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1<?xml version="1.0" ?>
2
3<!--
4
5 Copyright (C) 2006-2011 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
388 name="SettingsVersion"
389 uuid="52bd6f5f-1adb-4493-975d-581a9c4b803f"
390 >
391 <desc>
392 Settings version of VirtualBox settings files. This is written to
393 the "version" attribute of the root "VirtualBox" element in the settings
394 file XML and indicates which VirtualBox version wrote the file.
395 </desc>
396
397 <const name="Null" value="0">
398 <desc>Null value, indicates invalid version.</desc>
399 </const>
400 <const name="v1_0" value="1">
401 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
402 </const>
403 <const name="v1_1" value="2">
404 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
405 </const>
406 <const name="v1_2" value="3">
407 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
408 </const>
409 <const name="v1_3pre" value="4">
410 <desc>Legacy settings version, not currently supported.</desc>
411 </const>
412 <const name="v1_3" value="5">
413 <desc>Settings version "1.3", written by VirtualBox 2.0.12.</desc>
414 <!--
415 Machine XML: Capitalization of Uart, Lpt elements and many attributes changed.
416 -->
417 </const>
418 <const name="v1_4" value="6">
419 <desc>Intermediate settings version, understood by VirtualBox 2.1.x.</desc>
420 <!--
421 VirtualBox.xml: big DiskRegistry -> MediaRegistry revamp, various HardDisk types merged
422 (was VirtualDiskImage, VMDKImage, VHDImage, ISCSIHardDisk, CustomHardDisk, DiffHardDisk)
423 -->
424 </const>
425 <const name="v1_5" value="7">
426 <desc>Intermediate settings version, understood by VirtualBox 2.1.x.</desc>
427 <!--
428 2008-09-04: 2.0.0 released
429 2008-11-20: settings version 1.5 introduced
430 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
431 Machine changes:
432 guest OS identifiers changed;
433 Machine/Hardware/Display/MonitorCount renamed to monitorCount;
434 Machine/Hardware/Display/Accelerate3D renamed to accelerate3D;
435 Machine/Hardware/CPU/CPUCount/@count changed to CPU/@count
436 -->
437 </const>
438 <const name="v1_6" value="8">
439 <desc>Settings version "1.6", written by VirtualBox 2.1.4 (at least).</desc>
440 <!--
441 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
442 2008-12-19: settings version 1.6 introduced (is in 2.1 branch)
443 2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
444 Machine changes: remove all Machine/Hardware/Network/Adapter/HostInterface[@TAPSetup or @TAPTerminate]/ attributes (done)
445 -->
446 </const>
447 <const name="v1_7" value="9">
448 <desc>Settings version "1.7", written by VirtualBox 2.2.x and 3.0.x.</desc>
449 <!--
450 2008-12-17: 2.1.0 released
451 2009-03-11: settings version 1.7 introduced (is in 2.2 branch)
452 2009-04-08: 2.2.0 released
453 VirtualBox.xml additions: NetserviceRegistry with DHCPServers (done)
454 Machine changes: HardDiskAttachments is now StorageControllers (done)
455 -->
456 </const>
457 <const name="v1_8" value="10">
458 <desc>Intermediate settings version "1.8", understood by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
459 <!--
460 Machine additions: Display/@accelerate2DVideo (done)
461 -->
462 </const>
463 <const name="v1_9" value="11">
464 <desc>Settings version "1.9", written by VirtualBox 3.1.x.</desc>
465 <!--
466 The big storage controller / DVD / Floppy rework (done)
467 -->
468 </const>
469 <const name="v1_10" value="12">
470 <desc>Settings version "1.10", written by VirtualBox 3.2.x.</desc>
471 <!--
472 Machine changes: RTC localOrUTC (done)
473 CPU hot-plug support
474 -->
475 </const>
476 <const name="v1_11" value="13">
477 <desc>Settings version "1.11", written by VirtualBox 4.0.x.</desc>
478 <!--
479 Machine changes: HD Audio controller, per-machine disk registries,
480 /@format attribute for DVD and floppy images.
481 -->
482 </const>
483 <const name="v1_12" value="14">
484 <desc>Settings version "1.12", written by VirtualBox 4.1.x.</desc>
485 <!--
486 Machine changes: raw PCI device attachment;
487 NetworkAdapter changes: bandwidth group.
488 -->
489 </const>
490
491 <const name="Future" value="99999">
492 <desc>Settings version greater than "1.11", written by a future VirtualBox version.</desc>
493 </const>
494 </enum>
495
496 <enum
497 name="AccessMode"
498 uuid="1da0007c-ddf7-4be8-bcac-d84a1558785f"
499 >
500 <desc>
501 Access mode for opening files.
502 </desc>
503
504 <const name="ReadOnly" value="1"/>
505 <const name="ReadWrite" value="2"/>
506 </enum>
507
508 <enum
509 name="MachineState"
510 uuid="ec6c6a9e-113d-4ff4-b44f-0b69f21c97fe"
511 >
512 <desc>
513 Virtual machine execution state.
514
515 This enumeration represents possible values of the <link
516 to="IMachine::state"/> attribute.
517
518 Below is the basic virtual machine state diagram. It shows how the state
519 changes during virtual machine execution. The text in square braces shows
520 a method of the IConsole interface that performs the given state
521 transition.
522
523 <pre>
524 +---------[powerDown()] &lt;- Stuck &lt;--[failure]-+
525 V |
526 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+--&gt;[powerUp()]--&gt; Starting --+ | +-----[resume()]-----+
527 | | | | V |
528 | Aborted -----+ +--&gt; Running --[pause()]--&gt; Paused
529 | | ^ | ^ |
530 | Saved -----------[powerUp()]--&gt; Restoring -+ | | | |
531 | ^ | | | |
532 | | +-----------------------------------------+-|-------------------+ +
533 | | | | |
534 | | +-- Saving &lt;--------[takeSnapshot()]&lt;-------+---------------------+
535 | | | |
536 | +-------- Saving &lt;--------[saveState()]&lt;----------+---------------------+
537 | | |
538 +-------------- Stopping -------[powerDown()]&lt;----------+---------------------+
539 </pre>
540
541 Note that states to the right from PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved in the
542 above diagram are called <i>online VM states</i>. These states
543 represent the virtual machine which is being executed in a dedicated
544 process (usually with a GUI window attached to it where you can see the
545 activity of the virtual machine and interact with it). There are two
546 special pseudo-states, FirstOnline and LastOnline, that can be used in
547 relational expressions to detect if the given machine state is online or
548 not:
549
550 <pre>
551 if (machine.GetState() &gt;= MachineState_FirstOnline &amp;&amp;
552 machine.GetState() &lt;= MachineState_LastOnline)
553 {
554 ...the machine is being executed...
555 }
556 </pre>
557
558 When the virtual machine is in one of the online VM states (that is, being
559 executed), only a few machine settings can be modified. Methods working
560 with such settings contain an explicit note about that. An attempt to
561 change any oter setting or perform a modifying operation during this time
562 will result in the @c VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE error.
563
564 All online states except Running, Paused and Stuck are transitional: they
565 represent temporary conditions of the virtual machine that will last as
566 long as the operation that initiated such a condition.
567
568 The Stuck state is a special case. It means that execution of the machine
569 has reached the "Guru Meditation" condition. This condition indicates an
570 internal VMM (virtual machine manager) failure which may happen as a
571 result of either an unhandled low-level virtual hardware exception or one
572 of the recompiler exceptions (such as the <i>too-many-traps</i>
573 condition).
574
575 Note also that any online VM state may transit to the Aborted state. This
576 happens if the process that is executing the virtual machine terminates
577 unexpectedly (for example, crashes). Other than that, the Aborted state is
578 equivalent to PoweredOff.
579
580 There are also a few additional state diagrams that do not deal with
581 virtual machine execution and therefore are shown separately. The states
582 shown on these diagrams are called <i>offline VM states</i> (this includes
583 PoweredOff, Aborted and Saved too).
584
585 The first diagram shows what happens when a lengthy setup operation is
586 being executed (such as <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>).
587
588 <pre>
589 +----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
590 | |
591 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+ |
592 | | |
593 |-&gt; Aborted -----+--&gt;[lengthy VM configuration call] --&gt; SettingUp -----+
594 | |
595 +-&gt; Saved -------+
596 </pre>
597
598 The next two diagrams demonstrate the process of taking a snapshot of a
599 powered off virtual machine, restoring the state to that as of a snapshot
600 or deleting a snapshot, respectively.
601
602 <pre>
603 +----------------------------------(same state as before the call)------+
604 | |
605 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+ |
606 | +--&gt;[takeSnapshot()] -------------------&gt; Saving ------+
607 +-&gt; Aborted -----+
608
609 +-&gt; PoweredOff --+
610 | |
611 | Aborted -----+--&gt;[restoreSnapshot() ]-------&gt; RestoringSnapshot -+
612 | | [deleteSnapshot() ]-------&gt; DeletingSnapshot --+
613 +-&gt; Saved -------+ |
614 | |
615 +---(Saved if restored from an online snapshot, PoweredOff otherwise)---+
616 </pre>
617
618 Note that the Saving state is present in both the offline state group and
619 online state group. Currently, the only way to determine what group is
620 assumed in a particular case is to remember the previous machine state: if
621 it was Running or Paused, then Saving is an online state, otherwise it is
622 an offline state. This inconsistency may be removed in one of the future
623 versions of VirtualBox by adding a new state.
624
625 <note internal="yes">
626 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
627 comparisons involving FirstOnline and LastOnline pseudo-states valid,
628 the numeric values of these states must be correspondingly updated if
629 needed: for any online VM state, the condition
630 <tt>FirstOnline &lt;= state &lt;= LastOnline</tt> must be
631 @c true. The same relates to transient states for which
632 the condition <tt>FirstOnline &lt;= state &lt;= LastOnline</tt> must be
633 @c true.
634 </note>
635 </desc>
636
637 <const name="Null" value="0">
638 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
639 </const>
640 <const name="PoweredOff" value="1">
641 <desc>
642 The machine is not running and has no saved execution state; it has
643 either never been started or been shut down successfully.
644 </desc>
645 </const>
646 <const name="Saved" value="2">
647 <desc>
648 The machine is not currently running, but the execution state of the machine
649 has been saved to an external file when it was running, from where
650 it can be resumed.
651 </desc>
652 </const>
653 <const name="Teleported" value="3">
654 <desc>
655 The machine was teleported to a different host (or process) and then
656 powered off. Take care when powering it on again may corrupt resources
657 it shares with the teleportation target (e.g. disk and network).
658 </desc>
659 </const>
660 <const name="Aborted" value="4">
661 <desc>
662 The process running the machine has terminated abnormally. This may
663 indicate a crash of the VM process in host execution context, or
664 the VM process has been terminated externally.
665 </desc>
666 </const>
667 <const name="Running" value="5">
668 <desc>
669 The machine is currently being executed.
670 <note internal="yes">
671 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
672 comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
673 precede the Paused state.
674 TODO: Lift this spectacularly wonderful restriction.
675 </note>
676 </desc>
677 </const>
678 <const name="Paused" value="6">
679 <desc>
680 Execution of the machine has been paused.
681 <note internal="yes">
682 For whoever decides to touch this enum: In order to keep the
683 comparisons in the old source code valid, this state must immediately
684 follow the Running state.
685 TODO: Lift this spectacularly wonderful restriction.
686 </note>
687 </desc>
688 </const>
689 <const name="Stuck" value="7">
690 <desc>
691 Execution of the machine has reached the "Guru Meditation"
692 condition. This indicates a severe error in the hypervisor itself.
693 <note internal="yes">
694 bird: Why this uncool name? Could we rename it to "GuruMeditation" or
695 "Guru", perhaps? Or are there some other VMM states that are
696 intended to be lumped in here as well?
697 </note>
698 </desc>
699 </const>
700 <const name="Teleporting" value="8">
701 <desc>
702 The machine is about to be teleported to a different host or process.
703 It is possible to pause a machine in this state, but it will go to the
704 @c TeleportingPausedVM state and it will not be
705 possible to resume it again unless the teleportation fails.
706 </desc>
707 </const>
708 <const name="LiveSnapshotting" value="9">
709 <desc>
710 A live snapshot is being taken. The machine is running normally, but
711 some of the runtime configuration options are inaccessible. Also, if
712 paused while in this state it will transition to
713 @c Saving and it will not be resume the
714 execution until the snapshot operation has completed.
715 </desc>
716 </const>
717 <const name="Starting" value="10">
718 <desc>
719 Machine is being started after powering it on from a
720 zero execution state.
721 </desc>
722 </const>
723 <const name="Stopping" value="11">
724 <desc>
725 Machine is being normally stopped powering it off, or after the guest OS
726 has initiated a shutdown sequence.
727 </desc>
728 </const>
729 <const name="Saving" value="12">
730 <desc>
731 Machine is saving its execution state to a file, or an online
732 snapshot of the machine is being taken.
733 </desc>
734 </const>
735 <const name="Restoring" value="13">
736 <desc>
737 Execution state of the machine is being restored from a file
738 after powering it on from the saved execution state.
739 </desc>
740 </const>
741 <const name="TeleportingPausedVM" value="14">
742 <desc>
743 The machine is being teleported to another host or process, but it is
744 not running. This is the paused variant of the
745 @c state.
746 </desc>
747 </const>
748 <const name="TeleportingIn" value="15">
749 <desc>
750 Teleporting the machine state in from another host or process.
751 </desc>
752 </const>
753 <const name="FaultTolerantSyncing" value="16">
754 <desc>
755 The machine is being synced with a fault tolerant VM running elsewhere.
756 </desc>
757 </const>
758 <const name="DeletingSnapshotOnline" value="17">
759 <desc>
760 Like @c DeletingSnapshot, but the merging of media is ongoing in
761 the background while the machine is running.
762 </desc>
763 </const>
764 <const name="DeletingSnapshotPaused" value="18">
765 <desc>
766 Like @c DeletingSnapshotOnline, but the machine was paused when the
767 merging of differencing media was started.
768 </desc>
769 </const>
770 <const name="RestoringSnapshot" value="19">
771 <desc>
772 A machine snapshot is being restored; this typically does not take long.
773 </desc>
774 </const>
775 <const name="DeletingSnapshot" value="20">
776 <desc>
777 A machine snapshot is being deleted; this can take a long time since this
778 may require merging differencing media. This value indicates that the
779 machine is not running while the snapshot is being deleted.
780 </desc>
781 </const>
782 <const name="SettingUp" value="21">
783 <desc>
784 Lengthy setup operation is in progress.
785 </desc>
786 </const>
787
788 <const name="FirstOnline" value="5" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Running -->
789 <desc>
790 Pseudo-state: first online state (for use in relational expressions).
791 </desc>
792 </const>
793 <const name="LastOnline" value="18" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- DeletingSnapshotPaused -->
794 <desc>
795 Pseudo-state: last online state (for use in relational expressions).
796 </desc>
797 </const>
798
799 <const name="FirstTransient" value="8" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- Teleporting -->
800 <desc>
801 Pseudo-state: first transient state (for use in relational expressions).
802 </desc>
803 </const>
804 <const name="LastTransient" value="21" wsmap="suppress"> <!-- SettingUp -->
805 <desc>
806 Pseudo-state: last transient state (for use in relational expressions).
807 </desc>
808 </const>
809
810 </enum>
811
812 <enum
813 name="SessionState"
814 uuid="cf2700c0-ea4b-47ae-9725-7810114b94d8"
815 >
816 <desc>
817 Session state. This enumeration represents possible values of
818 <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/> and <link to="ISession::state"/>
819 attributes.
820 </desc>
821
822 <const name="Null" value="0">
823 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
824 </const>
825 <const name="Unlocked" value="1">
826 <desc>
827 In <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>, this means that the machine
828 is not locked for any sessions.
829
830 In <link to="ISession::state"/>, this means that no machine is
831 currently locked for this session.
832 </desc>
833 </const>
834 <const name="Locked" value="2">
835 <desc>
836 In <link to="IMachine::sessionState"/>, this means that the machine
837 is currently locked for a session, whose process identifier can
838 then be found in the <link to="IMachine::sessionPid" /> attribute.
839
840 In <link to="ISession::state"/>, this means that a machine is
841 currently locked for this session, and the mutable machine object
842 can be found in the <link to="ISession::machine"/> attribute
843 (see <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> for details).
844 </desc>
845 </const>
846 <const name="Spawning" value="3">
847 <desc>
848 A new process is being spawned for the machine as a result of
849 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> call. This state also occurs
850 as a short transient state during an <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>
851 call.
852 </desc>
853 </const>
854 <const name="Unlocking" value="4">
855 <desc>
856 The session is being unlocked.
857 </desc>
858 </const>
859 </enum>
860
861 <enum
862 name="CPUPropertyType"
863 uuid="24d356a6-2f45-4abd-b977-1cbe9c4701f5"
864 >
865 <desc>
866 Virtual CPU property type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
867 IMachine get- and setCPUProperty methods.
868 </desc>
869 <const name="Null" value="0">
870 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
871 </const>
872 <const name="PAE" value="1">
873 <desc>
874 This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose the Physical Address
875 Extension (PAE) feature of the host CPU to the guest. Note that in case PAE
876 is not available, it will not be reported.
877 </desc>
878 </const>
879 <const name="Synthetic" value="2">
880 <desc>
881 This setting determines whether VirtualBox will expose a synthetic CPU to the guest to allow
882 teleporting between host systems that differ significantly.
883 </desc>
884 </const>
885 </enum>
886
887
888 <enum
889 name="HWVirtExPropertyType"
890 uuid="ce81dfdd-d2b8-4a90-bbea-40ee8b7ffcee"
891 >
892 <desc>
893 Hardware virtualization property type. This enumeration represents possible values
894 for the <link to="IMachine::getHWVirtExProperty"/> and
895 <link to="IMachine::setHWVirtExProperty"/> methods.
896 </desc>
897 <const name="Null" value="0">
898 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
899 </const>
900 <const name="Enabled" value="1">
901 <desc>
902 Whether hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) is enabled at all. If
903 such extensions are not available, they will not be used.
904 </desc>
905 </const>
906 <const name="Exclusive" value="2">
907 <desc>
908 Whether hardware virtualization is used exclusively by VirtualBox. When enabled,
909 VirtualBox assumes it can acquire full and exclusive access to the VT-x or AMD-V
910 feature of the host. To share these with other hypervisors, you must disable this property.
911 </desc>
912 </const>
913 <const name="VPID" value="3">
914 <desc>
915 Whether VT-x VPID is enabled. If this extension is not available, it will not be used.
916 </desc>
917 </const>
918 <const name="NestedPaging" value="4">
919 <desc>
920 Whether Nested Paging is enabled. If this extension is not available, it will not be used.
921 </desc>
922 </const>
923 <const name="LargePages" value="5">
924 <desc>
925 Whether large page allocation is enabled; requires nested paging and a 64 bits host.
926 </desc>
927 </const>
928 <const name="Force" value="6">
929 <desc>
930 Whether the VM should fail to start if hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V) cannot be used. If
931 not set, there will be an automatic fallback to software virtualization.
932 </desc>
933 </const>
934 </enum>
935
936 <enum
937 name="FaultToleranceState"
938 uuid="5124f7ec-6b67-493c-9dee-ee45a44114e1"
939 >
940 <desc>
941 Used with <link to="IMachine::faultToleranceState" />.
942 </desc>
943 <const name="Inactive" value="1">
944 <desc>No fault tolerance enabled.</desc>
945 </const>
946 <const name="Master" value="2">
947 <desc>Fault tolerant master VM.</desc>
948 </const>
949 <const name="Standby" value="3">
950 <desc>Fault tolerant standby VM.</desc>
951 </const>
952 </enum>
953
954 <enum
955 name="LockType"
956 uuid="138b53f8-db4b-47c5-b32b-4ef52f769413"
957 >
958 <desc>
959 Used with <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />.
960 </desc>
961 <const name="Write" value="2">
962 <desc>Lock the machine for writing.</desc>
963 </const>
964 <const name="Shared" value="1">
965 <desc>Request only a shared read lock for remote-controlling the machine.</desc>
966 </const>
967 </enum>
968
969 <enum
970 name="SessionType"
971 uuid="A13C02CB-0C2C-421E-8317-AC0E8AAA153A"
972 >
973 <desc>
974 Session type. This enumeration represents possible values of the
975 <link to="ISession::type"/> attribute.
976 </desc>
977
978 <const name="Null" value="0">
979 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
980 </const>
981 <const name="WriteLock" value="1">
982 <desc>
983 Session has acquired an exclusive write lock on a machine
984 using <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>.
985 </desc>
986 </const>
987 <const name="Remote" value="2">
988 <desc>
989 Session has launched a VM process using
990 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>
991 </desc>
992 </const>
993 <const name="Shared" value="3">
994 <desc>
995 Session has obtained a link to another session using
996 <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>
997 </desc>
998 </const>
999 </enum>
1000
1001 <enum
1002 name="DeviceType"
1003 uuid="6d9420f7-0b56-4636-99f9-7346f1b01e57"
1004 >
1005 <desc>
1006 Device type.
1007 </desc>
1008 <const name="Null" value="0">
1009 <desc>
1010 Null value, may also mean "no device" (not allowed for
1011 <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>).
1012 </desc>
1013 </const>
1014 <const name="Floppy" value="1">
1015 <desc>Floppy device.</desc>
1016 </const>
1017 <const name="DVD" value="2">
1018 <desc>CD/DVD-ROM device.</desc>
1019 </const>
1020 <const name="HardDisk" value="3">
1021 <desc>Hard disk device.</desc>
1022 </const>
1023 <const name="Network" value="4">
1024 <desc>Network device.</desc>
1025 </const>
1026 <const name="USB" value="5">
1027 <desc>USB device.</desc>
1028 </const>
1029 <const name="SharedFolder" value="6">
1030 <desc>Shared folder device.</desc>
1031 </const>
1032 </enum>
1033
1034 <enum
1035 name="DeviceActivity"
1036 uuid="6FC8AEAA-130A-4eb5-8954-3F921422D707"
1037 >
1038 <desc>
1039 Device activity for <link to="IConsole::getDeviceActivity"/>.
1040 </desc>
1041
1042 <const name="Null" value="0"/>
1043 <const name="Idle" value="1"/>
1044 <const name="Reading" value="2"/>
1045 <const name="Writing" value="3"/>
1046 </enum>
1047
1048 <enum
1049 name="ClipboardMode"
1050 uuid="33364716-4008-4701-8f14-be0fa3d62950"
1051 >
1052 <desc>
1053 Host-Guest clipboard interchange mode.
1054 </desc>
1055
1056 <const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
1057 <const name="HostToGuest" value="1"/>
1058 <const name="GuestToHost" value="2"/>
1059 <const name="Bidirectional" value="3"/>
1060 </enum>
1061
1062 <enum
1063 name="Scope"
1064 uuid="7c91096e-499e-4eca-9f9b-9001438d7855"
1065 >
1066 <desc>
1067 Scope of the operation.
1068
1069 A generic enumeration used in various methods to define the action or
1070 argument scope.
1071 </desc>
1072
1073 <const name="Global" value="0"/>
1074 <const name="Machine" value="1"/>
1075 <const name="Session" value="2"/>
1076 </enum>
1077
1078 <enum
1079 name="BIOSBootMenuMode"
1080 uuid="ae4fb9f7-29d2-45b4-b2c7-d579603135d5"
1081 >
1082 <desc>
1083 BIOS boot menu mode.
1084 </desc>
1085
1086 <const name="Disabled" value="0"/>
1087 <const name="MenuOnly" value="1"/>
1088 <const name="MessageAndMenu" value="2"/>
1089 </enum>
1090
1091 <enum
1092 name="ProcessorFeature"
1093 uuid="64c38e6b-8bcf-45ad-ac03-9b406287c5bf"
1094 >
1095 <desc>
1096 CPU features.
1097 </desc>
1098
1099 <const name="HWVirtEx" value="0"/>
1100 <const name="PAE" value="1"/>
1101 <const name="LongMode" value="2"/>
1102 <const name="NestedPaging" value="3"/>
1103 </enum>
1104
1105 <enum
1106 name="FirmwareType"
1107 uuid="b903f264-c230-483e-ac74-2b37ce60d371"
1108 >
1109 <desc>
1110 Firmware type.
1111 </desc>
1112 <const name="BIOS" value="1">
1113 <desc>BIOS Firmware.</desc>
1114 </const>
1115 <const name="EFI" value="2">
1116 <desc>EFI Firmware, bitness detected basing on OS type.</desc>
1117 </const>
1118 <const name="EFI32" value="3">
1119 <desc>Efi firmware, 32-bit.</desc>
1120 </const>
1121 <const name="EFI64" value="4">
1122 <desc>Efi firmware, 64-bit.</desc>
1123 </const>
1124 <const name="EFIDUAL" value="5">
1125 <desc>Efi firmware, combined 32 and 64-bit.</desc>
1126 </const>
1127 </enum>
1128
1129 <enum
1130 name="PointingHidType"
1131 uuid="0d3c17a2-821a-4b2e-ae41-890c6c60aa97"
1132 >
1133 <desc>
1134 Type of pointing device used in a virtual machine.
1135 </desc>
1136 <const name="None" value="1">
1137 <desc>No mouse.</desc>
1138 </const>
1139 <const name="PS2Mouse" value="2">
1140 <desc>PS/2 auxiliary device, a.k.a. mouse.</desc>
1141 </const>
1142 <const name="USBMouse" value="3">
1143 <desc>USB mouse (relative pointer).</desc>
1144 </const>
1145 <const name="USBTablet" value="4">
1146 <desc>USB tablet (absolute pointer).</desc>
1147 </const>
1148 <const name="ComboMouse" value="5">
1149 <desc>Combined device, working as PS/2 or USB mouse, depending on guest behavior.
1150 Using of such device can have negative performance implications. </desc>
1151 </const>
1152 </enum>
1153
1154 <enum
1155 name="KeyboardHidType"
1156 uuid="5a5b0996-3a3e-44bb-9019-56979812cbcc"
1157 >
1158 <desc>
1159 Type of keyboard device used in a virtual machine.
1160 </desc>
1161 <const name="None" value="1">
1162 <desc>No keyboard.</desc>
1163 </const>
1164 <const name="PS2Keyboard" value="2">
1165 <desc>PS/2 keyboard.</desc>
1166 </const>
1167 <const name="USBKeyboard" value="3">
1168 <desc>USB keyboard.</desc>
1169 </const>
1170 <const name="ComboKeyboard" value="4">
1171 <desc>Combined device, working as PS/2 or USB keyboard, depending on guest behavior.
1172 Using of such device can have negative performance implications. </desc>
1173 </const>
1174 </enum>
1175
1176 <!--
1177 // IVirtualBoxErrorInfo
1178 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1179 -->
1180
1181 <interface
1182 name="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" extends="$errorinfo"
1183 uuid="e053d3c0-f493-491b-a735-3a9f0b1feed4"
1184 supportsErrorInfo="no"
1185 wsmap="managed"
1186 >
1187 <desc>
1188 The IVirtualBoxErrorInfo interface represents extended error information.
1189
1190 Extended error information can be set by VirtualBox components after
1191 unsuccessful or partially successful method invocation. This information
1192 can be retrieved by the calling party as an IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object
1193 and then shown to the client in addition to the plain 32-bit result code.
1194
1195 In MS COM, this interface extends the IErrorInfo interface,
1196 in XPCOM, it extends the nsIException interface. In both cases,
1197 it provides a set of common attributes to retrieve error
1198 information.
1199
1200 Sometimes invocation of some component's method may involve methods of
1201 other components that may also fail (independently of this method's
1202 failure), or a series of non-fatal errors may precede a fatal error that
1203 causes method failure. In cases like that, it may be desirable to preserve
1204 information about all errors happened during method invocation and deliver
1205 it to the caller. The <link to="#next"/> attribute is intended
1206 specifically for this purpose and allows to represent a chain of errors
1207 through a single IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object set after method invocation.
1208
1209 Note that errors are stored to a chain in the reverse order, i.e. the
1210 initial error object you query right after method invocation is the last
1211 error set by the callee, the object it points to in the @a next attribute
1212 is the previous error and so on, up to the first error (which is the last
1213 in the chain).
1214 </desc>
1215
1216 <attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
1217 <desc>
1218 Result code of the error.
1219 Usually, it will be the same as the result code returned
1220 by the method that provided this error information, but not
1221 always. For example, on Win32, CoCreateInstance() will most
1222 likely return E_NOINTERFACE upon unsuccessful component
1223 instantiation attempt, but not the value the component factory
1224 returned. Value is typed 'long', not 'result',
1225 to make interface usable from scripting languages.
1226 <note>
1227 In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1228 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::result.
1229 </note>
1230 </desc>
1231 </attribute>
1232
1233 <attribute name="interfaceID" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
1234 <desc>
1235 UUID of the interface that defined the error.
1236 <note>
1237 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetGUID, except for the
1238 data type.
1239 In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1240 </note>
1241 </desc>
1242 </attribute>
1243
1244 <attribute name="component" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1245 <desc>
1246 Name of the component that generated the error.
1247 <note>
1248 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetSource.
1249 In XPCOM, there is no equivalent.
1250 </note>
1251 </desc>
1252 </attribute>
1253
1254 <attribute name="text" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1255 <desc>
1256 Text description of the error.
1257 <note>
1258 In MS COM, it is the same as IErrorInfo::GetDescription.
1259 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::message.
1260 </note>
1261 </desc>
1262 </attribute>
1263
1264 <attribute name="next" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
1265 <desc>
1266 Next error object if there is any, or @c null otherwise.
1267 <note>
1268 In MS COM, there is no equivalent.
1269 In XPCOM, it is the same as nsIException::inner.
1270 </note>
1271 </desc>
1272 </attribute>
1273
1274 </interface>
1275
1276 <!--
1277 // IVirtualBox
1278 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
1279 -->
1280
1281 <interface
1282 name="IDHCPServer" extends="$unknown"
1283 uuid="6cfe387c-74fb-4ca7-bff6-973bec8af7a3"
1284 wsmap="managed"
1285 >
1286 <desc>
1287 The IDHCPServer interface represents the vbox dhcp server configuration.
1288
1289 To enumerate all the dhcp servers on the host, use the
1290 <link to="IVirtualBox::DHCPServers"/> attribute.
1291 </desc>
1292
1293 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
1294 <desc>
1295 specifies if the dhcp server is enabled
1296 </desc>
1297 </attribute>
1298
1299 <attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1300 <desc>
1301 specifies server IP
1302 </desc>
1303 </attribute>
1304
1305 <attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1306 <desc>
1307 specifies server network mask
1308 </desc>
1309 </attribute>
1310
1311 <attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1312 <desc>
1313 specifies internal network name the server is used for
1314 </desc>
1315 </attribute>
1316
1317 <attribute name="lowerIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1318 <desc>
1319 specifies from IP address in server address range
1320 </desc>
1321 </attribute>
1322
1323 <attribute name="upperIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1324 <desc>
1325 specifies to IP address in server address range
1326 </desc>
1327 </attribute>
1328
1329 <method name="setConfiguration">
1330 <desc>
1331 configures the server
1332 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1333 invalid configuration supplied
1334 </result>
1335 </desc>
1336 <param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1337 <desc>
1338 server IP address
1339 </desc>
1340 </param>
1341 <param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
1342 <desc>
1343 server network mask
1344 </desc>
1345 </param>
1346 <param name="FromIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1347 <desc>
1348 server From IP address for address range
1349 </desc>
1350 </param>
1351 <param name="ToIPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
1352 <desc>
1353 server To IP address for address range
1354 </desc>
1355 </param>
1356 </method>
1357
1358 <method name="start">
1359 <desc>
1360 Starts DHCP server process.
1361 <result name="E_FAIL">
1362 Failed to start the process.
1363 </result>
1364 </desc>
1365 <param name="networkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1366 <desc>
1367 Name of internal network DHCP server should attach to.
1368 </desc>
1369 </param>
1370 <param name="trunkName" type="wstring" dir="in">
1371 <desc>
1372 Name of internal network trunk.
1373 </desc>
1374 </param>
1375 <param name="trunkType" type="wstring" dir="in">
1376 <desc>
1377 Type of internal network trunk.
1378 </desc>
1379 </param>
1380 </method>
1381
1382 <method name="stop">
1383 <desc>
1384 Stops DHCP server process.
1385 <result name="E_FAIL">
1386 Failed to stop the process.
1387 </result>
1388 </desc>
1389 </method>
1390 </interface>
1391
1392 <interface
1393 name="IVirtualBox" extends="$unknown"
1394 uuid="d2de270c-1d4b-4c9e-843f-bbb9b47269ff"
1395 wsmap="managed"
1396 >
1397 <desc>
1398 The IVirtualBox interface represents the main interface exposed by the
1399 product that provides virtual machine management.
1400
1401 An instance of IVirtualBox is required for the product to do anything
1402 useful. Even though the interface does not expose this, internally,
1403 IVirtualBox is implemented as a singleton and actually lives in the
1404 process of the VirtualBox server (VBoxSVC.exe). This makes sure that
1405 IVirtualBox can track the state of all virtual machines on a particular
1406 host, regardless of which frontend started them.
1407
1408 To enumerate all the virtual machines on the host, use the
1409 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute.
1410 </desc>
1411
1412 <attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1413 <desc>
1414 A string representing the version number of the product. The
1415 format is 3 integer numbers divided by dots (e.g. 1.0.1). The
1416 last number represents the build number and will frequently change.
1417 </desc>
1418 </attribute>
1419
1420 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
1421 <desc>
1422 The internal build revision number of the product.
1423 </desc>
1424 </attribute>
1425
1426 <attribute name="packageType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1427 <desc>
1428 A string representing the package type of this product. The
1429 format is OS_ARCH_DIST where OS is either WINDOWS, LINUX,
1430 SOLARIS, DARWIN. ARCH is either 32BITS or 64BITS. DIST
1431 is either GENERIC, UBUNTU_606, UBUNTU_710, or something like
1432 this.
1433 </desc>
1434 </attribute>
1435
1436 <attribute name="homeFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1437 <desc>
1438 Full path to the directory where the global settings file,
1439 <tt>VirtualBox.xml</tt>, is stored.
1440
1441 In this version of VirtualBox, the value of this property is
1442 always <tt>&lt;user_dir&gt;/.VirtualBox</tt> (where
1443 <tt>&lt;user_dir&gt;</tt> is the path to the user directory,
1444 as determined by the host OS), and cannot be changed.
1445
1446 This path is also used as the base to resolve relative paths in
1447 places where relative paths are allowed (unless otherwise
1448 expressly indicated).
1449 </desc>
1450 </attribute>
1451
1452 <attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1453 <desc>
1454 Full name of the global settings file.
1455 The value of this property corresponds to the value of
1456 <link to="#homeFolder"/> plus <tt>/VirtualBox.xml</tt>.
1457 </desc>
1458 </attribute>
1459
1460 <attribute name="host" type="IHost" readonly="yes">
1461 <desc>Associated host object.</desc>
1462 </attribute>
1463
1464 <attribute name="systemProperties" type="ISystemProperties" readonly="yes">
1465 <desc>Associated system information object.</desc>
1466 </attribute>
1467
1468 <attribute name="machines" type="IMachine" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1469 <desc>
1470 Array of machine objects registered within this VirtualBox instance.
1471 </desc>
1472 </attribute>
1473
1474 <attribute name="hardDisks" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1475 <desc>
1476 Array of medium objects known to this VirtualBox installation.
1477
1478 This array contains only base media. All differencing
1479 media of the given base medium can be enumerated using
1480 <link to="IMedium::children"/>.
1481 </desc>
1482 </attribute>
1483
1484 <attribute name="DVDImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1485 <desc>
1486 Array of CD/DVD image objects currently in use by this VirtualBox instance.
1487 </desc>
1488 </attribute>
1489
1490 <attribute name="floppyImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1491 <desc>
1492 Array of floppy image objects currently in use by this VirtualBox instance.
1493 </desc>
1494 </attribute>
1495
1496 <attribute name="progressOperations" type="IProgress" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1497
1498 <attribute name="guestOSTypes" type="IGuestOSType" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1499
1500 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1501 <desc>
1502 Collection of global shared folders. Global shared folders are
1503 available to all virtual machines.
1504
1505 New shared folders are added to the collection using
1506 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
1507 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
1508
1509 <note>
1510 In the current version of the product, global shared folders are not
1511 implemented and therefore this collection is always empty.
1512 </note>
1513 </desc>
1514 </attribute>
1515
1516 <attribute name="performanceCollector" type="IPerformanceCollector" readonly="yes">
1517 <desc>
1518 Associated performance collector object.
1519 </desc>
1520 </attribute>
1521
1522 <attribute name="DHCPServers" type="IDHCPServer" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1523 <desc>
1524 DHCP servers.
1525 </desc>
1526 </attribute>
1527
1528 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
1529 <desc>
1530 Event source for VirtualBox events.
1531 </desc>
1532 </attribute>
1533
1534 <attribute name="extensionPackManager" type="IExtPackManager" readonly="yes">
1535 <desc>
1536 The extension pack manager.
1537 </desc>
1538 </attribute>
1539
1540
1541 <method name="composeMachineFilename">
1542 <desc>
1543 Returns a recommended full path of the settings file name for a new virtual
1544 machine.
1545
1546 This API serves two purposes:
1547
1548 <ul>
1549 <li>It gets called by <link to="#createMachine" /> if NULL is specified
1550 for the @a settingsFile argument there, which means that API should use
1551 a recommended default file name.</li>
1552
1553 <li>It can be called manually by a client software before creating a machine,
1554 e.g. if that client wants to pre-create the machine directory to create
1555 virtual hard disks in that directory together with the new machine
1556 settings file. In that case, the file name should be stripped from the
1557 full settings file path returned by this function to obtain the
1558 machine directory.</li>
1559 </ul>
1560
1561 See <link to="IMachine::name"/> and <link to="#createMachine"/> for more
1562 details about the machine name.
1563
1564 If @a baseFolder is a @c null or empty string (which is recommended), the
1565 default machine settings folder
1566 (see <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder" />) will be used as
1567 a base folder for the created machine, resulting in a file name like
1568 "/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/name/name.vbox". Otherwise the given base folder
1569 will be used.
1570
1571 This method does not access the host disks. In particular, it does not check
1572 for whether a machine of this name already exists.
1573 </desc>
1574 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1575 <desc>Suggested machine name.</desc>
1576 </param>
1577 <param name="baseFolder" type="wstring" dir="in">
1578 <desc>Base machine folder (optional).</desc>
1579 </param>
1580 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="return">
1581 <desc>Fully qualified path where the machine would be created.</desc>
1582 </param>
1583 </method>
1584
1585 <method name="createMachine">
1586 <desc>
1587 Creates a new virtual machine by creating a machine settings file at
1588 the given location.
1589
1590 VirtualBox machine settings files use a custom XML dialect. Starting
1591 with VirtualBox 4.0, a ".vbox" extension is recommended, but not enforced,
1592 and machine files can be created at arbitrary locations.
1593
1594 However, it is is recommended that machines be created in the default
1595 machine folder (e.g. "/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/name/name.vbox"; see
1596 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder" />). If you specify
1597 NULL for the @a settingsFile argument, <link to="#composeMachineFilename" />
1598 is called automatically to have such a recommended name composed based
1599 on the machine name given in the @a name argument.
1600
1601 If the resulting settings file already exists, this method will fail,
1602 unless @a forceOverwrite is set.
1603
1604 The new machine is created unregistered, with the initial configuration
1605 set according to the specified guest OS type. A typical sequence of
1606 actions to create a new virtual machine is as follows:
1607
1608 <ol>
1609 <li>
1610 Call this method to have a new machine created. The returned machine
1611 object will be "mutable" allowing to change any machine property.
1612 </li>
1613
1614 <li>
1615 Configure the machine using the appropriate attributes and methods.
1616 </li>
1617
1618 <li>
1619 Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to write the settings
1620 to the machine's XML settings file. The configuration of the newly
1621 created machine will not be saved to disk until this method is
1622 called.
1623 </li>
1624
1625 <li>
1626 Call <link to="#registerMachine" /> to add the machine to the list
1627 of machines known to VirtualBox.
1628 </li>
1629 </ol>
1630
1631 The specified guest OS type identifier must match an ID of one of known
1632 guest OS types listed in the <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/>
1633 array.
1634
1635 Optionally, you may specify an UUID of to assign to the created machine.
1636 However, this is not recommended and you should normally pass an empty
1637 (@c null) UUID to this method so that a new UUID will be automatically
1638 generated for every created machine. You can use UUID
1639 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 as @c null value.
