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1<?xml version="1.0" ?>
2
3<!--
4
5 Copyright (C) 2006-2010 Oracle Corporation
6
7 This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), as
8 available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
9 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
10 General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
11 Foundation, in version 2 as it comes in the "COPYING" file of the
12 VirtualBox OSE distribution. VirtualBox OSE is distributed in the
13 hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY of any kind.
14-->
15
16<!--
17 This is the master declaration for VirtualBox's Main API,
18 represented by COM/XPCOM and web service interfaces.
19
20 From this document, the build system generates several files
21 via XSLT that are then used during the build process.
22
23 Below is the list of XSL templates that operate on this file and
24 output files they generate. These XSL templates must be updated
25 whenever the schema of this file changes:
26
27 1. src/VBox/Main/idl/midl.xsl =>
28 out/<platform>/bin/sdk/idl/VirtualBox.idl
29 (MS COM interface definition file for Main API)
30
31 2. src/VBox/Main/idl/xpidl.xsl =>
32 out/<platform>/bin/sdk/idl/VirtualBox_XPCOM.idl
33 (XPCOM interface definition file for Main API)
34
35 3. src/VBox/Main/idl/doxygen.xsl =>
36 out/<platform>/obj/src/VBox/Main/VirtualBox.idl
37 (pseudo-IDL for Doxygen to generate the official Main API
38 documentation)
39
40 4. src/VBox/Main/webservice/*.xsl =>
41 a bunch of WSDL and C++ files
42 (VirtualBox web service sources and SOAP mappers;
43 see src/VBox/Main/webservice/Makefile.kmk for details)
44
45 5. src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/include/COMWrappers.xsl =>
46 out/<platform>/obj/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/VirtualBox/include/COMWrappers.h
47 (smart Qt-based C++ wrapper classes for COM interfaces
48 of the Main API)
49
50 6. src/VBox/Installer/win32/VirtualBox_TypeLib.xsl =>
51 out/<platform>/obj/src/VBox/Installer/win32/VirtualBox_TypeLib.wxi
52 (Main API TypeLib block for the WiX installer)
53
54 7. src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsgvboxcom.xsl =>
55 out/<platform>/obj/Runtime/errmsgvboxcomdata.h
56 (<result> extraction for the %Rhrc format specifier)
57-->
58
59<idl>
60
61<desc>
62 Welcome to the <b>VirtualBox Main API documentation</b>. This documentation
63 describes the so-called <i>VirtualBox Main API</i> which comprises all public
64 COM interfaces and components provided by the VirtualBox server and by the
65 VirtualBox client library.
66
67 VirtualBox employs a client-server design, meaning that whenever any part of
68 VirtualBox is running -- be it the Qt GUI, the VBoxManage command-line
69 interface or any virtual machine --, a dedicated server process named
70 VBoxSVC runs in the background. This allows multiple processes working with
71 VirtualBox to cooperate without conflicts. These processes communicate to each
72 other using inter-process communication facilities provided by the COM
73 implementation of the host computer.
74
75 On Windows platforms, the VirtualBox Main API uses Microsoft COM, a native COM
76 implementation. On all other platforms, Mozilla XPCOM, an open-source COM
77 implementation, is used.
78
79 All the parts that a typical VirtualBox user interacts with (the Qt GUI
80 and the VBoxManage command-line interface) are technically
81 front-ends to the Main API and only use the interfaces that are documented
82 in this Main API documentation. This ensures that, with any given release
83 version of VirtualBox, all capabilities of the product that could be useful
84 to an external client program are always exposed by way of this API.
85
86 The VirtualBox Main API (also called the <i>VirtualBox COM library</i>)
87 contains two public component classes:
88 <tt>%VirtualBox.VirtualBox</tt> and <tt>%VirtualBox.Session</tt>, which
89 implement IVirtualBox and ISession interfaces respectively. These two classes
90 are of supreme importance and will be needed in order for any front-end
91 program to do anything useful. It is recommended to read the documentation of
92 the mentioned interfaces first.
93
94 The <tt>%VirtualBox.VirtualBox</tt> class is a singleton. This means that
95 there can be only one object of this class on the local machine at any given
96 time. This object is a parent of many other objects in the VirtualBox COM
97 library and lives in the VBoxSVC process. In fact, when you create an instance
98 of the <tt>VirtualBox.VirtualBox</tt>, the COM subsystem checks if the VBoxSVC
99 process is already running, starts it if not, and returns you a reference to
100 the <tt>VirtualBox</tt> object created in this process. When the last reference
101 to this object is released, the VBoxSVC process ends (with a 5 second delay to
102 protect from too frequent restarts).
103
104 The <tt>%VirtualBox.Session</tt> class is a regular component. You can create
105 as many <tt>Session</tt> objects as you need but all of them will live in a
106 process which issues the object instantiation call. <tt>Session</tt> objects
107 represent virtual machine sessions which are used to configure virtual
108 machines and control their execution.
109</desc>
110
111<if target="midl">
112 <cpp line="enum {"/>
113 <cpp line=" kTypeLibraryMajorVersion = 1,"/>
114 <cpp line=" kTypeLibraryMinorVersion = 0"/>
115 <cpp line="};"/>
116</if>
117
118<if target="xpidl">
119 <!-- NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTSxx_CI macros are placed here, for convenience -->
120 <cpp>
121/* currently, nsISupportsImpl.h lacks the below-like macros */
122
123#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_CI
124#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_CI
125#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_CI
126#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE4_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE4_CI
127
128
129#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_CI
130# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_CI(_class, _interface) \
131 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
132 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
133 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_CI(_class, _interface) \
134 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER1(_class, _interface)
135#endif
136
137#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_CI
138# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_CI(_class, _i1, _i2) \
139 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
140 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
141 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_CI(_class, _i1, _i2) \
142 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER2(_class, _i1, _i2)
143#endif
144
145#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_CI
146# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_CI(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3) \
147 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
148 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
149 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_CI(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3) \
150 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER3(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3)
151#endif
152
153#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS4_CI
154# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS4_CI(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3, _i4) \
155 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
156 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
157 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE4_CI(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3, _i4) \
158 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER4(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3, _i4)
159#endif
160
161#ifndef NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI
162# define NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1) \
163 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_BEGIN(_class) \
164 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i1, _ic1) \
165 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(nsISupports, _ic1) \
166 NS_IMPL_QUERY_CLASSINFO(_class) \
167 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_END
168#endif
169
170#ifndef NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI
171# define NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
172 _i2, _ic2) \
173 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_BEGIN(_class) \
174 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i1, _ic1) \
175 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i2, _ic2) \
176 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(nsISupports, _ic1) \
177 NS_IMPL_QUERY_CLASSINFO(_class) \
178 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_END
179#endif
180
181#ifndef NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI
182# define NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
183 _i2, _ic2, _i3, _ic3) \
184 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_BEGIN(_class) \
185 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i1, _ic1) \
186 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i2, _ic2) \
187 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(_i3, _ic3) \
188 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_ENTRY_AMBIGUOUS(nsISupports, _ic1) \
189 NS_IMPL_QUERY_CLASSINFO(_class) \
190 NS_INTERFACE_MAP_END
191#endif
192
193#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI
194#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI
195#define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI NS_IMPL_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI
196
197#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_AMBIGUOUS_CI
198# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS1_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1) \
199 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
200 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
201 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE1_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1) \
202 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER1(_class, _i1)
203#endif
204
205#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_AMBIGUOUS_CI
206# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS2_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
207 _i2, _ic2) \
208 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
209 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
210 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE2_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
211 _i2, _ic2) \
212 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER2(_class, _i1, _i2)
213#endif
214
215#ifndef NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_AMBIGUOUS_CI
216# define NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ISUPPORTS3_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
217 _i2, _ic2, _i3, _ic3) \
218 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_ADDREF(_class) \
219 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_RELEASE(_class) \
220 NS_IMPL_THREADSAFE_QUERY_INTERFACE3_AMBIGUOUS_CI(_class, _i1, _ic1, \
221 _i2, _ic2, _i3, _ic3) \
222 NS_IMPL_CI_INTERFACE_GETTER3(_class, _i1, _i2, _i3)
223#endif
224
225 </cpp>
226</if>
227
228<library
229 name="VirtualBox"
230 uuid="46137EEC-703B-4fe5-AFD4-7C9BBBBA0259"
231 version="1.3"
232 desc="VirtualBox Type Library"
233 appUuid="819B4D85-9CEE-493C-B6FC-64FFE759B3C9"
234 supportsErrorInfo="yes"
235>
236
237
238 <!--
239 // COM result codes for VirtualBox
240 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
241 -->
242
243 <descGroup id="VirtualBox_COM_result_codes" title="VirtualBox COM result codes">
244 <desc>
245 This section describes all VirtualBox-specific COM result codes that may
246 be returned by methods of VirtualBox COM interfaces in addition to
247 standard COM result codes.
248
249 Note that along with the result code, every VirtualBox method returns
250 extended error information through the IVirtualBoxErrorInfo interface on
251 failure. This interface is a preferred way to present the error to the end
252 user because it contains a human readable description of the error. Raw
253 result codes, both standard and described in this section, are intended to
254 be used by programs to analyze the reason of a failure and select an
255 appropriate course of action without involving the end user (for example,
256 retry the operation later or make a different call).
257
258 The standard COM result codes that may originate from our methods include:
259
260 <table>
261 <tr><td>E_INVALIDARG</td>
262 <td>
263 Returned when the value of the method's argument is not within the range
264 of valid values. This should not be confused with situations when the
265 value is within the range but simply doesn't suit the current object
266 state and there is a possibility that it will be accepted later (in such
267 cases VirtualBox-specific codes are returned, for example,
268 <link to="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND"/>).
269 </td>
270 </tr>
271 <tr><td>E_POINTER</td>
272 <td>
273 Returned if a memory pointer for the output argument is invalid (for
274 example, @c null). Note that when pointers representing input
275 arguments (such as strings) are invalid, E_INVALIDARG is returned.
276 </td>
277 </tr>
278 <tr><td>E_ACCESSDENIED</td>
279 <td>
280 Returned when the called object is not ready. Since the lifetime of a
281 public COM object cannot be fully controlled by the implementation,
282 VirtualBox maintains the readiness state for all objects it creates and
283 returns this code in response to any method call on the object that was
284 deactivated by VirtualBox and is not functioning any more.
285 </td>
286 </tr>
287 <tr><td>E_OUTOFMEMORY</td>
288 <td>
289 Returned when a memory allocation operation fails.
290 </td>
291 </tr>
292 </table>
293 </desc>
294 </descGroup>
295
296 <!--
297 Note that src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsgvboxcom.xsl will ignore
298 everything in <result>/<desc> after (and including) the first dot, so express
299 the matter of the error code in the first sentence and keep it short.
300 -->
301
302 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND" value="0x80BB0001">
303 <desc>
304 Object corresponding to the supplied arguments does not exist.
305 </desc>
306 </result>
307
308 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE" value="0x80BB0002">
309 <desc>
310 Current virtual machine state prevents the operation.
311 </desc>
312 </result>
313
314 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR" value="0x80BB0003">
315 <desc>
316 Virtual machine error occurred attempting the operation.
317 </desc>
318 </result>
319
320 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR" value="0x80BB0004">
321 <desc>
322 File not accessible or erroneous file contents.
323 </desc>
324 </result>
325
326 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR" value="0x80BB0005">
327 <desc>
328 Runtime subsystem error.
329 </desc>
330 </result>
331
332 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR" value="0x80BB0006">
333 <desc>
334 Pluggable Device Manager error.
335 </desc>
336 </result>
337
338 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE" value="0x80BB0007">
339 <desc>
340 Current object state prohibits operation.
341 </desc>
342 </result>
343
344 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR" value="0x80BB0008">
345 <desc>
346 Host operating system related error.
347 </desc>
348 </result>
349
350 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED" value="0x80BB0009">
351 <desc>
352 Requested operation is not supported.
353 </desc>
354 </result>
355
356 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR" value="0x80BB000A">
357 <desc>
358 Invalid XML found.
359 </desc>
360 </result>
361
362 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_SESSION_STATE" value="0x80BB000B">
363 <desc>
364 Current session state prohibits operation.
365 </desc>
366 </result>
367
368 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE" value="0x80BB000C">
369 <desc>
370 Object being in use prohibits operation.
371 </desc>
372 </result>
373
374 <!--
375 Note that src/VBox/Runtime/common/err/errmsgvboxcom.xsl will ignore
376 everything in <result>/<desc> after (and including) the first dot, so express
377 the matter of the error code in the first sentence and keep it short.
378 -->
379
380 <descGroup/>
381
382 <!--
383 // all common enums
384 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
385 -->
386
387 <enum name="SettingsVersion"
388 uuid="52bd6f5f-1adb-4493-975d-581a9c4b803f"
389 >
390 <desc>Settings version of VirtualBox settings files. This is written to
391 the "version" attribute of the root "VirtualBox" element in the settings
392 file XML and indicates which VirtualBox version wrote the file.
393 </desc>
394
395 <const name="Null" value="0">
396 <desc>Null value, indicates invalid version.</desc>
397 </const>
398 <const name="v1_0" value="1">
399 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
400 </const>
401 <const name="v1_1" value="2">
402 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
403 </const>
404 <const name="v1_2" value="3">
405 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
406 </const>
407 <const name="v1_3pre" value="4">
408 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
409 </const>
410 <const name="v1_3" value="5">
411 <desc>Settings version "1.3", written by VirtualBox 2.0.12.</desc>
412 <!--
413 Machine XML: Capitalization of Uart, Lpt elements and many attributes changed.
414 -->
415 </const>
416 <const name="v1_4" value="6">
417 <desc>Intermediate settings version, understood by VirtualBox 2.1.x.</desc>
418 <!--
419 VirtualBox.xml: big DiskRegistry -> MediaRegistry revamp, various HardDisk types merged
420 (was VirtualDiskImage, VMDKImage, VHDImage, ISCSIHardDisk, CustomHardDisk, DiffHardDisk)
421 -->
422 </const>
423 <const name="v1_5" value="7">
424 <desc>Intermediate settings version, understood by VirtualBox 2.1.x.</desc>
425 <!-- 2008-09-04: 2.0.0 released
426 2008-11-20: settings version 1.5 introduced
427 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
428 Machine changes:
429 guest OS identifiers changed;
430 Machine/Hardware/Display/MonitorCount renamed to monitorCount;
431 Machine/Hardware/Display/Accelerate3D renamed to accelerate3D;
432 Machine/Hardware/CPU/CPUCount/@count changed to CPU/@count
433 -->
434 </const>
435 <const name="v1_6" value="8">
436 <desc>Settings version "1.6", written by VirtualBox 2.1.4 (at least).</desc>
437 <!-- 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
438 2008-12-19: settings version 1.6 introduced (is in 2.1 branch)
439 2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
440 Machine changes: remove all Machine/Hardware/Network/Adapter/HostInterface[@TAPSetup or @TAPTerminate]/ attributes (done)
441 -->
442 </const>
443 <const name="v1_7" value="9">
444 <desc>Settings version "1.7", written by VirtualBox 2.2.x and 3.0.x.</desc>
445 <!-- 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
446 2009-03-11: settings version 1.7 introduced (is in 2.2 branch)
447 2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
448 VirtualBox.xml additions: NetserviceRegistry with DHCPServers (done)
449 Machine changes: HardDiskAttachments is now StorageControllers (done)
450 -->
451 </const>
452 <const name="v1_8" value="10">
453 <desc>Intermediate settings version "1.8", understood by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
454 <!-- Machine additions: Display/@accelerate2DVideo (done)
455 -->
456 </const>
457 <const name="v1_9" value="11">
458 <desc>Settings version "1.9", written by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
459 <!-- The big storage controller / DVD / Floppy rework (done)
460 -->
461 </const>
462 <const name="v1_10" value="12">
463 <desc>Settings version "1.10", written by VirtualBox 3.2.x.</desc>
464 <!-- Machine changes: RTC localOrUTC (done)
465 CPU hot-plug support
466 -->
467 </const>
468 <const name="v1_11" value="13">
469 <desc>Settings version "1.11", written by VirtualBox 4.0.x.</desc>
470 <!-- Machine changes: HD Audio controller, per-machine disk registries,
471 /@format attribute for DVD and floppy images.
472 -->
473 </const>
474 <const name="Future" value="99999">
475 <desc>Settings version greater than "1.11", written by a future VirtualBox version.</desc>
476 </const>
477 </enum>
478
479 <enum
480 name="AccessMode"
481 uuid="1da0007c-ddf7-4be8-bcac-d84a1558785f"
482 >
483 <desc>
484 Access mode for opening files.
485 </desc>
486
487 <const name="ReadOnly" value="1"/>
488 <const name="ReadWrite" value="2"/>
489 </enum>
490
491 <enum
492 name="MachineState"
493 uuid="ec6c6a9e-113d-4ff4-b44f-0b69f21c97fe"
494 >
495 <desc>
496 Virtual machine execution state.
497
498 This enumeration represents possible values of the <link
499 to="IMachine::state"/> attribute.
500
501 Below is the basic virtual machine state diagram. It shows how the state
502 changes during virtual machine execution. The text in square braces shows
503 a method of the IConsole interface that performs the given state
504 transition.
505
506 <pre>
507 +---------[powerDown()] &lt;- Stuck &lt;--[failure]-+
508 V |
509 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+--&gt;[powerUp()]--&gt; Starting --+ | +-----[resume()]-----+
510 | | | | V |
511 | Aborted -----+ +--&gt; Running --[pause()]--&gt; Paused
512 | | ^ | ^ |
513 | Saved -----------[powerUp()]--&gt; Restoring -+ | | | |
514 | ^ | | | |
515 | | +-----------------------------------------+-|-------------------+ +
516 | | | | |
517 | | +-- Saving &lt;--------[takeSnapshot()]&lt;-------+---------------------+
518 | | | |
519 | +-------- Saving &lt;--------[saveState()]&lt;----------+---------------------+
520 | | |
521 +-------------- Stopping -------[powerDown()]&lt;----------+---------------------+
522 </pre>
523
524 Note that states to the right from PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved in the
525 above diagram are called <i>online VM states</i>. These states
526 represent the virtual machine which is being executed in a dedicated
527 process (usually with a GUI window attached to it where you can see the
528 activity of the virtual machine and interact with it). There are two
529 special pseudo-states, FirstOnline and LastOnline, that can be used in
530 relational expressions to detect if the given machine state is online or
531 not:
532
533 <pre>
534 if (machine.GetState() &gt;= MachineState_FirstOnline &amp;&amp;
535 machine.GetState() &lt;= MachineState_LastOnline)
536 {
537 ...the machine is being executed...
538 }
539 </pre>
540
541 When the virtual machine is in one of the online VM states (that is, being
542 executed), only a few machine settings can be modified. Methods working
543 with such settings contain an explicit note about that. An attempt to
544 change any oter setting or perform a modifying operation during this time
545 will result in the <link to="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE"/> error.
546
547 All online states except Running, Paused and Stuck are transitional: they
548 represent temporary conditions of the virtual machine that will last as
549 long as the operation that initiated such a condition.
550
551 The Stuck state is a special case. It means that execution of the machine
552 has reached the "Guru Meditation" condition. This condition indicates an
553 internal VMM (virtual machine manager) failure which may happen as a
554 result of either an unhandled low-level virtual hardware exception or one
555 of the recompiler exceptions (such as the <i>too-many-traps</i>
556 condition).
557
558 Note also that any online VM state may transit to the Aborted state. This
559 happens if the process that is executing the virtual machine terminates
560 unexpectedly (for example, crashes). Other than that, the Aborted state is
561 equivalent to PoweredOff.
562
563 There are also a few additional state diagrams that do not deal with
564 virtual machine execution and therefore are shown separately. The states
565 shown on these diagrams are called <i>offline VM states</i> (this includes
566 PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved too).
567
568 The first diagram shows what happens when a lengthy setup operation is
569 being executed (such as <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>).
570
571 <pre>
572 +----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
573 | |
574 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+ |
575 | | |
576 |-&gt; Aborted -----+--&gt;[lengthy VM configuration call] --&gt; SettingUp -----+
577 | |
578 +-&gt; Saved -------+
579 </pre>
580
581 The next two diagrams demonstrate the process of taking a snapshot of a
582 powered off virtual machine, restoring the state to that as of a snapshot
583 or deleting a snapshot, respectively.
584
585 <pre>
586 +----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
587 | |
588 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+ |
589 | +--&gt;[takeSnapshot()] -------------------&gt; Saving ------+
590 +-&gt; Aborted -----+
591
592 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+
593 | |
594 | Aborted -----+--&gt;[restoreSnapshot() ]-------&gt; RestoringSnapshot -+
595 | | [deleteSnapshot() ]-------&gt; DeletingSnapshot --+
596 +-&gt; Saved -------+ |
597 | |
598 +---(Saved if restored from an online snapshot, PoweredOff otherwise)---+
599 </pre>
600
601 Note that the Saving state is present in both the offline state group and
602 online state group. Currently, the only way to determine what group is
603 assumed in a particular case is to remember the previous machine state: if
604 it was Running or Paused, then Saving is an online state, otherwise it is
605 an offline state. This inconsistency may be removed in one of the future
606 versions of VirtualBox by adding a new state.
607
608 <note internal="yes">
609 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
610 comparisons involving FirstOnline and LastOnline pseudo-states valid,
611 the numeric values of these states must be correspondingly updated if
612 needed: for any online VM state, the condition
613 <tt>FirstOnline &lt;= state &lt;= LastOnline</tt> must be
614 @c true. The same relates to transient states for which
615 the condition <tt>FirstOnline &lt;= state &lt;= LastOnline</tt> must be
616 @c true.
617 </note>
618 </desc>
619
620 <const name="Null" value="0">
621 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
622 </const>
623 <const name="PoweredOff" value="1">
624 <desc>
625 The machine is not running and has no saved execution state; it has
626 either never been started or been shut down successfully.
627 </desc>
628 </const>
629 <const name="Saved" value="2">
630 <desc>
631 The machine is not currently running, but the execution state of the machine
632 has been saved to an external file when it was running, from where
633 it can be resumed.
634 </desc>
635 </const>
636 <const name="Teleported" value="3">
637 <desc>
638 The machine was teleported to a different host (or process) and then
639 powered off. Take care when powering it on again may corrupt resources
640 it shares with the teleportation target (e.g. disk and network).
641 </desc>
642 </const>
643 <const name="Aborted" value="4">
644 <desc>
645 The process running the machine has terminated abnormally. This may
646 indicate a crash of the VM process in host execution context, or
647 the VM process has been terminated externally.
648 </desc>
649 </const>
650 <const name="Running" value="5">
651 <desc>
652 The machine is currently being executed.
653 <note internal="yes">
654 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
655 comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
656 precede the Paused state.
657 TODO: Lift this spectacularly wonderful restriction.
658 </note>
659 </desc>
660 </const>
661 <const name="Paused" value="6">
662 <desc>
663 Execution of the machine has been paused.
664 <note internal="yes">
665 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
666 comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
667 follow the Running state.
668 TODO: Lift this spectacularly wonderful restriction.
669 </note>
670 </desc>
671 </const>
672 <const name="Stuck" value="7">
673 <desc>
674 Execution of the machine has reached the "Guru Meditation"
675 condition. This indicates a severe error in the hypervisor itself.
676 <note internal="yes">
677 bird: Why this uncool name? Could we rename it to "GuruMeditation" or
678 "Guru", perhaps? Or are there some other VMM states that are
679 intended to be lumped in here as well?
680 </note>
681 </desc>
682 </const>
683 <const name="Teleporting" value="8">
684 <desc>
685 The machine is about to be teleported to a different host or process.
686 It is possible to pause a machine in this state, but it will go to the
687 @c TeleportingPausedVM state and it will not be
688 possible to resume it again unless the teleportation fails.
689 </desc>
690 </const>
691 <const name="LiveSnapshotting" value="9">
692 <desc>
693 A live snapshot is being taken. The machine is running normally, but
694 some of the runtime configuration options are inaccessible. Also, if
695 paused while in this state it will transition to
696 @c Saving and it will not be resume the
697 execution until the snapshot operation has completed.
698 </desc>
699 </const>
700 <const name="Starting" value="10">
701 <desc>
702 Machine is being started after powering it on from a
703 zero execution state.
704 </desc>
705 </const>
706 <const name="Stopping" value="11">
707 <desc>
708 Machine is being normally stopped powering it off, or after the guest OS
709 has initiated a shutdown sequence.
710 </desc>
711 </const>
712 <const name="Saving" value="12">
713 <desc>
714 Machine is saving its execution state to a file, or an online
715 snapshot of the machine is being taken.
716 </desc>
717 </const>
718 <const name="Restoring" value="13">
719 <desc>
720 Execution state of the machine is being restored from a file
721 after powering it on from the saved execution state.
722 </desc>
723 </const>
724 <const name="TeleportingPausedVM" value="14">
725 <desc>
726 The machine is being teleported to another host or process, but it is
727 not running. This is the paused variant of the
728 @c state.
729 </desc>
730 </const>
731 <const name="TeleportingIn" value="15">
732 <desc>
733 Teleporting the machine state in from another host or process.
734 </desc>
735 </const>
736 <const name="FaultTolerantSyncing" value="16">
737 <desc>
738 The machine is being synced with a fault tolerant VM running elsewhere.
739 </desc>
740 </const>
741 <const name="DeletingSnapshotOnline" value="17">
742 <desc>
743 Like @c DeletingSnapshot, but the merging of media is ongoing in
744 the background while the machine is running.
745 </desc>
746 </const>
747 <const name="DeletingSnapshotPaused" value="18">
748 <desc>
749 Like @c DeletingSnapshotOnline, but the machine was paused when the
750 merging of differencing media was started.
751 </desc>
752 </const>
753 <const name="RestoringSnapshot" value="19">
754 <desc>
755 A machine snapshot is being restored; this typically does not take long.
756 </desc>
757 </const>
758 <const name="DeletingSnapshot" value="20">
759 <desc>
760 A machine snapshot is being deleted; this can take a long time since this
761 may require merging differencing media. This value indicates that the
762 machine is not running while the snapshot is being deleted.
763 </desc>
764 </const>
765 <const name="SettingUp" value="21">
766 <desc>
767 Lengthy setup operation is in progress.
768 </desc>
769 </const>
770
771 <const name="FirstOnline" value="5" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Running -->
772 <desc>
773 Pseudo-state: first online state (for use in relational expressions).
774 </desc>
775 </const>
776 <const name="LastOnline" value="18" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- DeletingSnapshotPaused -->
777 <desc>
778 Pseudo-state: last online state (for use in relational expressions).
779 </desc>
780 </const>
781
782 <const name="FirstTransient" value="8" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Teleporting -->
783 <desc>
784 Pseudo-state: first transient state (for use in relational expressions).
785 </desc>
786 </const>
787 <const name="LastTransient" value="21" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- SettingUp -->
788 <desc>
789 Pseudo-state: last transient state (for use in relational expressions).
790 </desc>
791 </const>
792
793 </enum>
794
795 <enum
796 name="SessionState"
797 uuid="cf2700c0-ea4b-47ae-9725-7810114b94d8"
798 >
799 <desc>
800 Session state. This enumeration represents possible values of
801 <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/> and <link to="ISession::state"/>
802 attributes.
803 </desc>
804
805 <const name="Null" value="0">
806 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
807 </const>
808 <const name="Unlocked" value="1">
809 <desc>
810 In <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>, this means that the machine
811 is not locked for any sessions.
812
813 In <link to="ISession::state"/>, this means that no machine is
814 currently locked for this session.
815 </desc>
816 </const>
817 <const name="Locked" value="2">
818 <desc>
819 In <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>, this means that the machine
820 is currently locked for a session, whose process identifier can
821 then be found in the <link to="IMachine::sessionPid" /> attribute.
822
823 In <link to="ISession::state"/>, this means that a machine is
824 currently locked for this session, and the mutable machine object
825 can be found in the <link to="ISession::machine"/> attribute
826 (see <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> for details).
827 </desc>
828 </const>
829 <const name="Spawning" value="3">
830 <desc>
831 A new process is being spawned for the machine as a result of
832 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> call. This state also occurs
833 as a short transient state during an <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>
834 call.
835 </desc>
836 </const>
837 <const name="Unlocking" value="4">
838 <desc>
839 The session is being unlocked.
840 </desc>
841 </const>
842 </enum>
843
844 <enum
845 name="CPUPropertyType"
846 uuid="24d356a6-2f45-4abd-b977-1cbe9c4701f5"
847 >
848 <desc>
849 Virtual CPU property type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
850 IMachine get- and setCPUProperty methods.
851 </desc>
852 <const name="Null" value="0">
853 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
854 </const>
855 <const name="PAE" value="1">
856 <desc>
857 This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose the Physical Address
858 Extension (PAE) feature of the host CPU to the guest. Note that in case PAE
859 is not available, it will not be reported.
860 </desc>
861 </const>
862 <const name="Synthetic" value="2">
863 <desc>
864 This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose a synthetic CPU to the guest to allow
865 teleporting between host systems that differ significantly.
866 </desc>
867 </const>
868 </enum>
869
870
871 <enum
872 name="HWVirtExPropertyType"
873 uuid="ce81dfdd-d2b8-4a90-bbea-40ee8b7ffcee"
874 >
875 <desc>
876 Hardware virtualization property type. This enumeration represents possible values
877 for the <link to="IMachine::getHWVirtExProperty"/> and
878 <link to="IMachine::setHWVirtExProperty"/> methods.
879 </desc>
880 <const name="Null" value="0">
881 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
882 </const>
883 <const name="Enabled" value="1">
884 <desc>
885 Whether hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) is enabled at all. If
886 such extensions are not available, they will not be used.
887 </desc>
888 </const>
889 <const name="Exclusive" value="2">
890 <desc>
891 Whether hardware virtualization is used exclusively by VirtualBox. When enabled,
892 VirtualBox assumes it can acquire full and exclusive access to the VT-x or AMD-V
893 feature of the host. To share these with other hypervisors, you must disable this property.
894 </desc>
895 </const>
896 <const name="VPID" value="3">
897 <desc>
898 Whether VT-x VPID is enabled. If this extension is not available, it will not be used.
899 </desc>
900 </const>
901 <const name="NestedPaging" value="4">
902 <desc>
903 Whether Nested Paging is enabled. If this extension is not available, it will not be used.
904 </desc>
905 </const>
906 <const name="LargePages" value="5">
907 <desc>
908 Whether large page allocation is enabled; requires nested paging and a 64 bits host.
909 </desc>
910 </const>
911 <const name="Force" value="6">
912 <desc>
913 Whether the VM should fail to start if hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) cannot be used. If
914 not set, there will be an automatic fallback to software virtualization.
915 </desc>
916 </const>
917 </enum>
918
919 <enum
920 name="FaultToleranceState"
921 uuid="5124f7ec-6b67-493c-9dee-ee45a44114e1"
922 >
923 <desc>
924 Used with <link to="IMachine::faultToleranceState" />.
925 </desc>
926 <const name="Inactive" value="1">
927 <desc>No fault tolerance enabled.</desc>
928 </const>
929 <const name="Master" value="2">
930 <desc>Fault tolerant master VM.</desc>
931 </const>
932 <const name="Standby" value="3">
933 <desc>Fault tolerant standby VM.</desc>
934 </const>
935 </enum>
936
937 <enum
938 name="LockType"
939 uuid="138b53f8-db4b-47c5-b32b-4ef52f769413"
940 >
941 <desc>
942 Used with <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />.
943 </desc>
944 <const name="Write" value="2">
945 <desc>Lock the machine for writing.</desc>
946 </const>
947 <const name="Shared" value="1">
948 <desc>Request only a shared read lock for remote-controlling the machine.</desc>
949 </const>
950 </enum>
951
952 <enum
953 name="SessionType"
954 uuid="A13C02CB-0C2C-421E-8317-AC0E8AAA153A"
955 >
956 <desc>
957 Session type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
958 <link to="ISession::type"/> attribute.
959 </desc>
960
961 <const name="Null" value="0">
962 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
963 </const>
964 <const name="WriteLock" value="1">
965 <desc>
966 Session has acquired an exclusive write lock on a machine
967 using <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>.
968 </desc>
969 </const>
970 <const name="Remote" value="2">
971 <desc>
972 Session has launched a VM process using
973 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>
974 </desc>
975 </const>
976 <const name="Shared" value="3">
977 <desc>
978 Session has obtained a link to another session using
979 <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>
980 </desc>
981 </const>
982 </enum>
983
984 <enum
985 name="DeviceType"
986 uuid="6d9420f7-0b56-4636-99f9-7346f1b01e57"
987 >
988 <desc>
989 Device type.
990 </desc>
991 <const name="Null" value="0">
992 <desc>
993 Null value, may also mean "no device" (not allowed for
994 <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>).
995 </desc>
996 </const>
997 <const name="Floppy" value="1">
998 <desc>Floppy device.</desc>
999 </const>
1000 <const name="DVD" value="2">
1001 <desc>CD/DVD-ROM device.</desc>
1002 </const>
1003 <const name="HardDisk" value="3">
1004 <desc>Hard disk device.</desc>
1005 </const>
1006 <const name="Network" value="4">
1007 <desc>Network device.</desc>
1008 </const>
1009 <const name="USB" value="5">
1010 <desc>USB device.</desc>
1011 </const>
1012 <const name="SharedFolder" value="6">
1013 <desc>Shared folder device.</desc>
1014 </const>
1015 </enum>
1016
1017 <enum
1018 name="DeviceActivity"
1019 uuid="6FC8AEAA-130A-4eb5-8954-3F921422D707"
1020 >
1021 <desc>
1022 Device activity for <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>.
1023 </desc>
1024
1025 <const name="Null" value="0"/>
1026 <const name="Idle" value="1"/>
1027 <const name="Reading" value="2"/>
1028 <const name="Writing" value="3"/>
1029 </enum>
1030
1031 <enum
1032 name="ClipboardMode"
1033 uuid="33364716-4008-4701-8f14-be0fa3d62950"
1034 >
1035 <desc>
1036 Host-Guest clipboard interchange mode.
1037 </desc>
1038
1039 <const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
1040 <const name="HostToGuest" value="1"/>
1041 <const name="GuestToHost" value="2"/>
1042 <const name="Bidirectional" value="3"/>
1043 </enum>
1044
1045 <enum
1046 name="Scope"
1047 uuid="7c91096e-499e-4eca-9f9b-9001438d7855"
1048 >
1049 <desc>
1050 Scope of the operation.
1051
1052 A generic enumeration used in various methods to define the action or
1053 argument scope.
1054 </desc>
1055
1056 <const name="Global" value="0"/>
1057 <const name="Machine" value="1"/>
1058 <const name="Session" value="2"/>
1059 </enum>
1060
1061 <enum
1062 name="BIOSBootMenuMode"
1063 uuid="ae4fb9f7-29d2-45b4-b2c7-d579603135d5"
1064 >
1065 <desc>
1066 BIOS boot menu mode.
1067 </desc>
1068
1069 <const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
1070 <const name="MenuOnly" value="1"/>
1071 <const name="MessageAndMenu" value="2"/>
1072 </enum>
1073
1074 <enum
1075 name="ProcessorFeature"
1076 uuid="64c38e6b-8bcf-45ad-ac03-9b406287c5bf"
1077 >
1078 <desc>
1079 CPU features.
1080 </desc>
1081
1082 <const name="HWVirtEx" value="0"/>
1083 <const name="PAE" value="1"/>
1084 <const name="LongMode" value="2"/>
1085 <const name="NestedPaging" value="3"/>
1086 </enum>
1087
1088 <enum
1089 name="FirmwareType"
1090 uuid="b903f264-c230-483e-ac74-2b37ce60d371"
1091 >
1092 <desc>
1093 Firmware type.
1094 </desc>
1095 <const name="BIOS" value="1">
1096 <desc>BIOS Firmware.</desc>
1097 </const>
1098 <const name="EFI" value="2">
1099 <desc>EFI Firmware, bitness detected basing on OS type.</desc>
1100 </const>
1101 <const name="EFI32" value="3">
1102 <desc>Efi firmware, 32-bit.</desc>
1103 </const>
1104 <const name="EFI64" value="4">
1105 <desc>Efi firmware, 64-bit.</desc>
1106 </const>
1107 <const name="EFIDUAL" value="5">
1108 <desc>Efi firmware, combined 32 and 64-bit.</desc>
1109 </const>
1110 </enum>
1111
1112 <enum
1113 name="PointingHidType"
1114 uuid="0d3c17a2-821a-4b2e-ae41-890c6c60aa97"
1115 >
1116 <desc>
1117 Type of pointing device used in a virtual machine.
1118 </desc>
1119 <const name="None" value="1">
1120 <desc>No mouse.</desc>
1121 </const>
1122 <const name="PS2Mouse" value="2">
1123 <desc>PS/2 auxiliary device, a.k.a. mouse.</desc>
1124 </const>
1125 <const name="USBMouse" value="3">
1126 <desc>USB mouse (relative pointer).</desc>
1127 </const>
1128 <const name="USBTablet" value="4">
1129 <desc>USB tablet (absolute pointer).</desc>
1130 </const>
1131 <const name="ComboMouse" value="5">
1132 <desc>Combined device, working as PS/2 or USB mouse, depending on guest behavior.
1133 Using of such device can have negative performance implications. </desc>
1134 </const>
1135 </enum>
1136
1137 <enum
1138 name="KeyboardHidType"
1139 uuid="5a5b0996-3a3e-44bb-9019-56979812cbcc"
1140 >
1141 <desc>
1142 Type of keyboard device used in a virtual machine.
1143 </desc>
1144 <const name="None" value="1">
1145 <desc>No keyboard.</desc>
1146 </const>
1147 <const name="PS2Keyboard" value="2">
1148 <desc>PS/2 keyboard.</desc>
1149 </const>
1150 <const name="USBKeyboard" value="3">
1151 <desc>USB keyboard.</desc>
1152 </const>
1153 <const name="ComboKeyboard" value="4">
1154 <desc>Combined device, working as PS/2 or USB keyboard, depending on guest behavior.
1155 Using of such device can have negative performance implications. </desc>
1156 </const>
1157 </enum>
1158
1159 <!--
1160 // IVirtualBoxErrorInfo
1161 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1162 -->
1163
1164 <interface
1165 name="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" extends="$errorinfo"
1166 uuid="e053d3c0-f493-491b-a735-3a9f0b1feed4"
1167 supportsErrorInfo="no"
1168 wsmap="managed"
1169 >
1170 <desc>
1171 The IVirtualBoxErrorInfo interface represents extended error information.
1172
1173 Extended error information can be set by VirtualBox components after
1174 unsuccessful or partially successful method invocation. This information
1175 can be retrieved by the calling party as an IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object
1176 and then shown to the client in addition to the plain 32-bit result code.
1177
1178 In MS COM, this interface extends the IErrorInfo interface,
1179 in XPCOM, it extends the nsIException interface. In both cases,
1180 it provides a set of common attributes to retrieve error
1181 information.
1182
1183 Sometimes invocation of some component's method may involve methods of
1184 other components that may also fail (independently of this method's
1185 failure), or a series of non-fatal errors may precede a fatal error that
1186 causes method failure. In cases like that, it may be desirable to preserve
1187 information about all errors happened during method invocation and deliver
1188 it to the caller. The <link to="#next"/> attribute is intended
1189 specifically for this purpose and allows to represent a chain of errors
1190 through a single IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object set after method invocation.
1191
1192 Note that errors are stored to a chain in the reverse order, i.e. the
1193 initial error object you query right after method invocation is the last
1194 error set by the callee, the object it points to in the @a next attribute
1195 is the previous error and so on, up to the first error (which is the last
1196 in the chain).
1197 </desc>
1198
1199 <attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
1200 <desc>
1201 Result code of the error.
1202 Usually, it will be the same as the result code returned
1203 by the method that provided this error information, but not
1204 always. For example, on Win32, CoCreateInstance() will most
1205 likely return E_NOINTERFACE upon unsuccessful component
1206 instantiation attempt, but not the value the component factory
1207 returned. Value is typed 'long', not 'result',
1208 to make interface usable from scripting languages.
1209 <note>
1210 In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1211 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::result.
1212 </note>
1213 </desc>
1214 </attribute>
1215
1216 <attribute name="interfaceID" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
1217 <desc>
1218 UUID of the interface that defined the error.
1219 <note>
1220 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetGUID, except for the
1221 data type.
1222 In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1223 </note>
1224 </desc>
1225 </attribute>
1226
1227 <attribute name="component" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1228 <desc>
1229 Name of the component that generated the error.
1230 <note>
1231 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetSource.
1232 In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1233 </note>
1234 </desc>
1235 </attribute>
1236
1237 <attribute name="text" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1238 <desc>
1239 Text description of the error.
1240 <note>
1241 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetDescription.
1242 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::message.
1243 </note>
1244 </desc>
1245 </attribute>
1246
1247 <attribute name="next" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
1248 <desc>
1249 Next error object if there is any, or @c null otherwise.
1250 <note>
1251 In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1252 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::inner.
1253 </note>
1254 </desc>
1255 </attribute>
1256
1257 </interface>
1258
1259 <!--
1260 // IVirtualBox
1261 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1262 -->
1263
1264 <interface
1265 name="IDHCPServer" extends="$unknown"
1266 uuid="6cfe387c-74fb-4ca7-bff6-973bec8af7a3"
1267 wsmap="managed"
1268 >
1269 <desc>
1270 The IDHCPServer interface represents the vbox dhcp server configuration.
1271
1272 To enumerate all the dhcp servers on the host, use the
1273 <link to="IVirtualBox::DHCPServers"/> attribute.
1274 </desc>
1275
1276 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
1277 <desc>
1278 specifies if the dhcp server is enabled
1279 </desc>
1280 </attribute>
1281
1282 <attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1283 <desc>
1284 specifies server IP
1285 </desc>
1286 </attribute>
1287
1288 <attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1289 <desc>
1290 specifies server network mask
1291 </desc>
1292 </attribute>
1293
1294 <attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1295 <desc>
1296 specifies internal network name the server is used for
1297 </desc>
1298 </attribute>
1299
1300 <attribute name="lowerIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1301 <desc>
1302 specifies from IP address in server address range
1303 </desc>
1304 </attribute>
1305
1306 <attribute name="upperIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1307 <desc>
1308 specifies to IP address in server address range
1309 </desc>
1310 </attribute>
1311
1312 <method name="setConfiguration">
1313 <desc>
1314 configures the server
1315 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1316 invalid configuration supplied
1317 </result>
1318 </desc>
1319 <param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1320 <desc>
1321 server IP address
1322 </desc>
1323 </param>
1324 <param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
1325 <desc>
1326 server network mask
1327 </desc>
1328 </param>
1329 <param name="FromIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1330 <desc>
1331 server From IP address for address range
1332 </desc>
1333 </param>
1334 <param name="ToIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1335 <desc>
1336 server To IP address for address range
1337 </desc>
1338 </param>
1339 </method>
1340
1341 <method name="start">
1342 <desc>
1343 Starts DHCP server process.
1344 <result name="E_FAIL">
1345 Failed to start the process.
1346 </result>
1347 </desc>
1348 <param name="networkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1349 <desc>
1350 Name of internal network DHCP server should attach to.
1351 </desc>
1352 </param>
1353 <param name="trunkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1354 <desc>
1355 Name of internal network trunk.
1356 </desc>
1357 </param>
1358 <param name="trunkType" type="wstring" dir="in">
1359 <desc>
1360 Type of internal network trunk.
1361 </desc>
1362 </param>
1363 </method>
1364
1365 <method name="stop">
1366 <desc>
1367 Stops DHCP server process.
1368 <result name="E_FAIL">
1369 Failed to stop the process.
1370 </result>
1371 </desc>
1372 </method>
1373 </interface>
1374
1375 <interface
1376 name="IVirtualBox" extends="$unknown"
1377 uuid="e03d6527-9b72-43b5-b87f-88f1033d3866"
1378 wsmap="managed"
1379 >
1380 <desc>
1381 The IVirtualBox interface represents the main interface exposed by the
1382 product that provides virtual machine management.
1383
1384 An instance of IVirtualBox is required for the product to do anything
1385 useful. Even though the interface does not expose this, internally,
1386 IVirtualBox is implemented as a singleton and actually lives in the
1387 process of the VirtualBox server (VBoxSVC.exe). This makes sure that
1388 IVirtualBox can track the state of all virtual machines on a particular
1389 host, regardless of which frontend started them.
1390
1391 To enumerate all the virtual machines on the host, use the
1392 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute.
1393 </desc>
1394
1395 <attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1396 <desc>
1397 A string representing the version number of the product. The
1398 format is 3 integer numbers divided by dots (e.g. 1.0.1). The
1399 last number represents the build number and will frequently change.
1400 </desc>
1401 </attribute>
1402
1403 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
1404 <desc>
1405 The internal build revision number of the product.
1406 </desc>
1407 </attribute>
1408
1409 <attribute name="packageType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1410 <desc>
1411 A string representing the package type of this product. The
1412 format is OS_ARCH_DIST where OS is either WINDOWS, LINUX,
1413 SOLARIS, DARWIN. ARCH is either 32BITS or 64BITS. DIST
1414 is either GENERIC, UBUNTU_606, UBUNTU_710, or something like
1415 this.
1416 </desc>
1417 </attribute>
1418
1419 <attribute name="homeFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1420 <desc>
1421 Full path to the directory where the global settings file,
1422 <tt>VirtualBox.xml</tt>, is stored.
1423
1424 In this version of VirtualBox, the value of this property is
1425 always <tt>&lt;user_dir&gt;/.VirtualBox</tt> (where
1426 <tt>&lt;user_dir&gt;</tt> is the path to the user directory,
1427 as determined by the host OS), and cannot be changed.
1428
1429 This path is also used as the base to resolve relative paths in
1430 places where relative paths are allowed (unless otherwise
1431 expressly indicated).
1432 </desc>
1433 </attribute>
1434
1435 <attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1436 <desc>
1437 Full name of the global settings file.
1438 The value of this property corresponds to the value of
1439 <link to="#homeFolder"/> plus <tt>/VirtualBox.xml</tt>.
1440 </desc>
1441 </attribute>
1442
1443 <attribute name="host" type="IHost" readonly="yes">
1444 <desc>Associated host object.</desc>
1445 </attribute>
1446
1447 <attribute name="systemProperties" type="ISystemProperties" readonly="yes">
1448 <desc>Associated system information object.</desc>
1449 </attribute>
1450
1451 <attribute name="machines" type="IMachine" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1452 <desc>
1453 Array of machine objects registered within this VirtualBox instance.
1454 </desc>
1455 </attribute>
1456
1457 <attribute name="hardDisks" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1458 <desc>
1459 Array of medium objects known to this VirtualBox installation.
1460
1461 This array contains only base media. All differencing
1462 media of the given base medium can be enumerated using
1463 <link to="IMedium::children"/>.
1464 </desc>
1465 </attribute>
1466
1467 <attribute name="DVDImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1468 <desc>
1469 Array of CD/DVD image objects currently in use by this VirtualBox instance.
1470 </desc>
1471 </attribute>
1472
1473 <attribute name="floppyImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1474 <desc>
1475 Array of floppy image objects currently in use by this VirtualBox instance.
1476 </desc>
1477 </attribute>
1478
1479 <attribute name="progressOperations" type="IProgress" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1480
1481 <attribute name="guestOSTypes" type="IGuestOSType" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1482
1483 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1484 <desc>
1485 Collection of global shared folders. Global shared folders are
1486 available to all virtual machines.
1487
1488 New shared folders are added to the collection using
1489 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
1490 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
1491
1492 <note>
1493 In the current version of the product, global shared folders are not
1494 implemented and therefore this collection is always empty.
1495 </note>
1496 </desc>
1497 </attribute>
1498
1499 <attribute name="performanceCollector" type="IPerformanceCollector" readonly="yes">
1500 <desc>
1501 Associated performance collector object.
1502 </desc>
1503 </attribute>
1504
1505 <attribute name="DHCPServers" type="IDHCPServer" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1506 <desc>
1507 DHCP servers.
1508 </desc>
1509 </attribute>
1510
1511 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
1512 <desc>
1513 Event source for VirtualBox events.
1514 </desc>
1515 </attribute>
1516
1517 <attribute name="extensionPackManager" type="IExtPackManager" readonly="yes">
1518 <desc>
1519 The extension pack manager.
1520 </desc>
1521 </attribute>
1522
1523
1524 <method name="composeMachineFilename">
1525 <desc>
1526 Returns a recommended full path of the settings file name for a new virtual
1527 machine.
1528
1529 This API serves two purposes:
1530
1531 <ul>
1532 <li>It gets called by <link to="#createMachine" /> if NULL is specified
1533 for the @a settingsFile argument there, which means that API should use
1534 a recommended default file name.</li>
1535
1536 <li>It can be called manually by a client software before creating a machine,
1537 e.g. if that client wants to pre-create the machine directory to create
1538 virtual hard disks in that directory together with the new machine
1539 settings file. In that case, the file name should be stripped from the
1540 full settings file path returned by this function to obtain the
1541 machine directory.</li>
1542 </ul>
1543
1544 See <link to="IMachine::name"/> and <link to="#createMachine"/> for more
1545 details about the machine name.
1546
1547 If @a baseFolder is a @c null or empty string (which is recommended), the
1548 default machine settings folder
1549 (see <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder" />) will be used as
1550 a base folder for the created machine, resulting in a file name like
1551 "/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/name/name.vbox". Otherwise the given base folder
1552 will be used.
1553
1554 This method does not access the host disks. In particular, it does not check
1555 for whether a machine of this name already exists.
1556 </desc>
1557 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1558 <desc>Suggested machine name.</desc>
1559 </param>
1560 <param name="baseFolder" type="wstring" dir="in">
1561 <desc>Base machine folder (optional).</desc>
1562 </param>
1563 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="return">
1564 <desc>Fully qualified path where the machine would be created.</desc>
1565 </param>
1566 </method>
1567
1568 <method name="createMachine">
1569 <desc>
1570 Creates a new virtual machine by creating a machine settings file at
1571 the given location.
1572
1573 VirtualBox machine settings files use a custom XML dialect. Starting
1574 with VirtualBox 4.0, a ".vbox" extension is recommended, but not enforced,
1575 and machine files can be created at arbitrary locations.
1576
1577 However, it is is recommended that machines be created in the default
1578 machine folder (e.g. "/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/name/name.vbox"; see
1579 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder" />). If you specify
1580 NULL for the @a settingsFile argument, <link to="#composeMachineFilename" />
1581 is called automatically to have such a recommended name composed based
1582 on the machine name given in the @a name argument.
1583
1584 If the resulting settings file already exists, this method will fail,
1585 unless @a forceOverwrite is set.
1586
1587 The new machine is created unregistered, with the initial configuration
1588 set according to the specified guest OS type. A typical sequence of
1589 actions to create a new virtual machine is as follows:
1590
1591 <ol>
1592 <li>
1593 Call this method to have a new machine created. The returned machine
1594 object will be "mutable" allowing to change any machine property.
1595 </li>
1596
1597 <li>
1598 Configure the machine using the appropriate attributes and methods.
1599 </li>
1600
1601 <li>
1602 Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to write the settings
1603 to the machine's XML settings file. The configuration of the newly
1604 created machine will not be saved to disk until this method is
1605 called.
1606 </li>
1607
1608 <li>
1609 Call <link to="#registerMachine" /> to add the machine to the list
1610 of machines known to VirtualBox.
1611 </li>
1612 </ol>
1613
1614 The specified guest OS type identifier must match an ID of one of known
1615 guest OS types listed in the <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/>
1616 array.
1617
1618 Optionally, you may specify an UUID of to assign to the created machine.
1619 However, this is not recommended and you should normally pass an empty
1620 (@c null) UUID to this method so that a new UUID will be automatically
1621 generated for every created machine. You can use UUID
1622 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 as @c null value.
1623
1624 <note>
1625 There is no way to change the name of the settings file or
1626 subfolder of the created machine directly.
1627 </note>
1628
1629 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1630 @a osTypeId is invalid.
1631 </result>
1632 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1633 Resulting settings file name is invalid or the settings file already
1634 exists or could not be created due to an I/O error.
1635 </result>
1636 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1637 @a name is empty or @c null.
1638 </result>
1639 </desc>
1640
1641 <param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1642 <desc>Fully qualified path where the settings file should be created,
1643 or NULL for a default folder and file based on the @a name argument
1644 (see <link to="#composeMachineFilename" />).</desc>
1645 </param>
1646 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1647 <desc>Machine name.</desc>
1648 </param>
1649 <param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1650 <desc>Guest OS Type ID.</desc>
1651 </param>
1652 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1653 <desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1654 </param>
1655 <param name="forceOverwrite" type="boolean" dir="in">
1656 <desc>If true, an existing machine settings file will be overwritten.</desc>
1657 </param>
1658 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1659 <desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1660 </param>
1661 </method>
1662
1663 <method name="openMachine">
1664 <desc>
1665 Opens a virtual machine from the existing settings file.
1666 The opened machine remains unregistered until you call
1667 <link to="#registerMachine"/>.
1668
1669 The specified settings file name must be fully qualified.
1670 The file must exist and be a valid machine XML settings file
1671 whose contents will be used to construct the machine object.
1672
1673 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1674 Settings file name invalid, not found or sharing violation.
1675 </result>
1676 </desc>
1677 <param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1678 <desc>
1679 Name of the machine settings file.
1680 </desc>
1681 </param>
1682 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1683 <desc>Opened machine object.</desc>
1684 </param>
1685 <note>
1686 <link to="IMachine::settingsModified"/> will return
1687 @c false for the created machine, until any of machine settings
1688 are changed.
1689 </note>
1690 </method>
1691
1692 <method name="registerMachine">
1693 <desc>
1694
1695 Registers the machine previously created using
1696 <link to="#createMachine"/> or opened using
1697 <link to="#openMachine"/> within this VirtualBox installation. After
1698 successful method invocation, the
1699 <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent"/> event is fired.
1700
1701 <note>
1702 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
1703 to save all current machine settings before registering it.
1704 </note>
1705
1706 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1707 No matching virtual machine found.
1708 </result>
1709 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1710 Virtual machine was not created within this VirtualBox instance.
1711 </result>
1712
1713 </desc>
1714 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
1715 </method>
1716
1717 <method name="findMachine">
1718 <desc>
1719 Attempts to find a virtual machine given its name or UUID.
1720
1721 <note>Inaccessible machines cannot be found by name, only by UUID, because their name
1722 cannot safely be determined.</note>
1723
1724 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1725 Could not find registered machine matching @a nameOrId.
1726 </result>
1727
1728 </desc>
1729 <param name="nameOrId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1730 <desc>What to search for. This can either be the UUID or the name of a virtual machine.</desc>
1731 </param>
1732 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1733 <desc>Machine object, if found.</desc>
1734 </param>
1735 </method>
1736
1737 <method name="createAppliance">
1738 <desc>
1739 Creates a new appliance object, which represents an appliance in the Open Virtual Machine
1740 Format (OVF). This can then be used to import an OVF appliance into VirtualBox or to export
1741 machines as an OVF appliance; see the documentation for <link to="IAppliance" /> for details.
1742 </desc>
1743 <param name="appliance" type="IAppliance" dir="return">
1744 <desc>New appliance.</desc>
1745 </param>
1746 </method>
1747
1748 <method name="createHardDisk">
1749 <desc>
1750 Creates a new base medium object that will use the given storage
1751 format and location for medium data.
1752
1753 Note that the actual storage unit is not created by this method. In
1754 order to do it, and before you are able to attach the created medium
1755 to virtual machines, you must call one of the following methods to
1756 allocate a format-specific storage unit at the specified location:
1757 <ul>
1758 <li><link to="IMedium::createBaseStorage"/></li>
1759 <li><link to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/></li>
1760 </ul>
1761
1762 Some medium attributes, such as <link to="IMedium::id"/>, may
1763 remain uninitialized until the medium storage unit is successfully
1764 created by one of the above methods.
1765
1766 After the storage unit is successfully created, it will be
1767 accessible through the <link to="#findMedium"/> method and can
1768 be found in the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array.
1769
1770 The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
1771 installation can be obtained using
1772 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>. If the @a format
1773 attribute is empty or @c null then the default storage format
1774 specified by <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFormat"/> will
1775 be used for creating a storage unit of the medium.
1776
1777 Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
1778 See <link to="IMedium::location"/> and IMedium for more details.
1779
1780 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1781 @a format identifier is invalid. See
1782 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
1783 </result>
1784 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1785 @a location is a not valid file name (for file-based formats only).
1786 </result>
1787 </desc>
1788 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
1789 <desc>
1790 Identifier of the storage format to use for the new medium.
1791 </desc>
1792 </param>
1793 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1794 <desc>
1795 Location of the storage unit for the new medium.
1796 </desc>
1797 </param>
1798 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1799 <desc>Created medium object.</desc>
1800 </param>
1801 </method>
1802
1803 <method name="openMedium">
1804 <desc>
1805 Opens a medium from an existing storage location.
1806
1807 Once a medium has been opened, it can be passed to other VirtualBox
1808 methods, in particular to <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
1809
1810 Depending on the given device type, the file at the storage location
1811 must be in one of the media formats understood by VirtualBox:
1812
1813 <ul>
1814 <li>With a "HardDisk" device type, the file must be a hard disk image
1815 in one of the formats supported by VirtualBox (see
1816 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats" />).
1817 After this method succeeds, if the medium is a base medium, it
1818 will be added to the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array attribute. </li>
1819 <li>With a "DVD" device type, the file must be an ISO 9960 CD/DVD image.
1820 After this method succeeds, the medium will be added to the
1821 <link to="#DVDImages"/> array attribute.</li>
1822 <li>With a "Floppy" device type, the file must be an RAW floppy image.
1823 After this method succeeds, the medium will be added to the
1824 <link to="#floppyImages"/> array attribute.</li>
1825 </ul>
1826
1827 After having been opened, the medium can be found by the <link to="#findMedium"/>
1828 method and can be attached to virtual machines. See <link to="IMedium" /> for more details.
1829
1830 The UUID of the newly opened medium will either be retrieved from the
1831 storage location, if the format supports it (e.g. for hard disk images),
1832 or a new UUID will be randomly generated (e.g. for ISO and RAW files).
1833 If for some reason you need to change the medium's UUID, use
1834 <link to="IMedium::setIDs" />.
