9162 changed.
9163 </li>
9164 <li>As long as the medium has children, its type cannot be set
9165 to <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
9166 </li>
9167 <li>The type of all differencing media is
9168 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and cannot be changed.
9169 </li>
9170 </ul>
9171
9172 The type of a newly created or opened medium is set to
9173 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/>, except for DVD and floppy media,
9174 which have a type of <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
9175 </desc>
9176 </attribute>
9177
9178 <attribute name="parent" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9179 <desc>
9180 Parent of this medium (the medium this medium is directly based
9181 on).
9182
9183 Only differencing media have parents. For base (non-differencing)
9184 media, @c null is returned.
9185 </desc>
9186 </attribute>
9187
9188 <attribute name="children" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9189 <desc>
9190 Children of this medium (all differencing media directly based
9191 on this medium). A @c null array is returned if this medium
9192 does not have any children.
9193 </desc>
9194 </attribute>
9195
9196 <attribute name="base" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9197 <desc>
9198 Base medium of this medium.
9199
9200 If this is a differencing medium, its base medium is the medium
9201 the given medium branch starts from. For all other types of media, this
9202 property returns the medium object itself (i.e. the same object this
9203 property is read on).
9204 </desc>
9205 </attribute>
9206
9207 <attribute name="readOnly" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9208 <desc>
9209 Returns @c true if this medium is read-only and @c false otherwise.
9210
9211 A medium is considered to be read-only when its contents cannot be
9212 modified without breaking the integrity of other parties that depend on
9213 this medium such as its child media or snapshots of virtual machines
9214 where this medium is attached to these machines. If there are no
9215 children and no such snapshots then there is no dependency and the
9216 medium is not read-only.
9217
9218 The value of this attribute can be used to determine the kind of the
9219 attachment that will take place when attaching this medium to a
9220 virtual machine. If the value is @c false then the medium will
9221 be attached directly. If the value is @c true then the medium
9222 will be attached indirectly by creating a new differencing child
9223 medium for that. See the interface description for more information.
9224
9225 Note that all <link to="MediumType_Immutable">Immutable</link> media
9226 are always read-only while all
9227 <link to="MediumType_Writethrough">Writethrough</link> media are
9228 always not.
9229
9230 <note>
9231 The read-only condition represented by this attribute is related to
9232 the medium type and usage, not to the current
9233 <link to="IMedium::state">medium state</link> and not to the read-only
9234 state of the storage unit.
9235 </note>
9236 </desc>
9237 </attribute>
9238
9239 <attribute name="logicalSize" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
9240 <desc>
9241 Logical size of this medium (in megabytes), as reported to the
9242 guest OS running inside the virtual machine this medium is
9243 attached to. The logical size is defined when the medium is created
9244 and cannot be changed later.
9245
9246 <note>
9247 Reading this property on a differencing medium will return the size
9248 of its <link to="#base"/> medium.
9249 </note>
9250 <note>
9251 For media whose state is <link to="#state"/> is <link
9252 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9253 last known logical size. For <link to="MediumaState_NotCreated"/>
9254 media, the returned value is zero.
9255 </note>
9256 </desc>
9257 </attribute>
9258
9259 <attribute name="autoReset" type="boolean">
9260 <desc>
9261 Whether this differencing medium will be automatically reset each
9262 time a virtual machine it is attached to is powered up.
9263
9264 See <link to="#reset()"/> for more information about resetting
9265 differencing media.
9266
9267 <note>
9268 Reading this property on a base (non-differencing) medium will
9269 always @c false. Changing the value of this property in this
9270 case is not supported.
9271 </note>
9272
9273 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9274 This is not a differencing medium (when changing the attribute
9275 value).
9276 </result>
9277 </desc>
9278 </attribute>
9279
9280 <attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9281 <desc>
9282 Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
9283 check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
9284
9285 An empty string is returned if the last accessibility check
9286 was successful or has not yet been called. As a result, if
9287 <link to="#state" /> is "Inaccessible" and this attribute is empty,
9288 then <link to="#refreshState"/> has yet to be called; this is the
9289 default value of media after VirtualBox initialization.
9290 A non-empty string indicates a failure and should normally describe
9291 a reason of the failure (for example, a file read error).
9292 </desc>
9293 </attribute>
9294
9295 <attribute name="machineIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9296 <desc>
9297 Array of UUIDs of all machines this medium is attached to.
9298
9299 A @c null array is returned if this medium is not attached to any
9300 machine or to any machine's snapshot.
9301
9302 <note>
9303 The returned array will include a machine even if this medium is not
9304 attached to that machine in the current state but attached to it in
9305 one of the machine's snapshots. See <link to="#getSnapshotIds"/> for
9306 details.
9307 </note>
9308 </desc>
9309 </attribute>
9310
9311 <method name="refreshState">
9312 <desc>
9313 If the current medium state (see <link to="MediumState"/>) is one of
9314 "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead", then this performs an
9315 accessibility check on the medium and sets the value of the <link to="#state"/>
9316 attribute accordingly; that value is also returned for convenience.
9317
9318 For all other state values, this does not perform a refresh but returns
9319 the state only.
9320
9321 The refresh, if performed, may take a long time (several seconds or even
9322 minutes, depending on the storage unit location and format) because it performs an
9323 accessibility check of the storage unit. This check may cause a significant
9324 delay if the storage unit of the given medium is, for example, a file located
9325 on a network share which is not currently accessible due to connectivity
9326 problems. In that case, the call will not return until a timeout
9327 interval defined by the host OS for this operation expires. For this reason,
9328 it is recommended to never read this attribute on the main UI thread to avoid
9329 making the UI unresponsive.
9330
9331 If the last known state of the medium is "Created" and the accessibility
9332 check fails, then the state would be set to "Inaccessible", and
9333 <link to="#lastAccessError"/> may be used to get more details about the
9334 failure. If the state of the medium is "LockedRead", then it remains the
9335 same, and a non-empty value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will
9336 indicate a failed accessibility check in this case.
9337
9338 Note that not all medium states are applicable to all medium types.
9339 </desc>
9340 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9341 <desc>
9342 New medium state.
9343 </desc>
9344 </param>
9345 </method>
9346
9347 <method name="getSnapshotIds">
9348 <desc>
9349 Returns an array of UUIDs of all snapshots of the given machine where
9350 this medium is attached to.
9351
9352 If the medium is attached to the machine in the current state, then the
9353 first element in the array will always be the ID of the queried machine
9354 (i.e. the value equal to the @c machineId argument), followed by
9355 snapshot IDs (if any).
9356
9357 If the medium is not attached to the machine in the current state, then
9358 the array will contain only snapshot IDs.
9359
9360 The returned array may be @c null if this medium is not attached
9361 to the given machine at all, neither in the current state nor in one of
9362 the snapshots.
9363 </desc>
9364 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9365 <desc>
9366 UUID of the machine to query.
9367 </desc>
9368 </param>
9369 <param name="snapshotIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" dir="return">
9370 <desc>
9371 Array of snapshot UUIDs of the given machine using this medium.
9372 </desc>
9373 </param>
9374 </method>
9375
9376 <method name="lockRead">
9377 <desc>
9378 Locks this medium for reading.
9379
9380 A read lock is shared: many clients can simultaneously lock the
9381 same medium for reading unless it is already locked for writing (see
9382 <link to="#lockWrite"/>) in which case an error is returned.
9383
9384 When the medium is locked for reading, it cannot be modified
9385 from within VirtualBox. This means that any method that changes
9386 the properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit
9387 will return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise). That
9388 includes an attempt to start a virtual machine that wants to
9389 write to the the medium.
9390
9391 When the virtual machine is started up, it locks for reading all
9392 media it uses in read-only mode. If some medium cannot be locked
9393 for reading, the startup procedure will fail.
9394 A medium is typically locked for reading while it is used by a running
9395 virtual machine but has a depending differencing image that receives
9396 the actual write operations. This way one base medium can have
9397 multiple child differencing images which can be written to
9398 simultaneously. Read-only media such as DVD and floppy images are
9399 also locked for reading only (so they can be in use by multiple
9400 machines simultaneously).
9401
9402 A medium is also locked for reading when it is the source of a
9403 write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
9404
9405 The medium locked for reading must be unlocked using the <link
9406 to="#unlockRead"/> method. Calls to <link to="#lockRead"/>
9407 can be nested and must be followed by the same number of paired
9408 <link to="#unlockRead"/> calls.
9409
9410 This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
9411 "LockedRead" on success. The medium's previous state must be
9412 one of "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead".
9413
9414 Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
9415 a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
9416 the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
9417 storage unit.
9418
9419 This method returns the current state of the medium
9420 <i>before</i> the operation.
9421
9422 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9423 Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
9424 creating, deleting).
9425 </result>
9426
9427 </desc>
9428 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9429 <desc>
9430 State of the medium after the operation.
9431 </desc>
9432 </param>
9433 </method>
9434
9435 <method name="unlockRead">
9436 <desc>
9437 Cancels the read lock previously set by <link to="#lockRead"/>.
9438
9439 For both success and failure, this method returns the current state
9440 of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
9441
9442 See <link to="#lockRead"/> for more details.
9443
9444 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9445 Medium not locked for reading.
9446 </result>
9447
9448 </desc>
9449 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9450 <desc>
9451 State of the medium after the operation.
9452 </desc>
9453 </param>
9454 </method>
9455
9456 <method name="lockWrite">
9457 <desc>
9458 Locks this medium for writing.
9459
9460 A write lock, as opposed to <link to="#lockRead"/>, is
9461 exclusive: there may be only one client holding a write lock,
9462 and there may be no read locks while the write lock is held.
9463 As a result, read-locking fails if a write lock is held, and
9464 write-locking fails if either a read or another write lock is held.
9465
9466 When a medium is locked for writing, it cannot be modified
9467 from within VirtualBox, and it is not guaranteed that the values
9468 of its properties are up-to-date. Any method that changes the
9469 properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit will
9470 return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise).
9471
9472 When a virtual machine is started up, it locks for writing all
9473 media it uses to write data to. If any medium could not be locked
9474 for writing, the startup procedure will fail. If a medium has
9475 differencing images, then while the machine is running, only
9476 the last ("leaf") differencing image is locked for writing,
9477 whereas its parents are locked for reading only.
9478
9479 A medium is also locked for writing when it is the target of a
9480 write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
9481
9482 The medium locked for writing must be unlocked using the <link
9483 to="#unlockWrite"/> method. Write locks <i>cannot</i> be nested.
9484
9485 This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
9486 "LockedWrite" on success. The medium's previous state must be
9487 either "Created" or "Inaccessible".
9488
9489 Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
9490 a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
9491 the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
9492 storage unit.
9493
9494 For both, success and failure, this method returns the current
9495 state of the medium <i>before</i> the operation.
9496
9497 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9498 Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
9499 creating, deleting).
9500 </result>
9501
9502 </desc>
9503 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9504 <desc>
9505 State of the medium after the operation.
9506 </desc>
9507 </param>
9508 </method>
9509
9510 <method name="unlockWrite">
9511 <desc>
9512 Cancels the write lock previously set by <link to="#lockWrite"/>.
9513
9514 For both success and failure, this method returns the current
9515 state of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
9516
9517 See <link to="#lockWrite"/> for more details.
9518
9519 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9520 Medium not locked for writing.
9521 </result>
9522
9523 </desc>
9524 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9525 <desc>
9526 State of the medium after the operation.
9527 </desc>
9528 </param>
9529 </method>
9530
9531 <method name="close">
9532 <desc>
9533 Closes this medium.
9534
9535 The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine
9536 and must not have any known child media, otherwise the
9537 operation will fail.
9538
9539 When the medium is successfully closed, it gets removed from
9540 the list of remembered media, but its storage unit is not
9541 deleted. In particular, this means that this medium can be
9542 later opened again using the <link
9543 to="IVirtualBox::openHardDisk"/> call.
9544
9545 Note that after this method successfully returns, the given medium
9546 object becomes uninitialized. This means that any attempt
9547 to call any of its methods or attributes will fail with the
9548 <tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error.
9549
9550 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9551 Invalid medium state (other than not created, created or
9552 inaccessible).
9553 </result>
9554 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9555 Medium attached to virtual machine.
9556 </result>
9557 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
9558 Settings file not accessible.
9559 </result>
9560 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
9561 Could not parse the settings file.
9562 </result>
9563
9564 </desc>
9565 </method>
9566
9567 <!-- storage methods -->
9568
9569 <method name="getProperty">
9570 <desc>
9571 Returns the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
9572
9573 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9574 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9575
9576 Note that if this method returns an empty string in @a value, the
9577 requested property is supported but currently not assigned any value.
9578
9579 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9580 Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
9581 </result>
9582 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
9583 </desc>
9584 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
9585 <desc>Name of the property to get.</desc>
9586 </param>
9587 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
9588 <desc>Current property value.</desc>
9589 </param>
9590 </method>
9591
9592 <method name="setProperty">
9593 <desc>
9594 Sets the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
9595
9596 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9597 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9598
9599 Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
9600 equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
9601 defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
9602 case.
9603
9604 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9605 Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
9606 </result>
9607 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
9608 </desc>
9609 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
9610 <desc>Name of the property to set.</desc>
9611 </param>
9612 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
9613 <desc>Property value to set.</desc>
9614 </param>
9615 </method>
9616
9617 <method name="getProperties">
9618 <desc>
9619 Returns values for a group of properties in one call.
9620
9621 The names of the properties to get are specified using the @a names
9622 argument which is a list of comma-separated property names or
9623 an empty string if all properties are to be returned. Note that currently
9624 the value of this argument is ignored and the method always returns all
9625 existing properties.
9626
9627 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9628 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9629
9630 The method returns two arrays, the array of property names corresponding
9631 to the @a names argument and the current values of these properties.
9632 Both arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the
9633 given index in the first array corresponds to an element at the same
9634 index in the second array.
9635
9636 Note that for properties that do not have assigned values,
9637 an empty string is returned at the appropriate index in the
9638 @a returnValues array.
9639
9640 </desc>
9641 <param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in">
9642 <desc>
9643 Names of properties to get.
9644 </desc>
9645 </param>
9646 <param name="returnNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9647 <desc>Names of returned properties.</desc>
9648 </param>
9649 <param name="returnValues" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
9650 <desc>Values of returned properties.</desc>
9651 </param>
9652 </method>
9653
9654 <method name="setProperties">
9655 <desc>
9656 Sets values for a group of properties in one call.
9657
9658 The names of the properties to set are passed in the @a names
9659 array along with the new values for them in the @a values array. Both
9660 arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the given
9661 index in the first array corresponding to an element at the same index
9662 in the second array.
9663
9664 If there is at least one property name in @a names that is not valid,
9665 the method will fail before changing the values of any other properties
9666 from the @a names array.
9667
9668 Using this method over <link to="#setProperty"/> is preferred if you
9669 need to set several properties at once since it will result into less
9670 IPC calls.
9671
9672 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9673 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9674
9675 Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
9676 equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
9677 defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
9678 case.
9679 </desc>
9680 <param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
9681 <desc>Names of properties to set.</desc>
9682 </param>
9683 <param name="values" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
9684 <desc>Values of properties to set.</desc>
9685 </param>
9686 </method>
9687
9688 <!-- storage methods -->
9689
9690 <method name="createBaseStorage">
9691 <desc>
9692 Starts creating a hard disk storage unit (fixed/dynamic, according
9693 to the variant flags) in in the background. The previous storage unit
9694 created for this object, if any, must first be deleted using
9695 <link to="#deleteStorage"/>, otherwise the operation will fail.
9696
9697 Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
9698 <link to="MediumState_Creating"/> state. If the create operation
9699 fails, the medium will be placed back in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9700 state.
9701
9702 After the returned progress object reports that the operation has
9703 successfully completed, the medium state will be set to <link
9704 to="MediumState_Created"/>, the medium will be remembered by this
9705 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9706
9707 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9708 The variant of storage creation operation is not supported. See <link
9709 to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
9710 </result>
9711 </desc>
9712 <param name="logicalSize" type="unsigned long long" dir="in">
9713 <desc>Maximum logical size of the medium in megabytes.</desc>
9714 </param>
9715 <param name="variant" type="MediumVariant" dir="in">
9716 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9717 </param>
9718 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9719 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9720 </param>
9721 </method>
9722
9723 <method name="deleteStorage">
9724 <desc>
9725 Starts deleting the storage unit of this medium.
9726
9727 The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine and must
9728 not have any known child media, otherwise the operation will fail.