1640
1641 <note>
1642 There is no way to change the name of the settings file or
1643 subfolder of the created machine directly.
1644 </note>
1645
1646 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1647 @a osTypeId is invalid.
1648 </result>
1649 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1650 Resulting settings file name is invalid or the settings file already
1651 exists or could not be created due to an I/O error.
1652 </result>
1653 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1654 @a name is empty or @c null.
1655 </result>
1656 </desc>
1657
1658 <param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1659 <desc>Fully qualified path where the settings file should be created,
1660 or NULL for a default folder and file based on the @a name argument
1661 (see <link to="#composeMachineFilename" />).</desc>
1662 </param>
1663 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1664 <desc>Machine name.</desc>
1665 </param>
1666 <param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1667 <desc>Guest OS Type ID.</desc>
1668 </param>
1669 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1670 <desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1671 </param>
1672 <param name="forceOverwrite" type="boolean" dir="in">
1673 <desc>If true, an existing machine settings file will be overwritten.</desc>
1674 </param>
1675 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1676 <desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1677 </param>
1678 </method>
1679
1680 <method name="openMachine">
1681 <desc>
1682 Opens a virtual machine from the existing settings file.
1683 The opened machine remains unregistered until you call
1684 <link to="#registerMachine"/>.
1685
1686 The specified settings file name must be fully qualified.
1687 The file must exist and be a valid machine XML settings file
1688 whose contents will be used to construct the machine object.
1689
1690 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1691 Settings file name invalid, not found or sharing violation.
1692 </result>
1693 </desc>
1694 <param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1695 <desc>
1696 Name of the machine settings file.
1697 </desc>
1698 </param>
1699 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1700 <desc>Opened machine object.</desc>
1701 </param>
1702 <note>
1703 <link to="IMachine::settingsModified"/> will return
1704 @c false for the created machine, until any of machine settings
1705 are changed.
1706 </note>
1707 </method>
1708
1709 <method name="registerMachine">
1710 <desc>
1711
1712 Registers the machine previously created using
1713 <link to="#createMachine"/> or opened using
1714 <link to="#openMachine"/> within this VirtualBox installation. After
1715 successful method invocation, the
1716 <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent"/> event is fired.
1717
1718 <note>
1719 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
1720 to save all current machine settings before registering it.
1721 </note>
1722
1723 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1724 No matching virtual machine found.
1725 </result>
1726 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1727 Virtual machine was not created within this VirtualBox instance.
1728 </result>
1729
1730 </desc>
1731 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
1732 </method>
1733
1734 <method name="findMachine">
1735 <desc>
1736 Attempts to find a virtual machine given its name or UUID.
1737
1738 <note>Inaccessible machines cannot be found by name, only by UUID, because their name
1739 cannot safely be determined.</note>
1740
1741 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1742 Could not find registered machine matching @a nameOrId.
1743 </result>
1744
1745 </desc>
1746 <param name="nameOrId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1747 <desc>What to search for. This can either be the UUID or the name of a virtual machine.</desc>
1748 </param>
1749 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1750 <desc>Machine object, if found.</desc>
1751 </param>
1752 </method>
1753
1754 <method name="createAppliance">
1755 <desc>
1756 Creates a new appliance object, which represents an appliance in the Open Virtual Machine
1757 Format (OVF). This can then be used to import an OVF appliance into VirtualBox or to export
1758 machines as an OVF appliance; see the documentation for <link to="IAppliance" /> for details.
1759 </desc>
1760 <param name="appliance" type="IAppliance" dir="return">
1761 <desc>New appliance.</desc>
1762 </param>
1763 </method>
1764
1765 <method name="createHardDisk">
1766 <desc>
1767 Creates a new base medium object that will use the given storage
1768 format and location for medium data.
1769
1770 Note that the actual storage unit is not created by this method. In
1771 order to do it, and before you are able to attach the created medium
1772 to virtual machines, you must call one of the following methods to
1773 allocate a format-specific storage unit at the specified location:
1774 <ul>
1775 <li><link to="IMedium::createBaseStorage"/></li>
1776 <li><link to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/></li>
1777 </ul>
1778
1779 Some medium attributes, such as <link to="IMedium::id"/>, may
1780 remain uninitialized until the medium storage unit is successfully
1781 created by one of the above methods.
1782
1783 After the storage unit is successfully created, it will be
1784 accessible through the <link to="#findMedium"/> method and can
1785 be found in the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array.
1786
1787 The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
1788 installation can be obtained using
1789 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>. If the @a format
1790 attribute is empty or @c null then the default storage format
1791 specified by <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFormat"/> will
1792 be used for creating a storage unit of the medium.
1793
1794 Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
1795 See <link to="IMedium::location"/> and IMedium for more details.
1796
1797 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1798 @a format identifier is invalid. See
1799 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
1800 </result>
1801 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1802 @a location is a not valid file name (for file-based formats only).
1803 </result>
1804 </desc>
1805 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
1806 <desc>
1807 Identifier of the storage format to use for the new medium.
1808 </desc>
1809 </param>
1810 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1811 <desc>
1812 Location of the storage unit for the new medium.
1813 </desc>
1814 </param>
1815 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1816 <desc>Created medium object.</desc>
1817 </param>
1818 </method>
1819
1820 <method name="openMedium">
1821 <desc>
1822 Opens a medium from an existing storage location.
1823
1824 Once a medium has been opened, it can be passed to other VirtualBox
1825 methods, in particular to <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
1826
1827 Depending on the given device type, the file at the storage location
1828 must be in one of the media formats understood by VirtualBox:
1829
1830 <ul>
1831 <li>With a "HardDisk" device type, the file must be a hard disk image
1832 in one of the formats supported by VirtualBox (see
1833 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats" />).
1834 After this method succeeds, if the medium is a base medium, it
1835 will be added to the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array attribute. </li>
1836 <li>With a "DVD" device type, the file must be an ISO 9960 CD/DVD image.
1837 After this method succeeds, the medium will be added to the
1838 <link to="#DVDImages"/> array attribute.</li>
1839 <li>With a "Floppy" device type, the file must be an RAW floppy image.
1840 After this method succeeds, the medium will be added to the
1841 <link to="#floppyImages"/> array attribute.</li>
1842 </ul>
1843
1844 After having been opened, the medium can be found by the <link to="#findMedium"/>
1845 method and can be attached to virtual machines. See <link to="IMedium" /> for more details.
1846
1847 The UUID of the newly opened medium will either be retrieved from the
1848 storage location, if the format supports it (e.g. for hard disk images),
1849 or a new UUID will be randomly generated (e.g. for ISO and RAW files).
1850 If for some reason you need to change the medium's UUID, use
1851 <link to="IMedium::setIDs" />.
1852
1853 If a differencing hard disk medium is to be opened by this method, the
1854 operation will succeed only if its parent medium and all ancestors,
1855 if any, are already known to this VirtualBox installation (for example,
1856 were opened by this method before).
1857
1858 This method attempts to guess the storage format of the specified medium
1859 by reading medium data at the specified location.
1860
1861 If @a accessMode is ReadWrite (which it should be for hard disks and floppies),
1862 the image is opened for read/write access and must have according permissions,
1863 as VirtualBox may actually write status information into the disk's metadata
1864 sections.
1865
1866 Note that write access is required for all typical hard disk usage in VirtualBox,
1867 since VirtualBox may need to write metadata such as a UUID into the image.
1868 The only exception is opening a source image temporarily for copying and
1869 cloning (see <link to="IMedium::cloneTo" /> when the image will be closed
1870 again soon.
1871
1872 The format of the location string is storage format specific. See
1873 <link to="IMedium::location"/> and IMedium for more details.
1874
1875 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1876 Invalid medium storage file location or could not find the medium
1877 at the specified location.
1878 </result>
1879 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
1880 Could not get medium storage format.
1881 </result>
1882 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1883 Invalid medium storage format.
1884 </result>
1885 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1886 Medium has already been added to a media registry.
1887 </result>
1888 </desc>
1889 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1890 <desc>
1891 Location of the storage unit that contains medium data in one of
1892 the supported storage formats.
1893 </desc>
1894 </param>
1895 <param name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1896 <desc>
1897 Must be one of "HardDisk", "DVD" or "Floppy".
1898 </desc>
1899 </param>
1900 <param name="accessMode" type="AccessMode" dir="in">
1901 <desc>Whether to open the image in read/write or read-only mode. For
1902 a "DVD" device type, this is ignored and read-only mode is always assumed.</desc>
1903 </param>
1904 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1905 <desc>Opened medium object.</desc>
1906 </param>
1907 </method>
1908
1909 <method name="findMedium">
1910 <desc>
1911 Returns a medium of the given type that uses the given fully qualified
1912 location or UUID to store medium data.
1913
1914 The given medium must be known to this VirtualBox installation, i.e.
1915 it must be previously created by <link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened
1916 by <link to="#openMedium"/>.
1917
1918 The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
1919 the <link to="IMedium::location"/> and <link to="IMedium::id" />
1920 attributes of each known medium.
1921
1922 On case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is performed,
1923 otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
1924
1925 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1926 No medium object matching @a location found.
1927 </result>
1928 </desc>
1929 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1930 <desc>What to search for. This can either be the UUID or the location string of an open medium.</desc>
1931 </param>
1932 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1933 <desc>Device type (must be HardDisk, DVD or Floppy)</desc>
1934 </param>
1935 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1936 <desc>Medium object, if found.</desc>
1937 </param>
1938 </method>
1939
1940 <method name="getGuestOSType">
1941 <desc>
1942 Returns an object describing the specified guest OS type.
1943
1944 The requested guest OS type is specified using a string which is a
1945 mnemonic identifier of the guest operating system, such as
1946 <tt>"win31"</tt> or <tt>"ubuntu"</tt>. The guest OS type ID of a
1947 particular virtual machine can be read or set using the
1948 <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/> attribute.
1949
1950 The <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/> collection contains all
1951 available guest OS type objects. Each object has an
1952 <link to="IGuestOSType::id"/> attribute which contains an identifier of
1953 the guest OS this object describes.
1954
1955 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1956 @a id is not a valid Guest OS type.
1957 </result>
1958
1959 </desc>
1960 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1961 <desc>Guest OS type ID string.</desc>
1962 </param>
1963 <param name="type" type="IGuestOSType" dir="return">
1964 <desc>Guest OS type object.</desc>
1965 </param>
1966 </method>
1967
1968 <method name="createSharedFolder">
1969 <desc>
1970 Creates a new global shared folder by associating the given logical
1971 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
1972 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
1973 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
1974 <note>
1975 In the current implementation, this operation is not
1976 implemented.
1977 </note>
1978 </desc>
1979 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1980 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
1981 </param>
1982 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
1983 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
1984 </param>
1985 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
1986 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
1987 </param>
1988 <param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
1989 <desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
1990 or not.</desc>
1991 </param>
1992 </method>
1993
1994 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
1995 <desc>
1996 Removes the global shared folder with the given name previously
1997 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
1998 shared folders and stops sharing it.
1999 <note>
2000 In the current implementation, this operation is not
2001 implemented.
2002 </note>
2003 </desc>
2004 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2005 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
2006 </param>
2007 </method>
2008
2009 <method name="getExtraDataKeys">
2010 <desc>
2011 Returns an array representing the global extra data keys which currently
2012 have values defined.
2013 </desc>
2014 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2015 <desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
2016 </param>
2017 </method>
2018
2019 <method name="getExtraData">
2020 <desc>
2021 Returns associated global extra data.
2022
2023 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
2024 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
2025
2026 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2027 Settings file not accessible.
2028 </result>
2029 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2030 Could not parse the settings file.
2031 </result>
2032
2033 </desc>
2034 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2035 <desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
2036 </param>
2037 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
2038 <desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
2039 </param>
2040 </method>
2041
2042 <method name="setExtraData">
2043 <desc>
2044 Sets associated global extra data.
2045
2046 If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
2047 will be deleted.
2048
2049 <note>
2050 Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
2051 registered event listener using the
2052 <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent"/>
2053 notification for a permission. If one of the listeners refuses the
2054 new value, the change will not be performed.
2055 </note>
2056 <note>
2057 On success, the
2058 <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent"/> notification
2059 is called to inform all registered listeners about a successful data
2060 change.
2061 </note>
2062
2063 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2064 Settings file not accessible.
2065 </result>
2066 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2067 Could not parse the settings file.
2068 </result>
2069 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2070 Modification request refused.
2071 </result>
2072
2073 </desc>
2074 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2075 <desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
2076 </param>
2077 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
2078 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
2079 </param>
2080 </method>
2081
2082 <!--method name="createDHCPServerForInterface">
2083 <desc>
2084 Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2085 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2086 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2087 </result>
2088 </desc>
2089 <param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2090 <desc>Network Interface</desc>
2091 </param>
2092 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2093 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2094 </param>
2095 </method-->
2096
2097 <method name="createDHCPServer">
2098 <desc>
2099 Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2100 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2101 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2102 </result>
2103 </desc>
2104 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2105 <desc>server name</desc>
2106 </param>
2107 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2108 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2109 </param>
2110 </method>
2111
2112 <method name="findDHCPServerByNetworkName">
2113 <desc>
2114 Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2115 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2116 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2117 </result>
2118
2119 </desc>
2120 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2121 <desc>server name</desc>
2122 </param>
2123 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2124 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2125 </param>
2126 </method>
2127
2128 <!--method name="findDHCPServerForInterface">
2129 <desc>
2130 Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2131 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2132 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2133 </result>
2134 </desc>
2135 <param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2136 <desc>Network Interface</desc>
2137 </param>
2138 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2139 <desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2140 </param>
2141 </method-->
2142
2143 <method name="removeDHCPServer">
2144 <desc>
2145 Removes the dhcp server settings
2146 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2147 Host network interface @a name already exists.
2148 </result>
2149 </desc>
2150 <param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="in">
2151 <desc>Dhcp server settings to be removed</desc>
2152 </param>
2153 </method>
2154
2155
2156 <method name="checkFirmwarePresent">
2157 <desc>
2158 Check if this VirtualBox installation has a firmware
2159 of the given type available, either system-wide or per-user.
2160 Optionally, this may return a hint where this firmware can be
2161 downloaded from.
2162 </desc>
2163 <param name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType" dir="in">
2164 <desc>
2165 Type of firmware to check.
2166 </desc>
2167 </param>
2168 <param name="version" type="wstring" dir="in">
2169 <desc>Expected version number, usually empty string (presently ignored).</desc>
2170 </param>
2171
2172 <param name="url" type="wstring" dir="out">
2173 <desc>
2174 Suggested URL to download this firmware from.
2175 </desc>
2176 </param>
2177
2178 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="out">
2179 <desc>
2180 Filename of firmware, only valid if result == TRUE.
2181 </desc>
2182 </param>
2183
2184 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
2185 <desc>If firmware of this type and version is available.</desc>
2186 </param>
2187 </method>
2188
2189 </interface>
2190
2191 <!--
2192 // IVFSExplorer
2193 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2194 -->
2195
2196 <enum
2197 name="VFSType"
2198 uuid="813999ba-b949-48a8-9230-aadc6285e2f2"
2199 >
2200 <desc>
2201 Virtual file systems supported by VFSExplorer.
2202 </desc>
2203
2204 <const name="File" value="1" />
2205 <const name="Cloud" value="2" />
2206 <const name="S3" value="3" />
2207 <const name="WebDav" value="4" />
2208 </enum>
2209
2210 <enum
2211 name="VFSFileType"
2212 uuid="714333cd-44e2-415f-a245-d378fa9b1242"
2213 >
2214 <desc>
2215 File types known by VFSExplorer.
2216 </desc>
2217
2218 <const name="Unknown" value="1" />
2219 <const name="Fifo" value="2" />
2220 <const name="DevChar" value="3" />
2221 <const name="Directory" value="4" />
2222 <const name="DevBlock" value="5" />
2223 <const name="File" value="6" />
2224 <const name="SymLink" value="7" />
2225 <const name="Socket" value="8" />
2226 <const name="WhiteOut" value="9" />
2227 </enum>
2228
2229 <interface
2230 name="IVFSExplorer" extends="$unknown"
2231 uuid="003d7f92-d38e-487f-b790-8c5e8631cb2f"
2232 wsmap="managed"
2233 >
2234 <desc>
2235 The VFSExplorer interface unifies access to different file system
2236 types. This includes local file systems as well remote file systems like
2237 S3. For a list of supported types see <link to="VFSType" />.
2238 An instance of this is returned by <link to="IAppliance::createVFSExplorer" />.
2239 </desc>
2240
2241 <attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2242 <desc>Returns the current path in the virtual file system.</desc>
2243 </attribute>
2244
2245 <attribute name="type" type="VFSType" readonly="yes">
2246 <desc>Returns the file system type which is currently in use.</desc>
2247 </attribute>
2248
2249 <method name="update">
2250 <desc>Updates the internal list of files/directories from the
2251 current directory level. Use <link to="#entryList" /> to get the full list
2252 after a call to this method.</desc>
2253
2254 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2255 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2256 </param>
2257 </method>
2258
2259 <method name="cd">
2260 <desc>Change the current directory level.</desc>
2261
2262 <param name="aDir" type="wstring" dir="in">
2263 <desc>The name of the directory to go in.</desc>
2264 </param>
2265
2266 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2267 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2268 </param>
2269 </method>
2270
2271 <method name="cdUp">
2272 <desc>Go one directory upwards from the current directory level.</desc>
2273
2274 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2275 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2276 </param>
2277 </method>
2278
2279 <method name="entryList">
2280 <desc>Returns a list of files/directories after a call to <link
2281 to="#update" />. The user is responsible for keeping this internal
2282 list up do date.</desc>
2283
2284 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2285 <desc>The list of names for the entries.</desc>
2286 </param>
2287
2288 <param name="aTypes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2289 <desc>The list of types for the entries.</desc>
2290 </param>
2291
2292 <param name="aSizes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2293 <desc>The list of sizes (in bytes) for the entries.</desc>
2294 </param>
2295
2296 <param name="aModes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2297 <desc>The list of file modes (in octal form) for the entries.</desc>
2298 </param>
2299 </method>
2300
2301 <method name="exists">
2302 <desc>Checks if the given file list exists in the current directory
2303 level.</desc>
2304
2305 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2306 <desc>The names to check.</desc>
2307 </param>
2308
2309 <param name="aExists" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
2310 <desc>The names which exist.</desc>
2311 </param>
2312 </method>
2313
2314 <method name="remove">
2315 <desc>Deletes the given files in the current directory level.</desc>
2316
2317 <param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2318 <desc>The names to remove.</desc>
2319 </param>
2320
2321 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2322 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2323 </param>
2324 </method>
2325
2326 </interface>
2327
2328 <!--
2329 // IAppliance
2330 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2331 -->
2332
2333 <interface
2334 name="IAppliance" extends="$unknown"
2335 uuid="7b148032-4124-4f46-b56a-b48ac1273f5a"
2336 wsmap="managed"
2337 >
2338 <desc>
2339 Represents a platform-independent appliance in OVF format. An instance of this is returned
2340 by <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />, which can then be used to import and export
2341 virtual machines within an appliance with VirtualBox.
2342
2343 The OVF standard suggests two different physical file formats:
2344
2345 <ol>
2346 <li>If the appliance is distributed as a set of files, there must be at least one XML descriptor
2347 file that conforms to the OVF standard and carries an <tt>.ovf</tt> file extension. If
2348 this descriptor file references other files such as disk images, as OVF appliances typically
2349 do, those additional files must be in the same directory as the descriptor file.</li>
2350
2351 <li>If the appliance is distributed as a single file, it must be in TAR format and have the
2352 <tt>.ova</tt> file extension. This TAR file must then contain at least the OVF descriptor
2353 files and optionally other files.
2354
2355 At this time, VirtualBox does not not yet support the packed (TAR) variant; support will
2356 be added with a later version.</li>
2357 </ol>
2358
2359 <b>Importing</b> an OVF appliance into VirtualBox as instances of
2360 <link to="IMachine" /> involves the following sequence of API calls:
2361
2362 <ol>
2363 <li>Call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />. This will create an empty IAppliance object.
2364 </li>
2365
2366 <li>On the new object, call <link to="#read" /> with the full path of the OVF file you
2367 would like to import. So long as this file is syntactically valid, this will succeed
2368 and fill the appliance object with the parsed data from the OVF file.
2369 </li>
2370
2371 <li>Next, call <link to="#interpret" />, which analyzes the OVF data and sets up the
2372 contents of the IAppliance attributes accordingly. These can be inspected by a
2373 VirtualBox front-end such as the GUI, and the suggestions can be displayed to the
2374 user. In particular, the <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array contains
2375 instances of <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> which represent the virtual
2376 systems (machines) in the OVF, which in turn describe the virtual hardware prescribed
2377 by the OVF (network and hardware adapters, virtual disk images, memory size and so on).
2378 The GUI can then give the user the option to confirm and/or change these suggestions.
2379 </li>
2380
2381 <li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
2382 virtual system (machine) to override the suggestions made by the interpret() routine.
2383 </li>
2384
2385 <li>Finally, call <link to="#importMachines" /> to create virtual machines in
2386 VirtualBox as instances of <link to="IMachine" /> that match the information in the
2387 virtual system descriptions. After this call succeeded, the UUIDs of the machines created
2388 can be found in the <link to="#machines" /> array attribute.
2389 </li>
2390 </ol>
2391
2392 <b>Exporting</b> VirtualBox machines into an OVF appliance involves the following steps:
2393
2394 <ol>
2395 <li>As with importing, first call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" /> to create
2396 an empty IAppliance object.
2397 </li>
2398
2399 <li>For each machine you would like to export, call <link to="IMachine::export" />
2400 with the IAppliance object you just created. Each such call creates one instance of
2401 <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> inside the appliance.
2402 </li>
2403
2404 <li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
2405 virtual system (machine) to override the suggestions made by the export() routine.
2406 </li>
2407
2408 <li>Finally, call <link to="#write" /> with a path specification to have the OVF
2409 file written.</li>
2410 </ol>
2411
2412 </desc>
2413
2414 <attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2415 <desc>Path to the main file of the OVF appliance, which is either the <tt>.ovf</tt> or
2416 the <tt>.ova</tt> file passed to <link to="#read" /> (for import) or
2417 <link to="#write" /> (for export).
2418 This attribute is empty until one of these methods has been called.
2419 </desc>
2420 </attribute>
2421
2422 <attribute name="disks" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2423 <desc>
2424 Array of virtual disk definitions. One such description exists for each
2425 disk definition in the OVF; each string array item represents one such piece of
2426 disk information, with the information fields separated by tab (\\t) characters.
2427
2428 The caller should be prepared for additional fields being appended to
2429 this string in future versions of VirtualBox and therefore check for
2430 the number of tabs in the strings returned.
2431
2432 In the current version, the following eight fields are returned per string
2433 in the array:
2434
2435 <ol>
2436 <li>Disk ID (unique string identifier given to disk)</li>
2437
2438 <li>Capacity (unsigned integer indicating the maximum capacity of the disk)</li>
2439
2440 <li>Populated size (optional unsigned integer indicating the current size of the
2441 disk; can be approximate; -1 if unspecified)</li>
2442
2443 <li>Format (string identifying the disk format, typically
2444 "http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse")</li>
2445
2446 <li>Reference (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty,
2447 then the disk should be created on import)</li>
2448
2449 <li>Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image,
2450 which need not necessarily be the same as the values specified above, since
2451 the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified)</li>
2452
2453 <li>Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks;
2454 presently unsupported and always -1)</li>
2455
2456 <li>Compression (optional string equalling "gzip" if the image is gzip-compressed)</li>
2457 </ol>
2458 </desc>
2459 </attribute>
2460
2461 <attribute name="virtualSystemDescriptions" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2462 <desc> Array of virtual system descriptions. One such description is created
2463 for each virtual system (machine) found in the OVF.
2464 This array is empty until either <link to="#interpret" /> (for import) or <link to="IMachine::export" />
2465 (for export) has been called.
2466 </desc>
2467 </attribute>
2468
2469 <attribute name="machines" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2470 <desc>
2471 Contains the UUIDs of the machines created from the information in this appliances. This is only
2472 relevant for the import case, and will only contain data after a call to <link to="#importMachines" />
2473 succeeded.
2474 </desc>
2475 </attribute>
2476
2477 <method name="read">
2478 <desc>
2479 Reads an OVF file into the appliance object.
2480
2481 This method succeeds if the OVF is syntactically valid and, by itself, without errors. The
2482 mere fact that this method returns successfully does not mean that VirtualBox supports all
2483 features requested by the appliance; this can only be examined after a call to <link to="#interpret" />.
2484 </desc>
2485 <param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
2486 <desc>
2487 Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
2488 on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
2489 </desc>
2490 </param>
2491 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2492 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2493 </param>
2494 </method>
2495
2496 <method name="interpret">
2497 <desc>
2498 Interprets the OVF data that was read when the appliance was constructed. After
2499 calling this method, one can inspect the
2500 <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array attribute, which will then contain
2501 one <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> for each virtual machine found in
2502 the appliance.
2503
2504 Calling this method is the second step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
2505 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2506
2507 After calling this method, one should call <link to="#getWarnings" /> to find out
2508 if problems were encountered during the processing which might later lead to
2509 errors.
2510 </desc>
2511 </method>
2512
2513 <method name="importMachines">
2514 <desc>
2515 Imports the appliance into VirtualBox by creating instances of <link to="IMachine" />
2516 and other interfaces that match the information contained in the appliance as
2517 closely as possible, as represented by the import instructions in the
2518 <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
2519
2520 Calling this method is the final step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
2521 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2522
2523 Since importing the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
2524 disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
2525 returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
2526
2527 After the import succeeded, the UUIDs of the IMachine instances created can be
2528 retrieved from the <link to="#machines" /> array attribute.
2529 </desc>
2530
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="createVFSExplorer">
2537 <desc>Returns a <link to="IVFSExplorer" /> object for the given URI.</desc>
2538
2539 <param name="aUri" type="wstring" dir="in">
2540 <desc>The URI describing the file system to use.</desc>
2541 </param>
2542
2543 <param name="aExplorer" type="IVFSExplorer" dir="return">
2544 <desc></desc>
2545 </param>
2546 </method>
2547
2548 <method name="write">
2549 <desc>
2550 Writes the contents of the appliance exports into a new OVF file.
2551
2552 Calling this method is the final step of exporting an appliance from VirtualBox;
2553 see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2554
2555 Since exporting the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
2556 disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
2557 returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
2558 </desc>
2559 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
2560 <desc>
2561 Output format, as a string. Currently supported formats are "ovf-0.9" and "ovf-1.0";
2562 future versions of VirtualBox may support additional formats.
2563 </desc>
2564 </param>
2565 <param name="manifest" type="boolean" dir="in">
2566 <desc>
2567 Indicate if the optional manifest file (.mf) should be written. The manifest file
2568 is used for integrity checks prior import.
2569 </desc>
2570 </param>
2571 <param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
2572 <desc>
2573 Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
2574 on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
2575 </desc>
2576 </param>
2577 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2578 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2579 </param>
2580 </method>
2581
2582 <method name="getWarnings">
2583 <desc>Returns textual warnings which occurred during execution of <link to="#interpret" />.</desc>
2584
2585 <param name="aWarnings" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2586 <desc></desc>
2587 </param>
2588 </method>
2589
2590 </interface>
2591
2592 <enum
2593 name="VirtualSystemDescriptionType"
2594 uuid="c0f8f135-3a1d-417d-afa6-b38b95a91f90"
2595 >
2596 <desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> to describe the type of
2597 a configuration value.</desc>
2598
2599 <const name="Ignore" value="1" />
2600 <const name="OS" value="2" />
2601 <const name="Name" value="3" />
2602 <const name="Product" value="4" />
2603 <const name="Vendor" value="5" />
2604 <const name="Version" value="6" />
2605 <const name="ProductUrl" value="7" />
2606 <const name="VendorUrl" value="8" />
2607 <const name="Description" value="9" />
2608 <const name="License" value="10" />
2609 <const name="Miscellaneous" value="11" />
2610 <const name="CPU" value="12" />
2611 <const name="Memory" value="13" />
2612 <const name="HardDiskControllerIDE" value="14" />
2613 <const name="HardDiskControllerSATA" value="15" />
2614 <const name="HardDiskControllerSCSI" value="16" />
2615 <const name="HardDiskControllerSAS" value="17" />
2616 <const name="HardDiskImage" value="18" />
2617 <const name="Floppy" value="19" />
2618 <const name="CDROM" value="20" />
2619 <const name="NetworkAdapter" value="21" />
2620 <const name="USBController" value="22" />
2621 <const name="SoundCard" value="23" />
2622
2623 </enum>
2624
2625 <enum
2626 name="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType"
2627 uuid="56d9403f-3425-4118-9919-36f2a9b8c77c"
2628 >
2629 <desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::getValuesByType" /> to describe the value
2630 type to fetch.</desc>
2631
2632 <const name="Reference" value="1" />
2633 <const name="Original" value="2" />
2634 <const name="Auto" value="3" />
2635 <const name="ExtraConfig" value="4" />
2636
2637 </enum>
2638
2639 <interface
2640 name="IVirtualSystemDescription" extends="$unknown"
2641 uuid="d7525e6c-531a-4c51-8e04-41235083a3d8"
2642 wsmap="managed"
2643 >
2644
2645 <desc>Represents one virtual system (machine) in an appliance. This interface is used in
2646 the <link to="IAppliance::virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array. After
2647 <link to="IAppliance::interpret" /> has been called, that array contains information
2648 about how the virtual systems described in the OVF should best be imported into
2649 VirtualBox virtual machines. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the steps required to
2650 import an OVF into VirtualBox.
2651 </desc>
2652
2653 <attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
2654 <desc>Return the number of virtual system description entries.</desc>
2655 </attribute>
2656
2657 <method name="getDescription">
2658 <desc>Returns information about the virtual system as arrays of instruction items. In each array, the
2659 items with the same indices correspond and jointly represent an import instruction for VirtualBox.
2660
2661 The list below identifies the value sets that are possible depending on the
2662 <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" /> enum value in the array item in @a aTypes[]. In each case,
2663 the array item with the same index in @a aOvfValues[] will contain the original value as contained
2664 in the OVF file (just for informational purposes), and the corresponding item in @a aVBoxValues[]
2665 will contain a suggested value to be used for VirtualBox. Depending on the description type,
2666 the @a aExtraConfigValues[] array item may also be used.
2667
2668 <ul>
2669 <li>
2670 "OS": the guest operating system type. There must be exactly one such array item on import. The
2671 corresponding item in @a aVBoxValues[] contains the suggested guest operating system for VirtualBox.
2672 This will be one of the values listed in <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes" />. The corresponding
2673 item in @a aOvfValues[] will contain a numerical value that described the operating system in the OVF.
2674 </li>
2675 <li>
2676 "Name": the name to give to the new virtual machine. There can be at most one such array item;
2677 if none is present on import, then an automatic name will be created from the operating system
2678 type. The corresponding item im @a aOvfValues[] will contain the suggested virtual machine name
2679 from the OVF file, and @a aVBoxValues[] will contain a suggestion for a unique VirtualBox
2680 <link to="IMachine" /> name that does not exist yet.
2681 </li>
2682 <li>
2683 "Description": an arbitrary description.
2684 </li>
2685 <li>
2686 "License": the EULA section from the OVF, if present. It is the responsibility of the calling
2687 code to display such a license for agreement; the Main API does not enforce any such policy.
2688 </li>
2689 <li>
2690 Miscellaneous: reserved for future use.
2691 </li>
2692 <li>
2693 "CPU": the number of CPUs. There can be at most one such item, which will presently be ignored.
2694 </li>
2695 <li>
2696 "Memory": the amount of guest RAM, in bytes. There can be at most one such array item; if none
2697 is present on import, then VirtualBox will set a meaningful default based on the operating system
2698 type.
2699 </li>
2700 <li>
2701 "HardDiskControllerIDE": an IDE hard disk controller. There can be at most two such items.
2702 An optional value in @a aOvfValues[] and @a aVBoxValues[] can be "PIIX3" or "PIIX4" to specify
2703 the type of IDE controller; this corresponds to the ResourceSubType element which VirtualBox
2704 writes into the OVF.
2705 The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will contain an integer that items of the "Harddisk"
2706 type can use to specify which hard disk controller a virtual disk should be connected to.
2707 Note that in OVF, an IDE controller has two channels, corresponding to "master" and "slave"
2708 in traditional terminology, whereas the IDE storage controller that VirtualBox supports in
2709 its virtual machines supports four channels (primary master, primary slave, secondary master,
2710 secondary slave) and thus maps to two IDE controllers in the OVF sense.
2711 </li>
2712 <li>
2713 "HardDiskControllerSATA": an SATA hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
2714 has no value in @a aOvfValues[] or @a aVBoxValues[].
2715 The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
2716 </li>
2717 <li>
2718 "HardDiskControllerSCSI": a SCSI hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item.
2719 The items in @a aOvfValues[] and @a aVBoxValues[] will either be "LsiLogic", "BusLogic" or
2720 "LsiLogicSas". (Note that in OVF, the LsiLogicSas controller is treated as a SCSI controller
2721 whereas VirtualBox considers it a class of storage controllers of its own; see
2722 <link to="StorageControllerType" />).
2723 The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
2724 </li>
2725 <li>
2726 "HardDiskImage": a virtual hard disk, most probably as a reference to an image file. There can be an
2727 arbitrary number of these items, one for each virtual disk image that accompanies the OVF.
2728
2729 The array item in @a aOvfValues[] will contain the file specification from the OVF file (without
2730 a path since the image file should be in the same location as the OVF file itself), whereas the
2731 item in @a aVBoxValues[] will contain a qualified path specification to where VirtualBox uses the
2732 hard disk image. This means that on import the image will be copied and converted from the
2733 "ovf" location to the "vbox" location; on export, this will be handled the other way round.
2734
2735 The matching item in the @a aExtraConfigValues[] array must contain a string of the following
2736 format: "controller=&lt;index&gt;;channel=&lt;c&gt;"
2737 In this string, &lt;index&gt; must be an integer specifying the hard disk controller to connect
2738 the image to. That number must be the index of an array item with one of the hard disk controller
2739 types (HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskControllerSATA, HardDiskControllerIDE).
2740 In addition, &lt;c&gt; must specify the channel to use on that controller. For IDE controllers,
2741 this can be 0 or 1 for master or slave, respectively. For compatibility with VirtualBox versions
2742 before 3.2, the values 2 and 3 (for secondary master and secondary slave) are also supported, but
2743 no longer exported. For SATA and SCSI controllers, the channel can range from 0-29.
2744 </li>
2745 <li>
2746 "CDROM": a virtual CD-ROM drive. The matching item in @a aExtraConfigValue[] contains the same
2747 attachment information as with "HardDiskImage" items.
2748 </li>
2749 <li>
2750 "CDROM": a virtual floppy drive. The matching item in @a aExtraConfigValue[] contains the same
2751 attachment information as with "HardDiskImage" items.
2752 </li>
2753 <li>
2754 "NetworkAdapter": a network adapter. The array item in @a aVBoxValues[] will specify the hardware
2755 for the network adapter, whereas the array item in @a aExtraConfigValues[] will have a string
2756 of the "type=&lt;X&gt;" format, where &lt;X&gt; must be either "NAT" or "Bridged".
2757 </li>
2758 <li>
2759 "USBController": a USB controller. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an
2760 item ispresent, USB support will be enabled for the new virtual machine.
2761 </li>
2762 <li>
2763 "SoundCard": a sound card. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an item is
2764 present, sound support will be enabled for the new virtual machine. Note that the virtual
2765 machine in VirtualBox will always be presented with the standard VirtualBox soundcard, which
2766 may be different from the virtual soundcard expected by the appliance.
2767 </li>
2768 </ul>
2769
2770 </desc>
2771
2772 <param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2773 <desc></desc>
2774 </param>
2775
2776 <param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2777 <desc></desc>
2778 </param>
2779
2780 <param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2781 <desc></desc>
2782 </param>
2783
2784 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2785 <desc></desc>
2786 </param>
2787
2788 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2789 <desc></desc>
2790 </param>
2791
2792 </method>
2793
2794 <method name="getDescriptionByType">
2795 <desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescription" /> except that you can specify which types
2796 should be returned.</desc>
2797
2798 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2799 <desc></desc>
2800 </param>
2801
2802 <param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2803 <desc></desc>
2804 </param>
2805
2806 <param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2807 <desc></desc>
2808 </param>
2809
2810 <param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2811 <desc></desc>
2812 </param>
2813
2814 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2815 <desc></desc>
2816 </param>
2817
2818 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2819 <desc></desc>
2820 </param>
2821
2822 </method>
2823
2824 <method name="getValuesByType">
2825 <desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescriptionByType" /> except that you can specify which
2826 value types should be returned. See <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" /> for possible
2827 values.</desc>
2828
2829 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2830 <desc></desc>
2831 </param>
2832
2833 <param name="aWhich" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" dir="in">
2834 <desc></desc>
2835 </param>
2836
2837 <param name="aValues" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2838 <desc></desc>
2839 </param>
2840
2841 </method>
2842
2843 <method name="setFinalValues">
2844 <desc>
2845 This method allows the appliance's user to change the configuration for the virtual
2846 system descriptions. For each array item returned from <link to="#getDescription" />,
2847 you must pass in one boolean value and one configuration value.
2848
2849 Each item in the boolean array determines whether the particular configuration item
2850 should be enabled.
2851 You can only disable items of the types HardDiskControllerIDE, HardDiskControllerSATA,
2852 HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskImage, CDROM, Floppy, NetworkAdapter, USBController
2853 and SoundCard.
2854
2855 For the "vbox" and "extra configuration" values, if you pass in the same arrays
2856 as returned in the aVBoxValues and aExtraConfigValues arrays from getDescription(),
2857 the configuration remains unchanged. Please see the documentation for getDescription()
2858 for valid configuration values for the individual array item types. If the
2859 corresponding item in the aEnabled array is @c false, the configuration value is ignored.
2860 </desc>
2861
2862 <param name="aEnabled" type="boolean" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2863 <desc></desc>
2864 </param>
2865
2866 <param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2867 <desc></desc>
2868 </param>
2869
2870 <param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2871 <desc></desc>
2872 </param>
2873 </method>
2874
2875 <method name="addDescription">
2876 <desc>
2877 This method adds an additional description entry to the stack of already
2878 available descriptions for this virtual system. This is handy for writing
2879 values which aren't directly supported by VirtualBox. One example would
2880 be the License type of <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" />.
2881 </desc>
2882
2883 <param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2884 <desc></desc>
2885 </param>
2886
2887 <param name="aVBoxValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
2888 <desc></desc>
2889 </param>
2890
2891 <param name="aExtraConfigValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
2892 <desc></desc>
2893 </param>
2894 </method>
2895 </interface>
2896
2897
2898 <!--
2899 // IMachine
2900 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2901 -->
2902
2903 <interface
2904 name="IInternalMachineControl" extends="$unknown"
2905 uuid="8e723ab0-812c-5662-dd8e-7ebc89637acf"
2906 internal="yes"
2907 wsmap="suppress"
2908 >
2909 <method name="setRemoveSavedStateFile">
2910 <desc>
2911 Updates the flag whether the saved state file is removed on a
2912 machine state change from Saved to PoweredOff.
2913 </desc>
2914 <param name="aRemove" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
2915 </method>
2916
2917 <method name="updateState">
2918 <desc>
2919 Updates the VM state.
2920 <note>
2921 This operation will also update the settings file with the correct
2922 information about the saved state file and delete this file from disk
2923 when appropriate.
2924 </note>
2925 </desc>
2926 <param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
2927 </method>
2928
2929 <method name="getIPCId">
2930 <param name="id" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
2931 </method>
2932
2933 <method name="beginPowerUp">
2934 <desc>
2935 Tells VBoxSVC that <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> is under ways and
2936 gives it the progress object that should be part of any pending
2937 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> operations. The progress
2938 object may be called back to reflect an early cancelation, so some care
2939 have to be taken with respect to any cancelation callbacks. The console
2940 object will call <link to="IInternalMachineControl::endPowerUp"/>
2941 to signal the completion of the progress object.
2942 </desc>
2943 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in" />
2944 </method>
2945
2946 <method name="endPowerUp">
2947 <desc>
2948 Tells VBoxSVC that <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> has completed.
2949 This method may query status information from the progress object it
2950 received in <link to="IInternalMachineControl::beginPowerUp"/> and copy
2951 it over to any in-progress <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>
2952 call in order to complete that progress object.