1835
1836 If a differencing hard disk medium is to be opened by this method, the
1837 operation will succeed only if its parent medium and all ancestors,
1838 if any, are already known to this VirtualBox installation (for example,
1839 were opened by this method before).
1840
1841 This method attempts to guess the storage format of the specified medium
1842 by reading medium data at the specified location.
1843
1844 If @a accessMode is ReadWrite (which it should be for hard disks and floppies),
1845 the image is opened for read/write access and must have according permissions,
1846 as VirtualBox may actually write status information into the disk's metadata
1847 sections.
1848
1849 Note that write access is required for all typical hard disk usage in VirtualBox,
1850 since VirtualBox may need to write metadata such as a UUID into the image.
1851 The only exception is opening a source image temporarily for copying and
1852 cloning (see <link to="IMedium::cloneTo" /> when the image will be closed
1853 again soon.
1854
1855 The format of the location string is storage format specific. See
1856 <link to="IMedium::location"/> and IMedium for more details.
1857
1858 Prior to VirtualBox 4.0, opening a medium added it to a global media
1859 registry in the VirtualBox.xml file, which was shared between all machines
1860 and made transporting machines and their media from one host to another
1861 difficult.
1862
1863 Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, media are only added to a registry when
1864 they are attached to a machine. Machines created with VirtualBox 4.0
1865 or later can have their own media registry. As a result, a medium attached
1866 to such a machine will be remembered in that machine's XML settings file.
1867 Media attached to older machines will continue to be added to the global
1868 registry.
1869
1870 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1871 Invalid medium storage file location or could not find the medium
1872 at the specified location.
1873 </result>
1874 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
1875 Could not get medium storage format.
1876 </result>
1877 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1878 Invalid medium storage format.
1879 </result>
1880 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1881 Medium has already been added to a media registry.
1882 </result>
1883 </desc>
1884 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1885 <desc>
1886 Location of the storage unit that contains medium data in one of
1887 the supported storage formats.
1888 </desc>
1889 </param>
1890 <param name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1891 <desc>
1892 Must be one of "HardDisk", "DVD" or "Floppy".
1893 </desc>
1894 </param>
1895 <param name="accessMode" type="AccessMode" dir="in">
1896 <desc>Whether to open the image in read/write or read-only mode. For
1897 a "DVD" device type, this is ignored and read-only mode is always assumed.</desc>
1898 </param>
1899 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1900 <desc>Opened medium object.</desc>
1901 </param>
1902 </method>
1903
1904 <method name="findMedium">
1905 <desc>
1906 Returns a medium of the given type that uses the given fully qualified
1907 location or UUID to store medium data.
1908
1909 The given medium must be known to this VirtualBox installation, i.e.
1910 it must be previously created by <link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened
1911 by <link to="#openMedium"/>.
1912
1913 The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
1914 the <link to="IMedium::location"/> and <link to="IMedium::id" />
1915 attributes of each known medium.
1916
1917 On case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is performed,
1918 otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
1919
1920 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1921 No medium object matching @a location found.
1922 </result>
1923 </desc>
1924 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1925 <desc>What to search for. This can either be the UUID or the location string of an open medium.</desc>
1926 </param>
1927 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1928 <desc>Device type (must be HardDisk, DVD or Floppy)</desc>
1929 </param>
1930 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1931 <desc>Medium object, if found.</desc>
1932 </param>
1933 </method>
1934
1935 <method name="getGuestOSType">
1936 <desc>
1937 Returns an object describing the specified guest OS type.
1938
1939 The requested guest OS type is specified using a string which is a
1940 mnemonic identifier of the guest operating system, such as
1941 <tt>"win31"</tt> or <tt>"ubuntu"</tt>. The guest OS type ID of a
1942 particular virtual machine can be read or set using the
1943 <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/> attribute.
1944
1945 The <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/> collection contains all
1946 available guest OS type objects. Each object has an
1947 <link to="IGuestOSType::id"/> attribute which contains an identifier of
1948 the guest OS this object describes.
1949
1950 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1951 @a id is not a valid Guest OS type.
1952 </result>
1953
1954 </desc>
1955 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1956 <desc>Guest OS type ID string.</desc>
1957 </param>
1958 <param name="type" type="IGuestOSType" dir="return">
1959 <desc>Guest OS type object.</desc>
1960 </param>
1961 </method>
1962
1963 <method name="createSharedFolder">
1964 <desc>
1965 Creates a new global shared folder by associating the given logical
1966 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
1967 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
1968 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
1969 <note>
1970 In the current implementation, this operation is not
1971 implemented.
1972 </note>
1973 </desc>
1974 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1975 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
1976 </param>
1977 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
1978 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
1979 </param>
1980 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
1981 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
1982 </param>
1983 <param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
1984 <desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
1985 or not.</desc>
1986 </param>
1987 </method>
1988
1989 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
1990 <desc>
1991 Removes the global shared folder with the given name previously
1992 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
1993 shared folders and stops sharing it.
1994 <note>
1995 In the current implementation, this operation is not
1996 implemented.
1997 </note>
1998 </desc>
1999 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2000 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
2001 </param>
2002 </method>
2003
2004 <method name="getExtraDataKeys">
2005 <desc>
2006 Returns an array representing the global extra data keys which currently
2007 have values defined.
2008 </desc>
2009 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2010 <desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
2011 </param>
2012 </method>
2013
2014 <method name="getExtraData">
2015 <desc>
2016 Returns associated global extra data.
2017
2018 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
2019 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
2020
2021 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2022 Settings file not accessible.
2023 </result>
2024 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2025 Could not parse the settings file.
2026 </result>
2027
2028 </desc>
2029 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2030 <desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
2031 </param>
2032 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
2033 <desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
2034 </param>
2035 </method>
2036
2037 <method name="setExtraData">
2038 <desc>
2039 Sets associated global extra data.
2040
2041 If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
2042 will be deleted.
2043
2044 <note>
2045 Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
2046 registered event listener using the
2047 <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent"/>
2048 notification for a permission. If one of the listeners refuses the
2049 new value, the change will not be performed.
2050 </note>
2051 <note>
2052 On success, the
2053 <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent"/> notification
2054 is called to inform all registered listeners about a successful data
2055 change.
2056 </note>
2057
2058 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2059 Settings file not accessible.
2060 </result>
2061 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2062 Could not parse the settings file.
2063 </result>
2064 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2065 Modification request refused.
2066 </result>
2067
2068 </desc>
2069 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2070 <desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
2071 </param>
2072 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
2073 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
2074 </param>
2075 </method>
2076
2077 <!--method name="createDHCPServerForInterface">
2078 <desc>
2079 Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2080 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2081 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2082 </result>
2083 </desc>
2084 <param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2085 <desc>Network Interface</desc>
2086 </param>
2087 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2088 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2089 </param>
2090 </method-->
2091
2092 <method name="createDHCPServer">
2093 <desc>
2094 Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2095 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2096 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2097 </result>
2098 </desc>
2099 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2100 <desc>server name</desc>
2101 </param>
2102 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2103 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2104 </param>
2105 </method>
2106
2107 <method name="findDHCPServerByNetworkName">
2108 <desc>
2109 Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2110 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2111 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2112 </result>
2113
2114 </desc>
2115 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2116 <desc>server name</desc>
2117 </param>
2118 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2119 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2120 </param>
2121 </method>
2122
2123 <!--method name="findDHCPServerForInterface">
2124 <desc>
2125 Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2126 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2127 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2128 </result>
2129 </desc>
2130 <param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2131 <desc>Network Interface</desc>
2132 </param>
2133 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2134 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2135 </param>
2136 </method-->
2137
2138 <method name="removeDHCPServer">
2139 <desc>
2140 Removes the dhcp server settings
2141 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2142 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2143 </result>
2144 </desc>
2145 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="in">
2146 <desc>Dhcp server settings to be removed</desc>
2147 </param>
2148 </method>
2149
2150
2151 <method name="checkFirmwarePresent">
2152 <desc>
2153 Check if this VirtualBox installation has a firmware
2154 of the given type available, either system-wide or per-user.
2155 Optionally, this may return a hint where this firmware can be
2156 downloaded from.
2157 </desc>
2158 <param name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType" dir="in">
2159 <desc>
2160 Type of firmware to check.
2161 </desc>
2162 </param>
2163 <param name="version" type="wstring" dir="in">
2164 <desc>Expected version number, usually empty string (presently ignored).</desc>
2165 </param>
2166
2167 <param name="url" type="wstring" dir="out">
2168 <desc>
2169 Suggested URL to download this firmware from.
2170 </desc>
2171 </param>
2172
2173 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="out">
2174 <desc>
2175 Filename of firmware, only valid if result == TRUE.
2176 </desc>
2177 </param>
2178
2179 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
2180 <desc>If firmware of this type and version is available.</desc>
2181 </param>
2182 </method>
2183
2184 <method name="VRDERegisterLibrary">
2185 <desc>
2186 Appends a VRDE library to this VirtualBox installation.
2187
2188 The library implements a VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE),
2189 which is used to remotely connect to the virtual machines.
2190
2191 The system library extension (".DLL" or ".so") must be omitted.
2192 The library must reside in the VirtualBox installation directory.
2193 </desc>
2194 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2195 <desc>The library name.</desc>
2196 </param>
2197 </method>
2198
2199 <method name="VRDEUnregisterLibrary">
2200 <desc>
2201 Removes a VRDE library from this VirtualBox installation.
2202 </desc>
2203 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2204 <desc>The library name.</desc>
2205 </param>
2206 </method>
2207
2208 <method name="VRDEListLibraries">
2209 <desc>
2210 List registered libraries.
2211 </desc>
2212 <param name="names" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2213 <desc>Array of names of the libraries.</desc>
2214 </param>
2215 </method>
2216
2217 <method name="VRDEIsLibraryRegistered">
2218 <desc>
2219 Check if the library is registered.
2220 </desc>
2221 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2222 <desc>The library name.</desc>
2223 </param>
2224 <param name="registered" type="boolean" dir="return">
2225 <desc>Whether the library is registered.</desc>
2226 </param>
2227 </method>
2228
2229 </interface>
2230
2231 <!--
2232 // IVFSExplorer
2233 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2234 -->
2235
2236 <enum
2237 name="VFSType"
2238 uuid="813999ba-b949-48a8-9230-aadc6285e2f2"
2239 >
2240 <desc>
2241 Virtual file systems supported by VFSExplorer.
2242 </desc>
2243
2244 <const name="File" value="1" />
2245 <const name="Cloud" value="2" />
2246 <const name="S3" value="3" />
2247 <const name="WebDav" value="4" />
2248 </enum>
2249
2250 <enum
2251 name="VFSFileType"
2252 uuid="714333cd-44e2-415f-a245-d378fa9b1242"
2253 >
2254 <desc>
2255 File types known by VFSExplorer.
2256 </desc>
2257
2258 <const name="Unknown" value="1" />
2259 <const name="Fifo" value="2" />
2260 <const name="DevChar" value="3" />
2261 <const name="Directory" value="4" />
2262 <const name="DevBlock" value="5" />
2263 <const name="File" value="6" />
2264 <const name="SymLink" value="7" />
2265 <const name="Socket" value="8" />
2266 <const name="WhiteOut" value="9" />
2267 </enum>
2268
2269 <interface
2270 name="IVFSExplorer" extends="$unknown"
2271 uuid="003d7f92-d38e-487f-b790-8c5e8631cb2f"
2272 wsmap="managed"
2273 >
2274 <desc>
2275 The VFSExplorer interface unifies access to different file system
2276 types. This includes local file systems as well remote file systems like
2277 S3. For a list of supported types see <link to="VFSType" />.
2278 An instance of this is returned by <link to="IAppliance::createVFSExplorer" />.
2279 </desc>
2280
2281 <attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2282 <desc>Returns the current path in the virtual file system.</desc>
2283 </attribute>
2284
2285 <attribute name="type" type="VFSType" readonly="yes">
2286 <desc>Returns the file system type which is currently in use.</desc>
2287 </attribute>
2288
2289 <method name="update">
2290 <desc>Updates the internal list of files/directories from the
2291 current directory level. Use <link to="#entryList" /> to get the full list
2292 after a call to this method.</desc>
2293
2294 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2295 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2296 </param>
2297 </method>
2298
2299 <method name="cd">
2300 <desc>Change the current directory level.</desc>
2301
2302 <param name="aDir" type="wstring" dir="in">
2303 <desc>The name of the directory to go in.</desc>
2304 </param>
2305
2306 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2307 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2308 </param>
2309 </method>
2310
2311 <method name="cdUp">
2312 <desc>Go one directory upwards from the current directory level.</desc>
2313
2314 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2315 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2316 </param>
2317 </method>
2318
2319 <method name="entryList">
2320 <desc>Returns a list of files/directories after a call to <link
2321 to="#update" />. The user is responsible for keeping this internal
2322 list up do date.</desc>
2323
2324 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2325 <desc>The list of names for the entries.</desc>
2326 </param>
2327
2328 <param name="aTypes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2329 <desc>The list of types for the entries.</desc>
2330 </param>
2331
2332 <param name="aSizes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2333 <desc>The list of sizes (in bytes) for the entries.</desc>
2334 </param>
2335
2336 <param name="aModes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2337 <desc>The list of file modes (in octal form) for the entries.</desc>
2338 </param>
2339 </method>
2340
2341 <method name="exists">
2342 <desc>Checks if the given file list exists in the current directory
2343 level.</desc>
2344
2345 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2346 <desc>The names to check.</desc>
2347 </param>
2348
2349 <param name="aExists" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
2350 <desc>The names which exist.</desc>
2351 </param>
2352 </method>
2353
2354 <method name="remove">
2355 <desc>Deletes the given files in the current directory level.</desc>
2356
2357 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2358 <desc>The names to remove.</desc>
2359 </param>
2360
2361 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2362 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2363 </param>
2364 </method>
2365
2366 </interface>
2367
2368 <!--
2369 // IAppliance
2370 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2371 -->
2372
2373 <interface
2374 name="IAppliance" extends="$unknown"
2375 uuid="7b148032-4124-4f46-b56a-b48ac1273f5a"
2376 wsmap="managed"
2377 >
2378 <desc>
2379 Represents a platform-independent appliance in OVF format. An instance of this is returned
2380 by <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />, which can then be used to import and export
2381 virtual machines within an appliance with VirtualBox.
2382
2383 The OVF standard suggests two different physical file formats:
2384
2385 <ol>
2386 <li>If the appliance is distributed as a set of files, there must be at least one XML descriptor
2387 file that conforms to the OVF standard and carries an <tt>.ovf</tt> file extension. If
2388 this descriptor file references other files such as disk images, as OVF appliances typically
2389 do, those additional files must be in the same directory as the descriptor file.</li>
2390
2391 <li>If the appliance is distributed as a single file, it must be in TAR format and have the
2392 <tt>.ova</tt> file extension. This TAR file must then contain at least the OVF descriptor
2393 files and optionally other files.
2394
2395 At this time, VirtualBox does not not yet support the packed (TAR) variant; support will
2396 be added with a later version.</li>
2397 </ol>
2398
2399 <b>Importing</b> an OVF appliance into VirtualBox as instances of
2400 <link to="IMachine" /> involves the following sequence of API calls:
2401
2402 <ol>
2403 <li>Call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />. This will create an empty IAppliance object.
2404 </li>
2405
2406 <li>On the new object, call <link to="#read" /> with the full path of the OVF file you
2407 would like to import. So long as this file is syntactically valid, this will succeed
2408 and fill the appliance object with the parsed data from the OVF file.
2409 </li>
2410
2411 <li>Next, call <link to="#interpret" />, which analyzes the OVF data and sets up the
2412 contents of the IAppliance attributes accordingly. These can be inspected by a
2413 VirtualBox front-end such as the GUI, and the suggestions can be displayed to the
2414 user. In particular, the <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array contains
2415 instances of <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> which represent the virtual
2416 systems (machines) in the OVF, which in turn describe the virtual hardware prescribed
2417 by the OVF (network and hardware adapters, virtual disk images, memory size and so on).
2418 The GUI can then give the user the option to confirm and/or change these suggestions.
2419 </li>
2420
2421 <li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
2422 virtual system (machine) to override the suggestions made by the interpret() routine.
2423 </li>
2424
2425 <li>Finally, call <link to="#importMachines" /> to create virtual machines in
2426 VirtualBox as instances of <link to="IMachine" /> that match the information in the
2427 virtual system descriptions. After this call succeeded, the UUIDs of the machines created
2428 can be found in the <link to="#machines" /> array attribute.
2429 </li>
2430 </ol>
2431
2432 <b>Exporting</b> VirtualBox machines into an OVF appliance involves the following steps:
2433
2434 <ol>
2435 <li>As with importing, first call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" /> to create
2436 an empty IAppliance object.
2437 </li>
2438
2439 <li>For each machine you would like to export, call <link to="IMachine::export" />
2440 with the IAppliance object you just created. Each such call creates one instance of
2441 <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> inside the appliance.
2442 </li>
2443
2444 <li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
2445 virtual system (machine) to override the suggestions made by the export() routine.
2446 </li>
2447
2448 <li>Finally, call <link to="#write" /> with a path specification to have the OVF
2449 file written.</li>
2450 </ol>
2451
2452 </desc>
2453
2454 <attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2455 <desc>Path to the main file of the OVF appliance, which is either the <tt>.ovf</tt> or
2456 the <tt>.ova</tt> file passed to <link to="#read" /> (for import) or
2457 <link to="#write" /> (for export).
2458 This attribute is empty until one of these methods has been called.
2459 </desc>
2460 </attribute>
2461
2462 <attribute name="disks" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2463 <desc>
2464 Array of virtual disk definitions. One such description exists for each
2465 disk definition in the OVF; each string array item represents one such piece of
2466 disk information, with the information fields separated by tab (\t) characters.
2467
2468 The caller should be prepared for additional fields being appended to
2469 this string in future versions of VirtualBox and therefore check for
2470 the number of tabs in the strings returned.
2471
2472 In the current version, the following eight fields are returned per string
2473 in the array:
2474
2475 <ol>
2476 <li>Disk ID (unique string identifier given to disk)</li>
2477
2478 <li>Capacity (unsigned integer indicating the maximum capacity of the disk)</li>
2479
2480 <li>Populated size (optional unsigned integer indicating the current size of the
2481 disk; can be approximate; -1 if unspecified)</li>
2482
2483 <li>Format (string identifying the disk format, typically
2484 "http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse")</li>
2485
2486 <li>Reference (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty,
2487 then the disk should be created on import)</li>
2488
2489 <li>Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image,
2490 which need not necessarily be the same as the values specified above, since
2491 the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified)</li>
2492
2493 <li>Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks;
2494 presently unsupported and always -1)</li>
2495
2496 <li>Compression (optional string equalling "gzip" if the image is gzip-compressed)</li>
2497 </ol>
2498 </desc>
2499 </attribute>
2500
2501 <attribute name="virtualSystemDescriptions" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2502 <desc> Array of virtual system descriptions. One such description is created
2503 for each virtual system (machine) found in the OVF.
2504 This array is empty until either <link to="#interpret" /> (for import) or <link to="IMachine::export" />
2505 (for export) has been called.
2506 </desc>
2507 </attribute>
2508
2509 <attribute name="machines" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2510 <desc>
2511 Contains the UUIDs of the machines created from the information in this appliances. This is only
2512 relevant for the import case, and will only contain data after a call to <link to="#importMachines" />
2513 succeeded.
2514 </desc>
2515 </attribute>
2516
2517 <method name="read">
2518 <desc>
2519 Reads an OVF file into the appliance object.
2520
2521 This method succeeds if the OVF is syntactically valid and, by itself, without errors. The
2522 mere fact that this method returns successfully does not mean that VirtualBox supports all
2523 features requested by the appliance; this can only be examined after a call to <link to="#interpret" />.
2524 </desc>
2525 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
2526 <desc>
2527 Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
2528 on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
2529 </desc>
2530 </param>
2531 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2532 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2533 </param>
2534 </method>
2535
2536 <method name="interpret">
2537 <desc>
2538 Interprets the OVF data that was read when the appliance was constructed. After
2539 calling this method, one can inspect the
2540 <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array attribute, which will then contain
2541 one <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> for each virtual machine found in
2542 the appliance.
2543
2544 Calling this method is the second step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
2545 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2546
2547 After calling this method, one should call <link to="#getWarnings" /> to find out
2548 if problems were encountered during the processing which might later lead to
2549 errors.
2550 </desc>
2551 </method>
2552
2553 <method name="importMachines">
2554 <desc>
2555 Imports the appliance into VirtualBox by creating instances of <link to="IMachine" />
2556 and other interfaces that match the information contained in the appliance as
2557 closely as possible, as represented by the import instructions in the
2558 <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
2559
2560 Calling this method is the final step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
2561 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2562
2563 Since importing the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
2564 disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
2565 returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
2566
2567 After the import succeeded, the UUIDs of the IMachine instances created can be
2568 retrieved from the <link to="#machines" /> array attribute.
2569 </desc>
2570
2571 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2572 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2573 </param>
2574 </method>
2575
2576 <method name="createVFSExplorer">
2577 <desc>Returns a <link to="IVFSExplorer" /> object for the given URI.</desc>
2578
2579 <param name="aUri" type="wstring" dir="in">
2580 <desc>The URI describing the file system to use.</desc>
2581 </param>
2582
2583 <param name="aExplorer" type="IVFSExplorer" dir="return">
2584 <desc></desc>
2585 </param>
2586 </method>
2587
2588 <method name="write">
2589 <desc>
2590 Writes the contents of the appliance exports into a new OVF file.
2591
2592 Calling this method is the final step of exporting an appliance from VirtualBox;
2593 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2594
2595 Since exporting the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
2596 disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
2597 returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
2598 </desc>
2599 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
2600 <desc>
2601 Output format, as a string. Currently supported formats are "ovf-0.9" and "ovf-1.0";
2602 future versions of VirtualBox may support additional formats.
2603 </desc>
2604 </param>
2605 <param name="manifest" type="boolean" dir="in">
2606 <desc>
2607 Indicate if the optional manifest file (.mf) should be written. The manifest file
2608 is used for integrity checks prior import.
2609 </desc>
2610 </param>
2611 <param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
2612 <desc>
2613 Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
2614 on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
2615 </desc>
2616 </param>
2617 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2618 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2619 </param>
2620 </method>
2621
2622 <method name="getWarnings">
2623 <desc>Returns textual warnings which occurred during execution of <link to="#interpret" />.</desc>
2624
2625 <param name="aWarnings" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2626 <desc></desc>
2627 </param>
2628 </method>
2629
2630 </interface>
2631
2632 <enum
2633 name="VirtualSystemDescriptionType"
2634 uuid="c0f8f135-3a1d-417d-afa6-b38b95a91f90"
2635 >
2636 <desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> to describe the type of
2637 a configuration value.</desc>
2638
2639 <const name="Ignore" value="1" />
2640 <const name="OS" value="2" />
2641 <const name="Name" value="3" />
2642 <const name="Product" value="4" />
2643 <const name="Vendor" value="5" />
2644 <const name="Version" value="6" />
2645 <const name="ProductUrl" value="7" />
2646 <const name="VendorUrl" value="8" />
2647 <const name="Description" value="9" />
2648 <const name="License" value="10" />
2649 <const name="Miscellaneous" value="11" />
2650 <const name="CPU" value="12" />
2651 <const name="Memory" value="13" />
2652 <const name="HardDiskControllerIDE" value="14" />
2653 <const name="HardDiskControllerSATA" value="15" />
2654 <const name="HardDiskControllerSCSI" value="16" />
2655 <const name="HardDiskControllerSAS" value="17" />
2656 <const name="HardDiskImage" value="18" />
2657 <const name="Floppy" value="19" />
2658 <const name="CDROM" value="20" />
2659 <const name="NetworkAdapter" value="21" />
2660 <const name="USBController" value="22" />
2661 <const name="SoundCard" value="23" />
2662
2663 </enum>
2664
2665 <enum
2666 name="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType"
2667 uuid="56d9403f-3425-4118-9919-36f2a9b8c77c"
2668 >
2669 <desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::getValuesByType" /> to describe the value
2670 type to fetch.</desc>
2671
2672 <const name="Reference" value="1" />
2673 <const name="Original" value="2" />
2674 <const name="Auto" value="3" />
2675 <const name="ExtraConfig" value="4" />
2676
2677 </enum>
2678
2679 <interface
2680 name="IVirtualSystemDescription" extends="$unknown"
2681 uuid="d7525e6c-531a-4c51-8e04-41235083a3d8"
2682 wsmap="managed"
2683 >
2684
2685 <desc>Represents one virtual system (machine) in an appliance. This interface is used in
2686 the <link to="IAppliance::virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array. After
2687 <link to="IAppliance::interpret" /> has been called, that array contains information
2688 about how the virtual systems described in the OVF should best be imported into
2689 VirtualBox virtual machines. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the steps required to
2690 import an OVF into VirtualBox.
2691 </desc>
2692
2693 <attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
2694 <desc>Return the number of virtual system description entries.</desc>
2695 </attribute>
2696
2697 <method name="getDescription">
2698 <desc>Returns information about the virtual system as arrays of instruction items. In each array, the
2699 items with the same indices correspond and jointly represent an import instruction for VirtualBox.
2700
2701 The list below identifies the value sets that are possible depending on the
2702 <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" /> enum value in the array item in @a aTypes[]. In each case,
2703 the array item with the same index in @a aOvfValues[] will contain the original value as contained
2704 in the OVF file (just for informational purposes), and the corresponding item in @a aVBoxValues[]
2705 will contain a suggested value to be used for VirtualBox. Depending on the description type,
2706 the @a aExtraConfigValues[] array item may also be used.
2707
2708 <ul>
2709 <li>
2710 "OS": the guest operating system type. There must be exactly one such array item on import. The
2711 corresponding item in @a aVBoxValues[] contains the suggested guest operating system for VirtualBox.
2712 This will be one of the values listed in <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes" />. The corresponding
2713 item in @a aOvfValues[] will contain a numerical value that described the operating system in the OVF.
2714 </li>
2715 <li>
2716 "Name": the name to give to the new virtual machine. There can be at most one such array item;
2717 if none is present on import, then an automatic name will be created from the operating system
2718 type. The corresponding item im @a aOvfValues[] will contain the suggested virtual machine name
2719 from the OVF file, and @a aVBoxValues[] will contain a suggestion for a unique VirtualBox
2720 <link to="IMachine" /> name that does not exist yet.
2721 </li>
2722 <li>
2723 "Description": an arbitrary description.
2724 </li>
2725 <li>
2726 "License": the EULA section from the OVF, if present. It is the responsibility of the calling
2727 code to display such a license for agreement; the Main API does not enforce any such policy.
2728 </li>
2729 <li>
2730 Miscellaneous: reserved for future use.
2731 </li>
2732 <li>
2733 "CPU": the number of CPUs. There can be at most one such item, which will presently be ignored.
2734 </li>
2735 <li>
2736 "Memory": the amount of guest RAM, in bytes. There can be at most one such array item; if none
2737 is present on import, then VirtualBox will set a meaningful default based on the operating system
2738 type.
2739 </li>
2740 <li>
2741 "HardDiskControllerIDE": an IDE hard disk controller. There can be at most two such items.
2742 An optional value in @a aOvfValues[] and @a aVBoxValues[] can be "PIIX3" or "PIIX4" to specify
2743 the type of IDE controller; this corresponds to the ResourceSubType element which VirtualBox
2744 writes into the OVF.
2745 The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will contain an integer that items of the "Harddisk"
2746 type can use to specify which hard disk controller a virtual disk should be connected to.
2747 Note that in OVF, an IDE controller has two channels, corresponding to "master" and "slave"
2748 in traditional terminology, whereas the IDE storage controller that VirtualBox supports in
2749 its virtual machines supports four channels (primary master, primary slave, secondary master,
2750 secondary slave) and thus maps to two IDE controllers in the OVF sense.
2751 </li>
2752 <li>
2753 "HardDiskControllerSATA": an SATA hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
2754 has no value in @a aOvfValues[] or @a aVBoxValues[].
2755 The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
2756 </li>
2757 <li>
2758 "HardDiskControllerSCSI": a SCSI hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item.
2759 The items in @a aOvfValues[] and @a aVBoxValues[] will either be "LsiLogic", "BusLogic" or
2760 "LsiLogicSas". (Note that in OVF, the LsiLogicSas controller is treated as a SCSI controller
2761 whereas VirtualBox considers it a class of storage controllers of its own; see
2762 <link to="StorageControllerType" />).
2763 The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
2764 </li>
2765 <li>
2766 "HardDiskImage": a virtual hard disk, most probably as a reference to an image file. There can be an
2767 arbitrary number of these items, one for each virtual disk image that accompanies the OVF.
2768
2769 The array item in @a aOvfValues[] will contain the file specification from the OVF file (without
2770 a path since the image file should be in the same location as the OVF file itself), whereas the
2771 item in @a aVBoxValues[] will contain a qualified path specification to where VirtualBox uses the
2772 hard disk image. This means that on import the image will be copied and converted from the
2773 "ovf" location to the "vbox" location; on export, this will be handled the other way round.
2774
2775 The matching item in the @a aExtraConfigValues[] array must contain a string of the following
2776 format: "controller=&lt;index&gt;;channel=&lt;c&gt;"
2777 In this string, &lt;index&gt; must be an integer specifying the hard disk controller to connect
2778 the image to. That number must be the index of an array item with one of the hard disk controller
2779 types (HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskControllerSATA, HardDiskControllerIDE).
2780 In addition, &lt;c&gt; must specify the channel to use on that controller. For IDE controllers,
2781 this can be 0 or 1 for master or slave, respectively. For compatibility with VirtualBox versions
2782 before 3.2, the values 2 and 3 (for secondary master and secondary slave) are also supported, but
2783 no longer exported. For SATA and SCSI controllers, the channel can range from 0-29.
2784 </li>
2785 <li>
2786 "CDROM": a virtual CD-ROM drive. The matching item in @a aExtraConfigValue[] contains the same
2787 attachment information as with "HardDiskImage" items.
2788 </li>
2789 <li>
2790 "CDROM": a virtual floppy drive. The matching item in @a aExtraConfigValue[] contains the same
2791 attachment information as with "HardDiskImage" items.
2792 </li>
2793 <li>
2794 "NetworkAdapter": a network adapter. The array item in @a aVBoxValues[] will specify the hardware
2795 for the network adapter, whereas the array item in @a aExtraConfigValues[] will have a string
2796 of the "type=&lt;X&gt;" format, where &lt;X&gt; must be either "NAT" or "Bridged".
2797 </li>
2798 <li>
2799 "USBController": a USB controller. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an
2800 item ispresent, USB support will be enabled for the new virtual machine.
2801 </li>
2802 <li>
2803 "SoundCard": a sound card. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an item is
2804 present, sound support will be enabled for the new virtual machine. Note that the virtual
2805 machine in VirtualBox will always be presented with the standard VirtualBox soundcard, which
2806 may be different from the virtual soundcard expected by the appliance.
2807 </li>
2808 </ul>
2809
2810 </desc>
2811
2812 <param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2813 <desc></desc>
2814 </param>
2815
2816 <param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2817 <desc></desc>
2818 </param>
2819
2820 <param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2821 <desc></desc>
2822 </param>
2823
2824 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2825 <desc></desc>
2826 </param>
2827
2828 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2829 <desc></desc>
2830 </param>
2831
2832 </method>
2833
2834 <method name="getDescriptionByType">
2835 <desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescription" /> except that you can specify which types
2836 should be returned.</desc>
2837
2838 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2839 <desc></desc>
2840 </param>
2841
2842 <param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2843 <desc></desc>
2844 </param>
2845
2846 <param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2847 <desc></desc>
2848 </param>
2849
2850 <param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2851 <desc></desc>
2852 </param>
2853
2854 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2855 <desc></desc>
2856 </param>
2857
2858 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2859 <desc></desc>
2860 </param>
2861
2862 </method>
2863
2864 <method name="getValuesByType">
2865 <desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescriptionByType" /> except that you can specify which
2866 value types should be returned. See <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" /> for possible
2867 values.</desc>
2868
2869 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2870 <desc></desc>
2871 </param>
2872
2873 <param name="aWhich" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" dir="in">
2874 <desc></desc>
2875 </param>
2876
2877 <param name="aValues" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2878 <desc></desc>
2879 </param>
2880
2881 </method>
2882
2883 <method name="setFinalValues">
2884 <desc>
2885 This method allows the appliance's user to change the configuration for the virtual
2886 system descriptions. For each array item returned from <link to="#getDescription" />,
2887 you must pass in one boolean value and one configuration value.
2888
2889 Each item in the boolean array determines whether the particular configuration item
2890 should be enabled.
2891 You can only disable items of the types HardDiskControllerIDE, HardDiskControllerSATA,
2892 HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskImage, CDROM, Floppy, NetworkAdapter, USBController
2893 and SoundCard.
2894
2895 For the "vbox" and "extra configuration" values, if you pass in the same arrays
2896 as returned in the aVBoxValues and aExtraConfigValues arrays from getDescription(),
2897 the configuration remains unchanged. Please see the documentation for getDescription()
2898 for valid configuration values for the individual array item types. If the
2899 corresponding item in the aEnabled array is @c false, the configuration value is ignored.
2900 </desc>
2901
2902 <param name="aEnabled" type="boolean" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2903 <desc></desc>
2904 </param>
2905
2906 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2907 <desc></desc>
2908 </param>
2909
2910 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2911 <desc></desc>
2912 </param>
2913 </method>
2914
2915 <method name="addDescription">
2916 <desc>
2917 This method adds an additional description entry to the stack of already
2918 available descriptions for this virtual system. This is handy for writing
2919 values which aren't directly supported by VirtualBox. One example would
2920 be the License type of <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" />.
2921 </desc>
2922
2923 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2924 <desc></desc>
2925 </param>
2926
2927 <param name="aVBoxValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
2928 <desc></desc>
2929 </param>
2930
2931 <param name="aExtraConfigValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
2932 <desc></desc>
2933 </param>
2934 </method>
2935 </interface>
2936
2937
2938 <!--
2939 // IMachine
2940 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2941 -->
2942
2943 <interface
2944 name="IInternalMachineControl" extends="$unknown"
2945 uuid="476126af-e223-4490-a8a0-b1f1575be013"
2946 internal="yes"
2947 wsmap="suppress"
2948 >
2949 <method name="setRemoveSavedStateFile">
2950 <desc>
2951 Updates the flag whether the saved state file is removed on a
2952 machine state change from Saved to PoweredOff.
2953 </desc>
2954 <param name="aRemove" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
2955 </method>
2956
2957 <method name="updateState">
2958 <desc>
2959 Updates the VM state.
2960 <note>
2961 This operation will also update the settings file with the correct
2962 information about the saved state file and delete this file from disk
2963 when appropriate.
2964 </note>
2965 </desc>
2966 <param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
2967 </method>
2968
2969 <method name="getIPCId">
2970 <param name="id" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
2971 </method>
2972
2973 <method name="beginPowerUp">
2974 <desc>
2975 Tells VBoxSVC that <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> is under ways and
2976 gives it the progress object that should be part of any pending
2977 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> operations. The progress
2978 object may be called back to reflect an early cancelation, so some care
2979 have to be taken with respect to any cancelation callbacks. The console
2980 object will call <link to="IInternalMachineControl::endPowerUp"/>
2981 to signal the completion of the progress object.
2982 </desc>
2983 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in" />
2984 </method>
2985
2986 <method name="endPowerUp">
2987 <desc>
2988 Tells VBoxSVC that <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> has completed.
2989 This method may query status information from the progress object it
2990 received in <link to="IInternalMachineControl::beginPowerUp"/> and copy
2991 it over to any in-progress <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>
2992 call in order to complete that progress object.
2993 </desc>
2994 <param name="result" type="long" dir="in"/>
2995 </method>
2996
2997 <method name="runUSBDeviceFilters">
2998 <desc>
2999 Asks the server to run USB devices filters of the associated
3000 machine against the given USB device and tell if there is
3001 a match.
3002 <note>
3003 Intended to be used only for remote USB devices. Local
3004 ones don't require to call this method (this is done
3005 implicitly by the Host and USBProxyService).
3006 </note>
3007 </desc>
3008 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
3009 <param name="matched" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
3010 <param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
3011 </method>
3012
3013 <method name="captureUSBDevice">
3014 <desc>
3015 Requests a capture of the given host USB device.
3016 When the request is completed, the VM process will
3017 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3018 notification.
3019 </desc>
3020 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3021 </method>
3022
3023 <method name="detachUSBDevice">
3024 <desc>
3025 Notification that a VM is going to detach (@a done = @c false) or has
3026 already detached (@a done = @c true) the given USB device.
3027 When the @a done = @c true request is completed, the VM process will
3028 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceDetach"/>
3029 notification.
3030 <note>
3031 In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3032 and filters of all VMs but this one on the detached device
3033 as if it were just attached to the host computer.
3034 </note>
3035 </desc>
3036 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3037 <param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3038 </method>
3039
3040 <method name="autoCaptureUSBDevices">
3041 <desc>
3042 Requests a capture all matching USB devices attached to the host.
3043 When the request is completed, the VM process will
3044 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3045 notification per every captured device.
3046 </desc>
3047 </method>
3048
3049 <method name="detachAllUSBDevices">
3050 <desc>
3051 Notification that a VM that is being powered down. The done
3052 parameter indicates whether which stage of the power down
3053 we're at. When @a done = @c false the VM is announcing its
3054 intentions, while when @a done = @c true the VM is reporting
3055 what it has done.
3056 <note>
3057 In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3058 and filters of all VMs but this one on all detach devices as
3059 if they were just attached to the host computer.
3060 </note>
3061 </desc>
3062 <param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3063 </method>
3064
3065 <method name="onSessionEnd">
3066 <desc>
3067 Triggered by the given session object when the session is about
3068 to close normally.
3069 </desc>
3070 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
3071 <desc>Session that is being closed</desc>
3072 </param>
3073 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3074 <desc>
3075 Used to wait until the corresponding machine is actually
3076 dissociated from the given session on the server.
3077 Returned only when this session is a direct one.
3078 </desc>
3079 </param>
3080 </method>
3081
3082 <method name="beginSavingState">
3083 <desc>
3084 Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3085 save the current state and stop the VM execution.
3086 </desc>
3087 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="out">
3088 <desc>
3089 Progress object created by VBoxSVC to wait until
3090 the state is saved.
3091 </desc>
3092 </param>
3093 <param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3094 <desc>
3095 File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3096 </desc>
3097 </param>
3098 </method>
3099
3100 <method name="endSavingState">
3101 <desc>
3102 Called by the VM process to inform the server that saving
3103 the state previously requested by #beginSavingState is either
3104 successfully finished or there was a failure.
3105
3106 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3107 Settings file not accessible.
3108 </result>
3109 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3110 Could not parse the settings file.
3111 </result>
3112
3113 </desc>
3114
3115 <param name="result" type="long" dir="in">
3116 <desc>@c S_OK to indicate success.
3117 </desc>
3118 </param>
3119 <param name="errMsg" type="wstring" dir="in">
3120 <desc>@c human readable error message in case of failure.
3121 </desc>
3122 </param>
3123 </method>
3124
3125 <method name="adoptSavedState">
3126 <desc>
3127 Gets called by IConsole::adoptSavedState.
3128 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3129 Invalid saved state file path.
3130 </result>
3131 </desc>
3132 <param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
3133 <desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
3134 </param>
3135 </method>
3136
3137 <method name="beginTakingSnapshot">
3138 <desc>
3139 Called from the VM process to request from the server to perform the
3140 server-side actions of creating a snapshot (creating differencing images
3141 and the snapshot object).
3142
3143 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3144 Settings file not accessible.
3145 </result>
3146 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3147 Could not parse the settings file.
3148 </result>
3149 </desc>
3150 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3151 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3152 </param>
3153 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3154 <desc>Snapshot name.</desc>
3155 </param>
3156 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
3157 <desc>Snapshot description.</desc>
3158 </param>
3159 <param name="consoleProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3160 <desc>
3161 Progress object created by the VM process tracking the
3162 snapshot's progress. This has the following sub-operations:
3163 <ul>
3164 <li>setting up (weight 1);</li>
3165 <li>one for each medium attachment that needs a differencing image (weight 1 each);</li>
3166 <li>another one to copy the VM state (if offline with saved state, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3167 <li>another one to save the VM state (if online, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3168 <li>finishing up (weight 1)</li>
3169 </ul>
3170 </desc>
3171 </param>
3172 <param name="fTakingSnapshotOnline" type="boolean" dir="in">
3173 <desc>
3174 Whether this is an online snapshot (i.e. the machine is running).
3175 </desc>
3176 </param>
3177 <param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3178 <desc>
3179 File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3180 </desc>
3181 </param>
3182 </method>
3183
3184 <method name="endTakingSnapshot">
3185 <desc>
3186 Called by the VM process to inform the server that the snapshot
3187 previously requested by #beginTakingSnapshot is either
3188 successfully taken or there was a failure.
3189 </desc>
3190
3191 <param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3192 <desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise</desc>
3193 </param>
3194 </method>
3195
3196 <method name="deleteSnapshot">
3197 <desc>
3198 Gets called by IConsole::deleteSnapshot.
3199 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3200 Snapshot has more than one child snapshot.
3201 </result>
3202 </desc>
3203 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3204 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3205 </param>
3206 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
3207 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to delete.</desc>
3208 </param>
3209 <param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3210 <desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3211 </param>
3212 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3213 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3214 </param>
3215 </method>
3216
3217 <method name="finishOnlineMergeMedium">
3218 <desc>
3219 Gets called by IConsole::onlineMergeMedium.
3220 </desc>
3221 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
3222 <desc>The medium attachment which needs to be cleaned up.</desc>
3223 </param>
3224 <param name="source" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3225 <desc>Merge source medium.</desc>
3226 </param>
3227 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3228 <desc>Merge target medium.</desc>
3229 </param>
3230 <param name="mergeForward" type="boolean" dir="in">
3231 <desc>Merge direction.</desc>
3232 </param>
3233 <param name="parentForTarget" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3234 <desc>For forward merges: new parent for target medium.</desc>
3235 </param>
3236 <param name="childrenToReparent" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
3237 <desc>For backward merges: list of media which need their parent UUID
3238 updated.</desc>
3239 </param>
3240 </method>
3241
3242 <method name="restoreSnapshot">
3243 <desc>
3244 Gets called by IConsole::RestoreSnapshot.
3245 </desc>
3246 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3247 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3248 </param>
3249 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
3250 <desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
3251 </param>
3252 <param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3253 <desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3254 </param>
3255 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3256 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3257 </param>
3258 </method>
3259
3260 <method name="pullGuestProperties">
3261 <desc>
3262 Get the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3263 with their values, time stamps and flags and give responsibility for
3264 managing properties to the console.
3265 </desc>
3266 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3267 <desc>
3268 The names of the properties returned.
3269 </desc>
3270 </param>
3271 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3272 <desc>
3273 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3274 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3275 </desc>
3276 </param>
3277 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3278 <desc>
3279 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
3280 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3281 </desc>
3282 </param>
3283 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3284 <desc>
3285 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3286 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3287 </desc>
3288 </param>
3289 </method>
3290
3291 <method name="pushGuestProperty">
3292 <desc>
3293 Update a single guest property in IMachine.
3294 </desc>
3295 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3296 <desc>
3297 The name of the property to be updated.
3298 </desc>
3299 </param>
3300 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
3301 <desc>
3302 The value of the property.
3303 </desc>
3304 </param>
3305 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="in">
3306 <desc>
3307 The timestamp of the property.
3308 </desc>
3309 </param>
3310 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
3311 <desc>
3312 The flags of the property.
3313 </desc>
3314 </param>
3315 </method>
3316
3317 <method name="lockMedia">
3318 <desc>
3319 Locks all media attached to the machine for writing and parents of
3320 attached differencing media (if any) for reading. This operation is
3321 atomic so that if it fails no media is actually locked.
3322
3323 This method is intended to be called when the machine is in Starting or
3324 Restoring state. The locked media will be automatically unlocked when
3325 the machine is powered off or crashed.
3326 </desc>
3327 </method>
3328 <method name="unlockMedia">
3329 <desc>
3330 Unlocks all media previously locked using
3331 <link to="IInternalMachineControl::lockMedia"/>.
3332
3333 This method is intended to be used with teleportation so that it is
3334 possible to teleport between processes on the same machine.
3335 </desc>
3336 </method>
3337 </interface>
3338
3339 <interface
3340 name="IBIOSSettings" extends="$unknown"
3341 uuid="38b54279-dc35-4f5e-a431-835b867c6b5e"
3342 wsmap="managed"
3343 >
3344 <desc>
3345 The IBIOSSettings interface represents BIOS settings of the virtual
3346 machine. This is used only in the <link to="IMachine::BIOSSettings" /> attribute.
3347 </desc>
3348 <attribute name="logoFadeIn" type="boolean">
3349 <desc>Fade in flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3350 </attribute>
3351
3352 <attribute name="logoFadeOut" type="boolean">
3353 <desc>Fade out flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3354 </attribute>
3355
3356 <attribute name="logoDisplayTime" type="unsigned long">
3357 <desc>BIOS logo display time in milliseconds (0 = default).</desc>
3358 </attribute>
3359
3360 <attribute name="logoImagePath" type="wstring">
3361 <desc>
3362 Local file system path for external BIOS splash image. Empty string
3363 means the default image is shown on boot.
3364 </desc>
3365 </attribute>
3366
3367 <attribute name="bootMenuMode" type="BIOSBootMenuMode">
3368 <desc>Mode of the BIOS boot device menu.</desc>
3369 </attribute>
3370
3371 <attribute name="ACPIEnabled" type="boolean">
3372 <desc>ACPI support flag.</desc>
3373 </attribute>
3374
3375 <attribute name="IOAPICEnabled" type="boolean">
3376 <desc>
3377 IO APIC support flag. If set, VirtualBox will provide an IO APIC
3378 and support IRQs above 15.
3379 </desc>
3380 </attribute>
3381
3382 <attribute name="timeOffset" type="long long">
3383 <desc>
3384 Offset in milliseconds from the host system time. This allows for
3385 guests running with a different system date/time than the host.
3386 It is equivalent to setting the system date/time in the BIOS except
3387 it is not an absolute value but a relative one. Guest Additions
3388 time synchronization honors this offset.
3389 </desc>
3390 </attribute>
3391
3392 <attribute name="PXEDebugEnabled" type="boolean">
3393 <desc>
3394 PXE debug logging flag. If set, VirtualBox will write extensive
3395 PXE trace information to the release log.
3396 </desc>
3397 </attribute>
3398
3399 </interface>
3400
3401 <enum name="CleanupMode"
3402 uuid="67897c50-7cca-47a9-83f6-ce8fd8eb5441">
3403 <desc>Cleanup mode, used with <link to="IMachine::unregister" />.
3404 </desc>
3405 <const name="UnregisterOnly" value="1">
3406 <desc>Unregister only the machine, but neither delete snapshots nor detach media.</desc>
3407 </const>
3408 <const name="DetachAllReturnNone" value="2">
3409 <desc>Delete all snapshots and detach all media but return none; this will keep all media registered.</desc>
3410 </const>
3411 <const name="DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly" value="3">
3412 <desc>Delete all snapshots, detach all media and return hard disks for closing, but not removeable media.</desc>
3413 </const>
3414 <const name="Full" value="4">
3415 <desc>Delete all snapshots, detach all media and return all media for closing.</desc>
3416 </const>
3417 </enum>
3418
3419 <interface
3420 name="IMachine" extends="$unknown"
3421 uuid="cc4fec9a-3150-45df-9ee9-f00ba54d6ac3"
3422 wsmap="managed"
3423 >
3424 <desc>
3425 The IMachine interface represents a virtual machine, or guest, created
3426 in VirtualBox.
3427
3428 This interface is used in two contexts. First of all, a collection of
3429 objects implementing this interface is stored in the
3430 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute which lists all the virtual
3431 machines that are currently registered with this VirtualBox
3432 installation. Also, once a session has been opened for the given virtual
3433 machine (e.g. the virtual machine is running), the machine object
3434 associated with the open session can be queried from the session object;
3435 see <link to="ISession"/> for details.
3436
3437 The main role of this interface is to expose the settings of the virtual
3438 machine and provide methods to change various aspects of the virtual
3439 machine's configuration. For machine objects stored in the
3440 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> collection, all attributes are
3441 read-only unless explicitly stated otherwise in individual attribute
3442 and method descriptions.
3443
3444 In order to change a machine setting, a session for this machine must be
3445 opened using one of the <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> or
3446 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> methods. After the
3447 machine has been successfully locked for a session, a mutable machine object
3448 needs to be queried from the session object and then the desired settings
3449 changes can be applied to the returned object using IMachine attributes and
3450 methods. See the <link to="ISession"/> interface description for more
3451 information about sessions.
3452
3453 Note that IMachine does not provide methods to control virtual machine
3454 execution (such as start the machine, or power it down) -- these methods
3455 are grouped in a separate interface called <link to="IConsole" />.
3456
3457 <see>ISession, IConsole</see>
3458 </desc>
3459
3460 <attribute name="parent" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
3461 <desc>Associated parent object.</desc>
3462 </attribute>
3463
3464 <attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3465 <desc>
3466 Whether this virtual machine is currently accessible or not.
3467
3468 A machine is always deemed accessible unless it is registered <i>and</i>
3469 its settings file cannot be read or parsed (either because the file itself
3470 is unavailable or has invalid XML contents).
3471
3472 Every time this property is read, the accessibility state of
3473 this machine is re-evaluated. If the returned value is @c false,
3474 the <link to="#accessError"/> property may be used to get the
3475 detailed error information describing the reason of
3476 inaccessibility, including XML error messages.
3477
3478 When the machine is inaccessible, only the following properties
3479 can be used on it:
3480 <ul>
3481 <li><link to="#parent"/></li>
3482 <li><link to="#id"/></li>
3483 <li><link to="#settingsFilePath"/></li>
3484 <li><link to="#accessible"/></li>
3485 <li><link to="#accessError"/></li>
3486 </ul>
3487
3488 An attempt to access any other property or method will return
3489 an error.
3490
3491 The only possible action you can perform on an inaccessible
3492 machine is to unregister it using the
3493 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/> call (or, to check
3494 for the accessibility state once more by querying this
3495 property).
3496
3497 <note>
3498 In the current implementation, once this property returns
3499 @c true, the machine will never become inaccessible
3500 later, even if its settings file cannot be successfully
3501 read/written any more (at least, until the VirtualBox
3502 server is restarted). This limitation may be removed in
3503 future releases.
3504 </note>
3505 </desc>
3506 </attribute>
3507
3508 <attribute name="accessError" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
3509 <desc>
3510 Error information describing the reason of machine
3511 inaccessibility.
3512
3513 Reading this property is only valid after the last call to
3514 <link to="#accessible"/> returned @c false (i.e. the
3515 machine is currently inaccessible). Otherwise, a @c null
3516 IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object will be returned.
3517 </desc>
3518 </attribute>
3519
3520 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
3521 <desc>
3522 Name of the virtual machine.
3523
3524 Besides being used for human-readable identification purposes
3525 everywhere in VirtualBox, the virtual machine name is also used
3526 as a name of the machine's settings file and as a name of the
3527 subdirectory this settings file resides in. Thus, every time you
3528 change the value of this property, the settings file will be
3529 renamed once you call <link to="#saveSettings"/> to confirm the
3530 change. The containing subdirectory will be also renamed, but
3531 only if it has exactly the same name as the settings file
3532 itself prior to changing this property (for backward compatibility
3533 with previous API releases). The above implies the following
3534 limitations:
3535 <ul>
3536 <li>The machine name cannot be empty.</li>
3537 <li>The machine name can contain only characters that are valid
3538 file name characters according to the rules of the file
3539 system used to store VirtualBox configuration.</li>
3540 <li>You cannot have two or more machines with the same name
3541 if they use the same subdirectory for storing the machine
3542 settings files.</li>
3543 <li>You cannot change the name of the machine if it is running,
3544 or if any file in the directory containing the settings file
3545 is being used by another running machine or by any other
3546 process in the host operating system at a time when
3547 <link to="#saveSettings"/> is called.
3548 </li>
3549 </ul>
3550 If any of the above limitations are hit, <link to="#saveSettings"/>
3551 will return an appropriate error message explaining the exact
3552 reason and the changes you made to this machine will not be saved.
3553
3554 Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, a “.vbox” extension of the settings
3555 file is recommended, but not enforced. (Previous versions always
3556 used a generic ".xml" extension.)
3557 </desc>
3558 </attribute>
3559
3560 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
3561 <desc>
3562 Description of the virtual machine.
3563
3564 The description attribute can contain any text and is
3565 typically used to describe the hardware and software
3566 configuration of the virtual machine in detail (i.e. network
3567 settings, versions of the installed software and so on).
3568 </desc>
3569 </attribute>
3570
3571 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
3572 <desc>UUID of the virtual machine.</desc>
3573 </attribute>
3574
3575 <attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring">
3576 <desc>
3577 User-defined identifier of the Guest OS type.
3578 You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
3579 an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
3580 Guest OS type.
3581 <note>
3582 This value may differ from the value returned by
3583 <link to="IGuest::OSTypeId"/> if Guest Additions are
3584 installed to the guest OS.
3585 </note>
3586 </desc>
3587 </attribute>
3588
3589 <attribute name="HardwareVersion" type="wstring">
3590 <desc>Hardware version identifier. Internal use only for now.</desc>
3591 </attribute>
3592
3593 <attribute name="hardwareUUID" type="uuid" mod="string">
3594 <desc>
3595 The UUID presented to the guest via memory tables, hardware and guest
3596 properties. For most VMs this is the same as the @a id, but for VMs
3597 which have been cloned or teleported it may be the same as the source
3598 VM. This latter is because the guest shouldn't notice that it was
3599 cloned or teleported.
3600 </desc>
3601 </attribute>
3602
3603 <attribute name="CPUCount" type="unsigned long">
3604 <desc>Number of virtual CPUs in the VM.</desc>
3605 </attribute>
3606
3607 <attribute name="CPUHotPlugEnabled" type="boolean">
3608 <desc>
3609 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows CPU
3610 hotplugging for this machine.</desc>
3611 </attribute>
3612
3613 <attribute name="CPUExecutionCap" type="unsigned long">
3614 <desc>
3615 Means to limit the number of CPU cycles a guest can use. The unit
3616 is percentage of host CPU cycles per second. The valid range
3617 is 1 - 100. 100 (the default) implies no limit.
3618 </desc>
3619 </attribute>
3620
3621 <attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long">
3622 <desc>System memory size in megabytes.</desc>
3623 </attribute>
3624
3625 <attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
3626 <desc>Memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
3627 </attribute>
3628
3629 <attribute name="PageFusionEnabled" type="boolean">
3630 <desc>
3631 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows page
3632 fusion for this machine (64 bits host only).
3633 </desc>
3634 </attribute>
3635
3636 <attribute name="VRAMSize" type="unsigned long">
3637 <desc>Video memory size in megabytes.</desc>
3638 </attribute>
3639
3640 <attribute name="accelerate3DEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
3641 <desc>
3642 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
3643 use of the 3D graphics support available on the host.</desc>
3644 </attribute>
3645
3646 <attribute name="accelerate2DVideoEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
3647 <desc>
3648 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
3649 use of the 2D video acceleration support available on the host.</desc>
3650 </attribute>
3651
3652 <attribute name="monitorCount" type="unsigned long">
3653 <desc>
3654 Number of virtual monitors.
3655 <note>
3656 Only effective on Windows XP and later guests with
3657 Guest Additions installed.
3658 </note>
3659 </desc>
3660 </attribute>
3661
3662 <attribute name="BIOSSettings" type="IBIOSSettings" readonly="yes">
3663 <desc>Object containing all BIOS settings.</desc>
3664 </attribute>
3665
3666 <attribute name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType">
3667 <desc>Type of firmware (such as legacy BIOS or EFI), used for initial
3668 bootstrap in this VM.</desc>
3669 </attribute>
3670
3671 <attribute name="pointingHidType" type="PointingHidType">
3672 <desc>Type of pointing HID (such as mouse or tablet) used in this VM.
3673 The default is typically "PS2Mouse" but can vary depending on the
3674 requirements of the guest operating system.</desc>
3675 </attribute>
3676
3677 <attribute name="keyboardHidType" type="KeyboardHidType">
3678 <desc>Type of keyboard HID used in this VM.
3679 The default is typically "PS2Keyboard" but can vary depending on the
3680 requirements of the guest operating system.</desc>
3681 </attribute>
3682
3683 <attribute name="hpetEnabled" type="boolean">
3684 <desc>This attribute controls if High Precision Event Timer (HPET) is
3685 enabled in this VM. Use this property if you want to provide guests
3686 with additional time source, or if guest requires HPET to function correctly.
3687 Default is false.</desc>
3688 </attribute>
3689
3690 <attribute name="chipsetType" type="ChipsetType">
3691 <desc>Chipset type used in this VM.</desc>
3692 </attribute>
3693
3694 <attribute name="snapshotFolder" type="wstring">
3695 <desc>
3696 Full path to the directory used to store snapshot data
3697 (differencing media and saved state files) of this machine.
3698
3699 The initial value of this property is
3700 <tt>&lt;</tt><link to="#settingsFilePath">
3701 path_to_settings_file</link><tt>&gt;/&lt;</tt>
3702 <link to="#id">machine_uuid</link>
3703 <tt>&gt;</tt>.
3704
3705 Currently, it is an error to try to change this property on
3706 a machine that has snapshots (because this would require to
3707 move possibly large files to a different location).
3708 A separate method will be available for this purpose later.
3709
3710 <note>
3711 Setting this property to @c null or to an empty string will restore
3712 the initial value.
3713 </note>
3714 <note>
3715 When setting this property, the specified path can be
3716 absolute (full path) or relative to the directory where the
3717 <link to="#settingsFilePath">machine settings file</link>
3718 is located. When reading this property, a full path is
3719 always returned.
3720 </note>
3721 <note>
3722 The specified path may not exist, it will be created
3723 when necessary.