9729 It will also fail if there is no storage unit to delete or if deletion
9730 is already in progress, or if the medium is being in use (locked for
9731 read or for write) or inaccessible. Therefore, the only valid state for
9732 this operation to succeed is <link to="MediumState_Created"/>.
9733
9734 Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
9735 <link to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and gets removed from the list
9736 of remembered hard disks (media registry). If the delete operation
9737 fails, the medium will be remembered again and placed back to
9738 <link to="MediumState_Created"/> state.
9739
9740 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9741 complete, the medium state will be set to
9742 <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> and you will be able to use one of
9743 the storage creation methods to create it again.
9744
9745 <see>#close()</see>
9746
9747 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9748 Medium is attached to a virtual machine.
9749 </result>
9750 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9751 Storage deletion is not allowed because neither of storage creation
9752 operations are supported. See
9753 <link to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
9754 </result>
9755
9756 <note>
9757 If the deletion operation fails, it is not guaranteed that the storage
9758 unit still exists. You may check the <link to="IMedium::state"/> value
9759 to answer this question.
9760 </note>
9761 </desc>
9762 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9763 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9764 </param>
9765 </method>
9766
9767 <!-- diff methods -->
9768
9769 <method name="createDiffStorage">
9770 <desc>
9771 Starts creating an empty differencing storage unit based on this
9772 medium in the format and at the location defined by the @a target
9773 argument.
9774
9775 The target medium must be in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9776 state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit). Upon successful
9777 completion, this operation will set the type of the target medium to
9778 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and create a storage unit necessary to
9779 represent the differencing medium data in the given format (according
9780 to the storage format of the target object).
9781
9782 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9783 successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
9784 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9785
9786 <note>
9787 The medium will be set to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
9788 state for the duration of this operation.
9789 </note>
9790 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9791 Medium not in @c NotCreated state.
9792 </result>
9793 </desc>
9794 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
9795 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
9796 </param>
9797 <param name="variant" type="MediumVariant" dir="in">
9798 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9799 </param>
9800 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9801 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9802 </param>
9803 </method>
9804
9805 <method name="mergeTo">
9806 <desc>
9807 Starts merging the contents of this medium and all intermediate
9808 differencing media in the chain to the given target medium.
9809
9810 The target medium must be either a descendant of this medium or
9811 its ancestor (otherwise this method will immediately return a failure).
9812 It follows that there are two logical directions of the merge operation:
9813 from ancestor to descendant (<i>forward merge</i>) and from descendant to
9814 ancestor (<i>backward merge</i>). Let us consider the following medium
9815 chain:
9816
9817 <pre>Base &lt;- Diff_1 &lt;- Diff_2</pre>
9818
9819 Here, calling this method on the <tt>Base</tt> medium object with
9820 <tt>Diff_2</tt> as an argument will be a forward merge; calling it on
9821 <tt>Diff_2</tt> with <tt>Base</tt> as an argument will be a backward
9822 merge. Note that in both cases the contents of the resulting medium
9823 will be the same, the only difference is the medium object that takes
9824 the result of the merge operation. In case of the forward merge in the
9825 above example, the result will be written to <tt>Diff_2</tt>; in case of
9826 the backward merge, the result will be written to <tt>Base</tt>. In
9827 other words, the result of the operation is always stored in the target
9828 medium.
9829
9830 Upon successful operation completion, the storage units of all media in
9831 the chain between this (source) medium and the target medium, including
9832 the source medium itself, will be automatically deleted and the
9833 relevant medium objects (including this medium) will become
9834 uninitialized. This means that any attempt to call any of
9835 their methods or attributes will fail with the
9836 <tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error. Applied to the above
9837 example, the forward merge of <tt>Base</tt> to <tt>Diff_2</tt> will
9838 delete and uninitialize both <tt>Base</tt> and <tt>Diff_1</tt> media.
9839 Note that <tt>Diff_2</tt> in this case will become a base medium
9840 itself since it will no longer be based on any other medium.
9841
9842 Considering the above, all of the following conditions must be met in
9843 order for the merge operation to succeed:
9844 <ul>
9845 <li>
9846 Neither this (source) medium nor any intermediate
9847 differencing medium in the chain between it and the target
9848 medium is attached to any virtual machine.
9849 </li>
9850 <li>
9851 Neither the source medium nor the target medium is an
9852 <link to="MediumType_Immutable"/> medium.
9853 </li>
9854 <li>
9855 The part of the medium tree from the source medium to the
9856 target medium is a linear chain, i.e. all medium in this
9857 chain have exactly one child which is the next medium in this
9858 chain. The only exception from this rule is the target medium in
9859 the forward merge operation; it is allowed to have any number of
9860 child media because the merge operation will not change its
9861 logical contents (as it is seen by the guest OS or by children).
9862 </li>
9863 <li>
9864 None of the involved media are in
9865 <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> or
9866 <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state.
9867 </li>
9868 </ul>
9869
9870 <note>
9871 This (source) medium and all intermediates will be placed to <link
9872 to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and the target medium will be
9873 placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state and for the
9874 duration of this operation.
9875 </note>
9876 </desc>
9877 <param name="targetId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9878 <desc>UUID of the target ancestor or descendant medium.</desc>
9879 </param>
9880 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9881 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9882 </param>
9883 </method>
9884
9885 <!-- clone method -->
9886
9887 <method name="cloneTo">
9888 <desc>
9889 Starts creating a clone of this medium in the format and at the
9890 location defined by the @a target argument.
9891
9892 The target medium must be either in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9893 state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit) or in
9894 <link to="MediumState_Created"/> state (i.e. created and not locked, and
9895 big enough to hold the data or else the copy will be partial). Upon
9896 successful completion, the cloned medium will contain exactly the
9897 same sector data as the medium being cloned, except that in the
9898 first case a new UUID for the clone will be randomly generated, and in
9899 the second case the UUID will remain unchanged.
9900
9901 The @a parent argument defines which medium will be the parent
9902 of the clone. Passing a @c null reference indicates that the clone will
9903 be a base image, i.e. completely independent. It is possible to specify
9904 an arbitrary medium for this parameter, including the parent of the
9905 medium which is being cloned. Even cloning to a child of the source
9906 medium is possible. Note that when cloning to an existing image, the
9907 @a parent irgument is ignored.
9908
9909 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9910 successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
9911 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9912
9913 <note>
9914 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
9915 state for the duration of this operation.
9916 </note>
9917 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
9918 The specified cloning variant is not supported at the moment.
9919 </result>
9920 </desc>
9921 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
9922 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
9923 </param>
9924 <param name="variant" type="MediumVariant" dir="in">
9925 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9926 </param>
9927 <param name="parent" type="IMedium" dir="in">
9928 <desc>Parent of the cloned medium.</desc>
9929 </param>
9930 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9931 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9932 </param>
9933 </method>
9934
9935 <!-- other methods -->
9936
9937 <method name="compact">
9938 <desc>
9939 Starts compacting of this medium. This means that the medium is
9940 transformed into a possibly more compact storage representation.
9941 This potentially creates temporary images, which can require a
9942 substantial amount of additional disk space.
9943
9944 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
9945 state and all its parent media (if any) will be placed to
9946 <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state for the duration of this
9947 operation.
9948
9949 Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
9950 or later as the result of the background operation via the object
9951 returned via the @a progress parameter.
9952
9953 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9954 Medium format does not support compacting (but potentially
9955 needs it).
9956 </result>
9957 </desc>
9958 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9959 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9960 </param>
9961 </method>
9962
9963 <method name="resize">
9964 <desc>
9965 Starts resizing this medium. This means that the nominal size of the
9966 medium is set to the new value. Both increasing and decreasing the
9967 size is possible, and there are no safety checks, since VirtualBox
9968 does not make any assumptions about the medium contents.
9969
9970 Resizing usually needs additional disk space, and possibly also
9971 some temporary disk space. Note that resize does not create a full
9972 temporary copy of the medium, so the additional disk space requirement
9973 is usually much lower than using the clone operation.
9974
9975 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
9976 state for the duration of this operation.
9977
9978 Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
9979 or later as the result of the background operation via the object
9980 returned via the @a progress parameter.
9981
9982 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9983 Medium format does not support resizing.
9984 </result>
9985 </desc>
9986 <param name="logicalSize" type="unsigned long long" dir="in">
9987 <desc>New nominal capacity of the medium in megabytes.</desc>
9988 </param>
9989 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9990 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9991 </param>
9992 </method>
9993
9994 <method name="reset">
9995 <desc>
9996 Starts erasing the contents of this differencing medium.
9997
9998 This operation will reset the differencing medium to its initial
9999 state when it does not contain any sector data and any read operation is
10000 redirected to its parent medium.
10001
10002 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
10003 for the duration of this operation.
10004
10005 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10006 This is not a differencing medium.
10007 </result>
10008 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10009 Medium is not in <link to="MediumState_Created"/> or
10010 <link to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> state.
10011 </result>
10012 </desc>
10013 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10014 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10015 </param>
10016 </method>
10017
10018 </interface>
10019
10020
10021 <!--
10022 // IMediumFormat
10023 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10024 -->
10025
10026 <enum
10027 name="DataType"
10028 uuid="d90ea51e-a3f1-4a01-beb1-c1723c0d3ba7"
10029 >
10030 <const name="Int32" value="0"/>
10031 <const name="Int8" value="1"/>
10032 <const name="String" value="2"/>
10033 </enum>
10034
10035 <enum
10036 name="DataFlags"
10037 uuid="86884dcf-1d6b-4f1b-b4bf-f5aa44959d60"
10038 >
10039 <const name="None" value="0x00"/>
10040 <const name="Mandatory" value="0x01"/>
10041 <const name="Expert" value="0x02"/>
10042 <const name="Array" value="0x04"/>
10043 <const name="FlagMask" value="0x07"/>
10044 </enum>
10045
10046 <enum
10047 name="MediumFormatCapabilities"
10048 uuid="70fcf810-99e8-4edc-aee4-7f51d489e657"
10049 >
10050 <desc>
10051 Medium format capability flags.
10052 </desc>
10053
10054 <const name="Uuid" value="0x01">
10055 <desc>
10056 Supports UUIDs as expected by VirtualBox code.
10057 </desc>
10058 </const>
10059
10060 <const name="CreateFixed" value="0x02">
10061 <desc>
10062 Supports creating fixed size images, allocating all space instantly.
10063 </desc>
10064 </const>
10065
10066 <const name="CreateDynamic" value="0x04">
10067 <desc>
10068 Supports creating dynamically growing images, allocating space on
10069 demand.
10070 </desc>
10071 </const>
10072
10073 <const name="CreateSplit2G" value="0x08">
10074 <desc>
10075 Supports creating images split in chunks of a bit less than 2 GBytes.
10076 </desc>
10077 </const>
10078
10079 <const name="Differencing" value="0x10">
10080 <desc>
10081 Supports being used as a format for differencing media (see <link
10082 to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/>).
10083 </desc>
10084 </const>
10085
10086 <const name="Asynchronous" value="0x20">
10087 <desc>
10088 Supports asynchronous I/O operations for at least some configurations.
10089 </desc>
10090 </const>
10091
10092 <const name="File" value="0x40">
10093 <desc>
10094 The format backend operates on files (the <link to="IMedium::location"/>
10095 attribute of the medium specifies a file used to store medium
10096 data; for a list of supported file extensions see
10097 <link to="IMediumFormat::fileExtensions"/>).
10098 </desc>
10099 </const>
10100
10101 <const name="Properties" value="0x80">
10102 <desc>
10103 The format backend uses the property interface to configure the storage
10104 location and properties (the <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>
10105 method is used to get access to properties supported by the given medium format).
10106 </desc>
10107 </const>
10108
10109 <const name="CapabilityMask" value="0xFF"/>
10110 </enum>
10111
10112 <interface
10113 name="IMediumFormat" extends="$unknown"
10114 uuid="89f52554-d469-4799-9fad-1705e86a08b1"
10115 wsmap="managed"
10116 >
10117 <desc>
10118 The IMediumFormat interface represents a medium format.
10119
10120 Each medium format has an associated backend which is used to handle
10121 media stored in this format. This interface provides information
10122 about the properties of the associated backend.
10123
10124 Each medium format is identified by a string represented by the
10125 <link to="#id"/> attribute. This string is used in calls like
10126 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to specify the desired
10127 format.
10128
10129 The list of all supported medium formats can be obtained using
10130 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediaFormats"/>.
10131
10132 <see>IMedium</see>
10133 </desc>
10134
10135 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10136 <desc>
10137 Identifier of this format.
10138
10139 The format identifier is a non-@c null non-empty ASCII string. Note that
10140 this string is case-insensitive. This means that, for example, all of
10141 the following strings:
10142 <pre>
10143 "VDI"
10144 "vdi"
10145 "VdI"</pre>
10146 refer to the same medium format.
10147
10148 This string is used in methods of other interfaces where it is necessary
10149 to specify a medium format, such as
10150 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>.
10151 </desc>
10152 </attribute>
10153
10154 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10155 <desc>
10156 Human readable description of this format.
10157
10158 Mainly for use in file open dialogs.
10159 </desc>
10160 </attribute>
10161
10162 <attribute name="fileExtensions" type="wstring" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
10163 <desc>
10164 Array of strings containing the supported file extensions.
10165
10166 The first extension in the array is the extension preferred by the
10167 backend. It is recommended to use this extension when specifying a
10168 location of the storage unit for a new medium.
10169
10170 Note that some backends do not work on files, so this array may be
10171 empty.
10172
10173 <see>IMediumFormat::capabilities</see>
10174 </desc>
10175 </attribute>
10176
10177 <attribute name="capabilities" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10178 <desc>
10179 Capabilities of the format as a set of bit flags.
10180
10181 For the meaning of individual capability flags see
10182 <link to="MediumFormatCapabilities"/>.
10183 </desc>
10184 </attribute>
10185
10186 <method name="describeProperties">
10187 <desc>
10188 Returns several arrays describing the properties supported by this
10189 format.
10190
10191 An element with the given index in each array describes one
10192 property. Thus, the number of elements in each returned array is the
10193 same and corresponds to the number of supported properties.
10194
10195 The returned arrays are filled in only if the
10196 <link to="MediumFormatCapabilities_Properties"/> flag is set.
10197 All arguments must be non-@c null.
10198
10199 <see>DataType</see>
10200 <see>DataFlags</see>
10201 </desc>
10202
10203 <param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10204 <desc>Array of property names.</desc>
10205 </param>
10206 <param name="description" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10207 <desc>Array of property descriptions.</desc>
10208 </param>
10209 <param name="types" type="DataType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10210 <desc>Array of property types.</desc>
10211 </param>
10212 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10213 <desc>Array of property flags.</desc>
10214 </param>
10215 <param name="defaults" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10216 <desc>Array of default property values.</desc>
10217 </param>
10218 </method>
10219
10220 </interface>
10221
10222
10223 <!--
10224 // IKeyboard
10225 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10226 -->
10227
10228 <interface
10229 name="IKeyboard" extends="$unknown"
10230 uuid="2d1a531b-4c6e-49cc-8af6-5c857b78b5d7"
10231 wsmap="managed"
10232 >
10233 <desc>
10234 The IKeyboard interface represents the virtual machine's keyboard. Used
10235 in <link to="IConsole::keyboard"/>.
10236
10237 Use this interface to send keystrokes or the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence
10238 to the virtual machine.
10239
10240 </desc>
10241 <method name="putScancode">
10242 <desc>Sends a scancode to the keyboard.
10243
10244 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10245 Could not send scan code to virtual keyboard.
10246 </result>
10247
10248 </desc>
10249 <param name="scancode" type="long" dir="in"/>
10250 </method>
10251
10252 <method name="putScancodes">
10253 <desc>Sends an array of scancodes to the keyboard.