2953 </desc>
2954 <param name="result" type="long" dir="in"/>
2955 </method>
2956
2957 <method name="beginPoweringDown">
2958 <desc>
2959 Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
2960 stop the VM execution and power down.
2961 </desc>
2962 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="out">
2963 <desc>
2964 Progress object created by VBoxSVC to wait until
2965 the VM is powered down.
2966 </desc>
2967 </param>
2968 </method>
2969
2970 <method name="endPoweringDown">
2971 <desc>
2972 Called by the VM process to inform the server that powering
2973 down previously requested by #beginPoweringDown is either
2974 successfully finished or there was a failure.
2975
2976 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2977 Settings file not accessible.
2978 </result>
2979 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2980 Could not parse the settings file.
2981 </result>
2982
2983 </desc>
2984
2985 <param name="result" type="long" dir="in">
2986 <desc>@c S_OK to indicate success.
2987 </desc>
2988 </param>
2989 <param name="errMsg" type="wstring" dir="in">
2990 <desc>@c human readable error message in case of failure.
2991 </desc>
2992 </param>
2993 </method>
2994
2995 <method name="runUSBDeviceFilters">
2996 <desc>
2997 Asks the server to run USB devices filters of the associated
2998 machine against the given USB device and tell if there is
2999 a match.
3000 <note>
3001 Intended to be used only for remote USB devices. Local
3002 ones don't require to call this method (this is done
3003 implicitly by the Host and USBProxyService).
3004 </note>
3005 </desc>
3006 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
3007 <param name="matched" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
3008 <param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
3009 </method>
3010
3011 <method name="captureUSBDevice">
3012 <desc>
3013 Requests a capture of the given host USB device.
3014 When the request is completed, the VM process will
3015 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3016 notification.
3017 </desc>
3018 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3019 </method>
3020
3021 <method name="detachUSBDevice">
3022 <desc>
3023 Notification that a VM is going to detach (@a done = @c false) or has
3024 already detached (@a done = @c true) the given USB device.
3025 When the @a done = @c true request is completed, the VM process will
3026 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceDetach"/>
3027 notification.
3028 <note>
3029 In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3030 and filters of all VMs but this one on the detached device
3031 as if it were just attached to the host computer.
3032 </note>
3033 </desc>
3034 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3035 <param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3036 </method>
3037
3038 <method name="autoCaptureUSBDevices">
3039 <desc>
3040 Requests a capture all matching USB devices attached to the host.
3041 When the request is completed, the VM process will
3042 get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3043 notification per every captured device.
3044 </desc>
3045 </method>
3046
3047 <method name="detachAllUSBDevices">
3048 <desc>
3049 Notification that a VM that is being powered down. The done
3050 parameter indicates whether which stage of the power down
3051 we're at. When @a done = @c false the VM is announcing its
3052 intentions, while when @a done = @c true the VM is reporting
3053 what it has done.
3054 <note>
3055 In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3056 and filters of all VMs but this one on all detach devices as
3057 if they were just attached to the host computer.
3058 </note>
3059 </desc>
3060 <param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3061 </method>
3062
3063 <method name="onSessionEnd">
3064 <desc>
3065 Triggered by the given session object when the session is about
3066 to close normally.
3067 </desc>
3068 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
3069 <desc>Session that is being closed</desc>
3070 </param>
3071 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3072 <desc>
3073 Used to wait until the corresponding machine is actually
3074 dissociated from the given session on the server.
3075 Returned only when this session is a direct one.
3076 </desc>
3077 </param>
3078 </method>
3079
3080 <method name="beginSavingState">
3081 <desc>
3082 Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3083 save the current state and stop the VM execution.
3084 </desc>
3085 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="out">
3086 <desc>
3087 Progress object created by VBoxSVC to wait until
3088 the state is saved.
3089 </desc>
3090 </param>
3091 <param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3092 <desc>
3093 File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3094 </desc>
3095 </param>
3096 </method>
3097
3098 <method name="endSavingState">
3099 <desc>
3100 Called by the VM process to inform the server that saving
3101 the state previously requested by #beginSavingState is either
3102 successfully finished or there was a failure.
3103
3104 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3105 Settings file not accessible.
3106 </result>
3107 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3108 Could not parse the settings file.
3109 </result>
3110
3111 </desc>
3112
3113 <param name="result" type="long" dir="in">
3114 <desc>@c S_OK to indicate success.
3115 </desc>
3116 </param>
3117 <param name="errMsg" type="wstring" dir="in">
3118 <desc>@c human readable error message in case of failure.
3119 </desc>
3120 </param>
3121 </method>
3122
3123 <method name="adoptSavedState">
3124 <desc>
3125 Gets called by IConsole::adoptSavedState.
3126 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3127 Invalid saved state file path.
3128 </result>
3129 </desc>
3130 <param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
3131 <desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
3132 </param>
3133 </method>
3134
3135 <method name="beginTakingSnapshot">
3136 <desc>
3137 Called from the VM process to request from the server to perform the
3138 server-side actions of creating a snapshot (creating differencing images
3139 and the snapshot object).
3140
3141 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3142 Settings file not accessible.
3143 </result>
3144 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3145 Could not parse the settings file.
3146 </result>
3147 </desc>
3148 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3149 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3150 </param>
3151 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3152 <desc>Snapshot name.</desc>
3153 </param>
3154 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
3155 <desc>Snapshot description.</desc>
3156 </param>
3157 <param name="consoleProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3158 <desc>
3159 Progress object created by the VM process tracking the
3160 snapshot's progress. This has the following sub-operations:
3161 <ul>
3162 <li>setting up (weight 1);</li>
3163 <li>one for each medium attachment that needs a differencing image (weight 1 each);</li>
3164 <li>another one to copy the VM state (if offline with saved state, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3165 <li>another one to save the VM state (if online, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3166 <li>finishing up (weight 1)</li>
3167 </ul>
3168 </desc>
3169 </param>
3170 <param name="fTakingSnapshotOnline" type="boolean" dir="in">
3171 <desc>
3172 Whether this is an online snapshot (i.e. the machine is running).
3173 </desc>
3174 </param>
3175 <param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3176 <desc>
3177 File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3178 </desc>
3179 </param>
3180 </method>
3181
3182 <method name="endTakingSnapshot">
3183 <desc>
3184 Called by the VM process to inform the server that the snapshot
3185 previously requested by #beginTakingSnapshot is either
3186 successfully taken or there was a failure.
3187 </desc>
3188
3189 <param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3190 <desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise</desc>
3191 </param>
3192 </method>
3193
3194 <method name="deleteSnapshot">
3195 <desc>
3196 Gets called by IConsole::deleteSnapshot.
3197 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3198 Snapshot has more than one child snapshot.
3199 </result>
3200 </desc>
3201 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3202 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3203 </param>
3204 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
3205 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to delete.</desc>
3206 </param>
3207 <param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3208 <desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3209 </param>
3210 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3211 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3212 </param>
3213 </method>
3214
3215 <method name="finishOnlineMergeMedium">
3216 <desc>
3217 Gets called by IConsole::onlineMergeMedium.
3218 </desc>
3219 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
3220 <desc>The medium attachment which needs to be cleaned up.</desc>
3221 </param>
3222 <param name="source" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3223 <desc>Merge source medium.</desc>
3224 </param>
3225 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3226 <desc>Merge target medium.</desc>
3227 </param>
3228 <param name="mergeForward" type="boolean" dir="in">
3229 <desc>Merge direction.</desc>
3230 </param>
3231 <param name="parentForTarget" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3232 <desc>For forward merges: new parent for target medium.</desc>
3233 </param>
3234 <param name="childrenToReparent" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
3235 <desc>For backward merges: list of media which need their parent UUID
3236 updated.</desc>
3237 </param>
3238 </method>
3239
3240 <method name="restoreSnapshot">
3241 <desc>
3242 Gets called by IConsole::RestoreSnapshot.
3243 </desc>
3244 <param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3245 <desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3246 </param>
3247 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
3248 <desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
3249 </param>
3250 <param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3251 <desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3252 </param>
3253 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3254 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3255 </param>
3256 </method>
3257
3258 <method name="pullGuestProperties">
3259 <desc>
3260 Get the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3261 with their values, time stamps and flags and give responsibility for
3262 managing properties to the console.
3263 </desc>
3264 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3265 <desc>
3266 The names of the properties returned.
3267 </desc>
3268 </param>
3269 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3270 <desc>
3271 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3272 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3273 </desc>
3274 </param>
3275 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3276 <desc>
3277 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
3278 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3279 </desc>
3280 </param>
3281 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3282 <desc>
3283 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3284 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3285 </desc>
3286 </param>
3287 </method>
3288
3289 <method name="pushGuestProperty">
3290 <desc>
3291 Update a single guest property in IMachine.
3292 </desc>
3293 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3294 <desc>
3295 The name of the property to be updated.
3296 </desc>
3297 </param>
3298 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
3299 <desc>
3300 The value of the property.
3301 </desc>
3302 </param>
3303 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="in">
3304 <desc>
3305 The timestamp of the property.
3306 </desc>
3307 </param>
3308 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
3309 <desc>
3310 The flags of the property.
3311 </desc>
3312 </param>
3313 </method>
3314
3315 <method name="lockMedia">
3316 <desc>
3317 Locks all media attached to the machine for writing and parents of
3318 attached differencing media (if any) for reading. This operation is
3319 atomic so that if it fails no media is actually locked.
3320
3321 This method is intended to be called when the machine is in Starting or
3322 Restoring state. The locked media will be automatically unlocked when
3323 the machine is powered off or crashed.
3324 </desc>
3325 </method>
3326 <method name="unlockMedia">
3327 <desc>
3328 Unlocks all media previously locked using
3329 <link to="IInternalMachineControl::lockMedia"/>.
3330
3331 This method is intended to be used with teleportation so that it is
3332 possible to teleport between processes on the same machine.
3333 </desc>
3334 </method>
3335 </interface>
3336
3337 <interface
3338 name="IBIOSSettings" extends="$unknown"
3339 uuid="38b54279-dc35-4f5e-a431-835b867c6b5e"
3340 wsmap="managed"
3341 >
3342 <desc>
3343 The IBIOSSettings interface represents BIOS settings of the virtual
3344 machine. This is used only in the <link to="IMachine::BIOSSettings" /> attribute.
3345 </desc>
3346 <attribute name="logoFadeIn" type="boolean">
3347 <desc>Fade in flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3348 </attribute>
3349
3350 <attribute name="logoFadeOut" type="boolean">
3351 <desc>Fade out flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3352 </attribute>
3353
3354 <attribute name="logoDisplayTime" type="unsigned long">
3355 <desc>BIOS logo display time in milliseconds (0 = default).</desc>
3356 </attribute>
3357
3358 <attribute name="logoImagePath" type="wstring">
3359 <desc>
3360 Local file system path for external BIOS splash image. Empty string
3361 means the default image is shown on boot.
3362 </desc>
3363 </attribute>
3364
3365 <attribute name="bootMenuMode" type="BIOSBootMenuMode">
3366 <desc>Mode of the BIOS boot device menu.</desc>
3367 </attribute>
3368
3369 <attribute name="ACPIEnabled" type="boolean">
3370 <desc>ACPI support flag.</desc>
3371 </attribute>
3372
3373 <attribute name="IOAPICEnabled" type="boolean">
3374 <desc>
3375 IO APIC support flag. If set, VirtualBox will provide an IO APIC
3376 and support IRQs above 15.
3377 </desc>
3378 </attribute>
3379
3380 <attribute name="timeOffset" type="long long">
3381 <desc>
3382 Offset in milliseconds from the host system time. This allows for
3383 guests running with a different system date/time than the host.
3384 It is equivalent to setting the system date/time in the BIOS except
3385 it is not an absolute value but a relative one. Guest Additions
3386 time synchronization honors this offset.
3387 </desc>
3388 </attribute>
3389
3390 <attribute name="PXEDebugEnabled" type="boolean">
3391 <desc>
3392 PXE debug logging flag. If set, VirtualBox will write extensive
3393 PXE trace information to the release log.
3394 </desc>
3395 </attribute>
3396
3397 </interface>
3398
3399 <enum
3400 name="CleanupMode"
3401 uuid="67897c50-7cca-47a9-83f6-ce8fd8eb5441"
3402 >
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 removable 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="IPciAddress" extends="$unknown"
3421 uuid="D88B324F-DB19-4D3B-A1A9-BF5B127199A8"
3422 wsmap="struct"
3423 >
3424
3425 <desc>
3426 Address on the PCI bus.
3427 </desc>
3428
3429 <attribute name="bus" type="short">
3430 <desc>
3431 Bus number.
3432 </desc>
3433 </attribute>
3434
3435 <attribute name="device" type="short">
3436 <desc>
3437 Device number.
3438 </desc>
3439 </attribute>
3440
3441 <attribute name="devFunction" type="short">
3442 <desc>
3443 Device function number.
3444 </desc>
3445 </attribute>
3446
3447 <method name="asLong">
3448 <desc>
3449 Convert PCI address into long.
3450 </desc>
3451 <param name="result" type="long" dir="return" />
3452 </method>
3453
3454 <method name="fromLong">
3455 <desc>
3456 Make PCI address from long.
3457 </desc>
3458 <param name="number" type="long" dir="in" />
3459 </method>
3460 </interface>
3461
3462 <interface
3463 name="IPciDeviceAttachment" extends="$unknown"
3464 uuid="91f33d6f-e621-4f70-a77e-15f0e3c714d5"
3465 wsmap="struct"
3466 >
3467
3468 <desc>
3469 Information about PCI attachments.
3470 </desc>
3471
3472 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3473 <desc>
3474 Device name.
3475 </desc>
3476 </attribute>
3477
3478 <attribute name="isPhysicalDevice" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3479 <desc>
3480 If this is physical or virtual device.
3481 </desc>
3482 </attribute>
3483
3484 <attribute name="hostAddress" type="long" readonly="yes">
3485 <desc>
3486 Address of device on the host, applicable only to host devices.
3487 </desc>
3488 </attribute>
3489
3490 <attribute name="guestAddress" type="long" readonly="yes">
3491 <desc>
3492 Address of device on the guest.
3493 </desc>
3494 </attribute>
3495
3496 </interface>
3497
3498
3499 <interface
3500 name="IMachine" extends="$unknown"
3501 uuid="59d09c78-2558-45c8-a95e-8761d70fdc95"
3502 wsmap="managed"
3503 >
3504 <desc>
3505 The IMachine interface represents a virtual machine, or guest, created
3506 in VirtualBox.
3507
3508 This interface is used in two contexts. First of all, a collection of
3509 objects implementing this interface is stored in the
3510 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute which lists all the virtual
3511 machines that are currently registered with this VirtualBox
3512 installation. Also, once a session has been opened for the given virtual
3513 machine (e.g. the virtual machine is running), the machine object
3514 associated with the open session can be queried from the session object;
3515 see <link to="ISession"/> for details.
3516
3517 The main role of this interface is to expose the settings of the virtual
3518 machine and provide methods to change various aspects of the virtual
3519 machine's configuration. For machine objects stored in the
3520 <link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> collection, all attributes are
3521 read-only unless explicitly stated otherwise in individual attribute
3522 and method descriptions.
3523
3524 In order to change a machine setting, a session for this machine must be
3525 opened using one of the <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> or
3526 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> methods. After the
3527 machine has been successfully locked for a session, a mutable machine object
3528 needs to be queried from the session object and then the desired settings
3529 changes can be applied to the returned object using IMachine attributes and
3530 methods. See the <link to="ISession"/> interface description for more
3531 information about sessions.
3532
3533 Note that IMachine does not provide methods to control virtual machine
3534 execution (such as start the machine, or power it down) -- these methods
3535 are grouped in a separate interface called <link to="IConsole" />.
3536
3537 <see>ISession, IConsole</see>
3538 </desc>
3539
3540 <attribute name="parent" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
3541 <desc>Associated parent object.</desc>
3542 </attribute>
3543
3544 <attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3545 <desc>
3546 Whether this virtual machine is currently accessible or not.
3547
3548 A machine is always deemed accessible unless it is registered <i>and</i>
3549 its settings file cannot be read or parsed (either because the file itself
3550 is unavailable or has invalid XML contents).
3551
3552 Every time this property is read, the accessibility state of
3553 this machine is re-evaluated. If the returned value is @c false,
3554 the <link to="#accessError"/> property may be used to get the
3555 detailed error information describing the reason of
3556 inaccessibility, including XML error messages.
3557
3558 When the machine is inaccessible, only the following properties
3559 can be used on it:
3560 <ul>
3561 <li><link to="#parent"/></li>
3562 <li><link to="#id"/></li>
3563 <li><link to="#settingsFilePath"/></li>
3564 <li><link to="#accessible"/></li>
3565 <li><link to="#accessError"/></li>
3566 </ul>
3567
3568 An attempt to access any other property or method will return
3569 an error.
3570
3571 The only possible action you can perform on an inaccessible
3572 machine is to unregister it using the
3573 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/> call (or, to check
3574 for the accessibility state once more by querying this
3575 property).
3576
3577 <note>
3578 In the current implementation, once this property returns
3579 @c true, the machine will never become inaccessible
3580 later, even if its settings file cannot be successfully
3581 read/written any more (at least, until the VirtualBox
3582 server is restarted). This limitation may be removed in
3583 future releases.
3584 </note>
3585 </desc>
3586 </attribute>
3587
3588 <attribute name="accessError" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
3589 <desc>
3590 Error information describing the reason of machine
3591 inaccessibility.
3592
3593 Reading this property is only valid after the last call to
3594 <link to="#accessible"/> returned @c false (i.e. the
3595 machine is currently inaccessible). Otherwise, a @c null
3596 IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object will be returned.
3597 </desc>
3598 </attribute>
3599
3600 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
3601 <desc>
3602 Name of the virtual machine.
3603
3604 Besides being used for human-readable identification purposes
3605 everywhere in VirtualBox, the virtual machine name is also used
3606 as a name of the machine's settings file and as a name of the
3607 subdirectory this settings file resides in. Thus, every time you
3608 change the value of this property, the settings file will be
3609 renamed once you call <link to="#saveSettings"/> to confirm the
3610 change. The containing subdirectory will be also renamed, but
3611 only if it has exactly the same name as the settings file
3612 itself prior to changing this property (for backward compatibility
3613 with previous API releases). The above implies the following
3614 limitations:
3615 <ul>
3616 <li>The machine name cannot be empty.</li>
3617 <li>The machine name can contain only characters that are valid
3618 file name characters according to the rules of the file
3619 system used to store VirtualBox configuration.</li>
3620 <li>You cannot have two or more machines with the same name
3621 if they use the same subdirectory for storing the machine
3622 settings files.</li>
3623 <li>You cannot change the name of the machine if it is running,
3624 or if any file in the directory containing the settings file
3625 is being used by another running machine or by any other
3626 process in the host operating system at a time when
3627 <link to="#saveSettings"/> is called.
3628 </li>
3629 </ul>
3630 If any of the above limitations are hit, <link to="#saveSettings"/>
3631 will return an appropriate error message explaining the exact
3632 reason and the changes you made to this machine will not be saved.
3633
3634 Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, a “.vbox” extension of the settings
3635 file is recommended, but not enforced. (Previous versions always
3636 used a generic ".xml" extension.)
3637 </desc>
3638 </attribute>
3639
3640 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
3641 <desc>
3642 Description of the virtual machine.
3643
3644 The description attribute can contain any text and is
3645 typically used to describe the hardware and software
3646 configuration of the virtual machine in detail (i.e. network
3647 settings, versions of the installed software and so on).
3648 </desc>
3649 </attribute>
3650
3651 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
3652 <desc>UUID of the virtual machine.</desc>
3653 </attribute>
3654
3655 <attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring">
3656 <desc>
3657 User-defined identifier of the Guest OS type.
3658 You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
3659 an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
3660 Guest OS type.
3661 <note>
3662 This value may differ from the value returned by
3663 <link to="IGuest::OSTypeId"/> if Guest Additions are
3664 installed to the guest OS.
3665 </note>
3666 </desc>
3667 </attribute>
3668
3669 <attribute name="HardwareVersion" type="wstring">
3670 <desc>Hardware version identifier. Internal use only for now.</desc>
3671 </attribute>
3672
3673 <attribute name="hardwareUUID" type="uuid" mod="string">
3674 <desc>
3675 The UUID presented to the guest via memory tables, hardware and guest
3676 properties. For most VMs this is the same as the @a id, but for VMs
3677 which have been cloned or teleported it may be the same as the source
3678 VM. This latter is because the guest shouldn't notice that it was
3679 cloned or teleported.
3680 </desc>
3681 </attribute>
3682
3683 <attribute name="CPUCount" type="unsigned long">
3684 <desc>Number of virtual CPUs in the VM.</desc>
3685 </attribute>
3686
3687 <attribute name="CPUHotPlugEnabled" type="boolean">
3688 <desc>
3689 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows CPU
3690 hotplugging for this machine.</desc>
3691 </attribute>
3692
3693 <attribute name="CPUExecutionCap" type="unsigned long">
3694 <desc>
3695 Means to limit the number of CPU cycles a guest can use. The unit
3696 is percentage of host CPU cycles per second. The valid range
3697 is 1 - 100. 100 (the default) implies no limit.
3698 </desc>
3699 </attribute>
3700
3701 <attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long">
3702 <desc>System memory size in megabytes.</desc>
3703 </attribute>
3704
3705 <attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
3706 <desc>Memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
3707 </attribute>
3708
3709 <attribute name="PageFusionEnabled" type="boolean">
3710 <desc>
3711 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows page
3712 fusion for this machine (64 bits host only).
3713 </desc>
3714 </attribute>
3715
3716 <attribute name="VRAMSize" type="unsigned long">
3717 <desc>Video memory size in megabytes.</desc>
3718 </attribute>
3719
3720 <attribute name="accelerate3DEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
3721 <desc>
3722 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
3723 use of the 3D graphics support available on the host.</desc>
3724 </attribute>
3725
3726 <attribute name="accelerate2DVideoEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
3727 <desc>
3728 This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
3729 use of the 2D video acceleration support available on the host.</desc>
3730 </attribute>
3731
3732 <attribute name="monitorCount" type="unsigned long">
3733 <desc>
3734 Number of virtual monitors.
3735 <note>
3736 Only effective on Windows XP and later guests with
3737 Guest Additions installed.
3738 </note>
3739 </desc>
3740 </attribute>
3741
3742 <attribute name="BIOSSettings" type="IBIOSSettings" readonly="yes">
3743 <desc>Object containing all BIOS settings.</desc>
3744 </attribute>
3745
3746 <attribute name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType">
3747 <desc>Type of firmware (such as legacy BIOS or EFI), used for initial
3748 bootstrap in this VM.</desc>
3749 </attribute>
3750
3751 <attribute name="pointingHidType" type="PointingHidType">
3752 <desc>Type of pointing HID (such as mouse or tablet) used in this VM.
3753 The default is typically "PS2Mouse" but can vary depending on the
3754 requirements of the guest operating system.</desc>
3755 </attribute>
3756
3757 <attribute name="keyboardHidType" type="KeyboardHidType">
3758 <desc>Type of keyboard HID used in this VM.
3759 The default is typically "PS2Keyboard" but can vary depending on the
3760 requirements of the guest operating system.</desc>
3761 </attribute>
3762
3763 <attribute name="hpetEnabled" type="boolean">
3764 <desc>This attribute controls if High Precision Event Timer (HPET) is
3765 enabled in this VM. Use this property if you want to provide guests
3766 with additional time source, or if guest requires HPET to function correctly.
3767 Default is false.</desc>
3768 </attribute>
3769
3770 <attribute name="chipsetType" type="ChipsetType">
3771 <desc>Chipset type used in this VM.</desc>
3772 </attribute>
3773
3774 <attribute name="snapshotFolder" type="wstring">
3775 <desc>
3776 Full path to the directory used to store snapshot data
3777 (differencing media and saved state files) of this machine.
3778
3779 The initial value of this property is
3780 <tt>&lt;</tt><link to="#settingsFilePath">
3781 path_to_settings_file</link><tt>&gt;/&lt;</tt>
3782 <link to="#id">machine_uuid</link>
3783 <tt>&gt;</tt>.
3784
3785 Currently, it is an error to try to change this property on
3786 a machine that has snapshots (because this would require to
3787 move possibly large files to a different location).
3788 A separate method will be available for this purpose later.
3789
3790 <note>
3791 Setting this property to @c null or to an empty string will restore
3792 the initial value.
3793 </note>
3794 <note>
3795 When setting this property, the specified path can be
3796 absolute (full path) or relative to the directory where the
3797 <link to="#settingsFilePath">machine settings file</link>
3798 is located. When reading this property, a full path is
3799 always returned.
3800 </note>
3801 <note>
3802 The specified path may not exist, it will be created
3803 when necessary.
3804 </note>
3805 </desc>
3806 </attribute>
3807
3808 <attribute name="VRDEServer" type="IVRDEServer" readonly="yes">
3809 <desc>VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) server object.</desc>
3810 </attribute>
3811
3812 <attribute name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3813 <desc>Array of media attached to this machine.</desc>
3814 </attribute>
3815
3816 <attribute name="USBController" type="IUSBController" readonly="yes">
3817 <desc>
3818 Associated USB controller object.
3819
3820 <note>
3821 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
3822 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
3823 </note>
3824 </desc>
3825 </attribute>
3826
3827 <attribute name="audioAdapter" type="IAudioAdapter" readonly="yes">
3828 <desc>Associated audio adapter, always present.</desc>
3829 </attribute>
3830
3831 <attribute name="storageControllers" type="IStorageController" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3832 <desc>Array of storage controllers attached to this machine.</desc>
3833 </attribute>
3834
3835 <attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3836 <desc>
3837 Full name of the file containing machine settings data.
3838 </desc>
3839 </attribute>
3840
3841 <attribute name="settingsModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3842 <desc>
3843 Whether the settings of this machine have been modified
3844 (but neither yet saved nor discarded).
3845 <note>
3846 Reading this property is only valid on instances returned
3847 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
3848 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened
3849 by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
3850 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
3851 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/>. For all other
3852 cases, the settings can never be modified.
3853 </note>
3854 <note>
3855 For newly created unregistered machines, the value of this
3856 property is always @c true until <link to="#saveSettings"/>
3857 is called (no matter if any machine settings have been
3858 changed after the creation or not). For opened machines
3859 the value is set to @c false (and then follows to normal rules).
3860 </note>
3861 </desc>
3862 </attribute>
3863
3864 <attribute name="sessionState" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
3865 <desc>Current session state for this machine.</desc>
3866 </attribute>
3867
3868 <attribute name="sessionType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3869 <desc>
3870 Type of the session. If <link to="#sessionState"/> is
3871 Spawning or Locked, this attribute contains the
3872 same value as passed to the
3873 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> method in the
3874 @a type parameter. If the session was used with
3875 <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />, or if
3876 <link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionClosed, the value of this
3877 attribute is an empty string.
3878 </desc>
3879 </attribute>
3880
3881 <attribute name="sessionPid" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
3882 <desc>
3883 Identifier of the session process. This attribute contains the
3884 platform-dependent identifier of the process whose session was
3885 used with <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> call. The returned
3886 value is only valid if <link to="#sessionState"/> is Locked or
3887 Unlocking by the time this property is read.
3888 </desc>
3889 </attribute>
3890
3891 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
3892 <desc>Current execution state of this machine.</desc>
3893 </attribute>
3894
3895 <attribute name="lastStateChange" type="long long" readonly="yes">
3896 <desc>
3897 Time stamp of the last execution state change,
3898 in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
3899 </desc>
3900 </attribute>
3901
3902 <attribute name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3903 <desc>
3904 Full path to the file that stores the execution state of
3905 the machine when it is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state.
3906 <note>
3907 When the machine is not in the Saved state, this attribute is
3908 an empty string.
3909 </note>
3910 </desc>
3911 </attribute>
3912
3913 <attribute name="logFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3914 <desc>
3915 Full path to the folder that stores a set of rotated log files
3916 recorded during machine execution. The most recent log file is
3917 named <tt>VBox.log</tt>, the previous log file is
3918 named <tt>VBox.log.1</tt> and so on (up to <tt>VBox.log.3</tt>
3919 in the current version).
3920 </desc>
3921 </attribute>
3922
3923 <attribute name="currentSnapshot" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
3924 <desc>
3925 Current snapshot of this machine. This is @c null if the machine
3926 currently has no snapshots. If it is not @c null, then it was
3927 set by one of <link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot" />,
3928 <link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot" />
3929 or <link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot" />, depending on which
3930 was called last. See <link to="ISnapshot"/> for details.
3931 </desc>
3932 </attribute>
3933
3934 <attribute name="snapshotCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
3935 <desc>
3936 Number of snapshots taken on this machine. Zero means the
3937 machine doesn't have any snapshots.
3938 </desc>
3939 </attribute>
3940
3941 <attribute name="currentStateModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3942 <desc>
3943 Returns @c true if the current state of the machine is not
3944 identical to the state stored in the current snapshot.
3945
3946 The current state is identical to the current snapshot only
3947 directly after one of the following calls are made:
3948
3949 <ul>
3950 <li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/>
3951 </li>
3952 <li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> (issued on a
3953 "powered off" or "saved" machine, for which
3954 <link to="#settingsModified"/> returns @c false)
3955 </li>
3956 </ul>
3957
3958 The current state remains identical until one of the following
3959 happens:
3960 <ul>
3961 <li>settings of the machine are changed</li>
3962 <li>the saved state is deleted</li>
3963 <li>the current snapshot is deleted</li>
3964 <li>an attempt to execute the machine is made</li>
3965 </ul>
3966
3967 <note>
3968 For machines that don't have snapshots, this property is
3969 always @c false.
3970 </note>
3971 </desc>
3972 </attribute>
3973
3974 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3975 <desc>
3976 Collection of shared folders for this machine (permanent shared
3977 folders). These folders are shared automatically at machine startup
3978 and available only to the guest OS installed within this machine.
3979
3980 New shared folders are added to the collection using
3981 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
3982 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
3983 </desc>
3984 </attribute>
3985
3986 <attribute name="clipboardMode" type="ClipboardMode">
3987 <desc>
3988 Synchronization mode between the host OS clipboard
3989 and the guest OS clipboard.
3990 </desc>
3991 </attribute>
3992
3993 <attribute name="guestPropertyNotificationPatterns" type="wstring">
3994 <desc>
3995 A comma-separated list of simple glob patterns. Changes to guest
3996 properties whose name matches one of the patterns will generate an
3997 <link to="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent"/> signal.
3998 </desc>
3999 </attribute>
4000
4001 <attribute name="teleporterEnabled" type="boolean">
4002 <desc>
4003 When set to @a true, the virtual machine becomes a target teleporter
4004 the next time it is powered on. This can only set to @a true when the
4005 VM is in the @a PoweredOff or @a Aborted state.
4006
4007 <!-- This property is automatically set to @a false when the VM is powered
4008 on. (bird: This doesn't work yet ) -->
4009 </desc>
4010 </attribute>
4011
4012 <attribute name="teleporterPort" type="unsigned long">
4013 <desc>
4014 The TCP port the target teleporter will listen for incoming
4015 teleportations on.
4016
4017 0 means the port is automatically selected upon power on. The actual
4018 value can be read from this property while the machine is waiting for
4019 incoming teleportations.
4020 </desc>
4021 </attribute>
4022
4023 <attribute name="teleporterAddress" type="wstring">
4024 <desc>
4025 The address the target teleporter will listen on. If set to an empty
4026 string, it will listen on all addresses.
4027 </desc>
4028 </attribute>
4029
4030 <attribute name="teleporterPassword" type="wstring">
4031 <desc>
4032 The password to check for on the target teleporter. This is just a
4033 very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
4034 beaming a virtual machine to the wrong place.
4035 </desc>
4036 </attribute>
4037
4038 <attribute name="faultToleranceState" type="FaultToleranceState">
4039 <desc>
4040 Fault tolerance state; disabled, source or target.
4041 This property can be changed at any time. If you change it for a running
4042 VM, then the fault tolerance address and port must be set beforehand.
4043 </desc>
4044 </attribute>
4045
4046 <attribute name="faultTolerancePort" type="unsigned long">
4047 <desc>
4048 The TCP port the fault tolerance source or target will use for
4049 communication.
4050 </desc>
4051 </attribute>
4052
4053 <attribute name="faultToleranceAddress" type="wstring">
4054 <desc>
4055 The address the fault tolerance source or target.
4056 </desc>
4057 </attribute>
4058
4059 <attribute name="faultTolerancePassword" type="wstring">
4060 <desc>
4061 The password to check for on the standby VM. This is just a
4062 very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
4063 choosing the wrong standby VM.
4064 </desc>
4065 </attribute>
4066
4067 <attribute name="faultToleranceSyncInterval" type="unsigned long">
4068 <desc>
4069 The interval in ms used for syncing the state between source and target.
4070 </desc>
4071 </attribute>
4072
4073 <attribute name="RTCUseUTC" type="boolean">
4074 <desc>
4075 When set to @a true, the RTC device of the virtual machine will run
4076 in UTC time, otherwise in local time. Especially Unix guests prefer
4077 the time in UTC.
4078 </desc>
4079 </attribute>
4080
4081 <attribute name="ioCacheEnabled" type="boolean">
4082 <desc>
4083 When set to @a true, the builtin I/O cache of the virtual machine
4084 will be enabled.
4085 </desc>
4086 </attribute>
4087
4088 <attribute name="ioCacheSize" type="unsigned long">
4089 <desc>
4090 Maximum size of the I/O cache in MB.
4091 </desc>
4092 </attribute>
4093
4094 <attribute name="bandwidthControl" type="IBandwidthControl" readonly="yes">
4095 <desc>
4096 Bandwidth control manager.
4097 </desc>
4098 </attribute>
4099
4100 <attribute name="pciDeviceAssignments" type="IPciDeviceAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4101 <desc>Array of PCI devices assigned to this machine, to get list of all PCI devices
4102 attached to the machine use IConsole::attachedPciDevices attribute, as
4103 this attribute is intended to list only devices additional to what
4104 described in virtual hardware config. Usually, this list keeps host's
4105 physical devices assigned to the particular machine.
4106 </desc>
4107 </attribute>
4108
4109 <method name="lockMachine">
4110 <desc>
4111 Locks the machine for the given session to enable the caller
4112 to make changes to the machine or start the VM or control
4113 VM execution.
4114
4115 There are two ways to lock a machine for such uses:
4116
4117 <ul>
4118 <li>If you want to make changes to the machine settings,
4119 you must obtain an exclusive write lock on the machine
4120 by setting @a lockType to @c Write.
4121
4122 This will only succeed if no other process has locked
4123 the machine to prevent conflicting changes. Only after
4124 an exclusive write lock has been obtained using this method, one
4125 can change all VM settings or execute the VM in the process
4126 space of the session object. (Note that the latter is only of
4127 interest if you actually want to write a new front-end for
4128 virtual machines; but this API gets called internally by
4129 the existing front-ends such as VBoxHeadless and the VirtualBox
4130 GUI to acquire a write lock on the machine that they are running.)
4131
4132 On success, write-locking the machine for a session creates
4133 a second copy of the IMachine object. It is this second object
4134 upon which changes can be made; in VirtualBox terminology, the
4135 second copy is "mutable". It is only this second, mutable machine
4136 object upon which you can call methods that change the
4137 machine state. After having called this method, you can
4138 obtain this second, mutable machine object using the
4139 <link to="ISession::machine" /> attribute.
4140 </li>
4141 <li>If you only want to check the machine state or control
4142 machine execution without actually changing machine
4143 settings (e.g. to get access to VM statistics or take
4144 a snapshot or save the machine state), then set the
4145 @a lockType argument to @c Shared.
4146
4147 If no other session has obtained a lock, you will obtain an
4148 exclusive write lock as described above. However, if another
4149 session has already obtained such a lock, then a link to that
4150 existing session will be established which allows you
4151 to control that existing session.
4152
4153 To find out which type of lock was obtained, you can
4154 inspect <link to="ISession::type" />, which will have been
4155 set to either @c WriteLock or @c Shared.
4156 </li>
4157 </ul>
4158
4159 In either case, you can get access to the <link to="IConsole" />
4160 object which controls VM execution.
4161
4162 Also in all of the above cases, one must always call
4163 <link to="ISession::unlockMachine" /> to release the lock on the machine, or
4164 the machine's state will eventually be set to "Aborted".
4165
4166 To change settings on a machine, the following sequence is typically
4167 performed:
4168
4169 <ol>
4170 <li>Call this method to obtain an exclusive write lock for the current session.</li>
4171
4172 <li>Obtain a mutable IMachine object from <link to="ISession::machine" />.</li>
4173
4174 <li>Change the settings of the machine by invoking IMachine methods.</li>
4175
4176 <li>Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" />.</li>
4177
4178 <li>Release the write lock by calling <link to="ISession::unlockMachine"/>.</li>
4179 </ol>
4180
4181 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
4182 Virtual machine not registered.
4183 </result>
4184 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
4185 Process not started by OpenRemoteSession.
4186 </result>
4187 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4188 Session already open or being opened.
4189 </result>
4190 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
4191 Failed to assign machine to session.
4192 </result>
4193 </desc>
4194 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
4195 <desc>
4196 Session object for which the machine will be locked.
4197 </desc>
4198 </param>
4199 <param name="lockType" type="LockType" dir="in">
4200 <desc>
4201 If set to @c Write, then attempt to acquire an exclusive write lock or fail.
4202 If set to @c Shared, then either acquire an exclusive write lock or establish
4203 a link to an existing session.
4204 </desc>
4205 </param>
4206 </method>
4207
4208 <method name="launchVMProcess">
4209 <desc>
4210 Spawns a new process that will execute the virtual machine and obtains a shared
4211 lock on the machine for the calling session.
4212
4213 If launching the VM succeeds, the new VM process will create its own session
4214 and write-lock the machine for it, preventing conflicting changes from other
4215 processes. If the machine is already locked (because it is already running or
4216 because another session has a write lock), launching the VM process will therefore
4217 fail. Reversely, future attempts to obtain a write lock will also fail while the
4218 machine is running.
4219
4220 The caller's session object remains separate from the session opened by the new
4221 VM process. It receives its own <link to="IConsole" /> object which can be used
4222 to control machine execution, but it cannot be used to change all VM settings
4223 which would be available after a <link to="#lockMachine" /> call.
4224
4225 The caller must eventually release the session's shared lock by calling
4226 <link to="ISession::unlockMachine" /> on the local session object once this call
4227 has returned. However, the session's state (see <link to="ISession::state" />)
4228 will not return to "Unlocked" until the remote session has also unlocked
4229 the machine (i.e. the machine has stopped running).
4230
4231 Launching a VM process can take some time (a new VM is started in a new process,
4232 for which memory and other resources need to be set up). Because of this,
4233 an <link to="IProgress" /> object is returned to allow the caller to wait
4234 for this asynchronous operation to be completed. Until then, the caller's
4235 session object remains in the "Unlocked" state, and its <link to="ISession::machine" />
4236 and <link to="ISession::console" /> attributes cannot be accessed.
4237 It is recommended to use <link to="IProgress::waitForCompletion" /> or
4238 similar calls to wait for completion. Completion is signalled when the VM
4239 is powered on. If launching the VM fails, error messages can be queried
4240 via the progress object, if available.
4241
4242 The progress object will have at least 2 sub-operations. The first
4243 operation covers the period up to the new VM process calls powerUp.
4244 The subsequent operations mirror the <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/>
4245 progress object. Because <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> may require
4246 some extra sub-operations, the <link to="IProgress::operationCount"/>
4247 may change at the completion of operation.
4248
4249 For details on the teleportation progress operation, see
4250 <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/>.
4251
4252 The @a environment argument is a string containing definitions of
4253 environment variables in the following format:
4254 @code
4255 NAME[=VALUE]\n
4256 NAME[=VALUE]\n
4257 ...
4258 @endcode
4259 where <tt>\\n</tt> is the new line character. These environment
4260 variables will be appended to the environment of the VirtualBox server
4261 process. If an environment variable exists both in the server process
4262 and in this list, the value from this list takes precedence over the
4263 server's variable. If the value of the environment variable is
4264 omitted, this variable will be removed from the resulting environment.
4265 If the environment string is @c null or empty, the server environment
4266 is inherited by the started process as is.
4267
4268 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
4269 Virtual machine not registered.
4270 </result>
4271 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4272 Invalid session type @a type.
4273 </result>
4274 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4275 No machine matching @a machineId found.
4276 </result>
4277 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4278 Session already open or being opened.