3724 </note>
3725 </desc>
3726 </attribute>
3727
3728 <attribute name="VRDEServer" type="IVRDEServer" readonly="yes">
3729 <desc>VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) server object.</desc>
3730 </attribute>
3731
3732 <attribute name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3733 <desc>Array of media attached to this machine.</desc>
3734 </attribute>
3735
3736 <attribute name="USBController" type="IUSBController" readonly="yes">
3737 <desc>
3738 Associated USB controller object.
3739
3740 <note>
3741 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
3742 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
3743 </note>
3744 </desc>
3745 </attribute>
3746
3747 <attribute name="audioAdapter" type="IAudioAdapter" readonly="yes">
3748 <desc>Associated audio adapter, always present.</desc>
3749 </attribute>
3750
3751 <attribute name="storageControllers" type="IStorageController" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3752 <desc>Array of storage controllers attached to this machine.</desc>
3753 </attribute>
3754
3755 <attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3756 <desc>
3757 Full name of the file containing machine settings data.
3758 </desc>
3759 </attribute>
3760
3761 <attribute name="settingsModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3762 <desc>
3763 Whether the settings of this machine have been modified
3764 (but neither yet saved nor discarded).
3765 <note>
3766 Reading this property is only valid on instances returned
3767 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
3768 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened
3769 by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
3770 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
3771 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/>. For all other
3772 cases, the settings can never be modified.
3773 </note>
3774 <note>
3775 For newly created unregistered machines, the value of this
3776 property is always @c true until <link to="#saveSettings"/>
3777 is called (no matter if any machine settings have been
3778 changed after the creation or not). For opened machines
3779 the value is set to @c false (and then follows to normal rules).
3780 </note>
3781 </desc>
3782 </attribute>
3783
3784 <attribute name="sessionState" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
3785 <desc>Current session state for this machine.</desc>
3786 </attribute>
3787
3788 <attribute name="sessionType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3789 <desc>
3790 Type of the session. If <link to="#sessionState"/> is
3791 Spawning or Locked, this attribute contains the
3792 same value as passed to the
3793 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> method in the
3794 @a type parameter. If the session was used with
3795 <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />, or if
3796 <link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionClosed, the value of this
3797 attribute is an empty string.
3798 </desc>
3799 </attribute>
3800
3801 <attribute name="sessionPid" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
3802 <desc>
3803 Identifier of the session process. This attribute contains the
3804 platform-dependent identifier of the process whose session was
3805 used with <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> call. The returned
3806 value is only valid if <link to="#sessionState"/> is Locked or
3807 Unlocking by the time this property is read.
3808 </desc>
3809 </attribute>
3810
3811 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
3812 <desc>Current execution state of this machine.</desc>
3813 </attribute>
3814
3815 <attribute name="lastStateChange" type="long long" readonly="yes">
3816 <desc>
3817 Time stamp of the last execution state change,
3818 in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
3819 </desc>
3820 </attribute>
3821
3822 <attribute name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3823 <desc>
3824 Full path to the file that stores the execution state of
3825 the machine when it is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state.
3826 <note>
3827 When the machine is not in the Saved state, this attribute is
3828 an empty string.
3829 </note>
3830 </desc>
3831 </attribute>
3832
3833 <attribute name="logFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3834 <desc>
3835 Full path to the folder that stores a set of rotated log files
3836 recorded during machine execution. The most recent log file is
3837 named <tt>VBox.log</tt>, the previous log file is
3838 named <tt>VBox.log.1</tt> and so on (up to <tt>VBox.log.3</tt>
3839 in the current version).
3840 </desc>
3841 </attribute>
3842
3843 <attribute name="currentSnapshot" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
3844 <desc>
3845 Current snapshot of this machine. This is @c null if the machine
3846 currently has no snapshots. If it is not @c null, then it was
3847 set by one of <link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot" />,
3848 <link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot" />
3849 or <link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot" />, depending on which
3850 was called last. See <link to="ISnapshot"/> for details.
3851 </desc>
3852 </attribute>
3853
3854 <attribute name="snapshotCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
3855 <desc>
3856 Number of snapshots taken on this machine. Zero means the
3857 machine doesn't have any snapshots.
3858 </desc>
3859 </attribute>
3860
3861 <attribute name="currentStateModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3862 <desc>
3863 Returns @c true if the current state of the machine is not
3864 identical to the state stored in the current snapshot.
3865
3866 The current state is identical to the current snapshot only
3867 directly after one of the following calls are made:
3868
3869 <ul>
3870 <li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/>
3871 </li>
3872 <li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> (issued on a
3873 "powered off" or "saved" machine, for which
3874 <link to="#settingsModified"/> returns @c false)
3875 </li>
3876 </ul>
3877
3878 The current state remains identical until one of the following
3879 happens:
3880 <ul>
3881 <li>settings of the machine are changed</li>
3882 <li>the saved state is deleted</li>
3883 <li>the current snapshot is deleted</li>
3884 <li>an attempt to execute the machine is made</li>
3885 </ul>
3886
3887 <note>
3888 For machines that don't have snapshots, this property is
3889 always @c false.
3890 </note>
3891 </desc>
3892 </attribute>
3893
3894 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3895 <desc>
3896 Collection of shared folders for this machine (permanent shared
3897 folders). These folders are shared automatically at machine startup
3898 and available only to the guest OS installed within this machine.
3899
3900 New shared folders are added to the collection using
3901 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
3902 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
3903 </desc>
3904 </attribute>
3905
3906 <attribute name="clipboardMode" type="ClipboardMode">
3907 <desc>
3908 Synchronization mode between the host OS clipboard
3909 and the guest OS clipboard.
3910 </desc>
3911 </attribute>
3912
3913 <attribute name="guestPropertyNotificationPatterns" type="wstring">
3914 <desc>
3915 A comma-separated list of simple glob patterns. Changes to guest
3916 properties whose name matches one of the patterns will generate an
3917 <link to="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent"/> signal.
3918 </desc>
3919 </attribute>
3920
3921 <attribute name="teleporterEnabled" type="boolean">
3922 <desc>
3923 When set to @a true, the virtual machine becomes a target teleporter
3924 the next time it is powered on. This can only set to @a true when the
3925 VM is in the @a PoweredOff or @a Aborted state.
3926
3927 <!-- This property is automatically set to @a false when the VM is powered
3928 on. (bird: This doesn't work yet ) -->
3929 </desc>
3930 </attribute>
3931
3932 <attribute name="teleporterPort" type="unsigned long">
3933 <desc>
3934 The TCP port the target teleporter will listen for incoming
3935 teleportations on.
3936
3937 0 means the port is automatically selected upon power on. The actual
3938 value can be read from this property while the machine is waiting for
3939 incoming teleportations.
3940 </desc>
3941 </attribute>
3942
3943 <attribute name="teleporterAddress" type="wstring">
3944 <desc>
3945 The address the target teleporter will listen on. If set to an empty
3946 string, it will listen on all addresses.
3947 </desc>
3948 </attribute>
3949
3950 <attribute name="teleporterPassword" type="wstring">
3951 <desc>
3952 The password to check for on the target teleporter. This is just a
3953 very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
3954 beaming a virtual machine to the wrong place.
3955 </desc>
3956 </attribute>
3957
3958 <attribute name="faultToleranceState" type="FaultToleranceState">
3959 <desc>
3960 Fault tolerance state; disabled, source or target.
3961 This property can be changed at any time. If you change it for a running
3962 VM, then the fault tolerance address and port must be set beforehand.
3963 </desc>
3964 </attribute>
3965
3966 <attribute name="faultTolerancePort" type="unsigned long">
3967 <desc>
3968 The TCP port the fault tolerance source or target will use for
3969 communication.
3970 </desc>
3971 </attribute>
3972
3973 <attribute name="faultToleranceAddress" type="wstring">
3974 <desc>
3975 The address the fault tolerance source or target.
3976 </desc>
3977 </attribute>
3978
3979 <attribute name="faultTolerancePassword" type="wstring">
3980 <desc>
3981 The password to check for on the standby VM. This is just a
3982 very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
3983 choosing the wrong standby VM.
3984 </desc>
3985 </attribute>
3986
3987 <attribute name="faultToleranceSyncInterval" type="unsigned long">
3988 <desc>
3989 The interval in ms used for syncing the state between source and target.
3990 </desc>
3991 </attribute>
3992
3993 <attribute name="RTCUseUTC" type="boolean">
3994 <desc>
3995 When set to @a true, the RTC device of the virtual machine will run
3996 in UTC time, otherwise in local time. Especially Unix guests prefer
3997 the time in UTC.
3998 </desc>
3999 </attribute>
4000
4001 <attribute name="ioCacheEnabled" type="boolean">
4002 <desc>
4003 When set to @a true, the builtin I/O cache of the virtual machine
4004 will be enabled.
4005 </desc>
4006 </attribute>
4007
4008 <attribute name="ioCacheSize" type="unsigned long">
4009 <desc>
4010 Maximum size of the I/O cache in MB.
4011 </desc>
4012 </attribute>
4013
4014 <method name="lockMachine">
4015 <desc>
4016 Locks the machine for the given session to enable the caller
4017 to make changes to the machine or start the VM or control
4018 VM execution.
4019
4020 There are two ways to lock a machine for such uses:
4021
4022 <ul>
4023 <li>If you want to make changes to the machine settings,
4024 you must obtain an exclusive write lock on the machine
4025 by setting @a lockType to @c Write.
4026
4027 This will only succeed if no other process has locked
4028 the machine to prevent conflicting changes. Only after
4029 an exclusive write lock has been obtained using this method, one
4030 can change all VM settings or execute the VM in the process
4031 space of the session object. (Note that the latter is only of
4032 interest if you actually want to write a new front-end for
4033 virtual machines; but this API gets called internally by
4034 the existing front-ends such as VBoxHeadless and the VirtualBox
4035 GUI to acquire a write lock on the machine that they are running.)
4036
4037 On success, write-locking the machine for a session creates
4038 a second copy of the IMachine object. It is this second object
4039 upon which changes can be made; in VirtualBox terminology, the
4040 second copy is "mutable". It is only this second, mutable machine
4041 object upon which you can call methods that change the
4042 machine state. After having called this method, you can
4043 obtain this second, mutable machine object using the
4044 <link to="ISession::machine" /> attribute.
4045 </li>
4046 <li>If you only want to check the machine state or control
4047 machine execution without actually changing machine
4048 settings (e.g. to get access to VM statistics or take
4049 a snapshot or save the machine state), then set the
4050 @a lockType argument to @c Shared.
4051
4052 If no other session has obtained a lock, you will obtain an
4053 exclusive write lock as described above. However, if another
4054 session has already obtained such a lock, then a link to that
4055 existing session will be established which allows you
4056 to control that existing session.
4057
4058 To find out which type of lock was obtained, you can
4059 inspect <link to="ISession::type" />, which will have been
4060 set to either @c WriteLock or @c Shared.
4061 </li>
4062 </ul>
4063
4064 In either case, you can get access to the <link to="IConsole" />
4065 object which controls VM execution.
4066
4067 Also in all of the above cases, one must always call
4068 <link to="ISession::unlockMachine" /> to release the lock on the machine, or
4069 the machine's state will eventually be set to "Aborted".
4070
4071 To change settings on a machine, the following sequence is typically
4072 performed:
4073
4074 <ol>
4075 <li>Call this method to obtain an exclusive write lock for the current session.</li>
4076
4077 <li>Obtain a mutable IMachine object from <link to="ISession::machine" />.</li>
4078
4079 <li>Change the settings of the machine by invoking IMachine methods.</li>
4080
4081 <li>Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" />.</li>
4082
4083 <li>Release the write lock by calling <link to="ISession::unlockMachine"/>.</li>
4084 </ol>
4085
4086 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
4087 Virtual machine not registered.
4088 </result>
4089 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
4090 Process not started by OpenRemoteSession.
4091 </result>
4092 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4093 Session already open or being opened.
4094 </result>
4095 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
4096 Failed to assign machine to session.
4097 </result>
4098 </desc>
4099 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
4100 <desc>
4101 Session object for which the machine will be locked.
4102 </desc>
4103 </param>
4104 <param name="lockType" type="LockType" dir="in">
4105 <desc>
4106 If set to @c Write, then attempt to acquire an exclusive write lock or fail.
4107 If set to @c Shared, then either acquire an exclusive write lock or establish
4108 a link to an existing session.
4109 </desc>
4110 </param>
4111 </method>
4112
4113 <method name="launchVMProcess">
4114 <desc>
4115 Spawns a new process that will execute the virtual machine and obtains a shared
4116 lock on the machine for the calling session.
4117
4118 If launching the VM succeeds, the new VM process will create its own session
4119 and write-lock the machine for it, preventing conflicting changes from other
4120 processes. If the machine is already locked (because it is already running or
4121 because another session has a write lock), launching the VM process will therefore
4122 fail. Reversely, future attempts to obtain a write lock will also fail while the
4123 machine is running.
4124
4125 The caller's session object remains separate from the session opened by the new
4126 VM process. It receives its own <link to="IConsole" /> object which can be used
4127 to control machine execution, but it cannot be used to change all VM settings
4128 which would be available after a <link to="#lockMachine" /> call.
4129
4130 The caller must eventually release the session's shared lock by calling
4131 <link to="ISession::unlockMachine" /> on the local session object once this call
4132 has returned. However, the session's state (see <link to="ISession::state" />)
4133 will not return to "Unlocked" until the remote session has also unlocked
4134 the machine (i.e. the machine has stopped running).
4135
4136 Launching a VM process can take some time (a new VM is started in a new process,
4137 for which memory and other resources need to be set up). Because of this,
4138 an <link to="IProgress" /> object is returned to allow the caller to wait
4139 for this asynchronous operation to be completed. Until then, the caller's
4140 session object remains in the "Unlocked" state, and its <link to="ISession::machine" />
4141 and <link to="ISession::console" /> attributes cannot be accessed.
4142 It is recommended to use <link to="IProgress::waitForCompletion" /> or
4143 similar calls to wait for completion. Completion is signalled when the VM
4144 is powered on. If launching the VM fails, error messages can be queried
4145 via the progress object, if available.
4146
4147 The progress object will have at least 2 sub-operations. The first
4148 operation covers the period up to the new VM process calls powerUp.
4149 The subsequent operations mirror the <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/>
4150 progress object. Because <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> may require
4151 some extra sub-operations, the <link to="IProgress::operationCount"/>
4152 may change at the completion of operation.
4153
4154 For details on the teleportation progress operation, see
4155 <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/>.
4156
4157 The @a environment argument is a string containing definitions of
4158 environment variables in the following format:
4159 @code
4160 NAME[=VALUE]\n
4161 NAME[=VALUE]\n
4162 ...
4163 @endcode
4164 where <tt>\\n</tt> is the new line character. These environment
4165 variables will be appended to the environment of the VirtualBox server
4166 process. If an environment variable exists both in the server process
4167 and in this list, the value from this list takes precedence over the
4168 server's variable. If the value of the environment variable is
4169 omitted, this variable will be removed from the resulting environment.
4170 If the environment string is @c null or empty, the server environment
4171 is inherited by the started process as is.
4172
4173 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
4174 Virtual machine not registered.
4175 </result>
4176 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4177 Invalid session type @a type.
4178 </result>
4179 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4180 No machine matching @a machineId found.
4181 </result>
4182 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4183 Session already open or being opened.
4184 </result>
4185 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
4186 Launching process for machine failed.
4187 </result>
4188 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
4189 Failed to assign machine to session.
4190 </result>
4191 </desc>
4192 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
4193 <desc>
4194 Client session object to which the VM process will be connected (this
4195 must be in "Unlocked" state).
4196 </desc>
4197 </param>
4198 <param name="type" type="wstring" dir="in">
4199 <desc>
4200 Front-end to use for the new VM process. The following are currently supported:
4201 <ul>
4202 <li><tt>"gui"</tt>: VirtualBox Qt GUI front-end</li>
4203 <li><tt>"headless"</tt>: VBoxHeadless (VRDE Server) front-end</li>
4204 <li><tt>"sdl"</tt>: VirtualBox SDL front-end</li>
4205 </ul>
4206 </desc>
4207 </param>
4208 <param name="environment" type="wstring" dir="in">
4209 <desc>
4210 Environment to pass to the VM process.
4211 </desc>
4212 </param>
4213 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
4214 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
4215 </param>
4216 </method>
4217
4218 <method name="setBootOrder">
4219 <desc>
4220 Puts the given device to the specified position in
4221 the boot order.
4222
4223 To indicate that no device is associated with the given position,
4224 <link to="DeviceType_Null"/> should be used.
4225
4226 @todo setHardDiskBootOrder(), setNetworkBootOrder()
4227
4228 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4229 Boot @a position out of range.
4230 </result>
4231 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
4232 Booting from USB @a device currently not supported.
4233 </result>
4234
4235 </desc>
4236 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4237 <desc>
4238 Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4239 devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4240 <link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4241 </desc>
4242 </param>
4243 <param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4244 <desc>
4245 The type of the device used to boot at the given position.
4246 </desc>
4247 </param>
4248 </method>
4249
4250 <method name="getBootOrder" const="yes">
4251 <desc>
4252 Returns the device type that occupies the specified
4253 position in the boot order.
4254
4255 @todo [remove?]
4256 If the machine can have more than one device of the returned type
4257 (such as hard disks), then a separate method should be used to
4258 retrieve the individual device that occupies the given position.
4259
4260 If here are no devices at the given position, then
4261 <link to="DeviceType_Null"/> is returned.
4262
4263 @todo getHardDiskBootOrder(), getNetworkBootOrder()
4264
4265 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4266 Boot @a position out of range.
4267 </result>
4268
4269 </desc>
4270 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4271 <desc>
4272 Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4273 devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4274 <link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4275 </desc>
4276 </param>
4277 <param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="return">
4278 <desc>
4279 Device at the given position.
4280 </desc>
4281 </param>
4282 </method>
4283
4284 <method name="attachDevice">
4285 <desc>
4286 Attaches a device and optionally mounts a medium to the given storage
4287 controller (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4288 at the indicated port and device.
4289
4290 This method is intended for managing storage devices in general while a
4291 machine is powered off. It can be used to attach and detach fixed
4292 and removeable media. The following kind of media can be attached
4293 to a machine:
4294
4295 <ul>
4296 <li>For fixed and removable media, you can pass in a medium that was
4297 previously opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" />.
4298 </li>
4299
4300 <li>Only for storage devices supporting removable media (such as
4301 DVDs and floppies), you can also specify a null pointer to
4302 indicate an empty drive or one of the medium objects listed
4303 in the <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> and <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>
4304 arrays to indicate a host drive.
4305 For removeable devices, you can also use <link to="IMachine::mountMedium"/>
4306 to change the media while the machine is running.
4307 </li>
4308 </ul>
4309
4310 In a VM's default configuration of virtual machines, the secondary
4311 master of the IDE controller is used for a CD/DVD drive.
4312
4313 After calling this returns successfully, a new instance of
4314 <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> will appear in the machine's list of medium
4315 attachments (see <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/>).
4316
4317 See <link to="IMedium"/> and <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> for more
4318 information about attaching media.
4319
4320 The specified device slot must not have a device attached to it,
4321 or this method will fail.
4322
4323 <note>
4324 You cannot attach a device to a newly created machine until
4325 this machine's settings are saved to disk using
4326 <link to="#saveSettings"/>.
4327 </note>
4328 <note>
4329 If the medium is being attached indirectly, a new differencing medium
4330 will implicitly be created for it and attached instead. If the
4331 changes made to the machine settings (including this indirect
4332 attachment) are later cancelled using <link to="#discardSettings"/>,
4333 this implicitly created differencing medium will implicitly
4334 be deleted.
4335 </note>
4336
4337 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4338 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range, or
4339 file or UUID not found.
4340 </result>
4341 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4342 Machine must be registered before media can be attached.
4343 </result>
4344 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4345 Invalid machine state.
4346 </result>
4347 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4348 A medium is already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4349 </result>
4350
4351 </desc>
4352 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4353 <desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the device to.</desc>
4354 </param>
4355 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4356 <desc>Port to attach the device to. For an IDE controller, 0 specifies
4357 the primary controller and 1 specifies the secondary controller.
4358 For a SCSI controller, this must range from 0 to 15; for a SATA controller,
4359 from 0 to 29; for an SAS controller, from 0 to 7.</desc>
4360 </param>
4361 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4362 <desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the device to. This is only
4363 relevant for IDE controllers, for which 0 specifies the master device and
4364 1 specifies the slave device. For all other controller types, this must
4365 be 0.</desc>
4366 </param>
4367 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4368 <desc>Device type of the attached device. For media opened by
4369 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" />, this must match the device type
4370 specified there.</desc>
4371 </param>
4372 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="in">
4373 <desc>Medium to mount or NULL for an empty drive.</desc>
4374 </param>
4375 </method>
4376
4377 <method name="detachDevice">
4378 <desc>
4379 Detaches the device attached to a device slot of the specified bus.
4380
4381 Detaching the device from the virtual machine is deferred. This means
4382 that the medium remains associated with the machine when this method
4383 returns and gets actually de-associated only after a successful
4384 <link to="#saveSettings"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/>
4385 for more detailed information about attaching media.
4386
4387 <note>
4388 You cannot detach a device from a running machine.
4389 </note>
4390 <note>
4391 Detaching differencing media implicitly created by <link
4392 to="#attachDevice"/> for the indirect attachment using this
4393 method will <b>not</b> implicitly delete them. The
4394 <link to="IMedium::deleteStorage"/> operation should be
4395 explicitly performed by the caller after the medium is successfully
4396 detached and the settings are saved with
4397 <link to="#saveSettings"/>, if it is the desired action.
4398 </note>
4399
4400 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4401 Attempt to detach medium from a running virtual machine.
4402 </result>
4403 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4404 No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4405 </result>
4406 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4407 Medium format does not support storage deletion.
4408 </result>
4409
4410 </desc>
4411 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4412 <desc>Name of the storage controller to detach the medium from.</desc>
4413 </param>
4414 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4415 <desc>Port number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4416 </param>
4417 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4418 <desc>Device slot number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4419 </param>
4420 </method>
4421
4422 <method name="passthroughDevice">
4423 <desc>
4424 Sets the passthrough mode of an existing DVD device. Changing the
4425 setting while the VM is running is forbidden. The setting is only used
4426 if at VM start the device is configured as a host DVD drive, in all
4427 other cases it is ignored. The device must already exist; see
4428 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4429
4430 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4431 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4432
4433 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4434 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4435 </result>
4436 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4437 Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4438 </result>
4439 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4440 Invalid machine state.
4441 </result>
4442
4443 </desc>
4444 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4445 <desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4446 </param>
4447 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4448 <desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4449 </param>
4450 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4451 <desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4452 </param>
4453 <param name="passthrough" type="boolean" dir="in">
4454 <desc>New value for the passthrough setting.</desc>
4455 </param>
4456 </method>
4457
4458 <method name="mountMedium">
4459 <desc>
4460 Mounts a medium (<link to="IMedium" />, identified
4461 by the given UUID @a id) to the given storage controller
4462 (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4463 at the indicated port and device. The device must already exist;
4464 see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4465
4466 This method is intended only for managing removable media, where the
4467 device is fixed but media is changeable at runtime (such as DVDs
4468 and floppies). It cannot be used for fixed media such as hard disks.
4469
4470 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4471 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4472
4473 The specified device slot can have a medium mounted, which will be
4474 unmounted first. Specifying a zero UUID (or an empty string) for
4475 @a medium does just an unmount.
4476
4477 See <link to="IMedium"/> for more detailed information about
4478 attaching media.
4479
4480 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4481 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4482 </result>
4483 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4484 Attempt to attach medium to an unregistered virtual machine.
4485 </result>
4486 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4487 Invalid machine state.
4488 </result>
4489 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4490 Medium already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4491 </result>
4492
4493 </desc>
4494 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4495 <desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the medium to.</desc>
4496 </param>
4497 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4498 <desc>Port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4499 </param>
4500 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4501 <desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4502 </param>
4503 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="in">
4504 <desc>Medium to mount or NULL for an empty drive.</desc>
4505 </param>
4506 <param name="force" type="boolean" dir="in">
4507 <desc>Allows to force unmount/mount of a medium which is locked by
4508 the device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4509 </param>
4510 </method>
4511
4512 <method name="getMedium" const="yes">
4513 <desc>
4514 Returns the virtual medium attached to a device slot of the specified
4515 bus.
4516
4517 Note that if the medium was indirectly attached by
4518 <link to="#mountMedium"/> to the given device slot then this
4519 method will return not the same object as passed to the
4520 <link to="#mountMedium"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/> for
4521 more detailed information about mounting a medium.
4522
4523 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4524 No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4525 </result>
4526
4527 </desc>
4528 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4529 <desc>Name of the storage controller the medium is attached to.</desc>
4530 </param>
4531 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4532 <desc>Port to query.</desc>
4533 </param>
4534 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4535 <desc>Device slot in the given port to query.</desc>
4536 </param>
4537 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
4538 <desc>Attached medium object.</desc>
4539 </param>
4540 </method>
4541
4542 <method name="getMediumAttachmentsOfController" const="yes">
4543 <desc>
4544 Returns an array of medium attachments which are attached to the
4545 the controller with the given name.
4546
4547 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4548 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4549 </result>
4550 </desc>
4551 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4552 <param name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" safearray="yes" dir="return"/>
4553 </method>
4554
4555 <method name="getMediumAttachment" const="yes">
4556 <desc>
4557 Returns a medium attachment which corresponds to the controller with
4558 the given name, on the given port and device slot.
4559
4560 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4561 No attachment exists for the given controller/port/device combination.
4562 </result>
4563 </desc>
4564 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4565 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in"/>
4566 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in"/>
4567 <param name="attachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="return"/>
4568 </method>
4569
4570 <method name="getNetworkAdapter" const="yes">
4571 <desc>
4572 Returns the network adapter associated with the given slot.
4573 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4574 number of adapters per machine is defined by the
4575 <link to="ISystemProperties::networkAdapterCount"/> property,
4576 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4577
4578 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4579 Invalid @a slot number.
4580 </result>
4581
4582 </desc>
4583 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4584 <param name="adapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="return"/>
4585 </method>
4586
4587 <method name="addStorageController">
4588 <desc>
4589 Adds a new storage controller (SCSI, SAS or SATA controller) to the
4590 machine and returns it as an instance of
4591 <link to="IStorageController" />.
4592
4593 @a name identifies the controller for subsequent calls such as
4594 <link to="#getStorageControllerByName" />,
4595 <link to="#getStorageControllerByInstance" />,
4596 <link to="#removeStorageController" />,
4597 <link to="#attachDevice" /> or <link to="#mountMedium" />.
4598
4599 After the controller has been added, you can set its exact
4600 type by setting the <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
4601
4602 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4603 A storage controller with given name exists already.
4604 </result>
4605 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4606 Invalid @a controllerType.
4607 </result>
4608 </desc>
4609 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4610 <param name="connectionType" type="StorageBus" dir="in"/>
4611 <param name="controller" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4612 </method>
4613
4614 <method name="getStorageControllerByName" const="yes">
4615 <desc>
4616 Returns a storage controller with the given name.
4617
4618 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4619 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4620 </result>
4621 </desc>
4622 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4623 <param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4624 </method>
4625
4626 <method name="getStorageControllerByInstance" const="yes">
4627 <desc>
4628 Returns a storage controller with the given instance number.
4629
4630 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4631 A storage controller with given instance number doesn't exist.
4632 </result>
4633 </desc>
4634 <param name="instance" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4635 <param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4636 </method>
4637
4638 <method name="removeStorageController">
4639 <desc>
4640 Removes a storage controller from the machine.
4641
4642 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4643 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4644 </result>
4645 </desc>
4646 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4647 </method>
4648
4649 <method name="getSerialPort" const="yes">
4650 <desc>
4651 Returns the serial port associated with the given slot.
4652 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4653 number of serial ports per machine is defined by the
4654 <link to="ISystemProperties::serialPortCount"/> property,
4655 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4656
4657 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4658 Invalid @a slot number.
4659 </result>
4660
4661 </desc>
4662 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4663 <param name="port" type="ISerialPort" dir="return"/>
4664 </method>
4665
4666 <method name="getParallelPort" const="yes">
4667 <desc>
4668 Returns the parallel port associated with the given slot.
4669 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4670 number of parallel ports per machine is defined by the
4671 <link to="ISystemProperties::parallelPortCount"/> property,
4672 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4673
4674 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4675 Invalid @a slot number.
4676 </result>
4677
4678 </desc>
4679 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4680 <param name="port" type="IParallelPort" dir="return"/>
4681 </method>
4682
4683 <method name="getExtraDataKeys">
4684 <desc>
4685 Returns an array representing the machine-specific extra data keys
4686 which currently have values defined.
4687 </desc>
4688 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
4689 <desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
4690 </param>
4691 </method>
4692
4693 <method name="getExtraData">
4694 <desc>
4695 Returns associated machine-specific extra data.
4696
4697 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
4698 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
4699
4700 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4701 Settings file not accessible.
4702 </result>
4703 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4704 Could not parse the settings file.
4705 </result>
4706
4707 </desc>
4708 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
4709 <desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
4710 </param>
4711 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
4712 <desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
4713 </param>
4714 </method>
4715
4716 <method name="setExtraData">
4717 <desc>
4718 Sets associated machine-specific extra data.
4719
4720 If you pass @c null or an empty string as a key @a value, the given
4721 @a key will be deleted.
4722
4723 <note>
4724 Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
4725 registered listeners using the
4726 <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent"/>
4727 notification for a permission. If one of the listeners refuses the
4728 new value, the change will not be performed.
4729 </note>
4730 <note>
4731 On success, the
4732 <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent"/> notification
4733 is called to inform all registered listeners about a successful data
4734 change.
4735 </note>
4736 <note>
4737 This method can be called outside the machine session and therefore
4738 it's a caller's responsibility to handle possible race conditions
4739 when several clients change the same key at the same time.
4740 </note>
4741
4742 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4743 Settings file not accessible.
4744 </result>
4745 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4746 Could not parse the settings file.
4747 </result>
4748
4749 </desc>
4750 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
4751 <desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
4752 </param>
4753 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
4754 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
4755 </param>
4756 </method>
4757
4758 <method name="getCPUProperty" const="yes">
4759 <desc>
4760 Returns the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
4761
4762 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4763 Invalid property.
4764 </result>
4765
4766 </desc>
4767 <param name="property" type="CPUPropertyType" dir="in">
4768 <desc>
4769 Property type to query.
4770 </desc>
4771 </param>
4772 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
4773 <desc>
4774 Property value.
4775 </desc>
4776 </param>
4777 </method>
4778
4779 <method name="setCPUProperty">
4780 <desc>
4781 Sets the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
4782
4783 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4784 Invalid property.
4785 </result>
4786
4787 </desc>
4788 <param name="property" type="CPUPropertyType" dir="in">
4789 <desc>
4790 Property type to query.
4791 </desc>
4792 </param>
4793 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
4794 <desc>
4795 Property value.
4796 </desc>
4797 </param>
4798 </method>
4799
4800 <method name="getCPUIDLeaf" const="yes">
4801 <desc>
4802 Returns the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
4803
4804 Currently supported index values for cpuid:
4805 Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
4806 Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
4807
4808 See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
4809 about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
4810 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4811 Invalid id.
4812 </result>
4813
4814 </desc>
4815 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4816 <desc>
4817 CPUID leaf index.
4818 </desc>
4819 </param>
4820 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
4821 <desc>
4822 CPUID leaf value for register eax.
4823 </desc>
4824 </param>
4825 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
4826 <desc>
4827 CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
4828 </desc>
4829 </param>
4830 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
4831 <desc>
4832 CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
4833 </desc>
4834 </param>
4835 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
4836 <desc>
4837 CPUID leaf value for register edx.
4838 </desc>
4839 </param>
4840 </method>
4841
4842 <method name="setCPUIDLeaf">
4843 <desc>
4844 Sets the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf. Note that these values
4845 are not passed unmodified. VirtualBox clears features that it doesn't support.
4846
4847 Currently supported index values for cpuid:
4848 Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
4849 Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
4850
4851 See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
4852 about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
4853
4854 Do not use this method unless you know exactly what you're doing. Misuse can lead to
4855 random crashes inside VMs.
4856 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4857 Invalid id.
4858 </result>
4859
4860 </desc>
4861 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4862 <desc>
4863 CPUID leaf index.
4864 </desc>
4865 </param>
4866 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4867 <desc>
4868 CPUID leaf value for register eax.
4869 </desc>
4870 </param>
4871 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4872 <desc>
4873 CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
4874 </desc>
4875 </param>
4876 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4877 <desc>
4878 CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
4879 </desc>
4880 </param>
4881 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4882 <desc>
4883 CPUID leaf value for register edx.
4884 </desc>
4885 </param>
4886 </method>
4887
4888 <method name="removeCPUIDLeaf">
4889 <desc>
4890 Removes the virtual CPU cpuid leaf for the specified index
4891
4892 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4893 Invalid id.
4894 </result>
4895
4896 </desc>
4897 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4898 <desc>
4899 CPUID leaf index.
4900 </desc>
4901 </param>
4902 </method>
4903
4904 <method name="removeAllCPUIDLeaves">
4905 <desc>
4906 Removes all the virtual CPU cpuid leaves
4907 </desc>
4908 </method>
4909
4910 <method name="getHWVirtExProperty" const="yes">
4911 <desc>
4912 Returns the value of the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
4913
4914 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4915 Invalid property.
4916 </result>
4917
4918 </desc>
4919 <param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
4920 <desc>
4921 Property type to query.
4922 </desc>
4923 </param>
4924 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
4925 <desc>
4926 Property value.
4927 </desc>
4928 </param>
4929 </method>
4930
4931 <method name="setHWVirtExProperty">
4932 <desc>
4933 Sets a new value for the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
4934
4935 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4936 Invalid property.
4937 </result>
4938
4939 </desc>
4940 <param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
4941 <desc>
4942 Property type to set.
4943 </desc>
4944 </param>
4945 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
4946 <desc>
4947 New property value.
4948 </desc>
4949 </param>
4950 </method>
4951
4952 <method name="saveSettings">
4953 <desc>
4954 Saves any changes to machine settings made since the session
4955 has been opened or a new machine has been created, or since the
4956 last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/> or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
4957 For registered machines, new settings become visible to all
4958 other VirtualBox clients after successful invocation of this
4959 method.
4960 <note>
4961 The method sends <link to="IMachineDataChangedEvent"/>
4962 notification event after the configuration has been successfully
4963 saved (only for registered machines).
4964 </note>
4965 <note>
4966 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
4967 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4968 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> but not
4969 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4970 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/>.
4971 </note>
4972
4973 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4974 Settings file not accessible.
4975 </result>
4976 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4977 Could not parse the settings file.
4978 </result>
4979 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
4980 Modification request refused.
4981 </result>
4982
4983 </desc>
4984 </method>
4985
4986 <method name="discardSettings">
4987 <desc>
4988 Discards any changes to the machine settings made since the session
4989 has been opened or since the last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/>
4990 or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
4991 <note>
4992 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
4993 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
4994 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
4995 opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
4996 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
4997 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/>.
4998 </note>
4999
5000 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5001 Virtual machine is not mutable.
5002 </result>
5003
5004 </desc>
5005 </method>
5006
5007 <method name="unregister">
5008 <desc>
5009 Unregisters the machine, which must have been previously registered using
5010 <link to="IVirtualBox::registerMachine"/>, and optionally do additional
5011 cleanup before the machine is unregistered.
5012
5013 This method does not delete any files. It only changes the machine configuration and
5014 the list of registered machines in the VirtualBox object. To delete the files which
5015 belonged to the machine, including the XML file of the machine itself, call
5016 <link to="#delete"/>, optionally with the array of IMedium objects which was returned
5017 from this method.
5018
5019 How thoroughly this method cleans up the machine configuration before unregistering
5020 the machine depends on the @a cleanupMode argument.
5021
5022 <ul>
5023 <li>With "UnregisterOnly", the machine will only be unregistered, but no additional
5024 cleanup will be performed. The call will fail if the machine is in "Saved" state
5025 or has any snapshots or any media attached (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />.
5026 It is the responsibility of the caller to delete all such configuration in this mode.
5027 In this mode, the API behaves like the former @c IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine() API
5028 which it replaces.</li>
5029 <li>With "DetachAllReturnNone", the call will succeed even if the machine is in "Saved"
5030 state or if it has snapshots or media attached. All media attached to the current machine
5031 state or in snapshots will be detached. No medium objects will be returned; all of the
5032 machine's media will remain open.</li>
5033 <li>With "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly", the call will behave like with "DetachAllReturnNone",
5034 except that all the hard disk medium objects which were detached from the machine will
5035 be returned as an array. This allows for quickly passing them to the <link to="#delete" />
5036 API for closing and deletion.</li>
5037 <li>With "Full", the call will behave like with "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly", except
5038 that all media will be returned in the array, including removeable media like DVDs and
5039 floppies. This might be useful if the user wants to inspect in detail which media were
5040 attached to the machine. Be careful when passing the media array to <link to="#delete" />
5041 in that case because users will typically want to preserve ISO and RAW image files.</li>
5042 </ul>
5043
5044 This API does not verify whether the media files returned in the array are still
5045 attached to other machines (i.e. shared between several machines). If such a shared
5046 image is passed to <link to="#delete" /> however, closing the image will fail there
5047 and the image will be silently skipped.
5048
5049 A typical implementation will use "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly" and then pass the
5050 resulting IMedia array to <link to="#delete"/>. This way, the machine is completely
5051 deleted with all its saved states and hard disk images, but images for removeable
5052 drives (such as ISO and RAW files) will remain on disk.
5053
5054 The call will fail if the machine is currently locked (see <link to="ISession" />).
5055 It implicitly calls <link to="#saveSettings"/> to save all current machine settings
5056 before unregistering it.
5057
5058 After successful method invocation, the <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent"/> event
5059 is fired.
5060
5061 <note>
5062 If the given machine is inaccessible (see <link to="#accessible"/>), it
5063 will be unregistered and fully uninitialized right afterwards. As a result,
5064 the returned machine object will be unusable and an attempt to call
5065 <b>any</b> method will return the "Object not ready" error.
5066 </note>
5067
5068 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5069 Machine is currently locked for a session.
5070 </result>
5071 </desc>
5072
5073 <param name="cleanupMode" type="CleanupMode" dir="in">
5074 <desc>How to clean up after the machine has been unregistered.</desc>
5075 </param>
5076 <param name="aMedia" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="return">
5077 <desc>List of media detached from the machine, depending on the @a cleanupMode parameter.</desc>
5078 </param>
5079 </method>
5080
5081 <method name="delete">
5082 <desc>
5083 Deletes the files associated with this machine from disk. If medium objects are passed
5084 in with the @a aMedia argument, they are closed and, if closing was successful, their
5085 storage files are deleted as well. For convenience, this array of media files can be
5086 the same as the one returned from a previous <link to="#unregister" /> call.
5087
5088 This method must only be called on machines which are either write-locked (i.e. on instances
5089 returned by <link to="ISession::machine"/>) or on unregistered machines (i.e. not yet
5090 registered machines created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened by
5091 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>, or after having called <link to="#unregister"/>).
5092
5093 The following files will be deleted by this method:
5094 <ul>
5095 <li>If <link to="#unregister" /> had been previously called with a @a cleanupMode
5096 argument other than "UnregisterOnly", this will delete all saved state files that
5097 the machine had in use; possibly one if the machine was in "Saved" state and one
5098 for each online snapshot that the machine had.</li>
5099 <li>On each medium object passed in the @a aMedia array, this will call
5100 <link to="IMedium::close" />. If that succeeds, this will attempt to delete the
5101 medium's storage on disk. Since the close() call will fail if the medium is still
5102 in use, e.g. because it is still attached to a second machine; in that case the
5103 storage will not be deleted.</li>
5104 <li>Finally, the machine's own XML file will be deleted.</li>
5105 </ul>
5106
5107 Since deleting large disk image files can be a time-consuming I/O operation, this
5108 method operates asynchronously and returns an IProgress object to allow the caller
5109 to monitor the progress. There will be one sub-operation for each file that is
5110 being deleted (saved state or medium storage file).
5111
5112 <note>
5113 <link to="#settingsModified"/> will return @c true after this
5114 method successfully returns.
5115 </note>
5116
5117 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5118 Machine is registered but not write-locked.
5119 </result>
5120 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
5121 Could not delete the settings file.
5122 </result>
5123 </desc>
5124 <param name="aMedia" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
5125 <desc>List of media to be closed and whose storage files will be deleted.</desc>
5126 </param>
5127 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
5128 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
5129 </param>
5130 </method>
5131
5132 <method name="export">
5133 <desc>Exports the machine to an OVF appliance. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the
5134 steps required to export VirtualBox machines to OVF.
5135 </desc>
5136
5137 <param name="aAppliance" type="IAppliance" dir="in">
5138 <desc>Appliance to export this machine to.</desc>
5139 </param>
5140 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
5141 <desc>The target location.</desc>
5142 </param>
5143 <param name="aDescription" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" dir="return">
5144 <desc>VirtualSystemDescription object which is created for this machine.</desc>
5145 </param>
5146 </method >
5147
5148 <method name="findSnapshot">
5149 <desc>
5150 Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given name or UUID.
5151
5152 Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given UUID.
5153 A @c null argument can be used to obtain the first snapshot
5154 taken on this machine. This is useful if you want to traverse
5155 the whole tree of snapshots starting from the root.
5156
5157 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5158 Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
5159 </result>
5160
5161 </desc>
5162 <param name="nameOrId" type="wstring" dir="in">
5163 <desc>What to search for. Name or UUID of the snapshot to find</desc>
5164 </param>
5165 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
5166 <desc>Snapshot object with the given name.</desc>
5167 </param>
5168 </method>
5169
5170 <method name="createSharedFolder">
5171 <desc>
5172 Creates a new permanent shared folder by associating the given logical
5173 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
5174 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
5175 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
5176
5177 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5178 Shared folder already exists.
5179 </result>
5180 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5181 Shared folder @a hostPath not accessible.
5182 </result>
5183
5184 </desc>
5185 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5186 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
5187 </param>
5188 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
5189 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
5190 </param>
5191 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
5192 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly.</desc>
5193 </param>
5194 <param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
5195 <desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
5196 or not.</desc>
5197 </param>
5198 </method>
5199
5200 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
5201 <desc>
5202 Removes the permanent shared folder with the given name previously
5203 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
5204 shared folders and stops sharing it.
5205
5206 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5207 Virtual machine is not mutable.
5208 </result>
5209 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5210 Shared folder @a name does not exist.
5211 </result>
5212
5213 </desc>
5214 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5215 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
5216 </param>
5217 </method>
5218
5219 <method name="canShowConsoleWindow">
5220 <desc>
5221 Returns @c true if the VM console process can activate the
5222 console window and bring it to foreground on the desktop of
5223 the host PC.
5224 <note>
5225 This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5226 currently open.
5227 </note>
5228
5229 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5230 Machine session is not open.
5231 </result>
5232
5233 </desc>
5234 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
5235 <desc>
5236 @c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
5237 </desc>
5238 </param>
5239 </method>
5240
5241 <method name="showConsoleWindow">
5242 <desc>
5243 Activates the console window and brings it to foreground on
5244 the desktop of the host PC. Many modern window managers on
5245 many platforms implement some sort of focus stealing
5246 prevention logic, so that it may be impossible to activate
5247 a window without the help of the currently active
5248 application. In this case, this method will return a non-zero
5249 identifier that represents the top-level window of the VM
5250 console process. The caller, if it represents a currently
5251 active process, is responsible to use this identifier (in a
5252 platform-dependent manner) to perform actual window
5253 activation.
5254 <note>
5255 This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5256 currently open.
5257 </note>
5258
5259 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5260 Machine session is not open.
5261 </result>
5262
5263 </desc>
5264 <param name="winId" type="long long" dir="return">
5265 <desc>
5266 Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
5267 window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
5268 necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
5269 the given platform and/or VirtualBox front-end.
5270 </desc>
5271 </param>
5272 </method>
5273
5274 <method name="getGuestProperty" const="yes">
5275 <desc>
5276 Reads an entry from the machine's guest property store.
5277
5278 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5279 Machine session is not open.
5280 </result>
5281
5282 </desc>
5283 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5284 <desc>
5285 The name of the property to read.
5286 </desc>
5287 </param>
5288 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out">
5289 <desc>
5290 The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5291 will be empty.
5292 </desc>
5293 </param>
5294 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out">
5295 <desc>
5296 The time at which the property was last modified, as seen by the
5297 server process.
5298 </desc>
5299 </param>
5300 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out">
5301 <desc>
5302 Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5303 "name=value" type entries.
5304 </desc>
5305 </param>
5306 </method>
5307
5308 <method name="getGuestPropertyValue" const="yes">
5309 <desc>
5310 Reads a value from the machine's guest property store.
5311
5312 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5313 Machine session is not open.
5314 </result>
5315
5316 </desc>
5317 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5318 <desc>
5319 The name of the property to read.
5320 </desc>
5321 </param>
5322 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5323 <desc>
5324 The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5325 will be empty.
5326 </desc>
5327 </param>
5328 </method>
5329
5330 <method name="getGuestPropertyTimestamp" const="yes">
5331 <desc>
5332 Reads a property timestamp from the machine's guest property store.
5333
5334 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5335 Machine session is not open.
5336 </result>
5337
5338 </desc>
5339 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5340 <desc>
5341 The name of the property to read.
5342 </desc>
5343 </param>
5344 <param name="value" type="long long" dir="return">
5345 <desc>
5346 The timestamp. If the property does not exist then this will be
5347 empty.
5348 </desc>
5349 </param>
5350 </method>
5351
5352 <method name="setGuestProperty">
5353 <desc>
5354 Sets, changes or deletes an entry in the machine's guest property
5355 store.
5356
5357 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5358 Property cannot be changed.
5359 </result>
5360 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5361 Invalid @a flags.
5362 </result>
5363 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5364 Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5365 </result>
5366 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5367 Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5368 </result>
5369
5370 </desc>
5371 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5372 <desc>
5373 The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5374 </desc>
5375 </param>
5376 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5377 <desc>
5378 The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5379 property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5380 created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5381 deleted if it exists.
5382 </desc>
5383 </param>
5384 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
5385 <desc>
5386 Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5387 "name=value" type entries.
5388 </desc>
5389 </param>
5390 </method>
5391
5392 <method name="setGuestPropertyValue">
5393 <desc>
5394 Sets, changes or deletes a value in the machine's guest property
5395 store. The flags field will be left unchanged or created empty for a
5396 new property.
5397
5398 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5399 Property cannot be changed.
5400 </result>
5401 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5402 Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5403 </result>
5404 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5405 Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5406 </result>
5407 </desc>
5408
5409 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5410 <desc>
5411 The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5412 </desc>
5413 </param>
5414 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5415 <desc>
5416 The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5417 property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5418 created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5419 deleted if it exists.
5420 </desc>
5421 </param>
5422 </method>
5423
5424 <method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
5425 <desc>
5426 Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
5427 with their values, time stamps and flags.
5428 </desc>
5429 <param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
5430 <desc>
5431 The patterns to match the properties against, separated by '|'
5432 characters. If this is empty or @c null, all properties will match.
5433 </desc>
5434 </param>
5435 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5436 <desc>
5437 The names of the properties returned.
5438 </desc>
5439 </param>
5440 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5441 <desc>
5442 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5443 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5444 </desc>
5445 </param>
5446 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5447 <desc>
5448 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
5449 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5450 </desc>
5451 </param>
5452 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5453 <desc>
5454 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5455 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5456 </desc>
5457 </param>
5458 </method>
5459
5460 <method name="querySavedGuestSize">
5461 <desc>
5462 Returns the guest dimensions from the saved state.
5463 </desc>
5464 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5465 <desc>
5466 Saved guest screen to query info from.
5467 </desc>
5468 </param>
5469 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5470 <desc>
5471 Guest width at the time of the saved state was taken.
5472 </desc>
5473 </param>
5474 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5475 <desc>
5476 Guest height at the time of the saved state was taken.
5477 </desc>
5478 </param>
5479 </method>
5480
5481 <method name="querySavedThumbnailSize">
5482 <desc>
5483 Returns size in bytes and dimensions in pixels of a saved thumbnail bitmap from saved state.
5484 </desc>
5485 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5486 <desc>
5487 Saved guest screen to query info from.
5488 </desc>
5489 </param>
5490 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5491 <desc>
5492 Size of buffer required to store the bitmap.
5493 </desc>
5494 </param>
5495 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5496 <desc>
5497 Bitmap width.
5498 </desc>
5499 </param>
5500 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5501 <desc>
5502 Bitmap height.
5503 </desc>
5504 </param>
5505 </method>
5506
5507 <method name="readSavedThumbnailToArray">
5508 <desc>
5509 Thumbnail is retrieved to an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit BGRA or RGBA format.
5510 </desc>
5511 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5512 <desc>
5513 Saved guest screen to read from.
5514 </desc>
5515 </param>
5516 <param name="BGR" type="boolean" dir="in">
5517 <desc>
5518 How to order bytes in the pixel. A pixel consists of 4 bytes. If this parameter is true, then
5519 bytes order is: B, G, R, 0xFF. If this parameter is false, then bytes order is: R, G, B, 0xFF.
5520 </desc>
5521 </param>
5522 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5523 <desc>
5524 Bitmap width.
5525 </desc>
5526 </param>
5527 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5528 <desc>
5529 Bitmap height.
5530 </desc>
5531 </param>
5532 <param name="data" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
5533 <desc>
5534 Array with resulting bitmap data.
5535 </desc>
5536 </param>
5537 </method>
5538
5539 <method name="readSavedThumbnailPNGToArray">
5540 <desc>
5541 Thumbnail in PNG format is retrieved to an array of bytes.
5542 </desc>
5543 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5544 <desc>
5545 Saved guest screen to read from.
5546 </desc>
5547 </param>
5548 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5549 <desc>
5550 Image width.
5551 </desc>
5552 </param>
5553 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5554 <desc>
5555 Image height.
5556 </desc>
5557 </param>
5558 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5559 <desc>
5560 Array with resulting PNG data.
5561 </desc>
5562 </param>
5563 </method>
5564
5565 <method name="querySavedScreenshotPNGSize">
5566 <desc>
5567 Returns size in bytes and dimensions of a saved PNG image of screenshot from saved state.
5568 </desc>
5569 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5570 <desc>
5571 Saved guest screen to query info from.
5572 </desc>
5573 </param>
5574 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5575 <desc>
5576 Size of buffer required to store the PNG binary data.
5577 </desc>
5578 </param>
5579 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5580 <desc>
5581 Image width.
5582 </desc>
5583 </param>
5584 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5585 <desc>
5586 Image height.
5587 </desc>
5588 </param>
5589 </method>
5590
5591 <method name="readSavedScreenshotPNGToArray">
5592 <desc>
5593 Screenshot in PNG format is retrieved to an array of bytes.
5594 </desc>
5595 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5596 <desc>
5597 Saved guest screen to read from.
5598 </desc>
5599 </param>
5600 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5601 <desc>
5602 Image width.
5603 </desc>
5604 </param>
5605 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5606 <desc>
5607 Image height.
5608 </desc>
5609 </param>
5610 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5611 <desc>
5612 Array with resulting PNG data.
5613 </desc>
5614 </param>
5615 </method>
5616
5617 <method name="hotPlugCPU">
5618 <desc>
5619 Plugs a CPU into the machine.
5620 </desc>
5621 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5622 <desc>
5623 The CPU id to insert.
5624 </desc>
5625 </param>
5626 </method>
5627
5628 <method name="hotUnplugCPU">
5629 <desc>
5630 Removes a CPU from the machine.
5631 </desc>
5632 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5633 <desc>
5634 The CPU id to remove.
5635 </desc>
5636 </param>
5637 </method>
5638
5639 <method name="getCPUStatus">
5640 <desc>
5641 Returns the current status of the given CPU.
5642 </desc>
5643 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5644 <desc>
5645 The CPU id to check for.
5646 </desc>
5647 </param>
5648 <param name="attached" type="boolean" dir="return">
5649 <desc>
5650 Status of the CPU.
5651 </desc>
5652 </param>
5653 </method>
5654
5655 <method name="queryLogFilename">
5656 <desc>
5657 Queries for the VM log file name of an given index. Returns an empty
5658 string if a log file with that index doesn't exists.
5659 </desc>
5660 <param name="idx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5661 <desc>
5662 Which log file name to query. 0=current log file.
5663 </desc>
5664 </param>
5665 <param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="return">
5666 <desc>
5667 On return the full path to the log file or an empty string on error.
5668 </desc>
5669 </param>
5670 </method>
5671
5672 <method name="readLog">
5673 <desc>
5674 Reads the VM log file. The chunk size is limited, so even if you
5675 ask for a big piece there might be less data returned.
5676 </desc>
5677 <param name="idx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5678 <desc>
5679 Which log file to read. 0=current log file.
5680 </desc>
5681 </param>
5682 <param name="offset" type="long long" dir="in">
5683 <desc>
5684 Offset in the log file.
5685 </desc>
5686 </param>
5687 <param name="size" type="long long" dir="in">
5688 <desc>
5689 Chunk size to read in the log file.
5690 </desc>
5691 </param>
5692 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5693 <desc>
5694 Data read from the log file. A data size of 0 means end of file
5695 if the requested chunk size was not 0. This is the unprocessed
5696 file data, i.e. the line ending style depends on the platform of
5697 the system the server is running on.
5698 </desc>
5699 </param>
5700 </method>
5701 </interface>
5702
5703 <!--
5704 // IConsole
5705 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
5706 -->
5707
5708 <interface
5709 name="IVRDEServerInfo" extends="$unknown"
5710 uuid="714434a1-58c3-4aab-9049-7652c5df113b"
5711 wsmap="struct"
5712 >
5713 <desc>
5714 Contains information about the remote desktop (VRDE) server capabilities and status.
5715 This is used in the <link to="IConsole::VRDEServerInfo" /> attribute.
5716 </desc>
5717
5718 <attribute name="active" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
5719 <desc>
5720 Whether the remote desktop connection is active.
5721 </desc>
5722 </attribute>
5723
5724 <attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
5725 <desc>
5726 VRDE server port number. If this property is equal to <tt>0</tt>, then
5727 the VRDE server failed to start, usually because there are no free IP
5728 ports to bind to. If this property is equal to <tt>-1</tt>, then the VRDE
5729 server has not yet been started.
5730 </desc>
5731 </attribute>
5732
5733 <attribute name="numberOfClients" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5734 <desc>
5735 How many times a client connected.
5736 </desc>
5737 </attribute>
5738
5739 <attribute name="beginTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5740 <desc>
5741 When the last connection was established, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
5742 </desc>
5743 </attribute>
5744
5745 <attribute name="endTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5746 <desc>
5747 When the last connection was terminated or the current time, if
5748 connection is still active, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
5749 </desc>
5750 </attribute>
5751
5752 <attribute name="bytesSent" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5753 <desc>
5754 How many bytes were sent in last or current, if still active, connection.
5755 </desc>
5756 </attribute>
5757
5758 <attribute name="bytesSentTotal" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5759 <desc>
5760 How many bytes were sent in all connections.
5761 </desc>
5762 </attribute>
5763
5764 <attribute name="bytesReceived" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5765 <desc>
5766 How many bytes were received in last or current, if still active, connection.
5767 </desc>
5768 </attribute>
5769
5770 <attribute name="bytesReceivedTotal" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5771 <desc>
5772 How many bytes were received in all connections.
5773 </desc>
5774 </attribute>
5775
5776 <attribute name="user" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5777 <desc>
5778 Login user name supplied by the client.
5779 </desc>
5780 </attribute>
5781
5782 <attribute name="domain" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5783 <desc>
5784 Login domain name supplied by the client.
5785 </desc>
5786 </attribute>
5787
5788 <attribute name="clientName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5789 <desc>
5790 The client name supplied by the client.
5791 </desc>
5792 </attribute>
5793
5794 <attribute name="clientIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
5795 <desc>
5796 The IP address of the client.
5797 </desc>
5798 </attribute>
5799
5800 <attribute name="clientVersion" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5801 <desc>
5802 The client software version number.
5803 </desc>
5804 </attribute>
5805
5806 <attribute name="encryptionStyle" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5807 <desc>
5808 Public key exchange method used when connection was established.
5809 Values: 0 - RDP4 public key exchange scheme.
5810 1 - X509 certificates were sent to client.
5811 </desc>
5812 </attribute>
5813
5814 </interface>
5815
5816 <interface
5817 name="IConsole" extends="$unknown"
5818 uuid="3c4a453e-d27b-44a2-b59d-dda6e1835e57"
5819 wsmap="managed"
5820 >
5821 <desc>
5822 The IConsole interface represents an interface to control virtual
5823 machine execution.
5824
5825 A console object gets created when a machine has been locked for a
5826 particular session (client process) using <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />
5827 or <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>. The console object can
5828 then be found in the session's <link to="ISession::console" /> attribute.
5829
5830 Methods of the IConsole interface allow the caller to query the current
5831 virtual machine execution state, pause the machine or power it down, save
5832 the machine state or take a snapshot, attach and detach removable media
5833 and so on.
5834
5835 <see>ISession</see>
5836 </desc>
5837
5838 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
5839 <desc>
5840 Machine object for this console session.
5841 <note>
5842 This is a convenience property, it has the same value as
5843 <link to="ISession::machine"/> of the corresponding session
5844 object.
5845 </note>
5846 </desc>
5847 </attribute>
5848
5849 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
5850 <desc>
5851 Current execution state of the machine.
5852 <note>
5853 This property always returns the same value as the corresponding
5854 property of the IMachine object for this console session.
5855 For the process that owns (executes) the VM, this is the
5856 preferable way of querying the VM state, because no IPC
5857 calls are made.
5858 </note>
5859 </desc>
5860 </attribute>
5861
5862 <attribute name="guest" type="IGuest" readonly="yes">
5863 <desc>Guest object.</desc>
5864 </attribute>
5865
5866 <attribute name="keyboard" type="IKeyboard" readonly="yes">
5867 <desc>
5868 Virtual keyboard object.
5869 <note>
5870 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
5871 the returned object will result in an error.
5872 </note>
5873 </desc>
5874 </attribute>
5875
5876 <attribute name="mouse" type="IMouse" readonly="yes">
5877 <desc>
5878 Virtual mouse object.
5879 <note>
5880 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
5881 the returned object will result in an error.
5882 </note>
5883 </desc>
5884 </attribute>
5885
5886 <attribute name="display" type="IDisplay" readonly="yes">
5887 <desc>Virtual display object.
5888 <note>
5889 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
5890 the returned object will result in an error.