10254
10255 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10256 Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
10257 </result>
10258
10259 </desc>
10260 <param name="scancodes" type="long" dir="in" safearray="yes"/>
10261 <param name="codesStored" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
10262 </method>
10263
10264 <method name="putCAD">
10265 <desc>Sends the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence to the keyboard. This
10266 function is nothing special, it is just a convenience function
10267 calling <link to="IKeyboard::putScancodes"/> with the proper scancodes.
10268
10269 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10270 Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
10271 </result>
10272
10273 </desc>
10274 </method>
10275
10276 </interface>
10277
10278
10279 <!--
10280 // IMouse
10281 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10282 -->
10283
10284 <enum
10285 name="MouseButtonState"
10286 uuid="9ee094b8-b28a-4d56-a166-973cb588d7f8"
10287 >
10288 <desc>
10289 Mouse button state.
10290 </desc>
10291
10292 <const name="LeftButton" value="0x01"/>
10293 <const name="RightButton" value="0x02"/>
10294 <const name="MiddleButton" value="0x04"/>
10295 <const name="WheelUp" value="0x08"/>
10296 <const name="WheelDown" value="0x10"/>
10297 <const name="XButton1" value="0x20"/>
10298 <const name="XButton2" value="0x40"/>
10299 <const name="MouseStateMask" value="0x7F"/>
10300 </enum>
10301
10302 <interface
10303 name="IMouse" extends="$unknown"
10304 uuid="7c0f2eae-f92d-498c-b802-e1a3763774dc"
10305 wsmap="managed"
10306 >
10307 <desc>
10308 The IMouse interface represents the virtual machine's mouse. Used in
10309 <link to="IConsole::mouse"/>.
10310
10311 Through this interface, the virtual machine's virtual mouse can be
10312 controlled.
10313 </desc>
10314
10315 <attribute name="absoluteSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10316 <desc>
10317 Whether the guest OS supports absolute mouse pointer positioning
10318 or not.
10319 <note>
10320 VirtualBox Guest Tools need to be installed to the guest OS
10321 in order to enable absolute mouse positioning support.
10322 You can use the <link to="IConsoleCallback::onMouseCapabilityChange"/>
10323 callback to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
10324 during virtual machine execution.
10325 </note>
10326 <see><link to="#putMouseEventAbsolute"/></see>
10327 </desc>
10328 </attribute>
10329
10330 <method name="putMouseEvent">
10331 <desc>
10332 Initiates a mouse event using relative pointer movements
10333 along x and y axis.
10334
10335 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
10336 Console not powered up.
10337 </result>
10338 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10339 Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
10340 </result>
10341
10342 </desc>
10343
10344 <param name="dx" type="long" dir="in">
10345 <desc>
10346 Amount of pixels the mouse should move to the right.
10347 Negative values move the mouse to the left.
10348 </desc>
10349 </param>
10350 <param name="dy" type="long" dir="in">
10351 <desc>
10352 Amount of pixels the mouse should move downwards.
10353 Negative values move the mouse upwards.
10354 </desc>
10355 </param>
10356 <param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
10357 <desc>
10358 Amount of mouse wheel moves.
10359 Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
10360 negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
10361 </desc>
10362 </param>
10363 <param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
10364 <desc>
10365 Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
10366 Positive values describe a movement to the left,
10367 negative values describe a movement to the right.
10368 </desc>
10369 </param>
10370 <param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
10371 <desc>
10372 The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
10373 a mouse button as follows:
10374 <table>
10375 <tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
10376 <tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
10377 <tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
10378 </table>
10379 A value of <tt>1</tt> means the corresponding button is pressed.
10380 otherwise it is released.
10381 </desc>
10382 </param>
10383 </method>
10384
10385 <method name="putMouseEventAbsolute">
10386 <desc>
10387 Positions the mouse pointer using absolute x and y coordinates.
10388 These coordinates are expressed in pixels and
10389 start from <tt>[1,1]</tt> which corresponds to the top left
10390 corner of the virtual display.
10391
10392 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
10393 Console not powered up.
10394 </result>
10395 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10396 Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
10397 </result>
10398
10399 <note>
10400 This method will have effect only if absolute mouse
10401 positioning is supported by the guest OS.
10402 </note>
10403
10404 <see><link to="#absoluteSupported"/></see>
10405 </desc>
10406
10407 <param name="x" type="long" dir="in">
10408 <desc>
10409 X coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
10410 </desc>
10411 </param>
10412 <param name="y" type="long" dir="in">
10413 <desc>
10414 Y coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
10415 </desc>
10416 </param>
10417 <param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
10418 <desc>
10419 Amount of mouse wheel moves.
10420 Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
10421 negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
10422 </desc>
10423 </param>
10424 <param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
10425 <desc>
10426 Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
10427 Positive values describe a movement to the left,
10428 negative values describe a movement to the right.
10429 </desc>
10430 </param>
10431 <param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
10432 <desc>
10433 The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
10434 a mouse button as follows:
10435 <table>
10436 <tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
10437 <tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
10438 <tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
10439 </table>
10440 A value of @c 1 means the corresponding button is pressed.
10441 otherwise it is released.
10442 </desc>
10443 </param>
10444 </method>
10445
10446 </interface>
10447
10448 <!--
10449 // IDisplay
10450 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10451 -->
10452
10453 <enum
10454 name="FramebufferPixelFormat"
10455 uuid="7acfd5ed-29e3-45e3-8136-73c9224f3d2d"
10456 >
10457 <desc>
10458 Format of the video memory buffer. Constants represented by this enum can
10459 be used to test for particular values of <link
10460 to="IFramebuffer::pixelFormat"/>. See also <link
10461 to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/>.
10462
10463 See also www.fourcc.org for more information about FOURCC pixel formats.
10464 </desc>
10465
10466 <const name="Opaque" value="0">
10467 <desc>
10468 Unknown buffer format (the user may not assume any particular format of
10469 the buffer).
10470 </desc>
10471 </const>
10472 <const name="FOURCC_RGB" value="0x32424752">
10473 <desc>
10474 Basic RGB format (<link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/> determines the
10475 bit layout).
10476 </desc>
10477 </const>
10478 </enum>
10479
10480 <interface
10481 name="IFramebuffer" extends="$unknown"
10482 uuid="b7ed347a-5765-40a0-ae1c-f543eb4ddeaf"
10483 wsmap="suppress"
10484 >
10485 <attribute name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" readonly="yes">
10486 <desc>Address of the start byte of the frame buffer.</desc>
10487 </attribute>
10488
10489 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10490 <desc>Frame buffer width, in pixels.</desc>
10491 </attribute>
10492
10493 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10494 <desc>Frame buffer height, in pixels.</desc>
10495 </attribute>
10496
10497 <attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10498 <desc>
10499 Color depth, in bits per pixel. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
10500 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, valid values
10501 are: 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32.
10502 </desc>
10503 </attribute>
10504
10505 <attribute name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10506 <desc>
10507 Scan line size, in bytes. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
10508 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, the
10509 size of the scan line must be aligned to 32 bits.
10510 </desc>
10511 </attribute>
10512
10513 <attribute name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10514 <desc>
10515 Frame buffer pixel format. It's either one of the values defined by <link
10516 to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/> or a raw FOURCC code.
10517 <note>
10518 This attribute must never return <link
10519 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> -- the format of the buffer
10520 <link to="#address"/> points to must be always known.
10521 </note>
10522 </desc>
10523 </attribute>
10524
10525 <attribute name="usesGuestVRAM" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10526 <desc>
10527 Defines whether this frame buffer uses the virtual video card's memory
10528 buffer (guest VRAM) directly or not. See <link
10529 to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/> for more information.
10530 </desc>
10531 </attribute>
10532
10533 <attribute name="heightReduction" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10534 <desc>
10535 Hint from the frame buffer about how much of the standard
10536 screen height it wants to use for itself. This information is
10537 exposed to the guest through the VESA BIOS and VMMDev interface
10538 so that it can use it for determining its video mode table. It
10539 is not guaranteed that the guest respects the value.
10540 </desc>
10541 </attribute>
10542
10543 <attribute name="overlay" type="IFramebufferOverlay" readonly="yes">
10544 <desc>
10545 An alpha-blended overlay which is superposed over the frame buffer.
10546 The initial purpose is to allow the display of icons providing
10547 information about the VM state, including disk activity, in front
10548 ends which do not have other means of doing that. The overlay is
10549 designed to controlled exclusively by IDisplay. It has no locking
10550 of its own, and any changes made to it are not guaranteed to be
10551 visible until the affected portion of IFramebuffer is updated. The
10552 overlay can be created lazily the first time it is requested. This
10553 attribute can also return @c null to signal that the overlay is not
10554 implemented.
10555 </desc>
10556 </attribute>
10557
10558 <attribute name="winId" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
10559 <desc>
10560 Platform-dependent identifier of the window where context of this
10561 frame buffer is drawn, or zero if there's no such window.
10562 </desc>
10563 </attribute>
10564
10565 <method name="lock">
10566 <desc>
10567 Locks the frame buffer.
10568 Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
10569 bound to.
10570 </desc>
10571 </method>
10572
10573 <method name="unlock">
10574 <desc>
10575 Unlocks the frame buffer.
10576 Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
10577 bound to.
10578 </desc>
10579 </method>
10580
10581 <method name="notifyUpdate">
10582 <desc>
10583 Informs about an update.
10584 Gets called by the display object where this buffer is
10585 registered.
10586 </desc>
10587 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10588 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10589 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10590 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10591 </method>
10592
10593 <method name="requestResize">
10594 <desc>
10595 Requests a size and pixel format change.
10596
10597 There are two modes of working with the video buffer of the virtual
10598 machine. The <i>indirect</i> mode implies that the IFramebuffer
10599 implementation allocates a memory buffer for the requested display mode
10600 and provides it to the virtual machine. In <i>direct</i> mode, the
10601 IFramebuffer implementation uses the memory buffer allocated and owned
10602 by the virtual machine. This buffer represents the video memory of the
10603 emulated video adapter (so called <i>guest VRAM</i>). The direct mode is
10604 usually faster because the implementation gets a raw pointer to the
10605 guest VRAM buffer which it can directly use for visualizing the contents
10606 of the virtual display, as opposed to the indirect mode where the
10607 contents of guest VRAM are copied to the memory buffer provided by
10608 the implementation every time a display update occurs.
10609
10610 It is important to note that the direct mode is really fast only when
10611 the implementation uses the given guest VRAM buffer directly, for
10612 example, by blitting it to the window representing the virtual machine's
10613 display, which saves at least one copy operation comparing to the
10614 indirect mode. However, using the guest VRAM buffer directly is not
10615 always possible: the format and the color depth of this buffer may be
10616 not supported by the target window, or it may be unknown (opaque) as in
10617 case of text or non-linear multi-plane VGA video modes. In this case,
10618 the indirect mode (that is always available) should be used as a
10619 fallback: when the guest VRAM contents are copied to the
10620 implementation-provided memory buffer, color and format conversion is
10621 done automatically by the underlying code.
10622
10623 The @a pixelFormat parameter defines whether the direct mode is
10624 available or not. If @a pixelFormat is <link
10625 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> then direct access to the guest
10626 VRAM buffer is not available -- the @a VRAM, @a bitsPerPixel and
10627 @a bytesPerLine parameters must be ignored and the implementation must use
10628 the indirect mode (where it provides its own buffer in one of the
10629 supported formats). In all other cases, @a pixelFormat together with
10630 @a bitsPerPixel and @a bytesPerLine define the format of the video memory
10631 buffer pointed to by the @a VRAM parameter and the implementation is
10632 free to choose which mode to use. To indicate that this frame buffer uses
10633 the direct mode, the implementation of the <link to="#usesGuestVRAM"/>
10634 attribute must return @c true and <link to="#address"/> must
10635 return exactly the same address that is passed in the @a VRAM parameter
10636 of this method; otherwise it is assumed that the indirect strategy is
10637 chosen.
10638
10639 The @a width and @a height parameters represent the size of the
10640 requested display mode in both modes. In case of indirect mode, the
10641 provided memory buffer should be big enough to store data of the given
10642 display mode. In case of direct mode, it is guaranteed that the given
10643 @a VRAM buffer contains enough space to represent the display mode of the
10644 given size. Note that this frame buffer's <link to="#width"/> and <link
10645 to="#height"/> attributes must return exactly the same values as
10646 passed to this method after the resize is completed (see below).
10647
10648 The @a finished output parameter determines if the implementation has
10649 finished resizing the frame buffer or not. If, for some reason, the
10650 resize cannot be finished immediately during this call, @a finished
10651 must be set to @c false, and the implementation must call
10652 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> after it has returned from
10653 this method as soon as possible. If @a finished is @c false, the
10654 machine will not call any frame buffer methods until
10655 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
10656
10657 Note that if the direct mode is chosen, the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>,
10658 <link to="#bytesPerLine"/> and <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attributes of
10659 this frame buffer must return exactly the same values as specified in the
10660 parameters of this method, after the resize is completed. If the
10661 indirect mode is chosen, these attributes must return values describing
10662 the format of the implementation's own memory buffer <link
10663 to="#address"/> points to. Note also that the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>
10664 value must always correlate with <link to="#pixelFormat"/>. Note that
10665 the <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attribute must never return <link
10666 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> regardless of the selected mode.
10667
10668 <note>
10669 This method is called by the IDisplay object under the
10670 <link to="#lock"/> provided by this IFramebuffer
10671 implementation. If this method returns @c false in @a finished, then
10672 this lock is not released until
10673 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
10674 </note>
10675 </desc>
10676 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10677 <desc>
10678 Logical screen number. Must be used in the corresponding call to
10679 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> if this call is made.
10680 </desc>
10681 </param>
10682 <param name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10683 <desc>
10684 Pixel format of the memory buffer pointed to by @a VRAM.
10685 See also <link to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/>.
10686 </desc>
10687 </param>
10688 <param name="VRAM" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10689 <desc>Pointer to the virtual video card's VRAM (may be @c null).</desc>
10690 </param>
10691 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10692 <desc>Color depth, bits per pixel.</desc>
10693 </param>
10694 <param name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10695 <desc>Size of one scan line, in bytes.</desc>
10696 </param>
10697 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10698 <desc>Width of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
10699 </param>
10700 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10701 <desc>Height of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
10702 </param>
10703 <param name="finished" type="boolean" dir="return">
10704 <desc>
10705 Can the VM start using the new frame buffer immediately
10706 after this method returns or it should wait for
10707 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/>.
10708 </desc>
10709 </param>
10710 </method>
10711
10712 <method name="videoModeSupported">
10713 <desc>
10714 Returns whether the frame buffer implementation is willing to
10715 support a given video mode. In case it is not able to render
10716 the video mode (or for some reason not willing), it should
10717 return @c false. Usually this method is called when the guest
10718 asks the VMM device whether a given video mode is supported
10719 so the information returned is directly exposed to the guest.
10720 It is important that this method returns very quickly.
10721 </desc>
10722 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10723 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10724 <param name="bpp" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10725 <param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
10726 </method>
10727
10728 <method name="getVisibleRegion">
10729 <desc>
10730 Returns the visible region of this frame buffer.
10731
10732 If the @a rectangles parameter is @c null then the value of the
10733 @a count parameter is ignored and the number of elements necessary to
10734 describe the current visible region is returned in @a countCopied.
10735
10736 If @a rectangles is not @c null but @a count is less
10737 than the required number of elements to store region data, the method
10738 will report a failure. If @a count is equal or greater than the
10739 required number of elements, then the actual number of elements copied
10740 to the provided array will be returned in @a countCopied.
10741
10742 <note>
10743 The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
10744 this IFramebuffer object.
10745 </note>
10746 <note>
10747 Method not yet implemented.
10748 </note>
10749 </desc>
10750 <param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10751 <desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array to receive region data.</desc>
10752 </param>
10753 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10754 <desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10755 </param>
10756 <param name="countCopied" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
10757 <desc>Number of elements copied to the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10758 </param>
10759 </method>
10760
10761 <method name="setVisibleRegion">
10762 <desc>
10763 Suggests a new visible region to this frame buffer. This region
10764 represents the area of the VM display which is a union of regions of
10765 all top-level windows of the guest operating system running inside the
10766 VM (if the Guest Additions for this system support this
10767 functionality). This information may be used by the frontends to
10768 implement the seamless desktop integration feature.
10769
10770 <note>
10771 The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
10772 this IFramebuffer object.