4279 </result>
4280 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
4281 Launching process for machine failed.
4282 </result>
4283 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
4284 Failed to assign machine to session.
4285 </result>
4286 </desc>
4287 <param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
4288 <desc>
4289 Client session object to which the VM process will be connected (this
4290 must be in "Unlocked" state).
4291 </desc>
4292 </param>
4293 <param name="type" type="wstring" dir="in">
4294 <desc>
4295 Front-end to use for the new VM process. The following are currently supported:
4296 <ul>
4297 <li><tt>"gui"</tt>: VirtualBox Qt GUI front-end</li>
4298 <li><tt>"headless"</tt>: VBoxHeadless (VRDE Server) front-end</li>
4299 <li><tt>"sdl"</tt>: VirtualBox SDL front-end</li>
4300 <li><tt>"emergencystop"</tt>: reserved value, used for aborting
4301 the currently running VM or session owner. In this case the
4302 @a session parameter may be @c NULL (if it is non-null it isn't
4303 used in any way), and the @a progress return value will be always
4304 NULL. The operation completes immediately.</li>
4305 </ul>
4306 </desc>
4307 </param>
4308 <param name="environment" type="wstring" dir="in">
4309 <desc>
4310 Environment to pass to the VM process.
4311 </desc>
4312 </param>
4313 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
4314 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
4315 </param>
4316 </method>
4317
4318 <method name="setBootOrder">
4319 <desc>
4320 Puts the given device to the specified position in
4321 the boot order.
4322
4323 To indicate that no device is associated with the given position,
4324 <link to="DeviceType_Null"/> should be used.
4325
4326 @todo setHardDiskBootOrder(), setNetworkBootOrder()
4327
4328 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4329 Boot @a position out of range.
4330 </result>
4331 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
4332 Booting from USB @a device currently not supported.
4333 </result>
4334
4335 </desc>
4336 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4337 <desc>
4338 Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4339 devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4340 <link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4341 </desc>
4342 </param>
4343 <param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4344 <desc>
4345 The type of the device used to boot at the given position.
4346 </desc>
4347 </param>
4348 </method>
4349
4350 <method name="getBootOrder" const="yes">
4351 <desc>
4352 Returns the device type that occupies the specified
4353 position in the boot order.
4354
4355 @todo [remove?]
4356 If the machine can have more than one device of the returned type
4357 (such as hard disks), then a separate method should be used to
4358 retrieve the individual device that occupies the given position.
4359
4360 If here are no devices at the given position, then
4361 <link to="DeviceType_Null"/> is returned.
4362
4363 @todo getHardDiskBootOrder(), getNetworkBootOrder()
4364
4365 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4366 Boot @a position out of range.
4367 </result>
4368
4369 </desc>
4370 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4371 <desc>
4372 Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4373 devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4374 <link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4375 </desc>
4376 </param>
4377 <param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="return">
4378 <desc>
4379 Device at the given position.
4380 </desc>
4381 </param>
4382 </method>
4383
4384 <method name="attachDevice">
4385 <desc>
4386 Attaches a device and optionally mounts a medium to the given storage
4387 controller (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4388 at the indicated port and device.
4389
4390 This method is intended for managing storage devices in general while a
4391 machine is powered off. It can be used to attach and detach fixed
4392 and removable media. The following kind of media can be attached
4393 to a machine:
4394
4395 <ul>
4396 <li>For fixed and removable media, you can pass in a medium that was
4397 previously opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" />.
4398 </li>
4399
4400 <li>Only for storage devices supporting removable media (such as
4401 DVDs and floppies), you can also specify a null pointer to
4402 indicate an empty drive or one of the medium objects listed
4403 in the <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> and <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>
4404 arrays to indicate a host drive.
4405 For removable devices, you can also use <link to="IMachine::mountMedium"/>
4406 to change the media while the machine is running.
4407 </li>
4408 </ul>
4409
4410 In a VM's default configuration of virtual machines, the secondary
4411 master of the IDE controller is used for a CD/DVD drive.
4412
4413 After calling this returns successfully, a new instance of
4414 <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> will appear in the machine's list of medium
4415 attachments (see <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/>).
4416
4417 See <link to="IMedium"/> and <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> for more
4418 information about attaching media.
4419
4420 The specified device slot must not have a device attached to it,
4421 or this method will fail.
4422
4423 <note>
4424 You cannot attach a device to a newly created machine until
4425 this machine's settings are saved to disk using
4426 <link to="#saveSettings"/>.
4427 </note>
4428 <note>
4429 If the medium is being attached indirectly, a new differencing medium
4430 will implicitly be created for it and attached instead. If the
4431 changes made to the machine settings (including this indirect
4432 attachment) are later cancelled using <link to="#discardSettings"/>,
4433 this implicitly created differencing medium will implicitly
4434 be deleted.
4435 </note>
4436
4437 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4438 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range, or
4439 file or UUID not found.
4440 </result>
4441 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4442 Machine must be registered before media can be attached.
4443 </result>
4444 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4445 Invalid machine state.
4446 </result>
4447 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4448 A medium is already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4449 </result>
4450
4451 </desc>
4452 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4453 <desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the device to.</desc>
4454 </param>
4455 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4456 <desc>Port to attach the device to. For an IDE controller, 0 specifies
4457 the primary controller and 1 specifies the secondary controller.
4458 For a SCSI controller, this must range from 0 to 15; for a SATA controller,
4459 from 0 to 29; for an SAS controller, from 0 to 7.</desc>
4460 </param>
4461 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4462 <desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the device to. This is only
4463 relevant for IDE controllers, for which 0 specifies the master device and
4464 1 specifies the slave device. For all other controller types, this must
4465 be 0.</desc>
4466 </param>
4467 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4468 <desc>Device type of the attached device. For media opened by
4469 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" />, this must match the device type
4470 specified there.</desc>
4471 </param>
4472 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="in">
4473 <desc>Medium to mount or NULL for an empty drive.</desc>
4474 </param>
4475 </method>
4476
4477 <method name="detachDevice">
4478 <desc>
4479 Detaches the device attached to a device slot of the specified bus.
4480
4481 Detaching the device from the virtual machine is deferred. This means
4482 that the medium remains associated with the machine when this method
4483 returns and gets actually de-associated only after a successful
4484 <link to="#saveSettings"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/>
4485 for more detailed information about attaching media.
4486
4487 <note>
4488 You cannot detach a device from a running machine.
4489 </note>
4490 <note>
4491 Detaching differencing media implicitly created by <link
4492 to="#attachDevice"/> for the indirect attachment using this
4493 method will <b>not</b> implicitly delete them. The
4494 <link to="IMedium::deleteStorage"/> operation should be
4495 explicitly performed by the caller after the medium is successfully
4496 detached and the settings are saved with
4497 <link to="#saveSettings"/>, if it is the desired action.
4498 </note>
4499
4500 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4501 Attempt to detach medium from a running virtual machine.
4502 </result>
4503 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4504 No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4505 </result>
4506 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4507 Medium format does not support storage deletion.
4508 </result>
4509
4510 </desc>
4511 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4512 <desc>Name of the storage controller to detach the medium from.</desc>
4513 </param>
4514 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4515 <desc>Port number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4516 </param>
4517 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4518 <desc>Device slot number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4519 </param>
4520 </method>
4521
4522 <method name="passthroughDevice">
4523 <desc>
4524 Sets the passthrough mode of an existing DVD device. Changing the
4525 setting while the VM is running is forbidden. The setting is only used
4526 if at VM start the device is configured as a host DVD drive, in all
4527 other cases it is ignored. The device must already exist; see
4528 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4529
4530 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4531 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4532
4533 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4534 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4535 </result>
4536 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4537 Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4538 </result>
4539 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4540 Invalid machine state.
4541 </result>
4542
4543 </desc>
4544 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4545 <desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4546 </param>
4547 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4548 <desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4549 </param>
4550 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4551 <desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4552 </param>
4553 <param name="passthrough" type="boolean" dir="in">
4554 <desc>New value for the passthrough setting.</desc>
4555 </param>
4556 </method>
4557
4558 <method name="setBandwidthGroupForDevice">
4559 <desc>
4560 Sets the bandwidth group of an existing storage device.
4561 The device must already exist; see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>
4562 for how to attach a new device.
4563
4564 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4565 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4566
4567 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4568 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4569 </result>
4570 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4571 Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4572 </result>
4573 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4574 Invalid machine state.
4575 </result>
4576
4577 </desc>
4578 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4579 <desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4580 </param>
4581 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4582 <desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4583 </param>
4584 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4585 <desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4586 </param>
4587 <param name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="in">
4588 <desc>New value for the bandwidth group or NULL for no group.</desc>
4589 </param>
4590 </method>
4591
4592 <method name="mountMedium">
4593 <desc>
4594 Mounts a medium (<link to="IMedium" />, identified
4595 by the given UUID @a id) to the given storage controller
4596 (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4597 at the indicated port and device. The device must already exist;
4598 see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4599
4600 This method is intended only for managing removable media, where the
4601 device is fixed but media is changeable at runtime (such as DVDs
4602 and floppies). It cannot be used for fixed media such as hard disks.
4603
4604 The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4605 have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4606
4607 The specified device slot can have a medium mounted, which will be
4608 unmounted first. Specifying a zero UUID (or an empty string) for
4609 @a medium does just an unmount.
4610
4611 See <link to="IMedium"/> for more detailed information about
4612 attaching media.
4613
4614 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4615 SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4616 </result>
4617 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4618 Attempt to attach medium to an unregistered virtual machine.
4619 </result>
4620 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4621 Invalid machine state.
4622 </result>
4623 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4624 Medium already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4625 </result>
4626
4627 </desc>
4628 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4629 <desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the medium to.</desc>
4630 </param>
4631 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4632 <desc>Port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4633 </param>
4634 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4635 <desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4636 </param>
4637 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="in">
4638 <desc>Medium to mount or NULL for an empty drive.</desc>
4639 </param>
4640 <param name="force" type="boolean" dir="in">
4641 <desc>Allows to force unmount/mount of a medium which is locked by
4642 the device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4643 </param>
4644 </method>
4645
4646 <method name="getMedium" const="yes">
4647 <desc>
4648 Returns the virtual medium attached to a device slot of the specified
4649 bus.
4650
4651 Note that if the medium was indirectly attached by
4652 <link to="#mountMedium"/> to the given device slot then this
4653 method will return not the same object as passed to the
4654 <link to="#mountMedium"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/> for
4655 more detailed information about mounting a medium.
4656
4657 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4658 No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4659 </result>
4660
4661 </desc>
4662 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4663 <desc>Name of the storage controller the medium is attached to.</desc>
4664 </param>
4665 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4666 <desc>Port to query.</desc>
4667 </param>
4668 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4669 <desc>Device slot in the given port to query.</desc>
4670 </param>
4671 <param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
4672 <desc>Attached medium object.</desc>
4673 </param>
4674 </method>
4675
4676 <method name="getMediumAttachmentsOfController" const="yes">
4677 <desc>
4678 Returns an array of medium attachments which are attached to the
4679 the controller with the given name.
4680
4681 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4682 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4683 </result>
4684 </desc>
4685 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4686 <param name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" safearray="yes" dir="return"/>
4687 </method>
4688
4689 <method name="getMediumAttachment" const="yes">
4690 <desc>
4691 Returns a medium attachment which corresponds to the controller with
4692 the given name, on the given port and device slot.
4693
4694 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4695 No attachment exists for the given controller/port/device combination.
4696 </result>
4697 </desc>
4698 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4699 <param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in"/>
4700 <param name="device" type="long" dir="in"/>
4701 <param name="attachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="return"/>
4702 </method>
4703
4704 <method name="attachHostPciDevice">
4705 <desc>
4706 Attaches host PCI device with the given (host) PCI address to the
4707 PCI bus of the virtual machine. Please note, that this operation
4708 is two phase, as real attachment will happen when VM will start,
4709 and most information will be delivered as IHostPciDevicePlugEvent
4710 on IVirtualBox event source.
4711
4712 <see>IHostPciDevicePlugEvent</see>
4713
4714 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4715 Virtual machine state is not stopped (PCI hotplug not yet implemented).
4716 </result>
4717 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
4718 Virtual machine does not have a PCI controller allowing attachment of physical devices.
4719 </result>
4720 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4721 Hardware or host OS doesn't allow PCI device passthrought.
4722 </result>
4723 </desc>
4724 <param name="hostAddress" type="long" dir="in">
4725 <desc>Address of the host PCI device.</desc>
4726 </param>
4727 <param name="desiredGuestAddress" type="long" dir="in">
4728 <desc>Desired position of this device on guest PCI bus.</desc>
4729 </param>
4730 <param name="tryToUnbind" type="boolean" dir="in">
4731 <desc>If VMM shall try to unbind existing drivers from the
4732 device before attaching it to the guest.</desc>
4733 </param>
4734 </method>
4735
4736 <method name="detachHostPciDevice">
4737 <desc>
4738 Detach host PCI device from the virtual machine.
4739 Also HostPciDevicePlugEvent on IVirtualBox event source
4740 will be delivered. As currently we don't support hot device
4741 unplug, IHostPciDevicePlugEvent event is delivered immediately.
4742
4743 <see>IHostPciDevicePlugEvent</see>
4744
4745 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4746 Virtual machine state is not stopped (PCI hotplug not yet implemented).
4747 </result>
4748 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4749 This host device is not attached to this machine.
4750 </result>
4751 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
4752 Virtual machine does not have a PCI controller allowing attachment of physical devices.
4753 </result>
4754 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4755 Hardware or host OS doesn't allow PCI device passthrought.
4756 </result>
4757 </desc>
4758 <param name="hostAddress" type="long" dir="in">
4759 <desc>Address of the host PCI device.</desc>
4760 </param>
4761 </method>
4762
4763 <method name="getNetworkAdapter" const="yes">
4764 <desc>
4765 Returns the network adapter associated with the given slot.
4766 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4767 number of adapters per machine is defined by the
4768 <link to="ISystemProperties::getMaxNetworkAdapters"/> property,
4769 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4770
4771 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4772 Invalid @a slot number.
4773 </result>
4774
4775 </desc>
4776 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4777 <param name="adapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="return"/>
4778 </method>
4779
4780 <method name="addStorageController">
4781 <desc>
4782 Adds a new storage controller (SCSI, SAS or SATA controller) to the
4783 machine and returns it as an instance of
4784 <link to="IStorageController" />.
4785
4786 @a name identifies the controller for subsequent calls such as
4787 <link to="#getStorageControllerByName" />,
4788 <link to="#getStorageControllerByInstance" />,
4789 <link to="#removeStorageController" />,
4790 <link to="#attachDevice" /> or <link to="#mountMedium" />.
4791
4792 After the controller has been added, you can set its exact
4793 type by setting the <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
4794
4795 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4796 A storage controller with given name exists already.
4797 </result>
4798 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4799 Invalid @a controllerType.
4800 </result>
4801 </desc>
4802 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4803 <param name="connectionType" type="StorageBus" dir="in"/>
4804 <param name="controller" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4805 </method>
4806
4807 <method name="getStorageControllerByName" const="yes">
4808 <desc>
4809 Returns a storage controller with the given name.
4810
4811 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4812 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4813 </result>
4814 </desc>
4815 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4816 <param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4817 </method>
4818
4819 <method name="getStorageControllerByInstance" const="yes">
4820 <desc>
4821 Returns a storage controller with the given instance number.
4822
4823 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4824 A storage controller with given instance number doesn't exist.
4825 </result>
4826 </desc>
4827 <param name="instance" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4828 <param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
4829 </method>
4830
4831 <method name="removeStorageController">
4832 <desc>
4833 Removes a storage controller from the machine.
4834
4835 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4836 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4837 </result>
4838 </desc>
4839 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4840 </method>
4841
4842 <method name="setStorageControllerBootable">
4843 <desc>
4844 Sets the bootable flag of the storage controller with the given name.
4845
4846 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4847 A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4848 </result>
4849 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4850 Another storage controller is marked as bootable already.
4851 </result>
4852 </desc>
4853 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4854 <param name="bootable" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
4855 </method>
4856
4857 <method name="getSerialPort" const="yes">
4858 <desc>
4859 Returns the serial port associated with the given slot.
4860 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4861 number of serial ports per machine is defined by the
4862 <link to="ISystemProperties::serialPortCount"/> property,
4863 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4864
4865 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4866 Invalid @a slot number.
4867 </result>
4868
4869 </desc>
4870 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4871 <param name="port" type="ISerialPort" dir="return"/>
4872 </method>
4873
4874 <method name="getParallelPort" const="yes">
4875 <desc>
4876 Returns the parallel port associated with the given slot.
4877 Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4878 number of parallel ports per machine is defined by the
4879 <link to="ISystemProperties::parallelPortCount"/> property,
4880 so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4881
4882 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4883 Invalid @a slot number.
4884 </result>
4885
4886 </desc>
4887 <param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4888 <param name="port" type="IParallelPort" dir="return"/>
4889 </method>
4890
4891 <method name="getExtraDataKeys">
4892 <desc>
4893 Returns an array representing the machine-specific extra data keys
4894 which currently have values defined.
4895 </desc>
4896 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
4897 <desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
4898 </param>
4899 </method>
4900
4901 <method name="getExtraData">
4902 <desc>
4903 Returns associated machine-specific extra data.
4904
4905 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
4906 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
4907
4908 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4909 Settings file not accessible.
4910 </result>
4911 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4912 Could not parse the settings file.
4913 </result>
4914
4915 </desc>
4916 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
4917 <desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
4918 </param>
4919 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
4920 <desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
4921 </param>
4922 </method>
4923
4924 <method name="setExtraData">
4925 <desc>
4926 Sets associated machine-specific extra data.
4927
4928 If you pass @c null or an empty string as a key @a value, the given
4929 @a key will be deleted.
4930
4931 <note>
4932 Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
4933 registered listeners using the
4934 <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent"/>
4935 notification for a permission. If one of the listeners refuses the
4936 new value, the change will not be performed.
4937 </note>
4938 <note>
4939 On success, the
4940 <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent"/> notification
4941 is called to inform all registered listeners about a successful data
4942 change.
4943 </note>
4944 <note>
4945 This method can be called outside the machine session and therefore
4946 it's a caller's responsibility to handle possible race conditions
4947 when several clients change the same key at the same time.
4948 </note>
4949
4950 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
4951 Settings file not accessible.
4952 </result>
4953 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
4954 Could not parse the settings file.
4955 </result>
4956
4957 </desc>
4958 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
4959 <desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
4960 </param>
4961 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
4962 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
4963 </param>
4964 </method>
4965
4966 <method name="getCPUProperty" const="yes">
4967 <desc>
4968 Returns the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
4969
4970 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4971 Invalid property.
4972 </result>
4973
4974 </desc>
4975 <param name="property" type="CPUPropertyType" dir="in">
4976 <desc>
4977 Property type to query.
4978 </desc>
4979 </param>
4980 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
4981 <desc>
4982 Property value.
4983 </desc>
4984 </param>
4985 </method>
4986
4987 <method name="setCPUProperty">
4988 <desc>
4989 Sets the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
4990
4991 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4992 Invalid property.
4993 </result>
4994
4995 </desc>
4996 <param name="property" type="CPUPropertyType" dir="in">
4997 <desc>
4998 Property type to query.
4999 </desc>
5000 </param>
5001 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
5002 <desc>
5003 Property value.
5004 </desc>
5005 </param>
5006 </method>
5007
5008 <method name="getCPUIDLeaf" const="yes">
5009 <desc>
5010 Returns the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
5011
5012 Currently supported index values for cpuid:
5013 Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
5014 Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
5015
5016 See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
5017 about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
5018 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5019 Invalid id.
5020 </result>
5021
5022 </desc>
5023 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5024 <desc>
5025 CPUID leaf index.
5026 </desc>
5027 </param>
5028 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5029 <desc>
5030 CPUID leaf value for register eax.
5031 </desc>
5032 </param>
5033 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5034 <desc>
5035 CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
5036 </desc>
5037 </param>
5038 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5039 <desc>
5040 CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
5041 </desc>
5042 </param>
5043 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5044 <desc>
5045 CPUID leaf value for register edx.
5046 </desc>
5047 </param>
5048 </method>
5049
5050 <method name="setCPUIDLeaf">
5051 <desc>
5052 Sets the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf. Note that these values
5053 are not passed unmodified. VirtualBox clears features that it doesn't support.
5054
5055 Currently supported index values for cpuid:
5056 Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
5057 Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
5058
5059 See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
5060 about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
5061
5062 Do not use this method unless you know exactly what you're doing. Misuse can lead to
5063 random crashes inside VMs.
5064 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5065 Invalid id.
5066 </result>
5067
5068 </desc>
5069 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5070 <desc>
5071 CPUID leaf index.
5072 </desc>
5073 </param>
5074 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5075 <desc>
5076 CPUID leaf value for register eax.
5077 </desc>
5078 </param>
5079 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5080 <desc>
5081 CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
5082 </desc>
5083 </param>
5084 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5085 <desc>
5086 CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
5087 </desc>
5088 </param>
5089 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5090 <desc>
5091 CPUID leaf value for register edx.
5092 </desc>
5093 </param>
5094 </method>
5095
5096 <method name="removeCPUIDLeaf">
5097 <desc>
5098 Removes the virtual CPU cpuid leaf for the specified index
5099
5100 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5101 Invalid id.
5102 </result>
5103
5104 </desc>
5105 <param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5106 <desc>
5107 CPUID leaf index.
5108 </desc>
5109 </param>
5110 </method>
5111
5112 <method name="removeAllCPUIDLeaves">
5113 <desc>
5114 Removes all the virtual CPU cpuid leaves
5115 </desc>
5116 </method>
5117
5118 <method name="getHWVirtExProperty" const="yes">
5119 <desc>
5120 Returns the value of the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
5121
5122 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5123 Invalid property.
5124 </result>
5125
5126 </desc>
5127 <param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
5128 <desc>
5129 Property type to query.
5130 </desc>
5131 </param>
5132 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
5133 <desc>
5134 Property value.
5135 </desc>
5136 </param>
5137 </method>
5138
5139 <method name="setHWVirtExProperty">
5140 <desc>
5141 Sets a new value for the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
5142
5143 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5144 Invalid property.
5145 </result>
5146
5147 </desc>
5148 <param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
5149 <desc>
5150 Property type to set.
5151 </desc>
5152 </param>
5153 <param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
5154 <desc>
5155 New property value.
5156 </desc>
5157 </param>
5158 </method>
5159
5160 <method name="saveSettings">
5161 <desc>
5162 Saves any changes to machine settings made since the session
5163 has been opened or a new machine has been created, or since the
5164 last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/> or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
5165 For registered machines, new settings become visible to all
5166 other VirtualBox clients after successful invocation of this
5167 method.
5168 <note>
5169 The method sends <link to="IMachineDataChangedEvent"/>
5170 notification event after the configuration has been successfully
5171 saved (only for registered machines).
5172 </note>
5173 <note>
5174 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5175 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5176 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> but not
5177 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5178 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/>.
5179 </note>
5180
5181 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5182 Settings file not accessible.
5183 </result>
5184 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5185 Could not parse the settings file.
5186 </result>
5187 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5188 Modification request refused.
5189 </result>
5190
5191 </desc>
5192 </method>
5193
5194 <method name="discardSettings">
5195 <desc>
5196 Discards any changes to the machine settings made since the session
5197 has been opened or since the last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/>
5198 or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
5199 <note>
5200 Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5201 by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5202 created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
5203 opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
5204 yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5205 <link to="IMachine::unregister"/>.
5206 </note>
5207
5208 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5209 Virtual machine is not mutable.
5210 </result>
5211
5212 </desc>
5213 </method>
5214
5215 <method name="unregister">
5216 <desc>
5217 Unregisters a machine previously registered with
5218 <link to="IVirtualBox::registerMachine"/> and optionally do additional
5219 cleanup before the machine is unregistered.
5220
5221 This method does not delete any files. It only changes the machine configuration and
5222 the list of registered machines in the VirtualBox object. To delete the files which
5223 belonged to the machine, including the XML file of the machine itself, call
5224 <link to="#delete"/>, optionally with the array of IMedium objects which was returned
5225 from this method.
5226
5227 How thoroughly this method cleans up the machine configuration before unregistering
5228 the machine depends on the @a cleanupMode argument.
5229
5230 <ul>
5231 <li>With "UnregisterOnly", the machine will only be unregistered, but no additional
5232 cleanup will be performed. The call will fail if the machine is in "Saved" state
5233 or has any snapshots or any media attached (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />).
5234 It is the responsibility of the caller to delete all such configuration in this mode.
5235 In this mode, the API behaves like the former @c IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine() API
5236 which it replaces.</li>
5237 <li>With "DetachAllReturnNone", the call will succeed even if the machine is in "Saved"
5238 state or if it has snapshots or media attached. All media attached to the current machine
5239 state or in snapshots will be detached. No medium objects will be returned;
5240 all of the machine's media will remain open.</li>
5241 <li>With "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly", the call will behave like with "DetachAllReturnNone",
5242 except that all the hard disk medium objects which were detached from the machine will
5243 be returned as an array. This allows for quickly passing them to the <link to="#delete" />
5244 API for closing and deletion.</li>
5245 <li>With "Full", the call will behave like with "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly", except
5246 that all media will be returned in the array, including removable media like DVDs and
5247 floppies. This might be useful if the user wants to inspect in detail which media were
5248 attached to the machine. Be careful when passing the media array to <link to="#delete" />
5249 in that case because users will typically want to preserve ISO and RAW image files.</li>
5250 </ul>
5251
5252 A typical implementation will use "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly" and then pass the
5253 resulting IMedium array to <link to="#delete"/>. This way, the machine is completely
5254 deleted with all its saved states and hard disk images, but images for removable
5255 drives (such as ISO and RAW files) will remain on disk.
5256
5257 This API does not verify whether the media files returned in the array are still
5258 attached to other machines (i.e. shared between several machines). If such a shared
5259 image is passed to <link to="#delete" /> however, closing the image will fail there
5260 and the image will be silently skipped.
5261
5262 This API may, however, move media from this machine's media registry to other media
5263 registries (see <link to="IMedium" /> for details on media registries). For machines
5264 created with VirtualBox 4.0 or later, if media from this machine's media registry
5265 are also attached to another machine (shared attachments), each such medium will be
5266 moved to another machine's registry. This is because without this machine's media
5267 registry, the other machine cannot find its media any more and would become inaccessible.
5268
5269 This API implicitly calls <link to="#saveSettings"/> to save all current machine settings
5270 before unregistering it. It may also silently call saveSettings() on other machines
5271 if media are moved to other machines' media registries.
5272
5273 After successful method invocation, the <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent"/> event
5274 is fired.
5275
5276 The call will fail if the machine is currently locked (see <link to="ISession" />).
5277
5278 <note>
5279 If the given machine is inaccessible (see <link to="#accessible"/>), it
5280 will be unregistered and fully uninitialized right afterwards. As a result,
5281 the returned machine object will be unusable and an attempt to call
5282 <b>any</b> method will return the "Object not ready" error.
5283 </note>
5284
5285 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5286 Machine is currently locked for a session.
5287 </result>
5288 </desc>
5289
5290 <param name="cleanupMode" type="CleanupMode" dir="in">
5291 <desc>How to clean up after the machine has been unregistered.</desc>
5292 </param>
5293 <param name="aMedia" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="return">
5294 <desc>List of media detached from the machine, depending on the @a cleanupMode parameter.</desc>
5295 </param>
5296 </method>
5297
5298 <method name="delete">
5299 <desc>
5300 Deletes the files associated with this machine from disk. If medium objects are passed
5301 in with the @a aMedia argument, they are closed and, if closing was successful, their
5302 storage files are deleted as well. For convenience, this array of media files can be
5303 the same as the one returned from a previous <link to="#unregister" /> call.
5304
5305 This method must only be called on machines which are either write-locked (i.e. on instances
5306 returned by <link to="ISession::machine"/>) or on unregistered machines (i.e. not yet
5307 registered machines created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened by
5308 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>, or after having called <link to="#unregister"/>).
5309
5310 The following files will be deleted by this method:
5311 <ul>
5312 <li>If <link to="#unregister" /> had been previously called with a @a cleanupMode
5313 argument other than "UnregisterOnly", this will delete all saved state files that
5314 the machine had in use; possibly one if the machine was in "Saved" state and one
5315 for each online snapshot that the machine had.</li>
5316 <li>On each medium object passed in the @a aMedia array, this will call
5317 <link to="IMedium::close" />. If that succeeds, this will attempt to delete the
5318 medium's storage on disk. Since the close() call will fail if the medium is still
5319 in use, e.g. because it is still attached to a second machine; in that case the
5320 storage will not be deleted.</li>
5321 <li>Finally, the machine's own XML file will be deleted.</li>
5322 </ul>
5323
5324 Since deleting large disk image files can be a time-consuming I/O operation, this
5325 method operates asynchronously and returns an IProgress object to allow the caller
5326 to monitor the progress. There will be one sub-operation for each file that is
5327 being deleted (saved state or medium storage file).
5328
5329 <note>
5330 <link to="#settingsModified"/> will return @c true after this
5331 method successfully returns.
5332 </note>
5333
5334 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5335 Machine is registered but not write-locked.
5336 </result>
5337 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
5338 Could not delete the settings file.
5339 </result>
5340 </desc>
5341 <param name="aMedia" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
5342 <desc>List of media to be closed and whose storage files will be deleted.</desc>
5343 </param>
5344 <param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
5345 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
5346 </param>
5347 </method>
5348
5349 <method name="export">
5350 <desc>Exports the machine to an OVF appliance. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the
5351 steps required to export VirtualBox machines to OVF.
5352 </desc>
5353
5354 <param name="aAppliance" type="IAppliance" dir="in">
5355 <desc>Appliance to export this machine to.</desc>
5356 </param>
5357 <param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
5358 <desc>The target location.</desc>
5359 </param>
5360 <param name="aDescription" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" dir="return">
5361 <desc>VirtualSystemDescription object which is created for this machine.</desc>
5362 </param>
5363 </method >
5364
5365 <method name="findSnapshot">
5366 <desc>
5367 Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given name or UUID.
5368
5369 Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given UUID.
5370 A @c null argument can be used to obtain the first snapshot
5371 taken on this machine. To traverse the whole tree of snapshots
5372 starting from the root, inspect the root snapshot's
5373 <link to="ISnapshot::children" /> attribute and recurse over those children.
5374
5375 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5376 Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
5377 </result>
5378
5379 </desc>
5380 <param name="nameOrId" type="wstring" dir="in">
5381 <desc>What to search for. Name or UUID of the snapshot to find</desc>
5382 </param>
5383 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
5384 <desc>Snapshot object with the given name.</desc>
5385 </param>
5386 </method>
5387
5388 <method name="createSharedFolder">
5389 <desc>
5390 Creates a new permanent shared folder by associating the given logical
5391 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
5392 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
5393 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
5394
5395 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5396 Shared folder already exists.
5397 </result>
5398 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5399 Shared folder @a hostPath not accessible.
5400 </result>
5401
5402 </desc>
5403 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5404 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
5405 </param>
5406 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
5407 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
5408 </param>
5409 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
5410 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly.</desc>
5411 </param>
5412 <param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
5413 <desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
5414 or not.</desc>
5415 </param>
5416 </method>
5417
5418 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
5419 <desc>
5420 Removes the permanent shared folder with the given name previously
5421 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
5422 shared folders and stops sharing it.
5423
5424 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5425 Virtual machine is not mutable.
5426 </result>
5427 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5428 Shared folder @a name does not exist.
5429 </result>
5430
5431 </desc>
5432 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5433 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
5434 </param>
5435 </method>
5436
5437 <method name="canShowConsoleWindow">
5438 <desc>
5439 Returns @c true if the VM console process can activate the
5440 console window and bring it to foreground on the desktop of
5441 the host PC.
5442 <note>
5443 This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5444 currently open.
5445 </note>
5446
5447 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5448 Machine session is not open.
5449 </result>
5450
5451 </desc>
5452 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
5453 <desc>
5454 @c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
5455 </desc>
5456 </param>
5457 </method>
5458
5459 <method name="showConsoleWindow">
5460 <desc>
5461 Activates the console window and brings it to foreground on
5462 the desktop of the host PC. Many modern window managers on
5463 many platforms implement some sort of focus stealing
5464 prevention logic, so that it may be impossible to activate
5465 a window without the help of the currently active
5466 application. In this case, this method will return a non-zero
5467 identifier that represents the top-level window of the VM
5468 console process. The caller, if it represents a currently
5469 active process, is responsible to use this identifier (in a
5470 platform-dependent manner) to perform actual window
5471 activation.
5472 <note>
5473 This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5474 currently open.
5475 </note>
5476
5477 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5478 Machine session is not open.
5479 </result>
5480
5481 </desc>
5482 <param name="winId" type="long long" dir="return">
5483 <desc>
5484 Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
5485 window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
5486 necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
5487 the given platform and/or VirtualBox front-end.
5488 </desc>
5489 </param>
5490 </method>
5491
5492 <method name="getGuestProperty" const="yes">
5493 <desc>
5494 Reads an entry from the machine's guest property store.
5495
5496 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5497 Machine session is not open.
5498 </result>
5499
5500 </desc>
5501 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5502 <desc>
5503 The name of the property to read.
5504 </desc>
5505 </param>
5506 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out">
5507 <desc>
5508 The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5509 will be empty.
5510 </desc>
5511 </param>
5512 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out">
5513 <desc>
5514 The time at which the property was last modified, as seen by the
5515 server process.
5516 </desc>
5517 </param>
5518 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out">
5519 <desc>
5520 Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5521 "name=value" type entries.
5522 </desc>
5523 </param>
5524 </method>
5525
5526 <method name="getGuestPropertyValue" const="yes">
5527 <desc>
5528 Reads a value from the machine's guest property store.
5529
5530 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5531 Machine session is not open.
5532 </result>
5533
5534 </desc>
5535 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5536 <desc>
5537 The name of the property to read.
5538 </desc>
5539 </param>
5540 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5541 <desc>
5542 The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5543 will be empty.
5544 </desc>
5545 </param>
5546 </method>
5547
5548 <method name="getGuestPropertyTimestamp" const="yes">
5549 <desc>
5550 Reads a property timestamp from the machine's guest property store.
5551
5552 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5553 Machine session is not open.
5554 </result>
5555
5556 </desc>
5557 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5558 <desc>
5559 The name of the property to read.
5560 </desc>
5561 </param>
5562 <param name="value" type="long long" dir="return">
5563 <desc>
5564 The timestamp. If the property does not exist then this will be
5565 empty.
5566 </desc>
5567 </param>
5568 </method>
5569
5570 <method name="setGuestProperty">
5571 <desc>
5572 Sets, changes or deletes an entry in the machine's guest property
5573 store.
5574
5575 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5576 Property cannot be changed.
5577 </result>
5578 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5579 Invalid @a flags.
5580 </result>
5581 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5582 Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5583 </result>
5584 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5585 Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5586 </result>
5587
5588 </desc>
5589 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5590 <desc>
5591 The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5592 </desc>
5593 </param>
5594 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5595 <desc>
5596 The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5597 property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5598 created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5599 deleted if it exists.
5600 </desc>
5601 </param>
5602 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
5603 <desc>
5604 Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5605 "name=value" type entries.
5606 </desc>
5607 </param>
5608 </method>
5609
5610 <method name="setGuestPropertyValue">
5611 <desc>
5612 Sets, changes or deletes a value in the machine's guest property
5613 store. The flags field will be left unchanged or created empty for a
5614 new property.
5615
5616 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5617 Property cannot be changed.
5618 </result>
5619 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5620 Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5621 </result>
5622 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5623 Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5624 </result>
5625 </desc>
5626
5627 <param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5628 <desc>
5629 The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5630 </desc>
5631 </param>
5632 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5633 <desc>
5634 The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5635 property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5636 created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5637 deleted if it exists.
5638 </desc>
5639 </param>
5640 </method>
5641
5642 <method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
5643 <desc>
5644 Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
5645 with their values, time stamps and flags.
5646 </desc>
5647 <param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
5648 <desc>
5649 The patterns to match the properties against, separated by '|'
5650 characters. If this is empty or @c null, all properties will match.
5651 </desc>
5652 </param>
5653 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5654 <desc>
5655 The names of the properties returned.
5656 </desc>
5657 </param>
5658 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5659 <desc>
5660 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5661 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5662 </desc>
5663 </param>
5664 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5665 <desc>
5666 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
5667 the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5668 </desc>
5669 </param>
5670 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5671 <desc>
5672 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5673 corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5674 </desc>
5675 </param>
5676 </method>
5677
5678 <method name="querySavedGuestSize">
5679 <desc>
5680 Returns the guest dimensions from the saved state.
5681 </desc>
5682 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5683 <desc>
5684 Saved guest screen to query info from.
5685 </desc>
5686 </param>
5687 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5688 <desc>
5689 Guest width at the time of the saved state was taken.
5690 </desc>
5691 </param>
5692 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5693 <desc>
5694 Guest height at the time of the saved state was taken.
5695 </desc>
5696 </param>
5697 </method>
5698
5699 <method name="querySavedThumbnailSize">
5700 <desc>
5701 Returns size in bytes and dimensions in pixels of a saved thumbnail bitmap from saved state.
5702 </desc>
5703 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5704 <desc>
5705 Saved guest screen to query info from.
5706 </desc>
5707 </param>
5708 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5709 <desc>
5710 Size of buffer required to store the bitmap.
5711 </desc>
5712 </param>
5713 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5714 <desc>
5715 Bitmap width.
5716 </desc>
5717 </param>
5718 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5719 <desc>
5720 Bitmap height.
5721 </desc>
5722 </param>
5723 </method>
5724
5725 <method name="readSavedThumbnailToArray">
5726 <desc>
5727 Thumbnail is retrieved to an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit BGRA or RGBA format.
5728 </desc>
5729 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5730 <desc>
5731 Saved guest screen to read from.
5732 </desc>
5733 </param>
5734 <param name="BGR" type="boolean" dir="in">
5735 <desc>
5736 How to order bytes in the pixel. A pixel consists of 4 bytes. If this parameter is true, then
5737 bytes order is: B, G, R, 0xFF. If this parameter is false, then bytes order is: R, G, B, 0xFF.
5738 </desc>
5739 </param>
5740 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5741 <desc>
5742 Bitmap width.
5743 </desc>
5744 </param>
5745 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5746 <desc>
5747 Bitmap height.
5748 </desc>
5749 </param>
5750 <param name="data" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
5751 <desc>
5752 Array with resulting bitmap data.
5753 </desc>
5754 </param>
5755 </method>
5756
5757 <method name="readSavedThumbnailPNGToArray">
5758 <desc>
5759 Thumbnail in PNG format is retrieved to an array of bytes.
5760 </desc>
5761 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5762 <desc>
5763 Saved guest screen to read from.
5764 </desc>
5765 </param>
5766 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5767 <desc>
5768 Image width.
5769 </desc>
5770 </param>
5771 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5772 <desc>
5773 Image height.
5774 </desc>
5775 </param>
5776 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5777 <desc>
5778 Array with resulting PNG data.
5779 </desc>
5780 </param>
5781 </method>
5782
5783 <method name="querySavedScreenshotPNGSize">
5784 <desc>
5785 Returns size in bytes and dimensions of a saved PNG image of screenshot from saved state.
5786 </desc>
5787 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5788 <desc>
5789 Saved guest screen to query info from.
5790 </desc>
5791 </param>
5792 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5793 <desc>
5794 Size of buffer required to store the PNG binary data.
5795 </desc>
5796 </param>
5797 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5798 <desc>
5799 Image width.
5800 </desc>
5801 </param>
5802 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5803 <desc>
5804 Image height.
5805 </desc>
5806 </param>
5807 </method>
5808
5809 <method name="readSavedScreenshotPNGToArray">
5810 <desc>
5811 Screenshot in PNG format is retrieved to an array of bytes.
5812 </desc>
5813 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5814 <desc>
5815 Saved guest screen to read from.
5816 </desc>
5817 </param>
5818 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5819 <desc>
5820 Image width.
5821 </desc>
5822 </param>
5823 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5824 <desc>
5825 Image height.
5826 </desc>
5827 </param>
5828 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5829 <desc>
5830 Array with resulting PNG data.
5831 </desc>
5832 </param>
5833 </method>
5834
5835 <method name="hotPlugCPU">
5836 <desc>
5837 Plugs a CPU into the machine.
5838 </desc>
5839 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5840 <desc>
5841 The CPU id to insert.
5842 </desc>
5843 </param>
5844 </method>
5845
5846 <method name="hotUnplugCPU">
5847 <desc>
5848 Removes a CPU from the machine.
5849 </desc>
5850 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5851 <desc>
5852 The CPU id to remove.
5853 </desc>
5854 </param>
5855 </method>
5856
5857 <method name="getCPUStatus">
5858 <desc>
5859 Returns the current status of the given CPU.
5860 </desc>
5861 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5862 <desc>
5863 The CPU id to check for.
5864 </desc>
5865 </param>
5866 <param name="attached" type="boolean" dir="return">
5867 <desc>
5868 Status of the CPU.
5869 </desc>
5870 </param>
5871 </method>
5872
5873 <method name="queryLogFilename">
5874 <desc>
5875 Queries for the VM log file name of an given index. Returns an empty
5876 string if a log file with that index doesn't exists.