5891 </note>
5892 </desc>
5893 </attribute>
5894
5895 <attribute name="debugger" type="IMachineDebugger" readonly="yes">
5896 <desc>Debugging interface.</desc>
5897 </attribute>
5898
5899 <attribute name="USBDevices" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
5900 <desc>
5901 Collection of USB devices currently attached to the virtual
5902 USB controller.
5903 <note>
5904 The collection is empty if the machine is not running.
5905 </note>
5906 </desc>
5907 </attribute>
5908
5909 <attribute name="remoteUSBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
5910 <desc>
5911 List of USB devices currently attached to the remote VRDE client.
5912 Once a new device is physically attached to the remote host computer,
5913 it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
5914 </desc>
5915 </attribute>
5916
5917 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
5918 <desc>
5919 Collection of shared folders for the current session. These folders
5920 are called transient shared folders because they are available to the
5921 guest OS running inside the associated virtual machine only for the
5922 duration of the session (as opposed to
5923 <link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/> which represent permanent shared
5924 folders). When the session is closed (e.g. the machine is powered down),
5925 these folders are automatically discarded.
5926
5927 New shared folders are added to the collection using
5928 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
5929 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
5930 </desc>
5931 </attribute>
5932
5933 <attribute name="VRDEServerInfo" type="IVRDEServerInfo" readonly="yes">
5934 <desc>
5935 Interface that provides information on Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) connection.
5936 </desc>
5937 </attribute>
5938
5939 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
5940 <desc>
5941 Event source for console events.
5942 </desc>
5943 </attribute>
5944
5945 <method name="powerUp">
5946 <desc>
5947 Starts the virtual machine execution using the current machine
5948 state (that is, its current execution state, current settings and
5949 current storage devices).
5950
5951 <note>
5952 This method is only useful for front-ends that want to actually
5953 execute virtual machines in their own process (like the VirtualBox
5954 or VBoxSDL front-ends). Unless you are intending to write such a
5955 front-end, do not call this method. If you simply want to
5956 start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
5957 (for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), use
5958 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> instead; these
5959 front-ends will power up the machine automatically for you.
5960 </note>
5961
5962 If the machine is powered off or aborted, the execution will
5963 start from the beginning (as if the real hardware were just
5964 powered on).
5965
5966 If the machine is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state,
5967 it will continue its execution the point where the state has
5968 been saved.
5969
5970 If the machine <link to="IMachine::teleporterEnabled"/> property is
5971 enabled on the machine being powered up, the machine will wait for an
5972 incoming teleportation in the <link to="MachineState_TeleportingIn"/>
5973 state. The returned progress object will have at least three
5974 operations where the last three are defined as: (1) powering up and
5975 starting TCP server, (2) waiting for incoming teleportations, and
5976 (3) perform teleportation. These operations will be reflected as the
5977 last three operations of the progress objected returned by
5978 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> as well.
5979
5980 <see>#saveState</see>
5981
5982 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5983 Virtual machine already running.
5984 </result>
5985 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
5986 Host interface does not exist or name not set.
5987 </result>
5988 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5989 Invalid saved state file.
5990 </result>
5991 </desc>
5992 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
5993 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
5994 </param>
5995 </method>
5996
5997 <method name="powerUpPaused">
5998 <desc>
5999 Identical to powerUp except that the VM will enter the
6000 <link to="MachineState_Paused"/> state, instead of
6001 <link to="MachineState_Running"/>.
6002
6003 <see>#powerUp</see>
6004 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6005 Virtual machine already running.
6006 </result>
6007 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6008 Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6009 </result>
6010 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6011 Invalid saved state file.
6012 </result>
6013 </desc>
6014 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6015 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6016 </param>
6017 </method>
6018
6019 <method name="powerDown">
6020 <desc>
6021 Initiates the power down procedure to stop the virtual machine
6022 execution.
6023
6024 The completion of the power down procedure is tracked using the returned
6025 IProgress object. After the operation is complete, the machine will go
6026 to the PoweredOff state.
6027 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6028 Virtual machine must be Running, Paused or Stuck to be powered down.
6029 </result>
6030 </desc>
6031 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6032 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6033 </param>
6034 </method>
6035
6036 <method name="reset">
6037 <desc>Resets the virtual machine.
6038 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6039 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6040 </result>
6041 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6042 Virtual machine error in reset operation.
6043 </result>
6044 </desc>
6045 </method>
6046
6047 <method name="pause">
6048 <desc>Pauses the virtual machine execution.
6049 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6050 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6051 </result>
6052 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6053 Virtual machine error in suspend operation.
6054 </result>
6055 </desc>
6056 </method>
6057
6058 <method name="resume">
6059 <desc>Resumes the virtual machine execution.
6060 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6061 Virtual machine not in Paused state.
6062 </result>
6063 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6064 Virtual machine error in resume operation.
6065 </result>
6066 </desc>
6067 </method>
6068
6069 <method name="powerButton">
6070 <desc>Sends the ACPI power button event to the guest.
6071 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6072 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6073 </result>
6074 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6075 Controlled power off failed.
6076 </result>
6077 </desc>
6078 </method>
6079
6080 <method name="sleepButton">
6081 <desc>Sends the ACPI sleep button event to the guest.
6082 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6083 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6084 </result>
6085 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6086 Sending sleep button event failed.
6087 </result>
6088 </desc>
6089 </method>
6090
6091 <method name="getPowerButtonHandled">
6092 <desc>Checks if the last power button event was handled by guest.
6093 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6094 Checking if the event was handled by the guest OS failed.
6095 </result>
6096 </desc>
6097 <param name="handled" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6098 </method>
6099
6100 <method name="getGuestEnteredACPIMode">
6101 <desc>Checks if the guest entered the ACPI mode G0 (working) or
6102 G1 (sleeping). If this method returns @c false, the guest will
6103 most likely not respond to external ACPI events.
6104 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6105 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6106 </result>
6107 </desc>
6108 <param name="entered" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6109 </method>
6110
6111 <method name="saveState">
6112 <desc>
6113 Saves the current execution state of a running virtual machine
6114 and stops its execution.
6115
6116 After this operation completes, the machine will go to the
6117 Saved state. Next time it is powered up, this state will
6118 be restored and the machine will continue its execution from
6119 the place where it was saved.
6120
6121 This operation differs from taking a snapshot to the effect
6122 that it doesn't create new differencing media. Also, once
6123 the machine is powered up from the state saved using this method,
6124 the saved state is deleted, so it will be impossible to return
6125 to this state later.
6126
6127 <note>
6128 On success, this method implicitly calls
6129 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to save all current machine
6130 settings (including runtime changes to the DVD medium, etc.).
6131 Together with the impossibility to change any VM settings when it is
6132 in the Saved state, this guarantees adequate hardware
6133 configuration of the machine when it is restored from the saved
6134 state file.
6135 </note>
6136
6137 <note>
6138 The machine must be in the Running or Paused state, otherwise
6139 the operation will fail.
6140 </note>
6141 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6142 Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6143 </result>
6144 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6145 Failed to create directory for saved state file.
6146 </result>
6147
6148 <see><link to="#takeSnapshot"/></see>
6149 </desc>
6150 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6151 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6152 </param>
6153 </method>
6154
6155 <method name="adoptSavedState">
6156 <desc>
6157 Associates the given saved state file to the virtual machine.
6158
6159 On success, the machine will go to the Saved state. Next time it is
6160 powered up, it will be restored from the adopted saved state and
6161 continue execution from the place where the saved state file was
6162 created.
6163
6164 The specified saved state file path may be absolute or relative to the
6165 folder the VM normally saves the state to (usually,
6166 <link to="IMachine::snapshotFolder"/>).
6167
6168 <note>
6169 It's a caller's responsibility to make sure the given saved state
6170 file is compatible with the settings of this virtual machine that
6171 represent its virtual hardware (memory size, storage disk configuration
6172 etc.). If there is a mismatch, the behavior of the virtual machine
6173 is undefined.
6174 </note>
6175 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6176 Virtual machine state neither PoweredOff nor Aborted.
6177 </result>
6178 </desc>
6179 <param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
6180 <desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
6181 </param>
6182 </method>
6183
6184 <method name="discardSavedState">
6185 <desc>
6186 Forcibly resets the machine to "Powered Off" state if it is
6187 currently in the "Saved" state (previously created by <link to="#saveState"/>).
6188 Next time the machine is powered up, a clean boot will occur.
6189 <note>
6190 This operation is equivalent to resetting or powering off
6191 the machine without doing a proper shutdown of the guest
6192 operating system; as with resetting a running phyiscal
6193 computer, it can can lead to data loss.
6194 </note>
6195 If @a fRemoveFile is @c true, the file in the machine directory
6196 into which the machine state was saved is also deleted. If
6197 this is @c false, then the state can be recovered and later
6198 re-inserted into a machine using <link to="#adoptSavedState" />.
6199 The location of the file can be found in the
6200 <link to="IMachine::stateFilePath" /> attribute.
6201 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6202 Virtual machine not in state Saved.
6203 </result>
6204 </desc>
6205 <param name="fRemoveFile" type="boolean" dir="in" >
6206 <desc>Whether to also remove the saved state file.</desc>
6207 </param>
6208 </method>
6209
6210 <method name="getDeviceActivity">
6211 <desc>
6212 Gets the current activity type of a given device or device group.
6213 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6214 Invalid device type.
6215 </result>
6216 </desc>
6217 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in"/>
6218 <param name="activity" type="DeviceActivity" dir="return"/>
6219 </method>
6220
6221 <method name="attachUSBDevice">
6222 <desc>
6223 Attaches a host USB device with the given UUID to the
6224 USB controller of the virtual machine.
6225
6226 The device needs to be in one of the following states:
6227 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
6228 <link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/> or
6229 <link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>,
6230 otherwise an error is immediately returned.
6231
6232 When the device state is
6233 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy">Busy</link>, an error may also
6234 be returned if the host computer refuses to release it for some reason.
6235
6236 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6237 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6238 Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6239 </result>
6240 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6241 Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6242 </result>
6243 </desc>
6244 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6245 <desc>UUID of the host USB device to attach.</desc>
6246 </param>
6247 </method>
6248
6249 <method name="detachUSBDevice">
6250 <desc>
6251 Detaches an USB device with the given UUID from the USB controller
6252 of the virtual machine.
6253
6254 After this method succeeds, the VirtualBox server re-initiates
6255 all USB filters as if the device were just physically attached
6256 to the host, but filters of this machine are ignored to avoid
6257 a possible automatic re-attachment.
6258
6259 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6260
6261 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6262 Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6263 </result>
6264 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6265 USB device not attached to this virtual machine.
6266 </result>
6267 </desc>
6268 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6269 <desc>UUID of the USB device to detach.</desc>
6270 </param>
6271 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6272 <desc>Detached USB device.</desc>
6273 </param>
6274 </method>
6275
6276 <method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
6277 <desc>
6278 Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
6279
6280 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6281 Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
6282 </result>
6283
6284 <see>IUSBDevice::address</see>
6285 </desc>
6286 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6287 <desc>
6288 Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
6289 search for.
6290 </desc>
6291 </param>
6292 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6293 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6294 </param>
6295 </method>
6296
6297 <method name="findUSBDeviceById">
6298 <desc>
6299 Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
6300
6301 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6302 Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
6303 </result>
6304
6305 <see>IUSBDevice::id</see>
6306 </desc>
6307 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6308 <desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
6309 </param>
6310 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6311 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6312 </param>
6313 </method>
6314
6315 <method name="createSharedFolder">
6316 <desc>
6317 Creates a transient new shared folder by associating the given logical
6318 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
6319 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
6320 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
6321
6322 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6323 Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6324 </result>
6325 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6326 Shared folder already exists or not accessible.
6327 </result>
6328 </desc>
6329 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6330 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
6331 </param>
6332 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
6333 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
6334 </param>
6335 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
6336 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
6337 </param>
6338 <param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
6339 <desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
6340 or not.</desc>
6341 </param>
6342 </method>
6343
6344 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
6345 <desc>
6346 Removes a transient shared folder with the given name previously
6347 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
6348 shared folders and stops sharing it.
6349 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6350 Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6351 </result>
6352 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6353 Shared folder does not exists.
6354 </result>
6355 </desc>
6356 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6357 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
6358 </param>
6359 </method>
6360
6361 <method name="takeSnapshot">
6362 <desc>
6363 Saves the current execution state
6364 and all settings of the machine and creates differencing images
6365 for all normal (non-independent) media.
6366 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6367
6368 This method can be called for a PoweredOff, Saved (see
6369 <link to="#saveState"/>), Running or
6370 Paused virtual machine. When the machine is PoweredOff, an
6371 offline snapshot is created. When the machine is Running a live
6372 snapshot is created, and an online snapshot is is created when Paused.
6373
6374 The taken snapshot is always based on the
6375 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot">current snapshot</link>
6376 of the associated virtual machine and becomes a new current snapshot.
6377
6378 <note>
6379 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6380 save all current machine settings before taking an offline snapshot.
6381 </note>
6382
6383 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6384 Virtual machine currently changing state.
6385 </result>
6386 </desc>
6387 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6388 <desc>Short name for the snapshot.</desc>
6389 </param>
6390 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
6391 <desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
6392 </param>
6393 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6394 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6395 </param>
6396 </method>
6397
6398 <method name="deleteSnapshot">
6399 <desc>
6400 Starts deleting the specified snapshot asynchronously.
6401 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6402
6403 The execution state and settings of the associated machine stored in
6404 the snapshot will be deleted. The contents of all differencing media of
6405 this snapshot will be merged with the contents of their dependent child
6406 media to keep the medium chain valid (in other words, all changes
6407 represented by media being deleted will be propagated to their child
6408 medium). After that, this snapshot's differencing medium will be
6409 deleted. The parent of this snapshot will become a new parent for all
6410 its child snapshots.
6411
6412 If the deleted snapshot is the current one, its parent snapshot will
6413 become a new current snapshot. The current machine state is not directly
6414 affected in this case, except that currently attached differencing
6415 media based on media of the deleted snapshot will be also merged as
6416 described above.
6417
6418 If the deleted snapshot is the first or current snapshot, then the
6419 respective IMachine attributes will be adjusted. Deleting the current
6420 snapshot will also implicitly call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
6421 to make all current machine settings permanent.
6422
6423 Deleting a snapshot has the following preconditions:
6424
6425 <ul>
6426 <li>Child media of all normal media of the deleted snapshot
6427 must be accessible (see <link to="IMedium::state"/>) for this
6428 operation to succeed. In particular, this means that all virtual
6429 machines whose media are directly or indirectly based on the
6430 media of deleted snapshot must be powered off.</li>
6431
6432 <li>You cannot delete the snapshot if a medium attached to it has
6433 more than once child medium (differencing images) because otherwise
6434 merging would be impossible. This might be the case if there is
6435 more than one child snapshot or differencing images were created
6436 for other reason (e.g. implicitly because of multiple machine
6437 attachments).</li>
6438 </ul>
6439
6440
6441 The virtual machine's <link to="IMachine::state">state</link> is
6442 changed to "DeletingSnapshot", "DeletingSnapshotOnline" or
6443 "DeletingSnapshotPaused" while this operation is in progress.
6444
6445 <note>
6446 Merging medium contents can be very time and disk space
6447 consuming, if these media are big in size and have many
6448 children. However, if the snapshot being deleted is the last
6449 (head) snapshot on the branch, the operation will be rather
6450 quick.
6451 </note>
6452 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6453 The running virtual machine prevents deleting this snapshot. This
6454 happens only in very specific situations, usually snapshots can be
6455 deleted without trouble while a VM is running. The error message
6456 text explains the reason for the failure.
6457 </result>
6458 </desc>
6459 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6460 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to delete.</desc>
6461 </param>
6462 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6463 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6464 </param>
6465 </method>
6466
6467 <method name="restoreSnapshot">
6468 <desc>
6469 Starts resetting the machine's current state to the state contained
6470 in the given snapshot, asynchronously. All current settings of the
6471 machine will be reset and changes stored in differencing media
6472 will be lost.
6473 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6474
6475 After this operation is successfully completed, new empty differencing
6476 media are created for all normal media of the machine.
6477
6478 If the given snapshot is an online snapshot, the machine will go to
6479 the <link to="MachineState_Saved"> saved state</link>, so that the
6480 next time it is powered on, the execution state will be restored
6481 from the state of the snapshot.
6482
6483 <note>
6484 The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation will fail.
6485 </note>
6486
6487 <note>
6488 If the machine state is <link to="MachineState_Saved">Saved</link>
6489 prior to this operation, the saved state file will be implicitly
6490 deleted (as if <link to="IConsole::discardSavedState"/> were
6491 called).
6492 </note>
6493
6494 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6495 Virtual machine is running.
6496 </result>
6497 </desc>
6498 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
6499 <desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
6500 </param>
6501 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6502 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6503 </param>
6504 </method>
6505
6506 <method name="teleport">
6507 <desc>
6508 Teleport the VM to a different host machine or process.
6509
6510 TODO explain the details.
6511
6512 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6513 Virtual machine not running or paused.
6514 </result>
6515 </desc>
6516 <param name="hostname" type="wstring" dir="in">
6517 <desc>The name or IP of the host to teleport to.</desc>
6518 </param>
6519 <param name="tcpport" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6520 <desc>The TCP port to connect to (1..65535).</desc>
6521 </param>
6522 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
6523 <desc>The password.</desc>
6524 </param>
6525 <param name="maxDowntime" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6526 <desc>
6527 The maximum allowed downtime given as milliseconds. 0 is not a valid
6528 value. Recommended value: 250 ms.
6529
6530 The higher the value is, the greater the chance for a successful
6531 teleportation. A small value may easily result in the teleportation
6532 process taking hours and eventually fail.
6533
6534 <note>
6535 The current implementation treats this a guideline, not as an
6536 absolute rule.
6537 </note>
6538 </desc>
6539 </param>
6540 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6541 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6542 </param>
6543 </method>
6544
6545 </interface>
6546
6547 <!--
6548 // IHost
6549 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
6550 -->
6551
6552 <enum
6553 name="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType"
6554 uuid="1aa54aaf-2497-45a2-bfb1-8eb225e93d5b"
6555 >
6556 <desc>
6557 Type of encapsulation. Ethernet encapsulation includes both wired and
6558 wireless Ethernet connections.
6559 <see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
6560 </desc>
6561
6562 <const name="Unknown" value="0">
6563 <desc>
6564 The type of interface cannot be determined.
6565 </desc>
6566 </const>
6567 <const name="Ethernet" value="1">
6568 <desc>
6569 Ethernet frame encapsulation.
6570 </desc>
6571 </const>
6572 <const name="PPP" value="2">
6573 <desc>
6574 Point-to-point protocol encapsulation.
6575 </desc>
6576 </const>
6577 <const name="SLIP" value="3">
6578 <desc>
6579 Serial line IP encapsulation.
6580 </desc>
6581 </const>
6582 </enum>
6583
6584 <enum
6585 name="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus"
6586 uuid="CC474A69-2710-434B-8D99-C38E5D5A6F41"
6587 >
6588 <desc>
6589 Current status of the interface.
6590 <see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
6591 </desc>
6592
6593 <const name="Unknown" value="0">
6594 <desc>
6595 The state of interface cannot be determined.
6596 </desc>
6597 </const>
6598 <const name="Up" value="1">
6599 <desc>
6600 The interface is fully operational.
6601 </desc>
6602 </const>
6603 <const name="Down" value="2">
6604 <desc>
6605 The interface is not functioning.
6606 </desc>
6607 </const>
6608 </enum>
6609
6610 <enum
6611 name="HostNetworkInterfaceType"
6612 uuid="67431b00-9946-48a2-bc02-b25c5919f4f3"
6613 >
6614 <desc>
6615 Network interface type.
6616 </desc>
6617 <const name="Bridged" value="1"/>
6618 <const name="HostOnly" value="2"/>
6619 </enum>
6620
6621 <interface
6622 name="IHostNetworkInterface" extends="$unknown"
6623 uuid="ce6fae58-7642-4102-b5db-c9005c2320a8"
6624 wsmap="managed"
6625 >
6626 <desc>
6627 Represents one of host's network interfaces. IP V6 address and network
6628 mask are strings of 32 hexdecimal digits grouped by four. Groups are
6629 separated by colons.
6630 For example, fe80:0000:0000:0000:021e:c2ff:fed2:b030.
6631 </desc>
6632 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6633 <desc>Returns the host network interface name.</desc>
6634 </attribute>
6635
6636 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
6637 <desc>Returns the interface UUID.</desc>
6638 </attribute>
6639
6640 <attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6641 <desc>Returns the name of a virtual network the interface gets attached to.</desc>
6642 </attribute>
6643
6644 <attribute name="dhcpEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6645 <desc>Specifies whether the DHCP is enabled for the interface.</desc>
6646 </attribute>
6647
6648 <attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6649 <desc>Returns the IP V4 address of the interface.</desc>
6650 </attribute>
6651
6652 <attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6653 <desc>Returns the network mask of the interface.</desc>
6654 </attribute>
6655
6656 <attribute name="IPV6Supported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6657 <desc>Specifies whether the IP V6 is supported/enabled for the interface.</desc>
6658 </attribute>
6659
6660 <attribute name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6661 <desc>Returns the IP V6 address of the interface.</desc>
6662 </attribute>
6663
6664 <attribute name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6665 <desc>Returns the length IP V6 network mask prefix of the interface.</desc>
6666 </attribute>
6667
6668 <attribute name="hardwareAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6669 <desc>Returns the hardware address. For Ethernet it is MAC address.</desc>
6670 </attribute>
6671
6672 <attribute name="mediumType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType" readonly="yes">
6673 <desc>Type of protocol encapsulation used.</desc>
6674 </attribute>
6675
6676 <attribute name="status" type="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus" readonly="yes">
6677 <desc>Status of the interface.</desc>
6678 </attribute>
6679
6680 <attribute name="interfaceType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" readonly="yes">
6681 <desc>specifies the host interface type.</desc>
6682 </attribute>
6683
6684 <method name="enableStaticIpConfig">
6685 <desc>sets and enables the static IP V4 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
6686 <param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
6687 <desc>
6688 IP address.
6689 </desc>
6690 </param>
6691 <param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
6692 <desc>
6693 network mask.
6694 </desc>
6695 </param>
6696 </method>
6697
6698 <method name="enableStaticIpConfigV6">
6699 <desc>sets and enables the static IP V6 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
6700 <param name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" dir="in">
6701 <desc>
6702 IP address.
6703 </desc>
6704 </param>
6705 <param name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6706 <desc>
6707 network mask.
6708 </desc>
6709 </param>
6710 </method>
6711
6712 <method name="enableDynamicIpConfig">
6713 <desc>enables the dynamic IP configuration.</desc>
6714 </method>
6715
6716 <method name="dhcpRediscover">
6717 <desc>refreshes the IP configuration for dhcp-enabled interface.</desc>
6718 </method>
6719
6720 </interface>
6721
6722 <interface
6723 name="IHost" extends="$unknown"
6724 uuid="35b004f4-7806-4009-bfa8-d1308adba7e5"
6725 wsmap="managed"
6726 >
6727 <desc>
6728 The IHost interface represents the physical machine that this VirtualBox
6729 installation runs on.
6730
6731 An object implementing this interface is returned by the
6732 <link to="IVirtualBox::host" /> attribute. This interface contains
6733 read-only information about the host's physical hardware (such as what
6734 processors and disks are available, what the host operating system is,
6735 and so on) and also allows for manipulating some of the host's hardware,
6736 such as global USB device filters and host interface networking.
6737
6738 </desc>
6739 <attribute name="DVDDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6740 <desc>List of DVD drives available on the host.</desc>
6741 </attribute>
6742
6743 <attribute name="floppyDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6744 <desc>List of floppy drives available on the host.</desc>
6745 </attribute>
6746
6747 <attribute name="USBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6748 <desc>
6749 List of USB devices currently attached to the host.
6750 Once a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
6751 it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
6752
6753 <note>
6754 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
6755 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
6756 </note>
6757 </desc>
6758 </attribute>
6759
6760 <attribute name="USBDeviceFilters" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6761 <desc>
6762 List of USB device filters in action.
6763 When a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
6764 filters from this list are applied to it (in order they are stored
6765 in the list). The first matched filter will determine the
6766 <link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::action">action</link>
6767 performed on the device.
6768
6769 Unless the device is ignored by these filters, filters of all
6770 currently running virtual machines
6771 (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are applied to it.
6772
6773 <note>
6774 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
6775 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
6776 </note>
6777
6778 <see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
6779 </desc>
6780 </attribute>
6781
6782 <attribute name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
6783 <desc>List of host network interfaces currently defined on the host.</desc>
6784 </attribute>
6785
6786 <attribute name="processorCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6787 <desc>Number of (logical) CPUs installed in the host system.</desc>
6788 </attribute>
6789
6790 <attribute name="processorOnlineCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6791 <desc>Number of (logical) CPUs online in the host system.</desc>
6792 </attribute>
6793
6794 <attribute name="processorCoreCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6795 <desc>Number of physical processor cores installed in the host system.</desc>
6796 </attribute>
6797
6798 <method name="getProcessorSpeed">
6799 <desc>Query the (approximate) maximum speed of a specified host CPU in
6800 Megahertz.
6801 </desc>
6802 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6803 <desc>
6804 Identifier of the CPU.
6805 </desc>
6806 </param>
6807 <param name="speed" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
6808 <desc>
6809 Speed value. 0 is returned if value is not known or @a cpuId is
6810 invalid.
6811 </desc>
6812 </param>
6813 </method>
6814
6815 <method name="getProcessorFeature">
6816 <desc>Query whether a CPU feature is supported or not.</desc>
6817 <param name="feature" type="ProcessorFeature" dir="in">
6818 <desc>
6819 CPU Feature identifier.
6820 </desc>
6821 </param>
6822 <param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return">
6823 <desc>
6824 Feature is supported or not.
6825 </desc>
6826 </param>
6827 </method>
6828
6829 <method name="getProcessorDescription">
6830 <desc>Query the model string of a specified host CPU.
6831 </desc>
6832 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6833 <desc>
6834 Identifier of the CPU.
6835 <note>
6836 The current implementation might not necessarily return the
6837 description for this exact CPU.
6838 </note>
6839 </desc>
6840 </param>
6841 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="return">
6842 <desc>
6843 Model string. An empty string is returned if value is not known or
6844 @a cpuId is invalid.
6845 </desc>
6846 </param>
6847 </method>
6848
6849 <method name="getProcessorCPUIDLeaf">
6850 <desc>
6851 Returns the CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
6852 </desc>
6853 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6854 <desc>
6855 Identifier of the CPU. The CPU most be online.
6856 <note>
6857 The current implementation might not necessarily return the
6858 description for this exact CPU.
6859 </note>
6860 </desc>
6861 </param>
6862 <param name="leaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6863 <desc>
6864 CPUID leaf index (eax).
6865 </desc>
6866 </param>
6867 <param name="subLeaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6868 <desc>
6869 CPUID leaf sub index (ecx). This currently only applies to cache
6870 information on Intel CPUs. Use 0 if retrieving values for
6871 <link to="IMachine::setCPUIDLeaf"/>.
6872 </desc>
6873 </param>
6874 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6875 <desc>
6876 CPUID leaf value for register eax.
6877 </desc>
6878 </param>
6879 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6880 <desc>
6881 CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
6882 </desc>
6883 </param>
6884 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6885 <desc>
6886 CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
6887 </desc>
6888 </param>
6889 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6890 <desc>
6891 CPUID leaf value for register edx.
6892 </desc>
6893 </param>
6894 </method>
6895
6896 <attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6897 <desc>Amount of system memory in megabytes installed in the host system.</desc>
6898 </attribute>
6899
6900 <attribute name="memoryAvailable" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6901 <desc>Available system memory in the host system.</desc>
6902 </attribute>
6903
6904 <attribute name="operatingSystem" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6905 <desc>Name of the host system's operating system.</desc>
6906 </attribute>
6907
6908 <attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6909 <desc>Host operating system's version string.</desc>
6910 </attribute>
6911
6912 <attribute name="UTCTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6913 <desc>Returns the current host time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.</desc>
6914 </attribute>
6915
6916 <attribute name="Acceleration3DAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6917 <desc>Returns @c true when the host supports 3D hardware acceleration.</desc>
6918 </attribute>
6919
6920 <method name="createHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
6921 <desc>
6922 Creates a new adapter for Host Only Networking.
6923 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6924 Host network interface @a name already exists.
6925 </result>
6926 </desc>
6927 <param name="hostInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="out">
6928 <desc>
6929 Created host interface object.
6930 </desc>
6931 </param>
6932 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6933 <desc>
6934 Progress object to track the operation completion.
6935 </desc>
6936 </param>
6937 </method>
6938
6939 <method name="removeHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
6940 <desc>
6941 Removes the given Host Only Networking interface.
6942 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6943 No host network interface matching @a id found.
6944 </result>
6945 </desc>
6946 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6947 <desc>
6948 Adapter GUID.
6949 </desc>
6950 </param>
6951 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6952 <desc>
6953 Progress object to track the operation completion.
6954 </desc>
6955 </param>
6956 </method>
6957
6958 <method name="createUSBDeviceFilter">
6959 <desc>
6960 Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
6961 the filter name are set to empty (any match),
6962 <i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
6963
6964 The created filter can be added to the list of filters using
6965 <link to="#insertUSBDeviceFilter"/>.
6966
6967 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
6968 </desc>
6969 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6970 <desc>
6971 Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/> for more information.
6972 </desc>
6973 </param>
6974 <param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
6975 <desc>Created filter object.</desc>
6976 </param>
6977 </method>
6978
6979 <method name="insertUSBDeviceFilter">
6980 <desc>
6981 Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
6982 in the list of filters.
6983
6984 Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. If the specified
6985 position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
6986 the list, the filter is added at the end of the collection.
6987
6988 <note>
6989 Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
6990 filter already in the list is an error.
6991 </note>
6992 <note>
6993 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
6994 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
6995 </note>
6996
6997 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
6998
6999 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
7000 USB device filter is not created within this VirtualBox instance.
7001 </result>
7002 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7003 USB device filter already in list.
7004 </result>
7005
7006 </desc>
7007 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7008 <desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
7009 </param>
7010 <param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
7011 <desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
7012 </param>
7013 </method>
7014
7015 <method name="removeUSBDeviceFilter">
7016 <desc>
7017 Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
7018 list of filters.
7019
7020 Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. Specifying a
7021 position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7022 the list will produce an error.
7023
7024 <note>
7025 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7026 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7027 </note>
7028
7029 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7030
7031 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7032 USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
7033 </result>
7034
7035 </desc>
7036 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7037 <desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
7038 </param>
7039 </method>
7040
7041 <method name="findHostDVDDrive">
7042 <desc>
7043 Searches for a host DVD drive with the given @c name.
7044
7045 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7046 Given @c name does not correspond to any host drive.
7047 </result>
7048
7049 </desc>
7050 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7051 <desc>Name of the host drive to search for</desc>
7052 </param>
7053 <param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7054 <desc>Found host drive object</desc>
7055 </param>
7056 </method>
7057
7058 <method name="findHostFloppyDrive">
7059 <desc>
7060 Searches for a host floppy drive with the given @c name.
7061
7062 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7063 Given @c name does not correspond to any host floppy drive.
7064 </result>
7065
7066 </desc>
7067 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7068 <desc>Name of the host floppy drive to search for</desc>
7069 </param>
7070 <param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7071 <desc>Found host floppy drive object</desc>
7072 </param>
7073 </method>
7074
7075 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceByName">
7076 <desc>
7077 Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7078 the given @c name.
7079 <note>
7080 The method returns an error if the given @c name does not
7081 correspond to any host network interface.
7082 </note>
7083 </desc>
7084 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7085 <desc>Name of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7086 </param>
7087 <param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7088 <desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7089 </param>
7090 </method>
7091 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceById">
7092 <desc>
7093 Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7094 the given GUID.
7095 <note>
7096 The method returns an error if the given GUID does not
7097 correspond to any host network interface.
7098 </note>
7099 </desc>
7100 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7101 <desc>GUID of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7102 </param>
7103 <param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7104 <desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7105 </param>
7106 </method>
7107 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfacesOfType">
7108 <desc>
7109 Searches through all host network interfaces and returns a list of interfaces of the specified type
7110 </desc>
7111 <param name="type" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" dir="in">
7112 <desc>type of the host network interfaces to search for.</desc>
7113 </param>
7114 <param name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7115 <desc>Found host network interface objects.</desc>
7116 </param>
7117 </method>
7118
7119 <method name="findUSBDeviceById">
7120 <desc>
7121 Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
7122
7123 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7124 Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
7125 </result>
7126
7127 <see>IHostUSBDevice::id</see>
7128 </desc>
7129 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7130 <desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
7131 </param>
7132 <param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7133 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7134 </param>
7135 </method>
7136
7137 <method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
7138 <desc>
7139 Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
7140
7141 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7142 Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
7143 </result>
7144
7145 <see>IHostUSBDevice::address</see>
7146 </desc>
7147 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7148 <desc>
7149 Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
7150 search for.
7151 </desc>
7152 </param>
7153 <param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7154 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7155 </param>
7156 </method>
7157
7158 </interface>
7159
7160 <!--
7161 // ISystemProperties
7162 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7163 -->
7164
7165 <interface
7166 name="ISystemProperties"
7167 extends="$unknown"
7168 uuid="9a949843-b237-46d4-8fcf-c83dcd9121ef"
7169 wsmap="managed"
7170 >
7171 <desc>
7172 The ISystemProperties interface represents global properties of the given
7173 VirtualBox installation.
7174
7175 These properties define limits and default values for various attributes
7176 and parameters. Most of the properties are read-only, but some can be
7177 changed by a user.
7178 </desc>
7179
7180 <attribute name="minGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7181 <desc>Minimum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7182 </attribute>
7183
7184 <attribute name="maxGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7185 <desc>Maximum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7186 </attribute>
7187
7188 <attribute name="minGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7189 <desc>Minimum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7190 </attribute>
7191
7192 <attribute name="maxGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7193 <desc>Maximum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7194 </attribute>
7195
7196 <attribute name="minGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7197 <desc>Minimum CPU count.</desc>
7198 </attribute>
7199
7200 <attribute name="maxGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7201 <desc>Maximum CPU count.</desc>
7202 </attribute>
7203
7204 <attribute name="maxGuestMonitors" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7205 <desc>Maximum of monitors which could be connected.</desc>
7206 </attribute>
7207
7208 <attribute name="infoVDSize" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7209 <desc>Maximum size of a virtual disk image in bytes. Informational value,
7210 does not reflect the limits of any virtual disk image format.</desc>
7211 </attribute>
7212
7213 <attribute name="networkAdapterCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7214 <desc>
7215 Number of network adapters associated with every
7216 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7217 </desc>
7218 </attribute>
7219
7220 <attribute name="serialPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7221 <desc>
7222 Number of serial ports associated with every
7223 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7224 </desc>
7225 </attribute>
7226
7227 <attribute name="parallelPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7228 <desc>
7229 Number of parallel ports associated with every
7230 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7231 </desc>
7232 </attribute>
7233
7234 <attribute name="maxBootPosition" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7235 <desc>
7236 Maximum device position in the boot order. This value corresponds
7237 to the total number of devices a machine can boot from, to make it
7238 possible to include all possible devices to the boot list.
7239 <see><link to="IMachine::setBootOrder"/></see>
7240 </desc>
7241 </attribute>
7242
7243 <attribute name="defaultMachineFolder" type="wstring">
7244 <desc>
7245 Full path to the default directory used to create new or open
7246 existing machines when a machine settings file name contains no
7247 path.
7248
7249 Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, by default, this attribute contains
7250 the full path of folder named "VirtualBox VMs" in the user's
7251 home directory, which depends on the host platform.
7252
7253 When setting this attribute, a full path must be specified.
7254 Setting this property to @c null or an empty string or the
7255 special value "Machines" (for compatibility reasons) will restore
7256 that default value.
7257
7258 If the folder specified herein does not exist, it will be created
7259 automatically as needed.
7260
7261 <see>
7262 <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>,
7263 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>
7264 </see>
7265 </desc>
7266 </attribute>
7267
7268 <attribute name="mediumFormats" type="IMediumFormat" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7269 <desc>
7270 List of all medium storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
7271 installation.
7272
7273 Keep in mind that the medium format identifier
7274 (<link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>) used in other API calls like
7275 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to refer to a particular
7276 medium format is a case-insensitive string. This means that, for
7277 example, all of the following strings:
7278 <pre>
7279 "VDI"
7280 "vdi"
7281 "VdI"</pre>
7282 refer to the same medium format.
7283
7284 Note that the virtual medium framework is backend-based, therefore
7285 the list of supported formats depends on what backends are currently
7286 installed.
7287
7288 <see>
7289 <link to="IMediumFormat"/>,
7290 </see>
7291 </desc>
7292 </attribute>
7293
7294 <attribute name="defaultHardDiskFormat" type="wstring">
7295 <desc>
7296 Identifier of the default medium format used by VirtualBox.
7297
7298 The medium format set by this attribute is used by VirtualBox
7299 when the medium format was not specified explicitly. One example is
7300 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> with the empty
7301 format argument. A more complex example is implicit creation of
7302 differencing media when taking a snapshot of a virtual machine:
7303 this operation will try to use a format of the parent medium first
7304 and if this format does not support differencing media the default
7305 format specified by this argument will be used.
7306
7307 The list of supported medium formats may be obtained by the
7308 <link to="#mediumFormats"/> call. Note that the default medium
7309 format must have a capability to create differencing media;
7310 otherwise operations that create media implicitly may fail
7311 unexpectedly.
7312
7313 The initial value of this property is <tt>"VDI"</tt> in the current
7314 version of the VirtualBox product, but may change in the future.
7315
7316 <note>
7317 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7318 initial value.
7319 </note>
7320
7321 <see>
7322 <link to="#mediumFormats"/>,
7323 <link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>,
7324 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>
7325 </see>
7326 </desc>
7327 </attribute>
7328
7329 <attribute name="freeDiskSpaceWarning" type="long long">
7330 <desc>Issue a warning if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7331 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given size in
7332 bytes.</desc>
7333 </attribute>
7334
7335 <attribute name="freeDiskSpacePercentWarning" type="unsigned long">
7336 <desc>Issue a warning if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7337 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given percentage.</desc>
7338 </attribute>
7339
7340 <attribute name="freeDiskSpaceError" type="long long">
7341 <desc>Issue an error if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7342 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given size in
7343 bytes.</desc>
7344 </attribute>
7345
7346 <attribute name="freeDiskSpacePercentError" type="unsigned long">
7347 <desc>Issue an error if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7348 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given percentage.</desc>
7349 </attribute>
7350
7351 <attribute name="VRDEAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7352 <desc>
7353 Library that provides authentication for Remote Desktop clients. The library
7354 is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7355 in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration.
7356
7357 The system library extension (".DLL" or ".so") must be omitted.
7358 A full path can be specified; if not, then the library must reside on the
7359 system's default library path.
7360
7361 The default value of this property is <tt>"VRDPAuth"</tt>. There is a library
7362 of that name in one of the default VirtualBox library directories.
7363
7364 For details about VirtualBox authentication libraries and how to implement
7365 them, please refer to the VirtualBox manual.
7366
7367 <note>
7368 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7369 initial value.
7370 </note>
7371 </desc>
7372 </attribute>
7373
7374 <attribute name="webServiceAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7375 <desc>
7376 Library that provides authentication for webservice clients. The library
7377 is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7378 in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration and will be called from
7379 within the <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> implementation.
7380
7381 As opposed to <link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary" />,
7382 there is no per-VM setting for this, as the webservice is a global
7383 resource (if it is running). Only for this setting (for the webservice),
7384 setting this value to a literal <tt>"null"</tt> string disables authentication,
7385 meaning that <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> will always succeed,
7386 no matter what user name and password are supplied.
7387
7388 The initial value of this property is <tt>"VRDPAuth"</tt>,
7389 meaning that the webservice will use the same authentication
7390 library that is used by default for VRDE (again, see
7391 <link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary" />).
7392 The format and calling convention of authentication libraries
7393 is the same for the webservice as it is for VRDE.
7394
7395 <note>
7396 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7397 initial value.
7398 </note>
7399 </desc>
7400 </attribute>
7401
7402 <attribute name="defaultVRDELibrary" type="wstring">
7403 <desc>
7404 Default VRDE library.
7405
7406 The default value of this property is an empty string, which means that the
7407 VRDE is not available.
7408
7409 For details about VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension and how to implement
7410 it, please refer to the VirtualBox SDK.
7411 </desc>
7412 </attribute>
7413
7414 <attribute name="LogHistoryCount" type="unsigned long">
7415 <desc>
7416 This value specifies how many old release log files are kept.
7417 </desc>
7418 </attribute>
7419
7420 <attribute name="defaultAudioDriver" type="AudioDriverType" readonly="yes">
7421 <desc>This value hold the default audio driver for the current
7422 system.</desc>
7423 </attribute>
7424
7425 <method name="getMaxDevicesPerPortForStorageBus">
7426 <desc>Returns the maximum number of devices which can be attached to a port
7427 for the given storage bus.</desc>
7428
7429 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7430 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7431 </param>
7432
7433 <param name="maxDevicesPerPort" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7434 <desc>The maximum number of devices which can eb attached to the port for the given
7435 storage bus.</desc>
7436 </param>
7437 </method>
7438
7439 <method name="getMinPortCountForStorageBus">
7440 <desc>Returns the minimum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
7441
7442 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7443 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7444 </param>
7445
7446 <param name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7447 <desc>The minimum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
7448 </param>
7449 </method>
7450
7451 <method name="getMaxPortCountForStorageBus">
7452 <desc>Returns the maximum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
7453
7454 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7455 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7456 </param>
7457
7458 <param name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7459 <desc>The maximum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
7460 </param>
7461 </method>
7462
7463 <method name="getMaxInstancesOfStorageBus">
7464 <desc>Returns the maximum number of storage bus instances which
7465 can be configured for each VM. This corresponds to the number of
7466 storage controllers one can have. Value may depend on chipset type
7467 used.</desc>
7468
7469 <param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
7470 <desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
7471 </param>
7472
7473 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7474 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7475 </param>
7476
7477 <param name="maxInstances" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7478 <desc>The maximum number of instances for the given storage bus.</desc>
7479 </param>
7480 </method>
7481
7482 <method name="getDeviceTypesForStorageBus">
7483 <desc>Returns list of all the supported device types
7484 (<link to="DeviceType"/>) for the given type of storage
7485 bus.</desc>
7486
7487 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7488 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7489 </param>
7490
7491 <param name="deviceTypes" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7492 <desc>The list of all supported device types for the given storage bus.</desc>
7493 </param>
7494 </method>
7495
7496 <method name="getDefaultIoCacheSettingForStorageController">
7497 <desc>Returns the default I/O cache setting for the
7498 given storage controller</desc>
7499
7500 <param name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType" dir="in">
7501 <desc>The storage controller to the setting for.</desc>
7502 </param>
7503
7504 <param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="return">
7505 <desc>Returned flag indicating the default value</desc>
7506 </param>
7507 </method>
7508 </interface>
7509
7510 <!--
7511 // IGuest
7512 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7513 -->
7514
7515 <interface
7516 name="IGuestOSType" extends="$unknown"
7517 uuid="432c1546-1354-4abf-bf08-878a32a373f5"
7518 wsmap="struct"
7519 >
7520 <desc>
7521 </desc>
7522
7523 <attribute name="familyId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7524 <desc>Guest OS family identifier string.</desc>
7525 </attribute>
7526
7527 <attribute name="familyDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7528 <desc>Human readable description of the guest OS family.</desc>
7529 </attribute>
7530
7531 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7532 <desc>Guest OS identifier string.</desc>
7533 </attribute>
7534
7535 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7536 <desc>Human readable description of the guest OS.</desc>
7537 </attribute>
7538
7539 <attribute name="is64Bit" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7540 <desc>Returns @c true if the given OS is 64-bit</desc>
7541 </attribute>
7542
7543 <attribute name="recommendedIOAPIC" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7544 <desc>Returns @c true if IO APIC recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7545 </attribute>
7546
7547 <attribute name="recommendedVirtEx" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7548 <desc>Returns @c true if VT-x or AMD-V recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7549 </attribute>
7550
7551 <attribute name="recommendedRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7552 <desc>Recommended RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
7553 </attribute>
7554
7555 <attribute name="recommendedVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7556 <desc>Recommended video RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
7557 </attribute>
7558
7559 <attribute name="recommendedHDD" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7560 <desc>Recommended hard disk size in bytes.</desc>
7561 </attribute>
7562
7563 <attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType" readonly="yes">
7564 <desc>Returns recommended network adapter for this OS type.</desc>
7565 </attribute>
7566
7567 <attribute name="recommendedPae" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7568 <desc>Returns @c true if using PAE is recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7569 </attribute>
7570
7571 <attribute name="recommendedDvdStorageController" type="StorageControllerType" readonly="yes">
7572 <desc>Recommended storage controller type for DVD/CD drives.</desc>
7573 </attribute>
7574
7575 <attribute name="recommendedDvdStorageBus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
7576 <desc>Recommended storage bus type for DVD/CD drives.</desc>
7577 </attribute>
7578
7579 <attribute name="recommendedHdStorageController" type="StorageControllerType" readonly="yes">
7580 <desc>Recommended storage controller type for HD drives.</desc>
7581 </attribute>
7582
7583 <attribute name="recommendedHdStorageBus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
7584 <desc>Recommended storage bus type for HD drives.</desc>
7585 </attribute>
7586
7587 <attribute name="recommendedFirmware" type="FirmwareType" readonly="yes">
7588 <desc>Recommended firmware type.</desc>
7589 </attribute>
7590
7591 <attribute name="recommendedUsbHid" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7592 <desc>Returns @c true if using USB Human Interface Devices, such as keyboard and mouse recommended.</desc>
7593 </attribute>
7594
7595 <attribute name="recommendedHpet" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7596 <desc>Returns @c true if using HPET is recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7597 </attribute>
7598
7599 <attribute name="recommendedUsbTablet" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7600 <desc>Returns @c true if using a USB Tablet is recommended.</desc>
7601 </attribute>
7602
7603 <attribute name="recommendedRtcUseUtc" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7604 <desc>Returns @c true if the RTC of this VM should be set to UTC</desc>
7605 </attribute>
7606
7607 <attribute name="recommendedChipset" type="ChipsetType" readonly="yes">
7608 <desc>Recommended chipset type.</desc>
7609 </attribute>
7610
7611 <attribute name="recommendedAudioController" type="AudioControllerType" readonly="yes">
7612 <desc>Recommended audio type.</desc>
7613 </attribute>
7614
7615 </interface>
7616
7617 <enum
7618 name="AdditionsRunLevelType"
7619 uuid="a25417ee-a9dd-4f5b-b0dc-377860087754"
7620 >
7621 <desc>
7622 Guest Additions run level type.
7623 </desc>
7624
7625 <const name="None" value="0">
7626 <desc>Guest Additions are not loaded.</desc>
7627 </const>
7628 <const name="System" value="1">
7629 <desc>Guest drivers are loaded.</desc>
7630 </const>
7631 <const name="Userland" value="2">
7632 <desc>Common components (such as application services) are loaded.</desc>
7633 </const>
7634 <const name="Desktop" value="3">
7635 <desc>Per-user desktop components are loaded.</desc>
7636 </const>
7637 </enum>
7638
7639 <enum
7640 name="ExecuteProcessFlag"
7641 uuid="3258e8a5-ba0c-43d5-86b5-cf91405fddc0"
7642 >
7643 <desc>
7644 Guest process execution flags.
7645 </desc>
7646
7647 <const name="None" value="0">
7648 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
7649 </const>
7650
7651 <const name="WaitForProcessStartOnly" value="1">
7652 <desc>Only use the specified timeout value to wait for starting the guest process - the guest
7653 process itself then uses an infinite timeout.</desc>
7654 </const>
7655
7656 <const name="IgnoreOrphanedProcesses" value="2">
7657 <desc>Do not report an error when executed processes are still alive when VBoxService or the guest OS is shutting down.</desc>
7658 </const>
7659 </enum>
7660
7661 <enum
7662 name="ProcessInputFlag"
7663 uuid="5d38c1dd-2604-4ddf-92e5-0c0cdd3bdbd5"
7664 >
7665 <desc>
7666 Guest process input flags.
7667 </desc>
7668
7669 <const name="None" value="0">
7670 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
7671 </const>
7672 <const name="EndOfFile" value="1">
7673 <desc>End of file (input) reached.</desc>
7674 </const>
7675 </enum>
7676
7677 <enum
7678 name="CopyFileFlag"
7679 uuid="23f79fdf-738a-493d-b80b-42d607c9b916"
7680 >
7681 <desc>
7682 Host/Guest copy flags.
7683 </desc>
7684
7685 <const name="None" value="0">
7686 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
7687 </const>
7688
7689 <const name="Recursive" value="1">
7690 <desc>Copy directories recursively.</desc>
7691 </const>
7692
7693 <const name="Update" value="2">
7694 <desc>Copy only when the source file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing.</desc>
7695 </const>
7696
7697 <const name="FollowLinks" value="4">
7698 <desc>Follow symbolic links.</desc>
7699 </const>
7700 </enum>
7701
7702 <enum
7703 name="CreateDirectoryFlag"
7704 uuid="26ff5bdd-c81f-4304-857b-b8be5e3f9cd6"
7705 >
7706 <desc>
7707 Directory creation flags.
7708 </desc>
7709
7710 <const name="None" value="0">
7711 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
7712 </const>
7713
7714 <const name="Parents" value="1">
7715 <desc>No error if existing, make parent directories as needed.</desc>
7716 </const>
7717 </enum>
7718
7719 <interface
7720 name="IGuest" extends="$unknown"
7721 uuid="1039b0cc-9bc1-4c6d-8d12-864aa48aa5b9"
7722 wsmap="managed"
7723 >
7724 <desc>
7725 The IGuest interface represents information about the operating system
7726 running inside the virtual machine. Used in
7727 <link to="IConsole::guest"/>.
7728
7729 IGuest provides information about the guest operating system, whether
7730 Guest Additions are installed and other OS-specific virtual machine
7731 properties.
7732 </desc>
7733
7734 <attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7735 <desc>
7736 Identifier of the Guest OS type as reported by the Guest
7737 Additions.
7738 You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
7739 an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
7740 Guest OS type.
7741 <note>
7742 If Guest Additions are not installed, this value will be
7743 the same as <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/>.
7744 </note>
7745 </desc>
7746 </attribute>
7747
7748 <attribute name="additionsRunLevel" type="AdditionsRunLevelType" readonly="yes">
7749 <desc>
7750 Current run level of the Guest Additions.
7751 </desc>
7752 </attribute>
7753
7754 <attribute name="additionsVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7755 <desc>
7756 Version of the Guest Additions including the revision (3 decimal numbers
7757 separated by dots + revision number) installed on the guest or empty
7758 when the Additions are not installed.
7759 </desc>
7760 </attribute>
7761
7762 <attribute name="supportsSeamless" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7763 <desc>
7764 Flag whether seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
7765 integration) is supported.
7766 </desc>
7767 </attribute>
7768
7769 <attribute name="supportsGraphics" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7770 <desc>
7771 Flag whether the guest is in graphics mode. If it is not, then
7772 seamless rendering will not work, resize hints are not immediately
7773 acted on and guest display resizes are probably not initiated by
7774 the guest additions.
7775 </desc>
7776 </attribute>
7777
7778 <attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
7779 <desc>Guest system memory balloon size in megabytes (transient property).</desc>
7780 </attribute>
7781
7782 <attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
7783 <desc>Interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
7784 </attribute>
7785
7786 <method name="internalGetStatistics">
7787 <desc>
7788 Internal method; do not use as it might change at any time
7789 </desc>
7790 <param name="cpuUser" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7791 <desc>Percentage of processor time spent in user mode as seen by the guest</desc>
7792 </param>
7793 <param name="cpuKernel" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7794 <desc>Percentage of processor time spent in kernel mode as seen by the guest</desc>
7795 </param>
7796 <param name="cpuIdle" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7797 <desc>Percentage of processor time spent idling as seen by the guest</desc>
7798 </param>
7799 <param name="memTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7800 <desc>Total amount of physical guest RAM</desc>
7801 </param>
7802 <param name="memFree" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7803 <desc>Free amount of physical guest RAM</desc>
7804 </param>
7805 <param name="memBalloon" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7806 <desc>Amount of ballooned physical guest RAM</desc>
7807 </param>
7808 <param name="memShared" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7809 <desc>Amount of shared physical guest RAM</desc>
7810 </param>
7811 <param name="memCache" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7812 <desc>Total amount of guest (disk) cache memory</desc>
7813 </param>
7814 <param name="pagedTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7815 <desc>Total amount of space in the page file</desc>
7816 </param>
7817 <param name="memAllocTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7818 <desc>Total amount of memory allocated by the hypervisor</desc>
7819 </param>
7820 <param name="memFreeTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7821 <desc>Total amount of free memory available in the hypervisor</desc>
7822 </param>
7823 <param name="memBalloonTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7824 <desc>Total amount of memory ballooned by the hypervisor</desc>
7825 </param>
7826 <param name="memSharedTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7827 <desc>Total amount of shared memory in the hypervisor</desc>
7828 </param>
7829 </method>
7830
7831 <method name="getAdditionsStatus">
7832 <desc>
7833 Retrieve the current status of a certain Guest Additions run level.
7834
7835 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
7836 Wrong status level specified.
7837 </result>
7838
7839 </desc>
7840 <param name="level" type="AdditionsRunLevelType" dir="in">
7841 <desc>Status level to check</desc>
7842 </param>
7843 <param name="active" type="boolean" dir="return">
7844 <desc>Flag whether the status level has been reached or not</desc>
7845 </param>
7846 </method>
7847
7848 <method name="setCredentials">
7849 <desc>
7850 Store login credentials that can be queried by guest operating
7851 systems with Additions installed. The credentials are transient
7852 to the session and the guest may also choose to erase them. Note
7853 that the caller cannot determine whether the guest operating system
7854 has queried or made use of the credentials.
7855
7856 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
7857 VMM device is not available.
7858 </result>
7859
7860 </desc>
7861 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
7862 <desc>User name string, can be empty</desc>
7863 </param>
7864 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
7865 <desc>Password string, can be empty</desc>
7866 </param>
7867 <param name="domain" type="wstring" dir="in">
7868 <desc>Domain name (guest logon scheme specific), can be empty</desc>
7869 </param>
7870 <param name="allowInteractiveLogon" type="boolean" dir="in">
7871 <desc>
7872 Flag whether the guest should alternatively allow the user to
7873 interactively specify different credentials. This flag might
7874 not be supported by all versions of the Additions.
7875 </desc>
7876 </param>
7877 </method>
7878
7879 <method name="executeProcess">
7880 <desc>
7881 Executes an existing program inside the guest VM.
7882
7883 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
7884 Could not execute process.
7885 </result>
7886
7887 </desc>
7888 <param name="execName" type="wstring" dir="in">
7889 <desc>
7890 Full path name of the command to execute on the guest; the
7891 commands has to exists in the guest VM in order to be executed.
7892 </desc>
7893 </param>
7894 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7895 <desc>
7896 Execution flags - currently not supported and therefore
7897 has to be set to 0.
7898 </desc>
7899 </param>
7900 <param name="arguments" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
7901 <desc>
7902 Array of arguments passed to the execution command.
7903 </desc>
7904 </param>
7905 <param name="environment" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
7906 <desc>
7907 Environment variables that can be set while the command is being
7908 executed, in form of "NAME=VALUE"; one pair per entry. To unset a
7909 variable just set its name ("NAME") without a value.
7910 </desc>
7911 </param>
7912 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
7913 <desc>
7914 User name under which the command will be executed; has to exist
7915 and have the appropriate rights to execute programs in the VM.
7916 </desc>
7917 </param>
7918 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
7919 <desc>
7920 Password of the user account specified.
7921 </desc>
7922 </param>
7923 <param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7924 <desc>
7925 The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for finished program
7926 execution. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
7927 </desc>
7928 </param>
7929 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7930 <desc>
7931 The PID (process ID) of the started command for later reference.
7932 </desc>
7933 </param>
7934 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7935 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
7936 </param>
7937 </method>
7938
7939 <method name="getProcessOutput">
7940 <desc>
7941 Retrieves output of a formerly started process.
7942
7943 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
7944 Could not retrieve output.
7945 </result>
7946
7947 </desc>
7948 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7949 <desc>
7950 Process id returned by earlier executeProcess() call.
7951 </desc>
7952 </param>
7953 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7954 <desc>
7955 Flags describing which output to retrieve.
7956 </desc>
7957 </param>
7958 <param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7959 <desc>
7960 The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for output
7961 data. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
7962 </desc>
7963 </param>
7964 <param name="size" type="long long" dir="in">
7965 <desc>
7966 Size in bytes to read in the buffer.
7967 </desc>
7968 </param>
7969 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
7970 <desc>
7971 Buffer for retrieving the actual output. A data size of 0 means end of file
7972 if the requested size was not 0. This is the unprocessed
7973 output data, i.e. the line ending style depends on the platform of
7974 the system the server is running on.
7975 </desc>
7976 </param>
7977 </method>
7978
7979 <method name="getProcessStatus">
7980 <desc>
7981 Retrieves status, exit code and the exit reason of a formerly started process.
7982
7983 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
7984 Process with specified PID was not found.
7985 </result>
7986
7987 </desc>
7988 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7989 <desc>
7990 Process id returned by earlier executeProcess() call.
7991 </desc>
7992 </param>
7993 <param name="exitcode" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7994 <desc>
7995 The exit code (if available).
7996 </desc>
7997 </param>
7998 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7999 <desc>
8000 Additional flags of process status. Not used at the moment and
8001 must be set to 0.
8002 </desc>
8003 </param>
8004 <param name="reason" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8005 <desc>
8006 The current process status.
8007 </desc>
8008 </param>
8009 </method>
8010
8011 <method name="copyToGuest">
8012 <desc>
8013 Copies files/directories from host to the guest.
8014
8015 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8016 Error while copying.
8017 </result>
8018
8019 </desc>
8020 <param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
8021 <desc>
8022 Source file on the host to copy.
8023 </desc>
8024 </param>
8025 <param name="dest" type="wstring" dir="in">
8026 <desc>
8027 Destination path on the guest.
8028 </desc>
8029 </param>
8030 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8031 <desc>
8032 User name under which the copy command will be executed; the
8033 user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to write to
8034 the destination path.
8035 </desc>
8036 </param>
8037 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8038 <desc>
8039 Password of the user account specified.
8040 </desc>
8041 </param>
8042 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8043 <desc>
8044 Copy flags.
8045 </desc>
8046 </param>
8047 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8048 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8049 </param>
8050 </method>
8051
8052 <method name="createDirectory">
8053 <desc>
8054 Creates a directory on the guest.
8055
8056 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8057 Error while creating directory.