10773 </note>
10774 <note>
10775 The IFramebuffer implementation must make a copy of the provided
10776 array of rectangles.
10777 </note>
10778 <note>
10779 Method not yet implemented.
10780 </note>
10781 </desc>
10782 <param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10783 <desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array.</desc>
10784 </param>
10785 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10786 <desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10787 </param>
10788 </method>
10789
10790 <method name="processVHWACommand">
10791 <desc>
10792 Posts a Video HW Acceleration Command to the frame buffer for processing.
10793 The commands used for 2D video acceleration (DDraw surface creation/destroying, blitting, scaling, color covnersion, overlaying, etc.)
10794 are posted from quest to the host to be processed by the host hardware.
10795
10796 <note>
10797 The address of the provided command must be in the process space of
10798 this IFramebuffer object.
10799 </note>
10800 </desc>
10801
10802 <param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10803 <desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the command to execute.</desc>
10804 </param>
10805 </method>
10806
10807 </interface>
10808
10809 <interface
10810 name="IFramebufferOverlay" extends="IFramebuffer"
10811 uuid="0bcc1c7e-e415-47d2-bfdb-e4c705fb0f47"
10812 wsmap="suppress"
10813 >
10814 <desc>
10815 The IFramebufferOverlay interface represents an alpha blended overlay
10816 for displaying status icons above an IFramebuffer. It is always created
10817 not visible, so that it must be explicitly shown. It only covers a
10818 portion of the IFramebuffer, determined by its width, height and
10819 co-ordinates. It is always in packed pixel little-endian 32bit ARGB (in
10820 that order) format, and may be written to directly. Do re-read the
10821 width though, after setting it, as it may be adjusted (increased) to
10822 make it more suitable for the front end.
10823 </desc>
10824 <attribute name="x" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10825 <desc>X position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
10826 </attribute>
10827
10828 <attribute name="y" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10829 <desc>Y position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
10830 </attribute>
10831
10832 <attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="no">
10833 <desc>
10834 Whether the overlay is currently visible.
10835 </desc>
10836 </attribute>
10837
10838 <attribute name="alpha" type="unsigned long" readonly="no">
10839 <desc>
10840 The global alpha value for the overlay. This may or may not be
10841 supported by a given front end.
10842 </desc>
10843 </attribute>
10844
10845 <method name="move">
10846 <desc>
10847 Changes the overlay's position relative to the IFramebuffer.
10848 </desc>
10849 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10850 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10851 </method>
10852
10853 </interface>
10854
10855 <interface
10856 name="IDisplay" extends="$unknown"
10857 uuid="e2a38ebc-d854-4a3e-bc2e-fdf5ac4a0000"
10858 wsmap="managed"
10859 >
10860 <desc>
10861 The IDisplay interface represents the virtual machine's display.
10862
10863 The object implementing this interface is contained in each
10864 <link to="IConsole::display"/> attribute and represents the visual
10865 output of the virtual machine.
10866
10867 The virtual display supports pluggable output targets represented by the
10868 IFramebuffer interface. Examples of the output target are a window on
10869 the host computer or an RDP session's display on a remote computer.
10870 </desc>
10871 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10872 <desc>Current display width.</desc>
10873 </attribute>
10874
10875 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10876 <desc>Current display height.</desc>
10877 </attribute>
10878
10879 <attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10880 <desc>
10881 Current guest display color depth. Note that this may differ
10882 from <link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/>.
10883 </desc>
10884 </attribute>
10885
10886 <method name="setFramebuffer">
10887 <desc>
10888 Sets the framebuffer for given screen.
10889 </desc>
10890 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10891 <param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="in"/>
10892 </method>
10893
10894 <method name="getFramebuffer">
10895 <desc>
10896 Queries the framebuffer for given screen.
10897 </desc>
10898 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10899 <param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="out"/>
10900 <param name="xOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
10901 <param name="yOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
10902 </method>
10903
10904 <method name="setVideoModeHint">
10905 <desc>
10906 Asks VirtualBox to request the given video mode from
10907 the guest. This is just a hint and it cannot be guaranteed
10908 that the requested resolution will be used. Guest Additions
10909 are required for the request to be seen by guests. The caller
10910 should issue the request and wait for a resolution change and
10911 after a timeout retry.
10912
10913 Specifying @c 0 for either @a width, @a height or @a bitsPerPixel
10914 parameters means that the corresponding values should be taken from the
10915 current video mode (i.e. left unchanged).
10916
10917 If the guest OS supports multi-monitor configuration then the @a display
10918 parameter specifies the number of the guest display to send the hint to:
10919 @c 0 is the primary display, @c 1 is the first secondary and
10920 so on. If the multi-monitor configuration is not supported, @a display
10921 must be @c 0.
10922
10923 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
10924 The @a display is not associated with any monitor.
10925 </result>
10926
10927 </desc>
10928 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10929 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10930 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10931 <param name="display" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10932 </method>
10933
10934 <method name="setSeamlessMode">
10935 <desc>
10936 Enables or disables seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
10937 integration) mode.
10938 <note>
10939 Calling this method has no effect if <link
10940 to="IGuest::supportsSeamless"/> returns @c false.
10941 </note>
10942 </desc>
10943 <param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
10944 </method>
10945
10946 <method name="takeScreenShot">
10947 <desc>
10948 Takes a screen shot of the requested size and copies it to the
10949 32-bpp buffer allocated by the caller and pointed to by @a address.
10950
10951 <note>This API can be used only by the COM/XPCOM C++ API as it
10952 requires pointer support. Use <link to="#takeScreenShotSlow" />
10953 with other language bindings.
10954 </note>
10955
10956 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10957 Feature not implemented.
10958 </result>
10959 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10960 Could not take a screenshot.
10961 </result>
10962
10963 </desc>
10964 <param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
10965 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10966 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10967 </method>
10968
10969 <method name="takeScreenShotSlow">
10970 <desc>
10971 Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
10972 an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit ARGB format.
10973 This API is slow, but could be the only option to get guest screenshot
10974 for scriptable languages not allowed to manipulate with addresses
10975 directly.
10976
10977 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10978 Feature not implemented.
10979 </result>
10980 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10981 Could not take a screenshot.
10982 </result>
10983 </desc>
10984 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10985 <desc>
10986 Desired image width.
10987 </desc>
10988 </param>
10989 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10990 <desc>
10991 Desired image height.
10992 </desc>
10993 </param>
10994 <param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
10995 <desc>
10996 Array with resulting screen data.
10997 </desc>
10998 </param>
10999 </method>
11000
11001 <method name="drawToScreen">
11002 <desc>
11003 Draws a 32-bpp image of the specified size from the given buffer
11004 to the given point on the VM display.
11005
11006 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11007 Feature not implemented.
11008 </result>
11009 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11010 Could not draw to screen.
11011 </result>
11012
11013 </desc>
11014 <param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
11015 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11016 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11017 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11018 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11019 </method>
11020
11021 <method name="invalidateAndUpdate">
11022 <desc>
11023 Does a full invalidation of the VM display and instructs the VM
11024 to update it.
11025
11026 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11027 Could not invalidate and update screen.
11028 </result>
11029
11030 </desc>
11031 </method>
11032
11033 <method name="resizeCompleted">
11034 <desc>
11035 Signals that a framebuffer has completed the resize operation.
11036
11037 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11038 Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
11039 </result>
11040
11041 </desc>
11042 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11043 </method>
11044
11045 <method name="updateCompleted">
11046 <desc>
11047 Signals that a framebuffer has completed the update operation.
11048
11049 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11050 Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
11051 </result>
11052
11053 </desc>
11054 </method>
11055
11056 <method name="completeVHWACommand">
11057 <desc>
11058 Signals that the Video HW Acceleration command has completed.
11059 </desc>
11060
11061 <param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11062 <desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the completed command.</desc>
11063 </param>
11064 </method>
11065
11066 </interface>
11067
11068 <!--
11069 // INetworkAdapter
11070 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11071 -->
11072
11073 <enum
11074 name="NetworkAttachmentType"
11075 uuid="44bce1ee-99f7-4e8e-89fc-80597fd9eeaf"
11076 >
11077 <desc>
11078 Network attachment type.
11079 </desc>
11080
11081 <const name="Null" value="0">
11082 <desc>Null value, also means "not attached".</desc>
11083 </const>
11084 <const name="NAT" value="1"/>
11085 <const name="Bridged" value="2"/>
11086 <const name="Internal" value="3"/>
11087 <const name="HostOnly" value="4"/>
11088 </enum>
11089
11090 <enum
11091 name="NetworkAdapterType"
11092 uuid="3c2281e4-d952-4e87-8c7d-24379cb6a81c"
11093 >
11094 <desc>
11095 Network adapter type.
11096 </desc>
11097
11098 <const name="Null" value="0">
11099 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
11100 </const>
11101 <const name="Am79C970A" value="1">
11102 <desc>AMD PCNet-PCI II network card (Am79C970A).</desc>
11103 </const>
11104 <const name="Am79C973" value="2">
11105 <desc>AMD PCNet-FAST III network card (Am79C973).</desc>
11106 </const>
11107 <const name="I82540EM" value="3">
11108 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop network card (82540EM).</desc>
11109 </const>
11110 <const name="I82543GC" value="4">
11111 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 T Server network card (82543GC).</desc>
11112 </const>
11113 <const name="I82545EM" value="5">
11114 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Server network card (82545EM).</desc>
11115 </const>
11116 <const name="Virtio" value="6">
11117 <desc>Virtio network device.</desc>
11118 </const>
11119 </enum>
11120
11121 <interface
11122 name="INetworkAdapter" extends="$unknown"
11123 uuid="65607a27-2b73-4d43-b4cc-0ba2c817fbde"
11124 wsmap="managed"
11125 >
11126 <desc>
11127 Represents a virtual network adapter that is attached to a virtual machine.
11128 Each virtual machine has a fixed number of network adapter slots with one
11129 instance of this attached to each of them. Call
11130 <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter" /> to get the network adapter that
11131 is attached to a given slot in a given machine.
11132
11133 Each network adapter can be in one of five attachment modes, which are
11134 represented by the <link to="NetworkAttachmentType" /> enumeration;
11135 see the <link to="#attachmentType" /> attribute.
11136 </desc>
11137
11138 <attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType">
11139 <desc>
11140 Type of the virtual network adapter. Depending on this value,
11141 VirtualBox will provide a different virtual network hardware
11142 to the guest.
11143 </desc>
11144 </attribute>
11145
11146 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11147 <desc>
11148 Slot number this adapter is plugged into. Corresponds to
11149 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter"/>
11150 to obtain this instance.
11151 </desc>
11152 </attribute>
11153
11154 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11155 <desc>
11156 Flag whether the network adapter is present in the
11157 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11158 not contain this network adapter. Can only be changed when
11159 the VM is not running.
11160 </desc>
11161 </attribute>
11162
11163 <attribute name="MACAddress" type="wstring">
11164 <desc>
11165 Ethernet MAC address of the adapter, 12 hexadecimal characters. When setting
11166 it to @c null or an empty string, VirtualBox will generate a unique MAC address.
11167 </desc>
11168 </attribute>
11169
11170 <attribute name="attachmentType" type="NetworkAttachmentType" readonly="yes"/>
11171
11172 <attribute name="hostInterface" type="wstring">
11173 <desc>
11174 Name of the host network interface the VM is attached to.
11175 </desc>
11176 </attribute>
11177
11178 <attribute name="internalNetwork" type="wstring">
11179 <desc>
11180 Name of the internal network the VM is attached to.
11181 </desc>
11182 </attribute>
11183
11184 <attribute name="NATNetwork" type="wstring">
11185 <desc>
11186 Name of the NAT network the VM is attached to.
11187 </desc>
11188 </attribute>
11189
11190 <attribute name="cableConnected" type="boolean">
11191 <desc>
11192 Flag whether the adapter reports the cable as connected or not.
11193 It can be used to report offline situations to a VM.
11194 </desc>
11195 </attribute>
11196
11197 <attribute name="lineSpeed" type="unsigned long">
11198 <desc>
11199 Line speed reported by custom drivers, in units of 1 kbps.
11200 </desc>
11201 </attribute>
11202
11203 <attribute name="traceEnabled" type="boolean">
11204 <desc>
11205 Flag whether network traffic from/to the network card should be traced.
11206 Can only be toggled when the VM is turned off.
11207 </desc>
11208 </attribute>
11209
11210 <attribute name="traceFile" type="wstring">
11211 <desc>
11212 Filename where a network trace will be stored. If not set, VBox-pid.pcap
11213 will be used.
11214 </desc>
11215 </attribute>
11216
11217 <method name="attachToNAT">
11218 <desc>
11219 Attach the network adapter to the Network Address Translation (NAT) interface.
11220 </desc>
11221 </method>
11222
11223 <method name="attachToBridgedInterface">
11224 <desc>
11225 Attach the network adapter to a bridged host interface.
11226 </desc>
11227 </method>
11228
11229 <method name="attachToInternalNetwork">
11230 <desc>
11231 Attach the network adapter to an internal network.
11232 </desc>
11233 </method>
11234
11235 <method name="attachToHostOnlyInterface">
11236 <desc>
11237 Attach the network adapter to the host-only network.
11238 </desc>
11239 </method>
11240
11241 <method name="detach">
11242 <desc>
11243 Detach the network adapter
11244 </desc>
11245 </method>
11246 </interface>
11247
11248
11249 <!--
11250 // ISerialPort
11251 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11252 -->
11253
11254 <enum
11255 name="PortMode"
11256 uuid="533b5fe3-0185-4197-86a7-17e37dd39d76"
11257 >
11258 <desc>
11259 The PortMode enumeration represents possible communication modes for
11260 the virtual serial port device.
11261 </desc>
11262
11263 <const name="Disconnected" value="0">
11264 <desc>Virtual device is not attached to any real host device.</desc>
11265 </const>
11266 <const name="HostPipe" value="1">
11267 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a host pipe.</desc>
11268 </const>
11269 <const name="HostDevice" value="2">
11270 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a host device.</desc>
11271 </const>
11272 <const name="RawFile" value="3">
11273 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a raw file.</desc>
11274 </const>
11275 </enum>
11276
11277 <interface
11278 name="ISerialPort" extends="$unknown"
11279 uuid="937f6970-5103-4745-b78e-d28dcf1479a8"
11280 wsmap="managed"
11281 >
11282
11283 <desc>
11284 The ISerialPort interface represents the virtual serial port device.
11285
11286 The virtual serial port device acts like an ordinary serial port
11287 inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
11288 serial port hardware in one of two modes: host pipe or host device.
11289
11290 In host pipe mode, the #path attribute specifies the path to the pipe on
11291 the host computer that represents a serial port. The #server attribute
11292 determines if this pipe is created by the virtual machine process at
11293 machine startup or it must already exist before starting machine
11294 execution.
11295
11296 In host device mode, the #path attribute specifies the name of the
11297 serial port device on the host computer.
11298
11299 There is also a third communication mode: the disconnected mode. In this
11300 mode, the guest OS running inside the virtual machine will be able to
11301 detect the serial port, but all port write operations will be discarded
11302 and all port read operations will return no data.
11303
11304 <see>IMachine::getSerialPort</see>
11305 </desc>
11306
11307 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11308 <desc>
11309 Slot number this serial port is plugged into. Corresponds to
11310 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort"/>
11311 to obtain this instance.
11312 </desc>
11313 </attribute>
11314
11315 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11316 <desc>
11317 Flag whether the serial port is enabled. If disabled,
11318 the serial port will not be reported to the guest OS.
11319 </desc>
11320 </attribute>
11321
11322 <attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
11323 <desc>Base I/O address of the serial port.</desc>
11324 </attribute>
11325
11326 <attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
11327 <desc>IRQ number of the serial port.</desc>
11328 </attribute>
11329
11330 <attribute name="hostMode" type="PortMode">
11331 <desc>
11332 How is this port connected to the host.
11333 <note>
11334 Changing this attribute may fail if the conditions for
11335 <link to="#path"/> are not met.
11336 </note>
11337 </desc>
11338 </attribute>
11339
11340 <attribute name="server" type="boolean">
11341 <desc>
11342 Flag whether this serial port acts as a server (creates a new pipe on
11343 the host) or as a client (uses the existing pipe). This attribute is
11344 used only when <link to="#hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostPipe.