5877 </desc>
5878 <param name="idx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5879 <desc>
5880 Which log file name to query. 0=current log file.
5881 </desc>
5882 </param>
5883 <param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="return">
5884 <desc>
5885 On return the full path to the log file or an empty string on error.
5886 </desc>
5887 </param>
5888 </method>
5889
5890 <method name="readLog">
5891 <desc>
5892 Reads the VM log file. The chunk size is limited, so even if you
5893 ask for a big piece there might be less data returned.
5894 </desc>
5895 <param name="idx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5896 <desc>
5897 Which log file to read. 0=current log file.
5898 </desc>
5899 </param>
5900 <param name="offset" type="long long" dir="in">
5901 <desc>
5902 Offset in the log file.
5903 </desc>
5904 </param>
5905 <param name="size" type="long long" dir="in">
5906 <desc>
5907 Chunk size to read in the log file.
5908 </desc>
5909 </param>
5910 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5911 <desc>
5912 Data read from the log file. A data size of 0 means end of file
5913 if the requested chunk size was not 0. This is the unprocessed
5914 file data, i.e. the line ending style depends on the platform of
5915 the system the server is running on.
5916 </desc>
5917 </param>
5918 </method>
5919
5920 <method name="cloneTo">
5921 <desc>
5922 Creates a clone of this machine, either as a full clone (which means
5923 creating independent copies of the hard disk media), or as a linked
5924 clone (which uses its own differencing media, sharing the parent media
5925 with the source machine).
5926
5927 The target machine object must have been created previously with
5928 <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>, and all the settings will be
5929 transferred except the VM name, hardware UUID and the network card
5930 MAC addresses. These can be set after the clone operation if required.
5931 The operation is performed asynchronously, so the machine object will
5932 be not be usable until the @a progress object signals completion. If
5933 any step of the machine clone operation fails this will abort the
5934 operation. The result will be a machine which is not a complete clone.
5935 It is the responsibility of the caller to delete this incomplete
5936 machine if desired with <link to="#unregister"/> and/or
5937 <link to="#delete"/>.
5938
5939 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5940 @a target is @c null.
5941 </result>
5942 </desc>
5943
5944 <param name="target" type="IMachine" dir="in">
5945 <desc>Target machine object.</desc>
5946 </param>
5947 <param name="fullClone" type="boolean" dir="in">
5948 <desc>Selects whether a full or linked clone is created.</desc>
5949 </param>
5950 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
5951 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
5952 </param>
5953 </method>
5954
5955 </interface>
5956
5957 <!--
5958 // IConsole
5959 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
5960 -->
5961
5962 <interface
5963 name="IVRDEServerInfo" extends="$unknown"
5964 uuid="714434a1-58c3-4aab-9049-7652c5df113b"
5965 wsmap="struct"
5966 >
5967 <desc>
5968 Contains information about the remote desktop (VRDE) server capabilities and status.
5969 This is used in the <link to="IConsole::VRDEServerInfo" /> attribute.
5970 </desc>
5971
5972 <attribute name="active" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
5973 <desc>
5974 Whether the remote desktop connection is active.
5975 </desc>
5976 </attribute>
5977
5978 <attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
5979 <desc>
5980 VRDE server port number. If this property is equal to <tt>0</tt>, then
5981 the VRDE server failed to start, usually because there are no free IP
5982 ports to bind to. If this property is equal to <tt>-1</tt>, then the VRDE
5983 server has not yet been started.
5984 </desc>
5985 </attribute>
5986
5987 <attribute name="numberOfClients" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
5988 <desc>
5989 How many times a client connected.
5990 </desc>
5991 </attribute>
5992
5993 <attribute name="beginTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
5994 <desc>
5995 When the last connection was established, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
5996 </desc>
5997 </attribute>
5998
5999 <attribute name="endTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6000 <desc>
6001 When the last connection was terminated or the current time, if
6002 connection is still active, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
6003 </desc>
6004 </attribute>
6005
6006 <attribute name="bytesSent" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6007 <desc>
6008 How many bytes were sent in last or current, if still active, connection.
6009 </desc>
6010 </attribute>
6011
6012 <attribute name="bytesSentTotal" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6013 <desc>
6014 How many bytes were sent in all connections.
6015 </desc>
6016 </attribute>
6017
6018 <attribute name="bytesReceived" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6019 <desc>
6020 How many bytes were received in last or current, if still active, connection.
6021 </desc>
6022 </attribute>
6023
6024 <attribute name="bytesReceivedTotal" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6025 <desc>
6026 How many bytes were received in all connections.
6027 </desc>
6028 </attribute>
6029
6030 <attribute name="user" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6031 <desc>
6032 Login user name supplied by the client.
6033 </desc>
6034 </attribute>
6035
6036 <attribute name="domain" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6037 <desc>
6038 Login domain name supplied by the client.
6039 </desc>
6040 </attribute>
6041
6042 <attribute name="clientName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6043 <desc>
6044 The client name supplied by the client.
6045 </desc>
6046 </attribute>
6047
6048 <attribute name="clientIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6049 <desc>
6050 The IP address of the client.
6051 </desc>
6052 </attribute>
6053
6054 <attribute name="clientVersion" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6055 <desc>
6056 The client software version number.
6057 </desc>
6058 </attribute>
6059
6060 <attribute name="encryptionStyle" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6061 <desc>
6062 Public key exchange method used when connection was established.
6063 Values: 0 - RDP4 public key exchange scheme.
6064 1 - X509 certificates were sent to client.
6065 </desc>
6066 </attribute>
6067
6068 </interface>
6069
6070 <interface
6071 name="IConsole" extends="$unknown"
6072 uuid="515e8e8d-f932-4d8e-9f32-79a52aead882"
6073 wsmap="managed"
6074 >
6075 <desc>
6076 The IConsole interface represents an interface to control virtual
6077 machine execution.
6078
6079 A console object gets created when a machine has been locked for a
6080 particular session (client process) using <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />
6081 or <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>. The console object can
6082 then be found in the session's <link to="ISession::console" /> attribute.
6083
6084 Methods of the IConsole interface allow the caller to query the current
6085 virtual machine execution state, pause the machine or power it down, save
6086 the machine state or take a snapshot, attach and detach removable media
6087 and so on.
6088
6089 <see>ISession</see>
6090 </desc>
6091
6092 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
6093 <desc>
6094 Machine object for this console session.
6095 <note>
6096 This is a convenience property, it has the same value as
6097 <link to="ISession::machine"/> of the corresponding session
6098 object.
6099 </note>
6100 </desc>
6101 </attribute>
6102
6103 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
6104 <desc>
6105 Current execution state of the machine.
6106 <note>
6107 This property always returns the same value as the corresponding
6108 property of the IMachine object for this console session.
6109 For the process that owns (executes) the VM, this is the
6110 preferable way of querying the VM state, because no IPC
6111 calls are made.
6112 </note>
6113 </desc>
6114 </attribute>
6115
6116 <attribute name="guest" type="IGuest" readonly="yes">
6117 <desc>Guest object.</desc>
6118 </attribute>
6119
6120 <attribute name="keyboard" type="IKeyboard" readonly="yes">
6121 <desc>
6122 Virtual keyboard object.
6123 <note>
6124 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6125 the returned object will result in an error.
6126 </note>
6127 </desc>
6128 </attribute>
6129
6130 <attribute name="mouse" type="IMouse" readonly="yes">
6131 <desc>
6132 Virtual mouse object.
6133 <note>
6134 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6135 the returned object will result in an error.
6136 </note>
6137 </desc>
6138 </attribute>
6139
6140 <attribute name="display" type="IDisplay" readonly="yes">
6141 <desc>Virtual display object.
6142 <note>
6143 If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6144 the returned object will result in an error.
6145 </note>
6146 </desc>
6147 </attribute>
6148
6149 <attribute name="debugger" type="IMachineDebugger" readonly="yes">
6150 <desc>Debugging interface.</desc>
6151 </attribute>
6152
6153 <attribute name="USBDevices" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6154 <desc>
6155 Collection of USB devices currently attached to the virtual
6156 USB controller.
6157 <note>
6158 The collection is empty if the machine is not running.
6159 </note>
6160 </desc>
6161 </attribute>
6162
6163 <attribute name="remoteUSBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6164 <desc>
6165 List of USB devices currently attached to the remote VRDE client.
6166 Once a new device is physically attached to the remote host computer,
6167 it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
6168 </desc>
6169 </attribute>
6170
6171 <attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6172 <desc>
6173 Collection of shared folders for the current session. These folders
6174 are called transient shared folders because they are available to the
6175 guest OS running inside the associated virtual machine only for the
6176 duration of the session (as opposed to
6177 <link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/> which represent permanent shared
6178 folders). When the session is closed (e.g. the machine is powered down),
6179 these folders are automatically discarded.
6180
6181 New shared folders are added to the collection using
6182 <link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
6183 removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
6184 </desc>
6185 </attribute>
6186
6187 <attribute name="VRDEServerInfo" type="IVRDEServerInfo" readonly="yes">
6188 <desc>
6189 Interface that provides information on Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) connection.
6190 </desc>
6191 </attribute>
6192
6193 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
6194 <desc>
6195 Event source for console events.
6196 </desc>
6197 </attribute>
6198
6199 <attribute name="attachedPciDevices" type="IPciDeviceAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6200 <desc>Array of PCI devices attached to this machine.</desc>
6201 </attribute>
6202
6203 <method name="powerUp">
6204 <desc>
6205 Starts the virtual machine execution using the current machine
6206 state (that is, its current execution state, current settings and
6207 current storage devices).
6208
6209 <note>
6210 This method is only useful for front-ends that want to actually
6211 execute virtual machines in their own process (like the VirtualBox
6212 or VBoxSDL front-ends). Unless you are intending to write such a
6213 front-end, do not call this method. If you simply want to
6214 start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
6215 (for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), use
6216 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> instead; these
6217 front-ends will power up the machine automatically for you.
6218 </note>
6219
6220 If the machine is powered off or aborted, the execution will
6221 start from the beginning (as if the real hardware were just
6222 powered on).
6223
6224 If the machine is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state,
6225 it will continue its execution the point where the state has
6226 been saved.
6227
6228 If the machine <link to="IMachine::teleporterEnabled"/> property is
6229 enabled on the machine being powered up, the machine will wait for an
6230 incoming teleportation in the <link to="MachineState_TeleportingIn"/>
6231 state. The returned progress object will have at least three
6232 operations where the last three are defined as: (1) powering up and
6233 starting TCP server, (2) waiting for incoming teleportations, and
6234 (3) perform teleportation. These operations will be reflected as the
6235 last three operations of the progress objected returned by
6236 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> as well.
6237
6238 <see>#saveState</see>
6239
6240 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6241 Virtual machine already running.
6242 </result>
6243 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6244 Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6245 </result>
6246 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6247 Invalid saved state file.
6248 </result>
6249 </desc>
6250 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6251 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6252 </param>
6253 </method>
6254
6255 <method name="powerUpPaused">
6256 <desc>
6257 Identical to powerUp except that the VM will enter the
6258 <link to="MachineState_Paused"/> state, instead of
6259 <link to="MachineState_Running"/>.
6260
6261 <see>#powerUp</see>
6262 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6263 Virtual machine already running.
6264 </result>
6265 <result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6266 Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6267 </result>
6268 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6269 Invalid saved state file.
6270 </result>
6271 </desc>
6272 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6273 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6274 </param>
6275 </method>
6276
6277 <method name="powerDown">
6278 <desc>
6279 Initiates the power down procedure to stop the virtual machine
6280 execution.
6281
6282 The completion of the power down procedure is tracked using the returned
6283 IProgress object. After the operation is complete, the machine will go
6284 to the PoweredOff state.
6285 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6286 Virtual machine must be Running, Paused or Stuck to be powered down.
6287 </result>
6288 </desc>
6289 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6290 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6291 </param>
6292 </method>
6293
6294 <method name="reset">
6295 <desc>Resets the virtual machine.
6296 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6297 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6298 </result>
6299 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6300 Virtual machine error in reset operation.
6301 </result>
6302 </desc>
6303 </method>
6304
6305 <method name="pause">
6306 <desc>Pauses the virtual machine execution.
6307 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6308 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6309 </result>
6310 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6311 Virtual machine error in suspend operation.
6312 </result>
6313 </desc>
6314 </method>
6315
6316 <method name="resume">
6317 <desc>Resumes the virtual machine execution.
6318 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6319 Virtual machine not in Paused state.
6320 </result>
6321 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6322 Virtual machine error in resume operation.
6323 </result>
6324 </desc>
6325 </method>
6326
6327 <method name="powerButton">
6328 <desc>Sends the ACPI power button event to the guest.
6329 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6330 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6331 </result>
6332 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6333 Controlled power off failed.
6334 </result>
6335 </desc>
6336 </method>
6337
6338 <method name="sleepButton">
6339 <desc>Sends the ACPI sleep button event to the guest.
6340 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6341 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6342 </result>
6343 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6344 Sending sleep button event failed.
6345 </result>
6346 </desc>
6347 </method>
6348
6349 <method name="getPowerButtonHandled">
6350 <desc>Checks if the last power button event was handled by guest.
6351 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6352 Checking if the event was handled by the guest OS failed.
6353 </result>
6354 </desc>
6355 <param name="handled" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6356 </method>
6357
6358 <method name="getGuestEnteredACPIMode">
6359 <desc>Checks if the guest entered the ACPI mode G0 (working) or
6360 G1 (sleeping). If this method returns @c false, the guest will
6361 most likely not respond to external ACPI events.
6362 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6363 Virtual machine not in Running state.
6364 </result>
6365 </desc>
6366 <param name="entered" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6367 </method>
6368
6369 <method name="saveState">
6370 <desc>
6371 Saves the current execution state of a running virtual machine
6372 and stops its execution.
6373
6374 After this operation completes, the machine will go to the
6375 Saved state. Next time it is powered up, this state will
6376 be restored and the machine will continue its execution from
6377 the place where it was saved.
6378
6379 This operation differs from taking a snapshot to the effect
6380 that it doesn't create new differencing media. Also, once
6381 the machine is powered up from the state saved using this method,
6382 the saved state is deleted, so it will be impossible to return
6383 to this state later.
6384
6385 <note>
6386 On success, this method implicitly calls
6387 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to save all current machine
6388 settings (including runtime changes to the DVD medium, etc.).
6389 Together with the impossibility to change any VM settings when it is
6390 in the Saved state, this guarantees adequate hardware
6391 configuration of the machine when it is restored from the saved
6392 state file.
6393 </note>
6394
6395 <note>
6396 The machine must be in the Running or Paused state, otherwise
6397 the operation will fail.
6398 </note>
6399 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6400 Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6401 </result>
6402 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6403 Failed to create directory for saved state file.
6404 </result>
6405
6406 <see><link to="#takeSnapshot"/></see>
6407 </desc>
6408 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6409 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6410 </param>
6411 </method>
6412
6413 <method name="adoptSavedState">
6414 <desc>
6415 Associates the given saved state file to the virtual machine.
6416
6417 On success, the machine will go to the Saved state. Next time it is
6418 powered up, it will be restored from the adopted saved state and
6419 continue execution from the place where the saved state file was
6420 created.
6421
6422 The specified saved state file path may be absolute or relative to the
6423 folder the VM normally saves the state to (usually,
6424 <link to="IMachine::snapshotFolder"/>).
6425
6426 <note>
6427 It's a caller's responsibility to make sure the given saved state
6428 file is compatible with the settings of this virtual machine that
6429 represent its virtual hardware (memory size, storage disk configuration
6430 etc.). If there is a mismatch, the behavior of the virtual machine
6431 is undefined.
6432 </note>
6433 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6434 Virtual machine state neither PoweredOff nor Aborted.
6435 </result>
6436 </desc>
6437 <param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
6438 <desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
6439 </param>
6440 </method>
6441
6442 <method name="discardSavedState">
6443 <desc>
6444 Forcibly resets the machine to "Powered Off" state if it is
6445 currently in the "Saved" state (previously created by <link to="#saveState"/>).
6446 Next time the machine is powered up, a clean boot will occur.
6447 <note>
6448 This operation is equivalent to resetting or powering off
6449 the machine without doing a proper shutdown of the guest
6450 operating system; as with resetting a running phyiscal
6451 computer, it can can lead to data loss.
6452 </note>
6453 If @a fRemoveFile is @c true, the file in the machine directory
6454 into which the machine state was saved is also deleted. If
6455 this is @c false, then the state can be recovered and later
6456 re-inserted into a machine using <link to="#adoptSavedState" />.
6457 The location of the file can be found in the
6458 <link to="IMachine::stateFilePath" /> attribute.
6459 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6460 Virtual machine not in state Saved.
6461 </result>
6462 </desc>
6463 <param name="fRemoveFile" type="boolean" dir="in" >
6464 <desc>Whether to also remove the saved state file.</desc>
6465 </param>
6466 </method>
6467
6468 <method name="getDeviceActivity">
6469 <desc>
6470 Gets the current activity type of a given device or device group.
6471 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6472 Invalid device type.
6473 </result>
6474 </desc>
6475 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in"/>
6476 <param name="activity" type="DeviceActivity" dir="return"/>
6477 </method>
6478
6479 <method name="attachUSBDevice">
6480 <desc>
6481 Attaches a host USB device with the given UUID to the
6482 USB controller of the virtual machine.
6483
6484 The device needs to be in one of the following states:
6485 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
6486 <link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/> or
6487 <link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>,
6488 otherwise an error is immediately returned.
6489
6490 When the device state is
6491 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy">Busy</link>, an error may also
6492 be returned if the host computer refuses to release it for some reason.
6493
6494 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6495 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6496 Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6497 </result>
6498 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6499 Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6500 </result>
6501 </desc>
6502 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6503 <desc>UUID of the host USB device to attach.</desc>
6504 </param>
6505 </method>
6506
6507 <method name="detachUSBDevice">
6508 <desc>
6509 Detaches an USB device with the given UUID from the USB controller
6510 of the virtual machine.
6511
6512 After this method succeeds, the VirtualBox server re-initiates
6513 all USB filters as if the device were just physically attached
6514 to the host, but filters of this machine are ignored to avoid
6515 a possible automatic re-attachment.
6516
6517 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, USBDeviceState</see>
6518
6519 <result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6520 Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6521 </result>
6522 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6523 USB device not attached to this virtual machine.
6524 </result>
6525 </desc>
6526 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6527 <desc>UUID of the USB device to detach.</desc>
6528 </param>
6529 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6530 <desc>Detached USB device.</desc>
6531 </param>
6532 </method>
6533
6534 <method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
6535 <desc>
6536 Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
6537
6538 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6539 Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
6540 </result>
6541
6542 <see>IUSBDevice::address</see>
6543 </desc>
6544 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6545 <desc>
6546 Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
6547 search for.
6548 </desc>
6549 </param>
6550 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6551 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6552 </param>
6553 </method>
6554
6555 <method name="findUSBDeviceById">
6556 <desc>
6557 Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
6558
6559 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6560 Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
6561 </result>
6562
6563 <see>IUSBDevice::id</see>
6564 </desc>
6565 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6566 <desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
6567 </param>
6568 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6569 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6570 </param>
6571 </method>
6572
6573 <method name="createSharedFolder">
6574 <desc>
6575 Creates a transient new shared folder by associating the given logical
6576 name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
6577 folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
6578 <link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
6579
6580 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6581 Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6582 </result>
6583 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6584 Shared folder already exists or not accessible.
6585 </result>
6586 </desc>
6587 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6588 <desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
6589 </param>
6590 <param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
6591 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
6592 </param>
6593 <param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
6594 <desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
6595 </param>
6596 <param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
6597 <desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
6598 or not.</desc>
6599 </param>
6600 </method>
6601
6602 <method name="removeSharedFolder">
6603 <desc>
6604 Removes a transient shared folder with the given name previously
6605 created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
6606 shared folders and stops sharing it.
6607 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6608 Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6609 </result>
6610 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6611 Shared folder does not exists.
6612 </result>
6613 </desc>
6614 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6615 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
6616 </param>
6617 </method>
6618
6619 <method name="takeSnapshot">
6620 <desc>
6621 Saves the current execution state
6622 and all settings of the machine and creates differencing images
6623 for all normal (non-independent) media.
6624 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6625
6626 This method can be called for a PoweredOff, Saved (see
6627 <link to="#saveState"/>), Running or
6628 Paused virtual machine. When the machine is PoweredOff, an
6629 offline snapshot is created. When the machine is Running a live
6630 snapshot is created, and an online snapshot is is created when Paused.
6631
6632 The taken snapshot is always based on the
6633 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot">current snapshot</link>
6634 of the associated virtual machine and becomes a new current snapshot.
6635
6636 <note>
6637 This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6638 save all current machine settings before taking an offline snapshot.
6639 </note>
6640
6641 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6642 Virtual machine currently changing state.
6643 </result>
6644 </desc>
6645 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6646 <desc>Short name for the snapshot.</desc>
6647 </param>
6648 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
6649 <desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
6650 </param>
6651 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6652 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6653 </param>
6654 </method>
6655
6656 <method name="deleteSnapshot">
6657 <desc>
6658 Starts deleting the specified snapshot asynchronously.
6659 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6660
6661 The execution state and settings of the associated machine stored in
6662 the snapshot will be deleted. The contents of all differencing media of
6663 this snapshot will be merged with the contents of their dependent child
6664 media to keep the medium chain valid (in other words, all changes
6665 represented by media being deleted will be propagated to their child
6666 medium). After that, this snapshot's differencing medium will be
6667 deleted. The parent of this snapshot will become a new parent for all
6668 its child snapshots.
6669
6670 If the deleted snapshot is the current one, its parent snapshot will
6671 become a new current snapshot. The current machine state is not directly
6672 affected in this case, except that currently attached differencing
6673 media based on media of the deleted snapshot will be also merged as
6674 described above.
6675
6676 If the deleted snapshot is the first or current snapshot, then the
6677 respective IMachine attributes will be adjusted. Deleting the current
6678 snapshot will also implicitly call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
6679 to make all current machine settings permanent.
6680
6681 Deleting a snapshot has the following preconditions:
6682
6683 <ul>
6684 <li>Child media of all normal media of the deleted snapshot
6685 must be accessible (see <link to="IMedium::state"/>) for this
6686 operation to succeed. In particular, this means that all virtual
6687 machines whose media are directly or indirectly based on the
6688 media of deleted snapshot must be powered off.</li>
6689
6690 <li>You cannot delete the snapshot if a medium attached to it has
6691 more than once child medium (differencing images) because otherwise
6692 merging would be impossible. This might be the case if there is
6693 more than one child snapshot or differencing images were created
6694 for other reason (e.g. implicitly because of multiple machine
6695 attachments).</li>
6696 </ul>
6697
6698
6699 The virtual machine's <link to="IMachine::state">state</link> is
6700 changed to "DeletingSnapshot", "DeletingSnapshotOnline" or
6701 "DeletingSnapshotPaused" while this operation is in progress.
6702
6703 <note>
6704 Merging medium contents can be very time and disk space
6705 consuming, if these media are big in size and have many
6706 children. However, if the snapshot being deleted is the last
6707 (head) snapshot on the branch, the operation will be rather
6708 quick.
6709 </note>
6710 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6711 The running virtual machine prevents deleting this snapshot. This
6712 happens only in very specific situations, usually snapshots can be
6713 deleted without trouble while a VM is running. The error message
6714 text explains the reason for the failure.
6715 </result>
6716 </desc>
6717 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6718 <desc>UUID of the snapshot to delete.</desc>
6719 </param>
6720 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6721 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6722 </param>
6723 </method>
6724
6725 <method name="restoreSnapshot">
6726 <desc>
6727 Starts resetting the machine's current state to the state contained
6728 in the given snapshot, asynchronously. All current settings of the
6729 machine will be reset and changes stored in differencing media
6730 will be lost.
6731 See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6732
6733 After this operation is successfully completed, new empty differencing
6734 media are created for all normal media of the machine.
6735
6736 If the given snapshot is an online snapshot, the machine will go to
6737 the <link to="MachineState_Saved"> saved state</link>, so that the
6738 next time it is powered on, the execution state will be restored
6739 from the state of the snapshot.
6740
6741 <note>
6742 The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation will fail.
6743 </note>
6744
6745 <note>
6746 If the machine state is <link to="MachineState_Saved">Saved</link>
6747 prior to this operation, the saved state file will be implicitly
6748 deleted (as if <link to="IConsole::discardSavedState"/> were
6749 called).
6750 </note>
6751
6752 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6753 Virtual machine is running.
6754 </result>
6755 </desc>
6756 <param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
6757 <desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
6758 </param>
6759 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6760 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6761 </param>
6762 </method>
6763
6764 <method name="teleport">
6765 <desc>
6766 Teleport the VM to a different host machine or process.
6767
6768 TODO explain the details.
6769
6770 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6771 Virtual machine not running or paused.
6772 </result>
6773 </desc>
6774 <param name="hostname" type="wstring" dir="in">
6775 <desc>The name or IP of the host to teleport to.</desc>
6776 </param>
6777 <param name="tcpport" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6778 <desc>The TCP port to connect to (1..65535).</desc>
6779 </param>
6780 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
6781 <desc>The password.</desc>
6782 </param>
6783 <param name="maxDowntime" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6784 <desc>
6785 The maximum allowed downtime given as milliseconds. 0 is not a valid
6786 value. Recommended value: 250 ms.
6787
6788 The higher the value is, the greater the chance for a successful
6789 teleportation. A small value may easily result in the teleportation
6790 process taking hours and eventually fail.
6791
6792 <note>
6793 The current implementation treats this a guideline, not as an
6794 absolute rule.
6795 </note>
6796 </desc>
6797 </param>
6798 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6799 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6800 </param>
6801 </method>
6802
6803 </interface>
6804
6805 <!--
6806 // IHost
6807 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
6808 -->
6809
6810 <enum
6811 name="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType"
6812 uuid="1aa54aaf-2497-45a2-bfb1-8eb225e93d5b"
6813 >
6814 <desc>
6815 Type of encapsulation. Ethernet encapsulation includes both wired and
6816 wireless Ethernet connections.
6817 <see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
6818 </desc>
6819
6820 <const name="Unknown" value="0">
6821 <desc>
6822 The type of interface cannot be determined.
6823 </desc>
6824 </const>
6825 <const name="Ethernet" value="1">
6826 <desc>
6827 Ethernet frame encapsulation.
6828 </desc>
6829 </const>
6830 <const name="PPP" value="2">
6831 <desc>
6832 Point-to-point protocol encapsulation.
6833 </desc>
6834 </const>
6835 <const name="SLIP" value="3">
6836 <desc>
6837 Serial line IP encapsulation.
6838 </desc>
6839 </const>
6840 </enum>
6841
6842 <enum
6843 name="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus"
6844 uuid="CC474A69-2710-434B-8D99-C38E5D5A6F41"
6845 >
6846 <desc>
6847 Current status of the interface.
6848 <see>IHostNetworkInterface</see>
6849 </desc>
6850
6851 <const name="Unknown" value="0">
6852 <desc>
6853 The state of interface cannot be determined.
6854 </desc>
6855 </const>
6856 <const name="Up" value="1">
6857 <desc>
6858 The interface is fully operational.
6859 </desc>
6860 </const>
6861 <const name="Down" value="2">
6862 <desc>
6863 The interface is not functioning.
6864 </desc>
6865 </const>
6866 </enum>
6867
6868 <enum
6869 name="HostNetworkInterfaceType"
6870 uuid="67431b00-9946-48a2-bc02-b25c5919f4f3"
6871 >
6872 <desc>
6873 Network interface type.
6874 </desc>
6875 <const name="Bridged" value="1"/>
6876 <const name="HostOnly" value="2"/>
6877 </enum>
6878
6879 <interface
6880 name="IHostNetworkInterface" extends="$unknown"
6881 uuid="ce6fae58-7642-4102-b5db-c9005c2320a8"
6882 wsmap="managed"
6883 >
6884 <desc>
6885 Represents one of host's network interfaces. IP V6 address and network
6886 mask are strings of 32 hexdecimal digits grouped by four. Groups are
6887 separated by colons.
6888 For example, fe80:0000:0000:0000:021e:c2ff:fed2:b030.
6889 </desc>
6890 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6891 <desc>Returns the host network interface name.</desc>
6892 </attribute>
6893
6894 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
6895 <desc>Returns the interface UUID.</desc>
6896 </attribute>
6897
6898 <attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6899 <desc>Returns the name of a virtual network the interface gets attached to.</desc>
6900 </attribute>
6901
6902 <attribute name="dhcpEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6903 <desc>Specifies whether the DHCP is enabled for the interface.</desc>
6904 </attribute>
6905
6906 <attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6907 <desc>Returns the IP V4 address of the interface.</desc>
6908 </attribute>
6909
6910 <attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6911 <desc>Returns the network mask of the interface.</desc>
6912 </attribute>
6913
6914 <attribute name="IPV6Supported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6915 <desc>Specifies whether the IP V6 is supported/enabled for the interface.</desc>
6916 </attribute>
6917
6918 <attribute name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6919 <desc>Returns the IP V6 address of the interface.</desc>
6920 </attribute>
6921
6922 <attribute name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6923 <desc>Returns the length IP V6 network mask prefix of the interface.</desc>
6924 </attribute>
6925
6926 <attribute name="hardwareAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6927 <desc>Returns the hardware address. For Ethernet it is MAC address.</desc>
6928 </attribute>
6929
6930 <attribute name="mediumType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType" readonly="yes">
6931 <desc>Type of protocol encapsulation used.</desc>
6932 </attribute>
6933
6934 <attribute name="status" type="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus" readonly="yes">
6935 <desc>Status of the interface.</desc>
6936 </attribute>
6937
6938 <attribute name="interfaceType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" readonly="yes">
6939 <desc>specifies the host interface type.</desc>
6940 </attribute>
6941
6942 <method name="enableStaticIpConfig">
6943 <desc>sets and enables the static IP V4 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
6944 <param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
6945 <desc>
6946 IP address.
6947 </desc>
6948 </param>
6949 <param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
6950 <desc>
6951 network mask.
6952 </desc>
6953 </param>
6954 </method>
6955
6956 <method name="enableStaticIpConfigV6">
6957 <desc>sets and enables the static IP V6 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
6958 <param name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" dir="in">
6959 <desc>
6960 IP address.
6961 </desc>
6962 </param>
6963 <param name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6964 <desc>
6965 network mask.
6966 </desc>
6967 </param>
6968 </method>
6969
6970 <method name="enableDynamicIpConfig">
6971 <desc>enables the dynamic IP configuration.</desc>
6972 </method>
6973
6974 <method name="dhcpRediscover">
6975 <desc>refreshes the IP configuration for dhcp-enabled interface.</desc>
6976 </method>
6977
6978 </interface>
6979
6980 <interface
6981 name="IHost" extends="$unknown"
6982 uuid="dab4a2b8-c735-4f08-94fc-9bec84182e2f"
6983 wsmap="managed"
6984 >
6985 <desc>
6986 The IHost interface represents the physical machine that this VirtualBox
6987 installation runs on.
6988
6989 An object implementing this interface is returned by the
6990 <link to="IVirtualBox::host" /> attribute. This interface contains
6991 read-only information about the host's physical hardware (such as what
6992 processors and disks are available, what the host operating system is,
6993 and so on) and also allows for manipulating some of the host's hardware,
6994 such as global USB device filters and host interface networking.
6995
6996 </desc>
6997 <attribute name="DVDDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6998 <desc>List of DVD drives available on the host.</desc>
6999 </attribute>
7000
7001 <attribute name="floppyDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7002 <desc>List of floppy drives available on the host.</desc>
7003 </attribute>
7004
7005 <attribute name="USBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7006 <desc>
7007 List of USB devices currently attached to the host.
7008 Once a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
7009 it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
7010
7011 <note>
7012 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7013 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7014 </note>
7015 </desc>
7016 </attribute>
7017
7018 <attribute name="USBDeviceFilters" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7019 <desc>
7020 List of USB device filters in action.
7021 When a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
7022 filters from this list are applied to it (in order they are stored
7023 in the list). The first matched filter will determine the
7024 <link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::action">action</link>
7025 performed on the device.
7026
7027 Unless the device is ignored by these filters, filters of all
7028 currently running virtual machines
7029 (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are applied to it.
7030
7031 <note>
7032 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7033 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7034 </note>
7035
7036 <see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
7037 </desc>
7038 </attribute>
7039
7040 <attribute name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7041 <desc>List of host network interfaces currently defined on the host.</desc>
7042 </attribute>
7043
7044 <attribute name="processorCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7045 <desc>Number of (logical) CPUs installed in the host system.</desc>
7046 </attribute>
7047
7048 <attribute name="processorOnlineCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7049 <desc>Number of (logical) CPUs online in the host system.</desc>
7050 </attribute>
7051
7052 <attribute name="processorCoreCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7053 <desc>Number of physical processor cores installed in the host system.</desc>
7054 </attribute>
7055
7056 <method name="getProcessorSpeed">
7057 <desc>Query the (approximate) maximum speed of a specified host CPU in
7058 Megahertz.
7059 </desc>
7060 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7061 <desc>
7062 Identifier of the CPU.
7063 </desc>
7064 </param>
7065 <param name="speed" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7066 <desc>
7067 Speed value. 0 is returned if value is not known or @a cpuId is
7068 invalid.
7069 </desc>
7070 </param>
7071 </method>
7072
7073 <method name="getProcessorFeature">
7074 <desc>Query whether a CPU feature is supported or not.</desc>
7075 <param name="feature" type="ProcessorFeature" dir="in">
7076 <desc>
7077 CPU Feature identifier.
7078 </desc>
7079 </param>
7080 <param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return">
7081 <desc>
7082 Feature is supported or not.
7083 </desc>
7084 </param>
7085 </method>
7086
7087 <method name="getProcessorDescription">
7088 <desc>Query the model string of a specified host CPU.
7089 </desc>
7090 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7091 <desc>
7092 Identifier of the CPU.
7093 <note>
7094 The current implementation might not necessarily return the
7095 description for this exact CPU.
7096 </note>
7097 </desc>
7098 </param>
7099 <param name="description" type="wstring" dir="return">
7100 <desc>
7101 Model string. An empty string is returned if value is not known or
7102 @a cpuId is invalid.
7103 </desc>
7104 </param>
7105 </method>
7106
7107 <method name="getProcessorCPUIDLeaf">
7108 <desc>
7109 Returns the CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
7110 </desc>
7111 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7112 <desc>
7113 Identifier of the CPU. The CPU most be online.
7114 <note>
7115 The current implementation might not necessarily return the
7116 description for this exact CPU.
7117 </note>
7118 </desc>
7119 </param>
7120 <param name="leaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7121 <desc>
7122 CPUID leaf index (eax).
7123 </desc>
7124 </param>
7125 <param name="subLeaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7126 <desc>
7127 CPUID leaf sub index (ecx). This currently only applies to cache
7128 information on Intel CPUs. Use 0 if retrieving values for
7129 <link to="IMachine::setCPUIDLeaf"/>.
7130 </desc>
7131 </param>
7132 <param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7133 <desc>
7134 CPUID leaf value for register eax.
7135 </desc>
7136 </param>
7137 <param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7138 <desc>
7139 CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
7140 </desc>
7141 </param>
7142 <param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7143 <desc>
7144 CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
7145 </desc>
7146 </param>
7147 <param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7148 <desc>
7149 CPUID leaf value for register edx.
7150 </desc>
7151 </param>
7152 </method>
7153
7154 <attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7155 <desc>Amount of system memory in megabytes installed in the host system.</desc>
7156 </attribute>
7157
7158 <attribute name="memoryAvailable" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7159 <desc>Available system memory in the host system.</desc>
7160 </attribute>
7161
7162 <attribute name="operatingSystem" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7163 <desc>Name of the host system's operating system.</desc>
7164 </attribute>
7165
7166 <attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7167 <desc>Host operating system's version string.</desc>
7168 </attribute>
7169
7170 <attribute name="UTCTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7171 <desc>Returns the current host time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.</desc>
7172 </attribute>
7173
7174 <attribute name="Acceleration3DAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7175 <desc>Returns @c true when the host supports 3D hardware acceleration.</desc>
7176 </attribute>
7177
7178 <method name="createHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
7179 <desc>
7180 Creates a new adapter for Host Only Networking.
7181 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7182 Host network interface @a name already exists.
7183 </result>
7184 </desc>
7185 <param name="hostInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="out">
7186 <desc>
7187 Created host interface object.
7188 </desc>
7189 </param>
7190 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7191 <desc>
7192 Progress object to track the operation completion.
7193 </desc>
7194 </param>
7195 </method>
7196
7197 <method name="removeHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
7198 <desc>
7199 Removes the given Host Only Networking interface.
7200 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7201 No host network interface matching @a id found.
7202 </result>
7203 </desc>
7204 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7205 <desc>
7206 Adapter GUID.
7207 </desc>
7208 </param>
7209 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7210 <desc>
7211 Progress object to track the operation completion.
7212 </desc>
7213 </param>
7214 </method>
7215
7216 <method name="createUSBDeviceFilter">
7217 <desc>
7218 Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
7219 the filter name are set to empty (any match),
7220 <i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
7221
7222 The created filter can be added to the list of filters using
7223 <link to="#insertUSBDeviceFilter"/>.
7224
7225 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7226 </desc>
7227 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7228 <desc>
7229 Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/> for more information.
7230 </desc>
7231 </param>
7232 <param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
7233 <desc>Created filter object.</desc>
7234 </param>
7235 </method>
7236
7237 <method name="insertUSBDeviceFilter">
7238 <desc>
7239 Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
7240 in the list of filters.
7241
7242 Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. If the specified
7243 position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7244 the list, the filter is added at the end of the collection.
7245
7246 <note>
7247 Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
7248 filter already in the list is an error.
7249 </note>
7250 <note>
7251 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7252 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7253 </note>
7254
7255 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7256
7257 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
7258 USB device filter is not created within this VirtualBox instance.
7259 </result>
7260 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7261 USB device filter already in list.
7262 </result>
7263
7264 </desc>
7265 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7266 <desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
7267 </param>
7268 <param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
7269 <desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
7270 </param>
7271 </method>
7272
7273 <method name="removeUSBDeviceFilter">
7274 <desc>
7275 Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
7276 list of filters.
7277
7278 Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. Specifying a
7279 position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7280 the list will produce an error.
7281
7282 <note>
7283 If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7284 VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7285 </note>
7286
7287 <see>#USBDeviceFilters</see>
7288
7289 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7290 USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
7291 </result>
7292
7293 </desc>
7294 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7295 <desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
7296 </param>
7297 </method>
7298
7299 <method name="findHostDVDDrive">
7300 <desc>
7301 Searches for a host DVD drive with the given @c name.
7302
7303 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7304 Given @c name does not correspond to any host drive.
7305 </result>
7306
7307 </desc>
7308 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7309 <desc>Name of the host drive to search for</desc>
7310 </param>
7311 <param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7312 <desc>Found host drive object</desc>
7313 </param>
7314 </method>
7315
7316 <method name="findHostFloppyDrive">
7317 <desc>
7318 Searches for a host floppy drive with the given @c name.
7319
7320 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7321 Given @c name does not correspond to any host floppy drive.
7322 </result>
7323
7324 </desc>
7325 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7326 <desc>Name of the host floppy drive to search for</desc>
7327 </param>
7328 <param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7329 <desc>Found host floppy drive object</desc>
7330 </param>
7331 </method>
7332
7333 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceByName">
7334 <desc>
7335 Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7336 the given @c name.
7337 <note>
7338 The method returns an error if the given @c name does not
7339 correspond to any host network interface.
7340 </note>
7341 </desc>
7342 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7343 <desc>Name of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7344 </param>
7345 <param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7346 <desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7347 </param>
7348 </method>
7349 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceById">
7350 <desc>
7351 Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7352 the given GUID.
7353 <note>
7354 The method returns an error if the given GUID does not
7355 correspond to any host network interface.