8058 </result>
8059
8060 </desc>
8061 <param name="directory" type="wstring" dir="in">
8062 <desc>
8063 Directory to create.
8064 </desc>
8065 </param>
8066 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8067 <desc>
8068 User name under which the directory creation will be executed; the
8069 user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to create the
8070 desired directory.
8071 </desc>
8072 </param>
8073 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8074 <desc>
8075 Password of the user account specified.
8076 </desc>
8077 </param>
8078 <param name="mode" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8079 <desc>
8080 File mode.
8081 </desc>
8082 </param>
8083 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8084 <desc>
8085 Additional flags. Not used at the moment and must be set to 0.
8086 </desc>
8087 </param>
8088 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8089 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8090 </param>
8091 </method>
8092
8093 <method name="setProcessInput">
8094 <desc>
8095 Sends input into a formerly started process.
8096
8097 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8098 Could not send input.
8099 </result>
8100
8101 </desc>
8102 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8103 <desc>
8104 Process id returned by earlier executeProcess() call.
8105 </desc>
8106 </param>
8107 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8108 <desc>
8109 Not used, must be set to zero.
8110 </desc>
8111 </param>
8112 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="in" safearray="yes">
8113 <desc>
8114 Buffer of input data to send to the started process to.
8115 </desc>
8116 </param>
8117 <param name="written" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8118 <desc>
8119 Number of bytes written.
8120 </desc>
8121 </param>
8122 </method>
8123
8124 <method name="updateGuestAdditions">
8125 <desc>
8126 Updates already installed Guest Additions in a VM
8127 (Windows guests only).
8128
8129 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8130 Error while updating.
8131 </result>
8132
8133 </desc>
8134 <param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
8135 <desc>
8136 Path to the Guest Additions .ISO file to use for the upate.
8137 </desc>
8138 </param>
8139 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8140 <desc>
8141 Additional flags for update process. Not used at the moment and
8142 must be set to 0.
8143 </desc>
8144 </param>
8145 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8146 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8147 </param>
8148 </method>
8149
8150 </interface>
8151
8152
8153 <!--
8154 // IProgress
8155 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8156 -->
8157
8158 <interface
8159 name="IProgress" extends="$unknown"
8160 uuid="A163C98F-8635-4AA8-B770-A9941737F3EF"
8161 wsmap="managed"
8162 >
8163 <desc>
8164 The IProgress interface is used to track and control
8165 asynchronous tasks within VirtualBox.
8166
8167 An instance of this is returned every time VirtualBox starts
8168 an asynchronous task (in other words, a separate thread) which
8169 continues to run after a method call returns. For example,
8170 <link to="IConsole::saveState" />, which saves the state of
8171 a running virtual machine, can take a long time to complete.
8172 To be able to display a progress bar, a user interface such as
8173 the VirtualBox graphical user interface can use the IProgress
8174 object returned by that method.
8175
8176 Note that IProgress is a "read-only" interface in the sense
8177 that only the VirtualBox internals behind the Main API can
8178 create and manipulate progress objects, whereas client code
8179 can only use the IProgress object to monitor a task's
8180 progress and, if <link to="#cancelable" /> is @c true,
8181 cancel the task by calling <link to="#cancel" />.
8182
8183 A task represented by IProgress consists of either one or
8184 several sub-operations that run sequentially, one by one (see
8185 <link to="#operation" /> and <link to="#operationCount" />).
8186 Every operation is identified by a number (starting from 0)
8187 and has a separate description.
8188
8189 You can find the individual percentage of completion of the current
8190 operation in <link to="#operationPercent" /> and the
8191 percentage of completion of the task as a whole
8192 in <link to="#percent" />.
8193
8194 Similarly, you can wait for the completion of a particular
8195 operation via <link to="#waitForOperationCompletion" /> or
8196 for the completion of the whole task via
8197 <link to="#waitForCompletion" />.
8198 </desc>
8199
8200 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
8201 <desc>ID of the task.</desc>
8202 </attribute>
8203
8204 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8205 <desc>Description of the task.</desc>
8206 </attribute>
8207
8208 <attribute name="initiator" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
8209 <desc>Initiator of the task.</desc>
8210 </attribute>
8211
8212 <attribute name="cancelable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8213 <desc>Whether the task can be interrupted.</desc>
8214 </attribute>
8215
8216 <attribute name="percent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8217 <desc>
8218 Current progress value of the task as a whole, in percent.
8219 This value depends on how many operations are already complete.
8220 Returns 100 if <link to="#completed" /> is @c true.
8221 </desc>
8222 </attribute>
8223
8224 <attribute name="timeRemaining" type="long" readonly="yes">
8225 <desc>
8226 Estimated remaining time until the task completes, in
8227 seconds. Returns 0 once the task has completed; returns -1
8228 if the remaining time cannot be computed, in particular if
8229 the current progress is 0.
8230
8231 Even if a value is returned, the estimate will be unreliable
8232 for low progress values. It will become more reliable as the
8233 task progresses; it is not recommended to display an ETA
8234 before at least 20% of a task have completed.
8235 </desc>
8236 </attribute>
8237
8238 <attribute name="completed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8239 <desc>Whether the task has been completed.</desc>
8240 </attribute>
8241
8242 <attribute name="canceled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8243 <desc>Whether the task has been canceled.</desc>
8244 </attribute>
8245
8246 <attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
8247 <desc>
8248 Result code of the progress task.
8249 Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true.
8250 </desc>
8251 </attribute>
8252
8253 <attribute name="errorInfo" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
8254 <desc>
8255 Extended information about the unsuccessful result of the
8256 progress operation. May be @c null if no extended information
8257 is available.
8258 Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true and
8259 <link to="#resultCode"/> indicates a failure.
8260 </desc>
8261 </attribute>
8262
8263 <attribute name="operationCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8264 <desc>
8265 Number of sub-operations this task is divided into.
8266 Every task consists of at least one suboperation.
8267 </desc>
8268 </attribute>
8269
8270 <attribute name="operation" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8271 <desc>Number of the sub-operation being currently executed.</desc>
8272 </attribute>
8273
8274 <attribute name="operationDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8275 <desc>
8276 Description of the sub-operation being currently executed.
8277 </desc>
8278 </attribute>
8279
8280 <attribute name="operationPercent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8281 <desc>Progress value of the current sub-operation only, in percent.</desc>
8282 </attribute>
8283
8284 <attribute name="operationWeight" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8285 <desc>Weight value of the current sub-operation only.</desc>
8286 </attribute>
8287
8288 <attribute name="timeout" type="unsigned long">
8289 <desc>
8290 When non-zero, this specifies the number of milliseconds after which
8291 the operation will automatically be canceled. This can only be set on
8292 cancelable objects.
8293 </desc>
8294 </attribute>
8295
8296 <method name="setCurrentOperationProgress">
8297 <desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
8298 <param name="percent" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
8299 </method>
8300 <method name="setNextOperation">
8301 <desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
8302 <param name="nextOperationDescription" type="wstring" dir="in" />
8303 <param name="nextOperationsWeight" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
8304 </method>
8305
8306 <method name="waitForCompletion">
8307 <desc>
8308 Waits until the task is done (including all sub-operations)
8309 with a given timeout in milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
8310
8311 Note that the VirtualBox/XPCOM/COM/native event queues of the calling
8312 thread are not processed while waiting. Neglecting event queues may
8313 have dire consequences (degrade performance, resource hogs,
8314 deadlocks, etc.), this is specially so for the main thread on
8315 platforms using XPCOM. Callers are adviced wait for short periods
8316 and service their event queues between calls, or to create a worker
8317 thread to do the waiting.
8318
8319 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8320 Failed to wait for task completion.
8321 </result>
8322 </desc>
8323
8324 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
8325 <desc>
8326 Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
8327 </desc>
8328 </param>
8329 </method>
8330
8331 <method name="waitForOperationCompletion">
8332 <desc>
8333 Waits until the given operation is done with a given timeout in
8334 milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
8335
8336 See <link to="#waitForCompletion"> for event queue considerations.</link>
8337
8338 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8339 Failed to wait for operation completion.
8340 </result>
8341
8342 </desc>
8343 <param name="operation" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8344 <desc>
8345 Number of the operation to wait for.
8346 Must be less than <link to="#operationCount"/>.
8347 </desc>
8348 </param>
8349 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
8350 <desc>
8351 Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
8352 </desc>
8353 </param>
8354 </method>
8355
8356 <method name="cancel">
8357 <desc>
8358 Cancels the task.
8359 <note>
8360 If <link to="#cancelable"/> is @c false, then this method will fail.
8361 </note>
8362
8363 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8364 Operation cannot be canceled.
8365 </result>
8366
8367 </desc>
8368 </method>
8369
8370 </interface>
8371
8372 <!--
8373 // ISnapshot
8374 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8375 -->
8376
8377 <interface
8378 name="ISnapshot" extends="$unknown"
8379 uuid="1a2d0551-58a4-4107-857e-ef414fc42ffc"
8380 wsmap="managed"
8381 >
8382 <desc>
8383 The ISnapshot interface represents a snapshot of the virtual
8384 machine.
8385
8386 Together with the differencing media that are created
8387 when a snapshot is taken, a machine can be brought back to
8388 the exact state it was in when the snapshot was taken.
8389
8390 The ISnapshot interface has no methods, only attributes; snapshots
8391 are controlled through methods of the <link to="IConsole" /> interface
8392 which also manage the media associated with the snapshot.
8393 The following operations exist:
8394
8395 <ul>
8396 <li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> creates a new snapshot
8397 by creating new, empty differencing images for the machine's
8398 media and saving the VM settings and (if the VM is running)
8399 the current VM state in the snapshot.
8400
8401 The differencing images will then receive all data written to
8402 the machine's media, while their parent (base) images
8403 remain unmodified after the snapshot has been taken (see
8404 <link to="IMedium" /> for details about differencing images).
8405 This simplifies restoring a machine to the state of a snapshot:
8406 only the differencing images need to be deleted.
8407
8408 The current machine state is not changed by taking a snapshot.
8409 If the machine is running, it will resume execution after the
8410 snapshot has been taken. After calling this,
8411 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" /> is set to the snapshot
8412 just created.
8413 </li>
8414
8415 <li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/> resets a machine to
8416 the state of a previous snapshot by deleting the differencing
8417 image of each of the machine's media and setting the machine's
8418 settings and state to the state that was saved in the snapshot (if any).
8419
8420 This destroys the machine's current state. After calling this,
8421 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" /> is set to the snapshot that was
8422 restored.
8423 </li>
8424
8425 <li><link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot"/> deletes a snapshot
8426 without affecting the current machine state.
8427
8428 This does not change the current machine state, but instead frees the
8429 resources allocated when the snapshot was taken: the settings and machine
8430 state file are deleted (if any), and the snapshot's differencing image for
8431 each of the machine's media gets merged with its parent image.
8432
8433 Neither the current machine state nor other snapshots are affected
8434 by this operation, except that parent media will be modified
8435 to contain the disk data associated with the snapshot being deleted.
8436
8437 When deleting the current snapshot, the <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" />
8438 attribute is set to the current snapshot's parent or NULL if it
8439 has no parent. Otherwise the attribute is unchanged.
8440 </li>
8441 </ul>
8442
8443 Each snapshot contains the settings of the virtual machine (hardware
8444 configuration etc.). In addition, if the machine was running when the
8445 snapshot was taken (<link to="IMachine::state"/> is <link to="MachineState_Running"/>),
8446 the current VM state is saved in the snapshot (similarly to what happens
8447 when a VM's state is saved). The snapshot is then said to
8448 be <i>online</i> because when restoring it, the VM will be running.
8449
8450 If the machine is saved (<link to="MachineState_Saved"/>), the snapshot
8451 receives a copy of the execution state file (<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/>).
8452
8453 Otherwise, if the machine was not running (<link to="MachineState_PoweredOff"/>
8454 or <link to="MachineState_Aborted"/>), the snapshot is <i>offline</i>;
8455 it then contains a so-called "zero execution state", representing a
8456 machine that is powered off.
8457 </desc>
8458
8459 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
8460 <desc>UUID of the snapshot.</desc>
8461 </attribute>
8462
8463 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
8464 <desc>Short name of the snapshot.</desc>
8465 </attribute>
8466
8467 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
8468 <desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
8469 </attribute>
8470
8471 <attribute name="timeStamp" type="long long" readonly="yes">
8472 <desc>
8473 Time stamp of the snapshot, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
8474 </desc>
8475 </attribute>
8476
8477 <attribute name="online" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8478 <desc>
8479 @c true if this snapshot is an online snapshot and @c false otherwise.
8480
8481 When this attribute is @c true, the
8482 <link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/> attribute of the
8483 <link to="#machine"/> object associated with this snapshot
8484 will point to the saved state file. Otherwise, it will be
8485 an empty string.
8486 </desc>
8487 </attribute>
8488
8489 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
8490 <desc>
8491 Virtual machine this snapshot is taken on. This object
8492 stores all settings the machine had when taking this snapshot.
8493 <note>
8494 The returned machine object is immutable, i.e. no
8495 any settings can be changed.
8496 </note>
8497 </desc>
8498 </attribute>
8499
8500 <attribute name="parent" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
8501 <desc>
8502 Parent snapshot (a snapshot this one is based on), or
8503 @c null if the snapshot has no parent (i.e. is the first snapshot).
8504 </desc>
8505 </attribute>
8506
8507 <attribute name="children" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
8508 <desc>
8509 Child snapshots (all snapshots having this one as a parent).
8510 </desc>
8511 </attribute>
8512
8513 </interface>
8514
8515
8516 <!--
8517 // IMedium
8518 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8519 -->
8520
8521 <enum
8522 name="MediumState"
8523 uuid="ef41e980-e012-43cd-9dea-479d4ef14d13"
8524 >
8525 <desc>
8526 Virtual medium state.
8527 <see>IMedium</see>
8528 </desc>
8529
8530 <const name="NotCreated" value="0">
8531 <desc>
8532 Associated medium storage does not exist (either was not created yet or
8533 was deleted).
8534 </desc>
8535 </const>
8536 <const name="Created" value="1">
8537 <desc>
8538 Associated storage exists and accessible; this gets set if the
8539 accessibility check performed by <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />
8540 was successful.
8541 </desc>
8542 </const>
8543 <const name="LockedRead" value="2">
8544 <desc>
8545 Medium is locked for reading (see <link to="IMedium::lockRead"/>),
8546 no data modification is possible.
8547 </desc>
8548 </const>
8549 <const name="LockedWrite" value="3">
8550 <desc>
8551 Medium is locked for writing (see <link to="IMedium::lockWrite"/>),
8552 no concurrent data reading or modification is possible.
8553 </desc>
8554 </const>
8555 <const name="Inaccessible" value="4">
8556 <desc>
8557 Medium accessibility check (see <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />) has
8558 not yet been performed, or else, associated medium storage is not
8559 accessible. In the first case, <link to="IMedium::lastAccessError"/>
8560 is empty, in the second case, it describes the error that occurred.
8561 </desc>
8562 </const>
8563 <const name="Creating" value="5">
8564 <desc>
8565 Associated medium storage is being created.
8566 </desc>
8567 </const>
8568 <const name="Deleting" value="6">
8569 <desc>
8570 Associated medium storage is being deleted.
8571 </desc>
8572 </const>
8573 </enum>
8574
8575 <enum
8576 name="MediumType"
8577 uuid="19388a99-8e70-4bd4-9a95-90cbc513ef6d"
8578 >
8579 <desc>
8580 Virtual medium type.
8581 <see>IMedium</see>
8582 </desc>
8583
8584 <const name="Normal" value="0">
8585 <desc>
8586 Normal medium (attached directly or indirectly, preserved
8587 when taking snapshots).
8588 </desc>
8589 </const>
8590 <const name="Immutable" value="1">
8591 <desc>
8592 Immutable medium (attached indirectly, changes are wiped out
8593 the next time the virtual machine is started).
8594 </desc>
8595 </const>
8596 <const name="Writethrough" value="2">
8597 <desc>
8598 Write through medium (attached directly, ignored when
8599 taking snapshots).
8600 </desc>
8601 </const>
8602 <const name="Shareable" value="3">
8603 <desc>
8604 Allow using this medium concurrently by several machines.
8605 <note>Present since VirtualBox 3.2.0, and accepted since 3.2.8.</note>
8606 </desc>
8607 </const>
8608 <const name="Readonly" value="4">
8609 <desc>
8610 A readonly medium, which can of course be used by several machines.
8611 <note>Present and accepted since VirtualBox 4.0.</note>
8612 </desc>
8613 </const>
8614 </enum>
8615
8616 <enum
8617 name="MediumVariant"
8618 uuid="584ea502-143b-4ab0-ad14-d1028fdf0316"
8619 >
8620 <desc>
8621 Virtual medium image variant. More than one flag may be set.
8622 <see>IMedium</see>
8623 </desc>
8624
8625 <const name="Standard" value="0">
8626 <desc>
8627 No particular variant requested, results in using the backend default.
8628 </desc>
8629 </const>
8630 <const name="VmdkSplit2G" value="0x01">
8631 <desc>
8632 VMDK image split in chunks of less than 2GByte.
8633 </desc>
8634 </const>
8635 <const name="VmdkStreamOptimized" value="0x04">
8636 <desc>
8637 VMDK streamOptimized image. Special import/export format which is
8638 read-only/append-only.
8639 </desc>
8640 </const>
8641 <const name="VmdkESX" value="0x08">
8642 <desc>
8643 VMDK format variant used on ESX products.
8644 </desc>
8645 </const>
8646 <const name="Fixed" value="0x10000">
8647 <desc>
8648 Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
8649 </desc>
8650 </const>
8651 <const name="Diff" value="0x20000">
8652 <desc>
8653 Differencing image. Only allowed for child images.
8654 </desc>
8655 </const>
8656 </enum>
8657
8658 <interface
8659 name="IMediumAttachment" extends="$unknown"
8660 uuid="c29452cc-ca72-404b-9261-cfc514f1e412"
8661 wsmap="struct"
8662 >
8663 <desc>
8664 The IMediumAttachment interface links storage media to virtual machines.
8665 For each medium (<link to="IMedium"/>) which has been attached to a
8666 storage controller (<link to="IStorageController"/>) of a machine
8667 (<link to="IMachine"/>) via the <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />
8668 method, one instance of IMediumAttachment is added to the machine's
8669 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> array attribute.
8670
8671 Each medium attachment specifies the storage controller as well as a
8672 port and device number and the IMedium instance representing a virtual
8673 hard disk or floppy or DVD image.
8674
8675 For removeable media (DVDs or floppies), there are two additional
8676 options. For one, the IMedium instance can be @c null to represent
8677 an empty drive with no media inserted (see <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />);
8678 secondly, the medium can be one of the pseudo-media for host drives
8679 listed in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives"/> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>.
8680 </desc>
8681
8682 <attribute name="medium" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
8683 <desc>Medium object associated with this attachment; it
8684 can be @c null for removable devices.</desc>
8685 </attribute>
8686
8687 <attribute name="controller" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8688 <desc>Name of the storage controller of this attachment; this
8689 refers to one of the controllers in <link to="IMachine::storageControllers" />
8690 by name.</desc>
8691 </attribute>
8692
8693 <attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
8694 <desc>Port number of this attachment.
8695 See <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> for the meaning of this value for the different controller types.
8696 </desc>
8697 </attribute>
8698
8699 <attribute name="device" type="long" readonly="yes">
8700 <desc>Device slot number of this attachment.
8701 See <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> for the meaning of this value for the different controller types.
8702 </desc>
8703 </attribute>
8704
8705 <attribute name="type" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
8706 <desc>Device type of this attachment.</desc>
8707 </attribute>
8708
8709 <attribute name="passthrough" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8710 <desc>Pass I/O requests through to a device on the host.</desc>
8711 </attribute>
8712
8713 <attribute name="bandwidthLimit" type="unsigned long">
8714 <desc>
8715 Maximum throughput allowed for this medium attachment, in units of 1 mbps.
8716 A zero value means uncapped/unlimited.
8717 </desc>
8718 </attribute>
8719
8720 </interface>
8721
8722 <interface
8723 name="IMedium" extends="$unknown"
8724 uuid="bfcf5b8c-5155-4f24-9414-9457054b16db"
8725 wsmap="managed"
8726 >
8727 <desc>
8728 The IMedium interface represents virtual storage for a machine's
8729 hard disks, CD/DVD or floppy drives. It will typically represent
8730 a disk image on the host, for example a VDI or VMDK file representing
8731 a virtual hard disk, or an ISO or RAW file representing virtual
8732 removable media, but can also point to a network location (e.g.
8733 for iSCSI targets).
8734
8735 Instances of IMedium are connected to virtual machines by way of
8736 medium attachments (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />), which link
8737 the storage medium to a particular device slot of a storage controller
8738 of the virtual machine.
8739 In the VirtualBox API, virtual storage is therefore always represented
8740 by the following chain of object links:
8741
8742 <ul>
8743 <li><link to="IMachine::storageControllers"/> contains an array of
8744 storage controllers (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or a floppy controller;
8745 these are instances of <link to="IStorageController"/>).</li>
8746 <li><link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> contains an array of
8747 medium attachments (instances of <link to="IMediumAttachment"/>),
8748 each containing a storage controller from the above array, a
8749 port/device specification, and an instance of IMedium representing
8750 the medium storage (image file).
8751
8752 For removable media, the storage medium is optional; a medium
8753 attachment with no medium represents a CD/DVD or floppy drive
8754 with no medium inserted. By contrast, hard disk attachments
8755 will always have an IMedium object attached.</li>
8756 <li>Each IMedium in turn points to a storage unit (such as a file
8757 on the host computer or a network resource) that holds actual
8758 data. This location is represented by the <link to="#location"/>
8759 attribute.</li>
8760 </ul>
8761
8762 Existing media are opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>;
8763 new hard disk media can be created with the VirtualBox API using the
8764 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> method.
8765
8766 CD/DVD and floppy images (ISO and RAW files) are usually created outside
8767 VirtualBox, e.g. by storing a copy of the real medium of the corresponding
8768 type in a regular file.
8769
8770 Only for CD/DVDs and floppies, an IMedium instance can also represent a host
8771 drive; in that case the <link to="#id" /> attribute contains the UUID of
8772 one of the drives in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives" />.
8773
8774 <h3>Known media</h3>
8775
8776 When an existing medium is opened and attached to a virtual machine, it
8777 is automatically added to a media registry. If the medium has first
8778 been attached to a machine which was created by VirtualBox 4.0 or later,
8779 it is added to that machine's media registry (in the machine XML settings
8780 file; this way all information about a machine's media attachments is
8781 contained in a single file). For older media attachments (i.e. if the
8782 medium was first attached to a machine which was created with a VirtualBox
8783 version before 4.0), media continue to be registered in the global
8784 VirtualBox settings file, for backwards compatibility.
8785
8786 See <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" /> for more information.
8787
8788 All known media can be enumerated using
8789 <link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks"/>,
8790 <link to="IVirtualBox::DVDImages"/> and
8791 <link to="IVirtualBox::floppyImages"/> attributes. Individual media can be
8792 quickly found using the <link to="IVirtualBox::findMedium"/> method.
8793
8794 Only known media can be attached to virtual machines.
8795
8796 Removing known media from the media registry is performed when the given
8797 medium is closed using the <link to="#close"/> method or when its
8798 associated storage unit is deleted.
8799
8800 <h3>Accessibility checks</h3>
8801
8802 VirtualBox defers media accessibility checks until the <link to="#refreshState" />
8803 method is called explicitly on a medium. This is done to make the VirtualBox object
8804 ready for serving requests as fast as possible and let the end-user
8805 application decide if it needs to check media accessibility right away or not.
8806
8807 As a result, when VirtualBox starts up (e.g. the VirtualBox
8808 object gets created for the first time), all known media are in the
8809 "Inaccessible" state, but the value of the <link to="#lastAccessError"/>
8810 attribute is an empty string because no actual accessibility check has
8811 been made yet.
8812
8813 After calling <link to="#refreshState" />, a medium is considered
8814 <i>accessible</i> if its storage unit can be read. In that case, the
8815 <link to="#state"/> attribute has a value of "Created". If the storage
8816 unit cannot be read (for example, because it is located on a disconnected
8817 network resource, or was accidentally deleted outside VirtualBox),
8818 the medium is considered <i>inaccessible</i>, which is indicated by the
8819 "Inaccessible" state. The exact reason why the medium is inaccessible can be
8820 obtained by reading the <link to="#lastAccessError"/> attribute.
8821
8822 <h3>Medium types</h3>
8823
8824 There are four types of medium behavior (see <link to="MediumType" />):
8825 "normal", "immutable", "writethrough" and "shareable", represented by the
8826 <link to="#type"/> attribute. The type of the medium defines how the
8827 medium is attached to a virtual machine and what happens when a
8828 <link to="ISnapshot">snapshot</link> of the virtual machine with the
8829 attached medium is taken. At the moment DVD and floppy media are always
8830 of type "writethrough".
8831
8832 All media can be also divided in two groups: <i>base</i> media and
8833 <i>differencing</i> media. A base medium contains all sectors of the
8834 medium data in its own storage and therefore can be used independently.
8835 In contrast, a differencing medium is a "delta" to some other medium and
8836 contains only those sectors which differ from that other medium, which is
8837 then called a <i>parent</i>. The differencing medium is said to be
8838 <i>linked to</i> that parent. The parent may be itself a differencing
8839 medium, thus forming a chain of linked media. The last element in that
8840 chain must always be a base medium. Note that several differencing
8841 media may be linked to the same parent medium.
8842
8843 Differencing media can be distinguished from base media by querying the
8844 <link to="#parent"/> attribute: base media do not have parents they would
8845 depend on, so the value of this attribute is always @c null for them.
8846 Using this attribute, it is possible to walk up the medium tree (from the
8847 child medium to its parent). It is also possible to walk down the tree
8848 using the <link to="#children"/> attribute.
8849
8850 Note that the type of all differencing media is "normal"; all other
8851 values are meaningless for them. Base media may be of any type.
8852
8853 <h3>Creating hard disks</h3>
8854
8855 New base hard disks are created using
8856 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>. Existing hard disks are
8857 opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>. Differencing hard
8858 disks are usually implicitly created by VirtualBox when needed but may
8859 also be created explicitly using <link to="#createDiffStorage"/>.
8860
8861 After the hard disk is successfully created (including the storage unit)
8862 or opened, it becomes a known hard disk (remembered in the internal media
8863 registry). Known hard disks can be attached to a virtual machine, accessed
8864 through <link to="IVirtualBox::findMedium"/> or enumerated using the
8865 <link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks"/> array (only for base hard disks).
8866
8867 The following methods, besides <link to="IMedium::close"/>,
8868 automatically remove the hard disk from the media registry:
8869 <ul>
8870 <li><link to="#deleteStorage"/></li>
8871 <li><link to="#mergeTo"/></li>
8872 </ul>
8873
8874 If the storage unit of the hard disk is a regular file in the host's
8875 file system then the rules stated in the description of the
8876 <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute apply when setting its value.
8877
8878 <h4>Automatic composition of the file name part</h4>
8879
8880 Another extension to the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute is that
8881 there is a possibility to cause VirtualBox to compose a unique value for
8882 the file name part of the location using the UUID of the hard disk. This
8883 applies only to hard disks in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> state,
8884 e.g. before the storage unit is created, and works as follows. You set the
8885 value of the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute to a location
8886 specification which only contains the path specification but not the file
8887 name part and ends with either a forward slash or a backslash character.
8888 In response, VirtualBox will generate a new UUID for the hard disk and
8889 compose the file name using the following pattern:
8890 <pre>
8891 &lt;path&gt;/{&lt;uuid&gt;}.&lt;ext&gt;
8892 </pre>
8893 where <tt>&lt;path&gt;</tt> is the supplied path specification,
8894 <tt>&lt;uuid&gt;</tt> is the newly generated UUID and <tt>&lt;ext&gt;</tt>
8895 is the default extension for the storage format of this hard disk. After
8896 that, you may call any of the methods that create a new hard disk storage
8897 unit and they will use the generated UUID and file name.
8898
8899 <h3>Attaching Hard Disks</h3>
8900
8901 Hard disks are attached to virtual machines using the
8902 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> method and detached using the
8903 <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> method. Depending on their
8904 <link to="#type"/>, hard disks are attached either
8905 <i>directly</i> or <i>indirectly</i>.
8906
8907 When a hard disk is being attached directly, it is associated with the
8908 virtual machine and used for hard disk operations when the machine is
8909 running. When a hard disk is being attached indirectly, a new differencing
8910 hard disk linked to it is implicitly created and this differencing hard
8911 disk is associated with the machine and used for hard disk operations.
8912 This also means that if <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> performs
8913 a direct attachment then the same hard disk will be returned in response
8914 to the subsequent <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> call; however if
8915 an indirect attachment is performed then
8916 <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> will return the implicitly created
8917 differencing hard disk, not the original one passed to <link
8918 to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>. In detail:
8919
8920 <ul>
8921 <li><b>Normal base</b> hard disks that do not have children (i.e.
8922 differencing hard disks linked to them) and that are not already
8923 attached to virtual machines in snapshots are attached <b>directly</b>.
8924 Otherwise, they are attached <b>indirectly</b> because having
8925 dependent children or being part of the snapshot makes it impossible
8926 to modify hard disk contents without breaking the integrity of the
8927 dependent party. The <link to="#readOnly"/> attribute allows to
8928 quickly determine the kind of the attachment for the given hard
8929 disk. Note that if a normal base hard disk is to be indirectly
8930 attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
8931 procedure called <i>smart attachment</i> is performed (see below).</li>
8932 <li><b>Normal differencing</b> hard disks are like normal base hard disks:
8933 they are attached <b>directly</b> if they do not have children and are
8934 not attached to virtual machines in snapshots, and <b>indirectly</b>
8935 otherwise. Note that the smart attachment procedure is never performed
8936 for differencing hard disks.</li>
8937 <li><b>Immutable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>indirectly</b> because
8938 they are designed to be non-writable. If an immutable hard disk is
8939 attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
8940 procedure called smart attachment is performed (see below).</li>
8941 <li><b>Writethrough</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
8942 also as designed. This also means that writethrough hard disks cannot
8943 have other hard disks linked to them at all.</li>
8944 <li><b>Shareable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
8945 also as designed. This also means that shareable hard disks cannot
8946 have other hard disks linked to them at all. They behave almost
8947 like writethrough hard disks, except that shareable hard disks can
8948 be attached to several virtual machines which are running, allowing
8949 concurrent accesses. You need special cluster software running in
8950 the virtual machines to make use of such disks.</li>
8951 </ul>
8952
8953 Note that the same hard disk, regardless of its type, may be attached to
8954 more than one virtual machine at a time. In this case, the machine that is
8955 started first gains exclusive access to the hard disk and attempts to
8956 start other machines having this hard disk attached will fail until the
8957 first machine is powered down.
8958
8959 Detaching hard disks is performed in a <i>deferred</i> fashion. This means
8960 that the given hard disk remains associated with the given machine after a
8961 successful <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> call until
8962 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called to save all changes to
8963 machine settings to disk. This deferring is necessary to guarantee that
8964 the hard disk configuration may be restored at any time by a call to
8965 <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> before the settings
8966 are saved (committed).
8967
8968 Note that if <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> is called after
8969 indirectly attaching some hard disks to the machine but before a call to
8970 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is made, it will implicitly delete
8971 all differencing hard disks implicitly created by
8972 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for these indirect attachments.
8973 Such implicitly created hard disks will also be immediately deleted when
8974 detached explicitly using the <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/>
8975 call if it is made before <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>. This
8976 implicit deletion is safe because newly created differencing hard
8977 disks do not contain any user data.
8978
8979 However, keep in mind that detaching differencing hard disks that were
8980 implicitly created by <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>
8981 before the last <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call will
8982 <b>not</b> implicitly delete them as they may already contain some data
8983 (for example, as a result of virtual machine execution). If these hard
8984 disks are no more necessary, the caller can always delete them explicitly
8985 using <link to="#deleteStorage"/> after they are actually de-associated
8986 from this machine by the <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call.
8987
8988 <h3>Smart Attachment</h3>
8989
8990 When normal base or immutable hard disks are indirectly attached to a
8991 virtual machine then some additional steps are performed to make sure the
8992 virtual machine will have the most recent "view" of the hard disk being
8993 attached. These steps include walking through the machine's snapshots
8994 starting from the current one and going through ancestors up to the first
8995 snapshot. Hard disks attached to the virtual machine in all
8996 of the encountered snapshots are checked whether they are descendants of
8997 the given normal base or immutable hard disk. The first found child (which
8998 is the differencing hard disk) will be used instead of the normal base or
8999 immutable hard disk as a parent for creating a new differencing hard disk
9000 that will be actually attached to the machine. And only if no descendants
9001 are found or if the virtual machine does not have any snapshots then the
9002 normal base or immutable hard disk will be used itself as a parent for
9003 this differencing hard disk.
9004
9005 It is easier to explain what smart attachment does using the
9006 following example:
9007 <pre>
9008BEFORE attaching B.vdi: AFTER attaching B.vdi:
9009
9010Snapshot 1 (B.vdi) Snapshot 1 (B.vdi)
9011 Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi) Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi)
9012 Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi) Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi)
9013 Snapshot 4 (none) Snapshot 4 (none)
9014 CurState (none) CurState (D3->D2.vdi)
9015
9016 NOT
9017 ...
9018 CurState (D3->B.vdi)
9019 </pre>
9020 The first column is the virtual machine configuration before the base hard
9021 disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> is attached, the second column shows the machine after
9022 this hard disk is attached. Constructs like <tt>D1->B.vdi</tt> and similar
9023 mean that the hard disk that is actually attached to the machine is a
9024 differencing hard disk, <tt>D1.vdi</tt>, which is linked to (based on)
9025 another hard disk, <tt>B.vdi</tt>.
9026
9027 As we can see from the example, the hard disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> was detached
9028 from the machine before taking Snapshot 4. Later, after Snapshot 4 was
9029 taken, the user decides to attach <tt>B.vdi</tt> again. <tt>B.vdi</tt> has
9030 dependent child hard disks (<tt>D1.vdi</tt>, <tt>D2.vdi</tt>), therefore
9031 it cannot be attached directly and needs an indirect attachment (i.e.
9032 implicit creation of a new differencing hard disk). Due to the smart
9033 attachment procedure, the new differencing hard disk
9034 (<tt>D3.vdi</tt>) will be based on <tt>D2.vdi</tt>, not on
9035 <tt>B.vdi</tt> itself, since <tt>D2.vdi</tt> is the most recent view of
9036 <tt>B.vdi</tt> existing for this snapshot branch of the given virtual
9037 machine.
9038
9039 Note that if there is more than one descendant hard disk of the given base
9040 hard disk found in a snapshot, and there is an exact device, channel and
9041 bus match, then this exact match will be used. Otherwise, the youngest
9042 descendant will be picked up.
9043
9044 There is one more important aspect of the smart attachment procedure which
9045 is not related to snapshots at all. Before walking through the snapshots
9046 as described above, the backup copy of the current list of hard disk
9047 attachment is searched for descendants. This backup copy is created when
9048 the hard disk configuration is changed for the first time after the last
9049 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call and used by
9050 <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> to undo the recent hard disk
9051 changes. When such a descendant is found in this backup copy, it will be
9052 simply re-attached back, without creating a new differencing hard disk for
9053 it. This optimization is necessary to make it possible to re-attach the
9054 base or immutable hard disk to a different bus, channel or device slot
9055 without losing the contents of the differencing hard disk actually
9056 attached to the machine in place of it.
9057 </desc>
9058
9059 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
9060 <desc>
9061 UUID of the medium. For a newly created medium, this value is a randomly
9062 generated UUID.
9063
9064 <note>
9065 For media in one of MediumState_NotCreated, MediumState_Creating or
9066 MediumState_Deleting states, the value of this property is undefined
9067 and will most likely be an empty UUID.
9068 </note>
9069 </desc>
9070 </attribute>
9071
9072 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
9073 <desc>
9074 Optional description of the medium. For a newly created medium the value
9075 of this attribute is an empty string.
9076
9077 Medium types that don't support this attribute will return E_NOTIMPL in
9078 attempt to get or set this attribute's value.
9079
9080 <note>
9081 For some storage types, reading this attribute may return an outdated
9082 (last known) value when <link to="#state"/> is <link
9083 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> or <link
9084 to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> because the value of this attribute is
9085 stored within the storage unit itself. Also note that changing the
9086 attribute value is not possible in such case, as well as when the
9087 medium is the <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state.
9088 </note>
9089 </desc>
9090 </attribute>
9091
9092 <attribute name="state" type="MediumState" readonly="yes">
9093 <desc>
9094 Returns the current medium state, which is the last state set by
9095 the accessibility check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
9096 If that method has not yet been called on the medium, the state
9097 is "Inaccessible"; as opposed to truly inaccessible media, the
9098 value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will be an empty string in
9099 that case.
9100
9101 <note>As of version 3.1, this no longer performs an accessibility check
9102 automatically; call <link to="#refreshState"/> for that.
9103 </note>
9104 </desc>
9105 </attribute>
9106
9107 <attribute name="variant" type="MediumVariant" readonly="yes">
9108 <desc>
9109 Returns the storage format variant information for this medium.
9110 Before <link to="#refreshState"/> is called this method returns
9111 an undefined value.
9112 </desc>
9113 </attribute>
9114
9115 <attribute name="location" type="wstring">
9116 <desc>
9117 Location of the storage unit holding medium data.
9118
9119 The format of the location string is medium type specific. For medium
9120 types using regular files in a host's file system, the location
9121 string is the full file name.
9122
9123 Some medium types may support changing the storage unit location by
9124 simply changing the value of this property. If this operation is not
9125 supported, the implementation will return E_NOTIMPL in attempt to set
9126 this attribute's value.
9127
9128 When setting a value of the location attribute which is a regular file
9129 in the host's file system, the given file name may be either relative to
9130 the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link> or
9131 absolute. Note that if the given location specification does not contain
9132 the file extension part then a proper default extension will be
9133 automatically appended by the implementation depending on the medium type.
9134 </desc>
9135 </attribute>
9136
9137 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9138 <desc>
9139 Name of the storage unit holding medium data.
9140
9141 The returned string is a short version of the <link to="#location"/>
9142 attribute that is suitable for representing the medium in situations
9143 where the full location specification is too long (such as lists
9144 and comboboxes in GUI frontends). This string is also used by frontends
9145 to sort the media list alphabetically when needed.
9146
9147 For example, for locations that are regular files in the host's file
9148 system, the value of this attribute is just the file name (+ extension),
9149 without the path specification.
9150
9151 Note that as opposed to the <link to="#location"/> attribute, the name
9152 attribute will not necessary be unique for a list of media of the
9153 given type and format.
9154 </desc>
9155 </attribute>
9156
9157 <attribute name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
9158 <desc>Kind of device (DVD/Floppy/HardDisk) which is applicable to this
9159 medium.</desc>
9160 </attribute>
9161
9162 <attribute name="hostDrive" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9163 <desc>True if this corresponds to a drive on the host.</desc>
9164 </attribute>
9165
9166 <attribute name="size" type="long long" readonly="yes">
9167 <desc>
9168 Physical size of the storage unit used to hold medium data (in bytes).
9169
9170 <note>
9171 For media whose <link to="#state"/> is <link
9172 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9173 last known size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> media,
9174 the returned value is zero.
9175 </note>
9176 </desc>
9177 </attribute>
9178
9179 <attribute name="format" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9180 <desc>
9181 Storage format of this medium.
9182
9183 The value of this attribute is a string that specifies a backend used
9184 to store medium data. The storage format is defined when you create a
9185 new medium or automatically detected when you open an existing medium,
9186 and cannot be changed later.
9187
9188 The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
9189 installation can be obtained using
9190 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
9191 </desc>
9192 </attribute>
9193
9194 <attribute name="mediumFormat" type="IMediumFormat" readonly="yes">
9195 <desc>
9196 Storage medium format object corresponding to this medium.
9197
9198 The value of this attribute is a reference to the medium format object
9199 that specifies the backend properties used to store medium data. The
9200 storage format is defined when you create a new medium or automatically
9201 detected when you open an existing medium, and cannot be changed later.
9202
9203 <note>@c null is returned if there is no associated medium format
9204 object. This can e.g. happen for medium objects representing host
9205 drives and other special medium objects.</note>
9206 </desc>
9207 </attribute>
9208
9209 <attribute name="type" type="MediumType">
9210 <desc>
9211 Type (role) of this medium.
9212
9213 The following constraints apply when changing the value of this
9214 attribute:
9215 <ul>
9216 <li>If a medium is attached to a virtual machine (either in the
9217 current state or in one of the snapshots), its type cannot be
9218 changed.
9219 </li>
9220 <li>As long as the medium has children, its type cannot be set
9221 to <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
9222 </li>
9223 <li>The type of all differencing media is
9224 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and cannot be changed.
9225 </li>
9226 </ul>
9227
9228 The type of a newly created or opened medium is set to
9229 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/>, except for DVD and floppy media,
9230 which have a type of <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
9231 </desc>
9232 </attribute>
9233
9234 <attribute name="parent" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9235 <desc>
9236 Parent of this medium (the medium this medium is directly based
9237 on).
9238
9239 Only differencing media have parents. For base (non-differencing)
9240 media, @c null is returned.
9241 </desc>
9242 </attribute>
9243
9244 <attribute name="children" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9245 <desc>
9246 Children of this medium (all differencing media directly based
9247 on this medium). A @c null array is returned if this medium
9248 does not have any children.
9249 </desc>
9250 </attribute>
9251
9252 <attribute name="base" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9253 <desc>
9254 Base medium of this medium.
9255
9256 If this is a differencing medium, its base medium is the medium
9257 the given medium branch starts from. For all other types of media, this
9258 property returns the medium object itself (i.e. the same object this
9259 property is read on).
9260 </desc>
9261 </attribute>
9262
9263 <attribute name="readOnly" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9264 <desc>
9265 Returns @c true if this medium is read-only and @c false otherwise.
9266
9267 A medium is considered to be read-only when its contents cannot be
9268 modified without breaking the integrity of other parties that depend on
9269 this medium such as its child media or snapshots of virtual machines
9270 where this medium is attached to these machines. If there are no
9271 children and no such snapshots then there is no dependency and the
9272 medium is not read-only.
9273
9274 The value of this attribute can be used to determine the kind of the
9275 attachment that will take place when attaching this medium to a
9276 virtual machine. If the value is @c false then the medium will
9277 be attached directly. If the value is @c true then the medium
9278 will be attached indirectly by creating a new differencing child
9279 medium for that. See the interface description for more information.
9280
9281 Note that all <link to="MediumType_Immutable">Immutable</link> media
9282 are always read-only while all
9283 <link to="MediumType_Writethrough">Writethrough</link> media are
9284 always not.
9285
9286 <note>
9287 The read-only condition represented by this attribute is related to
9288 the medium type and usage, not to the current
9289 <link to="IMedium::state">medium state</link> and not to the read-only
9290 state of the storage unit.
9291 </note>
9292 </desc>
9293 </attribute>
9294
9295 <attribute name="logicalSize" type="long long" readonly="yes">
9296 <desc>
9297 Logical size of this medium (in bytes), as reported to the
9298 guest OS running inside the virtual machine this medium is
9299 attached to. The logical size is defined when the medium is created
9300 and cannot be changed later.
9301
9302 <note>
9303 Reading this property on a differencing medium will return the size
9304 of its <link to="#base"/> medium.
9305 </note>
9306 <note>
9307 For media whose state is <link to="#state"/> is <link
9308 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9309 last known logical size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9310 media, the returned value is zero.
9311 </note>
9312 </desc>
9313 </attribute>
9314
9315 <attribute name="autoReset" type="boolean">
9316 <desc>
9317 Whether this differencing medium will be automatically reset each
9318 time a virtual machine it is attached to is powered up. This
9319 attribute is automatically set to @c true for the last
9320 differencing image of an "immutable" medium (see
9321 <link to="MediumType" />).
9322
9323 See <link to="#reset"/> for more information about resetting
9324 differencing media.
9325
9326 <note>
9327 Reading this property on a base (non-differencing) medium will
9328 always @c false. Changing the value of this property in this
9329 case is not supported.
9330 </note>
9331
9332 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9333 This is not a differencing medium (when changing the attribute
9334 value).
9335 </result>
9336 </desc>
9337 </attribute>
9338
9339 <attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9340 <desc>
9341 Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
9342 check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
9343
9344 An empty string is returned if the last accessibility check
9345 was successful or has not yet been called. As a result, if
9346 <link to="#state" /> is "Inaccessible" and this attribute is empty,
9347 then <link to="#refreshState"/> has yet to be called; this is the
9348 default value of media after VirtualBox initialization.
9349 A non-empty string indicates a failure and should normally describe
9350 a reason of the failure (for example, a file read error).
9351 </desc>
9352 </attribute>
9353
9354 <attribute name="machineIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9355 <desc>
9356 Array of UUIDs of all machines this medium is attached to.
9357
9358 A @c null array is returned if this medium is not attached to any
9359 machine or to any machine's snapshot.
9360
9361 <note>
9362 The returned array will include a machine even if this medium is not
9363 attached to that machine in the current state but attached to it in
9364 one of the machine's snapshots. See <link to="#getSnapshotIds"/> for
9365 details.
9366 </note>
9367 </desc>
9368 </attribute>
9369
9370 <method name="setIDs">
9371 <desc>
9372 Changes the UUID and parent UUID for a hard disk medium.
9373 </desc>
9374 <param name="setImageId" type="boolean" dir="in">
9375 <desc>
9376 Select whether a new image UUID is set or not.
9377 </desc>
9378 </param>
9379 <param name="imageId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9380 <desc>
9381 New UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a new
9382 UUID is automatically created, provided that @a setImageId is @c true.
9383 Specifying a zero UUID is not allowed.
9384 </desc>
9385 </param>
9386 <param name="setParentId" type="boolean" dir="in">
9387 <desc>
9388 Select whether a new parent UUID is set or not.
9389 </desc>
9390 </param>
9391 <param name="parentId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9392 <desc>
9393 New parent UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a
9394 new UUID is automatically created, provided @a setParentId is
9395 @c true. A zero UUID is valid.
9396 </desc>
9397 </param>
9398 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
9399 Invalid parameter combination.
9400 </result>
9401 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9402 Medium is not a hard disk medium.
9403 </result>
9404 </method>
9405
9406 <method name="refreshState">
9407 <desc>
9408 If the current medium state (see <link to="MediumState"/>) is one of
9409 "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead", then this performs an
9410 accessibility check on the medium and sets the value of the <link to="#state"/>
9411 attribute accordingly; that value is also returned for convenience.
9412
9413 For all other state values, this does not perform a refresh but returns
9414 the state only.
9415
9416 The refresh, if performed, may take a long time (several seconds or even
9417 minutes, depending on the storage unit location and format) because it performs an
9418 accessibility check of the storage unit. This check may cause a significant
9419 delay if the storage unit of the given medium is, for example, a file located
9420 on a network share which is not currently accessible due to connectivity
9421 problems. In that case, the call will not return until a timeout
9422 interval defined by the host OS for this operation expires. For this reason,
9423 it is recommended to never read this attribute on the main UI thread to avoid
9424 making the UI unresponsive.
9425
9426 If the last known state of the medium is "Created" and the accessibility
9427 check fails, then the state would be set to "Inaccessible", and
9428 <link to="#lastAccessError"/> may be used to get more details about the
9429 failure. If the state of the medium is "LockedRead", then it remains the
9430 same, and a non-empty value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will
9431 indicate a failed accessibility check in this case.
9432
9433 Note that not all medium states are applicable to all medium types.
9434 </desc>
9435 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9436 <desc>
9437 New medium state.
9438 </desc>
9439 </param>
9440 </method>
9441
9442 <method name="getSnapshotIds">
9443 <desc>
9444 Returns an array of UUIDs of all snapshots of the given machine where
9445 this medium is attached to.
9446
9447 If the medium is attached to the machine in the current state, then the
9448 first element in the array will always be the ID of the queried machine
9449 (i.e. the value equal to the @c machineId argument), followed by
9450 snapshot IDs (if any).
9451
9452 If the medium is not attached to the machine in the current state, then
9453 the array will contain only snapshot IDs.
9454
9455 The returned array may be @c null if this medium is not attached
9456 to the given machine at all, neither in the current state nor in one of
9457 the snapshots.
9458 </desc>
9459 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9460 <desc>
9461 UUID of the machine to query.
9462 </desc>
9463 </param>
9464 <param name="snapshotIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" dir="return">
9465 <desc>
9466 Array of snapshot UUIDs of the given machine using this medium.
9467 </desc>
9468 </param>
9469 </method>
9470
9471 <method name="lockRead">
9472 <desc>
9473 Locks this medium for reading.
9474
9475 A read lock is shared: many clients can simultaneously lock the
9476 same medium for reading unless it is already locked for writing (see
9477 <link to="#lockWrite"/>) in which case an error is returned.
9478
9479 When the medium is locked for reading, it cannot be modified
9480 from within VirtualBox. This means that any method that changes
9481 the properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit
9482 will return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise). That
9483 includes an attempt to start a virtual machine that wants to
9484 write to the the medium.
9485
9486 When the virtual machine is started up, it locks for reading all
9487 media it uses in read-only mode. If some medium cannot be locked
9488 for reading, the startup procedure will fail.
9489 A medium is typically locked for reading while it is used by a running
9490 virtual machine but has a depending differencing image that receives
9491 the actual write operations. This way one base medium can have
9492 multiple child differencing images which can be written to
9493 simultaneously. Read-only media such as DVD and floppy images are
9494 also locked for reading only (so they can be in use by multiple
9495 machines simultaneously).
9496
9497 A medium is also locked for reading when it is the source of a
9498 write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
9499
9500 The medium locked for reading must be unlocked using the <link
9501 to="#unlockRead"/> method. Calls to <link to="#lockRead"/>
9502 can be nested and must be followed by the same number of paired
9503 <link to="#unlockRead"/> calls.
9504
9505 This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
9506 "LockedRead" on success. The medium's previous state must be
9507 one of "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead".
9508
9509 Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
9510 a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
9511 the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
9512 storage unit.
9513
9514 This method returns the current state of the medium
9515 <i>before</i> the operation.
9516
9517 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9518 Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
9519 creating, deleting).
9520 </result>
9521
9522 </desc>
9523 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9524 <desc>
9525 State of the medium after the operation.
9526 </desc>
9527 </param>
9528 </method>
9529
9530 <method name="unlockRead">
9531 <desc>
9532 Cancels the read lock previously set by <link to="#lockRead"/>.
9533
9534 For both success and failure, this method returns the current state
9535 of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
9536
9537 See <link to="#lockRead"/> for more details.
9538
9539 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9540 Medium not locked for reading.
9541 </result>
9542
9543 </desc>
9544 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9545 <desc>
9546 State of the medium after the operation.
9547 </desc>
9548 </param>
9549 </method>
9550
9551 <method name="lockWrite">
9552 <desc>
9553 Locks this medium for writing.
9554
9555 A write lock, as opposed to <link to="#lockRead"/>, is
9556 exclusive: there may be only one client holding a write lock,
9557 and there may be no read locks while the write lock is held.
9558 As a result, read-locking fails if a write lock is held, and
9559 write-locking fails if either a read or another write lock is held.
9560
9561 When a medium is locked for writing, it cannot be modified
9562 from within VirtualBox, and it is not guaranteed that the values
9563 of its properties are up-to-date. Any method that changes the
9564 properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit will
9565 return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise).
9566
9567 When a virtual machine is started up, it locks for writing all
9568 media it uses to write data to. If any medium could not be locked
9569 for writing, the startup procedure will fail. If a medium has
9570 differencing images, then while the machine is running, only
9571 the last ("leaf") differencing image is locked for writing,
9572 whereas its parents are locked for reading only.
9573
9574 A medium is also locked for writing when it is the target of a
9575 write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
9576
9577 The medium locked for writing must be unlocked using the <link
9578 to="#unlockWrite"/> method. Write locks <i>cannot</i> be nested.
9579
9580 This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
9581 "LockedWrite" on success. The medium's previous state must be
9582 either "Created" or "Inaccessible".
9583
9584 Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
9585 a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
9586 the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
9587 storage unit.
9588
9589 For both, success and failure, this method returns the current
9590 state of the medium <i>before</i> the operation.
9591
9592 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9593 Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
9594 creating, deleting).
9595 </result>
9596
9597 </desc>
9598 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9599 <desc>
9600 State of the medium after the operation.
9601 </desc>
9602 </param>
9603 </method>
9604
9605 <method name="unlockWrite">
9606 <desc>
9607 Cancels the write lock previously set by <link to="#lockWrite"/>.
9608
9609 For both success and failure, this method returns the current
9610 state of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
9611
9612 See <link to="#lockWrite"/> for more details.
9613
9614 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9615 Medium not locked for writing.
9616 </result>
9617
9618 </desc>
9619 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9620 <desc>
9621 State of the medium after the operation.
9622 </desc>
9623 </param>
9624 </method>
9625
9626 <method name="close">
9627 <desc>
9628 Closes this medium.
9629
9630 The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine
9631 and must not have any known child media, otherwise the
9632 operation will fail.
9633
9634 When the medium is successfully closed, it is removed from
9635 the list of registered media, but its storage unit is not
9636 deleted. In particular, this means that this medium can
9637 later be opened again using the <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>
9638 call.
9639
9640 Note that after this method successfully returns, the given medium
9641 object becomes uninitialized. This means that any attempt
9642 to call any of its methods or attributes will fail with the
9643 <tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error.
9644
9645 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9646 Invalid medium state (other than not created, created or
9647 inaccessible).
9648 </result>
9649 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9650 Medium attached to virtual machine.
9651 </result>
9652 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
9653 Settings file not accessible.
9654 </result>
9655 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
9656 Could not parse the settings file.
9657 </result>
9658
9659 </desc>
9660 </method>
9661
9662 <!-- storage methods -->
9663
9664 <method name="getProperty">
9665 <desc>
9666 Returns the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
9667
9668 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9669 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9670
9671 Note that if this method returns an empty string in @a value, the
9672 requested property is supported but currently not assigned any value.
9673
9674 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9675 Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
9676 </result>
9677 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
9678 </desc>
9679 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
9680 <desc>Name of the property to get.</desc>
9681 </param>
9682 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
9683 <desc>Current property value.</desc>
9684 </param>
9685 </method>
9686
9687 <method name="setProperty">
9688 <desc>
9689 Sets the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
9690
9691 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9692 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9693
9694 Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
9695 equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
9696 defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
9697 case.
9698
9699 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
9700 Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
9701 </result>
9702 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
9703 </desc>
9704 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
9705 <desc>Name of the property to set.</desc>
9706 </param>
9707 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
9708 <desc>Property value to set.</desc>
9709 </param>
9710 </method>
9711
9712 <method name="getProperties">
9713 <desc>
9714 Returns values for a group of properties in one call.
9715
9716 The names of the properties to get are specified using the @a names
9717 argument which is a list of comma-separated property names or
9718 an empty string if all properties are to be returned. Note that currently
9719 the value of this argument is ignored and the method always returns all
9720 existing properties.
9721
9722 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9723 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9724
9725 The method returns two arrays, the array of property names corresponding
9726 to the @a names argument and the current values of these properties.
9727 Both arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the
9728 given index in the first array corresponds to an element at the same
9729 index in the second array.
9730
9731 Note that for properties that do not have assigned values,
9732 an empty string is returned at the appropriate index in the
9733 @a returnValues array.
9734
9735 </desc>
9736 <param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in">
9737 <desc>
9738 Names of properties to get.
9739 </desc>
9740 </param>
9741 <param name="returnNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
9742 <desc>Names of returned properties.</desc>
9743 </param>
9744 <param name="returnValues" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
9745 <desc>Values of returned properties.</desc>
9746 </param>
9747 </method>
9748
9749 <method name="setProperties">
9750 <desc>
9751 Sets values for a group of properties in one call.
9752
9753 The names of the properties to set are passed in the @a names
9754 array along with the new values for them in the @a values array. Both
9755 arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the given
9756 index in the first array corresponding to an element at the same index
9757 in the second array.
9758
9759 If there is at least one property name in @a names that is not valid,
9760 the method will fail before changing the values of any other properties
9761 from the @a names array.
9762
9763 Using this method over <link to="#setProperty"/> is preferred if you
9764 need to set several properties at once since it will result into less
9765 IPC calls.
9766
9767 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
9768 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
9769
9770 Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
9771 equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
9772 defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
9773 case.
9774 </desc>
9775 <param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
9776 <desc>Names of properties to set.</desc>
9777 </param>
9778 <param name="values" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
9779 <desc>Values of properties to set.</desc>
9780 </param>
9781 </method>
9782
9783 <!-- storage methods -->
9784
9785 <method name="createBaseStorage">
9786 <desc>
9787 Starts creating a hard disk storage unit (fixed/dynamic, according
9788 to the variant flags) in in the background. The previous storage unit
9789 created for this object, if any, must first be deleted using
9790 <link to="#deleteStorage"/>, otherwise the operation will fail.
9791
9792 Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
9793 <link to="MediumState_Creating"/> state. If the create operation
9794 fails, the medium will be placed back in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9795 state.
9796
9797 After the returned progress object reports that the operation has
9798 successfully completed, the medium state will be set to <link
9799 to="MediumState_Created"/>, the medium will be remembered by this
9800 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9801
9802 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9803 The variant of storage creation operation is not supported. See <link
9804 to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
9805 </result>
9806 </desc>
9807 <param name="logicalSize" type="long long" dir="in">
9808 <desc>Maximum logical size of the medium in bytes.</desc>
9809 </param>
9810 <param name="variant" type="MediumVariant" dir="in">
9811 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9812 </param>
9813 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9814 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9815 </param>
9816 </method>
9817
9818 <method name="deleteStorage">
9819 <desc>
9820 Starts deleting the storage unit of this medium.
9821
9822 The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine and must
9823 not have any known child media, otherwise the operation will fail.
9824 It will also fail if there is no storage unit to delete or if deletion
9825 is already in progress, or if the medium is being in use (locked for
9826 read or for write) or inaccessible. Therefore, the only valid state for
9827 this operation to succeed is <link to="MediumState_Created"/>.