11345 </desc>
11346 </attribute>
11347
11348 <attribute name="path" type="wstring">
11349 <desc>
11350 Path to the serial port's pipe on the host when <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is
11351 PortMode_HostPipe, or the host serial device name when
11352 <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostDevice. For both
11353 cases, setting a @c null or empty string as the attribute's value
11354 is an error. Otherwise, the value of this property is ignored.
11355 </desc>
11356 </attribute>
11357
11358 </interface>
11359
11360 <!--
11361 // IParallelPort
11362 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11363 -->
11364
11365 <interface
11366 name="IParallelPort" extends="$unknown"
11367 uuid="0c925f06-dd10-4b77-8de8-294d738c3214"
11368 wsmap="managed"
11369 >
11370
11371 <desc>
11372 The IParallelPort interface represents the virtual parallel port device.
11373
11374 The virtual parallel port device acts like an ordinary parallel port
11375 inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
11376 parallel port hardware using the name of the parallel device on the host
11377 computer specified in the #path attribute.
11378
11379 Each virtual parallel port device is assigned a base I/O address and an
11380 IRQ number that will be reported to the guest operating system and used
11381 to operate the given parallel port from within the virtual machine.
11382
11383 <see>IMachine::getParallelPort</see>
11384 </desc>
11385
11386 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11387 <desc>
11388 Slot number this parallel port is plugged into. Corresponds to
11389 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort"/>
11390 to obtain this instance.
11391 </desc>
11392 </attribute>
11393
11394 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11395 <desc>
11396 Flag whether the parallel port is enabled. If disabled,
11397 the parallel port will not be reported to the guest OS.
11398 </desc>
11399 </attribute>
11400
11401 <attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
11402 <desc>Base I/O address of the parallel port.</desc>
11403 </attribute>
11404
11405 <attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
11406 <desc>IRQ number of the parallel port.</desc>
11407 </attribute>
11408
11409 <attribute name="path" type="wstring">
11410 <desc>
11411 Host parallel device name. If this parallel port is enabled, setting a
11412 @c null or an empty string as this attribute's value will result into
11413 an error.
11414 </desc>
11415 </attribute>
11416
11417 </interface>
11418
11419
11420 <!--
11421 // IMachineDebugger
11422 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11423 -->
11424
11425 <interface
11426 name="IMachineDebugger" extends="$unknown"
11427 uuid="b0b2a2dd-0627-4502-91c2-ddc5e77609e0"
11428 wsmap="suppress"
11429 >
11430 <method name="resetStats">
11431 <desc>
11432 Reset VM statistics.
11433 </desc>
11434 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11435 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11436 </param>
11437 </method>
11438
11439 <method name="dumpStats">
11440 <desc>
11441 Dumps VM statistics.
11442 </desc>
11443 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11444 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11445 </param>
11446 </method>
11447
11448 <method name="getStats">
11449 <desc>
11450 Get the VM statistics in a XMLish format.
11451 </desc>
11452 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11453 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11454 </param>
11455 <param name="withDescriptions" type="boolean" dir="in">
11456 <desc>Whether to include the descriptions.</desc>
11457 </param>
11458 <param name="stats" type="wstring" dir="out">
11459 <desc>The XML document containing the statistics.</desc>
11460 </param>
11461 </method>
11462
11463 <method name="injectNMI">
11464 <desc>
11465 Inject an NMI into a running VT-x/AMD-V VM.
11466 </desc>
11467 </method>
11468
11469 <attribute name="singlestep" type="boolean">
11470 <desc>Switch for enabling singlestepping.</desc>
11471 </attribute>
11472
11473 <attribute name="recompileUser" type="boolean">
11474 <desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for user mode code.</desc>
11475 </attribute>
11476
11477 <attribute name="recompileSupervisor" type="boolean">
11478 <desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for supervisor mode code.</desc>
11479 </attribute>
11480
11481 <attribute name="PATMEnabled" type="boolean">
11482 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the PATM component.</desc>
11483 </attribute>
11484
11485 <attribute name="CSAMEnabled" type="boolean">
11486 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the CSAM component.</desc>
11487 </attribute>
11488
11489 <attribute name="logEnabled" type="boolean">
11490 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling logging.</desc>
11491 </attribute>
11492
11493 <attribute name="HWVirtExEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11494 <desc>
11495 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of CPU hardware
11496 virtualization extensions.
11497 </desc>
11498 </attribute>
11499
11500 <attribute name="HWVirtExNestedPagingEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11501 <desc>
11502 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the nested paging
11503 CPU hardware virtualization extension.
11504 </desc>
11505 </attribute>
11506
11507 <attribute name="HWVirtExVPIDEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11508 <desc>
11509 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the VPID
11510 VT-x extension.
11511 </desc>
11512 </attribute>
11513
11514 <attribute name="PAEEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11515 <desc>
11516 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the Physical
11517 Address Extension CPU feature.
11518 </desc>
11519 </attribute>
11520
11521 <attribute name="virtualTimeRate" type="unsigned long">
11522 <desc>
11523 The rate at which the virtual time runs expressed as a percentage.
11524 The accepted range is 2% to 20000%.
11525 </desc>
11526 </attribute>
11527
11528 <!-- @todo method for setting log flags, groups and destination! -->
11529
11530 <attribute name="VM" type="unsigned long long" readonly="yes">
11531 <desc>
11532 Gets the VM handle. This is only for internal use while
11533 we carve the details of this interface.
11534 </desc>
11535 </attribute>
11536
11537 </interface>
11538
11539 <!--
11540 // IUSBController
11541 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11542 -->
11543
11544 <interface
11545 name="IUSBController" extends="$unknown"
11546 uuid="238540fa-4b73-435a-a38e-4e1d9eab5c17"
11547 wsmap="managed"
11548 >
11549 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11550 <desc>
11551 Flag whether the USB controller is present in the
11552 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11553 not contain any USB controller. Can only be changed when
11554 the VM is powered off.
11555 </desc>
11556 </attribute>
11557
11558 <attribute name="enabledEhci" type="boolean">
11559 <desc>
11560 Flag whether the USB EHCI controller is present in the
11561 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11562 not contain a USB EHCI controller. Can only be changed when
11563 the VM is powered off.
11564 </desc>
11565 </attribute>
11566
11567 <attribute name="USBStandard" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11568 <desc>
11569 USB standard version which the controller implements.
11570 This is a BCD which means that the major version is in the
11571 high byte and minor version is in the low byte.
11572 </desc>
11573 </attribute>
11574
11575 <attribute name="deviceFilters" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
11576 <desc>
11577 List of USB device filters associated with the machine.
11578
11579 If the machine is currently running, these filters are activated
11580 every time a new (supported) USB device is attached to the host
11581 computer that was not ignored by global filters
11582 (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>).
11583
11584 These filters are also activated when the machine is powered up.
11585 They are run against a list of all currently available USB
11586 devices (in states
11587 <link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/>,
11588 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
11589 <link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>) that were not previously
11590 ignored by global filters.
11591
11592 If at least one filter matches the USB device in question, this
11593 device is automatically captured (attached to) the virtual USB
11594 controller of this machine.
11595
11596 <see>IUSBDeviceFilter, ::IUSBController</see>
11597 </desc>
11598 </attribute>
11599
11600 <method name="createDeviceFilter">
11601 <desc>
11602 Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
11603 the filter name are set to empty (any match),
11604 <i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
11605
11606 The created filter can then be added to the list of filters using
11607 <link to="#insertDeviceFilter"/>.
11608
11609 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11610 The virtual machine is not mutable.
11611 </result>
11612
11613 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
11614 </desc>
11615 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
11616 <desc>
11617 Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
11618 for more info.
11619 </desc>
11620 </param>
11621 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
11622 <desc>Created filter object.</desc>
11623 </param>
11624 </method>
11625
11626 <method name="insertDeviceFilter">
11627 <desc>
11628 Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
11629 in the list of filters.
11630
11631 Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. If the specified
11632 position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
11633 the list, the filter is added to the end of the collection.
11634
11635 <note>
11636 Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
11637 filter that is already in the collection, will return an
11638 error.
11639 </note>
11640
11641 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11642 Virtual machine is not mutable.
11643 </result>
11644 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11645 USB device filter not created within this VirtualBox instance.
11646 </result>
11647 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
11648 USB device filter already in list.
11649 </result>
11650
11651 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
11652 </desc>
11653 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11654 <desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
11655 </param>
11656 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
11657 <desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
11658 </param>
11659 </method>
11660
11661 <method name="removeDeviceFilter">
11662 <desc>
11663 Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
11664 list of filters.
11665
11666 Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. Specifying a
11667 position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
11668 the list will produce an error.
11669
11670 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
11671
11672 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11673 Virtual machine is not mutable.
11674 </result>
11675 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11676 USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
11677 </result>
11678
11679 </desc>
11680 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11681 <desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
11682 </param>
11683 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
11684 <desc>Removed USB device filter.</desc>
11685 </param>
11686 </method>
11687
11688 </interface>
11689
11690
11691 <!--
11692 // IUSBDevice
11693 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11694 -->
11695
11696 <interface
11697 name="IUSBDevice" extends="$unknown"
11698 uuid="f8967b0b-4483-400f-92b5-8b675d98a85b"
11699 wsmap="managed"
11700 >
11701 <desc>
11702 The IUSBDevice interface represents a virtual USB device attached to the
11703 virtual machine.
11704
11705 A collection of objects implementing this interface is stored in the
11706 <link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/> attribute which lists all USB devices
11707 attached to a running virtual machine's USB controller.
11708 </desc>
11709
11710 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
11711 <desc>
11712 Unique USB device ID. This ID is built from #vendorId,
11713 #productId, #revision and #serialNumber.
11714 </desc>
11715 </attribute>
11716
11717 <attribute name="vendorId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11718 <desc>Vendor ID.</desc>
11719 </attribute>
11720
11721 <attribute name="productId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11722 <desc>Product ID.</desc>
11723 </attribute>
11724
11725 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11726 <desc>
11727 Product revision number. This is a packed BCD represented as
11728 unsigned short. The high byte is the integer part and the low
11729 byte is the decimal.
11730 </desc>
11731 </attribute>
11732
11733 <attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11734 <desc>Manufacturer string.</desc>
11735 </attribute>
11736
11737 <attribute name="product" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11738 <desc>Product string.</desc>
11739 </attribute>
11740
11741 <attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11742 <desc>Serial number string.</desc>
11743 </attribute>
11744
11745 <attribute name="address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11746 <desc>Host specific address of the device.</desc>
11747 </attribute>
11748
11749 <attribute name="port" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11750 <desc>
11751 Host USB port number the device is physically
11752 connected to.
11753 </desc>
11754 </attribute>
11755
11756 <attribute name="version" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11757 <desc>
11758 The major USB version of the device - 1 or 2.
11759 </desc>
11760 </attribute>
11761
11762 <attribute name="portVersion" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11763 <desc>
11764 The major USB version of the host USB port the device is
11765 physically connected to - 1 or 2. For devices not connected to
11766 anything this will have the same value as the version attribute.
11767 </desc>
11768 </attribute>
11769
11770 <attribute name="remote" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11771 <desc>
11772 Whether the device is physically connected to a remote VRDP
11773 client or to a local host machine.
11774 </desc>
11775 </attribute>
11776
11777 </interface>
11778
11779
11780 <!--
11781 // IUSBDeviceFilter
11782 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11783 -->
11784
11785 <interface
11786 name="IUSBDeviceFilter" extends="$unknown"
11787 uuid="d6831fb4-1a94-4c2c-96ef-8d0d6192066d"
11788 wsmap="managed"
11789 >
11790 <desc>
11791 The IUSBDeviceFilter interface represents an USB device filter used
11792 to perform actions on a group of USB devices.
11793
11794 This type of filters is used by running virtual machines to
11795 automatically capture selected USB devices once they are physically
11796 attached to the host computer.
11797
11798 A USB device is matched to the given device filter if and only if all
11799 attributes of the device match the corresponding attributes of the
11800 filter (that is, attributes are joined together using the logical AND
11801 operation). On the other hand, all together, filters in the list of
11802 filters carry the semantics of the logical OR operation. So if it is
11803 desirable to create a match like "this vendor id OR this product id",
11804 one needs to create two filters and specify "any match" (see below)
11805 for unused attributes.
11806
11807 All filter attributes used for matching are strings. Each string
11808 is an expression representing a set of values of the corresponding
11809 device attribute, that will match the given filter. Currently, the
11810 following filtering expressions are supported:
11811
11812 <ul>
11813 <li><i>Interval filters</i>. Used to specify valid intervals for
11814 integer device attributes (Vendor ID, Product ID and Revision).
11815 The format of the string is:
11816
11817 <tt>int:((m)|([m]-[n]))(,(m)|([m]-[n]))*</tt>
11818
11819 where <tt>m</tt> and <tt>n</tt> are integer numbers, either in octal
11820 (starting from <tt>0</tt>), hexadecimal (starting from <tt>0x</tt>)
11821 or decimal (otherwise) form, so that <tt>m &lt; n</tt>. If <tt>m</tt>
11822 is omitted before a dash (<tt>-</tt>), the minimum possible integer
11823 is assumed; if <tt>n</tt> is omitted after a dash, the maximum
11824 possible integer is assumed.
11825 </li>
11826 <li><i>Boolean filters</i>. Used to specify acceptable values for
11827 boolean device attributes. The format of the string is:
11828
11829 <tt>true|false|yes|no|0|1</tt>
11830
11831 </li>
11832 <li><i>Exact match</i>. Used to specify a single value for the given
11833 device attribute. Any string that doesn't start with <tt>int:</tt>
11834 represents the exact match. String device attributes are compared to
11835 this string including case of symbols. Integer attributes are first
11836 converted to a string (see individual filter attributes) and then
11837 compared ignoring case.
11838
11839 </li>
11840 <li><i>Any match</i>. Any value of the corresponding device attribute
11841 will match the given filter. An empty or @c null string is
11842 used to construct this type of filtering expressions.
11843
11844 </li>
11845 </ul>
11846
11847 <note>
11848 On the Windows host platform, interval filters are not currently
11849 available. Also all string filter attributes
11850 (<link to="#manufacturer"/>, <link to="#product"/>,
11851 <link to="#serialNumber"/>) are ignored, so they behave as
11852 <i>any match</i> no matter what string expression is specified.
11853 </note>
11854
11855 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
11856 </desc>
11857
11858 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
11859 <desc>
11860 Visible name for this filter.
11861 This name is used to visually distinguish one filter from another,
11862 so it can neither be @c null nor an empty string.
11863 </desc>
11864 </attribute>
11865
11866 <attribute name="active" type="boolean">
11867 <desc>Whether this filter active or has been temporarily disabled.</desc>
11868 </attribute>
11869
11870 <attribute name="vendorId" type="wstring">
11871 <desc>
11872 <link to="IUSBDevice::vendorId">Vendor ID</link> filter.
11873 The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
11874 has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
11875 (including leading zeroes).
11876 </desc>
11877 </attribute>
11878
11879 <attribute name="productId" type="wstring">
11880 <desc>
11881 <link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product ID</link> filter.
11882 The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
11883 has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
11884 (including leading zeroes).
11885 </desc>
11886 </attribute>
11887
11888 <attribute name="revision" type="wstring">
11889 <desc>
11890 <link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product revision number</link>
11891 filter. The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
11892 has the form <tt>IIFF</tt>, where <tt>I</tt> is the decimal digit
11893 of the integer part of the revision, and <tt>F</tt> is the
11894 decimal digit of its fractional part (including leading and
11895 trailing zeros).
11896 Note that for interval filters, it's best to use the hexadecimal
11897 form, because the revision is stored as a 16 bit packed BCD value;
11898 so the expression <tt>int:0x0100-0x0199</tt> will match any
11899 revision from <tt>1.0</tt> to <tt>1.99</tt>.
11900 </desc>
11901 </attribute>
11902
11903 <attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring">
11904 <desc>
11905 <link to="IUSBDevice::manufacturer">Manufacturer</link> filter.
11906 </desc>
11907 </attribute>
11908
11909 <attribute name="product" type="wstring">
11910 <desc>
11911 <link to="IUSBDevice::product">Product</link> filter.