7356 </note>
7357 </desc>
7358 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7359 <desc>GUID of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7360 </param>
7361 <param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7362 <desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7363 </param>
7364 </method>
7365 <method name="findHostNetworkInterfacesOfType">
7366 <desc>
7367 Searches through all host network interfaces and returns a list of interfaces of the specified type
7368 </desc>
7369 <param name="type" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" dir="in">
7370 <desc>type of the host network interfaces to search for.</desc>
7371 </param>
7372 <param name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7373 <desc>Found host network interface objects.</desc>
7374 </param>
7375 </method>
7376
7377 <method name="findUSBDeviceById">
7378 <desc>
7379 Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
7380
7381 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7382 Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
7383 </result>
7384
7385 <see>IHostUSBDevice::id</see>
7386 </desc>
7387 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7388 <desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
7389 </param>
7390 <param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7391 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7392 </param>
7393 </method>
7394
7395 <method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
7396 <desc>
7397 Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
7398
7399 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7400 Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
7401 </result>
7402
7403 <see>IHostUSBDevice::address</see>
7404 </desc>
7405 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7406 <desc>
7407 Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
7408 search for.
7409 </desc>
7410 </param>
7411 <param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7412 <desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7413 </param>
7414 </method>
7415
7416 <method name="generateMACAddress">
7417 <desc>
7418 Generates a valid Ethernet MAC address, 12 hexadecimal characters.
7419 </desc>
7420 <param name="address" type="wstring" dir="return">
7421 <desc>New Ethernet MAC address.</desc>
7422 </param>
7423 </method>
7424
7425 </interface>
7426
7427 <!--
7428 // ISystemProperties
7429 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7430 -->
7431
7432 <interface
7433 name="ISystemProperties"
7434 extends="$unknown"
7435 uuid="2f89cdfe-2d10-43d4-b37f-61760f877f29"
7436 wsmap="managed"
7437 >
7438 <desc>
7439 The ISystemProperties interface represents global properties of the given
7440 VirtualBox installation.
7441
7442 These properties define limits and default values for various attributes
7443 and parameters. Most of the properties are read-only, but some can be
7444 changed by a user.
7445 </desc>
7446
7447 <attribute name="minGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7448 <desc>Minimum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7449 </attribute>
7450
7451 <attribute name="maxGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7452 <desc>Maximum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7453 </attribute>
7454
7455 <attribute name="minGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7456 <desc>Minimum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7457 </attribute>
7458
7459 <attribute name="maxGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7460 <desc>Maximum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7461 </attribute>
7462
7463 <attribute name="minGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7464 <desc>Minimum CPU count.</desc>
7465 </attribute>
7466
7467 <attribute name="maxGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7468 <desc>Maximum CPU count.</desc>
7469 </attribute>
7470
7471 <attribute name="maxGuestMonitors" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7472 <desc>Maximum of monitors which could be connected.</desc>
7473 </attribute>
7474
7475 <attribute name="infoVDSize" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7476 <desc>Maximum size of a virtual disk image in bytes. Informational value,
7477 does not reflect the limits of any virtual disk image format.</desc>
7478 </attribute>
7479
7480 <attribute name="serialPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7481 <desc>
7482 Maximum number of serial ports associated with every
7483 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7484 </desc>
7485 </attribute>
7486
7487 <attribute name="parallelPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7488 <desc>
7489 Maximum number of parallel ports associated with every
7490 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7491 </desc>
7492 </attribute>
7493
7494 <attribute name="maxBootPosition" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7495 <desc>
7496 Maximum device position in the boot order. This value corresponds
7497 to the total number of devices a machine can boot from, to make it
7498 possible to include all possible devices to the boot list.
7499 <see><link to="IMachine::setBootOrder"/></see>
7500 </desc>
7501 </attribute>
7502
7503 <attribute name="defaultMachineFolder" type="wstring">
7504 <desc>
7505 Full path to the default directory used to create new or open
7506 existing machines when a machine settings file name contains no
7507 path.
7508
7509 Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, by default, this attribute contains
7510 the full path of folder named "VirtualBox VMs" in the user's
7511 home directory, which depends on the host platform.
7512
7513 When setting this attribute, a full path must be specified.
7514 Setting this property to @c null or an empty string or the
7515 special value "Machines" (for compatibility reasons) will restore
7516 that default value.
7517
7518 If the folder specified herein does not exist, it will be created
7519 automatically as needed.
7520
7521 <see>
7522 <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>,
7523 <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>
7524 </see>
7525 </desc>
7526 </attribute>
7527
7528 <attribute name="mediumFormats" type="IMediumFormat" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7529 <desc>
7530 List of all medium storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
7531 installation.
7532
7533 Keep in mind that the medium format identifier
7534 (<link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>) used in other API calls like
7535 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to refer to a particular
7536 medium format is a case-insensitive string. This means that, for
7537 example, all of the following strings:
7538 <pre>
7539 "VDI"
7540 "vdi"
7541 "VdI"</pre>
7542 refer to the same medium format.
7543
7544 Note that the virtual medium framework is backend-based, therefore
7545 the list of supported formats depends on what backends are currently
7546 installed.
7547
7548 <see>
7549 <link to="IMediumFormat"/>,
7550 </see>
7551 </desc>
7552 </attribute>
7553
7554 <attribute name="defaultHardDiskFormat" type="wstring">
7555 <desc>
7556 Identifier of the default medium format used by VirtualBox.
7557
7558 The medium format set by this attribute is used by VirtualBox
7559 when the medium format was not specified explicitly. One example is
7560 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> with the empty
7561 format argument. A more complex example is implicit creation of
7562 differencing media when taking a snapshot of a virtual machine:
7563 this operation will try to use a format of the parent medium first
7564 and if this format does not support differencing media the default
7565 format specified by this argument will be used.
7566
7567 The list of supported medium formats may be obtained by the
7568 <link to="#mediumFormats"/> call. Note that the default medium
7569 format must have a capability to create differencing media;
7570 otherwise operations that create media implicitly may fail
7571 unexpectedly.
7572
7573 The initial value of this property is <tt>"VDI"</tt> in the current
7574 version of the VirtualBox product, but may change in the future.
7575
7576 <note>
7577 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7578 initial value.
7579 </note>
7580
7581 <see>
7582 <link to="#mediumFormats"/>,
7583 <link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>,
7584 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>
7585 </see>
7586 </desc>
7587 </attribute>
7588
7589 <attribute name="freeDiskSpaceWarning" type="long long">
7590 <desc>Issue a warning if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7591 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given size in
7592 bytes.</desc>
7593 </attribute>
7594
7595 <attribute name="freeDiskSpacePercentWarning" type="unsigned long">
7596 <desc>Issue a warning if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7597 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given percentage.</desc>
7598 </attribute>
7599
7600 <attribute name="freeDiskSpaceError" type="long long">
7601 <desc>Issue an error if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7602 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given size in
7603 bytes.</desc>
7604 </attribute>
7605
7606 <attribute name="freeDiskSpacePercentError" type="unsigned long">
7607 <desc>Issue an error if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7608 intensive operation is expected to go below) the given percentage.</desc>
7609 </attribute>
7610
7611 <attribute name="VRDEAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7612 <desc>
7613 Library that provides authentication for Remote Desktop clients. The library
7614 is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7615 in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration.
7616
7617 The system library extension (".DLL" or ".so") must be omitted.
7618 A full path can be specified; if not, then the library must reside on the
7619 system's default library path.
7620
7621 The default value of this property is <tt>"VBoxAuth"</tt>. There is a library
7622 of that name in one of the default VirtualBox library directories.
7623
7624 For details about VirtualBox authentication libraries and how to implement
7625 them, please refer to the VirtualBox manual.
7626
7627 <note>
7628 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7629 initial value.
7630 </note>
7631 </desc>
7632 </attribute>
7633
7634 <attribute name="webServiceAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7635 <desc>
7636 Library that provides authentication for webservice clients. The library
7637 is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7638 in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration and will be called from
7639 within the <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> implementation.
7640
7641 As opposed to <link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary" />,
7642 there is no per-VM setting for this, as the webservice is a global
7643 resource (if it is running). Only for this setting (for the webservice),
7644 setting this value to a literal <tt>"null"</tt> string disables authentication,
7645 meaning that <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> will always succeed,
7646 no matter what user name and password are supplied.
7647
7648 The initial value of this property is <tt>"VBoxAuth"</tt>,
7649 meaning that the webservice will use the same authentication
7650 library that is used by default for VRDE (again, see
7651 <link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary" />).
7652 The format and calling convention of authentication libraries
7653 is the same for the webservice as it is for VRDE.
7654
7655 <note>
7656 Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7657 initial value.
7658 </note>
7659 </desc>
7660 </attribute>
7661
7662 <attribute name="defaultVRDEExtPack" type="wstring">
7663 <desc>
7664 The name of the extension pack providing the default VRDE.
7665
7666 This attribute is for choosing between multiple extension packs
7667 providing VRDE. If only one is installed, it will automatically be the
7668 default one. The attribute value can be empty if no VRDE extension
7669 pack is installed.
7670
7671 For details about VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension and how to
7672 implement one, please refer to the VirtualBox SDK.
7673 </desc>
7674 </attribute>
7675
7676 <attribute name="LogHistoryCount" type="unsigned long">
7677 <desc>
7678 This value specifies how many old release log files are kept.
7679 </desc>
7680 </attribute>
7681
7682 <attribute name="defaultAudioDriver" type="AudioDriverType" readonly="yes">
7683 <desc>This value hold the default audio driver for the current
7684 system.</desc>
7685 </attribute>
7686
7687
7688 <method name="getMaxNetworkAdapters">
7689 <desc>
7690 Maximum total number of network adapters associated with every
7691 <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7692 </desc>
7693
7694 <param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
7695 <desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
7696 </param>
7697
7698
7699 <param name="maxNetworkAdapters" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7700 <desc>The maximum total number of network adapters allowed.</desc>
7701 </param>
7702
7703 </method>
7704
7705 <method name="getMaxNetworkAdaptersOfType">
7706 <desc>
7707 Maximum number of network adapters of a given attachment type,
7708 associated with every <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7709 </desc>
7710
7711 <param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
7712 <desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
7713 </param>
7714
7715 <param name="type" type="NetworkAttachmentType" dir="in">
7716 <desc>Type of attachment.</desc>
7717 </param>
7718
7719 <param name="maxNetworkAdapters" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7720 <desc>The maximum number of network adapters allowed for
7721 particular chipset and attachment type.</desc>
7722 </param>
7723
7724 </method>
7725
7726
7727 <method name="getMaxDevicesPerPortForStorageBus">
7728 <desc>Returns the maximum number of devices which can be attached to a port
7729 for the given storage bus.</desc>
7730
7731 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7732 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7733 </param>
7734
7735 <param name="maxDevicesPerPort" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7736 <desc>The maximum number of devices which can be attached to the port for the given
7737 storage bus.</desc>
7738 </param>
7739 </method>
7740
7741 <method name="getMinPortCountForStorageBus">
7742 <desc>Returns the minimum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
7743
7744 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7745 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7746 </param>
7747
7748 <param name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7749 <desc>The minimum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
7750 </param>
7751 </method>
7752
7753 <method name="getMaxPortCountForStorageBus">
7754 <desc>Returns the maximum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
7755
7756 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7757 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7758 </param>
7759
7760 <param name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7761 <desc>The maximum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
7762 </param>
7763 </method>
7764
7765 <method name="getMaxInstancesOfStorageBus">
7766 <desc>Returns the maximum number of storage bus instances which
7767 can be configured for each VM. This corresponds to the number of
7768 storage controllers one can have. Value may depend on chipset type
7769 used.</desc>
7770
7771 <param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
7772 <desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
7773 </param>
7774
7775 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7776 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7777 </param>
7778
7779 <param name="maxInstances" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7780 <desc>The maximum number of instances for the given storage bus.</desc>
7781 </param>
7782 </method>
7783
7784 <method name="getDeviceTypesForStorageBus">
7785 <desc>Returns list of all the supported device types
7786 (<link to="DeviceType"/>) for the given type of storage
7787 bus.</desc>
7788
7789 <param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
7790 <desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
7791 </param>
7792
7793 <param name="deviceTypes" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7794 <desc>The list of all supported device types for the given storage bus.</desc>
7795 </param>
7796 </method>
7797
7798 <method name="getDefaultIoCacheSettingForStorageController">
7799 <desc>Returns the default I/O cache setting for the
7800 given storage controller</desc>
7801
7802 <param name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType" dir="in">
7803 <desc>The storage controller to the setting for.</desc>
7804 </param>
7805
7806 <param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="return">
7807 <desc>Returned flag indicating the default value</desc>
7808 </param>
7809 </method>
7810 </interface>
7811
7812 <!--
7813 // IGuest
7814 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7815 -->
7816
7817 <interface
7818 name="IGuestOSType" extends="$unknown"
7819 uuid="432c1546-1354-4abf-bf08-878a32a373f5"
7820 wsmap="struct"
7821 >
7822 <desc>
7823 </desc>
7824
7825 <attribute name="familyId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7826 <desc>Guest OS family identifier string.</desc>
7827 </attribute>
7828
7829 <attribute name="familyDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7830 <desc>Human readable description of the guest OS family.</desc>
7831 </attribute>
7832
7833 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7834 <desc>Guest OS identifier string.</desc>
7835 </attribute>
7836
7837 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7838 <desc>Human readable description of the guest OS.</desc>
7839 </attribute>
7840
7841 <attribute name="is64Bit" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7842 <desc>Returns @c true if the given OS is 64-bit</desc>
7843 </attribute>
7844
7845 <attribute name="recommendedIOAPIC" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7846 <desc>Returns @c true if IO APIC recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7847 </attribute>
7848
7849 <attribute name="recommendedVirtEx" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7850 <desc>Returns @c true if VT-x or AMD-V recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7851 </attribute>
7852
7853 <attribute name="recommendedRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7854 <desc>Recommended RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
7855 </attribute>
7856
7857 <attribute name="recommendedVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7858 <desc>Recommended video RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
7859 </attribute>
7860
7861 <attribute name="recommendedHDD" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7862 <desc>Recommended hard disk size in bytes.</desc>
7863 </attribute>
7864
7865 <attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType" readonly="yes">
7866 <desc>Returns recommended network adapter for this OS type.</desc>
7867 </attribute>
7868
7869 <attribute name="recommendedPae" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7870 <desc>Returns @c true if using PAE is recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7871 </attribute>
7872
7873 <attribute name="recommendedDvdStorageController" type="StorageControllerType" readonly="yes">
7874 <desc>Recommended storage controller type for DVD/CD drives.</desc>
7875 </attribute>
7876
7877 <attribute name="recommendedDvdStorageBus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
7878 <desc>Recommended storage bus type for DVD/CD drives.</desc>
7879 </attribute>
7880
7881 <attribute name="recommendedHdStorageController" type="StorageControllerType" readonly="yes">
7882 <desc>Recommended storage controller type for HD drives.</desc>
7883 </attribute>
7884
7885 <attribute name="recommendedHdStorageBus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
7886 <desc>Recommended storage bus type for HD drives.</desc>
7887 </attribute>
7888
7889 <attribute name="recommendedFirmware" type="FirmwareType" readonly="yes">
7890 <desc>Recommended firmware type.</desc>
7891 </attribute>
7892
7893 <attribute name="recommendedUsbHid" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7894 <desc>Returns @c true if using USB Human Interface Devices, such as keyboard and mouse recommended.</desc>
7895 </attribute>
7896
7897 <attribute name="recommendedHpet" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7898 <desc>Returns @c true if using HPET is recommended for this OS type.</desc>
7899 </attribute>
7900
7901 <attribute name="recommendedUsbTablet" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7902 <desc>Returns @c true if using a USB Tablet is recommended.</desc>
7903 </attribute>
7904
7905 <attribute name="recommendedRtcUseUtc" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7906 <desc>Returns @c true if the RTC of this VM should be set to UTC</desc>
7907 </attribute>
7908
7909 <attribute name="recommendedChipset" type="ChipsetType" readonly="yes">
7910 <desc>Recommended chipset type.</desc>
7911 </attribute>
7912
7913 <attribute name="recommendedAudioController" type="AudioControllerType" readonly="yes">
7914 <desc>Recommended audio type.</desc>
7915 </attribute>
7916
7917 </interface>
7918
7919 <enum
7920 name="AdditionsFacilityType"
7921 uuid="98f7f957-89fb-49b6-a3b1-31e3285eb1d8"
7922 >
7923 <desc>
7924 Guest Additions facility IDs.
7925 </desc>
7926
7927 <const name="None" value="0">
7928 <desc>No/invalid facility.</desc>
7929 </const>
7930 <const name="VBoxGuestDriver" value="20">
7931 <desc>VirtualBox base driver (VBoxGuest).</desc>
7932 </const>
7933 <const name="VBoxService" value="100">
7934 <desc>VirtualBox system service (VBoxService).</desc>
7935 </const>
7936 <const name="VBoxTrayClient" value="101">
7937 <desc>VirtualBox desktop integration (VBoxTray on Windows, VBoxClient on non-Windows).</desc>
7938 </const>
7939 <const name="Seamless" value="1000">
7940 <desc>Seamless guest desktop integration.</desc>
7941 </const>
7942 <const name="Graphics" value="1100">
7943 <desc>Guest graphics mode. If not enabled, seamless rendering will not work, resize hints
7944 are not immediately acted on and guest display resizes are probably not initiated by
7945 the guest additions.
7946 </desc>
7947 </const>
7948 <const name="All" value="2147483646">
7949 <desc>All facilities selected.</desc>
7950 </const>
7951 </enum>
7952
7953 <enum
7954 name="AdditionsFacilityClass"
7955 uuid="446451b2-c88d-4e5d-84c9-91bc7f533f5f"
7956 >
7957 <desc>
7958 Guest Additions facility classes.
7959 </desc>
7960
7961 <const name="None" value="0">
7962 <desc>No/invalid class.</desc>
7963 </const>
7964 <const name="Driver" value="10">
7965 <desc>Driver.</desc>
7966 </const>
7967 <const name="Service" value="30">
7968 <desc>System service.</desc>
7969 </const>
7970 <const name="Program" value="50">
7971 <desc>Program.</desc>
7972 </const>
7973 <const name="Feature" value="100">
7974 <desc>Feature.</desc>
7975 </const>
7976 <const name="ThirdParty" value="999">
7977 <desc>Third party.</desc>
7978 </const>
7979 <const name="All" value="2147483646">
7980 <desc>All facility classes selected.</desc>
7981 </const>
7982 </enum>
7983
7984 <enum
7985 name="AdditionsFacilityStatus"
7986 uuid="ce06f9e1-394e-4fe9-9368-5a88c567dbde"
7987 >
7988 <desc>
7989 Guest Additions facility states.
7990 </desc>
7991
7992 <const name="Inactive" value="0">
7993 <desc>Facility is not active.</desc>
7994 </const>
7995 <const name="Paused" value="1">
7996 <desc>Facility has been paused.</desc>
7997 </const>
7998 <const name="PreInit" value="20">
7999 <desc>Facility is preparing to initialize.</desc>
8000 </const>
8001 <const name="Init" value="30">
8002 <desc>Facility is initializing.</desc>
8003 </const>
8004 <const name="Active" value="50">
8005 <desc>Facility is up and running.</desc>
8006 </const>
8007 <const name="Terminating" value="100">
8008 <desc>Facility is shutting down.</desc>
8009 </const>
8010 <const name="Terminated" value="101">
8011 <desc>Facility successfully shut down.</desc>
8012 </const>
8013 <const name="Failed" value="800">
8014 <desc>Facility failed to start.</desc>
8015 </const>
8016 <const name="Unknown" value="999">
8017 <desc>Facility status is unknown.</desc>
8018 </const>
8019 </enum>
8020
8021 <interface
8022 name="IAdditionsFacility" extends="$unknown"
8023 uuid="54992946-6af1-4e49-98ec-58b558b7291e"
8024 wsmap="struct"
8025 >
8026 <desc>
8027 Structure representing a Guest Additions facility.
8028 </desc>
8029
8030 <attribute name="classType" type="AdditionsFacilityClass" readonly="yes">
8031 <desc>The class this facility is part of.</desc>
8032 </attribute>
8033
8034 <attribute name="lastUpdated" type="long long" readonly="yes">
8035 <desc>
8036 Time stamp of the last status update,
8037 in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
8038 </desc>
8039 </attribute>
8040
8041 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8042 <desc>The facility's friendly name.</desc>
8043 </attribute>
8044
8045 <attribute name="status" type="AdditionsFacilityStatus" readonly="yes">
8046 <desc>The current status.</desc>
8047 </attribute>
8048
8049 <attribute name="type" type="AdditionsFacilityType" readonly="yes">
8050 <desc>The facility's type ID.</desc>
8051 </attribute>
8052 </interface>
8053
8054 <enum
8055 name="AdditionsRunLevelType"
8056 uuid="a25417ee-a9dd-4f5b-b0dc-377860087754"
8057 >
8058 <desc>
8059 Guest Additions run level type.
8060 </desc>
8061
8062 <const name="None" value="0">
8063 <desc>Guest Additions are not loaded.</desc>
8064 </const>
8065 <const name="System" value="1">
8066 <desc>Guest drivers are loaded.</desc>
8067 </const>
8068 <const name="Userland" value="2">
8069 <desc>Common components (such as application services) are loaded.</desc>
8070 </const>
8071 <const name="Desktop" value="3">
8072 <desc>Per-user desktop components are loaded.</desc>
8073 </const>
8074 </enum>
8075
8076 <enum
8077 name="AdditionsUpdateFlag"
8078 uuid="726a818d-18d6-4389-94e8-3e9e6826171a"
8079 >
8080 <desc>
8081 Guest Additions update flags.
8082 </desc>
8083
8084 <const name="None" value="0">
8085 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
8086 </const>
8087 <const name="WaitForUpdateStartOnly" value="1">
8088 <desc>Only wait for the update process being started and do not
8089 wait while peforming the actual update.</desc>
8090 </const>
8091 </enum>
8092
8093 <enum
8094 name="ExecuteProcessFlag"
8095 uuid="3258e8a5-ba0c-43d5-86b5-cf91405fddc0"
8096 >
8097 <desc>
8098 Guest process execution flags.
8099 </desc>
8100
8101 <const name="None" value="0">
8102 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
8103 </const>
8104
8105 <const name="WaitForProcessStartOnly" value="1">
8106 <desc>Only use the specified timeout value to wait for starting the guest process - the guest
8107 process itself then uses an infinite timeout.</desc>
8108 </const>
8109
8110 <const name="IgnoreOrphanedProcesses" value="2">
8111 <desc>Do not report an error when executed processes are still alive when VBoxService or the guest OS is shutting down.</desc>
8112 </const>
8113
8114 <const name="Hidden" value="4">
8115 <desc>Don't show the started process according to the guest OS guidelines.</desc>
8116 </const>
8117 </enum>
8118
8119 <enum
8120 name="ExecuteProcessStatus"
8121 uuid="153768d9-d971-4098-8b5a-c5cb1ab9ea88"
8122 >
8123 <desc>
8124 Guest process execution status.
8125 </desc>
8126
8127 <const name="Undefined" value="0">
8128 <desc>Process is in an undefined state.</desc>
8129 </const>
8130
8131 <const name="Started" value="1">
8132 <desc>Process has been started.</desc>
8133 </const>
8134
8135 <const name="TerminatedNormally" value="2">
8136 <desc>Process terminated normally.</desc>
8137 </const>
8138
8139 <const name="TerminatedSignal" value="3">
8140 <desc>Process terminated via signal.</desc>
8141 </const>
8142
8143 <const name="TerminatedAbnormally" value="4">
8144 <desc>Process terminated abnormally.</desc>
8145 </const>
8146
8147 <const name="TimedOutKilled" value="5">
8148 <desc>Process timed out and was killed.</desc>
8149 </const>
8150
8151 <const name="TimedOutAbnormally" value="6">
8152 <desc>Process timed out and was not killed successfully.</desc>
8153 </const>
8154
8155 <const name="Down" value="7">
8156 <desc>Service/OS is stopping, process was killed.</desc>
8157 </const>
8158
8159 <const name="Error" value="8">
8160 <desc>Something went wrong (error code in flags).</desc>
8161 </const>
8162 </enum>
8163
8164 <enum
8165 name="ProcessInputFlag"
8166 uuid="5d38c1dd-2604-4ddf-92e5-0c0cdd3bdbd5"
8167 >
8168 <desc>
8169 Guest process input flags.
8170 </desc>
8171
8172 <const name="None" value="0">
8173 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
8174 </const>
8175
8176 <const name="EndOfFile" value="1">
8177 <desc>End of file (input) reached.</desc>
8178 </const>
8179 </enum>
8180
8181 <enum
8182 name="ProcessOutputFlag"
8183 uuid="9979e85a-52bb-40b7-870c-57115e27e0f1"
8184 >
8185 <desc>
8186 Guest process output flags for specifying which
8187 type of output to retrieve.
8188 </desc>
8189
8190 <const name="None" value="0">
8191 <desc>No flags set. Get output from stdout.</desc>
8192 </const>
8193
8194 <const name="StdErr" value="1">
8195 <desc>Get output from stderr.</desc>
8196 </const>
8197 </enum>
8198
8199 <enum
8200 name="CopyFileFlag"
8201 uuid="23f79fdf-738a-493d-b80b-42d607c9b916"
8202 >
8203 <desc>
8204 Host/Guest copy flags. At the moment none of these flags
8205 are implemented.
8206 </desc>
8207
8208 <const name="None" value="0">
8209 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
8210 </const>
8211
8212 <const name="Recursive" value="1">
8213 <desc>Copy directories recursively.</desc>
8214 </const>
8215
8216 <const name="Update" value="2">
8217 <desc>Only copy when the source file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing.</desc>
8218 </const>
8219
8220 <const name="FollowLinks" value="4">
8221 <desc>Follow symbolic links.</desc>
8222 </const>
8223 </enum>
8224
8225 <enum
8226 name="CreateDirectoryFlag"
8227 uuid="26ff5bdd-c81f-4304-857b-b8be5e3f9cd6"
8228 >
8229 <desc>
8230 Directory creation flags.
8231 </desc>
8232
8233 <const name="None" value="0">
8234 <desc>No flag set.</desc>
8235 </const>
8236
8237 <const name="Parents" value="1">
8238 <desc>No error if existing, make parent directories as needed.</desc>
8239 </const>
8240 </enum>
8241
8242 <interface
8243 name="IGuest" extends="$unknown"
8244 uuid="4e78f7dd-8ca1-47e5-a344-5207f793df71"
8245 wsmap="managed"
8246 >
8247 <desc>
8248 The IGuest interface represents information about the operating system
8249 running inside the virtual machine. Used in
8250 <link to="IConsole::guest"/>.
8251
8252 IGuest provides information about the guest operating system, whether
8253 Guest Additions are installed and other OS-specific virtual machine
8254 properties.
8255 </desc>
8256
8257 <attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8258 <desc>
8259 Identifier of the Guest OS type as reported by the Guest
8260 Additions.
8261 You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
8262 an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
8263 Guest OS type.
8264 <note>
8265 If Guest Additions are not installed, this value will be
8266 the same as <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/>.
8267 </note>
8268 </desc>
8269 </attribute>
8270
8271 <attribute name="additionsRunLevel" type="AdditionsRunLevelType" readonly="yes">
8272 <desc>
8273 Current run level of the Guest Additions.
8274 </desc>
8275 </attribute>
8276
8277 <attribute name="additionsVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8278 <desc>
8279 Version of the Guest Additions including the revision (3 decimal numbers
8280 separated by dots + revision number) installed on the guest or empty
8281 when the Additions are not installed.
8282 </desc>
8283 </attribute>
8284
8285 <attribute name="facilities" type="IAdditionsFacility" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
8286 <desc>
8287 Array of current known facilities. Only returns facilities where a status is known,
8288 e.g. facilities with an unknown status will not be returned.
8289 </desc>
8290 </attribute>
8291
8292 <attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
8293 <desc>Guest system memory balloon size in megabytes (transient property).</desc>
8294 </attribute>
8295
8296 <attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
8297 <desc>Interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
8298 </attribute>
8299
8300 <method name="internalGetStatistics">
8301 <desc>
8302 Internal method; do not use as it might change at any time.
8303 </desc>
8304 <param name="cpuUser" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8305 <desc>Percentage of processor time spent in user mode as seen by the guest.</desc>
8306 </param>
8307 <param name="cpuKernel" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8308 <desc>Percentage of processor time spent in kernel mode as seen by the guest.</desc>
8309 </param>
8310 <param name="cpuIdle" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8311 <desc>Percentage of processor time spent idling as seen by the guest.</desc>
8312 </param>
8313 <param name="memTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8314 <desc>Total amount of physical guest RAM.</desc>
8315 </param>
8316 <param name="memFree" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8317 <desc>Free amount of physical guest RAM.</desc>
8318 </param>
8319 <param name="memBalloon" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8320 <desc>Amount of ballooned physical guest RAM.</desc>
8321 </param>
8322 <param name="memShared" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8323 <desc>Amount of shared physical guest RAM.</desc>
8324 </param>
8325 <param name="memCache" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8326 <desc>Total amount of guest (disk) cache memory.</desc>
8327 </param>
8328 <param name="pagedTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8329 <desc>Total amount of space in the page file.</desc>
8330 </param>
8331 <param name="memAllocTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8332 <desc>Total amount of memory allocated by the hypervisor.</desc>
8333 </param>
8334 <param name="memFreeTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8335 <desc>Total amount of free memory available in the hypervisor.</desc>
8336 </param>
8337 <param name="memBalloonTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8338 <desc>Total amount of memory ballooned by the hypervisor.</desc>
8339 </param>
8340 <param name="memSharedTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8341 <desc>Total amount of shared memory in the hypervisor.</desc>
8342 </param>
8343 </method>
8344
8345 <method name="getFacilityStatus">
8346 <desc>
8347 Get the current status of a Guest Additions facility.
8348 </desc>
8349 <param name="facility" type="AdditionsFacilityType" dir="in">
8350 <desc>Facility to check status for.</desc>
8351 </param>
8352 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out">
8353 <desc>Timestamp (in ms) of last status update seen by the host.</desc>
8354 </param>
8355 <param name="status" type="AdditionsFacilityStatus" dir="return">
8356 <desc>The current (latest) facility status.</desc>
8357 </param>
8358 </method>
8359
8360 <method name="getAdditionsStatus">
8361 <desc>
8362 Retrieve the current status of a certain Guest Additions run level.
8363
8364 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
8365 Wrong status level specified.
8366 </result>
8367
8368 </desc>
8369 <param name="level" type="AdditionsRunLevelType" dir="in">
8370 <desc>Status level to check</desc>
8371 </param>
8372 <param name="active" type="boolean" dir="return">
8373 <desc>Flag whether the status level has been reached or not</desc>
8374 </param>
8375 </method>
8376
8377 <method name="setCredentials">
8378 <desc>
8379 Store login credentials that can be queried by guest operating
8380 systems with Additions installed. The credentials are transient
8381 to the session and the guest may also choose to erase them. Note
8382 that the caller cannot determine whether the guest operating system
8383 has queried or made use of the credentials.
8384
8385 <result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
8386 VMM device is not available.
8387 </result>
8388
8389 </desc>
8390 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8391 <desc>User name string, can be empty</desc>
8392 </param>
8393 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8394 <desc>Password string, can be empty</desc>
8395 </param>
8396 <param name="domain" type="wstring" dir="in">
8397 <desc>Domain name (guest logon scheme specific), can be empty</desc>
8398 </param>
8399 <param name="allowInteractiveLogon" type="boolean" dir="in">
8400 <desc>
8401 Flag whether the guest should alternatively allow the user to
8402 interactively specify different credentials. This flag might
8403 not be supported by all versions of the Additions.
8404 </desc>
8405 </param>
8406 </method>
8407
8408 <method name="executeProcess">
8409 <desc>
8410 Executes an existing program inside the guest VM.
8411
8412 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8413 Could not execute process.
8414 </result>
8415
8416 </desc>
8417 <param name="execName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8418 <desc>
8419 Full path name of the command to execute on the guest; the
8420 commands has to exists in the guest VM in order to be executed.
8421 </desc>
8422 </param>
8423 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8424 <desc>
8425 <link to="ExecuteProcessFlag"/> flags.
8426 </desc>
8427 </param>
8428 <param name="arguments" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
8429 <desc>
8430 Array of arguments passed to the execution command.
8431 </desc>
8432 </param>
8433 <param name="environment" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
8434 <desc>
8435 Environment variables that can be set while the command is being
8436 executed, in form of "NAME=VALUE"; one pair per entry. To unset a
8437 variable just set its name ("NAME") without a value.
8438 </desc>
8439 </param>
8440 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8441 <desc>
8442 User name under which the command will be executed; has to exist
8443 and have the appropriate rights to execute programs in the VM.
8444 </desc>
8445 </param>
8446 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8447 <desc>
8448 Password of the user account specified.
8449 </desc>
8450 </param>
8451 <param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8452 <desc>
8453 The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for finished program
8454 execution. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
8455 </desc>
8456 </param>
8457 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8458 <desc>
8459 The PID (process ID) of the started command for later reference.
8460 </desc>
8461 </param>
8462 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8463 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8464 </param>
8465 </method>
8466
8467 <method name="getProcessOutput">
8468 <desc>
8469 Retrieves output of a formerly started process.
8470
8471 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8472 Could not retrieve output.
8473 </result>
8474
8475 </desc>
8476 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8477 <desc>
8478 Process id returned by earlier executeProcess() call.
8479 </desc>
8480 </param>
8481 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8482 <desc>
8483 <link to="ProcessOutputFlag"/> flags.
8484 </desc>
8485 </param>
8486 <param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8487 <desc>
8488 The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for output
8489 data. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
8490 </desc>
8491 </param>
8492 <param name="size" type="long long" dir="in">
8493 <desc>
8494 Size in bytes to read in the buffer.
8495 </desc>
8496 </param>
8497 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
8498 <desc>
8499 Buffer for retrieving the actual output. A data size of 0 means end of file
8500 if the requested size was not 0. This is the unprocessed
8501 output data, i.e. the line ending style depends on the platform of
8502 the system the server is running on.
8503 </desc>
8504 </param>
8505 </method>
8506
8507 <method name="getProcessStatus">
8508 <desc>
8509 Retrieves status, exit code and the exit reason of a formerly started process.
8510
8511 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8512 Process with specified PID was not found.
8513 </result>
8514
8515 </desc>
8516 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8517 <desc>
8518 Process id returned by earlier executeProcess() call.
8519 </desc>
8520 </param>
8521 <param name="exitcode" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8522 <desc>
8523 The exit code (if available).
8524 </desc>
8525 </param>
8526 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8527 <desc>
8528 Additional flags of process status. Not used at the moment and
8529 must be set to 0.
8530 </desc>
8531 </param>
8532 <param name="reason" type="ExecuteProcessStatus" dir="return">
8533 <desc>
8534 The current process status.
8535 </desc>
8536 </param>
8537 </method>
8538
8539 <method name="copyToGuest">
8540 <desc>
8541 Copies files/directories from host to the guest.
8542
8543 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8544 Error while copying.
8545 </result>
8546
8547 </desc>
8548 <param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
8549 <desc>
8550 Source file on the host to copy.
8551 </desc>
8552 </param>
8553 <param name="dest" type="wstring" dir="in">
8554 <desc>
8555 Destination path on the guest.
8556 </desc>
8557 </param>
8558 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8559 <desc>
8560 User name under which the copy command will be executed; the
8561 user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to write to
8562 the destination path.
8563 </desc>
8564 </param>
8565 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8566 <desc>
8567 Password of the user account specified.
8568 </desc>
8569 </param>
8570 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8571 <desc>
8572 <link to="CopyFileFlag"/> flags. Not used at the moment and should be set to 0.
8573 </desc>
8574 </param>
8575 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8576 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8577 </param>
8578 </method>
8579
8580 <method name="createDirectory">
8581 <desc>
8582 Creates a directory on the guest.
8583
8584 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8585 Error while creating directory.
8586 </result>
8587
8588 </desc>
8589 <param name="directory" type="wstring" dir="in">
8590 <desc>
8591 Directory to create.
8592 </desc>
8593 </param>
8594 <param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8595 <desc>
8596 User name under which the directory creation will be executed; the
8597 user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to create the
8598 desired directory.
8599 </desc>
8600 </param>
8601 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8602 <desc>
8603 Password of the user account specified.
8604 </desc>
8605 </param>
8606 <param name="mode" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8607 <desc>
8608 File mode.
8609 </desc>
8610 </param>
8611 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8612 <desc>
8613 <link to="CreateDirectoryFlag"/> flags.
8614 </desc>
8615 </param>
8616 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8617 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8618 </param>
8619 </method>
8620
8621 <method name="setProcessInput">
8622 <desc>
8623 Sends input into a formerly started process.
8624
8625 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8626 Could not send input.
8627 </result>
8628
8629 </desc>
8630 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8631 <desc>
8632 Process id returned by earlier executeProcess() call.
8633 </desc>
8634 </param>
8635 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8636 <desc>
8637 <link to="ProcessInputFlag"/> flags.
8638 </desc>
8639 </param>
8640 <param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8641 <desc>
8642 The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for getting the
8643 data transfered to the guest. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
8644 </desc>
8645 </param>
8646 <param name="data" type="octet" dir="in" safearray="yes">
8647 <desc>
8648 Buffer of input data to send to the started process to.
8649 </desc>
8650 </param>
8651 <param name="written" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8652 <desc>
8653 Number of bytes written.
8654 </desc>
8655 </param>
8656 </method>
8657
8658 <method name="updateGuestAdditions">
8659 <desc>
8660 Updates already installed Guest Additions in a VM
8661 (Windows guests only).
8662
8663 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8664 Error while updating.
8665 </result>
8666
8667 </desc>
8668 <param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
8669 <desc>
8670 Path to the Guest Additions .ISO file to use for the upate.
8671 </desc>
8672 </param>
8673 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8674 <desc>
8675 <link to="AdditionsUpdateFlag"/> flags.
8676 </desc>
8677 </param>
8678 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8679 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8680 </param>
8681 </method>
8682
8683 </interface>
8684
8685
8686 <!--
8687 // IProgress
8688 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8689 -->
8690
8691 <interface
8692 name="IProgress" extends="$unknown"
8693 uuid="A163C98F-8635-4AA8-B770-A9941737F3EF"
8694 wsmap="managed"
8695 >
8696 <desc>
8697 The IProgress interface is used to track and control
8698 asynchronous tasks within VirtualBox.
8699
8700 An instance of this is returned every time VirtualBox starts
8701 an asynchronous task (in other words, a separate thread) which
8702 continues to run after a method call returns. For example,
8703 <link to="IConsole::saveState" />, which saves the state of
8704 a running virtual machine, can take a long time to complete.
8705 To be able to display a progress bar, a user interface such as
8706 the VirtualBox graphical user interface can use the IProgress
8707 object returned by that method.
8708
8709 Note that IProgress is a "read-only" interface in the sense
8710 that only the VirtualBox internals behind the Main API can
8711 create and manipulate progress objects, whereas client code
8712 can only use the IProgress object to monitor a task's
8713 progress and, if <link to="#cancelable" /> is @c true,
8714 cancel the task by calling <link to="#cancel" />.
8715
8716 A task represented by IProgress consists of either one or
8717 several sub-operations that run sequentially, one by one (see
8718 <link to="#operation" /> and <link to="#operationCount" />).
8719 Every operation is identified by a number (starting from 0)
8720 and has a separate description.
8721
8722 You can find the individual percentage of completion of the current
8723 operation in <link to="#operationPercent" /> and the
8724 percentage of completion of the task as a whole
8725 in <link to="#percent" />.
8726
8727 Similarly, you can wait for the completion of a particular
8728 operation via <link to="#waitForOperationCompletion" /> or
8729 for the completion of the whole task via
8730 <link to="#waitForCompletion" />.
8731 </desc>
8732
8733 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
8734 <desc>ID of the task.</desc>
8735 </attribute>
8736
8737 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8738 <desc>Description of the task.</desc>
8739 </attribute>
8740
8741 <attribute name="initiator" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
8742 <desc>Initiator of the task.</desc>
8743 </attribute>
8744
8745 <attribute name="cancelable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8746 <desc>Whether the task can be interrupted.</desc>
8747 </attribute>
8748
8749 <attribute name="percent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8750 <desc>
8751 Current progress value of the task as a whole, in percent.
8752 This value depends on how many operations are already complete.
8753 Returns 100 if <link to="#completed" /> is @c true.
8754 </desc>
8755 </attribute>
8756
8757 <attribute name="timeRemaining" type="long" readonly="yes">
8758 <desc>
8759 Estimated remaining time until the task completes, in
8760 seconds. Returns 0 once the task has completed; returns -1
8761 if the remaining time cannot be computed, in particular if
8762 the current progress is 0.