9828
9829 Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
9830 <link to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and gets removed from the list
9831 of remembered hard disks (media registry). If the delete operation
9832 fails, the medium will be remembered again and placed back to
9833 <link to="MediumState_Created"/> state.
9834
9835 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9836 complete, the medium state will be set to
9837 <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> and you will be able to use one of
9838 the storage creation methods to create it again.
9839
9840 <see>#close()</see>
9841
9842 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9843 Medium is attached to a virtual machine.
9844 </result>
9845 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9846 Storage deletion is not allowed because neither of storage creation
9847 operations are supported. See
9848 <link to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
9849 </result>
9850
9851 <note>
9852 If the deletion operation fails, it is not guaranteed that the storage
9853 unit still exists. You may check the <link to="IMedium::state"/> value
9854 to answer this question.
9855 </note>
9856 </desc>
9857 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9858 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9859 </param>
9860 </method>
9861
9862 <!-- diff methods -->
9863
9864 <method name="createDiffStorage">
9865 <desc>
9866 Starts creating an empty differencing storage unit based on this
9867 medium in the format and at the location defined by the @a target
9868 argument.
9869
9870 The target medium must be in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9871 state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit). Upon successful
9872 completion, this operation will set the type of the target medium to
9873 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and create a storage unit necessary to
9874 represent the differencing medium data in the given format (according
9875 to the storage format of the target object).
9876
9877 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
9878 successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
9879 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
9880
9881 <note>
9882 The medium will be set to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
9883 state for the duration of this operation.
9884 </note>
9885 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
9886 Medium not in @c NotCreated state.
9887 </result>
9888 </desc>
9889 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
9890 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
9891 </param>
9892 <param name="variant" type="MediumVariant" dir="in">
9893 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
9894 </param>
9895 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9896 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9897 </param>
9898 </method>
9899
9900 <method name="mergeTo">
9901 <desc>
9902 Starts merging the contents of this medium and all intermediate
9903 differencing media in the chain to the given target medium.
9904
9905 The target medium must be either a descendant of this medium or
9906 its ancestor (otherwise this method will immediately return a failure).
9907 It follows that there are two logical directions of the merge operation:
9908 from ancestor to descendant (<i>forward merge</i>) and from descendant to
9909 ancestor (<i>backward merge</i>). Let us consider the following medium
9910 chain:
9911
9912 <pre>Base &lt;- Diff_1 &lt;- Diff_2</pre>
9913
9914 Here, calling this method on the <tt>Base</tt> medium object with
9915 <tt>Diff_2</tt> as an argument will be a forward merge; calling it on
9916 <tt>Diff_2</tt> with <tt>Base</tt> as an argument will be a backward
9917 merge. Note that in both cases the contents of the resulting medium
9918 will be the same, the only difference is the medium object that takes
9919 the result of the merge operation. In case of the forward merge in the
9920 above example, the result will be written to <tt>Diff_2</tt>; in case of
9921 the backward merge, the result will be written to <tt>Base</tt>. In
9922 other words, the result of the operation is always stored in the target
9923 medium.
9924
9925 Upon successful operation completion, the storage units of all media in
9926 the chain between this (source) medium and the target medium, including
9927 the source medium itself, will be automatically deleted and the
9928 relevant medium objects (including this medium) will become
9929 uninitialized. This means that any attempt to call any of
9930 their methods or attributes will fail with the
9931 <tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error. Applied to the above
9932 example, the forward merge of <tt>Base</tt> to <tt>Diff_2</tt> will
9933 delete and uninitialize both <tt>Base</tt> and <tt>Diff_1</tt> media.
9934 Note that <tt>Diff_2</tt> in this case will become a base medium
9935 itself since it will no longer be based on any other medium.
9936
9937 Considering the above, all of the following conditions must be met in
9938 order for the merge operation to succeed:
9939 <ul>
9940 <li>
9941 Neither this (source) medium nor any intermediate
9942 differencing medium in the chain between it and the target
9943 medium is attached to any virtual machine.
9944 </li>
9945 <li>
9946 Neither the source medium nor the target medium is an
9947 <link to="MediumType_Immutable"/> medium.
9948 </li>
9949 <li>
9950 The part of the medium tree from the source medium to the
9951 target medium is a linear chain, i.e. all medium in this
9952 chain have exactly one child which is the next medium in this
9953 chain. The only exception from this rule is the target medium in
9954 the forward merge operation; it is allowed to have any number of
9955 child media because the merge operation will not change its
9956 logical contents (as it is seen by the guest OS or by children).
9957 </li>
9958 <li>
9959 None of the involved media are in
9960 <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> or
9961 <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state.
9962 </li>
9963 </ul>
9964
9965 <note>
9966 This (source) medium and all intermediates will be placed to <link
9967 to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and the target medium will be
9968 placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state and for the
9969 duration of this operation.
9970 </note>
9971 </desc>
9972 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
9973 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
9974 </param>
9975 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9976 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9977 </param>
9978 </method>
9979
9980 <!-- clone method -->
9981
9982 <method name="cloneTo">
9983 <desc>
9984 Starts creating a clone of this medium in the format and at the
9985 location defined by the @a target argument.
9986
9987 The target medium must be either in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9988 state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit) or in
9989 <link to="MediumState_Created"/> state (i.e. created and not locked, and
9990 big enough to hold the data or else the copy will be partial). Upon
9991 successful completion, the cloned medium will contain exactly the
9992 same sector data as the medium being cloned, except that in the
9993 first case a new UUID for the clone will be randomly generated, and in
9994 the second case the UUID will remain unchanged.
9995
9996 The @a parent argument defines which medium will be the parent
9997 of the clone. Passing a @c null reference indicates that the clone will
9998 be a base image, i.e. completely independent. It is possible to specify
9999 an arbitrary medium for this parameter, including the parent of the
10000 medium which is being cloned. Even cloning to a child of the source
10001 medium is possible. Note that when cloning to an existing image, the
10002 @a parent irgument is ignored.
10003
10004 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
10005 successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
10006 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
10007
10008 <note>
10009 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
10010 state for the duration of this operation.
10011 </note>
10012 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10013 The specified cloning variant is not supported at the moment.
10014 </result>
10015 </desc>
10016 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
10017 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
10018 </param>
10019 <param name="variant" type="MediumVariant" dir="in">
10020 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created.</desc>
10021 </param>
10022 <param name="parent" type="IMedium" dir="in">
10023 <desc>Parent of the cloned medium.</desc>
10024 </param>
10025 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10026 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10027 </param>
10028 </method>
10029
10030 <!-- other methods -->
10031
10032 <method name="compact">
10033 <desc>
10034 Starts compacting of this medium. This means that the medium is
10035 transformed into a possibly more compact storage representation.
10036 This potentially creates temporary images, which can require a
10037 substantial amount of additional disk space.
10038
10039 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
10040 state and all its parent media (if any) will be placed to
10041 <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state for the duration of this
10042 operation.
10043
10044 Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
10045 or later as the result of the background operation via the object
10046 returned via the @a progress parameter.
10047
10048 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10049 Medium format does not support compacting (but potentially
10050 needs it).
10051 </result>
10052 </desc>
10053 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10054 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10055 </param>
10056 </method>
10057
10058 <method name="resize">
10059 <desc>
10060 Starts resizing this medium. This means that the nominal size of the
10061 medium is set to the new value. Both increasing and decreasing the
10062 size is possible, and there are no safety checks, since VirtualBox
10063 does not make any assumptions about the medium contents.
10064
10065 Resizing usually needs additional disk space, and possibly also
10066 some temporary disk space. Note that resize does not create a full
10067 temporary copy of the medium, so the additional disk space requirement
10068 is usually much lower than using the clone operation.
10069
10070 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
10071 state for the duration of this operation.
10072
10073 Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
10074 or later as the result of the background operation via the object
10075 returned via the @a progress parameter.
10076
10077 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10078 Medium format does not support resizing.
10079 </result>
10080 </desc>
10081 <param name="logicalSize" type="long long" dir="in">
10082 <desc>New nominal capacity of the medium in bytes.</desc>
10083 </param>
10084 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10085 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10086 </param>
10087 </method>
10088
10089 <method name="reset">
10090 <desc>
10091 Starts erasing the contents of this differencing medium.
10092
10093 This operation will reset the differencing medium to its initial
10094 state when it does not contain any sector data and any read operation is
10095 redirected to its parent medium. This automatically gets called
10096 during VM power-up for every medium whose <link to="#autoReset" />
10097 attribute is @c true.
10098
10099 The medium will be write-locked for the duration of this operation (see
10100 <link to="#lockWrite" />).
10101
10102 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10103 This is not a differencing medium.
10104 </result>
10105 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10106 Medium is not in <link to="MediumState_Created"/> or
10107 <link to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> state.
10108 </result>
10109 </desc>
10110 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10111 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10112 </param>
10113 </method>
10114
10115 </interface>
10116
10117
10118 <!--
10119 // IMediumFormat
10120 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10121 -->
10122
10123 <enum
10124 name="DataType"
10125 uuid="d90ea51e-a3f1-4a01-beb1-c1723c0d3ba7"
10126 >
10127 <const name="Int32" value="0"/>
10128 <const name="Int8" value="1"/>
10129 <const name="String" value="2"/>
10130 </enum>
10131
10132 <enum
10133 name="DataFlags"
10134 uuid="86884dcf-1d6b-4f1b-b4bf-f5aa44959d60"
10135 >
10136 <const name="None" value="0x00"/>
10137 <const name="Mandatory" value="0x01"/>
10138 <const name="Expert" value="0x02"/>
10139 <const name="Array" value="0x04"/>
10140 <const name="FlagMask" value="0x07"/>
10141 </enum>
10142
10143 <enum
10144 name="MediumFormatCapabilities"
10145 uuid="7342ba79-7ce0-4d94-8f86-5ed5a185d9bd"
10146 >
10147 <desc>
10148 Medium format capability flags.
10149 </desc>
10150
10151 <const name="Uuid" value="0x01">
10152 <desc>
10153 Supports UUIDs as expected by VirtualBox code.
10154 </desc>
10155 </const>
10156
10157 <const name="CreateFixed" value="0x02">
10158 <desc>
10159 Supports creating fixed size images, allocating all space instantly.
10160 </desc>
10161 </const>
10162
10163 <const name="CreateDynamic" value="0x04">
10164 <desc>
10165 Supports creating dynamically growing images, allocating space on
10166 demand.
10167 </desc>
10168 </const>
10169
10170 <const name="CreateSplit2G" value="0x08">
10171 <desc>
10172 Supports creating images split in chunks of a bit less than 2 GBytes.
10173 </desc>
10174 </const>
10175
10176 <const name="Differencing" value="0x10">
10177 <desc>
10178 Supports being used as a format for differencing media (see <link
10179 to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/>).
10180 </desc>
10181 </const>
10182
10183 <const name="Asynchronous" value="0x20">
10184 <desc>
10185 Supports asynchronous I/O operations for at least some configurations.
10186 </desc>
10187 </const>
10188
10189 <const name="File" value="0x40">
10190 <desc>
10191 The format backend operates on files (the <link to="IMedium::location"/>
10192 attribute of the medium specifies a file used to store medium
10193 data; for a list of supported file extensions see
10194 <link to="IMediumFormat::describeFileExtensions"/>).
10195 </desc>
10196 </const>
10197
10198 <const name="Properties" value="0x80">
10199 <desc>
10200 The format backend uses the property interface to configure the storage
10201 location and properties (the <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>
10202 method is used to get access to properties supported by the given medium format).
10203 </desc>
10204 </const>
10205
10206 <const name="TcpNetworking" value="0x100">
10207 <desc>
10208 The format backend uses the TCP networking interface for network access.
10209 </desc>
10210 </const>
10211
10212 <const name="VFS" value="0x200">
10213 <desc>
10214 The format backend supports virtual filesystem functionality.
10215 </desc>
10216 </const>
10217
10218 <const name="CapabilityMask" value="0x3FF"/>
10219 </enum>
10220
10221 <interface
10222 name="IMediumFormat" extends="$unknown"
10223 uuid="4e9a873f-0599-434a-8345-619ef3fb3111"
10224 wsmap="managed"
10225 >
10226 <desc>
10227 The IMediumFormat interface represents a medium format.
10228
10229 Each medium format has an associated backend which is used to handle
10230 media stored in this format. This interface provides information
10231 about the properties of the associated backend.
10232
10233 Each medium format is identified by a string represented by the
10234 <link to="#id"/> attribute. This string is used in calls like
10235 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to specify the desired
10236 format.
10237
10238 The list of all supported medium formats can be obtained using
10239 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
10240
10241 <see>IMedium</see>
10242 </desc>
10243
10244 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10245 <desc>
10246 Identifier of this format.
10247
10248 The format identifier is a non-@c null non-empty ASCII string. Note that
10249 this string is case-insensitive. This means that, for example, all of
10250 the following strings:
10251 <pre>
10252 "VDI"
10253 "vdi"
10254 "VdI"</pre>
10255 refer to the same medium format.
10256
10257 This string is used in methods of other interfaces where it is necessary
10258 to specify a medium format, such as
10259 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>.
10260 </desc>
10261 </attribute>
10262
10263 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10264 <desc>
10265 Human readable description of this format.
10266
10267 Mainly for use in file open dialogs.
10268 </desc>
10269 </attribute>
10270
10271 <attribute name="capabilities" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10272 <desc>
10273 Capabilities of the format as a set of bit flags.
10274
10275 For the meaning of individual capability flags see
10276 <link to="MediumFormatCapabilities"/>.
10277 </desc>
10278 </attribute>
10279
10280 <method name="describeFileExtensions">
10281 <desc>
10282 Returns two arrays describing the supported file extensions.
10283
10284 The first array contains the supported extensions and the seconds one
10285 the type each extension supports. Both have the same size.
10286
10287 Note that some backends do not work on files, so this array may be
10288 empty.
10289
10290 <see>IMediumFormat::capabilities</see>
10291 </desc>
10292 <param name="extensions" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10293 <desc>The array of supported extensions.</desc>
10294 </param>
10295 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10296 <desc>The array which indicates the device type for every given extension.</desc>
10297 </param>
10298 </method>
10299
10300 <method name="describeProperties">
10301 <desc>
10302 Returns several arrays describing the properties supported by this
10303 format.
10304
10305 An element with the given index in each array describes one
10306 property. Thus, the number of elements in each returned array is the
10307 same and corresponds to the number of supported properties.
10308
10309 The returned arrays are filled in only if the
10310 <link to="MediumFormatCapabilities_Properties"/> flag is set.
10311 All arguments must be non-@c null.
10312
10313 <see>DataType</see>
10314 <see>DataFlags</see>
10315 </desc>
10316
10317 <param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10318 <desc>Array of property names.</desc>
10319 </param>
10320 <param name="description" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10321 <desc>Array of property descriptions.</desc>
10322 </param>
10323 <param name="types" type="DataType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10324 <desc>Array of property types.</desc>
10325 </param>
10326 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10327 <desc>Array of property flags.</desc>
10328 </param>
10329 <param name="defaults" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10330 <desc>Array of default property values.</desc>
10331 </param>
10332 </method>
10333
10334 </interface>
10335
10336
10337 <!--
10338 // IKeyboard
10339 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10340 -->
10341
10342 <interface
10343 name="IKeyboard" extends="$unknown"
10344 uuid="f6916ec5-a881-4237-898f-7de58cf88672"
10345 wsmap="managed"
10346 >
10347 <desc>
10348 The IKeyboard interface represents the virtual machine's keyboard. Used
10349 in <link to="IConsole::keyboard"/>.
10350
10351 Use this interface to send keystrokes or the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence
10352 to the virtual machine.
10353
10354 </desc>
10355 <method name="putScancode">
10356 <desc>Sends a scancode to the keyboard.
10357
10358 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10359 Could not send scan code to virtual keyboard.
10360 </result>
10361
10362 </desc>
10363 <param name="scancode" type="long" dir="in"/>
10364 </method>
10365
10366 <method name="putScancodes">
10367 <desc>Sends an array of scancodes to the keyboard.
10368
10369 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10370 Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
10371 </result>
10372
10373 </desc>
10374 <param name="scancodes" type="long" dir="in" safearray="yes"/>
10375 <param name="codesStored" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
10376 </method>
10377
10378 <method name="putCAD">
10379 <desc>Sends the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence to the keyboard. This
10380 function is nothing special, it is just a convenience function
10381 calling <link to="IKeyboard::putScancodes"/> with the proper scancodes.
10382
10383 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10384 Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
10385 </result>
10386
10387 </desc>
10388 </method>
10389
10390 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
10391 <desc>
10392 Event source for keyboard events.
10393 </desc>
10394 </attribute>
10395
10396 </interface>
10397
10398
10399 <!--
10400 // IMouse
10401 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10402 -->
10403
10404 <enum
10405 name="MouseButtonState"
10406 uuid="9ee094b8-b28a-4d56-a166-973cb588d7f8"
10407 >
10408 <desc>
10409 Mouse button state.
10410 </desc>
10411
10412 <const name="LeftButton" value="0x01"/>
10413 <const name="RightButton" value="0x02"/>
10414 <const name="MiddleButton" value="0x04"/>
10415 <const name="WheelUp" value="0x08"/>
10416 <const name="WheelDown" value="0x10"/>
10417 <const name="XButton1" value="0x20"/>
10418 <const name="XButton2" value="0x40"/>
10419 <const name="MouseStateMask" value="0x7F"/>
10420 </enum>
10421
10422 <interface
10423 name="IMouse" extends="$unknown"
10424 uuid="05044a52-7811-4f00-ae3a-0ab7ff707b10"
10425 wsmap="managed"
10426 >
10427 <desc>
10428 The IMouse interface represents the virtual machine's mouse. Used in
10429 <link to="IConsole::mouse"/>.
10430
10431 Through this interface, the virtual machine's virtual mouse can be
10432 controlled.
10433 </desc>
10434
10435 <attribute name="absoluteSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10436 <desc>
10437 Whether the guest OS supports absolute mouse pointer positioning
10438 or not.
10439 <note>
10440 You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
10441 event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
10442 during virtual machine execution.
10443 </note>
10444 <see><link to="#putMouseEventAbsolute"/></see>
10445 </desc>
10446 </attribute>
10447
10448 <attribute name="relativeSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10449 <desc>
10450 Whether the guest OS supports relative mouse pointer positioning
10451 or not.
10452 <note>
10453 You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
10454 event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
10455 during virtual machine execution.
10456 </note>
10457 <see><link to="#putMouseEvent"/></see>
10458 </desc>
10459 </attribute>
10460
10461 <attribute name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10462 <desc>
10463 Whether the guest OS can currently switch to drawing it's own mouse
10464 cursor on demand.
10465 <note>
10466 You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
10467 event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
10468 during virtual machine execution.
10469 </note>
10470 <see><link to="#putMouseEvent"/></see>
10471 </desc>
10472 </attribute>
10473
10474 <method name="putMouseEvent">
10475 <desc>
10476 Initiates a mouse event using relative pointer movements
10477 along x and y axis.
10478
10479 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
10480 Console not powered up.
10481 </result>
10482 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10483 Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
10484 </result>
10485
10486 </desc>
10487
10488 <param name="dx" type="long" dir="in">
10489 <desc>
10490 Amount of pixels the mouse should move to the right.
10491 Negative values move the mouse to the left.
10492 </desc>
10493 </param>
10494 <param name="dy" type="long" dir="in">
10495 <desc>
10496 Amount of pixels the mouse should move downwards.
10497 Negative values move the mouse upwards.
10498 </desc>
10499 </param>
10500 <param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
10501 <desc>
10502 Amount of mouse wheel moves.
10503 Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
10504 negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
10505 </desc>
10506 </param>
10507 <param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
10508 <desc>
10509 Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
10510 Positive values describe a movement to the left,
10511 negative values describe a movement to the right.
10512 </desc>
10513 </param>
10514 <param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
10515 <desc>
10516 The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
10517 a mouse button as follows:
10518 <table>
10519 <tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
10520 <tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
10521 <tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
10522 </table>
10523 A value of <tt>1</tt> means the corresponding button is pressed.
10524 otherwise it is released.
10525 </desc>
10526 </param>
10527 </method>
10528
10529 <method name="putMouseEventAbsolute">
10530 <desc>
10531 Positions the mouse pointer using absolute x and y coordinates.
10532 These coordinates are expressed in pixels and
10533 start from <tt>[1,1]</tt> which corresponds to the top left
10534 corner of the virtual display.
10535
10536 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
10537 Console not powered up.
10538 </result>
10539 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10540 Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
10541 </result>
10542
10543 <note>
10544 This method will have effect only if absolute mouse
10545 positioning is supported by the guest OS.
10546 </note>
10547
10548 <see><link to="#absoluteSupported"/></see>
10549 </desc>
10550
10551 <param name="x" type="long" dir="in">
10552 <desc>
10553 X coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
10554 </desc>
10555 </param>
10556 <param name="y" type="long" dir="in">
10557 <desc>
10558 Y coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
10559 </desc>
10560 </param>
10561 <param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
10562 <desc>
10563 Amount of mouse wheel moves.
10564 Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
10565 negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
10566 </desc>
10567 </param>
10568 <param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
10569 <desc>
10570 Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
10571 Positive values describe a movement to the left,
10572 negative values describe a movement to the right.
10573 </desc>
10574 </param>
10575 <param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
10576 <desc>
10577 The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
10578 a mouse button as follows:
10579 <table>
10580 <tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
10581 <tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
10582 <tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
10583 </table>
10584 A value of @c 1 means the corresponding button is pressed.
10585 otherwise it is released.
10586 </desc>
10587 </param>
10588 </method>
10589
10590 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
10591 <desc>
10592 Event source for mouse events.
10593 </desc>
10594 </attribute>
10595
10596 </interface>
10597
10598 <!--
10599 // IDisplay
10600 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10601 -->
10602
10603 <enum
10604 name="FramebufferPixelFormat"
10605 uuid="7acfd5ed-29e3-45e3-8136-73c9224f3d2d"
10606 >
10607 <desc>
10608 Format of the video memory buffer. Constants represented by this enum can
10609 be used to test for particular values of <link
10610 to="IFramebuffer::pixelFormat"/>. See also <link
10611 to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/>.
10612
10613 See also www.fourcc.org for more information about FOURCC pixel formats.
10614 </desc>
10615
10616 <const name="Opaque" value="0">
10617 <desc>
10618 Unknown buffer format (the user may not assume any particular format of
10619 the buffer).
10620 </desc>
10621 </const>
10622 <const name="FOURCC_RGB" value="0x32424752">
10623 <desc>
10624 Basic RGB format (<link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/> determines the
10625 bit layout).
10626 </desc>
10627 </const>
10628 </enum>
10629
10630 <interface
10631 name="IFramebuffer" extends="$unknown"
10632 uuid="b7ed347a-5765-40a0-ae1c-f543eb4ddeaf"
10633 wsmap="suppress"
10634 >
10635 <attribute name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" readonly="yes">
10636 <desc>Address of the start byte of the frame buffer.</desc>
10637 </attribute>
10638
10639 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10640 <desc>Frame buffer width, in pixels.</desc>
10641 </attribute>
10642
10643 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10644 <desc>Frame buffer height, in pixels.</desc>
10645 </attribute>
10646
10647 <attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10648 <desc>
10649 Color depth, in bits per pixel. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
10650 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, valid values
10651 are: 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32.
10652 </desc>
10653 </attribute>
10654
10655 <attribute name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10656 <desc>
10657 Scan line size, in bytes. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
10658 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, the
10659 size of the scan line must be aligned to 32 bits.
10660 </desc>
10661 </attribute>
10662
10663 <attribute name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10664 <desc>
10665 Frame buffer pixel format. It's either one of the values defined by <link
10666 to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/> or a raw FOURCC code.
10667 <note>
10668 This attribute must never return <link
10669 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> -- the format of the buffer
10670 <link to="#address"/> points to must be always known.
10671 </note>
10672 </desc>
10673 </attribute>
10674
10675 <attribute name="usesGuestVRAM" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10676 <desc>
10677 Defines whether this frame buffer uses the virtual video card's memory
10678 buffer (guest VRAM) directly or not. See <link
10679 to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/> for more information.
10680 </desc>
10681 </attribute>
10682
10683 <attribute name="heightReduction" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10684 <desc>
10685 Hint from the frame buffer about how much of the standard
10686 screen height it wants to use for itself. This information is
10687 exposed to the guest through the VESA BIOS and VMMDev interface
10688 so that it can use it for determining its video mode table. It
10689 is not guaranteed that the guest respects the value.
10690 </desc>
10691 </attribute>
10692
10693 <attribute name="overlay" type="IFramebufferOverlay" readonly="yes">
10694 <desc>
10695 An alpha-blended overlay which is superposed over the frame buffer.
10696 The initial purpose is to allow the display of icons providing
10697 information about the VM state, including disk activity, in front
10698 ends which do not have other means of doing that. The overlay is
10699 designed to controlled exclusively by IDisplay. It has no locking
10700 of its own, and any changes made to it are not guaranteed to be
10701 visible until the affected portion of IFramebuffer is updated. The
10702 overlay can be created lazily the first time it is requested. This
10703 attribute can also return @c null to signal that the overlay is not
10704 implemented.
10705 </desc>
10706 </attribute>
10707
10708 <attribute name="winId" type="long long" readonly="yes">
10709 <desc>
10710 Platform-dependent identifier of the window where context of this
10711 frame buffer is drawn, or zero if there's no such window.
10712 </desc>
10713 </attribute>
10714
10715 <method name="lock">
10716 <desc>
10717 Locks the frame buffer.
10718 Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
10719 bound to.
10720 </desc>
10721 </method>
10722
10723 <method name="unlock">
10724 <desc>
10725 Unlocks the frame buffer.
10726 Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
10727 bound to.
10728 </desc>
10729 </method>
10730
10731 <method name="notifyUpdate">
10732 <desc>
10733 Informs about an update.
10734 Gets called by the display object where this buffer is
10735 registered.
10736 </desc>
10737 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10738 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10739 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10740 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10741 </method>
10742
10743 <method name="requestResize">
10744 <desc>
10745 Requests a size and pixel format change.
10746
10747 There are two modes of working with the video buffer of the virtual
10748 machine. The <i>indirect</i> mode implies that the IFramebuffer
10749 implementation allocates a memory buffer for the requested display mode
10750 and provides it to the virtual machine. In <i>direct</i> mode, the
10751 IFramebuffer implementation uses the memory buffer allocated and owned
10752 by the virtual machine. This buffer represents the video memory of the
10753 emulated video adapter (so called <i>guest VRAM</i>). The direct mode is
10754 usually faster because the implementation gets a raw pointer to the
10755 guest VRAM buffer which it can directly use for visualizing the contents
10756 of the virtual display, as opposed to the indirect mode where the
10757 contents of guest VRAM are copied to the memory buffer provided by
10758 the implementation every time a display update occurs.
10759
10760 It is important to note that the direct mode is really fast only when
10761 the implementation uses the given guest VRAM buffer directly, for
10762 example, by blitting it to the window representing the virtual machine's
10763 display, which saves at least one copy operation comparing to the
10764 indirect mode. However, using the guest VRAM buffer directly is not
10765 always possible: the format and the color depth of this buffer may be
10766 not supported by the target window, or it may be unknown (opaque) as in
10767 case of text or non-linear multi-plane VGA video modes. In this case,
10768 the indirect mode (that is always available) should be used as a
10769 fallback: when the guest VRAM contents are copied to the
10770 implementation-provided memory buffer, color and format conversion is
10771 done automatically by the underlying code.
10772
10773 The @a pixelFormat parameter defines whether the direct mode is
10774 available or not. If @a pixelFormat is <link
10775 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> then direct access to the guest
10776 VRAM buffer is not available -- the @a VRAM, @a bitsPerPixel and
10777 @a bytesPerLine parameters must be ignored and the implementation must use
10778 the indirect mode (where it provides its own buffer in one of the
10779 supported formats). In all other cases, @a pixelFormat together with
10780 @a bitsPerPixel and @a bytesPerLine define the format of the video memory
10781 buffer pointed to by the @a VRAM parameter and the implementation is
10782 free to choose which mode to use. To indicate that this frame buffer uses
10783 the direct mode, the implementation of the <link to="#usesGuestVRAM"/>
10784 attribute must return @c true and <link to="#address"/> must
10785 return exactly the same address that is passed in the @a VRAM parameter
10786 of this method; otherwise it is assumed that the indirect strategy is
10787 chosen.
10788
10789 The @a width and @a height parameters represent the size of the
10790 requested display mode in both modes. In case of indirect mode, the
10791 provided memory buffer should be big enough to store data of the given
10792 display mode. In case of direct mode, it is guaranteed that the given
10793 @a VRAM buffer contains enough space to represent the display mode of the
10794 given size. Note that this frame buffer's <link to="#width"/> and <link
10795 to="#height"/> attributes must return exactly the same values as
10796 passed to this method after the resize is completed (see below).
10797
10798 The @a finished output parameter determines if the implementation has
10799 finished resizing the frame buffer or not. If, for some reason, the
10800 resize cannot be finished immediately during this call, @a finished
10801 must be set to @c false, and the implementation must call
10802 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> after it has returned from
10803 this method as soon as possible. If @a finished is @c false, the
10804 machine will not call any frame buffer methods until
10805 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
10806
10807 Note that if the direct mode is chosen, the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>,
10808 <link to="#bytesPerLine"/> and <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attributes of
10809 this frame buffer must return exactly the same values as specified in the
10810 parameters of this method, after the resize is completed. If the
10811 indirect mode is chosen, these attributes must return values describing
10812 the format of the implementation's own memory buffer <link
10813 to="#address"/> points to. Note also that the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>
10814 value must always correlate with <link to="#pixelFormat"/>. Note that
10815 the <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attribute must never return <link
10816 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> regardless of the selected mode.
10817
10818 <note>
10819 This method is called by the IDisplay object under the
10820 <link to="#lock"/> provided by this IFramebuffer
10821 implementation. If this method returns @c false in @a finished, then
10822 this lock is not released until
10823 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
10824 </note>
10825 </desc>
10826 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10827 <desc>
10828 Logical screen number. Must be used in the corresponding call to
10829 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> if this call is made.
10830 </desc>
10831 </param>
10832 <param name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10833 <desc>
10834 Pixel format of the memory buffer pointed to by @a VRAM.
10835 See also <link to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/>.
10836 </desc>
10837 </param>
10838 <param name="VRAM" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10839 <desc>Pointer to the virtual video card's VRAM (may be @c null).</desc>
10840 </param>
10841 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10842 <desc>Color depth, bits per pixel.</desc>
10843 </param>
10844 <param name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10845 <desc>Size of one scan line, in bytes.</desc>
10846 </param>
10847 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10848 <desc>Width of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
10849 </param>
10850 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10851 <desc>Height of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
10852 </param>
10853 <param name="finished" type="boolean" dir="return">
10854 <desc>
10855 Can the VM start using the new frame buffer immediately
10856 after this method returns or it should wait for
10857 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/>.
10858 </desc>
10859 </param>
10860 </method>
10861
10862 <method name="videoModeSupported">
10863 <desc>
10864 Returns whether the frame buffer implementation is willing to
10865 support a given video mode. In case it is not able to render
10866 the video mode (or for some reason not willing), it should
10867 return @c false. Usually this method is called when the guest
10868 asks the VMM device whether a given video mode is supported
10869 so the information returned is directly exposed to the guest.
10870 It is important that this method returns very quickly.
10871 </desc>
10872 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10873 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10874 <param name="bpp" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
10875 <param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
10876 </method>
10877
10878 <method name="getVisibleRegion">
10879 <desc>
10880 Returns the visible region of this frame buffer.
10881
10882 If the @a rectangles parameter is @c null then the value of the
10883 @a count parameter is ignored and the number of elements necessary to
10884 describe the current visible region is returned in @a countCopied.
10885
10886 If @a rectangles is not @c null but @a count is less
10887 than the required number of elements to store region data, the method
10888 will report a failure. If @a count is equal or greater than the
10889 required number of elements, then the actual number of elements copied
10890 to the provided array will be returned in @a countCopied.
10891
10892 <note>
10893 The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
10894 this IFramebuffer object.
10895 </note>
10896 <note>
10897 Method not yet implemented.
10898 </note>
10899 </desc>
10900 <param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10901 <desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array to receive region data.</desc>
10902 </param>
10903 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10904 <desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10905 </param>
10906 <param name="countCopied" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
10907 <desc>Number of elements copied to the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10908 </param>
10909 </method>
10910
10911 <method name="setVisibleRegion">
10912 <desc>
10913 Suggests a new visible region to this frame buffer. This region
10914 represents the area of the VM display which is a union of regions of
10915 all top-level windows of the guest operating system running inside the
10916 VM (if the Guest Additions for this system support this
10917 functionality). This information may be used by the frontends to
10918 implement the seamless desktop integration feature.
10919
10920 <note>
10921 The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
10922 this IFramebuffer object.
10923 </note>
10924 <note>
10925 The IFramebuffer implementation must make a copy of the provided
10926 array of rectangles.
10927 </note>
10928 <note>
10929 Method not yet implemented.
10930 </note>
10931 </desc>
10932 <param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10933 <desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array.</desc>
10934 </param>
10935 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10936 <desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
10937 </param>
10938 </method>
10939
10940 <method name="processVHWACommand">
10941 <desc>
10942 Posts a Video HW Acceleration Command to the frame buffer for processing.
10943 The commands used for 2D video acceleration (DDraw surface creation/destroying, blitting, scaling, color conversion, overlaying, etc.)
10944 are posted from quest to the host to be processed by the host hardware.
10945
10946 <note>
10947 The address of the provided command must be in the process space of
10948 this IFramebuffer object.
10949 </note>
10950 </desc>
10951
10952 <param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
10953 <desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the command to execute.</desc>
10954 </param>
10955 </method>
10956
10957 </interface>
10958
10959 <interface
10960 name="IFramebufferOverlay" extends="IFramebuffer"
10961 uuid="0bcc1c7e-e415-47d2-bfdb-e4c705fb0f47"
10962 wsmap="suppress"
10963 >
10964 <desc>
10965 The IFramebufferOverlay interface represents an alpha blended overlay
10966 for displaying status icons above an IFramebuffer. It is always created
10967 not visible, so that it must be explicitly shown. It only covers a
10968 portion of the IFramebuffer, determined by its width, height and
10969 co-ordinates. It is always in packed pixel little-endian 32bit ARGB (in
10970 that order) format, and may be written to directly. Do re-read the
10971 width though, after setting it, as it may be adjusted (increased) to
10972 make it more suitable for the front end.
10973 </desc>
10974 <attribute name="x" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10975 <desc>X position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
10976 </attribute>
10977
10978 <attribute name="y" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10979 <desc>Y position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
10980 </attribute>
10981
10982 <attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="no">
10983 <desc>
10984 Whether the overlay is currently visible.
10985 </desc>
10986 </attribute>
10987
10988 <attribute name="alpha" type="unsigned long" readonly="no">
10989 <desc>
10990 The global alpha value for the overlay. This may or may not be
10991 supported by a given front end.
10992 </desc>
10993 </attribute>
10994
10995 <method name="move">
10996 <desc>
10997 Changes the overlay's position relative to the IFramebuffer.
10998 </desc>
10999 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11000 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11001 </method>
11002
11003 </interface>
11004
11005 <interface
11006 name="IDisplay" extends="$unknown"
11007 uuid="09EED313-CD56-4D06-BD56-FAC0F716B5DD"
11008 wsmap="managed"
11009 >
11010 <desc>
11011 The IDisplay interface represents the virtual machine's display.
11012
11013 The object implementing this interface is contained in each
11014 <link to="IConsole::display"/> attribute and represents the visual
11015 output of the virtual machine.
11016
11017 The virtual display supports pluggable output targets represented by the
11018 IFramebuffer interface. Examples of the output target are a window on
11019 the host computer or an RDP session's display on a remote computer.
11020 </desc>
11021 <method name="getScreenResolution">
11022 <desc>Queries display width, height and color depth for given screen.</desc>
11023 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11024 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
11025 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
11026 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
11027 </method>
11028
11029 <method name="setFramebuffer">
11030 <desc>
11031 Sets the framebuffer for given screen.
11032 </desc>
11033 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11034 <param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="in"/>
11035 </method>
11036
11037 <method name="getFramebuffer">
11038 <desc>
11039 Queries the framebuffer for given screen.
11040 </desc>
11041 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11042 <param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="out"/>
11043 <param name="xOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
11044 <param name="yOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
11045 </method>
11046
11047 <method name="setVideoModeHint">
11048 <desc>
11049 Asks VirtualBox to request the given video mode from
11050 the guest. This is just a hint and it cannot be guaranteed
11051 that the requested resolution will be used. Guest Additions
11052 are required for the request to be seen by guests. The caller
11053 should issue the request and wait for a resolution change and
11054 after a timeout retry.
11055
11056 Specifying @c 0 for either @a width, @a height or @a bitsPerPixel
11057 parameters means that the corresponding values should be taken from the
11058 current video mode (i.e. left unchanged).
11059
11060 If the guest OS supports multi-monitor configuration then the @a display
11061 parameter specifies the number of the guest display to send the hint to:
11062 @c 0 is the primary display, @c 1 is the first secondary and
11063 so on. If the multi-monitor configuration is not supported, @a display
11064 must be @c 0.
11065
11066 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11067 The @a display is not associated with any monitor.
11068 </result>
11069
11070 </desc>
11071 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11072 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11073 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11074 <param name="display" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11075 </method>
11076
11077 <method name="setSeamlessMode">
11078 <desc>
11079 Enables or disables seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
11080 integration) mode.
11081 <note>
11082 Calling this method has no effect if <link
11083 to="IGuest::supportsSeamless"/> returns @c false.
11084 </note>
11085 </desc>
11086 <param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
11087 </method>
11088
11089 <method name="takeScreenShot">
11090 <desc>
11091 Takes a screen shot of the requested size and copies it to the
11092 32-bpp buffer allocated by the caller and pointed to by @a address.
11093 A pixel consists of 4 bytes in order: B, G, R, 0.
11094
11095 <note>This API can be used only by the COM/XPCOM C++ API as it
11096 requires pointer support. Use <link to="#takeScreenShotToArray" />
11097 with other language bindings.
11098 </note>
11099
11100 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11101 Feature not implemented.
11102 </result>
11103 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11104 Could not take a screenshot.
11105 </result>
11106
11107 </desc>
11108 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11109 <param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
11110 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11111 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11112 </method>
11113
11114 <method name="takeScreenShotToArray">
11115 <desc>
11116 Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
11117 an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit RGBA format.
11118 A pixel consists of 4 bytes in order: R, G, B, 0xFF.
11119
11120 This API is slow, but could be the only option to get guest screenshot
11121 for scriptable languages not allowed to manipulate with addresses
11122 directly.
11123
11124 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11125 Feature not implemented.
11126 </result>
11127 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11128 Could not take a screenshot.
11129 </result>
11130 </desc>
11131 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11132 <desc>
11133 Monitor to take screenshot from.
11134 </desc>
11135 </param>
11136 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11137 <desc>
11138 Desired image width.
11139 </desc>
11140 </param>
11141 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11142 <desc>
11143 Desired image height.
11144 </desc>
11145 </param>
11146 <param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
11147 <desc>
11148 Array with resulting screen data.
11149 </desc>
11150 </param>
11151 </method>
11152
11153 <method name="takeScreenShotPNGToArray">
11154 <desc>
11155 Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
11156 PNG image in array.
11157
11158 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11159 Feature not implemented.
11160 </result>
11161 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11162 Could not take a screenshot.
11163 </result>
11164 </desc>
11165 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11166 <desc>
11167 Monitor to take the screenshot from.
11168 </desc>
11169 </param>
11170 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11171 <desc>
11172 Desired image width.
11173 </desc>
11174 </param>
11175 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11176 <desc>
11177 Desired image height.
11178 </desc>
11179 </param>
11180 <param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
11181 <desc>
11182 Array with resulting screen data.
11183 </desc>
11184 </param>
11185 </method>
11186
11187 <method name="drawToScreen">
11188 <desc>
11189 Draws a 32-bpp image of the specified size from the given buffer
11190 to the given point on the VM display.
11191
11192 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11193 Feature not implemented.
11194 </result>
11195 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11196 Could not draw to screen.
11197 </result>
11198
11199 </desc>
11200 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11201 <desc>
11202 Monitor to take the screenshot from.
11203 </desc>
11204 </param>
11205 <param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11206 <desc>
11207 Address to store the screenshot to
11208 </desc>
11209 </param>
11210 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11211 <desc>
11212 Relative to the screen top left corner.
11213 </desc>
11214 </param>
11215 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11216 <desc>
11217 Relative to the screen top left corner.
11218 </desc>
11219 </param>
11220 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11221 <desc>
11222 Desired image width.
11223 </desc>
11224 </param>
11225 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11226 <desc>
11227 Desired image height.
11228 </desc>
11229 </param>
11230 </method>
11231
11232 <method name="invalidateAndUpdate">
11233 <desc>
11234 Does a full invalidation of the VM display and instructs the VM
11235 to update it.
11236
11237 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11238 Could not invalidate and update screen.
11239 </result>
11240
11241 </desc>
11242 </method>
11243
11244 <method name="resizeCompleted">
11245 <desc>
11246 Signals that a framebuffer has completed the resize operation.
11247
11248 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11249 Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
11250 </result>
11251
11252 </desc>
11253 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11254 </method>
11255
11256 <method name="completeVHWACommand">
11257 <desc>
11258 Signals that the Video HW Acceleration command has completed.
11259 </desc>
11260
11261 <param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11262 <desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the completed command.</desc>
11263 </param>
11264 </method>
11265
11266 </interface>
11267
11268 <!--
11269 // INetworkAdapter
11270 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11271 -->
11272
11273 <enum
11274 name="NetworkAttachmentType"
11275 uuid="44bce1ee-99f7-4e8e-89fc-80597fd9eeaf"
11276 >
11277 <desc>
11278 Network attachment type.
11279 </desc>
11280
11281 <const name="Null" value="0">
11282 <desc>Null value, also means "not attached".</desc>
11283 </const>
11284 <const name="NAT" value="1"/>
11285 <const name="Bridged" value="2"/>
11286 <const name="Internal" value="3"/>
11287 <const name="HostOnly" value="4"/>
11288 <const name="VDE" value="5"/>
11289 </enum>
11290
11291 <enum
11292 name="NetworkAdapterType"
11293 uuid="3c2281e4-d952-4e87-8c7d-24379cb6a81c"
11294 >
11295 <desc>
11296 Network adapter type.
11297 </desc>
11298
11299 <const name="Null" value="0">
11300 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
11301 </const>
11302 <const name="Am79C970A" value="1">
11303 <desc>AMD PCNet-PCI II network card (Am79C970A).</desc>
11304 </const>
11305 <const name="Am79C973" value="2">
11306 <desc>AMD PCNet-FAST III network card (Am79C973).</desc>
11307 </const>
11308 <const name="I82540EM" value="3">
11309 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop network card (82540EM).</desc>
11310 </const>
11311 <const name="I82543GC" value="4">
11312 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 T Server network card (82543GC).</desc>
11313 </const>
11314 <const name="I82545EM" value="5">
11315 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Server network card (82545EM).</desc>
11316 </const>
11317 <const name="Virtio" value="6">
11318 <desc>Virtio network device.</desc>
11319 </const>
11320 </enum>
11321
11322 <interface
11323 name="INetworkAdapter" extends="$unknown"
11324 uuid="9bf58a46-c3f7-4f31-80fa-dde9a5dc0b7b"
11325 wsmap="managed"
11326 >
11327 <desc>
11328 Represents a virtual network adapter that is attached to a virtual machine.
11329 Each virtual machine has a fixed number of network adapter slots with one
11330 instance of this attached to each of them. Call
11331 <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter" /> to get the network adapter that
11332 is attached to a given slot in a given machine.
11333
11334 Each network adapter can be in one of five attachment modes, which are
11335 represented by the <link to="NetworkAttachmentType" /> enumeration;
11336 see the <link to="#attachmentType" /> attribute.
11337 </desc>
11338
11339 <attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType">
11340 <desc>
11341 Type of the virtual network adapter. Depending on this value,
11342 VirtualBox will provide a different virtual network hardware
11343 to the guest.
11344 </desc>
11345 </attribute>
11346
11347 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11348 <desc>
11349 Slot number this adapter is plugged into. Corresponds to
11350 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter"/>
11351 to obtain this instance.
11352 </desc>
11353 </attribute>
11354
11355 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11356 <desc>
11357 Flag whether the network adapter is present in the
11358 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11359 not contain this network adapter. Can only be changed when
11360 the VM is not running.
11361 </desc>
11362 </attribute>
11363
11364 <attribute name="MACAddress" type="wstring">
11365 <desc>
11366 Ethernet MAC address of the adapter, 12 hexadecimal characters. When setting
11367 it to @c null or an empty string, VirtualBox will generate a unique MAC address.
11368 </desc>
11369 </attribute>
11370
11371 <attribute name="attachmentType" type="NetworkAttachmentType" readonly="yes"/>
11372
11373 <attribute name="hostInterface" type="wstring">
11374 <desc>
11375 Name of the host network interface the VM is attached to.
11376 </desc>
11377 </attribute>
11378
11379 <attribute name="internalNetwork" type="wstring">
11380 <desc>
11381 Name of the internal network the VM is attached to.
11382 </desc>
11383 </attribute>
11384
11385 <attribute name="NATNetwork" type="wstring">
11386 <desc>
11387 Name of the NAT network the VM is attached to.
11388 </desc>
11389 </attribute>
11390
11391 <attribute name="VDENetwork" type="wstring">
11392 <desc>
11393 Name of the VDE switch the VM is attached to.
11394 </desc>
11395 </attribute>
11396
11397 <attribute name="cableConnected" type="boolean">
11398 <desc>
11399 Flag whether the adapter reports the cable as connected or not.
11400 It can be used to report offline situations to a VM.
11401 </desc>
11402 </attribute>
11403
11404 <attribute name="lineSpeed" type="unsigned long">
11405 <desc>
11406 Line speed reported by custom drivers, in units of 1 kbps.
11407 </desc>
11408 </attribute>
11409
11410 <attribute name="traceEnabled" type="boolean">
11411 <desc>
11412 Flag whether network traffic from/to the network card should be traced.
11413 Can only be toggled when the VM is turned off.
11414 </desc>
11415 </attribute>
11416
11417 <attribute name="traceFile" type="wstring">
11418 <desc>
11419 Filename where a network trace will be stored. If not set, VBox-pid.pcap
11420 will be used.
11421 </desc>
11422 </attribute>
11423
11424 <attribute name="natDriver" type="INATEngine" readonly="yes">
11425 <desc>
11426 Points to the NAT engine which handles the network address translation
11427 for this interface. This is active only when the interface actually uses
11428 NAT (see <link to="#attachToNAT" />).
11429 </desc>
11430 </attribute>
11431
11432 <attribute name="bootPriority" type="unsigned long">
11433 <desc>
11434 Network boot priority of the adapter. Priority 1 is highest. If not set,
11435 the priority is considered to be at the lowest possible setting.
11436 </desc>
11437 </attribute>
11438
11439 <attribute name="bandwidthLimit" type="unsigned long">
11440 <desc>
11441 Maximum throughput allowed for this network adapter, in units of 1 mbps.
11442 A zero value means uncapped/unlimited.
11443 </desc>
11444 </attribute>
11445
11446 <method name="attachToNAT">
11447 <desc>
11448 Attach the network adapter to the Network Address Translation (NAT) interface.
11449 </desc>
11450 </method>
11451
11452 <method name="attachToBridgedInterface">
11453 <desc>
11454 Attach the network adapter to a bridged host interface.
11455 </desc>
11456 </method>
11457
11458 <method name="attachToInternalNetwork">
11459 <desc>
11460 Attach the network adapter to an internal network.
11461 </desc>
11462 </method>
11463
11464 <method name="attachToHostOnlyInterface">
11465 <desc>
11466 Attach the network adapter to the host-only network.
11467 </desc>
11468 </method>
11469
11470 <method name="attachToVDE">
11471 <desc>
11472 Attach the network adapter to a VDE network.
11473 </desc>
11474 </method>
11475
11476 <method name="detach">
11477 <desc>
11478 Detach the network adapter
11479 </desc>
11480 </method>
11481 </interface>
11482
11483
11484 <!--
11485 // ISerialPort
11486 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11487 -->
11488
11489 <enum
11490 name="PortMode"
11491 uuid="533b5fe3-0185-4197-86a7-17e37dd39d76"
11492 >
11493 <desc>
11494 The PortMode enumeration represents possible communication modes for
11495 the virtual serial port device.
11496 </desc>
11497
11498 <const name="Disconnected" value="0">
11499 <desc>Virtual device is not attached to any real host device.</desc>
11500 </const>
11501 <const name="HostPipe" value="1">
11502 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a host pipe.</desc>
11503 </const>
11504 <const name="HostDevice" value="2">
11505 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a host device.</desc>
11506 </const>
11507 <const name="RawFile" value="3">
11508 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a raw file.</desc>
11509 </const>
11510 </enum>
11511
11512 <interface
11513 name="ISerialPort" extends="$unknown"
11514 uuid="937f6970-5103-4745-b78e-d28dcf1479a8"
11515 wsmap="managed"
11516 >
11517
11518 <desc>
11519 The ISerialPort interface represents the virtual serial port device.
11520
11521 The virtual serial port device acts like an ordinary serial port
11522 inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
11523 serial port hardware in one of two modes: host pipe or host device.
11524
11525 In host pipe mode, the #path attribute specifies the path to the pipe on
11526 the host computer that represents a serial port. The #server attribute
11527 determines if this pipe is created by the virtual machine process at
11528 machine startup or it must already exist before starting machine
11529 execution.
11530
11531 In host device mode, the #path attribute specifies the name of the
11532 serial port device on the host computer.
11533
11534 There is also a third communication mode: the disconnected mode. In this
11535 mode, the guest OS running inside the virtual machine will be able to
11536 detect the serial port, but all port write operations will be discarded
11537 and all port read operations will return no data.
11538
11539 <see>IMachine::getSerialPort</see>
11540 </desc>
11541
11542 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11543 <desc>
11544 Slot number this serial port is plugged into. Corresponds to
11545 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort"/>
11546 to obtain this instance.
11547 </desc>
11548 </attribute>
11549
11550 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11551 <desc>
11552 Flag whether the serial port is enabled. If disabled,
11553 the serial port will not be reported to the guest OS.
11554 </desc>
11555 </attribute>
11556
11557 <attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
11558 <desc>Base I/O address of the serial port.</desc>
11559 </attribute>
11560
11561 <attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
11562 <desc>IRQ number of the serial port.</desc>
11563 </attribute>
11564
11565 <attribute name="hostMode" type="PortMode">
11566 <desc>
11567 How is this port connected to the host.
11568 <note>
11569 Changing this attribute may fail if the conditions for
11570 <link to="#path"/> are not met.
11571 </note>
11572 </desc>
11573 </attribute>
11574
11575 <attribute name="server" type="boolean">
11576 <desc>
11577 Flag whether this serial port acts as a server (creates a new pipe on
11578 the host) or as a client (uses the existing pipe). This attribute is
11579 used only when <link to="#hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostPipe.
11580 </desc>
11581 </attribute>
11582
11583 <attribute name="path" type="wstring">
11584 <desc>
11585 Path to the serial port's pipe on the host when <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is
11586 PortMode_HostPipe, or the host serial device name when
11587 <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostDevice. For both
11588 cases, setting a @c null or empty string as the attribute's value
11589 is an error. Otherwise, the value of this property is ignored.
11590 </desc>
11591 </attribute>
11592
11593 </interface>
11594
11595 <!--
11596 // IParallelPort
11597 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11598 -->
11599
11600 <interface
11601 name="IParallelPort" extends="$unknown"
11602 uuid="0c925f06-dd10-4b77-8de8-294d738c3214"
11603 wsmap="managed"
11604 >
11605
11606 <desc>
11607 The IParallelPort interface represents the virtual parallel port device.
11608
11609 The virtual parallel port device acts like an ordinary parallel port
11610 inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
11611 parallel port hardware using the name of the parallel device on the host
11612 computer specified in the #path attribute.
11613
11614 Each virtual parallel port device is assigned a base I/O address and an
11615 IRQ number that will be reported to the guest operating system and used
11616 to operate the given parallel port from within the virtual machine.
11617
11618 <see>IMachine::getParallelPort</see>
11619 </desc>
11620
11621 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11622 <desc>
11623 Slot number this parallel port is plugged into. Corresponds to
11624 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort"/>
11625 to obtain this instance.
11626 </desc>
11627 </attribute>
11628
11629 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11630 <desc>
11631 Flag whether the parallel port is enabled. If disabled,
11632 the parallel port will not be reported to the guest OS.
11633 </desc>
11634 </attribute>
11635
11636 <attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
11637 <desc>Base I/O address of the parallel port.</desc>
11638 </attribute>
11639
11640 <attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
11641 <desc>IRQ number of the parallel port.</desc>
11642 </attribute>
11643
11644 <attribute name="path" type="wstring">
11645 <desc>
11646 Host parallel device name. If this parallel port is enabled, setting a
11647 @c null or an empty string as this attribute's value will result into
11648 an error.
11649 </desc>
11650 </attribute>
11651
11652 </interface>
11653
11654
11655 <!--
11656 // IMachineDebugger
11657 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11658 -->
11659
11660 <interface
11661 name="IMachineDebugger" extends="$unknown"
11662 uuid="b0b2a2dd-0627-4502-91c2-ddc5e77609e0"
11663 wsmap="suppress"
11664 >
11665 <method name="resetStats">
11666 <desc>
11667 Reset VM statistics.
11668 </desc>
11669 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11670 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11671 </param>
11672 </method>
11673
11674 <method name="dumpStats">
11675 <desc>
11676 Dumps VM statistics.
11677 </desc>
11678 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11679 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11680 </param>
11681 </method>
11682
11683 <method name="getStats">
11684 <desc>
11685 Get the VM statistics in a XMLish format.
11686 </desc>
11687 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
11688 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
11689 </param>
11690 <param name="withDescriptions" type="boolean" dir="in">
11691 <desc>Whether to include the descriptions.</desc>
11692 </param>
11693 <param name="stats" type="wstring" dir="out">
11694 <desc>The XML document containing the statistics.</desc>
11695 </param>
11696 </method>
11697
11698 <method name="injectNMI">
11699 <desc>
11700 Inject an NMI into a running VT-x/AMD-V VM.
11701 </desc>
11702 </method>
11703
11704 <attribute name="singlestep" type="boolean">
11705 <desc>Switch for enabling singlestepping.</desc>
11706 </attribute>
11707
11708 <attribute name="recompileUser" type="boolean">
11709 <desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for user mode code.</desc>
11710 </attribute>
11711
11712 <attribute name="recompileSupervisor" type="boolean">
11713 <desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for supervisor mode code.</desc>
11714 </attribute>
11715
11716 <attribute name="PATMEnabled" type="boolean">
11717 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the PATM component.</desc>
11718 </attribute>
11719
11720 <attribute name="CSAMEnabled" type="boolean">
11721 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the CSAM component.</desc>
11722 </attribute>
11723
11724 <attribute name="logEnabled" type="boolean">
11725 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling logging.</desc>
11726 </attribute>
11727
11728 <attribute name="HWVirtExEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11729 <desc>
11730 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of CPU hardware
11731 virtualization extensions.
11732 </desc>
11733 </attribute>
11734
11735 <attribute name="HWVirtExNestedPagingEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11736 <desc>
11737 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the nested paging
11738 CPU hardware virtualization extension.
11739 </desc>
11740 </attribute>
11741
11742 <attribute name="HWVirtExVPIDEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11743 <desc>
11744 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the VPID
11745 VT-x extension.
11746 </desc>
11747 </attribute>
11748
11749 <attribute name="PAEEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11750 <desc>
11751 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the Physical
11752 Address Extension CPU feature.
11753 </desc>
11754 </attribute>
11755
11756 <attribute name="virtualTimeRate" type="unsigned long">
11757 <desc>
11758 The rate at which the virtual time runs expressed as a percentage.
11759 The accepted range is 2% to 20000%.
11760 </desc>
11761 </attribute>
11762
11763 <!-- @todo method for setting log flags, groups and destination! -->
11764
11765 <attribute name="VM" type="long long" readonly="yes">
11766 <desc>
11767 Gets the VM handle. This is only for internal use while
11768 we carve the details of this interface.
11769 </desc>
11770 </attribute>
11771
11772 </interface>
11773
11774 <!--
11775 // IUSBController
11776 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11777 -->
11778
11779 <interface
11780 name="IUSBController" extends="$unknown"
11781 uuid="6fdcccc5-abd3-4fec-9387-2ad3914fc4a8"
11782 wsmap="managed"
11783 >
11784 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11785 <desc>
11786 Flag whether the USB controller is present in the
11787 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11788 not contain any USB controller. Can only be changed when
11789 the VM is powered off.
11790 </desc>
11791 </attribute>
11792
11793 <attribute name="enabledEhci" type="boolean">
11794 <desc>
11795 Flag whether the USB EHCI controller is present in the
11796 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11797 not contain a USB EHCI controller. Can only be changed when
11798 the VM is powered off.
11799 </desc>
11800 </attribute>
11801
11802 <attribute name="proxyAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11803 <desc>
11804 Flag whether there is an USB proxy available.
11805 </desc>
11806 </attribute>
11807
11808 <attribute name="USBStandard" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11809 <desc>
11810 USB standard version which the controller implements.
11811 This is a BCD which means that the major version is in the
11812 high byte and minor version is in the low byte.
11813 </desc>
11814 </attribute>
11815
11816 <attribute name="deviceFilters" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
11817 <desc>
11818 List of USB device filters associated with the machine.
11819
11820 If the machine is currently running, these filters are activated
11821 every time a new (supported) USB device is attached to the host
11822 computer that was not ignored by global filters
11823 (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>).
11824
11825 These filters are also activated when the machine is powered up.
11826 They are run against a list of all currently available USB
11827 devices (in states
11828 <link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/>,
11829 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
11830 <link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>) that were not previously
11831 ignored by global filters.
11832
11833 If at least one filter matches the USB device in question, this
11834 device is automatically captured (attached to) the virtual USB
11835 controller of this machine.
11836
11837 <see>IUSBDeviceFilter, ::IUSBController</see>
11838 </desc>
11839 </attribute>
11840
11841 <method name="createDeviceFilter">
11842 <desc>
11843 Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
11844 the filter name are set to empty (any match),
11845 <i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
11846
11847 The created filter can then be added to the list of filters using
11848 <link to="#insertDeviceFilter"/>.