11912 </desc>
11913 </attribute>
11914
11915 <attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring">
11916 <desc>
11917 <link to="IUSBDevice::serialNumber">Serial number</link> filter.
11918 </desc>
11919 </attribute>
11920
11921 <attribute name="port" type="wstring">
11922 <desc>
11923 <link to="IUSBDevice::port">Host USB port</link> filter.
11924 </desc>
11925 </attribute>
11926
11927 <attribute name="remote" type="wstring">
11928 <desc>
11929 <link to="IUSBDevice::remote">Remote state</link> filter.
11930 <note>
11931 This filter makes sense only for machine USB filters,
11932 i.e. it is ignored by IHostUSBDeviceFilter objects.
11933 </note>
11934 </desc>
11935 </attribute>
11936
11937 <attribute name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long">
11938 <desc>
11939 This is an advanced option for hiding one or more USB interfaces
11940 from the guest. The value is a bit mask where the bits that are set
11941 means the corresponding USB interface should be hidden, masked off
11942 if you like.
11943 This feature only works on Linux hosts.
11944 </desc>
11945 </attribute>
11946
11947 </interface>
11948
11949
11950 <!--
11951 // IHostUSBDevice
11952 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11953 -->
11954
11955 <enum
11956 name="USBDeviceState"
11957 uuid="b99a2e65-67fb-4882-82fd-f3e5e8193ab4"
11958 >
11959 <desc>
11960 USB device state. This enumeration represents all possible states
11961 of the USB device physically attached to the host computer regarding
11962 its state on the host computer and availability to guest computers
11963 (all currently running virtual machines).
11964
11965 Once a supported USB device is attached to the host, global USB
11966 filters (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>) are activated. They can
11967 either ignore the device, or put it to USBDeviceState_Held state, or do
11968 nothing. Unless the device is ignored by global filters, filters of all
11969 currently running guests (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are
11970 activated that can put it to USBDeviceState_Captured state.
11971
11972 If the device was ignored by global filters, or didn't match
11973 any filters at all (including guest ones), it is handled by the host
11974 in a normal way. In this case, the device state is determined by
11975 the host and can be one of USBDeviceState_Unavailable, USBDeviceState_Busy
11976 or USBDeviceState_Available, depending on the current device usage.
11977
11978 Besides auto-capturing based on filters, the device can be manually
11979 captured by guests (<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) if its
11980 state is USBDeviceState_Busy, USBDeviceState_Available or
11981 USBDeviceState_Held.
11982
11983 <note>
11984 Due to differences in USB stack implementations in Linux and Win32,
11985 states USBDeviceState_Busy and USBDeviceState_vailable are applicable
11986 only to the Linux version of the product. This also means that (<link
11987 to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) can only succeed on Win32 if the
11988 device state is USBDeviceState_Held.
11989 </note>
11990
11991 <see>IHostUSBDevice, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
11992 </desc>
11993
11994 <const name="NotSupported" value="0">
11995 <desc>
11996 Not supported by the VirtualBox server, not available to guests.
11997 </desc>
11998 </const>
11999 <const name="Unavailable" value="1">
12000 <desc>
12001 Being used by the host computer exclusively,
12002 not available to guests.
12003 </desc>
12004 </const>
12005 <const name="Busy" value="2">
12006 <desc>
12007 Being used by the host computer, potentially available to guests.
12008 </desc>
12009 </const>
12010 <const name="Available" value="3">
12011 <desc>
12012 Not used by the host computer, available to guests (the host computer
12013 can also start using the device at any time).
12014 </desc>
12015 </const>
12016 <const name="Held" value="4">
12017 <desc>
12018 Held by the VirtualBox server (ignored by the host computer),
12019 available to guests.
12020 </desc>
12021 </const>
12022 <const name="Captured" value="5">
12023 <desc>
12024 Captured by one of the guest computers, not available
12025 to anybody else.
12026 </desc>
12027 </const>
12028 </enum>
12029
12030 <interface
12031 name="IHostUSBDevice" extends="IUSBDevice"
12032 uuid="173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a"
12033 wsmap="managed"
12034 >
12035 <desc>
12036 The IHostUSBDevice interface represents a physical USB device attached
12037 to the host computer.
12038
12039 Besides properties inherited from IUSBDevice, this interface adds the
12040 <link to="#state"/> property that holds the current state of the USB
12041 device.
12042
12043 <see>IHost::USBDevices, IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
12044 </desc>
12045
12046 <attribute name="state" type="USBDeviceState" readonly="yes">
12047 <desc>
12048 Current state of the device.
12049 </desc>
12050 </attribute>
12051
12052 <!-- @todo add class, subclass, bandwidth, configs, interfaces endpoints and such later. -->
12053
12054 </interface>
12055
12056
12057 <!--
12058 // IHostUSBDeviceFilter
12059 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12060 -->
12061
12062 <enum
12063 name="USBDeviceFilterAction"
12064 uuid="cbc30a49-2f4e-43b5-9da6-121320475933"
12065 >
12066 <desc>
12067 Actions for host USB device filters.
12068 <see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
12069 </desc>
12070
12071 <const name="Null" value="0">
12072 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
12073 </const>
12074 <const name="Ignore" value="1">
12075 <desc>Ignore the matched USB device.</desc>
12076 </const>
12077 <const name="Hold" value="2">
12078 <desc>Hold the matched USB device.</desc>
12079 </const>
12080 </enum>
12081
12082 <interface
12083 name="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" extends="IUSBDeviceFilter"
12084 uuid="4cc70246-d74a-400f-8222-3900489c0374"
12085 wsmap="managed"
12086 >
12087 <desc>
12088 The IHostUSBDeviceFilter interface represents a global filter for a
12089 physical USB device used by the host computer. Used indirectly in
12090 <link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>.
12091
12092 Using filters of this type, the host computer determines the initial
12093 state of the USB device after it is physically attached to the
12094 host's USB controller.
12095
12096 <note>
12097 The <link to="#remote"/> attribute is ignored by this type of
12098 filters, because it makes sense only for
12099 <link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters">machine USB filters</link>.
12100 </note>
12101
12102 <see>IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
12103 </desc>
12104
12105 <attribute name="action" type="USBDeviceFilterAction">
12106 <desc>
12107 Action performed by the host when an attached USB device
12108 matches this filter.
12109 </desc>
12110 </attribute>
12111
12112 </interface>
12113
12114 <!--
12115 // IAudioAdapter
12116 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12117 -->
12118
12119 <enum
12120 name="AudioDriverType"
12121 uuid="4bcc3d73-c2fe-40db-b72f-0c2ca9d68496"
12122 >
12123 <desc>
12124 Host audio driver type.
12125 </desc>
12126
12127 <const name="Null" value="0">
12128 <desc>Null value, also means "dummy audio driver".</desc>
12129 </const>
12130 <const name="WinMM" value="1">
12131 <desc>Windows multimedia (Windows hosts only).</desc>
12132 </const>
12133 <const name="OSS" value="2">
12134 <desc>Open Sound System (Linux hosts only).</desc>
12135 </const>
12136 <const name="ALSA" value="3">
12137 <desc>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (Linux hosts only).</desc>
12138 </const>
12139 <const name="DirectSound" value="4">
12140 <desc>DirectSound (Windows hosts only).</desc>
12141 </const>
12142 <const name="CoreAudio" value="5">
12143 <desc>CoreAudio (Mac hosts only).</desc>
12144 </const>
12145 <const name="MMPM" value="6">
12146 <desc>Reserved for historical reasons.</desc>
12147 </const>
12148 <const name="Pulse" value="7">
12149 <desc>PulseAudio (Linux hosts only).</desc>
12150 </const>
12151 <const name="SolAudio" value="8">
12152 <desc>Solaris audio (Solaris hosts only).</desc>
12153 </const>
12154 </enum>
12155
12156 <enum
12157 name="AudioControllerType"
12158 uuid="7afd395c-42c3-444e-8788-3ce80292f36c"
12159 >
12160 <desc>
12161 Virtual audio controller type.
12162 </desc>
12163
12164 <const name="AC97" value="0"/>
12165 <const name="SB16" value="1"/>
12166 </enum>
12167
12168 <interface
12169 name="IAudioAdapter" extends="$unknown"
12170 uuid="921873db-5f3f-4b69-91f9-7be9e535a2cb"
12171 wsmap="managed"
12172 >
12173 <desc>
12174 The IAudioAdapter interface represents the virtual audio adapter of
12175 the virtual machine. Used in <link to="IMachine::audioAdapter"/>.
12176 </desc>
12177 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12178 <desc>
12179 Flag whether the audio adapter is present in the
12180 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
12181 not contain any audio adapter. Can only be changed when
12182 the VM is not running.
12183 </desc>
12184 </attribute>
12185 <attribute name="audioController" type="AudioControllerType">
12186 <desc>
12187 The audio hardware we emulate.
12188 </desc>
12189 </attribute>
12190 <attribute name="audioDriver" type="AudioDriverType">
12191 <desc>
12192 Audio driver the adapter is connected to. This setting
12193 can only be changed when the VM is not running.
12194 </desc>
12195 </attribute>
12196 </interface>
12197
12198 <!--
12199 // IVRDPServer
12200 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12201 -->
12202
12203 <enum
12204 name="VRDPAuthType"
12205 uuid="3d91887a-b67f-4b33-85bf-2da7ab1ea83a"
12206 >
12207 <desc>
12208 VRDP authentication type.
12209 </desc>
12210
12211 <const name="Null" value="0">
12212 <desc>Null value, also means "no authentication".</desc>
12213 </const>
12214 <const name="External" value="1"/>
12215 <const name="Guest" value="2"/>
12216 </enum>
12217
12218 <interface
12219 name="IVRDPServer" extends="$unknown"
12220 uuid="72e671bc-1712-4052-ad6b-e45e76d9d3e4"
12221 wsmap="managed"
12222 >
12223 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12224 <desc>VRDP server status.</desc>
12225 </attribute>
12226
12227 <attribute name="ports" type="wstring">
12228 <desc>
12229 VRDP server port numbers. The server will try to bind to one of free ports from the list.
12230 <note>
12231 This is a string of comma separated TCP port numbers or port number ranges.
12232 Example <tt>5000,5010-5012,5015</tt>
12233 </note>
12234 </desc>
12235 </attribute>
12236
12237 <attribute name="netAddress" type="wstring">
12238 <desc>VRDP server address.</desc>
12239 </attribute>
12240
12241 <attribute name="authType" type="VRDPAuthType">
12242 <desc>VRDP authentication method.</desc>
12243 </attribute>
12244
12245 <attribute name="authTimeout" type="unsigned long">
12246 <desc>Timeout for guest authentication. Milliseconds.</desc>
12247 </attribute>
12248
12249 <attribute name="allowMultiConnection" type="boolean">
12250 <desc>
12251 Flag whether multiple simultaneous connections to the VM are permitted.
12252 Note that this will be replaced by a more powerful mechanism in the future.
12253 </desc>
12254 </attribute>
12255
12256 <attribute name="reuseSingleConnection" type="boolean">
12257 <desc>
12258 Flag whether the existing connection must be dropped and a new connection
12259 must be established by the VRDP server, when a new client connects in single
12260 connection mode.
12261 </desc>
12262 </attribute>
12263
12264 </interface>
12265
12266
12267 <!--
12268 // ISharedFolder
12269 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12270 -->
12271
12272 <interface
12273 name="ISharedFolder" extends="$unknown"
12274 uuid="64637bb2-9e17-471c-b8f3-f8968dd9884e"
12275 wsmap="struct"
12276 >
12277 <desc>
12278 The ISharedFolder interface represents a folder in the host computer's
12279 file system accessible from the guest OS running inside a virtual
12280 machine using an associated logical name.
12281
12282 There are three types of shared folders:
12283 <ul>
12284 <li><i>Global</i> (<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders"/>), shared
12285 folders available to all virtual machines.</li>
12286 <li><i>Permanent</i> (<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/>),
12287 VM-specific shared folders available to the given virtual machine at
12288 startup.</li>
12289 <li><i>Transient</i> (<link to="IConsole::sharedFolders"/>),
12290 VM-specific shared folders created in the session context (for
12291 example, when the virtual machine is running) and automatically
12292 discarded when the session is closed (the VM is powered off).</li>
12293 </ul>
12294
12295 Logical names of shared folders must be unique within the given scope
12296 (global, permanent or transient). However, they do not need to be unique
12297 across scopes. In this case, the definition of the shared folder in a
12298 more specific scope takes precedence over definitions in all other
12299 scopes. The order of precedence is (more specific to more general):
12300 <ol>
12301 <li>Transient definitions</li>
12302 <li>Permanent definitions</li>
12303 <li>Global definitions</li>
12304 </ol>
12305
12306 For example, if MyMachine has a shared folder named
12307 <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points to <tt>C:\\</tt>), then creating a
12308 transient shared folder named <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points
12309 to <tt>C:\\\\WINDOWS</tt>) will change the definition
12310 of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> in the guest OS so
12311 that <tt>\\\\VBOXSVR\\C_DRIVE</tt> will give access
12312 to <tt>C:\\WINDOWS</tt> instead of <tt>C:\\</tt> on the host
12313 PC. Removing the transient shared folder <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> will restore
12314 the previous (permanent) definition of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> that points
12315 to <tt>C:\\</tt> if it still exists.
12316
12317 Note that permanent and transient shared folders of different machines
12318 are in different name spaces, so they don't overlap and don't need to
12319 have unique logical names.
12320
12321 <note>
12322 Global shared folders are not implemented in the current version of the
12323 product.
12324 </note>
12325 </desc>
12326
12327 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12328 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
12329 </attribute>
12330
12331 <attribute name="hostPath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12332 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
12333 </attribute>
12334
12335 <attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12336 <desc>
12337 Whether the folder defined by the host path is currently
12338 accessible or not.
12339 For example, the folder can be unaccessible if it is placed
12340 on the network share that is not available by the time
12341 this property is read.
12342 </desc>
12343 </attribute>
12344
12345 <attribute name="writable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12346 <desc>
12347 Whether the folder defined by the host path is writable or
12348 not.
12349 </desc>
12350 </attribute>
12351
12352 <attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12353 <desc>
12354 Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
12355 check.
12356
12357 Accessibility checks are performed each time the <link to="#accessible"/>
12358 attribute is read. An empty string is returned if the last
12359 accessibility check was successful. A non-empty string indicates a
12360 failure and should normally describe a reason of the failure (for
12361 example, a file read error).
12362 </desc>
12363 </attribute>
12364
12365 </interface>
12366
12367 <!--
12368 // ISession
12369 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12370 -->
12371
12372 <interface
12373 name="IInternalSessionControl" extends="$unknown"
12374 uuid="989e2c33-8dfa-437a-9a15-5ad441d50dbf"
12375 internal="yes"
12376 wsmap="suppress"
12377 >
12378 <method name="getPID">
12379 <desc>PID of the process that has created this Session object.
12380 </desc>
12381 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
12382 </method>
12383
12384 <method name="getRemoteConsole">
12385 <desc>
12386 Returns the console object suitable for remote control.
12387
12388 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12389 Session state prevents operation.
12390 </result>
12391 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12392 Session type prevents operation.
12393 </result>
12394
12395 </desc>
12396 <param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="return"/>
12397 </method>
12398
12399 <method name="assignMachine">
12400 <desc>
12401 Assigns the machine object associated with this direct-type
12402 session or informs the session that it will be a remote one
12403 (if @a machine == @c null).
12404
12405 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12406 Session state prevents operation.
12407 </result>
12408 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12409 Session type prevents operation.
12410 </result>
12411
12412 </desc>
12413 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
12414 </method>
12415
12416 <method name="assignRemoteMachine">
12417 <desc>
12418 Assigns the machine and the (remote) console object associated with
12419 this remote-type session.
12420
12421 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12422 Session state prevents operation.
12423 </result>
12424
12425 </desc>
12426 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
12427 <param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="in"/>
12428 </method>
12429
12430 <method name="updateMachineState">
12431 <desc>
12432 Updates the machine state in the VM process.
12433 Must be called only in certain cases
12434 (see the method implementation).
12435
12436 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12437 Session state prevents operation.