8763
8764 Even if a value is returned, the estimate will be unreliable
8765 for low progress values. It will become more reliable as the
8766 task progresses; it is not recommended to display an ETA
8767 before at least 20% of a task have completed.
8768 </desc>
8769 </attribute>
8770
8771 <attribute name="completed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8772 <desc>Whether the task has been completed.</desc>
8773 </attribute>
8774
8775 <attribute name="canceled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8776 <desc>Whether the task has been canceled.</desc>
8777 </attribute>
8778
8779 <attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
8780 <desc>
8781 Result code of the progress task.
8782 Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true.
8783 </desc>
8784 </attribute>
8785
8786 <attribute name="errorInfo" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
8787 <desc>
8788 Extended information about the unsuccessful result of the
8789 progress operation. May be @c null if no extended information
8790 is available.
8791 Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true and
8792 <link to="#resultCode"/> indicates a failure.
8793 </desc>
8794 </attribute>
8795
8796 <attribute name="operationCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8797 <desc>
8798 Number of sub-operations this task is divided into.
8799 Every task consists of at least one suboperation.
8800 </desc>
8801 </attribute>
8802
8803 <attribute name="operation" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8804 <desc>Number of the sub-operation being currently executed.</desc>
8805 </attribute>
8806
8807 <attribute name="operationDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8808 <desc>
8809 Description of the sub-operation being currently executed.
8810 </desc>
8811 </attribute>
8812
8813 <attribute name="operationPercent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8814 <desc>Progress value of the current sub-operation only, in percent.</desc>
8815 </attribute>
8816
8817 <attribute name="operationWeight" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8818 <desc>Weight value of the current sub-operation only.</desc>
8819 </attribute>
8820
8821 <attribute name="timeout" type="unsigned long">
8822 <desc>
8823 When non-zero, this specifies the number of milliseconds after which
8824 the operation will automatically be canceled. This can only be set on
8825 cancelable objects.
8826 </desc>
8827 </attribute>
8828
8829 <method name="setCurrentOperationProgress">
8830 <desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
8831 <param name="percent" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
8832 </method>
8833 <method name="setNextOperation">
8834 <desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
8835 <param name="nextOperationDescription" type="wstring" dir="in" />
8836 <param name="nextOperationsWeight" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
8837 </method>
8838
8839 <method name="waitForCompletion">
8840 <desc>
8841 Waits until the task is done (including all sub-operations)
8842 with a given timeout in milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
8843
8844 Note that the VirtualBox/XPCOM/COM/native event queues of the calling
8845 thread are not processed while waiting. Neglecting event queues may
8846 have dire consequences (degrade performance, resource hogs,
8847 deadlocks, etc.), this is specially so for the main thread on
8848 platforms using XPCOM. Callers are adviced wait for short periods
8849 and service their event queues between calls, or to create a worker
8850 thread to do the waiting.
8851
8852 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8853 Failed to wait for task completion.
8854 </result>
8855 </desc>
8856
8857 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
8858 <desc>
8859 Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
8860 </desc>
8861 </param>
8862 </method>
8863
8864 <method name="waitForOperationCompletion">
8865 <desc>
8866 Waits until the given operation is done with a given timeout in
8867 milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
8868
8869 See <link to="#waitForCompletion"> for event queue considerations.</link>
8870
8871 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8872 Failed to wait for operation completion.
8873 </result>
8874
8875 </desc>
8876 <param name="operation" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8877 <desc>
8878 Number of the operation to wait for.
8879 Must be less than <link to="#operationCount"/>.
8880 </desc>
8881 </param>
8882 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
8883 <desc>
8884 Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
8885 </desc>
8886 </param>
8887 </method>
8888
8889 <method name="cancel">
8890 <desc>
8891 Cancels the task.
8892 <note>
8893 If <link to="#cancelable"/> is @c false, then this method will fail.
8894 </note>
8895
8896 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
8897 Operation cannot be canceled.
8898 </result>
8899
8900 </desc>
8901 </method>
8902
8903 </interface>
8904
8905 <!--
8906 // ISnapshot
8907 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8908 -->
8909
8910 <interface
8911 name="ISnapshot" extends="$unknown"
8912 uuid="1a2d0551-58a4-4107-857e-ef414fc42ffc"
8913 wsmap="managed"
8914 >
8915 <desc>
8916 The ISnapshot interface represents a snapshot of the virtual
8917 machine.
8918
8919 Together with the differencing media that are created
8920 when a snapshot is taken, a machine can be brought back to
8921 the exact state it was in when the snapshot was taken.
8922
8923 The ISnapshot interface has no methods, only attributes; snapshots
8924 are controlled through methods of the <link to="IConsole" /> interface
8925 which also manage the media associated with the snapshot.
8926 The following operations exist:
8927
8928 <ul>
8929 <li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> creates a new snapshot
8930 by creating new, empty differencing images for the machine's
8931 media and saving the VM settings and (if the VM is running)
8932 the current VM state in the snapshot.
8933
8934 The differencing images will then receive all data written to
8935 the machine's media, while their parent (base) images
8936 remain unmodified after the snapshot has been taken (see
8937 <link to="IMedium" /> for details about differencing images).
8938 This simplifies restoring a machine to the state of a snapshot:
8939 only the differencing images need to be deleted.
8940
8941 The current machine state is not changed by taking a snapshot
8942 except that <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" /> is set to
8943 the newly created snapshot, which is also added to the machine's
8944 snapshots tree.
8945 </li>
8946
8947 <li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/> resets a machine to
8948 the state of a previous snapshot by deleting the differencing
8949 image of each of the machine's media and setting the machine's
8950 settings and state to the state that was saved in the snapshot (if any).
8951
8952 This destroys the machine's current state. After calling this,
8953 <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" /> points to the snapshot
8954 that was restored.
8955 </li>
8956
8957 <li><link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot"/> deletes a snapshot
8958 without affecting the current machine state.
8959
8960 This does not change the current machine state, but instead frees the
8961 resources allocated when the snapshot was taken: the settings and machine
8962 state file are deleted (if any), and the snapshot's differencing image for
8963 each of the machine's media gets merged with its parent image.
8964
8965 Neither the current machine state nor other snapshots are affected
8966 by this operation, except that parent media will be modified
8967 to contain the disk data associated with the snapshot being deleted.
8968
8969 When deleting the current snapshot, the <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" />
8970 attribute is set to the current snapshot's parent or NULL if it
8971 has no parent. Otherwise the attribute is unchanged.
8972 </li>
8973 </ul>
8974
8975 Each snapshot contains a copy of virtual machine's settings (hardware
8976 configuration etc.). This copy is contained in an immutable (read-only)
8977 instance of <link to="IMachine" /> which is available from the snapshot's
8978 <link to="#machine" /> attribute. When restoring the snapshot, these
8979 settings are copied back to the original machine.
8980
8981 In addition, if the machine was running when the
8982 snapshot was taken (<link to="IMachine::state"/> is <link to="MachineState_Running"/>),
8983 the current VM state is saved in the snapshot (similarly to what happens
8984 when a VM's state is saved). The snapshot is then said to be <i>online</i>
8985 because when restoring it, the VM will be running.
8986
8987 If the machine was in <link to="MachineState_Saved">saved</link> saved,
8988 the snapshot receives a copy of the execution state file
8989 (<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/>).
8990
8991 Otherwise, if the machine was not running (<link to="MachineState_PoweredOff"/>
8992 or <link to="MachineState_Aborted"/>), the snapshot is <i>offline</i>;
8993 it then contains a so-called "zero execution state", representing a
8994 machine that is powered off.
8995 </desc>
8996
8997 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
8998 <desc>UUID of the snapshot.</desc>
8999 </attribute>
9000
9001 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
9002 <desc>Short name of the snapshot.
9003 <note>Setting this attribute causes <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to
9004 be called implicitly.</note>
9005 </desc>
9006 </attribute>
9007
9008 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
9009 <desc>Optional description of the snapshot.
9010 <note>Setting this attribute causes <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to
9011 be called implicitly.</note>
9012 </desc>
9013 </attribute>
9014
9015 <attribute name="timeStamp" type="long long" readonly="yes">
9016 <desc>
9017 Time stamp of the snapshot, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
9018 </desc>
9019 </attribute>
9020
9021 <attribute name="online" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9022 <desc>
9023 @c true if this snapshot is an online snapshot and @c false otherwise.
9024
9025 When this attribute is @c true, the
9026 <link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/> attribute of the
9027 <link to="#machine"/> object associated with this snapshot
9028 will point to the saved state file. Otherwise, it will be
9029 an empty string.
9030 </desc>
9031 </attribute>
9032
9033 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
9034 <desc>
9035 Virtual machine this snapshot is taken on. This object
9036 stores all settings the machine had when taking this snapshot.
9037 <note>
9038 The returned machine object is immutable, i.e. no
9039 any settings can be changed.
9040 </note>
9041 </desc>
9042 </attribute>
9043
9044 <attribute name="parent" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
9045 <desc>
9046 Parent snapshot (a snapshot this one is based on), or
9047 @c null if the snapshot has no parent (i.e. is the first snapshot).
9048 </desc>
9049 </attribute>
9050
9051 <attribute name="children" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
9052 <desc>
9053 Child snapshots (all snapshots having this one as a parent).
9054 By inspecting this attribute starting with a machine's root snapshot
9055 (which can be obtained by calling <link to="IMachine::findSnapshot" />
9056 with a @c null UUID), a machine's snapshots tree can be iterated over.
9057 </desc>
9058 </attribute>
9059
9060 </interface>
9061
9062
9063 <!--
9064 // IMedium
9065 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9066 -->
9067
9068 <enum
9069 name="MediumState"
9070 uuid="ef41e980-e012-43cd-9dea-479d4ef14d13"
9071 >
9072 <desc>
9073 Virtual medium state.
9074 <see>IMedium</see>
9075 </desc>
9076
9077 <const name="NotCreated" value="0">
9078 <desc>
9079 Associated medium storage does not exist (either was not created yet or
9080 was deleted).
9081 </desc>
9082 </const>
9083 <const name="Created" value="1">
9084 <desc>
9085 Associated storage exists and accessible; this gets set if the
9086 accessibility check performed by <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />
9087 was successful.
9088 </desc>
9089 </const>
9090 <const name="LockedRead" value="2">
9091 <desc>
9092 Medium is locked for reading (see <link to="IMedium::lockRead"/>),
9093 no data modification is possible.
9094 </desc>
9095 </const>
9096 <const name="LockedWrite" value="3">
9097 <desc>
9098 Medium is locked for writing (see <link to="IMedium::lockWrite"/>),
9099 no concurrent data reading or modification is possible.
9100 </desc>
9101 </const>
9102 <const name="Inaccessible" value="4">
9103 <desc>
9104 Medium accessibility check (see <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />) has
9105 not yet been performed, or else, associated medium storage is not
9106 accessible. In the first case, <link to="IMedium::lastAccessError"/>
9107 is empty, in the second case, it describes the error that occurred.
9108 </desc>
9109 </const>
9110 <const name="Creating" value="5">
9111 <desc>
9112 Associated medium storage is being created.
9113 </desc>
9114 </const>
9115 <const name="Deleting" value="6">
9116 <desc>
9117 Associated medium storage is being deleted.
9118 </desc>
9119 </const>
9120 </enum>
9121
9122 <enum
9123 name="MediumType"
9124 uuid="fe663fb5-c244-4e1b-9d81-c628b417dd04"
9125 >
9126 <desc>
9127 Virtual medium type. For each <link to="IMedium" />, this defines how the medium is
9128 attached to a virtual machine (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />) and what happens
9129 when a snapshot (see <link to="ISnapshot" />) is taken of a virtual machine which has
9130 the medium attached. At the moment DVD and floppy media are always of type "writethrough".
9131 </desc>
9132
9133 <const name="Normal" value="0">
9134 <desc>
9135 Normal medium (attached directly or indirectly, preserved
9136 when taking snapshots).
9137 </desc>
9138 </const>
9139 <const name="Immutable" value="1">
9140 <desc>
9141 Immutable medium (attached indirectly, changes are wiped out
9142 the next time the virtual machine is started).
9143 </desc>
9144 </const>
9145 <const name="Writethrough" value="2">
9146 <desc>
9147 Write through medium (attached directly, ignored when
9148 taking snapshots).
9149 </desc>
9150 </const>
9151 <const name="Shareable" value="3">
9152 <desc>
9153 Allow using this medium concurrently by several machines.
9154 <note>Present since VirtualBox 3.2.0, and accepted since 3.2.8.</note>
9155 </desc>
9156 </const>
9157 <const name="Readonly" value="4">
9158 <desc>
9159 A readonly medium, which can of course be used by several machines.
9160 <note>Present and accepted since VirtualBox 4.0.</note>
9161 </desc>
9162 </const>
9163 <const name="MultiAttach" value="5">
9164 <desc>
9165 A medium which is is indirectly attached, so that one base medium can
9166 be used for several VMs which have their own differencing medium to
9167 store their modifications. In some sense a variant of Immutable
9168 with unset AutoReset flag in each differencing medium.
9169 <note>Present and accepted since VirtualBox 4.0.</note>
9170 </desc>
9171 </const>
9172 </enum>
9173
9174 <enum
9175 name="MediumVariant"
9176 uuid="584ea502-143b-4ab0-ad14-d1028fdf0316"
9177 >
9178 <desc>
9179 Virtual medium image variant. More than one flag may be set.
9180 <see>IMedium</see>
9181 </desc>
9182
9183 <const name="Standard" value="0">
9184 <desc>
9185 No particular variant requested, results in using the backend default.
9186 </desc>
9187 </const>
9188 <const name="VmdkSplit2G" value="0x01">
9189 <desc>
9190 VMDK image split in chunks of less than 2GByte.
9191 </desc>
9192 </const>
9193 <const name="VmdkStreamOptimized" value="0x04">
9194 <desc>
9195 VMDK streamOptimized image. Special import/export format which is
9196 read-only/append-only.
9197 </desc>
9198 </const>
9199 <const name="VmdkESX" value="0x08">
9200 <desc>
9201 VMDK format variant used on ESX products.
9202 </desc>
9203 </const>
9204 <const name="Fixed" value="0x10000">
9205 <desc>
9206 Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
9207 </desc>
9208 </const>
9209 <const name="Diff" value="0x20000">
9210 <desc>
9211 Differencing image. Only allowed for child images.
9212 </desc>
9213 </const>
9214 </enum>
9215
9216 <interface
9217 name="IMediumAttachment" extends="$unknown"
9218 uuid="aa4b4840-934f-454d-9a28-23e8f4235edf"
9219 wsmap="struct"
9220 >
9221 <desc>
9222 The IMediumAttachment interface links storage media to virtual machines.
9223 For each medium (<link to="IMedium"/>) which has been attached to a
9224 storage controller (<link to="IStorageController"/>) of a machine
9225 (<link to="IMachine"/>) via the <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />
9226 method, one instance of IMediumAttachment is added to the machine's
9227 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> array attribute.
9228
9229 Each medium attachment specifies the storage controller as well as a
9230 port and device number and the IMedium instance representing a virtual
9231 hard disk or floppy or DVD image.
9232
9233 For removable media (DVDs or floppies), there are two additional
9234 options. For one, the IMedium instance can be @c null to represent
9235 an empty drive with no media inserted (see <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />);
9236 secondly, the medium can be one of the pseudo-media for host drives
9237 listed in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives"/> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>.
9238
9239 <h3>Attaching Hard Disks</h3>
9240
9241 Hard disks are attached to virtual machines using the
9242 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> method and detached using the
9243 <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> method. Depending on a medium's
9244 type (see <link to="IMedium::type" />), hard disks are attached either
9245 <i>directly</i> or <i>indirectly</i>.
9246
9247 When a hard disk is being attached directly, it is associated with the
9248 virtual machine and used for hard disk operations when the machine is
9249 running. When a hard disk is being attached indirectly, a new differencing
9250 hard disk linked to it is implicitly created and this differencing hard
9251 disk is associated with the machine and used for hard disk operations.
9252 This also means that if <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> performs
9253 a direct attachment then the same hard disk will be returned in response
9254 to the subsequent <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> call; however if
9255 an indirect attachment is performed then
9256 <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> will return the implicitly created
9257 differencing hard disk, not the original one passed to <link
9258 to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>. In detail:
9259
9260 <ul>
9261 <li><b>Normal base</b> hard disks that do not have children (i.e.
9262 differencing hard disks linked to them) and that are not already
9263 attached to virtual machines in snapshots are attached <b>directly</b>.
9264 Otherwise, they are attached <b>indirectly</b> because having
9265 dependent children or being part of the snapshot makes it impossible
9266 to modify hard disk contents without breaking the integrity of the
9267 dependent party. The <link to="IMedium::readOnly"/> attribute allows to
9268 quickly determine the kind of the attachment for the given hard
9269 disk. Note that if a normal base hard disk is to be indirectly
9270 attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
9271 procedure called <i>smart attachment</i> is performed (see below).</li>
9272 <li><b>Normal differencing</b> hard disks are like normal base hard disks:
9273 they are attached <b>directly</b> if they do not have children and are
9274 not attached to virtual machines in snapshots, and <b>indirectly</b>
9275 otherwise. Note that the smart attachment procedure is never performed
9276 for differencing hard disks.</li>
9277 <li><b>Immutable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>indirectly</b> because
9278 they are designed to be non-writable. If an immutable hard disk is
9279 attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
9280 procedure called smart attachment is performed (see below).</li>
9281 <li><b>Writethrough</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
9282 also as designed. This also means that writethrough hard disks cannot
9283 have other hard disks linked to them at all.</li>
9284 <li><b>Shareable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
9285 also as designed. This also means that shareable hard disks cannot
9286 have other hard disks linked to them at all. They behave almost
9287 like writethrough hard disks, except that shareable hard disks can
9288 be attached to several virtual machines which are running, allowing
9289 concurrent accesses. You need special cluster software running in
9290 the virtual machines to make use of such disks.</li>
9291 </ul>
9292
9293 Note that the same hard disk, regardless of its type, may be attached to
9294 more than one virtual machine at a time. In this case, the machine that is
9295 started first gains exclusive access to the hard disk and attempts to
9296 start other machines having this hard disk attached will fail until the
9297 first machine is powered down.
9298
9299 Detaching hard disks is performed in a <i>deferred</i> fashion. This means
9300 that the given hard disk remains associated with the given machine after a
9301 successful <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> call until
9302 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called to save all changes to
9303 machine settings to disk. This deferring is necessary to guarantee that
9304 the hard disk configuration may be restored at any time by a call to
9305 <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> before the settings
9306 are saved (committed).
9307
9308 Note that if <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> is called after
9309 indirectly attaching some hard disks to the machine but before a call to
9310 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is made, it will implicitly delete
9311 all differencing hard disks implicitly created by
9312 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for these indirect attachments.
9313 Such implicitly created hard disks will also be immediately deleted when
9314 detached explicitly using the <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/>
9315 call if it is made before <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>. This
9316 implicit deletion is safe because newly created differencing hard
9317 disks do not contain any user data.
9318
9319 However, keep in mind that detaching differencing hard disks that were
9320 implicitly created by <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>
9321 before the last <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call will
9322 <b>not</b> implicitly delete them as they may already contain some data
9323 (for example, as a result of virtual machine execution). If these hard
9324 disks are no more necessary, the caller can always delete them explicitly
9325 using <link to="IMedium::deleteStorage"/> after they are actually de-associated
9326 from this machine by the <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call.
9327
9328 <h3>Smart Attachment</h3>
9329
9330 When normal base or immutable hard disks are indirectly attached to a
9331 virtual machine then some additional steps are performed to make sure the
9332 virtual machine will have the most recent "view" of the hard disk being
9333 attached. These steps include walking through the machine's snapshots
9334 starting from the current one and going through ancestors up to the first
9335 snapshot. Hard disks attached to the virtual machine in all
9336 of the encountered snapshots are checked whether they are descendants of
9337 the given normal base or immutable hard disk. The first found child (which
9338 is the differencing hard disk) will be used instead of the normal base or
9339 immutable hard disk as a parent for creating a new differencing hard disk
9340 that will be actually attached to the machine. And only if no descendants
9341 are found or if the virtual machine does not have any snapshots then the
9342 normal base or immutable hard disk will be used itself as a parent for
9343 this differencing hard disk.
9344
9345 It is easier to explain what smart attachment does using the
9346 following example:
9347 <pre>
9348BEFORE attaching B.vdi: AFTER attaching B.vdi:
9349
9350Snapshot 1 (B.vdi) Snapshot 1 (B.vdi)
9351 Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi) Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi)
9352 Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi) Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi)
9353 Snapshot 4 (none) Snapshot 4 (none)
9354 CurState (none) CurState (D3->D2.vdi)
9355
9356 NOT
9357 ...
9358 CurState (D3->B.vdi)
9359 </pre>
9360 The first column is the virtual machine configuration before the base hard
9361 disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> is attached, the second column shows the machine after
9362 this hard disk is attached. Constructs like <tt>D1->B.vdi</tt> and similar
9363 mean that the hard disk that is actually attached to the machine is a
9364 differencing hard disk, <tt>D1.vdi</tt>, which is linked to (based on)
9365 another hard disk, <tt>B.vdi</tt>.
9366
9367 As we can see from the example, the hard disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> was detached
9368 from the machine before taking Snapshot 4. Later, after Snapshot 4 was
9369 taken, the user decides to attach <tt>B.vdi</tt> again. <tt>B.vdi</tt> has
9370 dependent child hard disks (<tt>D1.vdi</tt>, <tt>D2.vdi</tt>), therefore
9371 it cannot be attached directly and needs an indirect attachment (i.e.
9372 implicit creation of a new differencing hard disk). Due to the smart
9373 attachment procedure, the new differencing hard disk
9374 (<tt>D3.vdi</tt>) will be based on <tt>D2.vdi</tt>, not on
9375 <tt>B.vdi</tt> itself, since <tt>D2.vdi</tt> is the most recent view of
9376 <tt>B.vdi</tt> existing for this snapshot branch of the given virtual
9377 machine.
9378
9379 Note that if there is more than one descendant hard disk of the given base
9380 hard disk found in a snapshot, and there is an exact device, channel and
9381 bus match, then this exact match will be used. Otherwise, the youngest
9382 descendant will be picked up.
9383
9384 There is one more important aspect of the smart attachment procedure which
9385 is not related to snapshots at all. Before walking through the snapshots
9386 as described above, the backup copy of the current list of hard disk
9387 attachment is searched for descendants. This backup copy is created when
9388 the hard disk configuration is changed for the first time after the last
9389 <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call and used by
9390 <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> to undo the recent hard disk
9391 changes. When such a descendant is found in this backup copy, it will be
9392 simply re-attached back, without creating a new differencing hard disk for
9393 it. This optimization is necessary to make it possible to re-attach the
9394 base or immutable hard disk to a different bus, channel or device slot
9395 without losing the contents of the differencing hard disk actually
9396 attached to the machine in place of it.
9397
9398 </desc>
9399
9400 <attribute name="medium" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9401 <desc>Medium object associated with this attachment; it
9402 can be @c null for removable devices.</desc>
9403 </attribute>
9404
9405 <attribute name="controller" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9406 <desc>Name of the storage controller of this attachment; this
9407 refers to one of the controllers in <link to="IMachine::storageControllers" />
9408 by name.</desc>
9409 </attribute>
9410
9411 <attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
9412 <desc>Port number of this attachment.
9413 See <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> for the meaning of this value for the different controller types.
9414 </desc>
9415 </attribute>
9416
9417 <attribute name="device" type="long" readonly="yes">
9418 <desc>Device slot number of this attachment.
9419 See <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> for the meaning of this value for the different controller types.
9420 </desc>
9421 </attribute>
9422
9423 <attribute name="type" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
9424 <desc>Device type of this attachment.</desc>
9425 </attribute>
9426
9427 <attribute name="passthrough" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9428 <desc>Pass I/O requests through to a device on the host.</desc>
9429 </attribute>
9430
9431 <attribute name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" readonly="yes">
9432 <desc>The bandwidth group this medium attachment is assigned to.</desc>
9433 </attribute>
9434
9435 </interface>
9436
9437 <interface
9438 name="IMedium" extends="$unknown"
9439 uuid="9edda847-1279-4b0a-9af7-9d66251ccc18"
9440 wsmap="managed"
9441 >
9442 <desc>
9443 The IMedium interface represents virtual storage for a machine's
9444 hard disks, CD/DVD or floppy drives. It will typically represent
9445 a disk image on the host, for example a VDI or VMDK file representing
9446 a virtual hard disk, or an ISO or RAW file representing virtual
9447 removable media, but can also point to a network location (e.g.
9448 for iSCSI targets).
9449
9450 Instances of IMedium are connected to virtual machines by way of medium
9451 attachments, which link the storage medium to a particular device slot
9452 of a storage controller of the virtual machine.
9453 In the VirtualBox API, virtual storage is therefore always represented
9454 by the following chain of object links:
9455
9456 <ul>
9457 <li><link to="IMachine::storageControllers"/> contains an array of
9458 storage controllers (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or a floppy controller;
9459 these are instances of <link to="IStorageController"/>).</li>
9460 <li><link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> contains an array of
9461 medium attachments (instances of <link to="IMediumAttachment"/>
9462 created by <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />),
9463 each containing a storage controller from the above array, a
9464 port/device specification, and an instance of IMedium representing
9465 the medium storage (image file).
9466
9467 For removable media, the storage medium is optional; a medium
9468 attachment with no medium represents a CD/DVD or floppy drive
9469 with no medium inserted. By contrast, hard disk attachments
9470 will always have an IMedium object attached.</li>
9471 <li>Each IMedium in turn points to a storage unit (such as a file
9472 on the host computer or a network resource) that holds actual
9473 data. This location is represented by the <link to="#location"/>
9474 attribute.</li>
9475 </ul>
9476
9477 Existing media are opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>;
9478 new hard disk media can be created with the VirtualBox API using the
9479 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> method. Differencing hard
9480 disks (see below) are usually implicitly created by VirtualBox as
9481 needed, but may also be created explicitly using <link to="#createDiffStorage"/>.
9482 VirtualBox cannot create CD/DVD or floppy images (ISO and RAW files); these
9483 should be created with external tools and then opened from within VirtualBox.
9484
9485 Only for CD/DVDs and floppies, an IMedium instance can also represent a host
9486 drive. In that case the <link to="#id" /> attribute contains the UUID of
9487 one of the drives in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives" />.
9488
9489 <h3>Media registries</h3>
9490
9491 When a medium has been opened or created using one of the aforementioned
9492 APIs, it becomes "known" to VirtualBox. Known media can be attached
9493 to virtual machines and accessed through <link to="IVirtualBox::findMedium"/>.
9494 They also appear in the global
9495 <link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks" />,
9496 <link to="IVirtualBox::DVDImages" /> and
9497 <link to="IVirtualBox::floppyImages" /> arrays.
9498
9499 Prior to VirtualBox 4.0, opening a medium added it to a global media registry
9500 in the VirtualBox.xml file, which was shared between all machines and made
9501 transporting machines and their media from one host to another difficult.
9502
9503 Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, media are only added to a registry when they are
9504 <i>attached</i> to a machine using <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />. For
9505 backwards compatibility, which registry a medium is added to depends on which
9506 VirtualBox version created a machine:
9507
9508 <ul>
9509 <li>If the medium has first been attached to a machine which was created by
9510 VirtualBox 4.0 or later, it is added to that machine's media registry in
9511 the machine XML settings file. This way all information about a machine's
9512 media attachments is contained in a single file and can be transported
9513 easily.</li>
9514 <li>For older media attachments (i.e. if the medium was first attached to a
9515 machine which was created with a VirtualBox version before 4.0), media
9516 continue to be registered in the global VirtualBox settings file, for
9517 backwards compatibility.</li>
9518 </ul>
9519
9520 See <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" /> for more information.
9521
9522 Media are removed from media registries by the <link to="#close"/>,
9523 <link to="#deleteStorage"/> and <link to="#mergeTo"/> methods.
9524
9525 <h3>Accessibility checks</h3>
9526
9527 VirtualBox defers media accessibility checks until the <link to="#refreshState" />
9528 method is called explicitly on a medium. This is done to make the VirtualBox object
9529 ready for serving requests as fast as possible and let the end-user
9530 application decide if it needs to check media accessibility right away or not.
9531
9532 As a result, when VirtualBox starts up (e.g. the VirtualBox
9533 object gets created for the first time), all known media are in the
9534 "Inaccessible" state, but the value of the <link to="#lastAccessError"/>
9535 attribute is an empty string because no actual accessibility check has
9536 been made yet.
9537
9538 After calling <link to="#refreshState" />, a medium is considered
9539 <i>accessible</i> if its storage unit can be read. In that case, the
9540 <link to="#state"/> attribute has a value of "Created". If the storage
9541 unit cannot be read (for example, because it is located on a disconnected
9542 network resource, or was accidentally deleted outside VirtualBox),
9543 the medium is considered <i>inaccessible</i>, which is indicated by the
9544 "Inaccessible" state. The exact reason why the medium is inaccessible can be
9545 obtained by reading the <link to="#lastAccessError"/> attribute.
9546
9547 <h3>Medium types</h3>
9548
9549 There are five types of medium behavior which are stored in the
9550 <link to="#type"/> attribute (see <link to="MediumType" />) and
9551 which define the medium's behavior with attachments and snapshots.
9552
9553 All media can be also divided in two groups: <i>base</i> media and
9554 <i>differencing</i> media. A base medium contains all sectors of the
9555 medium data in its own storage and therefore can be used independently.
9556 In contrast, a differencing medium is a "delta" to some other medium and
9557 contains only those sectors which differ from that other medium, which is
9558 then called a <i>parent</i>. The differencing medium is said to be
9559 <i>linked to</i> that parent. The parent may be itself a differencing
9560 medium, thus forming a chain of linked media. The last element in that
9561 chain must always be a base medium. Note that several differencing
9562 media may be linked to the same parent medium.
9563
9564 Differencing media can be distinguished from base media by querying the
9565 <link to="#parent"/> attribute: base media do not have parents they would
9566 depend on, so the value of this attribute is always @c null for them.
9567 Using this attribute, it is possible to walk up the medium tree (from the
9568 child medium to its parent). It is also possible to walk down the tree
9569 using the <link to="#children"/> attribute.
9570
9571 Note that the type of all differencing media is "normal"; all other
9572 values are meaningless for them. Base media may be of any type.
9573
9574 <h3>Automatic composition of the file name part</h3>
9575
9576 Another extension to the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute is that
9577 there is a possibility to cause VirtualBox to compose a unique value for
9578 the file name part of the location using the UUID of the hard disk. This
9579 applies only to hard disks in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> state,
9580 e.g. before the storage unit is created, and works as follows. You set the
9581 value of the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute to a location
9582 specification which only contains the path specification but not the file
9583 name part and ends with either a forward slash or a backslash character.
9584 In response, VirtualBox will generate a new UUID for the hard disk and
9585 compose the file name using the following pattern:
9586 <pre>
9587 &lt;path&gt;/{&lt;uuid&gt;}.&lt;ext&gt;
9588 </pre>
9589 where <tt>&lt;path&gt;</tt> is the supplied path specification,
9590 <tt>&lt;uuid&gt;</tt> is the newly generated UUID and <tt>&lt;ext&gt;</tt>
9591 is the default extension for the storage format of this hard disk. After
9592 that, you may call any of the methods that create a new hard disk storage
9593 unit and they will use the generated UUID and file name.
9594 </desc>
9595
9596 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
9597 <desc>
9598 UUID of the medium. For a newly created medium, this value is a randomly
9599 generated UUID.
9600
9601 <note>
9602 For media in one of MediumState_NotCreated, MediumState_Creating or
9603 MediumState_Deleting states, the value of this property is undefined
9604 and will most likely be an empty UUID.
9605 </note>
9606 </desc>
9607 </attribute>
9608
9609 <attribute name="description" type="wstring">
9610 <desc>
9611 Optional description of the medium. For a newly created medium the value
9612 of this attribute is an empty string.
9613
9614 Medium types that don't support this attribute will return E_NOTIMPL in
9615 attempt to get or set this attribute's value.
9616
9617 <note>
9618 For some storage types, reading this attribute may return an outdated
9619 (last known) value when <link to="#state"/> is <link
9620 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> or <link
9621 to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> because the value of this attribute is
9622 stored within the storage unit itself. Also note that changing the
9623 attribute value is not possible in such case, as well as when the
9624 medium is the <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state.
9625 </note>
9626 </desc>
9627 </attribute>
9628
9629 <attribute name="state" type="MediumState" readonly="yes">
9630 <desc>
9631 Returns the current medium state, which is the last state set by
9632 the accessibility check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
9633 If that method has not yet been called on the medium, the state
9634 is "Inaccessible"; as opposed to truly inaccessible media, the
9635 value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will be an empty string in
9636 that case.
9637
9638 <note>As of version 3.1, this no longer performs an accessibility check
9639 automatically; call <link to="#refreshState"/> for that.
9640 </note>
9641 </desc>
9642 </attribute>
9643
9644 <attribute name="variant" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9645 <desc>
9646 Returns the storage format variant information for this medium
9647 as a combination of the flags described at <link to="MediumVariant" />.
9648 Before <link to="#refreshState"/> is called this method returns
9649 an undefined value.
9650 </desc>
9651 </attribute>
9652
9653 <attribute name="location" type="wstring">
9654 <desc>
9655 Location of the storage unit holding medium data.
9656
9657 The format of the location string is medium type specific. For medium
9658 types using regular files in a host's file system, the location
9659 string is the full file name.
9660
9661 Some medium types may support changing the storage unit location by
9662 simply changing the value of this property. If this operation is not
9663 supported, the implementation will return E_NOTIMPL in attempt to set
9664 this attribute's value.
9665
9666 When setting a value of the location attribute which is a regular file
9667 in the host's file system, the given file name may be either relative to
9668 the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link> or
9669 absolute. Note that if the given location specification does not contain
9670 the file extension part then a proper default extension will be
9671 automatically appended by the implementation depending on the medium type.
9672 </desc>
9673 </attribute>
9674
9675 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9676 <desc>
9677 Name of the storage unit holding medium data.
9678
9679 The returned string is a short version of the <link to="#location"/>
9680 attribute that is suitable for representing the medium in situations
9681 where the full location specification is too long (such as lists
9682 and comboboxes in GUI frontends). This string is also used by frontends
9683 to sort the media list alphabetically when needed.
9684
9685 For example, for locations that are regular files in the host's file
9686 system, the value of this attribute is just the file name (+ extension),
9687 without the path specification.
9688
9689 Note that as opposed to the <link to="#location"/> attribute, the name
9690 attribute will not necessary be unique for a list of media of the
9691 given type and format.
9692 </desc>
9693 </attribute>
9694
9695 <attribute name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
9696 <desc>Kind of device (DVD/Floppy/HardDisk) which is applicable to this
9697 medium.</desc>
9698 </attribute>
9699
9700 <attribute name="hostDrive" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9701 <desc>True if this corresponds to a drive on the host.</desc>
9702 </attribute>
9703
9704 <attribute name="size" type="long long" readonly="yes">
9705 <desc>
9706 Physical size of the storage unit used to hold medium data (in bytes).
9707
9708 <note>
9709 For media whose <link to="#state"/> is <link
9710 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9711 last known size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> media,
9712 the returned value is zero.
9713 </note>
9714 </desc>
9715 </attribute>
9716
9717 <attribute name="format" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9718 <desc>
9719 Storage format of this medium.
9720
9721 The value of this attribute is a string that specifies a backend used
9722 to store medium data. The storage format is defined when you create a
9723 new medium or automatically detected when you open an existing medium,
9724 and cannot be changed later.
9725
9726 The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
9727 installation can be obtained using
9728 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
9729 </desc>
9730 </attribute>
9731
9732 <attribute name="mediumFormat" type="IMediumFormat" readonly="yes">
9733 <desc>
9734 Storage medium format object corresponding to this medium.
9735
9736 The value of this attribute is a reference to the medium format object
9737 that specifies the backend properties used to store medium data. The
9738 storage format is defined when you create a new medium or automatically
9739 detected when you open an existing medium, and cannot be changed later.
9740
9741 <note>@c null is returned if there is no associated medium format
9742 object. This can e.g. happen for medium objects representing host
9743 drives and other special medium objects.</note>
9744 </desc>
9745 </attribute>
9746
9747 <attribute name="type" type="MediumType">
9748 <desc>
9749 Type (role) of this medium.
9750
9751 The following constraints apply when changing the value of this
9752 attribute:
9753 <ul>
9754 <li>If a medium is attached to a virtual machine (either in the
9755 current state or in one of the snapshots), its type cannot be
9756 changed.
9757 </li>
9758 <li>As long as the medium has children, its type cannot be set
9759 to <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
9760 </li>
9761 <li>The type of all differencing media is
9762 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and cannot be changed.
9763 </li>
9764 </ul>
9765
9766 The type of a newly created or opened medium is set to
9767 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/>, except for DVD and floppy media,
9768 which have a type of <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
9769 </desc>
9770 </attribute>
9771
9772 <attribute name="parent" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9773 <desc>
9774 Parent of this medium (the medium this medium is directly based
9775 on).
9776
9777 Only differencing media have parents. For base (non-differencing)
9778 media, @c null is returned.
9779 </desc>
9780 </attribute>
9781
9782 <attribute name="children" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9783 <desc>
9784 Children of this medium (all differencing media directly based
9785 on this medium). A @c null array is returned if this medium
9786 does not have any children.
9787 </desc>
9788 </attribute>
9789
9790 <attribute name="base" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9791 <desc>
9792 Base medium of this medium.
9793
9794 If this is a differencing medium, its base medium is the medium
9795 the given medium branch starts from. For all other types of media, this
9796 property returns the medium object itself (i.e. the same object this
9797 property is read on).
9798 </desc>
9799 </attribute>
9800
9801 <attribute name="readOnly" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9802 <desc>
9803 Returns @c true if this medium is read-only and @c false otherwise.
9804
9805 A medium is considered to be read-only when its contents cannot be
9806 modified without breaking the integrity of other parties that depend on
9807 this medium such as its child media or snapshots of virtual machines
9808 where this medium is attached to these machines. If there are no
9809 children and no such snapshots then there is no dependency and the
9810 medium is not read-only.
9811
9812 The value of this attribute can be used to determine the kind of the
9813 attachment that will take place when attaching this medium to a
9814 virtual machine. If the value is @c false then the medium will
9815 be attached directly. If the value is @c true then the medium
9816 will be attached indirectly by creating a new differencing child
9817 medium for that. See the interface description for more information.
9818
9819 Note that all <link to="MediumType_Immutable">Immutable</link> media
9820 are always read-only while all
9821 <link to="MediumType_Writethrough">Writethrough</link> media are
9822 always not.
9823
9824 <note>
9825 The read-only condition represented by this attribute is related to
9826 the medium type and usage, not to the current
9827 <link to="IMedium::state">medium state</link> and not to the read-only
9828 state of the storage unit.
9829 </note>
9830 </desc>
9831 </attribute>
9832
9833 <attribute name="logicalSize" type="long long" readonly="yes">
9834 <desc>
9835 Logical size of this medium (in bytes), as reported to the
9836 guest OS running inside the virtual machine this medium is
9837 attached to. The logical size is defined when the medium is created
9838 and cannot be changed later.
9839
9840 <note>
9841 Reading this property on a differencing medium will return the size
9842 of its <link to="#base"/> medium.
9843 </note>
9844 <note>
9845 For media whose state is <link to="#state"/> is <link
9846 to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
9847 last known logical size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
9848 media, the returned value is zero.
9849 </note>
9850 </desc>
9851 </attribute>
9852
9853 <attribute name="autoReset" type="boolean">
9854 <desc>
9855 Whether this differencing medium will be automatically reset each
9856 time a virtual machine it is attached to is powered up. This
9857 attribute is automatically set to @c true for the last
9858 differencing image of an "immutable" medium (see
9859 <link to="MediumType" />).
9860
9861 See <link to="#reset"/> for more information about resetting
9862 differencing media.
9863
9864 <note>
9865 Reading this property on a base (non-differencing) medium will
9866 always @c false. Changing the value of this property in this
9867 case is not supported.
9868 </note>
9869
9870 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9871 This is not a differencing medium (when changing the attribute
9872 value).