11849
11850 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11851 The virtual machine is not mutable.
11852 </result>
11853
11854 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
11855 </desc>
11856 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
11857 <desc>
11858 Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
11859 for more info.
11860 </desc>
11861 </param>
11862 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
11863 <desc>Created filter object.</desc>
11864 </param>
11865 </method>
11866
11867 <method name="insertDeviceFilter">
11868 <desc>
11869 Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
11870 in the list of filters.
11871
11872 Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. If the specified
11873 position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
11874 the list, the filter is added to the end of the collection.
11875
11876 <note>
11877 Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
11878 filter that is already in the collection, will return an
11879 error.
11880 </note>
11881
11882 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11883 Virtual machine is not mutable.
11884 </result>
11885 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11886 USB device filter not created within this VirtualBox instance.
11887 </result>
11888 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
11889 USB device filter already in list.
11890 </result>
11891
11892 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
11893 </desc>
11894 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11895 <desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
11896 </param>
11897 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
11898 <desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
11899 </param>
11900 </method>
11901
11902 <method name="removeDeviceFilter">
11903 <desc>
11904 Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
11905 list of filters.
11906
11907 Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. Specifying a
11908 position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
11909 the list will produce an error.
11910
11911 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
11912
11913 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
11914 Virtual machine is not mutable.
11915 </result>
11916 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11917 USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
11918 </result>
11919
11920 </desc>
11921 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11922 <desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
11923 </param>
11924 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
11925 <desc>Removed USB device filter.</desc>
11926 </param>
11927 </method>
11928
11929 </interface>
11930
11931
11932 <!--
11933 // IUSBDevice
11934 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11935 -->
11936
11937 <interface
11938 name="IUSBDevice" extends="$unknown"
11939 uuid="f8967b0b-4483-400f-92b5-8b675d98a85b"
11940 wsmap="managed"
11941 >
11942 <desc>
11943 The IUSBDevice interface represents a virtual USB device attached to the
11944 virtual machine.
11945
11946 A collection of objects implementing this interface is stored in the
11947 <link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/> attribute which lists all USB devices
11948 attached to a running virtual machine's USB controller.
11949 </desc>
11950
11951 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
11952 <desc>
11953 Unique USB device ID. This ID is built from #vendorId,
11954 #productId, #revision and #serialNumber.
11955 </desc>
11956 </attribute>
11957
11958 <attribute name="vendorId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11959 <desc>Vendor ID.</desc>
11960 </attribute>
11961
11962 <attribute name="productId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11963 <desc>Product ID.</desc>
11964 </attribute>
11965
11966 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11967 <desc>
11968 Product revision number. This is a packed BCD represented as
11969 unsigned short. The high byte is the integer part and the low
11970 byte is the decimal.
11971 </desc>
11972 </attribute>
11973
11974 <attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11975 <desc>Manufacturer string.</desc>
11976 </attribute>
11977
11978 <attribute name="product" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11979 <desc>Product string.</desc>
11980 </attribute>
11981
11982 <attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11983 <desc>Serial number string.</desc>
11984 </attribute>
11985
11986 <attribute name="address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11987 <desc>Host specific address of the device.</desc>
11988 </attribute>
11989
11990 <attribute name="port" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11991 <desc>
11992 Host USB port number the device is physically
11993 connected to.
11994 </desc>
11995 </attribute>
11996
11997 <attribute name="version" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
11998 <desc>
11999 The major USB version of the device - 1 or 2.
12000 </desc>
12001 </attribute>
12002
12003 <attribute name="portVersion" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12004 <desc>
12005 The major USB version of the host USB port the device is
12006 physically connected to - 1 or 2. For devices not connected to
12007 anything this will have the same value as the version attribute.
12008 </desc>
12009 </attribute>
12010
12011 <attribute name="remote" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12012 <desc>
12013 Whether the device is physically connected to a remote VRDE
12014 client or to a local host machine.
12015 </desc>
12016 </attribute>
12017
12018 </interface>
12019
12020
12021 <!--
12022 // IUSBDeviceFilter
12023 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12024 -->
12025
12026 <interface
12027 name="IUSBDeviceFilter" extends="$unknown"
12028 uuid="d6831fb4-1a94-4c2c-96ef-8d0d6192066d"
12029 wsmap="managed"
12030 >
12031 <desc>
12032 The IUSBDeviceFilter interface represents an USB device filter used
12033 to perform actions on a group of USB devices.
12034
12035 This type of filters is used by running virtual machines to
12036 automatically capture selected USB devices once they are physically
12037 attached to the host computer.
12038
12039 A USB device is matched to the given device filter if and only if all
12040 attributes of the device match the corresponding attributes of the
12041 filter (that is, attributes are joined together using the logical AND
12042 operation). On the other hand, all together, filters in the list of
12043 filters carry the semantics of the logical OR operation. So if it is
12044 desirable to create a match like "this vendor id OR this product id",
12045 one needs to create two filters and specify "any match" (see below)
12046 for unused attributes.
12047
12048 All filter attributes used for matching are strings. Each string
12049 is an expression representing a set of values of the corresponding
12050 device attribute, that will match the given filter. Currently, the
12051 following filtering expressions are supported:
12052
12053 <ul>
12054 <li><i>Interval filters</i>. Used to specify valid intervals for
12055 integer device attributes (Vendor ID, Product ID and Revision).
12056 The format of the string is:
12057
12058 <tt>int:((m)|([m]-[n]))(,(m)|([m]-[n]))*</tt>
12059
12060 where <tt>m</tt> and <tt>n</tt> are integer numbers, either in octal
12061 (starting from <tt>0</tt>), hexadecimal (starting from <tt>0x</tt>)
12062 or decimal (otherwise) form, so that <tt>m &lt; n</tt>. If <tt>m</tt>
12063 is omitted before a dash (<tt>-</tt>), the minimum possible integer
12064 is assumed; if <tt>n</tt> is omitted after a dash, the maximum
12065 possible integer is assumed.
12066 </li>
12067 <li><i>Boolean filters</i>. Used to specify acceptable values for
12068 boolean device attributes. The format of the string is:
12069
12070 <tt>true|false|yes|no|0|1</tt>
12071
12072 </li>
12073 <li><i>Exact match</i>. Used to specify a single value for the given
12074 device attribute. Any string that doesn't start with <tt>int:</tt>
12075 represents the exact match. String device attributes are compared to
12076 this string including case of symbols. Integer attributes are first
12077 converted to a string (see individual filter attributes) and then
12078 compared ignoring case.
12079
12080 </li>
12081 <li><i>Any match</i>. Any value of the corresponding device attribute
12082 will match the given filter. An empty or @c null string is
12083 used to construct this type of filtering expressions.
12084
12085 </li>
12086 </ul>
12087
12088 <note>
12089 On the Windows host platform, interval filters are not currently
12090 available. Also all string filter attributes
12091 (<link to="#manufacturer"/>, <link to="#product"/>,
12092 <link to="#serialNumber"/>) are ignored, so they behave as
12093 <i>any match</i> no matter what string expression is specified.
12094 </note>
12095
12096 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
12097 </desc>
12098
12099 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
12100 <desc>
12101 Visible name for this filter.
12102 This name is used to visually distinguish one filter from another,
12103 so it can neither be @c null nor an empty string.
12104 </desc>
12105 </attribute>
12106
12107 <attribute name="active" type="boolean">
12108 <desc>Whether this filter active or has been temporarily disabled.</desc>
12109 </attribute>
12110
12111 <attribute name="vendorId" type="wstring">
12112 <desc>
12113 <link to="IUSBDevice::vendorId">Vendor ID</link> filter.
12114 The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
12115 has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
12116 (including leading zeroes).
12117 </desc>
12118 </attribute>
12119
12120 <attribute name="productId" type="wstring">
12121 <desc>
12122 <link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product ID</link> filter.
12123 The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
12124 has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
12125 (including leading zeroes).
12126 </desc>
12127 </attribute>
12128
12129 <attribute name="revision" type="wstring">
12130 <desc>
12131 <link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product revision number</link>
12132 filter. The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
12133 has the form <tt>IIFF</tt>, where <tt>I</tt> is the decimal digit
12134 of the integer part of the revision, and <tt>F</tt> is the
12135 decimal digit of its fractional part (including leading and
12136 trailing zeros).
12137 Note that for interval filters, it's best to use the hexadecimal
12138 form, because the revision is stored as a 16 bit packed BCD value;
12139 so the expression <tt>int:0x0100-0x0199</tt> will match any
12140 revision from <tt>1.0</tt> to <tt>1.99</tt>.
12141 </desc>
12142 </attribute>
12143
12144 <attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring">
12145 <desc>
12146 <link to="IUSBDevice::manufacturer">Manufacturer</link> filter.
12147 </desc>
12148 </attribute>
12149
12150 <attribute name="product" type="wstring">
12151 <desc>
12152 <link to="IUSBDevice::product">Product</link> filter.
12153 </desc>
12154 </attribute>
12155
12156 <attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring">
12157 <desc>
12158 <link to="IUSBDevice::serialNumber">Serial number</link> filter.
12159 </desc>
12160 </attribute>
12161
12162 <attribute name="port" type="wstring">
12163 <desc>
12164 <link to="IUSBDevice::port">Host USB port</link> filter.
12165 </desc>
12166 </attribute>
12167
12168 <attribute name="remote" type="wstring">
12169 <desc>
12170 <link to="IUSBDevice::remote">Remote state</link> filter.
12171 <note>
12172 This filter makes sense only for machine USB filters,
12173 i.e. it is ignored by IHostUSBDeviceFilter objects.
12174 </note>
12175 </desc>
12176 </attribute>
12177
12178 <attribute name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long">
12179 <desc>
12180 This is an advanced option for hiding one or more USB interfaces
12181 from the guest. The value is a bit mask where the bits that are set
12182 means the corresponding USB interface should be hidden, masked off
12183 if you like.
12184 This feature only works on Linux hosts.
12185 </desc>
12186 </attribute>
12187
12188 </interface>
12189
12190
12191 <!--
12192 // IHostUSBDevice
12193 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12194 -->
12195
12196 <enum
12197 name="USBDeviceState"
12198 uuid="b99a2e65-67fb-4882-82fd-f3e5e8193ab4"
12199 >
12200 <desc>
12201 USB device state. This enumeration represents all possible states
12202 of the USB device physically attached to the host computer regarding
12203 its state on the host computer and availability to guest computers
12204 (all currently running virtual machines).
12205
12206 Once a supported USB device is attached to the host, global USB
12207 filters (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>) are activated. They can
12208 either ignore the device, or put it to USBDeviceState_Held state, or do
12209 nothing. Unless the device is ignored by global filters, filters of all
12210 currently running guests (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are
12211 activated that can put it to USBDeviceState_Captured state.
12212
12213 If the device was ignored by global filters, or didn't match
12214 any filters at all (including guest ones), it is handled by the host
12215 in a normal way. In this case, the device state is determined by
12216 the host and can be one of USBDeviceState_Unavailable, USBDeviceState_Busy
12217 or USBDeviceState_Available, depending on the current device usage.
12218
12219 Besides auto-capturing based on filters, the device can be manually
12220 captured by guests (<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) if its
12221 state is USBDeviceState_Busy, USBDeviceState_Available or
12222 USBDeviceState_Held.
12223
12224 <note>
12225 Due to differences in USB stack implementations in Linux and Win32,
12226 states USBDeviceState_Busy and USBDeviceState_Unavailable are applicable
12227 only to the Linux version of the product. This also means that (<link
12228 to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) can only succeed on Win32 if the
12229 device state is USBDeviceState_Held.
12230 </note>
12231
12232 <see>IHostUSBDevice, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
12233 </desc>
12234
12235 <const name="NotSupported" value="0">
12236 <desc>
12237 Not supported by the VirtualBox server, not available to guests.
12238 </desc>
12239 </const>
12240 <const name="Unavailable" value="1">
12241 <desc>
12242 Being used by the host computer exclusively,
12243 not available to guests.
12244 </desc>
12245 </const>
12246 <const name="Busy" value="2">
12247 <desc>
12248 Being used by the host computer, potentially available to guests.
12249 </desc>
12250 </const>
12251 <const name="Available" value="3">
12252 <desc>
12253 Not used by the host computer, available to guests (the host computer
12254 can also start using the device at any time).
12255 </desc>
12256 </const>
12257 <const name="Held" value="4">
12258 <desc>
12259 Held by the VirtualBox server (ignored by the host computer),
12260 available to guests.
12261 </desc>
12262 </const>
12263 <const name="Captured" value="5">
12264 <desc>
12265 Captured by one of the guest computers, not available
12266 to anybody else.
12267 </desc>
12268 </const>
12269 </enum>
12270
12271 <interface
12272 name="IHostUSBDevice" extends="IUSBDevice"
12273 uuid="173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a"
12274 wsmap="managed"
12275 >
12276 <desc>
12277 The IHostUSBDevice interface represents a physical USB device attached
12278 to the host computer.
12279
12280 Besides properties inherited from IUSBDevice, this interface adds the
12281 <link to="#state"/> property that holds the current state of the USB
12282 device.
12283
12284 <see>IHost::USBDevices, IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
12285 </desc>
12286
12287 <attribute name="state" type="USBDeviceState" readonly="yes">
12288 <desc>
12289 Current state of the device.
12290 </desc>
12291 </attribute>
12292
12293 <!-- @todo add class, subclass, bandwidth, configs, interfaces endpoints and such later. -->
12294
12295 </interface>
12296
12297
12298 <!--
12299 // IHostUSBDeviceFilter
12300 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12301 -->
12302
12303 <enum
12304 name="USBDeviceFilterAction"
12305 uuid="cbc30a49-2f4e-43b5-9da6-121320475933"
12306 >
12307 <desc>
12308 Actions for host USB device filters.
12309 <see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
12310 </desc>
12311
12312 <const name="Null" value="0">
12313 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
12314 </const>
12315 <const name="Ignore" value="1">
12316 <desc>Ignore the matched USB device.</desc>
12317 </const>
12318 <const name="Hold" value="2">
12319 <desc>Hold the matched USB device.</desc>
12320 </const>
12321 </enum>
12322
12323 <interface
12324 name="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" extends="IUSBDeviceFilter"
12325 uuid="4cc70246-d74a-400f-8222-3900489c0374"
12326 wsmap="managed"
12327 >
12328 <desc>
12329 The IHostUSBDeviceFilter interface represents a global filter for a
12330 physical USB device used by the host computer. Used indirectly in
12331 <link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>.
12332
12333 Using filters of this type, the host computer determines the initial
12334 state of the USB device after it is physically attached to the
12335 host's USB controller.
12336
12337 <note>
12338 The <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::remote"/> attribute is ignored by this type of
12339 filters, because it makes sense only for
12340 <link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters">machine USB filters</link>.
12341 </note>
12342
12343 <see>IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
12344 </desc>
12345
12346 <attribute name="action" type="USBDeviceFilterAction">
12347 <desc>
12348 Action performed by the host when an attached USB device
12349 matches this filter.
12350 </desc>
12351 </attribute>
12352
12353 </interface>
12354
12355 <!--
12356 // IAudioAdapter
12357 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12358 -->
12359
12360 <enum
12361 name="AudioDriverType"
12362 uuid="4bcc3d73-c2fe-40db-b72f-0c2ca9d68496"
12363 >
12364 <desc>
12365 Host audio driver type.
12366 </desc>
12367
12368 <const name="Null" value="0">
12369 <desc>Null value, also means "dummy audio driver".</desc>
12370 </const>
12371 <const name="WinMM" value="1">
12372 <desc>Windows multimedia (Windows hosts only).</desc>
12373 </const>
12374 <const name="OSS" value="2">
12375 <desc>Open Sound System (Linux hosts only).</desc>
12376 </const>
12377 <const name="ALSA" value="3">
12378 <desc>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (Linux hosts only).</desc>
12379 </const>
12380 <const name="DirectSound" value="4">
12381 <desc>DirectSound (Windows hosts only).</desc>
12382 </const>
12383 <const name="CoreAudio" value="5">
12384 <desc>CoreAudio (Mac hosts only).</desc>
12385 </const>
12386 <const name="MMPM" value="6">
12387 <desc>Reserved for historical reasons.</desc>
12388 </const>
12389 <const name="Pulse" value="7">
12390 <desc>PulseAudio (Linux hosts only).</desc>
12391 </const>
12392 <const name="SolAudio" value="8">
12393 <desc>Solaris audio (Solaris hosts only).</desc>
12394 </const>
12395 </enum>
12396
12397 <enum
12398 name="AudioControllerType"
12399 uuid="7afd395c-42c3-444e-8788-3ce80292f36c"
12400 >
12401 <desc>
12402 Virtual audio controller type.
12403 </desc>
12404
12405 <const name="AC97" value="0"/>
12406 <const name="SB16" value="1"/>
12407 <const name="HDA" value="2"/>
12408 </enum>
12409
12410 <interface
12411 name="IAudioAdapter" extends="$unknown"
12412 uuid="921873db-5f3f-4b69-91f9-7be9e535a2cb"
12413 wsmap="managed"
12414 >
12415 <desc>
12416 The IAudioAdapter interface represents the virtual audio adapter of
12417 the virtual machine. Used in <link to="IMachine::audioAdapter"/>.
12418 </desc>
12419 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12420 <desc>
12421 Flag whether the audio adapter is present in the
12422 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
12423 not contain any audio adapter. Can only be changed when
12424 the VM is not running.
12425 </desc>
12426 </attribute>
12427 <attribute name="audioController" type="AudioControllerType">
12428 <desc>
12429 The audio hardware we emulate.
12430 </desc>
12431 </attribute>
12432 <attribute name="audioDriver" type="AudioDriverType">
12433 <desc>
12434 Audio driver the adapter is connected to. This setting
12435 can only be changed when the VM is not running.
12436 </desc>
12437 </attribute>
12438 </interface>
12439
12440 <enum
12441 name="AuthType"
12442 uuid="7eef6ef6-98c2-4dc2-ab35-10d2b292028d"
12443 >
12444 <desc>
12445 VirtualBox authentication type.
12446 </desc>
12447
12448 <const name="Null" value="0">
12449 <desc>Null value, also means "no authentication".</desc>
12450 </const>
12451 <const name="External" value="1"/>
12452 <const name="Guest" value="2"/>
12453 </enum>
12454
12455 <!--
12456 // IVRDEServer
12457 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12458 -->
12459
12460 <interface
12461 name="IVRDEServer" extends="$unknown"
12462 uuid="f68a6b34-6f09-4040-8de1-e8d746c4a9ea"
12463 wsmap="managed"
12464 >
12465 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12466 <desc>VRDE server status.</desc>
12467 </attribute>
12468
12469 <attribute name="authType" type="AuthType">
12470 <desc>VRDE authentication method.</desc>
12471 </attribute>
12472
12473 <attribute name="authTimeout" type="unsigned long">
12474 <desc>Timeout for guest authentication. Milliseconds.</desc>
12475 </attribute>
12476
12477 <attribute name="allowMultiConnection" type="boolean">
12478 <desc>
12479 Flag whether multiple simultaneous connections to the VM are permitted.
12480 Note that this will be replaced by a more powerful mechanism in the future.
12481 </desc>
12482 </attribute>
12483
12484 <attribute name="reuseSingleConnection" type="boolean">
12485 <desc>
12486 Flag whether the existing connection must be dropped and a new connection
12487 must be established by the VRDE server, when a new client connects in single
12488 connection mode.
12489 </desc>
12490 </attribute>
12491
12492 <attribute name="videoChannel" type="boolean">
12493 <desc>
12494 Flag whether video redirectiron channel is enabled.
12495 </desc>
12496 </attribute>
12497
12498 <attribute name="videoChannelQuality" type="unsigned long">
12499 <desc>
12500 Image quality in percents.
12501 </desc>
12502 </attribute>
12503
12504 <attribute name="VRDELibrary" type="wstring">
12505 <desc>
12506 VRDE library used by this VM. Overrides
12507 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultVRDELibrary"/>.
12508 </desc>
12509 </attribute>
12510
12511 <method name="setVRDEProperty">
12512 <desc>
12513 Sets a VRDE specific property string.
12514
12515 If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
12516 will be deleted.
12517
12518 </desc>
12519 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
12520 <desc>Name of the key to set.</desc>
12521 </param>
12522 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
12523 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
12524 </param>
12525 </method>
12526
12527 <method name="getVRDEProperty">
12528 <desc>
12529 Returns a VRDE specific property string.
12530
12531 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
12532 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
12533
12534 </desc>
12535 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
12536 <desc>Name of the key to get.</desc>
12537 </param>
12538 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
12539 <desc>Value of the requested key.</desc>
12540 </param>
12541 </method>
12542
12543 </interface>
12544
12545
12546 <!--
12547 // ISharedFolder
12548 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12549 -->
12550
12551 <interface
12552 name="ISharedFolder" extends="$unknown"
12553 uuid="8388da11-b559-4574-a5b7-2bd7acd5cef8"
12554 wsmap="struct"
12555 >
12556 <desc>
12557 The ISharedFolder interface represents a folder in the host computer's
12558 file system accessible from the guest OS running inside a virtual
12559 machine using an associated logical name.
12560
12561 There are three types of shared folders:
12562 <ul>
12563 <li><i>Global</i> (<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders"/>), shared
12564 folders available to all virtual machines.</li>
12565 <li><i>Permanent</i> (<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/>),
12566 VM-specific shared folders available to the given virtual machine at
12567 startup.</li>
12568 <li><i>Transient</i> (<link to="IConsole::sharedFolders"/>),
12569 VM-specific shared folders created in the session context (for
12570 example, when the virtual machine is running) and automatically
12571 discarded when the session is closed (the VM is powered off).</li>
12572 </ul>
12573
12574 Logical names of shared folders must be unique within the given scope
12575 (global, permanent or transient). However, they do not need to be unique
12576 across scopes. In this case, the definition of the shared folder in a
12577 more specific scope takes precedence over definitions in all other
12578 scopes. The order of precedence is (more specific to more general):
12579 <ol>
12580 <li>Transient definitions</li>
12581 <li>Permanent definitions</li>
12582 <li>Global definitions</li>
12583 </ol>
12584
12585 For example, if MyMachine has a shared folder named
12586 <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points to <tt>C:\\</tt>), then creating a
12587 transient shared folder named <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points
12588 to <tt>C:\\\\WINDOWS</tt>) will change the definition
12589 of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> in the guest OS so
12590 that <tt>\\\\VBOXSVR\\C_DRIVE</tt> will give access
12591 to <tt>C:\\WINDOWS</tt> instead of <tt>C:\\</tt> on the host
12592 PC. Removing the transient shared folder <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> will restore
12593 the previous (permanent) definition of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> that points
12594 to <tt>C:\\</tt> if it still exists.
12595
12596 Note that permanent and transient shared folders of different machines
12597 are in different name spaces, so they don't overlap and don't need to
12598 have unique logical names.
12599
12600 <note>
12601 Global shared folders are not implemented in the current version of the
12602 product.
12603 </note>
12604 </desc>
12605
12606 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12607 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
12608 </attribute>
12609
12610 <attribute name="hostPath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12611 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
12612 </attribute>
12613
12614 <attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12615 <desc>
12616 Whether the folder defined by the host path is currently
12617 accessible or not.
12618 For example, the folder can be inaccessible if it is placed
12619 on the network share that is not available by the time
12620 this property is read.
12621 </desc>
12622 </attribute>
12623
12624 <attribute name="writable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12625 <desc>
12626 Whether the folder defined by the host path is writable or
12627 not.
12628 </desc>
12629 </attribute>
12630
12631 <attribute name="autoMount" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12632 <desc>
12633 Whether the folder gets automatically mounted by the guest or not.
12634 </desc>
12635 </attribute>
12636
12637 <attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12638 <desc>
12639 Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
12640 check.
12641
12642 Accessibility checks are performed each time the <link to="#accessible"/>
12643 attribute is read. An empty string is returned if the last
12644 accessibility check was successful. A non-empty string indicates a
12645 failure and should normally describe a reason of the failure (for
12646 example, a file read error).
12647 </desc>
12648 </attribute>
12649
12650 </interface>
12651
12652 <!--
12653 // ISession
12654 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12655 -->
12656
12657 <interface
12658 name="IInternalSessionControl" extends="$unknown"
12659 uuid="06ef98a7-f7c0-45ba-bf99-9aca7a4d5530"
12660 internal="yes"
12661 wsmap="suppress"
12662 >
12663 <method name="getPID">
12664 <desc>PID of the process that has created this Session object.
12665 </desc>
12666 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
12667 </method>
12668
12669 <method name="getRemoteConsole">
12670 <desc>
12671 Returns the console object suitable for remote control.
12672
12673 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12674 Session state prevents operation.
12675 </result>
12676 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12677 Session type prevents operation.
12678 </result>
12679
12680 </desc>
12681 <param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="return"/>
12682 </method>
12683
12684 <method name="assignMachine">
12685 <desc>
12686 Assigns the machine object associated with this direct-type
12687 session or informs the session that it will be a remote one
12688 (if @a machine == @c null).
12689
12690 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12691 Session state prevents operation.
12692 </result>
12693 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12694 Session type prevents operation.
12695 </result>
12696
12697 </desc>
12698 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
12699 </method>
12700
12701 <method name="assignRemoteMachine">
12702 <desc>
12703 Assigns the machine and the (remote) console object associated with
12704 this remote-type session.
12705
12706 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12707 Session state prevents operation.
12708 </result>
12709
12710 </desc>
12711 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
12712 <param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="in"/>
12713 </method>
12714
12715 <method name="updateMachineState">
12716 <desc>
12717 Updates the machine state in the VM process.
12718 Must be called only in certain cases
12719 (see the method implementation).
12720
12721 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12722 Session state prevents operation.
12723 </result>
12724 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12725 Session type prevents operation.
12726 </result>
12727
12728 </desc>
12729 <param name="aMachineState" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
12730 </method>
12731
12732 <method name="uninitialize">
12733 <desc>
12734 Uninitializes (closes) this session. Used by VirtualBox to close
12735 the corresponding remote session when the direct session dies
12736 or gets closed.
12737
12738 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12739 Session state prevents operation.
12740 </result>
12741
12742 </desc>
12743 </method>
12744
12745 <method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
12746 <desc>
12747 Triggered when settings of a network adapter of the
12748 associated virtual machine have changed.
12749
12750 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12751 Session state prevents operation.
12752 </result>
12753 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12754 Session type prevents operation.
12755 </result>
12756
12757 </desc>
12758 <param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in"/>
12759 <param name="changeAdapter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12760 </method>
12761
12762 <method name="onSerialPortChange">
12763 <desc>
12764 Triggered when settings of a serial port of the
12765 associated virtual machine have changed.
12766
12767 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12768 Session state prevents operation.
12769 </result>
12770 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12771 Session type prevents operation.
12772 </result>
12773
12774 </desc>
12775 <param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in"/>
12776 </method>
12777
12778 <method name="onParallelPortChange">
12779 <desc>
12780 Triggered when settings of a parallel port of the
12781 associated virtual machine have changed.
12782
12783 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12784 Session state prevents operation.
12785 </result>
12786 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12787 Session type prevents operation.
12788 </result>
12789
12790 </desc>
12791 <param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in"/>
12792 </method>
12793
12794 <method name="onStorageControllerChange">
12795 <desc>
12796 Triggered when settings of a storage controller of the
12797 associated virtual machine have changed.
12798
12799 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12800 Session state prevents operation.
12801 </result>
12802 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12803 Session type prevents operation.
12804 </result>
12805
12806 </desc>
12807 </method>
12808
12809 <method name="onMediumChange">
12810 <desc>
12811 Triggered when attached media of the
12812 associated virtual machine have changed.
12813
12814 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12815 Session state prevents operation.
12816 </result>
12817 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12818 Session type prevents operation.
12819 </result>
12820
12821 </desc>
12822
12823 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in"/>
12824 <param name="force" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12825 </method>
12826
12827 <method name="onCPUChange">
12828 <desc>
12829 Notification when a CPU changes.
12830 </desc>
12831 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12832 <desc>The CPU which changed</desc>
12833 </param>
12834 <param name="add" type="boolean" dir="in">
12835 <desc>Flag whether the CPU was added or removed</desc>
12836 </param>
12837 </method>
12838
12839 <method name="onCPUExecutionCapChange">
12840 <desc>
12841 Notification when the CPU execution cap changes.
12842 </desc>
12843 <param name="executionCap" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12844 <desc>The new CPU execution cap value. (1-100)</desc>
12845 </param>
12846 </method>
12847
12848 <method name="onVRDEServerChange">
12849 <desc>
12850 Triggered when settings of the VRDE server object of the
12851 associated virtual machine have changed.
12852
12853 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12854 Session state prevents operation.
12855 </result>
12856 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12857 Session type prevents operation.
12858 </result>
12859
12860 </desc>
12861 <param name="restart" type="boolean" dir="in">
12862 <desc>Flag whether the server must be restarted</desc>
12863 </param>
12864 </method>
12865
12866 <method name="onUSBControllerChange">
12867 <desc>
12868 Triggered when settings of the USB controller object of the
12869 associated virtual machine have changed.
12870
12871 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12872 Session state prevents operation.
12873 </result>
12874 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12875 Session type prevents operation.
12876 </result>
12877
12878 </desc>
12879 </method>
12880
12881 <method name="onSharedFolderChange">
12882 <desc>
12883 Triggered when a permanent (global or machine) shared folder has been
12884 created or removed.
12885 <note>
12886 We don't pass shared folder parameters in this notification because
12887 the order in which parallel notifications are delivered is not defined,
12888 therefore it could happen that these parameters were outdated by the
12889 time of processing this notification.
12890 </note>
12891
12892 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12893 Session state prevents operation.
12894 </result>
12895 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12896 Session type prevents operation.
12897 </result>
12898
12899 </desc>
12900 <param name="global" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12901 </method>
12902
12903 <method name="onUSBDeviceAttach">
12904 <desc>
12905 Triggered when a request to capture a USB device (as a result
12906 of matched USB filters or direct call to
12907 <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
12908 A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
12909 describes a failure.
12910
12911 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12912 Session state prevents operation.
12913 </result>
12914 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12915 Session type prevents operation.
12916 </result>
12917
12918 </desc>
12919 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
12920 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
12921 <param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12922 </method>
12923
12924 <method name="onUSBDeviceDetach">
12925 <desc>
12926 Triggered when a request to release the USB device (as a result
12927 of machine termination or direct call to
12928 <link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
12929 A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
12930 describes a failure.
12931
12932 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12933 Session state prevents operation.
12934 </result>
12935 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12936 Session type prevents operation.
12937 </result>
12938
12939 </desc>
12940 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
12941 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
12942 </method>
12943
12944 <method name="onShowWindow">
12945 <desc>
12946 Called by <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> and by
12947 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> in order to notify
12948 console listeners
12949 <link to="ICanShowWindowEvent"/>
12950 and <link to="IShowWindowEvent"/>.
12951
12952 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12953 Session type prevents operation.
12954 </result>
12955
12956 </desc>
12957 <param name="check" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12958 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
12959 <param name="winId" type="long long" dir="out"/>
12960 </method>
12961
12962 <method name="accessGuestProperty">
12963 <desc>
12964 Called by <link to="IMachine::getGuestProperty"/> and by
12965 <link to="IMachine::setGuestProperty"/> in order to read and
12966 modify guest properties.
12967
12968 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12969 Machine session is not open.
12970 </result>
12971 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12972 Session type is not direct.
12973 </result>
12974
12975 </desc>
12976 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12977 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12978 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
12979 <param name="isSetter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12980 <param name="retValue" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
12981 <param name="retTimestamp" type="long long" dir="out"/>
12982 <param name="retFlags" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
12983 </method>
12984
12985 <method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
12986 <desc>
12987 Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
12988 with their values, time stamps and flags.
12989
12990 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12991 Machine session is not open.
12992 </result>
12993 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12994 Session type is not direct.
12995 </result>
12996
12997 </desc>
12998 <param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
12999 <desc>
13000 The patterns to match the properties against as a comma-separated
13001 string. If this is empty, all properties currently set will be
13002 returned.
13003 </desc>
13004 </param>
13005 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13006 <desc>
13007 The key names of the properties returned.
13008 </desc>
13009 </param>
13010 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13011 <desc>
13012 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
13013 corresponding entries in the @a key array.
13014 </desc>
13015 </param>
13016 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13017 <desc>
13018 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
13019 the corresponding entries in the @a key array.
13020 </desc>
13021 </param>
13022 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13023 <desc>
13024 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
13025 corresponding entries in the @a key array.
13026 </desc>
13027 </param>
13028 </method>
13029
13030 <method name="onlineMergeMedium">
13031 <desc>
13032 Triggers online merging of a hard disk. Used internally when deleting
13033 a snapshot while a VM referring to the same hard disk chain is running.
13034
13035 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13036 Machine session is not open.
13037 </result>
13038 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13039 Session type is not direct.
13040 </result>
13041
13042 </desc>
13043 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
13044 <desc>The medium attachment to identify the medium chain.</desc>
13045 </param>
13046 <param name="sourceIdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13047 <desc>The index of the source image in the chain.
13048 Redundant, but drastically reduces IPC.</desc>
13049 </param>
13050 <param name="targetIdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13051 <desc>The index of the target image in the chain.
13052 Redundant, but drastically reduces IPC.</desc>
13053 </param>
13054 <param name="source" type="IMedium" dir="in">
13055 <desc>Merge source medium.</desc>
13056 </param>
13057 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
13058 <desc>Merge target medium.</desc>
13059 </param>
13060 <param name="mergeForward" type="boolean" dir="in">
13061 <desc>Merge direction.</desc>
13062 </param>
13063 <param name="parentForTarget" type="IMedium" dir="in">
13064 <desc>For forward merges: new parent for target medium.</desc>
13065 </param>
13066 <param name="childrenToReparent" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
13067 <desc>For backward merges: list of media which need their parent UUID
13068 updated.</desc>
13069 </param>
13070 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
13071 <desc>
13072 Progress object for this operation.
13073 </desc>
13074 </param>
13075 </method>
13076
13077 </interface>
13078
13079 <interface
13080 name="ISession" extends="$unknown"
13081 uuid="12F4DCDB-12B2-4EC1-B7CD-DDD9F6C5BF4D"
13082 wsmap="managed"
13083 >
13084 <desc>
13085 The ISession interface represents a client process and allows for locking
13086 virtual machines (represented by IMachine objects) to prevent conflicting
13087 changes to the machine.
13088
13089 Any caller wishing to manipulate a virtual machine needs to create a session
13090 object first, which lives in its own process space. Such session objects are
13091 then associated with <link to="IMachine" /> objects living in the VirtualBox
13092 server process to coordinate such changes.
13093
13094 There are two typical scenarios in which sessions are used:
13095
13096 <ul>
13097 <li>To alter machine settings or control a running virtual machine, one
13098 needs to lock a machine for a given session (client process) by calling
13099 <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>.
13100
13101 Whereas multiple sessions may control a running virtual machine, only
13102 one process can obtain a write lock on the machine to prevent conflicting
13103 changes. A write lock is also needed if a process wants to actually run a
13104 virtual machine in its own context, such as the VirtualBox GUI or
13105 VBoxHeadless front-ends. They must also lock a machine for their own
13106 sessions before they are allowed to power up the virtual machine.
13107
13108 As a result, no machine settings can be altered while another process is
13109 already using it, either because that process is modifying machine settings
13110 or because the machine is running.
13111 </li>
13112 <li>
13113 To start a VM using one of the existing VirtualBox front-ends (e.g. the
13114 VirtualBox GUI or VBoxHeadless), one would use
13115 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>, which also takes a session object
13116 as its first parameter. This session then identifies the caller and lets the
13117 caller control the started machine (for example, pause machine execution or
13118 power it down) as well as be notified about machine execution state changes.
13119 </li>
13120 </ul>
13121
13122 How sessions objects are created in a client process depends on whether you use
13123 the Main API via COM or via the webservice:
13124
13125 <ul>
13126 <li>When using the COM API directly, an object of the Session class from the
13127 VirtualBox type library needs to be created. In regular COM C++ client code,
13128 this can be done by calling <tt>createLocalObject()</tt>, a standard COM API.
13129 This object will then act as a local session object in further calls to open
13130 a session.
13131 </li>
13132
13133 <li>In the webservice, the session manager (IWebsessionManager) instead creates
13134 a session object automatically whenever <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" />
13135 is called. A managed object reference to that session object can be retrieved by
13136 calling <link to="IWebsessionManager::getSessionObject" />.
13137 </li>
13138 </ul>
13139 </desc>
13140
13141 <attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
13142 <desc>Current state of this session.</desc>
13143 </attribute>
13144
13145 <attribute name="type" type="SessionType" readonly="yes">
13146 <desc>
13147 Type of this session. The value of this attribute is valid only
13148 if the session currently has a machine locked (i.e. its
13149 <link to="#state" /> is Locked), otherwise an error will be returned.
13150 </desc>
13151 </attribute>
13152
13153 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
13154 <desc>Machine object associated with this session.</desc>
13155 </attribute>
13156
13157 <attribute name="console" type="IConsole" readonly="yes">
13158 <desc>Console object associated with this session.</desc>
13159 </attribute>
13160
13161 <method name="unlockMachine">
13162 <desc>
13163 Unlocks a machine that was previously locked for the current session.
13164
13165 Calling this method is required every time a machine has been locked
13166 for a particular session using the <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess" />
13167 or <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> calls. Otherwise the state of
13168 the machine will be set to <link to="MachineState_Aborted" /> on the
13169 server, and changes made to the machine settings will be lost.
13170
13171 Generally, it is recommended to unlock all machines explicitly
13172 before terminating the application (regardless of the reason for
13173 the termination).
13174
13175 <note>
13176 Do not expect the session state (<link to="ISession::state" />
13177 to return to "Unlocked" immediately after you invoke this method,
13178 particularly if you have started a new VM process. The session
13179 state will automatically return to "Unlocked" once the VM is no
13180 longer executing, which can of course take a very long time.
13181 </note>
13182
13183 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
13184 Session is not locked.
13185 </result>
13186
13187 </desc>
13188 </method>
13189
13190 </interface>
13191
13192 <!--
13193 // IStorageController
13194 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13195 -->
13196
13197 <enum
13198 name="StorageBus"
13199 uuid="eee67ab3-668d-4ef5-91e0-7025fe4a0d7a"
13200 >
13201 <desc>
13202 The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or Floppy);
13203 see <link to="IStorageController::bus" />.
13204 </desc>
13205 <const name="Null" value="0">
13206 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
13207 </const>
13208 <const name="IDE" value="1"/>
13209 <const name="SATA" value="2"/>
13210 <const name="SCSI" value="3"/>
13211 <const name="Floppy" value="4"/>
13212 <const name="SAS" value="5"/>
13213 </enum>
13214
13215 <enum
13216 name="StorageControllerType"
13217 uuid="8a412b8a-f43e-4456-bd37-b474f0879a58"
13218 >
13219 <desc>
13220 The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
13221 to the guest; see <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
13222 </desc>
13223
13224 <const name="Null" value="0">
13225 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
13226 </const>
13227 <const name="LsiLogic" value="1">
13228 <desc>A SCSI controller of the LsiLogic variant.</desc>
13229 </const>
13230 <const name="BusLogic" value="2">
13231 <desc>A SCSI controller of the BusLogic variant.</desc>
13232 </const>
13233 <const name="IntelAhci" value="3">
13234 <desc>An Intel AHCI SATA controller; this is the only variant for SATA.</desc>
13235 </const>
13236 <const name="PIIX3" value="4">
13237 <desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX3 variant.</desc>
13238 </const>
13239 <const name="PIIX4" value="5">
13240 <desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX4 variant.</desc>
13241 </const>
13242 <const name="ICH6" value="6">
13243 <desc>An IDE controller of the ICH6 variant.</desc>
13244 </const>
13245 <const name="I82078" value="7">
13246 <desc>A floppy disk controller; this is the only variant for floppy drives.</desc>
13247 </const>
13248 <const name="LsiLogicSas" value="8">
13249 <desc>A variant of the LsiLogic controller using SAS.</desc>
13250 </const>
13251 </enum>
13252
13253 <enum
13254 name="ChipsetType"
13255 uuid="8b4096a8-a7c3-4d3b-bbb1-05a0a51ec394"
13256 >
13257 <desc>
13258 Type of emulated chipset (mostly southbridge).
13259 </desc>
13260
13261 <const name="Null" value="0">
13262 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
13263 </const>
13264 <const name="PIIX3" value="1">
13265 <desc>A PIIX3 (PCI IDE ISA Xcelerator) chipset.</desc>
13266 </const>
13267 <const name="ICH9" value="2">
13268 <desc>A ICH9 (I/O Controller Hub) chipset.</desc>
13269 </const>
13270 </enum>
13271
13272 <interface
13273 name="IStorageController" extends="$unknown"
13274 uuid="fd93adc0-bbaa-4256-9e6e-00e29f9151c9"
13275 wsmap="managed"
13276 >
13277 <desc>
13278 Represents a storage controller that is attached to a virtual machine
13279 (<link to="IMachine" />). Just as drives (hard disks, DVDs, FDs) are
13280 attached to storage controllers in a real computer, virtual drives
13281 (represented by <link to="IMediumAttachment" />) are attached to virtual
13282 storage controllers, represented by this interface.
13283
13284 As opposed to physical hardware, VirtualBox has a very generic concept
13285 of a storage controller, and for purposes of the Main API, all virtual
13286 storage is attached to virtual machines via instances of this interface.
13287 There are five types of such virtual storage controllers: IDE, SCSI, SATA,
13288 SAS and Floppy (see <link to="#bus" />). Depending on which of these four
13289 is used, certain sub-types may be available and can be selected in
13290 <link to="#controllerType" />.
13291
13292 Depending on these settings, the guest operating system might see
13293 significantly different virtual hardware.
13294 </desc>
13295
13296 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13297 <desc>
13298 Name of the storage controller, as originally specified with
13299 <link to="IMachine::addStorageController" />. This then uniquely
13300 identifies this controller with other method calls such as
13301 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> and <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />.
13302 </desc>
13303 </attribute>
13304
13305 <attribute name="maxDevicesPerPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13306 <desc>
13307 Maximum number of devices which can be attached to one port.
13308 </desc>
13309 </attribute>
13310
13311 <attribute name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13312 <desc>
13313 Minimum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
13314 </desc>
13315 </attribute>
13316
13317 <attribute name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13318 <desc>
13319 Maximum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
13320 </desc>
13321 </attribute>
13322
13323 <attribute name="instance" type="unsigned long">
13324 <desc>
13325 The instance number of the device in the running VM.
13326 </desc>
13327 </attribute>
13328
13329 <attribute name="portCount" type="unsigned long">
13330 <desc>
13331 The number of currently usable ports on the controller.
13332 The minimum and maximum number of ports for one controller are
13333 stored in <link to="IStorageController::minPortCount"/>
13334 and <link to="IStorageController::maxPortCount"/>.
13335 </desc>
13336 </attribute>
13337
13338 <attribute name="bus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
13339 <desc>
13340 The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or Floppy).
13341 </desc>
13342 </attribute>
13343
13344 <attribute name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType">
13345 <desc>
13346 The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
13347 to the guest.
13348 Depending on this value, VirtualBox will provide a different
13349 virtual storage controller hardware to the guest.
13350 For SATA, SAS and floppy controllers, only one variant is
13351 available, but for IDE and SCSI, there are several.
13352
13353 For SCSI controllers, the default type is LsiLogic.
13354 </desc>
13355 </attribute>
13356
13357 <attribute name="useHostIOCache" type="boolean">
13358 <desc>
13359 If true, the storage controller emulation will use a dedicated I/O thread, enable the host I/O
13360 caches and use synchronous file APIs on the host. This was the only option in the API before
13361 VirtualBox 3.2 and is still the default for IDE controllers.
13362
13363 If false, the host I/O cache will be disabled for image files attached to this storage controller.
13364 Instead, the storage controller emulation will use asynchronous I/O APIs on the host. This makes
13365 it possible to turn off the host I/O caches because the emulation can handle unaligned access to
13366 the file. This should be used on OS X and Linux hosts if a high I/O load is expected or many
13367 virtual machines are running at the same time to prevent I/O cache related hangs.
13368 This option new with the API of VirtualBox 3.2 and is now the default for non-IDE storage controllers.
13369 </desc>
13370 </attribute>
13371
13372 <method name="getIDEEmulationPort">
13373 <desc>
13374 Gets the corresponding port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
13375 Works only with SATA controllers.
13376
13377 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
13378 The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3.
13379 </result>
13380 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
13381 The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
13382 </result>
13383
13384 </desc>
13385 <param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
13386 <param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="return"/>
13387 </method>
13388
13389 <method name="setIDEEmulationPort">
13390 <desc>
13391 Sets the port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
13392 Works only with SATA controllers.
13393
13394 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
13395 The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3 or the
13396 @a portNumber is not in the range 0 to 29.
13397 </result>
13398 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
13399 The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
13400 </result>
13401
13402 </desc>
13403 <param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
13404 <param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="in"/>
13405 </method>
13406
13407 </interface>
13408
13409<if target="wsdl">
13410
13411 <!--
13412 // IManagedObjectRef
13413 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13414 -->
13415
13416 <interface
13417 name="IManagedObjectRef" extends="$unknown"
13418 uuid="9474d09d-2313-46de-b568-a42b8718e8ed"
13419 internal="yes"
13420 wsmap="managed"
13421 wscpp="hardcoded"
13422 >
13423 <desc>
13424 Managed object reference.
13425
13426 Only within the webservice, a managed object reference (which is really
13427 an opaque number) allows a webservice client to address an object
13428 that lives in the address space of the webservice server.
13429
13430 Behind each managed object reference, there is a COM object that lives
13431 in the webservice server's address space. The COM object is not freed
13432 until the managed object reference is released, either by an explicit
13433 call to <link to="IManagedObjectRef::release" /> or by logging off from
13434 the webservice (<link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />), which releases
13435 all objects created during the webservice session.
13436
13437 Whenever a method call of the VirtualBox API returns a COM object, the
13438 webservice representation of that method will instead return a
13439 managed object reference, which can then be used to invoke methods
13440 on that object.
13441 </desc>
13442
13443 <method name="getInterfaceName">
13444 <desc>
13445 Returns the name of the interface that this managed object represents,
13446 for example, "IMachine", as a string.
13447 </desc>
13448 <param name="return" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
13449 </method>
13450
13451 <method name="release">
13452 <desc>
13453 Releases this managed object reference and frees the resources that
13454 were allocated for it in the webservice server process. After calling
13455 this method, the identifier of the reference can no longer be used.
13456 </desc>
13457 </method>
13458
13459 </interface>
13460
13461 <!--
13462 // IWebsessionManager
13463 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13464 -->
13465
13466 <interface
13467 name="IWebsessionManager" extends="$unknown"
13468 uuid="dea1b4c7-2de3-418a-850d-7868617f7733"
13469 internal="yes"
13470 wsmap="global"
13471 wscpp="hardcoded"
13472 >
13473 <desc>
13474 Websession manager. This provides essential services
13475 to webservice clients.
13476 </desc>
13477 <method name="logon">
13478 <desc>
13479 Logs a new client onto the webservice and returns a managed object reference to
13480 the IVirtualBox instance, which the client can then use as a basis to further
13481 queries, since all calls to the VirtualBox API are based on the IVirtualBox
13482 interface, in one way or the other.
13483 </desc>
13484 <param name="username" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13485 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13486 <param name="return" type="IVirtualBox" dir="return"/>
13487 </method>
13488
13489 <method name="getSessionObject">
13490 <desc>
13491 Returns a managed object reference to the internal ISession object that was created
13492 for this web service session when the client logged on.
13493
13494 <see>ISession</see>
13495 </desc>
13496 <param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
13497 <param name="return" type="ISession" dir="return"/>
13498 </method>
13499
13500 <method name="logoff">
13501 <desc>
13502 Logs off the client who has previously logged on with <link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />
13503 and destroys all resources associated with the session (most importantly, all
13504 managed objects created in the server while the session was active).
13505 </desc>
13506 <param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
13507 </method>
13508
13509 </interface>
13510
13511</if>
13512
13513 <!--
13514 // IPerformanceCollector & friends
13515 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13516 -->
13517
13518 <interface
13519 name="IPerformanceMetric" extends="$unknown"
13520 uuid="2a1a60ae-9345-4019-ad53-d34ba41cbfe9" wsmap="managed"
13521 >
13522 <desc>
13523 The IPerformanceMetric interface represents parameters of the given
13524 performance metric.
13525 </desc>
13526
13527 <attribute name="metricName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13528 <desc>
13529 Name of the metric.
13530 </desc>
13531 </attribute>
13532
13533 <attribute name="object" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
13534 <desc>
13535 Object this metric belongs to.
13536 </desc>
13537 </attribute>
13538
13539 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13540 <desc>
13541 Textual description of the metric.
13542 </desc>
13543 </attribute>
13544
13545 <attribute name="period" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13546 <desc>
13547 Time interval between samples, measured in seconds.
13548 </desc>
13549 </attribute>
13550
13551 <attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
13552 <desc>
13553 Number of recent samples retained by the performance collector for this
13554 metric.
13555
13556 When the collected sample count exceeds this number, older samples
13557 are discarded.
13558 </desc>
13559 </attribute>
13560
13561 <attribute name="unit" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13562 <desc>
13563 Unit of measurement.
13564 </desc>
13565 </attribute>
13566
13567 <attribute name="minimumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
13568 <desc>
13569 Minimum possible value of this metric.
13570 </desc>
13571 </attribute>
13572
13573 <attribute name="maximumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
13574 <desc>
13575 Maximum possible value of this metric.
13576 </desc>
13577 </attribute>
13578 </interface>
13579
13580 <interface
13581 name="IPerformanceCollector" extends="$unknown"
13582 uuid="e22e1acb-ac4a-43bb-a31c-17321659b0c6"
13583 wsmap="managed"
13584 >
13585 <desc>
13586 The IPerformanceCollector interface represents a service that collects
13587 and stores performance metrics data.
13588
13589 Performance metrics are associated with objects of interfaces like IHost
13590 and IMachine. Each object has a distinct set of performance metrics. The
13591 set can be obtained with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/>.
13592
13593 Metric data is collected at the specified intervals and is retained
13594 internally. The interval and the number of retained samples can be set
13595 with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. Both metric data
13596 and collection settings are not persistent, they are discarded as soon as
13597 VBoxSVC process terminates. Moreover, metric settings and data associated
13598 with a particular VM only exist while VM is running. They disappear as
13599 soon as VM shuts down. It is not possible to set up metrics for machines
13600 that are powered off. One needs to start VM first, then set up metric
13601 collection parameters.
13602
13603 Metrics are organized hierarchically, with each level separated by a
13604 slash (/) character. Generally, the scheme for metric names is like this:
13605
13606 <tt>Category/Metric[/SubMetric][:aggregation]</tt>
13607
13608 "Category/Metric" together form the base metric name. A base metric is
13609 the smallest unit for which a sampling interval and the number of
13610 retained samples can be set. Only base metrics can be enabled and
13611 disabled. All sub-metrics are collected when their base metric is
13612 collected. Collected values for any set of sub-metrics can be queried
13613 with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />.
13614
13615 For example "CPU/Load/User:avg" metric name stands for the "CPU"
13616 category, "Load" metric, "User" submetric, "average" aggregate. An
13617 aggregate function is computed over all retained data. Valid aggregate
13618 functions are:
13619
13620 <ul>
13621 <li>avg -- average</li>
13622 <li>min -- minimum</li>
13623 <li>max -- maximum</li>
13624 </ul>
13625
13626 When setting up metric parameters, querying metric data, enabling or
13627 disabling metrics wildcards can be used in metric names to specify a
13628 subset of metrics. For example, to select all CPU-related metrics
13629 use <tt>CPU/*</tt>, all averages can be queried using <tt>*:avg</tt> and
13630 so on. To query metric values without aggregates <tt>*:</tt> can be used.
13631
13632 The valid names for base metrics are:
13633
13634 <ul>
13635 <li>CPU/Load</li>
13636 <li>CPU/MHz</li>
13637 <li>RAM/Usage</li>
13638 </ul>
13639
13640 The general sequence for collecting and retrieving the metrics is:
13641 <ul>
13642 <li>
13643 Obtain an instance of IPerformanceCollector with
13644 <link to="IVirtualBox::performanceCollector" />
13645 </li>
13646 <li>
13647 Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metrics
13648 will be collected for. Use references to IHost and IMachine objects.
13649 </li>
13650 <li>
13651 Allocate and populate an array with base metric names the data will
13652 be collected for.
13653 </li>
13654 <li>
13655 Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. From now on
13656 the metric data will be collected and stored.
13657 </li>
13658 <li>
13659 Wait for the data to get collected.
13660 </li>
13661 <li>
13662 Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metric
13663 values will be queried for. You can re-use the object array used for
13664 setting base metrics.
13665 </li>
13666 <li>
13667 Allocate and populate an array with metric names the data will be
13668 collected for. Note that metric names differ from base metric names.
13669 </li>
13670 <li>
13671 Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />. The data
13672 that have been collected so far are returned. Note that the values
13673 are still retained internally and data collection continues.
13674 </li>
13675 </ul>
13676
13677 For an example of usage refer to the following files in VirtualBox SDK:
13678 <ul>
13679 <li>
13680 Java: <tt>bindings/webservice/java/jax-ws/samples/metrictest.java</tt>
13681 </li>
13682 <li>
13683 Python: <tt>bindings/xpcom/python/sample/shellcommon.py</tt>
13684 </li>
13685 </ul>
13686 </desc>
13687
13688 <attribute name="metricNames" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
13689 <desc>
13690 Array of unique names of metrics.
13691
13692 This array represents all metrics supported by the performance
13693 collector. Individual objects do not necessarily support all of them.
13694 <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/> can be used to get the
13695 list of supported metrics for a particular object.
13696 </desc>
13697 </attribute>
13698
13699 <method name="getMetrics">
13700 <desc>
13701 Returns parameters of specified metrics for a set of objects.
13702 <note>
13703 @c Null metrics array means all metrics. @c Null object array means
13704 all existing objects.
13705 </note>
13706 </desc>
13707 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13708 <desc>
13709 Metric name filter. Currently, only a comma-separated list of metrics
13710 is supported.
13711 </desc>
13712 </param>
13713 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13714 <desc>
13715 Set of objects to return metric parameters for.
13716 </desc>
13717 </param>
13718 <param name="metrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13719 <desc>
13720 Array of returned metric parameters.
13721 </desc>
13722 </param>
13723 </method>
13724
13725 <method name="setupMetrics">
13726 <desc>
13727 Sets parameters of specified base metrics for a set of objects. Returns
13728 an array of <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics
13729 have been affected.
13730 <note>
13731 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
13732 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
13733 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
13734 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
13735 form metric/object pairs.
13736 </note>
13737 </desc>
13738 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13739 <desc>
13740 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13741 support.
13742 </desc>
13743 </param>
13744 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13745 <desc>
13746 Set of objects to setup metric parameters for.
13747 </desc>
13748 </param>
13749 <param name="period" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13750 <desc>
13751 Time interval in seconds between two consecutive samples of
13752 performance data.
13753 </desc>
13754 </param>
13755 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13756 <desc>
13757 Number of samples to retain in performance data history. Older
13758 samples get discarded.
13759 </desc>
13760 </param>
13761 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13762 <desc>
13763 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13764 </desc>
13765 </param>
13766 </method>
13767
13768 <method name="enableMetrics">
13769 <desc>
13770 Turns on collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
13771 <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
13772 affected.
13773 <note>
13774 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
13775 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
13776 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
13777 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
13778 form metric/object pairs.
13779 </note>
13780 </desc>
13781 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13782 <desc>
13783 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13784 support.
13785 </desc>
13786 </param>
13787 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13788 <desc>
13789 Set of objects to enable metrics for.
13790 </desc>
13791 </param>
13792 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13793 <desc>
13794 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13795 </desc>
13796 </param>
13797 </method>
13798
13799 <method name="disableMetrics">
13800 <desc>
13801 Turns off collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
13802 <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
13803 affected.
13804 <note>
13805 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
13806 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
13807 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
13808 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
13809 form metric/object pairs.
13810 </note>
13811 </desc>
13812 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13813 <desc>
13814 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13815 support.
13816 </desc>
13817 </param>
13818 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13819 <desc>
13820 Set of objects to disable metrics for.
13821 </desc>
13822 </param>
13823 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13824 <desc>
13825 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
13826 </desc>
13827 </param>
13828 </method>
13829
13830 <method name="queryMetricsData">
13831 <desc>
13832 Queries collected metrics data for a set of objects.
13833
13834 The data itself and related metric information are returned in seven
13835 parallel and one flattened array of arrays. Elements of
13836 <tt>returnMetricNames, returnObjects, returnUnits, returnScales,
13837 returnSequenceNumbers, returnDataIndices and returnDataLengths</tt> with
13838 the same index describe one set of values corresponding to a single
13839 metric.
13840
13841 The <tt>returnData</tt> parameter is a flattened array of arrays. Each
13842 start and length of a sub-array is indicated by
13843 <tt>returnDataIndices</tt> and <tt>returnDataLengths</tt>. The first
13844 value for metric <tt>metricNames[i]</tt> is at
13845 <tt>returnData[returnIndices[i]]</tt>.
13846
13847 <note>
13848 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
13849 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
13850 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
13851 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
13852 form metric/object pairs.
13853 </note>
13854 <note>
13855 Data collection continues behind the scenes after call to @c
13856 queryMetricsData. The return data can be seen as the snapshot of the
13857 current state at the time of @c queryMetricsData call. The internally
13858 kept metric values are not cleared by the call. This makes possible
13859 querying different subsets of metrics or aggregates with subsequent
13860 calls. If periodic querying is needed it is highly suggested to query
13861 the values with @c interval*count period to avoid confusion. This way
13862 a completely new set of data values will be provided by each query.
13863 </note>
13864 </desc>
13865 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13866 <desc>
13867 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
13868 support.