12438 </result>
12439 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12440 Session type prevents operation.
12441 </result>
12442
12443 </desc>
12444 <param name="aMachineState" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
12445 </method>
12446
12447 <method name="uninitialize">
12448 <desc>
12449 Uninitializes (closes) this session. Used by VirtualBox to close
12450 the corresponding remote session when the direct session dies
12451 or gets closed.
12452
12453 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12454 Session state prevents operation.
12455 </result>
12456
12457 </desc>
12458 </method>
12459
12460 <method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
12461 <desc>
12462 Triggered when settings of a network adapter of the
12463 associated virtual machine have changed.
12464
12465 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12466 Session state prevents operation.
12467 </result>
12468 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12469 Session type prevents operation.
12470 </result>
12471
12472 </desc>
12473 <param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in"/>
12474 <param name="changeAdapter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12475 </method>
12476
12477 <method name="onSerialPortChange">
12478 <desc>
12479 Triggered when settings of a serial port of the
12480 associated virtual machine have changed.
12481
12482 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12483 Session state prevents operation.
12484 </result>
12485 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12486 Session type prevents operation.
12487 </result>
12488
12489 </desc>
12490 <param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in"/>
12491 </method>
12492
12493 <method name="onParallelPortChange">
12494 <desc>
12495 Triggered when settings of a parallel port of the
12496 associated virtual machine have changed.
12497
12498 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12499 Session state prevents operation.
12500 </result>
12501 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12502 Session type prevents operation.
12503 </result>
12504
12505 </desc>
12506 <param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in"/>
12507 </method>
12508
12509 <method name="onStorageControllerChange">
12510 <desc>
12511 Triggered when settings of a storage controller of the
12512 associated virtual machine have changed.
12513
12514 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12515 Session state prevents operation.
12516 </result>
12517 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12518 Session type prevents operation.
12519 </result>
12520
12521 </desc>
12522 </method>
12523
12524 <method name="onMediumChange">
12525 <desc>
12526 Triggered when attached media of the
12527 associated virtual machine have changed.
12528
12529 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12530 Session state prevents operation.
12531 </result>
12532 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12533 Session type prevents operation.
12534 </result>
12535
12536 </desc>
12537
12538 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in"/>
12539 </method>
12540
12541 <method name="onVRDPServerChange">
12542 <desc>
12543 Triggered when settings of the VRDP server object of the
12544 associated virtual machine have changed.
12545
12546 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12547 Session state prevents operation.
12548 </result>
12549 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12550 Session type prevents operation.
12551 </result>
12552
12553 </desc>
12554 </method>
12555
12556 <method name="onUSBControllerChange">
12557 <desc>
12558 Triggered when settings of the USB controller object of the
12559 associated virtual machine have changed.
12560
12561 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12562 Session state prevents operation.
12563 </result>
12564 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12565 Session type prevents operation.
12566 </result>
12567
12568 </desc>
12569 </method>
12570
12571 <method name="onSharedFolderChange">
12572 <desc>
12573 Triggered when a permanent (global or machine) shared folder has been
12574 created or removed.
12575 <note>
12576 We don't pass shared folder parameters in this notification because
12577 the order in which parallel notifications are delivered is not defined,
12578 therefore it could happen that these parameters were outdated by the
12579 time of processing this notification.
12580 </note>
12581
12582 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12583 Session state prevents operation.
12584 </result>
12585 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12586 Session type prevents operation.
12587 </result>
12588
12589 </desc>
12590 <param name="global" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12591 </method>
12592
12593 <method name="onUSBDeviceAttach">
12594 <desc>
12595 Triggered when a request to capture a USB device (as a result
12596 of matched USB filters or direct call to
12597 <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
12598 A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
12599 describes a failure.
12600
12601 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12602 Session state prevents operation.
12603 </result>
12604 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12605 Session type prevents operation.
12606 </result>
12607
12608 </desc>
12609 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
12610 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
12611 <param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12612 </method>
12613
12614 <method name="onUSBDeviceDetach">
12615 <desc>
12616 Triggered when a request to release the USB device (as a result
12617 of machine termination or direct call to
12618 <link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
12619 A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
12620 describes a failure.
12621
12622 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12623 Session state prevents operation.
12624 </result>
12625 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12626 Session type prevents operation.
12627 </result>
12628
12629 </desc>
12630 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
12631 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
12632 </method>
12633
12634 <method name="onShowWindow">
12635 <desc>
12636 Called by <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> and by
12637 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> in order to notify
12638 console callbacks
12639 <link to="IConsoleCallback::onCanShowWindow"/>
12640 and <link to="IConsoleCallback::onShowWindow"/>.
12641
12642 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12643 Session type prevents operation.
12644 </result>
12645
12646 </desc>
12647 <param name="check" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12648 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
12649 <param name="winId" type="unsigned long long" dir="out"/>
12650 </method>
12651
12652 <method name="accessGuestProperty">
12653 <desc>
12654 Called by <link to="IMachine::getGuestProperty"/> and by
12655 <link to="IMachine::setGuestProperty"/> in order to read and
12656 modify guest properties.
12657
12658 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12659 Machine session is not open.
12660 </result>
12661 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12662 Session type is not direct.
12663 </result>
12664
12665 </desc>
12666 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12667 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12668 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12669 <param name="isSetter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12670 <param name="retValue" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
12671 <param name="retTimestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out"/>
12672 <param name="retFlags" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
12673 </method>
12674
12675 <method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
12676 <desc>
12677 Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
12678 with their values, time stamps and flags.
12679
12680 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12681 Machine session is not open.
12682 </result>
12683 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12684 Session type is not direct.
12685 </result>
12686
12687 </desc>
12688 <param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
12689 <desc>
12690 The patterns to match the properties against as a comma-separated
12691 string. If this is empty, all properties currently set will be
12692 returned.
12693 </desc>
12694 </param>
12695 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12696 <desc>
12697 The key names of the properties returned.
12698 </desc>
12699 </param>
12700 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12701 <desc>
12702 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
12703 corresponding entries in the @a key array.
12704 </desc>
12705 </param>
12706 <param name="timestamp" type="unsigned long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12707 <desc>
12708 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
12709 the corresponding entries in the @a key array.
12710 </desc>
12711 </param>
12712 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12713 <desc>
12714 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
12715 corresponding entries in the @a key array.
12716 </desc>
12717 </param>
12718 </method>
12719
12720 </interface>
12721
12722 <interface
12723 name="ISession" extends="$dispatched"
12724 uuid="12F4DCDB-12B2-4EC1-B7CD-DDD9F6C5BF4D"
12725 wsmap="managed"
12726 >
12727 <desc>
12728 The ISession interface represents a serialization primitive for virtual
12729 machines.
12730
12731 With VirtualBox, every time one wishes to manipulate a virtual machine
12732 (e.g. change its settings or start execution), a session object is
12733 required. Such an object must be passed to one of the session methods
12734 that open the given session, which then initiates the machine manipulation.
12735
12736 A session serves several purposes: it identifies to the inter-process VirtualBox
12737 code which process is currently working with the virtual machine, and it ensures
12738 that there are no incompatible requests from several processes for the
12739 same virtual machine. Session objects can therefore be thought of as mutex
12740 semaphores that lock virtual machines to prevent conflicting accesses from
12741 several processes.
12742
12743 How sessions objects are used depends on whether you use the Main API
12744 via COM or via the webservice:
12745
12746 <ul>
12747 <li>When using the COM API directly, an object of the Session class from the
12748 VirtualBox type library needs to be created. In regular COM C++ client code,
12749 this can be done by calling <tt>createLocalObject()</tt>, a standard COM API.
12750 This object will then act as a local session object in further calls to open
12751 a session.
12752 </li>
12753
12754 <li>In the webservice, the session manager (IWebsessionManager) instead creates
12755 one session object automatically when <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" />
12756 is called. A managed object reference to that session object can be retrieved by
12757 calling <link to="IWebsessionManager::getSessionObject" />. This session object
12758 reference can then be used to open sessions.
12759 </li>
12760 </ul>
12761
12762 Sessions are mainly used in two variations:
12763
12764 <ul>
12765 <li>
12766 To start a virtual machine in a separate process, one would call
12767 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>, which requires a session
12768 object as its first parameter. This session then identifies the caller
12769 and lets him control the started machine (for example, pause machine
12770 execution or power it down) as well as be notified about machine
12771 execution state changes.
12772 </li>
12773
12774 <li>To alter machine settings, or to start machine execution within the
12775 current process, one needs to open a direct session for the machine first by
12776 calling <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/>. While a direct session
12777 is open within one process, no any other process may open another direct
12778 session for the same machine. This prevents the machine from being changed
12779 by other processes while it is running or while the machine is being configured.
12780 </li>
12781 </ul>
12782
12783 One also can attach to an existing direct session already opened by
12784 another process (for example, in order to send a control request to the
12785 virtual machine such as the pause or the reset request). This is done by
12786 calling <link to="IVirtualBox::openExistingSession"/>.
12787
12788 <note>
12789 Unless you are trying to write a new VirtualBox front-end that
12790 performs direct machine execution (like the VirtualBox or VBoxSDL
12791 front-ends), don't call <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> in a direct
12792 session opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> and use this
12793 session only to change virtual machine settings. If you simply want to
12794 start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
12795 (for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), simply use
12796 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession"/>; these front-ends
12797 will power up the machine automatically for you.
12798 </note>
12799 </desc>
12800
12801 <attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
12802 <desc>Current state of this session.</desc>
12803 </attribute>
12804
12805 <attribute name="type" type="SessionType" readonly="yes">
12806 <desc>
12807 Type of this session. The value of this attribute is valid only
12808 if the session is currently open (i.e. its #state is
12809 SessionType_SessionOpen), otherwise an error will be returned.
12810 </desc>
12811 </attribute>
12812
12813 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
12814 <desc>Machine object associated with this session.</desc>
12815 </attribute>
12816
12817 <attribute name="console" type="IConsole" readonly="yes">
12818 <desc>Console object associated with this session.</desc>
12819 </attribute>
12820
12821 <method name="close">
12822 <desc>
12823 Closes a session that was previously opened.
12824
12825 It is recommended that every time an "open session" method (such as
12826 <link to="IVirtualBox::openRemoteSession" /> or
12827 <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession" />) has been called to
12828 manipulate a virtual machine, the caller invoke
12829 ISession::close() when it's done doing so. Since sessions are
12830 serialization primitives much like ordinary mutexes, they are
12831 best used the same way: for each "open" call, there should be
12832 a matching "close" call, even when errors occur.
12833
12834 Otherwise, if a direct session for a machine opened with
12835 <link to="IVirtualBox::openSession"/> is not explicitly closed
12836 when the application terminates, the state of the machine will
12837 be set to <link to="MachineState_Aborted" /> on the server.
12838
12839 Generally, it is recommended to close all open sessions explicitly
12840 before terminating the application (regardless of the reason for
12841 the termination).
12842
12843 <note>
12844 Do not expect the session state (<link to="ISession::state" />
12845 to return to "Closed" immediately after you invoke
12846 ISession::close(), particularly if you have started a remote
12847 session to execute the VM in a new process. The session state will
12848 automatically return to "Closed" once the VM is no longer executing,
12849 which can of course take a very long time.
12850 </note>
12851
12852 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
12853 Session is not open.
12854 </result>
12855
12856 </desc>
12857 </method>
12858
12859 </interface>
12860
12861 <!--
12862 // IStorageController
12863 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12864 -->
12865
12866 <enum
12867 name="StorageBus"
12868 uuid="eee67ab3-668d-4ef5-91e0-7025fe4a0d7a"
12869 >
12870 <desc>
12871 The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI or Floppy);
12872 see <link to="IStorageController::bus" />.
12873 </desc>
12874 <const name="Null" value="0">
12875 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
12876 </const>
12877 <const name="IDE" value="1"/>
12878 <const name="SATA" value="2"/>
12879 <const name="SCSI" value="3"/>
12880 <const name="Floppy" value="4"/>
12881 </enum>
12882
12883 <enum
12884 name="StorageControllerType"
12885 uuid="8a412b8a-f43e-4456-bd37-b474f0879a58"
12886 >
12887 <desc>
12888 The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
12889 to the guest; see <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
12890 </desc>
12891
12892 <const name="Null" value="0">
12893 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
12894 </const>
12895 <const name="LsiLogic" value="1">
12896 <desc>A SCSI controller of the LsiLogic variant.</desc>
12897 </const>
12898 <const name="BusLogic" value="2">
12899 <desc>A SCSI controller of the BusLogic variant.</desc>
12900 </const>
12901 <const name="IntelAhci" value="3">
12902 <desc>An Intel AHCI SATA controller; this is the only variant for SATA.</desc>
12903 </const>
12904 <const name="PIIX3" value="4">
12905 <desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX3 variant.</desc>
12906 </const>
12907 <const name="PIIX4" value="5">
12908 <desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX4 variant.</desc>
12909 </const>
12910 <const name="ICH6" value="6">
12911 <desc>An IDE controller of the ICH6 variant.</desc>
12912 </const>
12913 <const name="I82078" value="7">
12914 <desc>A floppy disk controller; this is the only variant for floppy drives.</desc>
12915 </const>
12916 </enum>
12917
12918 <interface
12919 name="IStorageController" extends="$unknown"
12920 uuid="6bf8335b-d14a-44a5-9b45-ddc49ce7d5b2"
12921 wsmap="managed"
12922 >
12923 <desc>
12924 Represents a storage controller that is attached to a virtual machine
12925 (<link to="IMachine" />). Just as drives (hard disks, DVDs, FDs) are
12926 attached to storage controllers in a real computer, virtual drives
12927 (represented by <link to="IMediumAttachment" />) are attached to virtual
12928 storage controllers, represented by this interface.
12929
12930 As opposed to physical hardware, VirtualBox has a very generic concept
12931 of a storage controller, and for purposes of the Main API, all virtual
12932 storage is attached to virtual machines via instances of this interface.
12933 There are four types of such virtual storage controllers: IDE, SCSI, SATA
12934 and Floppy (see <link to="#bus" />). Depending on which of these four is
12935 used, certain sub-types may be available and can be selected in
12936 <link to="#controllerType" />.
12937
12938 Depending on these settings, the guest operating system might see
12939 significantly different virtual hardware.
12940 </desc>
12941
12942 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12943 <desc>
12944 Name of the storage controller, as originally specified with
12945 <link to="IMachine::addStorageController" />. This then uniquely
12946 identifies this controller with other method calls such as
12947 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> and <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />.
12948 </desc>
12949 </attribute>
12950
12951 <attribute name="maxDevicesPerPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12952 <desc>
12953 Maximum number of devices which can be attached to one port.
12954 </desc>
12955 </attribute>
12956
12957 <attribute name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12958 <desc>
12959 Minimum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
12960 </desc>
12961 </attribute>
12962
12963 <attribute name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12964 <desc>
12965 Maximum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
12966 </desc>
12967 </attribute>
12968
12969 <attribute name="instance" type="unsigned long">
12970 <desc>
12971 The instance number of the device in the running VM.
12972 </desc>
12973 </attribute>
12974
12975 <attribute name="portCount" type="unsigned long">
12976 <desc>
12977 The number of currently usable ports on the controller.
12978 The minimum and maximum number of ports for one controller are
12979 stored in <link to="IStorageController::minPortCount"/>
12980 and <link to="IStorageController::maxPortCount"/>.
12981 </desc>
12982 </attribute>
12983
12984 <attribute name="bus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
12985 <desc>
12986 The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI or Floppy).
12987 </desc>
12988 </attribute>
12989
12990 <attribute name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType">
12991 <desc>
12992 The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
12993 to the guest.
12994 Depending on this value, VirtualBox will provide a different
12995 virtual storage controller hardware to the guest.
12996 For SATA and floppy controllers, only one variant is available,
12997 but for IDE and SCSI, there are several.
12998
12999 For SCSI controllers, the default type is LsiLogic.
13000 </desc>
13001 </attribute>
13002
13003 <method name="GetIDEEmulationPort">
13004 <desc>
13005 Gets the corresponding port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
13006 Works only with SATA controllers.
13007
13008 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
13009 The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3.
13010 </result>
13011 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
13012 The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
13013 </result>
13014
13015 </desc>
13016 <param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
13017 <param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="return"/>
13018 </method>
13019
13020 <method name="SetIDEEmulationPort">
13021 <desc>
13022 Sets the port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
13023 Works only with SATA controllers.
13024
13025 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
13026 The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3 or the
13027 @a portNumber is not in the range 0 to 29.
13028 </result>
13029 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
13030 The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
13031 </result>
13032
13033 </desc>
13034 <param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
13035 <param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="in"/>
13036 </method>
13037
13038 </interface>
13039
13040<if target="wsdl">
13041
13042 <!--
13043 // IManagedObjectRef
13044 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13045 -->
13046
13047 <interface
13048 name="IManagedObjectRef" extends="$unknown"
13049 uuid="9474d09d-2313-46de-b568-a42b8718e8ed"
13050 internal="yes"
13051 wsmap="managed"
13052 wscpp="hardcoded"
13053 >
13054 <desc>
13055 Managed object reference.
13056
13057 Only within the webservice, a managed object reference (which is really
13058 an opaque number) allows a webservice client to address an object
13059 that lives in the address space of the webservice server.
13060
13061 Behind each managed object reference, there is a COM object that lives
13062 in the webservice server's address space. The COM object is not freed
13063 until the managed object reference is released, either by an explicit
13064 call to <link to="IManagedObjectRef::release" /> or by logging off from
13065 the webservice (<link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />), which releases
13066 all objects created during the webservice session.
13067
13068 Whenever a method call of the VirtualBox API returns a COM object, the
13069 webservice representation of that method will instead return a
13070 managed object reference, which can then be used to invoke methods
13071 on that object.
13072 </desc>
13073
13074 <method name="getInterfaceName">
13075 <desc>
13076 Returns the name of the interface that this managed object represents,
13077 for example, "IMachine", as a string.
13078 </desc>
13079 <param name="return" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
13080 </method>
13081
13082 <method name="release">
13083 <desc>
13084 Releases this managed object reference and frees the resources that
13085 were allocated for it in the webservice server process. After calling
13086 this method, the identifier of the reference can no longer be used.
13087 </desc>
13088 </method>
13089
13090 </interface>
13091
13092 <!--
13093 // IWebsessionManager
13094 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13095 -->
13096
13097 <interface
13098 name="IWebsessionManager" extends="$unknown"
13099 uuid="dea1b4c7-2de3-418a-850d-7868617f7733"
13100 internal="yes"
13101 wsmap="global"
13102 wscpp="hardcoded"
13103 >
13104 <desc>
13105 Websession manager. This provides essential services
13106 to webservice clients.
13107 </desc>
13108 <method name="logon">
13109 <desc>
13110 Logs a new client onto the webservice and returns a managed object reference to
13111 the IVirtualBox instance, which the client can then use as a basis to further
13112 queries, since all calls to the VirtualBox API are based on the IVirtualBox
13113 interface, in one way or the other.
13114 </desc>
13115 <param name="username" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13116 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13117 <param name="return" type="IVirtualBox" dir="return"/>
13118 </method>
13119
13120 <method name="getSessionObject">
13121 <desc>
13122 Returns a managed object reference to the internal ISession object that was created
13123 for this web service session when the client logged on.
13124
13125 <see>ISession</see>
13126 </desc>
13127 <param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
13128 <param name="return" type="ISession" dir="return"/>
13129 </method>
13130
13131 <method name="logoff">
13132 <desc>
13133 Logs off the client who has previously logged on with <link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />
13134 and destroys all resources associated with the session (most importantly, all
13135 managed objects created in the server while the session was active).
13136 </desc>
13137 <param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
13138 </method>
13139
13140 </interface>
13141
13142</if>
13143
13144 <!--
13145 // IPerformanceCollector & friends
13146 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13147 -->
13148
13149 <interface
13150 name="IPerformanceMetric" extends="$unknown"
13151 uuid="2a1a60ae-9345-4019-ad53-d34ba41cbfe9" wsmap="managed"
13152 >
13153 <desc>
13154 The IPerformanceMetric interface represents parameters of the given
13155 performance metric.
13156 </desc>
13157
13158 <attribute name="metricName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13159 <desc>
13160 Name of the metric.
13161 </desc>
13162 </attribute>
13163
13164 <attribute name="object" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
13165 <desc>
13166 Object this metric belongs to.
13167 </desc>
13168 </attribute>
13169
13170 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13171 <desc>
13172 Textual description of the metric.
13173 </desc>
13174 </attribute>
13175
13176 <attribute name="period" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13177 <desc>
13178 Time interval between samples, measured in seconds.
13179 </desc>
13180 </attribute>
13181
13182 <attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13183 <desc>
13184 Number of recent samples retained by the performance collector for this
13185 metric.
13186
13187 When the collected sample count exceeds this number, older samples
13188 are discarded.
13189 </desc>
13190 </attribute>
13191
13192 <attribute name="unit" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13193 <desc>
13194 Unit of measurement.
13195 </desc>
13196 </attribute>
13197
13198 <attribute name="minimumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
13199 <desc>
13200 Minimum possible value of this metric.
13201 </desc>
13202 </attribute>
13203
13204 <attribute name="maximumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
13205 <desc>
13206 Maximum possible value of this metric.
13207 </desc>
13208 </attribute>
13209 </interface>
13210
13211 <interface
13212 name="IPerformanceCollector" extends="$unknown"
13213 uuid="e22e1acb-ac4a-43bb-a31c-17321659b0c6"
13214 wsmap="managed"
13215 >
13216 <desc>
13217 The IPerformanceCollector interface represents a service that collects and
13218 stores performance metrics data.
13219
13220 Performance metrics are associated with objects of interfaces like IHost and
13221 IMachine. Each object has a distinct set of performance metrics.
13222 The set can be obtained with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/>.
13223
13224 Metric data is collected at the specified intervals and is retained
13225 internally. The interval and the number of retained samples can be set
13226 with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />.
13227
13228 Metrics are organized hierarchically, with each level separated by a
13229 slash (/) character. Generally, the scheme for metric names is like this:
13230
13231 <tt>Category/Metric[/SubMetric][:aggregation]</tt>
13232
13233 "Category/Metric" together form the base metric name. A base metric is the
13234 smallest unit for which a sampling interval and the number of retained
13235 samples can be set. Only base metrics can be enabled and disabled. All
13236 sub-metrics are collected when their base metric is collected.
13237 Collected values for any set of sub-metrics can be queried with
13238 <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />.
13239
13240 For example "CPU/Load/User:avg"
13241 metric name stands for the "CPU" category, "Load" metric, "User" submetric,
13242 "average" aggregate. An aggregate function is computed over all retained
13243 data. Valid aggregate functions are:
13244
13245 <ul>
13246 <li>avg -- average</li>
13247 <li>min -- minimum</li>
13248 <li>max -- maximum</li>
13249 </ul>
13250
13251 When setting up
13252 metric parameters, querying metric data, enabling or disabling metrics
13253 wildcards can be used in metric names to specify a subset of metrics. For
13254 example, to select all CPU-related metrics use <tt>CPU/*</tt>, all
13255 averages can be queried using <tt>*:avg</tt> and so on. To query metric
13256 values without aggregates <tt>*:</tt> can be used.
13257
13258 The valid names for base metrics are:
13259
13260 <ul>
13261 <li>CPU/Load</li>
13262 <li>CPU/MHz</li>
13263 <li>RAM/Usage</li>
13264 </ul>
13265
13266 The general sequence for collecting and retrieving the metrics is:
13267 <ul>
13268 <li>
13269 Obtain an instance of IPerformanceCollector with
13270 <link to="IVirtualBox::performanceCollector" />
13271 </li>
13272 <li>
13273 Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metrics
13274 will be collected for. Use references to IHost and IMachine objects.
13275 </li>
13276 <li>
13277 Allocate and populate an array with base metric names the data will be
13278 collected for.
13279 </li>
13280 <li>
13281 Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. From now on the
13282 metric data will be collected and stored.
13283 </li>
13284 <li>
13285 Wait for the data to get collected.
13286 </li>
13287 <li>
13288 Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metric
13289 values will be queried for. You can re-use the object array used for
13290 setting base metrics.
13291 </li>
13292 <li>
13293 Allocate and populate an array with metric names the data will be
13294 collected for. Note that metric names differ from base metric names.
13295 </li>
13296 <li>
13297 Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />. The data that
13298 have been collected so far are returned. Note that the values are still
13299 retained internally and data collection continues.
13300 </li>
13301 </ul>
13302
13303 For an example of usage refer to the following files in VirtualBox SDK:
13304 <ul>
13305 <li>
13306 Java: <tt>bindings/webservice/java/jax-ws/samples/metrictest.java</tt>
13307 </li>
13308 <li>
13309 Python: <tt>bindings/xpcom/python/sample/shellcommon.py</tt>
13310 </li>
13311 </ul>
13312 </desc>
13313
13314 <attribute name="metricNames" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
13315 <desc>
13316 Array of unique names of metrics.
13317
13318 This array represents all metrics supported by the performance
13319 collector. Individual objects do not necessarily support all of them.
13320 <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/> can be used to get the
13321 list of supported metrics for a particular object.
13322 </desc>
13323 </attribute>
13324
13325 <method name="getMetrics">
13326 <desc>
13327 Returns parameters of specified metrics for a set of objects.
13328 <note>
13329 @c Null metrics array means all metrics. @c Null object array means
13330 all existing objects.
13331 </note>
13332 </desc>
13333 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13334 <desc>
13335 Metric name filter. Currently, only a comma-separated list of metrics
13336 is supported.
13337 </desc>
13338 </param>
13339 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13340 <desc>
13341 Set of objects to return metric parameters for.
13342 </desc>
13343 </param>
13344 <param name="metrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13345 <desc>
13346 Array of returned metric parameters.
13347 </desc>
13348 </param>
13349 </method>
13350
13351 <method name="setupMetrics">
13352 <desc>
13353 Sets parameters of specified base metrics for a set of objects. Returns
13354 an array of <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have
13355 been affected.
13356 <note>
13357 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
13358 object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
13359 a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
13360 name array element is applied to each object array element to form
13361 metric/object pairs.
13362 </note>
13363 </desc>
13364 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13365 <desc>
13366 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13367 support.
13368 </desc>
13369 </param>
13370 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13371 <desc>
13372 Set of objects to setup metric parameters for.
13373 </desc>
13374 </param>
13375 <param name="period" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13376 <desc>
13377 Time interval in seconds between two consecutive samples of performance
13378 data.
13379 </desc>
13380 </param>
13381 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13382 <desc>
13383 Number of samples to retain in performance data history. Older samples
13384 get discarded.
13385 </desc>
13386 </param>
13387 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13388 <desc>
13389 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13390 </desc>
13391 </param>
13392 </method>
13393
13394 <method name="enableMetrics">
13395 <desc>
13396 Turns on collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
13397 <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
13398 affected.
13399 <note>
13400 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
13401 object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
13402 a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
13403 name array element is applied to each object array element to form
13404 metric/object pairs.
13405 </note>
13406 </desc>
13407 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13408 <desc>
13409 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13410 support.
13411 </desc>
13412 </param>
13413 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13414 <desc>
13415 Set of objects to enable metrics for.
13416 </desc>
13417 </param>
13418 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13419 <desc>
13420 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13421 </desc>
13422 </param>
13423 </method>
13424
13425 <method name="disableMetrics">
13426 <desc>
13427 Turns off collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
13428 <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
13429 affected.
13430 <note>
13431 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
13432 object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
13433 a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
13434 name array element is applied to each object array element to form
13435 metric/object pairs.
13436 </note>
13437 </desc>
13438 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13439 <desc>
13440 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13441 support.
13442 </desc>
13443 </param>
13444 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13445 <desc>
13446 Set of objects to disable metrics for.
13447 </desc>
13448 </param>
13449 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13450 <desc>
13451 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13452 </desc>
13453 </param>
13454 </method>
13455
13456 <method name="queryMetricsData">
13457 <desc>
13458 Queries collected metrics data for a set of objects.
13459
13460 The data itself and related metric information are returned in seven
13461 parallel and one flattened array of arrays. Elements of
13462 <tt>returnMetricNames, returnObjects, returnUnits, returnScales,
13463 returnSequenceNumbers, returnDataIndices and returnDataLengths</tt> with
13464 the same index describe one set of values corresponding to a single
13465 metric.
13466
13467 The <tt>returnData</tt> parameter is a flattened array of arrays. Each
13468 start and length of a sub-array is indicated by
13469 <tt>returnDataIndices</tt> and <tt>returnDataLengths</tt>. The first
13470 value for metric <tt>metricNames[i]</tt> is at
13471 <tt>returnData[returnIndices[i]]</tt>.
13472
13473 <note>
13474 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or empty
13475 object array means all existing objects. If metric name array contains
13476 a single element and object array contains many, the single metric
13477 name array element is applied to each object array element to form
13478 metric/object pairs.
13479 </note>
13480 <note>
13481 Data collection continues behind the scenes after call to
13482 @c queryMetricsData. The return data can be seen as the snapshot of
13483 the current state at the time of @c queryMetricsData call. The
13484 internally kept metric values are not cleared by the call. This makes
13485 possible querying different subsets of metrics or aggregates with
13486 subsequent calls. If periodic querying is needed it is highly
13487 suggested to query the values with @c interval*count period to avoid
13488 confusion. This way a completely new set of data values will be
13489 provided by each query.
13490 </note>
13491 </desc>
13492 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13493 <desc>
13494 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13495 support.
13496 </desc>
13497 </param>
13498 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13499 <desc>
13500 Set of objects to query metrics for.
13501 </desc>
13502 </param>
13503 <param name="returnMetricNames" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13504 <desc>
13505 Names of metrics returned in @c returnData.
13506 </desc>
13507 </param>
13508 <param name="returnObjects" type="$unknown" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13509 <desc>
13510 Objects associated with metrics returned in @c returnData.
13511 </desc>
13512 </param>
13513 <param name="returnUnits" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13514 <desc>
13515 Units of measurement for each returned metric.
13516 </desc>
13517 </param>
13518 <param name="returnScales" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13519 <desc>
13520 Divisor that should be applied to return values in order to get
13521 floating point values. For example:
13522 <tt>(double)returnData[returnDataIndices[0]+i] / returnScales[0]</tt>
13523 will retrieve the floating point value of i-th sample of the first
13524 metric.
13525 </desc>
13526 </param>
13527 <param name="returnSequenceNumbers" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13528 <desc>
13529 Sequence numbers of the first elements of value sequences of particular metrics
13530 returned in @c returnData. For aggregate metrics it is the sequence number of
13531 the sample the aggregate started calculation from.
13532 </desc>
13533 </param>
13534 <param name="returnDataIndices" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13535 <desc>
13536 Indices of the first elements of value sequences of particular metrics
13537 returned in @c returnData.
13538 </desc>
13539 </param>
13540 <param name="returnDataLengths" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13541 <desc>
13542 Lengths of value sequences of particular metrics.
13543 </desc>
13544 </param>
13545 <param name="returnData" type="long" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13546 <desc>
13547 Flattened array of all metric data containing sequences of values for
13548 each metric.
13549 </desc>
13550 </param>
13551 </method>
13552
13553 </interface>
13554
13555 <module name="VBoxSVC" context="LocalServer">
13556 <class name="VirtualBox" uuid="B1A7A4F2-47B9-4A1E-82B2-07CCD5323C3F"
13557 namespace="virtualbox.org">
13558 <interface name="IVirtualBox" default="yes"/>
13559 </class>
13560 </module>
13561
13562 <module name="VBoxC" context="InprocServer" threadingModel="Free">
13563 <class name="Session" uuid="3C02F46D-C9D2-4F11-A384-53F0CF917214"
13564 namespace="virtualbox.org">
13565 <interface name="ISession" default="yes"/>
13566 </class>
13567 <class name="CallbackWrapper" uuid="49EE8561-5563-4715-B18C-A4B1A490DAFE"
13568 namespace="virtualbox.org">
13569 <interface name="ILocalOwner" default="yes"/>
13570 <interface name="IVirtualBoxCallback"/>
13571 <interface name="IConsoleCallback"/>
13572 </class>
13573 </module>
13574
13575</library>
13576
13577</idl>
13578
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