13869 </desc>
13870 </param>
13871 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13872 <desc>
13873 Set of objects to query metrics for.
13874 </desc>
13875 </param>
13876 <param name="returnMetricNames" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13877 <desc>
13878 Names of metrics returned in @c returnData.
13879 </desc>
13880 </param>
13881 <param name="returnObjects" type="$unknown" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13882 <desc>
13883 Objects associated with metrics returned in @c returnData.
13884 </desc>
13885 </param>
13886 <param name="returnUnits" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13887 <desc>
13888 Units of measurement for each returned metric.
13889 </desc>
13890 </param>
13891 <param name="returnScales" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13892 <desc>
13893 Divisor that should be applied to return values in order to get
13894 floating point values. For example:
13895 <tt>(double)returnData[returnDataIndices[0]+i] / returnScales[0]</tt>
13896 will retrieve the floating point value of i-th sample of the first
13897 metric.
13898 </desc>
13899 </param>
13900 <param name="returnSequenceNumbers" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13901 <desc>
13902 Sequence numbers of the first elements of value sequences of
13903 particular metrics returned in @c returnData. For aggregate metrics
13904 it is the sequence number of the sample the aggregate started
13905 calculation from.
13906 </desc>
13907 </param>
13908 <param name="returnDataIndices" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13909 <desc>
13910 Indices of the first elements of value sequences of particular
13911 metrics returned in @c returnData.
13912 </desc>
13913 </param>
13914 <param name="returnDataLengths" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13915 <desc>
13916 Lengths of value sequences of particular metrics.
13917 </desc>
13918 </param>
13919 <param name="returnData" type="long" dir="return" safearray="yes">
13920 <desc>
13921 Flattened array of all metric data containing sequences of values for
13922 each metric.
13923 </desc>
13924 </param>
13925 </method>
13926
13927 </interface>
13928 <enum
13929 name="NATAliasMode"
13930 uuid="67772168-50d9-11df-9669-7fb714ee4fa1">
13931 <desc></desc>
13932 <const name="AliasLog" value="0x1">
13933 <desc></desc>
13934 </const>
13935 <const name="AliasProxyOnly" value="0x02">
13936 <desc></desc>
13937 </const>
13938 <const name="AliasUseSamePorts" value="0x04">
13939 <desc></desc>
13940 </const>
13941 </enum>
13942 <enum
13943 name="NATProtocol"
13944 uuid="e90164be-eb03-11de-94af-fff9b1c1b19f"
13945 >
13946 <desc>Protocol definitions used with NAT port-forwarding rules.</desc>
13947 <const name="UDP" value="0">
13948 <desc>Port-forwarding uses UDP protocol.</desc>
13949 </const>
13950 <const name="TCP" value="1">
13951 <desc>Port-forwarding uses TCP protocol.</desc>
13952 </const>
13953 </enum>
13954
13955 <interface
13956 name="INATEngine" extends="$unknown"
13957 uuid="4b286616-eb03-11de-b0fb-1701eca42246"
13958 wsmap="managed"
13959 >
13960 <desc>Interface for managing a NAT engine which is used with a virtual machine. This
13961 allows for changing NAT behavior such as port-forwarding rules. This interface is
13962 used in the <link to="INetworkAdapter::natDriver" /> attribute.</desc>
13963 <attribute name="network" type="wstring">
13964 <desc>The network attribute of the NAT engine (the same value is used with built-in
13965 DHCP server to fill corresponding fields of DHCP leases).</desc>
13966 </attribute>
13967 <attribute name="hostIP" type="wstring">
13968 <desc>IP of host interface to bind all opened sockets to.
13969 <note>Changing this does not change binding of port forwarding.</note>
13970 </desc>
13971 </attribute>
13972 <attribute name="tftpPrefix" type="wstring">
13973 <desc>TFTP prefix attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
13974 the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.</desc>
13975 </attribute>
13976 <attribute name="tftpBootFile" type="wstring">
13977 <desc>TFTP boot file attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
13978 the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.</desc>
13979 </attribute>
13980 <attribute name="tftpNextServer" type="wstring">
13981 <desc>TFTP server attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
13982 the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.
13983 <note>The preferred form is IPv4 addresses.</note>
13984 </desc>
13985 </attribute>
13986 <attribute name="aliasMode" type="unsigned long">
13987 <desc></desc>
13988 </attribute>
13989 <attribute name="dnsPassDomain" type="boolean">
13990 <desc>Whether the DHCP server should pass the DNS domain used by the host.</desc>
13991 </attribute>
13992 <attribute name="dnsProxy" type="boolean">
13993 <desc>Whether the DHCP server (and the DNS traffic by NAT) should pass the address
13994 of the DNS proxy and process traffic using DNS servers registered on the host.</desc>
13995 </attribute>
13996 <attribute name="dnsUseHostResolver" type="boolean">
13997 <desc>Whether the DHCP server (and the DNS traffic by NAT) should pass the address
13998 of the DNS proxy and process traffic using the host resolver mechanism.</desc>
13999 </attribute>
14000 <attribute name="redirects" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
14001 <desc>Array of NAT port-forwarding rules in string representation, in the following
14002 format: "name,protocol id,host ip,host port,guest ip,guest port".</desc>
14003 </attribute>
14004 <method name="setNetworkSettings">
14005 <desc>Sets network configuration of the NAT engine.</desc>
14006 <param name="mtu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14007 <desc>MTU (maximum transmission unit) of the NAT engine in bytes.</desc>
14008 </param>
14009 <param name="sockSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14010 <desc>Capacity of the socket send buffer in bytes when creating a new socket.</desc>
14011 </param>
14012 <param name="sockRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14013 <desc>Capacity of the socket receive buffer in bytes when creating a new socket.</desc>
14014 </param>
14015 <param name="TcpWndSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14016 <desc>Initial size of the NAT engine's sending TCP window in bytes when
14017 establishing a new TCP connection.</desc>
14018 </param>
14019 <param name="TcpWndRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14020 <desc>Initial size of the NAT engine's receiving TCP window in bytes when
14021 establishing a new TCP connection.</desc>
14022 </param>
14023 </method>
14024 <method name="getNetworkSettings">
14025 <desc>Returns network configuration of NAT engine. See <link to="#setNetworkSettings" />
14026 for parameter descriptions.</desc>
14027 <param name="mtu" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14028 <param name="sockSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14029 <param name="sockRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14030 <param name="TcpWndSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14031 <param name="TcpWndRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14032 </method>
14033 <method name="addRedirect">
14034 <desc>Adds a new NAT port-forwarding rule.</desc>
14035 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
14036 <desc>The name of the rule. An empty name is acceptable, in which case the NAT engine
14037 auto-generates one using the other parameters.</desc>
14038 </param>
14039 <param name="proto" type="NATProtocol" dir="in">
14040 <desc>Protocol handled with the rule.</desc>
14041 </param>
14042 <param name="hostIp" type="wstring" dir="in">
14043 <desc>IP of the host interface to which the rule should apply. An empty ip address is
14044 acceptable, in which case the NAT engine binds the handling socket to any interface.</desc>
14045 </param>
14046 <param name="hostPort" type="unsigned short" dir="in">
14047 <desc>The port number to listen on.</desc>
14048 </param>
14049 <param name="guestIp" type="wstring" dir="in">
14050 <desc>The IP address of the guest which the NAT engine will forward matching packets
14051 to. An empty IP address is acceptable, in which case the NAT engine will forward
14052 packets to the first DHCP lease (x.x.x.15).</desc>
14053 </param>
14054 <param name="guestPort" type="unsigned short" dir="in">
14055 <desc>The port number to forward.</desc>
14056 </param>
14057 </method>
14058 <method name="removeRedirect">
14059 <desc>Removes a port-forwarding rule that was previously registered.</desc>
14060 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
14061 <desc>The name of the rule to delete.</desc>
14062 </param>
14063 </method>
14064 </interface>
14065
14066 <!--
14067 // IExtPackManager
14068 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14069 -->
14070
14071 <interface
14072 name="IExtPack" extends="$unknown"
14073 uuid="ab26b24e-d46c-4d09-aa44-e5092d2fe9ae"
14074 wsmap="suppress"
14075 >
14076 <desc>
14077 Interface for querying interfaces and information relating to an
14078 extension pack. The extension pack specific interfaces can be queried
14079 via the IUnknown::QueryInterface method.
14080 </desc>
14081 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14082 <desc>The extension pack name. This is unique.</desc>
14083 </attribute>
14084 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14085 <desc>The extension pack description.</desc>
14086 </attribute>
14087 <attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14088 <desc>
14089 The extension pack version string. This is on the same form as
14090 other VirtualBox version strings, i.e.: "1.2.3", "1.2.3_BETA1",
14091 "1.2.3-OSE", "1.2.3r45678", "1.2.3r45678-OSE", "1.2.3_BETA1-r45678"
14092 or "1.2.3_BETA1-r45678-OSE"
14093 </desc>
14094 </attribute>
14095 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14096 <desc>The extension pack internal revision number.</desc>
14097 </attribute>
14098 <attribute name="usable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14099 <desc>
14100 Indicates whether the extension pack is usable or not. An
14101 extension pack that is not compatible with the current VirtualBox
14102 version will be flagged as not usable.
14103 </desc>
14104 </attribute>
14105 <attribute name="whyUnusable" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14106 <desc>
14107 String indicating why the extension pack is not usable. This is an
14108 empty string if usable and always a non-empty string if not usable.
14109 </desc>
14110 </attribute>
14111 </interface>
14112
14113 <interface
14114 name="IExtPackManager" extends="$unknown"
14115 uuid="ba1fbfca-53f1-471c-b5a1-416386f0f52b"
14116 wsmap="suppress"
14117 >
14118 <desc>
14119 Interface for managing VirtualBox Extension Packs.
14120
14121 TODO: Describe extension packs, how they are managed and how to create
14122 one.
14123 </desc>
14124
14125 <attribute name="installedExtPacks" type="IExtPack" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
14126 <desc>
14127 List of the installed extension packs.
14128 </desc>
14129 </attribute>
14130
14131 <method name="find">
14132 <desc>
14133 Returns the extension pack with the specified name if found.
14134
14135 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
14136 No extension pack matching @a name was found.
14137 </result>
14138 </desc>
14139 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
14140 <desc>The name of the extension pack to locate.</desc>
14141 </param>
14142 <param name="returnData" type="IExtPack" dir="return">
14143 <desc>The extension pack if found.</desc>
14144 </param>
14145 </method>
14146
14147 <method name="install">
14148 <param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
14149 <desc>The path of the extension pack tarball.</desc>
14150 </param>
14151 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out">
14152 <desc>The name of the installed extension pack.</desc>
14153 </param>
14154 </method>
14155
14156 <method name="uninstall">
14157 <desc>Uninstalls an extension pack, removing all related files.</desc>
14158 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
14159 <desc>The name of the extension pack to uninstall.</desc>
14160 </param>
14161 <param name="forcedRemoval" type="boolean" dir="in">
14162 <desc>
14163 Forced removal of the extension pack. This means that the uninstall
14164 hook will not be called.
14165 </desc>
14166 </param>
14167 </method>
14168 </interface>
14169
14170 <!--
14171 // Events
14172 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14173 -->
14174 <enum
14175 name="VBoxEventType"
14176 uuid="e085d0b1-05e6-4f40-a709-b7266fbdb236">
14177
14178 <desc>
14179 Type of an event.
14180 See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
14181 </desc>
14182
14183 <const name="Invalid" value="0">
14184 <desc>
14185 Invalid event, must be first.
14186 </desc>
14187 </const>
14188
14189 <const name="Any" value="1">
14190 <desc>
14191 Wildcard for all events.
14192 Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
14193 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
14194 </desc>
14195 </const>
14196
14197 <const name="Vetoable" value="2">
14198 <desc>
14199 Wildcard for all vetoable events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only
14200 used in registerListener() call to simplify registration.
14201 </desc>
14202 </const>
14203
14204 <const name="MachineEvent" value="3">
14205 <desc>
14206 Wildcard for all machine events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
14207 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
14208 </desc>
14209 </const>
14210
14211 <const name="SnapshotEvent" value="4">
14212 <desc>
14213 Wildcard for all snapshot events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
14214 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
14215 </desc>
14216 </const>
14217
14218 <const name="InputEvent" value="5">
14219 <desc>
14220 Wildcard for all input device (keyboard, mouse) events.
14221 Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
14222 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
14223 </desc>
14224 </const>
14225
14226 <const name="LastWildcard" value="31">
14227 <desc>
14228 Last wildcard.
14229 </desc>
14230 </const>
14231
14232 <const name="OnMachineStateChanged" value="32">
14233 <desc>
14234 See <link to="IMachineStateChangedEvent">IMachineStateChangedEvent</link>.
14235 </desc>
14236 </const>
14237 <const name="OnMachineDataChanged" value="33">
14238 <desc>
14239 See <link to="IMachineDataChangedEvent">IMachineDataChangedEvent</link>.
14240 </desc>
14241 </const>
14242 <const name="OnExtraDataChanged" value="34">
14243 <desc>
14244 See <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent">IExtraDataChangedEvent</link>.
14245 </desc>
14246 </const>
14247 <const name="OnExtraDataCanChange" value="35">
14248 <desc>
14249 See <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent">IExtraDataCanChangeEvent</link>.
14250 </desc>
14251 </const>
14252 <const name="OnMediumRegistered" value="36">
14253 <desc>
14254 See <link to="IMediumRegisteredEvent">IMediumRegisteredEvent</link>.
14255 </desc>
14256 </const>
14257 <const name="OnMachineRegistered" value="37">
14258 <desc>
14259 See <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent">IMachineRegisteredEvent</link>.
14260 </desc>
14261 </const>
14262 <const name="OnSessionStateChanged" value="38">
14263 <desc>
14264 See <link to="ISessionStateChangedEvent">ISessionStateChangedEvent</link>.
14265 </desc>
14266 </const>
14267 <const name="OnSnapshotTaken" value="39">
14268 <desc>
14269 See <link to="ISnapshotTakenEvent">ISnapshotTakenEvent</link>.
14270 </desc>
14271 </const>
14272 <const name="OnSnapshotDeleted" value="40">
14273 <desc>
14274 See <link to="ISnapshotDeletedEvent">ISnapshotDeletedEvent</link>.
14275 </desc>
14276 </const>
14277 <const name="OnSnapshotChanged" value="41">
14278 <desc>
14279 See <link to="ISnapshotChangedEvent">ISnapshotChangedEvent</link>.
14280 </desc>
14281 </const>
14282 <const name="OnGuestPropertyChanged" value="42">
14283 <desc>
14284 See <link to="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent">IGuestPropertyChangedEvent</link>.
14285 </desc>
14286 </const>
14287 <!-- Console events -->
14288 <const name="OnMousePointerShapeChanged" value="43">
14289 <desc>
14290 See <link to="IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent">IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent</link>.
14291 </desc>
14292 </const>
14293 <const name="OnMouseCapabilityChanged" value="44">
14294 <desc>
14295 See <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent">IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent</link>.
14296 </desc>
14297 </const>
14298 <const name="OnKeyboardLedsChanged" value="45">
14299 <desc>
14300 See <link to="IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent">IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent</link>.
14301 </desc>
14302 </const>
14303 <const name="OnStateChanged" value="46">
14304 <desc>
14305 See <link to="IStateChangedEvent">IStateChangedEvent</link>.
14306 </desc>
14307 </const>
14308 <const name="OnAdditionsStateChanged" value="47">
14309 <desc>
14310 See <link to="IAdditionsStateChangedEvent">IAdditionsStateChangedEvent</link>.
14311 </desc>
14312 </const>
14313 <const name="OnNetworkAdapterChanged" value="48">
14314 <desc>
14315 See <link to="INetworkAdapterChangedEvent">INetworkAdapterChangedEvent</link>.
14316 </desc>
14317 </const>
14318 <const name="OnSerialPortChanged" value="49">
14319 <desc>
14320 See <link to="ISerialPortChangedEvent">ISerialPortChangedEvent</link>.
14321 </desc>
14322 </const>
14323 <const name="OnParallelPortChanged" value="50">
14324 <desc>
14325 See <link to="IParallelPortChangedEvent">IParallelPortChangedEvent</link>.
14326 </desc>
14327 </const>
14328 <const name="OnStorageControllerChanged" value="51">
14329 <desc>
14330 See <link to="IStorageControllerChangedEvent">IStorageControllerChangedEvent</link>.
14331 </desc>
14332 </const>
14333 <const name="OnMediumChanged" value="52">
14334 <desc>
14335 See <link to="IMediumChangedEvent">IMediumChangedEvent</link>.
14336 </desc>
14337 </const>
14338 <const name="OnVRDEServerChanged" value="53">
14339 <desc>
14340 See <link to="IVRDEServerChangedEvent">IVRDEServerChangedEvent</link>.
14341 </desc>
14342 </const>
14343 <const name="OnUSBControllerChanged" value="54">
14344 <desc>
14345 See <link to="IUSBControllerChangedEvent">IUSBControllerChangedEvent</link>.
14346 </desc>
14347 </const>
14348 <const name="OnUSBDeviceStateChanged" value="55">
14349 <desc>
14350 See <link to="IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent">IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent</link>.
14351 </desc>
14352 </const>
14353 <const name="OnSharedFolderChanged" value="56">
14354 <desc>
14355 See <link to="ISharedFolderChangedEvent">ISharedFolderChangedEvent</link>.
14356 </desc>
14357 </const>
14358 <const name="OnRuntimeError" value="57">
14359 <desc>
14360 See <link to="IRuntimeErrorEvent">IRuntimeErrorEvent</link>.
14361 </desc>
14362 </const>
14363 <const name="OnCanShowWindow" value="58">
14364 <desc>
14365 See <link to="ICanShowWindowEvent">ICanShowWindowEvent</link>.
14366 </desc>
14367 </const>
14368 <const name="OnShowWindow" value="59">
14369 <desc>
14370 See <link to="IShowWindowEvent">IShowWindowEvent</link>.
14371 </desc>
14372 </const>
14373 <const name="OnCPUChanged" value="60">
14374 <desc>
14375 See <link to="ICPUChangedEvent">ICPUChangedEvent</link>.
14376 </desc>
14377 </const>
14378 <const name="OnVRDEServerInfoChanged" value="61">
14379 <desc>
14380 See <link to="IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent">IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent</link>.
14381 </desc>
14382 </const>
14383 <const name="OnEventSourceChanged" value="62">
14384 <desc>
14385 See <link to="IEventSourceChangedEvent">IEventSourceChangedEvent</link>.
14386 </desc>
14387 </const>
14388 <const name="OnCPUExecutionCapChanged" value="63">
14389 <desc>
14390 See <link to="ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent">ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent</link>.
14391 </desc>
14392 </const>
14393 <const name="OnGuestKeyboardEvent" value="64">
14394 <desc>
14395 See <link to="IGuestKeyboardEvent">IGuestKeyboardEvent</link>.
14396 </desc>
14397 </const>
14398 <const name="OnGuestMouseEvent" value="65">
14399 <desc>
14400 See <link to="IGuestMouseEvent">IGuestMouseEvent</link>.
14401 </desc>
14402 </const>
14403 <const name="OnNATRedirectEvent" value="66">
14404 <desc>
14405 See <link to="INATRedirectEvent">INATRedirectEvent</link>.
14406 </desc>
14407 </const>
14408 <!-- Last event marker -->
14409 <const name="Last" value="67">
14410 <desc>
14411 Must be last event, used for iterations and structures relying on numerical event values.
14412 </desc>
14413 </const>
14414
14415 </enum>
14416
14417 <interface
14418 name="IEventSource" extends="$unknown"
14419 uuid="9b6e1aee-35f3-4f4d-b5bb-ed0ecefd8538"
14420 wsmap="managed"
14421 >
14422 <desc>
14423 Event source. Generally, any object which could generate events can be an event source,
14424 or aggregate one. To simplify using one-way protocols such as webservices running on top of HTTP(S),
14425 an event source can work with listeners in either active or passive mode. In active mode it is up to
14426 the IEventSource implementation to call <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" />, in passive mode the
14427 event source keeps track of pending events for each listener and returns available events on demand.
14428
14429 See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
14430 </desc>
14431
14432 <method name="createListener">
14433 <desc>
14434 Creates a new listener object, useful for passive mode.
14435 </desc>
14436 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="return"/>
14437 </method>
14438
14439 <method name="createAggregator">
14440 <desc>
14441 Creates a aggregator event source, collecting events from multiple sources.
14442 This way single listener can listen for events coming from multiple sources,
14443 using single blocking getEvent() of this aggregator.
14444 </desc>
14445 <param name="subordinates" type="IEventSource" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14446 <desc>
14447 Subordinate event source this one aggregatres.
14448 </desc>
14449 </param>
14450 <param name="result" type="IEventSource" dir="return"/>
14451 </method>
14452
14453 <method name="registerListener">
14454 <desc>
14455 Register an event listener.
14456
14457 <note>
14458 To avoid system overload, the VirtualBox server process checks if passive event
14459 listeners call <link to="IEventSource::getEvent"/> frequently enough. In the
14460 current implementation, if more than 500 pending events are detected for a passive
14461 event listener, it is forcefully unregistered by the system, and further
14462 <link to="#getEvent" /> calls will return @c VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND.
14463 </note>
14464 </desc>
14465 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
14466 <desc>Listener to register.</desc>
14467 </param>
14468 <param name="interesting" type="VBoxEventType" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14469 <desc>
14470 Event types listener is interested in. One can use wildcards like -
14471 <link to="VBoxEventType_Any"/> to specify wildcards, matching more
14472 than one event.
14473 </desc>
14474 </param>
14475 <param name="active" type="boolean" dir="in">
14476 <desc>
14477 Which mode this listener is operating in.
14478 In active mode, <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> is called directly.
14479 In passive mode, an internal event queue is created for this this IEventListener.
14480 For each event coming in, it is added to queues for all interested registered passive
14481 listeners. It is then up to the external code to call the listener's
14482 <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> method. When done with an event, the
14483 external code must call <link to="#eventProcessed" />.
14484 </desc>
14485 </param>
14486 </method>
14487
14488 <method name="unregisterListener">
14489 <desc>
14490 Unregister an event listener. If listener is passive, and some waitable events are still
14491 in queue they are marked as processed automatically.
14492 </desc>
14493 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
14494 <desc>Listener to unregister.</desc>
14495 </param>
14496 </method>
14497
14498 <method name="fireEvent">
14499 <desc>
14500 Fire an event for this source.
14501 </desc>
14502 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
14503 <desc>Event to deliver.</desc>
14504 </param>
14505 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
14506 <desc>
14507 Maximum time to wait for event processing (if event is waitable), in ms;
14508 0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
14509 </desc>
14510 </param>
14511 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
14512 <desc>true if an event was delivered to all targets, or is non-waitable.</desc>
14513 </param>
14514 </method>
14515
14516 <method name="getEvent">
14517 <desc>
14518 Get events from this peer's event queue (for passive mode). Calling this method
14519 regularly is required for passive event listeners to avoid system overload;
14520 see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" /> for details.
14521
14522 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
14523 Listener is not registered, or autounregistered.
14524 </result>
14525 </desc>
14526 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
14527 <desc>Which listener to get data for.</desc>
14528 </param>
14529 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
14530 <desc>
14531 Maximum time to wait for events, in ms;
14532 0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
14533 </desc>
14534 </param>
14535 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="return">
14536 <desc>Event retrieved, or null if none available.</desc>
14537 </param>
14538 </method>
14539
14540 <method name="eventProcessed">
14541 <desc>
14542 Must be called for waitable events after a particular listener finished its
14543 event processing. When all listeners of a particular event have called this
14544 method, the system will then call <link to="IEvent::setProcessed" />.
14545 </desc>
14546 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
14547 <desc>Which listener processed event.</desc>
14548 </param>
14549 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
14550 <desc>Which event.</desc>
14551 </param>
14552 </method>
14553
14554 </interface>
14555
14556 <interface
14557 name="IEventListener" extends="$unknown"
14558 uuid="67099191-32e7-4f6c-85ee-422304c71b90"
14559 wsmap="managed"
14560 >
14561 <desc>
14562 Event listener. An event listener can work in either active or passive mode, depending on the way
14563 it was registered.
14564 See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
14565 </desc>
14566
14567 <method name="handleEvent">
14568 <desc>
14569 Handle event callback (called directly by IEventSource in active mode, or could be
14570 called by event processor thread in passive mode).
14571 </desc>
14572 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
14573 <desc>Event available.</desc>
14574 </param>
14575 </method>
14576
14577 </interface>
14578
14579 <interface
14580 name="IEvent" extends="$unknown"
14581 uuid="0ca2adba-8f30-401b-a8cd-fe31dbe839c0"
14582 wsmap="managed"
14583 >
14584 <desc>
14585 Abstract parent interface for VirtualBox events. Actual events will typically implement
14586 a more specific interface which derives from this (see below).
14587
14588 <b>Introduction to VirtualBox events</b>
14589
14590 Generally speaking, an event (represented by this interface) signals that something
14591 happened, while an event listener (see <link to="IEventListener" />) represents an
14592 entity that is interested in certain events. In order for this to work with
14593 unidirectional protocols (i.e. web services), the concepts of passive and active
14594 listener are used.
14595
14596 Event consumers can register themselves as listeners, providing an array of
14597 events they are interested in (see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" />).
14598 When an event triggers, the listener is notified about the event. The exact
14599 mechanism of the notification depends on whether the listener was registered as
14600 an active or passive listener:
14601
14602 <ul>
14603 <li>An active listener is very similar to a callback: it is a function invoked
14604 by the API. As opposed to the callbacks that were used in the API before
14605 VirtualBox 4.0 however, events are now objects with an interface hierarchy.
14606 </li>
14607
14608 <li>Passive listeners are somewhat trickier to implement, but do not require
14609 a client function to be callable, which is not an option with scripting
14610 languages or web service clients. Internally the <link to="IEventSource" />
14611 implementation maintains an event queue for each passive listener, and
14612 newly arrived events are put in this queue. When the listener calls
14613 <link to="IEventSource::getEvent"/>, first element from its internal event
14614 queue is returned. When the client completes processing of an event,
14615 the <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" /> function must be called,
14616 acknowledging that the event was processed. It supports implementing
14617 waitable events. On passive listener unregistration, all events from its
14618 queue are auto-acknowledged.
14619 </li>
14620 </ul>
14621
14622 Waitable events are useful in situations where the event generator wants to track
14623 delivery or a party wants to wait until all listeners have completed the event. A
14624 typical example would be a vetoable event (see <link to="IVetoEvent" />) where a
14625 listeners might veto a certain action, and thus the event producer has to make
14626 sure that all listeners have processed the event and not vetoed before taking
14627 the action.
14628
14629 A given event may have both passive and active listeners at the same time.
14630
14631 <b>Using events</b>
14632
14633 Any VirtualBox object capable of producing externally visible events provides an
14634 @c eventSource read-only attribute, which is of the type <link to="IEventSource" />.
14635 This event source object is notified by VirtualBox once something has happened, so
14636 consumers may register event listeners with this event source. To register a listener,
14637 an object implementing the <link to="IEventListener" /> interface must be provided.
14638 For active listeners, such an object is typically created by the consumer, while for
14639 passive listeners <link to="IEventSource::createListener" /> should be used. Please
14640 note that a listener created with @c createListener() must not be used as an active listener.
14641
14642 Once created, the listener must be registered to listen for the desired events
14643 (see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" />), providing an array of
14644 <link to="VBoxEventType" /> enums. Those elements can either be the individual
14645 event IDs or wildcards matching multiple event IDs.
14646
14647 After registration, the callback's <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> method is
14648 called automatically when the event is triggered, while passive listeners have to call
14649 <link to="IEventSource::getEvent" /> and <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" /> in
14650 an event processing loop.
14651
14652 The IEvent interface is an abstract parent interface for all such VirtualBox events
14653 coming in. As a result, the standard use pattern inside <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" />
14654 or the event processing loop is to check the <link to="#type" /> attribute of the event and
14655 then cast to the appropriate specific interface using @c QueryInterface().
14656 </desc>
14657
14658 <attribute name="type" readonly="yes" type="VBoxEventType">
14659 <desc>
14660 Event type.
14661 </desc>
14662 </attribute>
14663
14664 <attribute name="source" readonly="yes" type="IEventSource">
14665 <desc>
14666 Source of this event.
14667 </desc>
14668 </attribute>
14669
14670 <attribute name="waitable" readonly="yes" type="boolean">
14671 <desc>
14672 If we can wait for this event being processed. If false, waitProcessed() returns immediately,
14673 and setProcessed() doesn't make sense. Non-waitable events are generally better performing,
14674 as no additional overhead associated with waitability imposed.
14675 Waitable events are needed when one need to be able to wait for particular event processed,
14676 for example for vetoable changes, or if event refers to some resource which need to be kept immutable
14677 until all consumers confirmed events.
14678 </desc>
14679 </attribute>
14680
14681 <method name="setProcessed">
14682 <desc>
14683 Internal method called by the system when all listeners of a particular event have called
14684 <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" />. This should not be called by client code.
14685 </desc>
14686 </method>
14687
14688 <method name="waitProcessed">
14689 <desc>
14690 Wait until time outs, or this event is processed. Event must be waitable for this operation to have
14691 described semantics, for non-waitable returns true immediately.
14692 </desc>
14693 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
14694 <desc>
14695 Maximum time to wait for event processeing, in ms;
14696 0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
14697 </desc>
14698 </param>
14699 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
14700 <desc>If this event was processed before timeout.</desc>
14701 </param>
14702 </method>
14703 </interface>
14704
14705
14706 <interface
14707 name="IReusableEvent" extends="IEvent"
14708 uuid="69bfb134-80f6-4266-8e20-16371f68fa25"
14709 wsmap="managed"
14710 >
14711 <desc>Base abstract interface for all reusable events.</desc>
14712
14713 <attribute name="generation" readonly="yes" type="unsigned long">
14714 <desc>Current generation of event, incremented on reuse.</desc>
14715 </attribute>
14716
14717 <method name="reuse">
14718 <desc>
14719 Marks an event as reused, increments 'generation', fields shall no
14720 longer be considered valid.
14721 </desc>
14722 </method>
14723 </interface>
14724
14725 <interface
14726 name="IMachineEvent" extends="IEvent"
14727 uuid="92ed7b1a-0d96-40ed-ae46-a564d484325e"
14728 wsmap="managed" id="MachineEvent"
14729 >
14730 <desc>Base abstract interface for all machine events.</desc>
14731
14732 <attribute name="machineId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
14733 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
14734 </attribute>
14735
14736 </interface>
14737
14738 <interface
14739 name="IMachineStateChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
14740 uuid="5748F794-48DF-438D-85EB-98FFD70D18C9"
14741 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineStateChanged"
14742 >
14743 <desc>Machine state change event.</desc>
14744
14745 <attribute name="state" readonly="yes" type="MachineState">
14746 <desc>New execution state.</desc>
14747 </attribute>
14748 </interface>
14749
14750 <interface
14751 name="IMachineDataChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
14752 uuid="6AA70A6C-0DCA-4810-8C5C-457B278E3D49"
14753 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineDataChanged"
14754 >
14755 <desc>
14756 Any of the settings of the given machine has changed.
14757 </desc>
14758 </interface>
14759
14760 <interface
14761 name="IMediumRegisteredEvent" extends="IEvent"
14762 uuid="53fac49a-b7f1-4a5a-a4ef-a11dd9c2a458"
14763 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMediumRegistered"
14764 >
14765 <desc>
14766 The given medium was registered or unregistered
14767 within this VirtualBox installation.
14768 </desc>
14769
14770 <attribute name="mediumId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
14771 <desc>ID of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
14772 </attribute>
14773
14774 <attribute name="mediumType" readonly="yes" type="DeviceType">
14775 <desc>Type of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
14776 </attribute>
14777
14778 <attribute name="registered" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14779 <desc>
14780 If @c true, the medium was registered, otherwise it was
14781 unregistered.
14782 </desc>
14783 </attribute>
14784 </interface>
14785
14786 <interface
14787 name="IMachineRegisteredEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
14788 uuid="c354a762-3ff2-4f2e-8f09-07382ee25088"
14789 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineRegistered"
14790 >
14791 <desc>
14792 The given machine was registered or unregistered
14793 within this VirtualBox installation.
14794 </desc>
14795
14796 <attribute name="registered" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14797 <desc>
14798 If @c true, the machine was registered, otherwise it was
14799 unregistered.
14800 </desc>
14801 </attribute>
14802 </interface>
14803
14804 <interface
14805 name="ISessionStateChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
14806 uuid="714a3eef-799a-4489-86cd-fe8e45b2ff8e"
14807 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSessionStateChanged"
14808 >
14809 <desc>
14810 The state of the session for the given machine was changed.
14811 <see>IMachine::sessionState</see>
14812 </desc>
14813
14814 <attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
14815 <desc>
14816 New session state.
14817 </desc>
14818 </attribute>
14819 </interface>
14820
14821 <interface
14822 name="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
14823 uuid="3f63597a-26f1-4edb-8dd2-6bddd0912368"
14824 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestPropertyChanged"
14825 >
14826 <desc>
14827 Notification when a guest property has changed.
14828 </desc>
14829
14830 <attribute name="name" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
14831 <desc>
14832 The name of the property that has changed.
14833 </desc>
14834 </attribute>
14835
14836 <attribute name="value" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
14837 <desc>
14838 The new property value.
14839 </desc>
14840 </attribute>
14841
14842 <attribute name="flags" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
14843 <desc>
14844 The new property flags.
14845 </desc>
14846 </attribute>
14847
14848 </interface>
14849
14850 <interface
14851 name="ISnapshotEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
14852 uuid="21637b0e-34b8-42d3-acfb-7e96daf77c22"
14853 wsmap="managed" id="SnapshotEvent"
14854 >
14855 <desc>Base interface for all snapshot events.</desc>
14856
14857 <attribute name="snapshotId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
14858 <desc>ID of the snapshot this event relates to.</desc>
14859 </attribute>
14860
14861 </interface>
14862
14863 <interface
14864 name="ISnapshotTakenEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
14865 uuid="d27c0b3d-6038-422c-b45e-6d4a0503d9f1"
14866 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotTaken"
14867 >
14868 <desc>
14869 A new snapshot of the machine has been taken.
14870 <see>ISnapshot</see>
14871 </desc>
14872 </interface>
14873
14874 <interface
14875 name="ISnapshotDeletedEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
14876 uuid="c48f3401-4a9e-43f4-b7a7-54bd285e22f4"
14877 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotDeleted"
14878 >
14879 <desc>
14880 Snapshot of the given machine has been deleted.
14881
14882 <note>
14883 This notification is delivered <b>after</b> the snapshot
14884 object has been uninitialized on the server (so that any
14885 attempt to call its methods will return an error).
14886 </note>
14887
14888 <see>ISnapshot</see>
14889 </desc>
14890 </interface>
14891
14892 <interface
14893 name="ISnapshotChangedEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
14894 uuid="07541941-8079-447a-a33e-47a69c7980db"
14895 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotChanged"
14896 >
14897 <desc>
14898 Snapshot properties (name and/or description) have been changed.
14899 <see>ISnapshot</see>
14900 </desc>
14901 </interface>
14902
14903 <interface
14904 name="IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
14905 uuid="a6dcf6e8-416b-4181-8c4a-45ec95177aef"
14906 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMousePointerShapeChanged"
14907 >
14908 <desc>
14909 Notification when the guest mouse pointer shape has
14910 changed. The new shape data is given.
14911 </desc>
14912
14913 <attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14914 <desc>
14915 Flag whether the pointer is visible.
14916 </desc>
14917 </attribute>
14918 <attribute name="alpha" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14919 <desc>
14920 Flag whether the pointer has an alpha channel.
14921 </desc>
14922 </attribute>
14923 <attribute name="xhot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14924 <desc>
14925 The pointer hot spot X coordinate.
14926 </desc>
14927 </attribute>
14928 <attribute name="yhot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14929 <desc>
14930 The pointer hot spot Y coordinate.
14931 </desc>
14932 </attribute>
14933 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14934 <desc>
14935 Width of the pointer shape in pixels.
14936 </desc>
14937 </attribute>
14938 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14939 <desc>
14940 Height of the pointer shape in pixels.
14941 </desc>
14942 </attribute>
14943 <attribute name="shape" type="octet" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
14944 <desc>
14945 Shape buffer arrays.
14946
14947 The @a shape buffer contains a 1-bpp (bits per pixel) AND mask
14948 followed by a 32-bpp XOR (color) mask.
14949
14950 For pointers without alpha channel the XOR mask pixels are 32
14951 bit values: (lsb)BGR0(msb). For pointers with alpha channel
14952 the XOR mask consists of (lsb)BGRA(msb) 32 bit values.
14953
14954 An AND mask is used for pointers with alpha channel, so if the
14955 callback does not support alpha, the pointer could be
14956 displayed as a normal color pointer.
14957
14958 The AND mask is a 1-bpp bitmap with byte aligned scanlines. The
14959 size of the AND mask therefore is <tt>cbAnd = (width + 7) / 8 *
14960 height</tt>. The padding bits at the end of each scanline are
14961 undefined.
14962
14963 The XOR mask follows the AND mask on the next 4-byte aligned
14964 offset: <tt>uint8_t *pXor = pAnd + (cbAnd + 3) &amp; ~3</tt>.
14965 Bytes in the gap between the AND and the XOR mask are undefined.
14966 The XOR mask scanlines have no gap between them and the size of
14967 the XOR mask is: <tt>cXor = width * 4 * height</tt>.
14968
14969 <note>
14970 If @a shape is 0, only the pointer visibility is changed.
14971 </note>
14972 </desc>
14973 </attribute>
14974 </interface>
14975
14976 <interface
14977 name="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
14978 uuid="d633ad48-820c-4207-b46c-6bd3596640d5"
14979 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMouseCapabilityChanged"
14980 >
14981 <desc>
14982 Notification when the mouse capabilities reported by the
14983 guest have changed. The new capabilities are passed.
14984 </desc>
14985 <attribute name="supportsAbsolute" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14986 <desc>
14987 Supports absolute coordinates.
14988 </desc>
14989 </attribute>
14990 <attribute name="supportsRelative" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14991 <desc>
14992 Supports relative coordinates.
14993 </desc>
14994 </attribute>
14995 <attribute name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14996 <desc>
14997 If host cursor is needed.
14998 </desc>
14999 </attribute>
15000 </interface>
15001
15002 <interface
15003 name="IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15004 uuid="6DDEF35E-4737-457B-99FC-BC52C851A44F"
15005 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnKeyboardLedsChanged"
15006 >
15007 <desc>
15008 Notification when the guest OS executes the KBD_CMD_SET_LEDS command
15009 to alter the state of the keyboard LEDs.
15010 </desc>
15011 <attribute name="numLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15012 <desc>
15013 NumLock status.
15014 </desc>
15015 </attribute>
15016 <attribute name="capsLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15017 <desc>
15018 CapsLock status.
15019 </desc>
15020 </attribute>
15021 <attribute name="scrollLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15022 <desc>
15023 ScrollLock status.
15024 </desc>
15025 </attribute>
15026 </interface>
15027
15028 <interface
15029 name="IStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15030 uuid="4376693C-CF37-453B-9289-3B0F521CAF27"
15031 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStateChanged"
15032 >
15033 <desc>
15034 Notification when the execution state of the machine has changed.
15035 The new state is given.
15036 </desc>
15037 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
15038 <desc>
15039 New machine state.
15040 </desc>
15041 </attribute>
15042 </interface>
15043
15044 <interface
15045 name="IAdditionsStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15046 uuid="D70F7915-DA7C-44C8-A7AC-9F173490446A"
15047 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnAdditionsStateChanged"
15048 >
15049 <desc>
15050 Notification when a Guest Additions property changes.
15051 Interested callees should query IGuest attributes to
15052 find out what has changed.
15053 </desc>
15054 </interface>
15055
15056 <interface
15057 name="INetworkAdapterChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15058 uuid="08889892-1EC6-4883-801D-77F56CFD0103"
15059 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnNetworkAdapterChanged"
15060 >
15061 <desc>
15062 Notification when a property of one of the
15063 virtual <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter">network adapters</link>
15064 changes. Interested callees should use INetworkAdapter methods and
15065 attributes to find out what has changed.
15066 </desc>
15067 <attribute name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" readonly="yes">
15068 <desc>
15069 Network adapter that is subject to change.
15070 </desc>
15071 </attribute>
15072 </interface>
15073
15074 <interface
15075 name="ISerialPortChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15076 uuid="3BA329DC-659C-488B-835C-4ECA7AE71C6C"
15077 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSerialPortChanged"
15078 >
15079 <desc>
15080 Notification when a property of one of the
15081 virtual <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort">serial ports</link> changes.
15082 Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and attributes
15083 to find out what has changed.
15084 </desc>
15085 <attribute name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" readonly="yes">
15086 <desc>
15087 Serial port that is subject to change.
15088 </desc>
15089 </attribute>
15090 </interface>
15091
15092 <interface
15093 name="IParallelPortChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15094 uuid="813C99FC-9849-4F47-813E-24A75DC85615"
15095 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnParallelPortChanged"
15096 >
15097 <desc>
15098 Notification when a property of one of the
15099 virtual <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort">parallel ports</link>
15100 changes. Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and
15101 attributes to find out what has changed.
15102 </desc>
15103 <attribute name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" readonly="yes">
15104 <desc>
15105 Parallel port that is subject to change.
15106 </desc>
15107 </attribute>
15108 </interface>
15109
15110 <interface
15111 name="IStorageControllerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15112 uuid="715212BF-DA59-426E-8230-3831FAA52C56"
15113 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStorageControllerChanged"
15114 >
15115 <desc>
15116 Notification when a
15117 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
15118 changes.
15119 </desc>
15120 </interface>
15121
15122 <interface
15123 name="IMediumChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15124 uuid="0FE2DA40-5637-472A-9736-72019EABD7DE"
15125 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMediumChanged"
15126 >
15127 <desc>
15128 Notification when a
15129 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
15130 changes.
15131 </desc>
15132 <attribute name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes">
15133 <desc>
15134 Medium attachment that is subject to change.
15135 </desc>
15136 </attribute>
15137 </interface>
15138
15139 <interface
15140 name="ICPUChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15141 uuid="D0F0BECC-EE17-4D17-A8CC-383B0EB55E9D"
15142 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCPUChanged"
15143 >
15144 <desc>
15145 Notification when a CPU changes.
15146 </desc>
15147 <attribute name="cpu" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15148 <desc>
15149 The CPU which changed.
15150 </desc>
15151 </attribute>
15152 <attribute name="add" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15153 <desc>
15154 Flag whether the CPU was added or removed.
15155 </desc>
15156 </attribute>
15157 </interface>
15158
15159 <interface
15160 name="ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15161 uuid="dfa7e4f5-b4a4-44ce-85a8-127ac5eb59dc"
15162 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCPUExecutionCapChanged"
15163 >
15164 <desc>
15165 Notification when the CPU execution cap changes.
15166 </desc>
15167 <attribute name="executionCap" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15168 <desc>
15169 The new CPU execution cap value. (1-100)
15170 </desc>
15171 </attribute>
15172 </interface>
15173
15174 <interface
15175 name="IGuestKeyboardEvent" extends="IEvent"
15176 uuid="88394258-7006-40d4-b339-472ee3801844"
15177 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestKeyboardEvent"
15178 >
15179 <desc>
15180 Notification when guest keyboard event happens.
15181 </desc>
15182 <attribute name="scancodes" type="long" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
15183 <desc>
15184 Array of scancodes.
15185 </desc>
15186 </attribute>
15187 </interface>
15188
15189 <interface
15190 name="IGuestMouseEvent" extends="IReusableEvent"
15191 uuid="1f85d35c-c524-40ff-8e98-307000df0992"
15192 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestMouseEvent"
15193 >
15194 <desc>
15195 Notification when guest mouse event happens.
15196 </desc>
15197
15198 <attribute name="absolute" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15199 <desc>
15200 If this event is relative or absolute.
15201 </desc>
15202 </attribute>
15203
15204 <attribute name="x" type="long" readonly="yes">
15205 <desc>
15206 New X position, or X delta.
15207 </desc>
15208 </attribute>
15209
15210 <attribute name="y" type="long" readonly="yes">
15211 <desc>
15212 New Y position, or Y delta.
15213 </desc>
15214 </attribute>
15215
15216 <attribute name="z" type="long" readonly="yes">
15217 <desc>
15218 Z delta.
15219 </desc>
15220 </attribute>
15221
15222 <attribute name="w" type="long" readonly="yes">
15223 <desc>
15224 W delta.
15225 </desc>
15226 </attribute>
15227
15228 <attribute name="buttons" type="long" readonly="yes">
15229 <desc>
15230 Button state bitmask.
15231 </desc>
15232 </attribute>
15233
15234 </interface>
15235
15236
15237 <interface
15238 name="IVRDEServerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15239 uuid="a06fd66a-3188-4c8c-8756-1395e8cb691c"
15240 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVRDEServerChanged"
15241 >
15242 <desc>
15243 Notification when a property of the
15244 <link to="IMachine::VRDEServer">VRDE server</link> changes.
15245 Interested callees should use IVRDEServer methods and attributes to
15246 find out what has changed.
15247 </desc>
15248 </interface>
15249
15250 <interface
15251 name="IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15252 uuid="dd6a1080-e1b7-4339-a549-f0878115596e"
15253 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVRDEServerInfoChanged"
15254 >
15255 <desc>
15256 Notification when the status of the VRDE server changes. Interested callees
15257 should use <link to="IConsole::VRDEServerInfo">IVRDEServerInfo</link>
15258 attributes to find out what is the current status.
15259 </desc>
15260 </interface>
15261
15262 <interface
15263 name="IUSBControllerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15264 uuid="93BADC0C-61D9-4940-A084-E6BB29AF3D83"
15265 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnUSBControllerChanged"
15266 >
15267 <desc>
15268 Notification when a property of the virtual
15269 <link to="IMachine::USBController">USB controller</link> changes.
15270 Interested callees should use IUSBController methods and attributes to
15271 find out what has changed.
15272 </desc>
15273 </interface>
15274
15275 <interface
15276 name="IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15277 uuid="806da61b-6679-422a-b629-51b06b0c6d93"
15278 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnUSBDeviceStateChanged"
15279 >
15280 <desc>
15281 Notification when a USB device is attached to or detached from
15282 the virtual USB controller.
15283
15284 This notification is sent as a result of the indirect
15285 request to attach the device because it matches one of the
15286 machine USB filters, or as a result of the direct request
15287 issued by <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/> or
15288 <link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>.
15289
15290 This notification is sent in case of both a succeeded and a
15291 failed request completion. When the request succeeds, the
15292 @a error parameter is @c null, and the given device has been
15293 already added to (when @a attached is @c true) or removed from
15294 (when @a attached is @c false) the collection represented by
15295 <link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/>. On failure, the collection
15296 doesn't change and the @a error parameter represents the error
15297 message describing the failure.
15298 </desc>
15299 <attribute name="device" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes">
15300 <desc>
15301 Device that is subject to state change.
15302 </desc>
15303 </attribute>
15304 <attribute name="attached" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15305 <desc>
15306 @c true if the device was attached and @c false otherwise.
15307 </desc>
15308 </attribute>
15309 <attribute name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
15310 <desc>
15311 @c null on success or an error message object on failure.
15312 </desc>
15313 </attribute>
15314 </interface>
15315
15316 <interface
15317 name="ISharedFolderChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15318 uuid="B66349B5-3534-4239-B2DE-8E1535D94C0B"
15319 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSharedFolderChanged"
15320 >
15321 <desc>
15322 Notification when a shared folder is added or removed.
15323 The @a scope argument defines one of three scopes:
15324 <link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders">global shared folders</link>
15325 (<link to="Scope_Global">Global</link>),
15326 <link to="IMachine::sharedFolders">permanent shared folders</link> of
15327 the machine (<link to="Scope_Machine">Machine</link>) or <link
15328 to="IConsole::sharedFolders">transient shared folders</link> of the
15329 machine (<link to="Scope_Session">Session</link>). Interested callees
15330 should use query the corresponding collections to find out what has
15331 changed.
15332 </desc>
15333 <attribute name="scope" type="Scope" readonly="yes">
15334 <desc>
15335 Scope of the notification.
15336 </desc>
15337 </attribute>
15338 </interface>
15339
15340 <interface
15341 name="IRuntimeErrorEvent" extends="IEvent"
15342 uuid="883DD18B-0721-4CDE-867C-1A82ABAF914C"
15343 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnRuntimeError"
15344 >
15345 <desc>
15346 Notification when an error happens during the virtual
15347 machine execution.
15348
15349 There are three kinds of runtime errors:
15350 <ul>
15351 <li><i>fatal</i></li>
15352 <li><i>non-fatal with retry</i></li>
15353 <li><i>non-fatal warnings</i></li>
15354 </ul>
15355
15356 <b>Fatal</b> errors are indicated by the @a fatal parameter set
15357 to @c true. In case of fatal errors, the virtual machine
15358 execution is always paused before calling this notification, and
15359 the notification handler is supposed either to immediately save
15360 the virtual machine state using <link to="IConsole::saveState"/>
15361 or power it off using <link to="IConsole::powerDown"/>.
15362 Resuming the execution can lead to unpredictable results.
15363
15364 <b>Non-fatal</b> errors and warnings are indicated by the
15365 @a fatal parameter set to @c false. If the virtual machine
15366 is in the Paused state by the time the error notification is
15367 received, it means that the user can <i>try to resume</i> the machine
15368 execution after attempting to solve the problem that caused the
15369 error. In this case, the notification handler is supposed
15370 to show an appropriate message to the user (depending on the
15371 value of the @a id parameter) that offers several actions such
15372 as <i>Retry</i>, <i>Save</i> or <i>Power Off</i>. If the user
15373 wants to retry, the notification handler should continue
15374 the machine execution using the <link to="IConsole::resume"/>
15375 call. If the machine execution is not Paused during this
15376 notification, then it means this notification is a <i>warning</i>
15377 (for example, about a fatal condition that can happen very soon);
15378 no immediate action is required from the user, the machine
15379 continues its normal execution.
15380
15381 Note that in either case the notification handler
15382 <b>must not</b> perform any action directly on a thread
15383 where this notification is called. Everything it is allowed to
15384 do is to post a message to another thread that will then talk
15385 to the user and take the corresponding action.
15386
15387 Currently, the following error identifiers are known:
15388 <ul>
15389 <li><tt>"HostMemoryLow"</tt></li>
15390 <li><tt>"HostAudioNotResponding"</tt></li>
15391 <li><tt>"VDIStorageFull"</tt></li>
15392 <li><tt>"3DSupportIncompatibleAdditions"</tt></li>
15393 </ul>
15394 </desc>
15395 <attribute name="fatal" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15396 <desc>
15397 Whether the error is fatal or not.
15398 </desc>
15399 </attribute>
15400 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15401 <desc>
15402 Error identifier.
15403 </desc>
15404 </attribute>
15405 <attribute name="message" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15406 <desc>
15407 Optional error message.
15408 </desc>
15409 </attribute>
15410 </interface>
15411
15412
15413 <interface
15414 name="IEventSourceChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15415 uuid="e7932cb8-f6d4-4ab6-9cbf-558eb8959a6a"
15416 waitable="yes"
15417 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnEventSourceChanged"
15418 >
15419 <desc>
15420 Notification when an event source state changes (listener added or removed).
15421 </desc>
15422
15423 <attribute name="listener" type="IEventListener" readonly="yes">
15424 <desc>
15425 Event listener which has changed.
15426 </desc>
15427 </attribute>
15428
15429 <attribute name="add" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15430 <desc>
15431 Flag whether listener was added or removed.
15432 </desc>
15433 </attribute>
15434 </interface>
15435
15436 <interface
15437 name="IExtraDataChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
15438 uuid="024F00CE-6E0B-492A-A8D0-968472A94DC7"
15439 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnExtraDataChanged"
15440 >
15441 <desc>
15442 Notification when machine specific or global extra data
15443 has changed.
15444 </desc>
15445 <attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
15446 <desc>
15447 ID of the machine this event relates to.
15448 Null for global extra data changes.
15449 </desc>
15450 </attribute>
15451 <attribute name="key" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15452 <desc>
15453 Extra data key that has changed.
15454 </desc>
15455 </attribute>
15456 <attribute name="value" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15457 <desc>
15458 Extra data value for the given key.
15459 </desc>
15460 </attribute>
15461 </interface>
15462
15463 <interface
15464 name="IVetoEvent" extends="IEvent"
15465 uuid="9a1a4130-69fe-472f-ac10-c6fa25d75007"
15466 wsmap="managed"
15467 >
15468 <desc>Base abstract interface for veto events.</desc>
15469
15470 <method name="addVeto">
15471 <desc>
15472 Adds a veto on this event.
15473 </desc>
15474 <param name="reason" type="wstring" dir="in">
15475 <desc>
15476 Reason for veto, could be null or empty string.
15477 </desc>
15478 </param>
15479 </method>
15480
15481 <method name="isVetoed">
15482 <desc>
15483 If this event was vetoed.
15484 </desc>
15485 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
15486 <desc>
15487 Reason for veto.
15488 </desc>
15489 </param>
15490 </method>
15491
15492 <method name="getVetos">
15493 <desc>
15494 Current veto reason list, if size is 0 - no veto.
15495 </desc>
15496 <param name="result" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15497 <desc>
15498 Array of reasons for veto provided by different event handlers.
15499 </desc>
15500 </param>
15501 </method>
15502
15503 </interface>
15504
15505 <interface
15506 name="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent" extends="IVetoEvent"
15507 uuid="245d88bd-800a-40f8-87a6-170d02249a55"
15508 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnExtraDataCanChange"
15509 waitable="true"
15510 >
15511 <desc>
15512 Notification when someone tries to change extra data for
15513 either the given machine or (if @c null) global extra data.
15514 This gives the chance to veto against changes.
15515 </desc>
15516 <attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
15517 <desc>
15518 ID of the machine this event relates to.
15519 Null for global extra data changes.
15520 </desc>
15521 </attribute>
15522 <attribute name="key" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15523 <desc>
15524 Extra data key that has changed.
15525 </desc>
15526 </attribute>
15527 <attribute name="value" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15528 <desc>
15529 Extra data value for the given key.
15530 </desc>
15531 </attribute>
15532 </interface>
15533
15534 <interface
15535 name="ICanShowWindowEvent" extends="IVetoEvent"
15536 uuid="adf292b0-92c9-4a77-9d35-e058b39fe0b9"
15537 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCanShowWindow"
15538 waitable="true"
15539 >
15540 <desc>
15541 Notification when a call to
15542 <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> is made by a
15543 front-end to check if a subsequent call to
15544 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> can succeed.
15545
15546 The callee should give an answer appropriate to the current
15547 machine state using event veto. This answer must
15548 remain valid at least until the next
15549 <link to="IConsole::state">machine state</link> change.
15550 </desc>
15551 </interface>
15552
15553 <interface
15554 name="IShowWindowEvent" extends="IEvent"
15555 uuid="B0A0904D-2F05-4D28-855F-488F96BAD2B2"
15556 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnShowWindow"
15557 waitable="true"
15558 >
15559 <desc>
15560 Notification when a call to
15561 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/>
15562 requests the console window to be activated and brought to
15563 foreground on the desktop of the host PC.
15564
15565 This notification should cause the VM console process to
15566 perform the requested action as described above. If it is
15567 impossible to do it at a time of this notification, this
15568 method should return a failure.
15569
15570 Note that many modern window managers on many platforms
15571 implement some sort of focus stealing prevention logic, so
15572 that it may be impossible to activate a window without the
15573 help of the currently active application (which is supposedly
15574 an initiator of this notification). In this case, this method
15575 must return a non-zero identifier that represents the
15576 top-level window of the VM console process. The caller, if it
15577 represents a currently active process, is responsible to use
15578 this identifier (in a platform-dependent manner) to perform
15579 actual window activation.
15580
15581 This method must set @a winId to zero if it has performed all
15582 actions necessary to complete the request and the console
15583 window is now active and in foreground, to indicate that no
15584 further action is required on the caller's side.
15585 </desc>
15586 <attribute name="winId" type="long long">
15587 <desc>
15588 Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
15589 window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
15590 necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
15591 the given platform and/or this VirtualBox front-end.
15592 </desc>
15593 </attribute>
15594 </interface>
15595
15596 <interface
15597 name="INATRedirectEvent" extends="IEvent"
15598 uuid="b566336e-ec24-11df-8fbd-f71b6f29dd03"
15599 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnNATRedirectEvent"
15600 >
15601 <desc>
15602 Notification when NAT redirect rule added or removed.
15603 </desc>
15604 <attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
15605 <desc>
15606 Machine id where redirect event is occured.
15607 </desc>
15608 </attribute>
15609 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15610 <desc>
15611 Adapter which NAT attached to.
15612 </desc>
15613 </attribute>
15614 <attribute name="remove" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15615 <desc>
15616 Whether rule remove or add.
15617 </desc>
15618 </attribute>
15619 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15620 <desc>
15621 Name of the rule.
15622 </desc>
15623 </attribute>
15624 <attribute name="proto" type="NATProtocol" readonly="yes">
15625 <desc>
15626 Protocol (TCP or UDP) of the redirect rule.
15627 </desc>
15628 </attribute>
15629 <attribute name="hostIp" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15630 <desc>
15631 Host ip address to bind socket on.
15632 </desc>
15633 </attribute>
15634 <attribute name="hostPort" type="long" readonly="yes">
15635 <desc>
15636 Host port to bind socket on.
15637 </desc>
15638 </attribute>
15639 <attribute name="guestIp" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15640 <desc>
15641 Guest ip address to redirect to.
15642 </desc>
15643 </attribute>
15644 <attribute name="guestPort" type="long" readonly="yes">
15645 <desc>
15646 Guest port to redirect to.
15647 </desc>
15648 </attribute>
15649 </interface>
15650
15651 <module name="VBoxSVC" context="LocalServer">
15652 <class name="VirtualBox" uuid="B1A7A4F2-47B9-4A1E-82B2-07CCD5323C3F"
15653 namespace="virtualbox.org">
15654 <interface name="IVirtualBox" default="yes"/>
15655 </class>
15656 </module>
15657
15658 <module name="VBoxC" context="InprocServer" threadingModel="Free">
15659 <class name="Session" uuid="3C02F46D-C9D2-4F11-A384-53F0CF917214"
15660 namespace="virtualbox.org">
15661 <interface name="ISession" default="yes"/>
15662 </class>
15663
15664 <class name="Console" uuid="577230FF-164F-4CAC-8548-312D8275A4A7"
15665 namespace="virtualbox.org">
15666 <interface name="IConsole" default="yes"/>
15667 </class>
15668 </module>
15669
15670</library>
15671
15672</idl>
15673
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