9873 </result>
9874 </desc>
9875 </attribute>
9876
9877 <attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9878 <desc>
9879 Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
9880 check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
9881
9882 An empty string is returned if the last accessibility check
9883 was successful or has not yet been called. As a result, if
9884 <link to="#state" /> is "Inaccessible" and this attribute is empty,
9885 then <link to="#refreshState"/> has yet to be called; this is the
9886 default value of media after VirtualBox initialization.
9887 A non-empty string indicates a failure and should normally describe
9888 a reason of the failure (for example, a file read error).
9889 </desc>
9890 </attribute>
9891
9892 <attribute name="machineIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
9893 <desc>
9894 Array of UUIDs of all machines this medium is attached to.
9895
9896 A @c null array is returned if this medium is not attached to any
9897 machine or to any machine's snapshot.
9898
9899 <note>
9900 The returned array will include a machine even if this medium is not
9901 attached to that machine in the current state but attached to it in
9902 one of the machine's snapshots. See <link to="#getSnapshotIds"/> for
9903 details.
9904 </note>
9905 </desc>
9906 </attribute>
9907
9908 <method name="setIDs">
9909 <desc>
9910 Changes the UUID and parent UUID for a hard disk medium.
9911 </desc>
9912 <param name="setImageId" type="boolean" dir="in">
9913 <desc>
9914 Select whether a new image UUID is set or not.
9915 </desc>
9916 </param>
9917 <param name="imageId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9918 <desc>
9919 New UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a new
9920 UUID is automatically created, provided that @a setImageId is @c true.
9921 Specifying a zero UUID is not allowed.
9922 </desc>
9923 </param>
9924 <param name="setParentId" type="boolean" dir="in">
9925 <desc>
9926 Select whether a new parent UUID is set or not.
9927 </desc>
9928 </param>
9929 <param name="parentId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9930 <desc>
9931 New parent UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a
9932 new UUID is automatically created, provided @a setParentId is
9933 @c true. A zero UUID is valid.
9934 </desc>
9935 </param>
9936 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
9937 Invalid parameter combination.
9938 </result>
9939 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
9940 Medium is not a hard disk medium.
9941 </result>
9942 </method>
9943
9944 <method name="refreshState">
9945 <desc>
9946 If the current medium state (see <link to="MediumState"/>) is one of
9947 "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead", then this performs an
9948 accessibility check on the medium and sets the value of the <link to="#state"/>
9949 attribute accordingly; that value is also returned for convenience.
9950
9951 For all other state values, this does not perform a refresh but returns
9952 the state only.
9953
9954 The refresh, if performed, may take a long time (several seconds or even
9955 minutes, depending on the storage unit location and format) because it performs an
9956 accessibility check of the storage unit. This check may cause a significant
9957 delay if the storage unit of the given medium is, for example, a file located
9958 on a network share which is not currently accessible due to connectivity
9959 problems. In that case, the call will not return until a timeout
9960 interval defined by the host OS for this operation expires. For this reason,
9961 it is recommended to never read this attribute on the main UI thread to avoid
9962 making the UI unresponsive.
9963
9964 If the last known state of the medium is "Created" and the accessibility
9965 check fails, then the state would be set to "Inaccessible", and
9966 <link to="#lastAccessError"/> may be used to get more details about the
9967 failure. If the state of the medium is "LockedRead", then it remains the
9968 same, and a non-empty value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will
9969 indicate a failed accessibility check in this case.
9970
9971 Note that not all medium states are applicable to all medium types.
9972 </desc>
9973 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
9974 <desc>
9975 New medium state.
9976 </desc>
9977 </param>
9978 </method>
9979
9980 <method name="getSnapshotIds">
9981 <desc>
9982 Returns an array of UUIDs of all snapshots of the given machine where
9983 this medium is attached to.
9984
9985 If the medium is attached to the machine in the current state, then the
9986 first element in the array will always be the ID of the queried machine
9987 (i.e. the value equal to the @c machineId argument), followed by
9988 snapshot IDs (if any).
9989
9990 If the medium is not attached to the machine in the current state, then
9991 the array will contain only snapshot IDs.
9992
9993 The returned array may be @c null if this medium is not attached
9994 to the given machine at all, neither in the current state nor in one of
9995 the snapshots.
9996 </desc>
9997 <param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
9998 <desc>
9999 UUID of the machine to query.
10000 </desc>
10001 </param>
10002 <param name="snapshotIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" dir="return">
10003 <desc>
10004 Array of snapshot UUIDs of the given machine using this medium.
10005 </desc>
10006 </param>
10007 </method>
10008
10009 <method name="lockRead">
10010 <desc>
10011 Locks this medium for reading.
10012
10013 A read lock is shared: many clients can simultaneously lock the
10014 same medium for reading unless it is already locked for writing (see
10015 <link to="#lockWrite"/>) in which case an error is returned.
10016
10017 When the medium is locked for reading, it cannot be modified
10018 from within VirtualBox. This means that any method that changes
10019 the properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit
10020 will return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise). That
10021 includes an attempt to start a virtual machine that wants to
10022 write to the the medium.
10023
10024 When the virtual machine is started up, it locks for reading all
10025 media it uses in read-only mode. If some medium cannot be locked
10026 for reading, the startup procedure will fail.
10027 A medium is typically locked for reading while it is used by a running
10028 virtual machine but has a depending differencing image that receives
10029 the actual write operations. This way one base medium can have
10030 multiple child differencing images which can be written to
10031 simultaneously. Read-only media such as DVD and floppy images are
10032 also locked for reading only (so they can be in use by multiple
10033 machines simultaneously).
10034
10035 A medium is also locked for reading when it is the source of a
10036 write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
10037
10038 The medium locked for reading must be unlocked using the <link
10039 to="#unlockRead"/> method. Calls to <link to="#lockRead"/>
10040 can be nested and must be followed by the same number of paired
10041 <link to="#unlockRead"/> calls.
10042
10043 This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
10044 "LockedRead" on success. The medium's previous state must be
10045 one of "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead".
10046
10047 Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
10048 a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
10049 the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
10050 storage unit.
10051
10052 This method returns the current state of the medium
10053 <i>before</i> the operation.
10054
10055 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10056 Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
10057 creating, deleting).
10058 </result>
10059
10060 </desc>
10061 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10062 <desc>
10063 State of the medium after the operation.
10064 </desc>
10065 </param>
10066 </method>
10067
10068 <method name="unlockRead">
10069 <desc>
10070 Cancels the read lock previously set by <link to="#lockRead"/>.
10071
10072 For both success and failure, this method returns the current state
10073 of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
10074
10075 See <link to="#lockRead"/> for more details.
10076
10077 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10078 Medium not locked for reading.
10079 </result>
10080
10081 </desc>
10082 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10083 <desc>
10084 State of the medium after the operation.
10085 </desc>
10086 </param>
10087 </method>
10088
10089 <method name="lockWrite">
10090 <desc>
10091 Locks this medium for writing.
10092
10093 A write lock, as opposed to <link to="#lockRead"/>, is
10094 exclusive: there may be only one client holding a write lock,
10095 and there may be no read locks while the write lock is held.
10096 As a result, read-locking fails if a write lock is held, and
10097 write-locking fails if either a read or another write lock is held.
10098
10099 When a medium is locked for writing, it cannot be modified
10100 from within VirtualBox, and it is not guaranteed that the values
10101 of its properties are up-to-date. Any method that changes the
10102 properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit will
10103 return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise).
10104
10105 When a virtual machine is started up, it locks for writing all
10106 media it uses to write data to. If any medium could not be locked
10107 for writing, the startup procedure will fail. If a medium has
10108 differencing images, then while the machine is running, only
10109 the last ("leaf") differencing image is locked for writing,
10110 whereas its parents are locked for reading only.
10111
10112 A medium is also locked for writing when it is the target of a
10113 write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
10114
10115 The medium locked for writing must be unlocked using the <link
10116 to="#unlockWrite"/> method. Write locks <i>cannot</i> be nested.
10117
10118 This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
10119 "LockedWrite" on success. The medium's previous state must be
10120 either "Created" or "Inaccessible".
10121
10122 Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
10123 a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
10124 the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
10125 storage unit.
10126
10127 For both, success and failure, this method returns the current
10128 state of the medium <i>before</i> the operation.
10129
10130 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10131 Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
10132 creating, deleting).
10133 </result>
10134
10135 </desc>
10136 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10137 <desc>
10138 State of the medium after the operation.
10139 </desc>
10140 </param>
10141 </method>
10142
10143 <method name="unlockWrite">
10144 <desc>
10145 Cancels the write lock previously set by <link to="#lockWrite"/>.
10146
10147 For both success and failure, this method returns the current
10148 state of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
10149
10150 See <link to="#lockWrite"/> for more details.
10151
10152 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10153 Medium not locked for writing.
10154 </result>
10155
10156 </desc>
10157 <param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10158 <desc>
10159 State of the medium after the operation.
10160 </desc>
10161 </param>
10162 </method>
10163
10164 <method name="close">
10165 <desc>
10166 Closes this medium.
10167
10168 The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine
10169 and must not have any known child media, otherwise the
10170 operation will fail.
10171
10172 When the medium is successfully closed, it is removed from
10173 the list of registered media, but its storage unit is not
10174 deleted. In particular, this means that this medium can
10175 later be opened again using the <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>
10176 call.
10177
10178 Note that after this method successfully returns, the given medium
10179 object becomes uninitialized. This means that any attempt
10180 to call any of its methods or attributes will fail with the
10181 <tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error.
10182
10183 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10184 Invalid medium state (other than not created, created or
10185 inaccessible).
10186 </result>
10187 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
10188 Medium attached to virtual machine.
10189 </result>
10190 <result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
10191 Settings file not accessible.
10192 </result>
10193 <result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
10194 Could not parse the settings file.
10195 </result>
10196
10197 </desc>
10198 </method>
10199
10200 <!-- storage methods -->
10201
10202 <method name="getProperty">
10203 <desc>
10204 Returns the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
10205
10206 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10207 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10208
10209 Note that if this method returns an empty string in @a value, the
10210 requested property is supported but currently not assigned any value.
10211
10212 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
10213 Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
10214 </result>
10215 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
10216 </desc>
10217 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
10218 <desc>Name of the property to get.</desc>
10219 </param>
10220 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
10221 <desc>Current property value.</desc>
10222 </param>
10223 </method>
10224
10225 <method name="setProperty">
10226 <desc>
10227 Sets the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
10228
10229 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10230 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10231
10232 Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
10233 equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
10234 defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
10235 case.
10236
10237 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
10238 Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
10239 </result>
10240 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
10241 </desc>
10242 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
10243 <desc>Name of the property to set.</desc>
10244 </param>
10245 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
10246 <desc>Property value to set.</desc>
10247 </param>
10248 </method>
10249
10250 <method name="getProperties">
10251 <desc>
10252 Returns values for a group of properties in one call.
10253
10254 The names of the properties to get are specified using the @a names
10255 argument which is a list of comma-separated property names or
10256 an empty string if all properties are to be returned. Note that currently
10257 the value of this argument is ignored and the method always returns all
10258 existing properties.
10259
10260 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10261 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10262
10263 The method returns two arrays, the array of property names corresponding
10264 to the @a names argument and the current values of these properties.
10265 Both arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the
10266 given index in the first array corresponds to an element at the same
10267 index in the second array.
10268
10269 Note that for properties that do not have assigned values,
10270 an empty string is returned at the appropriate index in the
10271 @a returnValues array.
10272
10273 </desc>
10274 <param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in">
10275 <desc>
10276 Names of properties to get.
10277 </desc>
10278 </param>
10279 <param name="returnNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10280 <desc>Names of returned properties.</desc>
10281 </param>
10282 <param name="returnValues" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
10283 <desc>Values of returned properties.</desc>
10284 </param>
10285 </method>
10286
10287 <method name="setProperties">
10288 <desc>
10289 Sets values for a group of properties in one call.
10290
10291 The names of the properties to set are passed in the @a names
10292 array along with the new values for them in the @a values array. Both
10293 arrays have the same number of elements with each elemend at the given
10294 index in the first array corresponding to an element at the same index
10295 in the second array.
10296
10297 If there is at least one property name in @a names that is not valid,
10298 the method will fail before changing the values of any other properties
10299 from the @a names array.
10300
10301 Using this method over <link to="#setProperty"/> is preferred if you
10302 need to set several properties at once since it will result into less
10303 IPC calls.
10304
10305 The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10306 be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10307
10308 Note that setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
10309 equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
10310 defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
10311 case.
10312 </desc>
10313 <param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
10314 <desc>Names of properties to set.</desc>
10315 </param>
10316 <param name="values" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
10317 <desc>Values of properties to set.</desc>
10318 </param>
10319 </method>
10320
10321 <!-- storage methods -->
10322
10323 <method name="createBaseStorage">
10324 <desc>
10325 Starts creating a hard disk storage unit (fixed/dynamic, according
10326 to the variant flags) in in the background. The previous storage unit
10327 created for this object, if any, must first be deleted using
10328 <link to="#deleteStorage"/>, otherwise the operation will fail.
10329
10330 Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
10331 <link to="MediumState_Creating"/> state. If the create operation
10332 fails, the medium will be placed back in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
10333 state.
10334
10335 After the returned progress object reports that the operation has
10336 successfully completed, the medium state will be set to <link
10337 to="MediumState_Created"/>, the medium will be remembered by this
10338 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
10339
10340 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10341 The variant of storage creation operation is not supported. See <link
10342 to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
10343 </result>
10344 </desc>
10345 <param name="logicalSize" type="long long" dir="in">
10346 <desc>Maximum logical size of the medium in bytes.</desc>
10347 </param>
10348 <param name="variant" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10349 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created (as a combination of
10350 <link to="MediumVariant" /> flags).</desc>
10351 </param>
10352 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10353 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10354 </param>
10355 </method>
10356
10357 <method name="deleteStorage">
10358 <desc>
10359 Starts deleting the storage unit of this medium.
10360
10361 The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine and must
10362 not have any known child media, otherwise the operation will fail.
10363 It will also fail if there is no storage unit to delete or if deletion
10364 is already in progress, or if the medium is being in use (locked for
10365 read or for write) or inaccessible. Therefore, the only valid state for
10366 this operation to succeed is <link to="MediumState_Created"/>.
10367
10368 Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
10369 <link to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and gets removed from the list
10370 of remembered hard disks (media registry). If the delete operation
10371 fails, the medium will be remembered again and placed back to
10372 <link to="MediumState_Created"/> state.
10373
10374 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
10375 complete, the medium state will be set to
10376 <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> and you will be able to use one of
10377 the storage creation methods to create it again.
10378
10379 <see>#close()</see>
10380
10381 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
10382 Medium is attached to a virtual machine.
10383 </result>
10384 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10385 Storage deletion is not allowed because neither of storage creation
10386 operations are supported. See
10387 <link to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
10388 </result>
10389
10390 <note>
10391 If the deletion operation fails, it is not guaranteed that the storage
10392 unit still exists. You may check the <link to="IMedium::state"/> value
10393 to answer this question.
10394 </note>
10395 </desc>
10396 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10397 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10398 </param>
10399 </method>
10400
10401 <!-- diff methods -->
10402
10403 <method name="createDiffStorage">
10404 <desc>
10405 Starts creating an empty differencing storage unit based on this
10406 medium in the format and at the location defined by the @a target
10407 argument.
10408
10409 The target medium must be in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
10410 state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit). Upon successful
10411 completion, this operation will set the type of the target medium to
10412 <link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and create a storage unit necessary to
10413 represent the differencing medium data in the given format (according
10414 to the storage format of the target object).
10415
10416 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
10417 successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
10418 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
10419
10420 <note>
10421 The medium will be set to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
10422 state for the duration of this operation.
10423 </note>
10424 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
10425 Medium not in @c NotCreated state.
10426 </result>
10427 </desc>
10428 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
10429 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
10430 </param>
10431 <param name="variant" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10432 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created (as a combination of
10433 <link to="MediumVariant" /> flags).</desc>
10434 </param>
10435 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10436 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10437 </param>
10438 </method>
10439
10440 <method name="mergeTo">
10441 <desc>
10442 Starts merging the contents of this medium and all intermediate
10443 differencing media in the chain to the given target medium.
10444
10445 The target medium must be either a descendant of this medium or
10446 its ancestor (otherwise this method will immediately return a failure).
10447 It follows that there are two logical directions of the merge operation:
10448 from ancestor to descendant (<i>forward merge</i>) and from descendant to
10449 ancestor (<i>backward merge</i>). Let us consider the following medium
10450 chain:
10451
10452 <pre>Base &lt;- Diff_1 &lt;- Diff_2</pre>
10453
10454 Here, calling this method on the <tt>Base</tt> medium object with
10455 <tt>Diff_2</tt> as an argument will be a forward merge; calling it on
10456 <tt>Diff_2</tt> with <tt>Base</tt> as an argument will be a backward
10457 merge. Note that in both cases the contents of the resulting medium
10458 will be the same, the only difference is the medium object that takes
10459 the result of the merge operation. In case of the forward merge in the
10460 above example, the result will be written to <tt>Diff_2</tt>; in case of
10461 the backward merge, the result will be written to <tt>Base</tt>. In
10462 other words, the result of the operation is always stored in the target
10463 medium.
10464
10465 Upon successful operation completion, the storage units of all media in
10466 the chain between this (source) medium and the target medium, including
10467 the source medium itself, will be automatically deleted and the
10468 relevant medium objects (including this medium) will become
10469 uninitialized. This means that any attempt to call any of
10470 their methods or attributes will fail with the
10471 <tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error. Applied to the above
10472 example, the forward merge of <tt>Base</tt> to <tt>Diff_2</tt> will
10473 delete and uninitialize both <tt>Base</tt> and <tt>Diff_1</tt> media.
10474 Note that <tt>Diff_2</tt> in this case will become a base medium
10475 itself since it will no longer be based on any other medium.
10476
10477 Considering the above, all of the following conditions must be met in
10478 order for the merge operation to succeed:
10479 <ul>
10480 <li>
10481 Neither this (source) medium nor any intermediate
10482 differencing medium in the chain between it and the target
10483 medium is attached to any virtual machine.
10484 </li>
10485 <li>
10486 Neither the source medium nor the target medium is an
10487 <link to="MediumType_Immutable"/> medium.
10488 </li>
10489 <li>
10490 The part of the medium tree from the source medium to the
10491 target medium is a linear chain, i.e. all medium in this
10492 chain have exactly one child which is the next medium in this
10493 chain. The only exception from this rule is the target medium in
10494 the forward merge operation; it is allowed to have any number of
10495 child media because the merge operation will not change its
10496 logical contents (as it is seen by the guest OS or by children).
10497 </li>
10498 <li>
10499 None of the involved media are in
10500 <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> or
10501 <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state.
10502 </li>
10503 </ul>
10504
10505 <note>
10506 This (source) medium and all intermediates will be placed to <link
10507 to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and the target medium will be
10508 placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state and for the
10509 duration of this operation.
10510 </note>
10511 </desc>
10512 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
10513 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
10514 </param>
10515 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10516 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10517 </param>
10518 </method>
10519
10520 <!-- clone method -->
10521
10522 <method name="cloneTo">
10523 <desc>
10524 Starts creating a clone of this medium in the format and at the
10525 location defined by the @a target argument.
10526
10527 The target medium must be either in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
10528 state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit) or in
10529 <link to="MediumState_Created"/> state (i.e. created and not locked, and
10530 big enough to hold the data or else the copy will be partial). Upon
10531 successful completion, the cloned medium will contain exactly the
10532 same sector data as the medium being cloned, except that in the
10533 first case a new UUID for the clone will be randomly generated, and in
10534 the second case the UUID will remain unchanged.
10535
10536 The @a parent argument defines which medium will be the parent
10537 of the clone. Passing a @c null reference indicates that the clone will
10538 be a base image, i.e. completely independent. It is possible to specify
10539 an arbitrary medium for this parameter, including the parent of the
10540 medium which is being cloned. Even cloning to a child of the source
10541 medium is possible. Note that when cloning to an existing image, the
10542 @a parent irgument is ignored.
10543
10544 After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
10545 successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
10546 VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
10547
10548 <note>
10549 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
10550 state for the duration of this operation.
10551 </note>
10552 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10553 The specified cloning variant is not supported at the moment.
10554 </result>
10555 </desc>
10556 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
10557 <desc>Target medium.</desc>
10558 </param>
10559 <param name="variant" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10560 <desc>Exact image variant which should be created (as a combination of
10561 <link to="MediumVariant" /> flags).</desc>
10562 </param>
10563 <param name="parent" type="IMedium" dir="in">
10564 <desc>Parent of the cloned medium.</desc>
10565 </param>
10566 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10567 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10568 </param>
10569 </method>
10570
10571 <!-- other methods -->
10572
10573 <method name="compact">
10574 <desc>
10575 Starts compacting of this medium. This means that the medium is
10576 transformed into a possibly more compact storage representation.
10577 This potentially creates temporary images, which can require a
10578 substantial amount of additional disk space.
10579
10580 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
10581 state and all its parent media (if any) will be placed to
10582 <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state for the duration of this
10583 operation.
10584
10585 Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
10586 or later as the result of the background operation via the object
10587 returned via the @a progress parameter.
10588
10589 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10590 Medium format does not support compacting (but potentially
10591 needs it).
10592 </result>
10593 </desc>
10594 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10595 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10596 </param>
10597 </method>
10598
10599 <method name="resize">
10600 <desc>
10601 Starts resizing this medium. This means that the nominal size of the
10602 medium is set to the new value. Both increasing and decreasing the
10603 size is possible, and there are no safety checks, since VirtualBox
10604 does not make any assumptions about the medium contents.
10605
10606 Resizing usually needs additional disk space, and possibly also
10607 some temporary disk space. Note that resize does not create a full
10608 temporary copy of the medium, so the additional disk space requirement
10609 is usually much lower than using the clone operation.
10610
10611 This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
10612 state for the duration of this operation.
10613
10614 Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
10615 or later as the result of the background operation via the object
10616 returned via the @a progress parameter.
10617
10618 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10619 Medium format does not support resizing.
10620 </result>
10621 </desc>
10622 <param name="logicalSize" type="long long" dir="in">
10623 <desc>New nominal capacity of the medium in bytes.</desc>
10624 </param>
10625 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10626 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10627 </param>
10628 </method>
10629
10630 <method name="reset">
10631 <desc>
10632 Starts erasing the contents of this differencing medium.
10633
10634 This operation will reset the differencing medium to its initial
10635 state when it does not contain any sector data and any read operation is
10636 redirected to its parent medium. This automatically gets called
10637 during VM power-up for every medium whose <link to="#autoReset" />
10638 attribute is @c true.
10639
10640 The medium will be write-locked for the duration of this operation (see
10641 <link to="#lockWrite" />).
10642
10643 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10644 This is not a differencing medium.
10645 </result>
10646 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10647 Medium is not in <link to="MediumState_Created"/> or
10648 <link to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> state.
10649 </result>
10650 </desc>
10651 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10652 <desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10653 </param>
10654 </method>
10655
10656 </interface>
10657
10658
10659 <!--
10660 // IMediumFormat
10661 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10662 -->
10663
10664 <enum
10665 name="DataType"
10666 uuid="d90ea51e-a3f1-4a01-beb1-c1723c0d3ba7"
10667 >
10668 <const name="Int32" value="0"/>
10669 <const name="Int8" value="1"/>
10670 <const name="String" value="2"/>
10671 </enum>
10672
10673 <enum
10674 name="DataFlags"
10675 uuid="86884dcf-1d6b-4f1b-b4bf-f5aa44959d60"
10676 >
10677 <const name="None" value="0x00"/>
10678 <const name="Mandatory" value="0x01"/>
10679 <const name="Expert" value="0x02"/>
10680 <const name="Array" value="0x04"/>
10681 <const name="FlagMask" value="0x07"/>
10682 </enum>
10683
10684 <enum
10685 name="MediumFormatCapabilities"
10686 uuid="7342ba79-7ce0-4d94-8f86-5ed5a185d9bd"
10687 >
10688 <desc>
10689 Medium format capability flags.
10690 </desc>
10691
10692 <const name="Uuid" value="0x01">
10693 <desc>
10694 Supports UUIDs as expected by VirtualBox code.
10695 </desc>
10696 </const>
10697
10698 <const name="CreateFixed" value="0x02">
10699 <desc>
10700 Supports creating fixed size images, allocating all space instantly.
10701 </desc>
10702 </const>
10703
10704 <const name="CreateDynamic" value="0x04">
10705 <desc>
10706 Supports creating dynamically growing images, allocating space on
10707 demand.
10708 </desc>
10709 </const>
10710
10711 <const name="CreateSplit2G" value="0x08">
10712 <desc>
10713 Supports creating images split in chunks of a bit less than 2 GBytes.
10714 </desc>
10715 </const>
10716
10717 <const name="Differencing" value="0x10">
10718 <desc>
10719 Supports being used as a format for differencing media (see <link
10720 to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/>).
10721 </desc>
10722 </const>
10723
10724 <const name="Asynchronous" value="0x20">
10725 <desc>
10726 Supports asynchronous I/O operations for at least some configurations.
10727 </desc>
10728 </const>
10729
10730 <const name="File" value="0x40">
10731 <desc>
10732 The format backend operates on files (the <link to="IMedium::location"/>
10733 attribute of the medium specifies a file used to store medium
10734 data; for a list of supported file extensions see
10735 <link to="IMediumFormat::describeFileExtensions"/>).
10736 </desc>
10737 </const>
10738
10739 <const name="Properties" value="0x80">
10740 <desc>
10741 The format backend uses the property interface to configure the storage
10742 location and properties (the <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>
10743 method is used to get access to properties supported by the given medium format).
10744 </desc>
10745 </const>
10746
10747 <const name="TcpNetworking" value="0x100">
10748 <desc>
10749 The format backend uses the TCP networking interface for network access.
10750 </desc>
10751 </const>
10752
10753 <const name="VFS" value="0x200">
10754 <desc>
10755 The format backend supports virtual filesystem functionality.
10756 </desc>
10757 </const>
10758
10759 <const name="CapabilityMask" value="0x3FF"/>
10760 </enum>
10761
10762 <interface
10763 name="IMediumFormat" extends="$unknown"
10764 uuid="4e9a873f-0599-434a-8345-619ef3fb3111"
10765 wsmap="managed"
10766 >
10767 <desc>
10768 The IMediumFormat interface represents a medium format.
10769
10770 Each medium format has an associated backend which is used to handle
10771 media stored in this format. This interface provides information
10772 about the properties of the associated backend.
10773
10774 Each medium format is identified by a string represented by the
10775 <link to="#id"/> attribute. This string is used in calls like
10776 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to specify the desired
10777 format.
10778
10779 The list of all supported medium formats can be obtained using
10780 <link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
10781
10782 <see>IMedium</see>
10783 </desc>
10784
10785 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10786 <desc>
10787 Identifier of this format.
10788
10789 The format identifier is a non-@c null non-empty ASCII string. Note that
10790 this string is case-insensitive. This means that, for example, all of
10791 the following strings:
10792 <pre>
10793 "VDI"
10794 "vdi"
10795 "VdI"</pre>
10796 refer to the same medium format.
10797
10798 This string is used in methods of other interfaces where it is necessary
10799 to specify a medium format, such as
10800 <link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>.
10801 </desc>
10802 </attribute>
10803
10804 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10805 <desc>
10806 Human readable description of this format.
10807
10808 Mainly for use in file open dialogs.
10809 </desc>
10810 </attribute>
10811
10812 <attribute name="capabilities" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10813 <desc>
10814 Capabilities of the format as a set of bit flags.
10815
10816 For the meaning of individual capability flags see
10817 <link to="MediumFormatCapabilities"/>.
10818 </desc>
10819 </attribute>
10820
10821 <method name="describeFileExtensions">
10822 <desc>
10823 Returns two arrays describing the supported file extensions.
10824
10825 The first array contains the supported extensions and the seconds one
10826 the type each extension supports. Both have the same size.
10827
10828 Note that some backends do not work on files, so this array may be
10829 empty.
10830
10831 <see>IMediumFormat::capabilities</see>
10832 </desc>
10833 <param name="extensions" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10834 <desc>The array of supported extensions.</desc>
10835 </param>
10836 <param name="type" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10837 <desc>The array which indicates the device type for every given extension.</desc>
10838 </param>
10839 </method>
10840
10841 <method name="describeProperties">
10842 <desc>
10843 Returns several arrays describing the properties supported by this
10844 format.
10845
10846 An element with the given index in each array describes one
10847 property. Thus, the number of elements in each returned array is the
10848 same and corresponds to the number of supported properties.
10849
10850 The returned arrays are filled in only if the
10851 <link to="MediumFormatCapabilities_Properties"/> flag is set.
10852 All arguments must be non-@c null.
10853
10854 <see>DataType</see>
10855 <see>DataFlags</see>
10856 </desc>
10857
10858 <param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10859 <desc>Array of property names.</desc>
10860 </param>
10861 <param name="description" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10862 <desc>Array of property descriptions.</desc>
10863 </param>
10864 <param name="types" type="DataType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10865 <desc>Array of property types.</desc>
10866 </param>
10867 <param name="flags" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10868 <desc>Array of property flags.</desc>
10869 </param>
10870 <param name="defaults" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10871 <desc>Array of default property values.</desc>
10872 </param>
10873 </method>
10874
10875 </interface>
10876
10877
10878 <!--
10879 // IKeyboard
10880 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10881 -->
10882
10883 <interface
10884 name="IKeyboard" extends="$unknown"
10885 uuid="f6916ec5-a881-4237-898f-7de58cf88672"
10886 wsmap="managed"
10887 >
10888 <desc>
10889 The IKeyboard interface represents the virtual machine's keyboard. Used
10890 in <link to="IConsole::keyboard"/>.
10891
10892 Use this interface to send keystrokes or the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence
10893 to the virtual machine.
10894
10895 </desc>
10896 <method name="putScancode">
10897 <desc>Sends a scancode to the keyboard.
10898
10899 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10900 Could not send scan code to virtual keyboard.
10901 </result>
10902
10903 </desc>
10904 <param name="scancode" type="long" dir="in"/>
10905 </method>
10906
10907 <method name="putScancodes">
10908 <desc>Sends an array of scancodes to the keyboard.
10909
10910 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10911 Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
10912 </result>
10913
10914 </desc>
10915 <param name="scancodes" type="long" dir="in" safearray="yes"/>
10916 <param name="codesStored" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
10917 </method>
10918
10919 <method name="putCAD">
10920 <desc>Sends the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence to the keyboard. This
10921 function is nothing special, it is just a convenience function
10922 calling <link to="IKeyboard::putScancodes"/> with the proper scancodes.
10923
10924 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
10925 Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
10926 </result>
10927
10928 </desc>
10929 </method>
10930
10931 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
10932 <desc>
10933 Event source for keyboard events.
10934 </desc>
10935 </attribute>
10936
10937 </interface>
10938
10939
10940 <!--
10941 // IMouse
10942 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
10943 -->
10944
10945 <enum
10946 name="MouseButtonState"
10947 uuid="9ee094b8-b28a-4d56-a166-973cb588d7f8"
10948 >
10949 <desc>
10950 Mouse button state.
10951 </desc>
10952
10953 <const name="LeftButton" value="0x01"/>
10954 <const name="RightButton" value="0x02"/>
10955 <const name="MiddleButton" value="0x04"/>
10956 <const name="WheelUp" value="0x08"/>
10957 <const name="WheelDown" value="0x10"/>
10958 <const name="XButton1" value="0x20"/>
10959 <const name="XButton2" value="0x40"/>
10960 <const name="MouseStateMask" value="0x7F"/>
10961 </enum>
10962
10963 <interface
10964 name="IMouse" extends="$unknown"
10965 uuid="05044a52-7811-4f00-ae3a-0ab7ff707b10"
10966 wsmap="managed"
10967 >
10968 <desc>
10969 The IMouse interface represents the virtual machine's mouse. Used in
10970 <link to="IConsole::mouse"/>.
10971
10972 Through this interface, the virtual machine's virtual mouse can be
10973 controlled.
10974 </desc>
10975
10976 <attribute name="absoluteSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10977 <desc>
10978 Whether the guest OS supports absolute mouse pointer positioning
10979 or not.
10980 <note>
10981 You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
10982 event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
10983 during virtual machine execution.
10984 </note>
10985 <see><link to="#putMouseEventAbsolute"/></see>
10986 </desc>
10987 </attribute>
10988
10989 <attribute name="relativeSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10990 <desc>
10991 Whether the guest OS supports relative mouse pointer positioning
10992 or not.
10993 <note>
10994 You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
10995 event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
10996 during virtual machine execution.
10997 </note>
10998 <see><link to="#putMouseEvent"/></see>
10999 </desc>
11000 </attribute>
11001
11002 <attribute name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11003 <desc>
11004 Whether the guest OS can currently switch to drawing it's own mouse
11005 cursor on demand.
11006 <note>
11007 You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
11008 event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
11009 during virtual machine execution.
11010 </note>
11011 <see><link to="#putMouseEvent"/></see>
11012 </desc>
11013 </attribute>
11014
11015 <method name="putMouseEvent">
11016 <desc>
11017 Initiates a mouse event using relative pointer movements
11018 along x and y axis.
11019
11020 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
11021 Console not powered up.
11022 </result>
11023 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11024 Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
11025 </result>
11026
11027 </desc>
11028
11029 <param name="dx" type="long" dir="in">
11030 <desc>
11031 Amount of pixels the mouse should move to the right.
11032 Negative values move the mouse to the left.
11033 </desc>
11034 </param>
11035 <param name="dy" type="long" dir="in">
11036 <desc>
11037 Amount of pixels the mouse should move downwards.
11038 Negative values move the mouse upwards.
11039 </desc>
11040 </param>
11041 <param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
11042 <desc>
11043 Amount of mouse wheel moves.
11044 Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
11045 negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
11046 </desc>
11047 </param>
11048 <param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
11049 <desc>
11050 Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
11051 Positive values describe a movement to the left,
11052 negative values describe a movement to the right.
11053 </desc>
11054 </param>
11055 <param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
11056 <desc>
11057 The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
11058 a mouse button as follows:
11059 <table>
11060 <tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
11061 <tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
11062 <tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
11063 </table>
11064 A value of <tt>1</tt> means the corresponding button is pressed.
11065 otherwise it is released.
11066 </desc>
11067 </param>
11068 </method>
11069
11070 <method name="putMouseEventAbsolute">
11071 <desc>
11072 Positions the mouse pointer using absolute x and y coordinates.
11073 These coordinates are expressed in pixels and
11074 start from <tt>[1,1]</tt> which corresponds to the top left
11075 corner of the virtual display.
11076
11077 <result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
11078 Console not powered up.
11079 </result>
11080 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11081 Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
11082 </result>
11083
11084 <note>
11085 This method will have effect only if absolute mouse
11086 positioning is supported by the guest OS.
11087 </note>
11088
11089 <see><link to="#absoluteSupported"/></see>
11090 </desc>
11091
11092 <param name="x" type="long" dir="in">
11093 <desc>
11094 X coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
11095 </desc>
11096 </param>
11097 <param name="y" type="long" dir="in">
11098 <desc>
11099 Y coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
11100 </desc>
11101 </param>
11102 <param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
11103 <desc>
11104 Amount of mouse wheel moves.
11105 Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
11106 negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
11107 </desc>
11108 </param>
11109 <param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
11110 <desc>
11111 Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
11112 Positive values describe a movement to the left,
11113 negative values describe a movement to the right.
11114 </desc>
11115 </param>
11116 <param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
11117 <desc>
11118 The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
11119 a mouse button as follows:
11120 <table>
11121 <tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
11122 <tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
11123 <tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
11124 </table>
11125 A value of @c 1 means the corresponding button is pressed.
11126 otherwise it is released.
11127 </desc>
11128 </param>
11129 </method>
11130
11131 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
11132 <desc>
11133 Event source for mouse events.
11134 </desc>
11135 </attribute>
11136
11137 </interface>
11138
11139 <!--
11140 // IDisplay
11141 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11142 -->
11143
11144 <enum
11145 name="FramebufferPixelFormat"
11146 uuid="7acfd5ed-29e3-45e3-8136-73c9224f3d2d"
11147 >
11148 <desc>
11149 Format of the video memory buffer. Constants represented by this enum can
11150 be used to test for particular values of <link
11151 to="IFramebuffer::pixelFormat"/>. See also <link
11152 to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/>.
11153
11154 See also www.fourcc.org for more information about FOURCC pixel formats.
11155 </desc>
11156
11157 <const name="Opaque" value="0">
11158 <desc>
11159 Unknown buffer format (the user may not assume any particular format of
11160 the buffer).
11161 </desc>
11162 </const>
11163 <const name="FOURCC_RGB" value="0x32424752">
11164 <desc>
11165 Basic RGB format (<link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/> determines the
11166 bit layout).
11167 </desc>
11168 </const>
11169 </enum>
11170
11171 <interface
11172 name="IFramebuffer" extends="$unknown"
11173 uuid="b7ed347a-5765-40a0-ae1c-f543eb4ddeaf"
11174 wsmap="suppress"
11175 >
11176 <attribute name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" readonly="yes">
11177 <desc>Address of the start byte of the frame buffer.</desc>
11178 </attribute>
11179
11180 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11181 <desc>Frame buffer width, in pixels.</desc>
11182 </attribute>
11183
11184 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11185 <desc>Frame buffer height, in pixels.</desc>
11186 </attribute>
11187
11188 <attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11189 <desc>
11190 Color depth, in bits per pixel. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
11191 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, valid values
11192 are: 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32.
11193 </desc>
11194 </attribute>
11195
11196 <attribute name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11197 <desc>
11198 Scan line size, in bytes. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
11199 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, the
11200 size of the scan line must be aligned to 32 bits.
11201 </desc>
11202 </attribute>
11203
11204 <attribute name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11205 <desc>
11206 Frame buffer pixel format. It's either one of the values defined by <link
11207 to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/> or a raw FOURCC code.
11208 <note>
11209 This attribute must never return <link
11210 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> -- the format of the buffer
11211 <link to="#address"/> points to must be always known.
11212 </note>
11213 </desc>
11214 </attribute>
11215
11216 <attribute name="usesGuestVRAM" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11217 <desc>
11218 Defines whether this frame buffer uses the virtual video card's memory
11219 buffer (guest VRAM) directly or not. See <link
11220 to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/> for more information.
11221 </desc>
11222 </attribute>
11223
11224 <attribute name="heightReduction" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11225 <desc>
11226 Hint from the frame buffer about how much of the standard
11227 screen height it wants to use for itself. This information is
11228 exposed to the guest through the VESA BIOS and VMMDev interface
11229 so that it can use it for determining its video mode table. It
11230 is not guaranteed that the guest respects the value.
11231 </desc>
11232 </attribute>
11233
11234 <attribute name="overlay" type="IFramebufferOverlay" readonly="yes">
11235 <desc>
11236 An alpha-blended overlay which is superposed over the frame buffer.
11237 The initial purpose is to allow the display of icons providing
11238 information about the VM state, including disk activity, in front
11239 ends which do not have other means of doing that. The overlay is
11240 designed to controlled exclusively by IDisplay. It has no locking
11241 of its own, and any changes made to it are not guaranteed to be
11242 visible until the affected portion of IFramebuffer is updated. The
11243 overlay can be created lazily the first time it is requested. This
11244 attribute can also return @c null to signal that the overlay is not
11245 implemented.
11246 </desc>
11247 </attribute>
11248
11249 <attribute name="winId" type="long long" readonly="yes">
11250 <desc>
11251 Platform-dependent identifier of the window where context of this
11252 frame buffer is drawn, or zero if there's no such window.
11253 </desc>
11254 </attribute>
11255
11256 <method name="lock">
11257 <desc>
11258 Locks the frame buffer.
11259 Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
11260 bound to.
11261 </desc>
11262 </method>
11263
11264 <method name="unlock">
11265 <desc>
11266 Unlocks the frame buffer.
11267 Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
11268 bound to.
11269 </desc>
11270 </method>
11271
11272 <method name="notifyUpdate">
11273 <desc>
11274 Informs about an update.
11275 Gets called by the display object where this buffer is
11276 registered.
11277 </desc>
11278 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11279 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11280 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11281 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11282 </method>
11283
11284 <method name="requestResize">
11285 <desc>
11286 Requests a size and pixel format change.
11287
11288 There are two modes of working with the video buffer of the virtual
11289 machine. The <i>indirect</i> mode implies that the IFramebuffer
11290 implementation allocates a memory buffer for the requested display mode
11291 and provides it to the virtual machine. In <i>direct</i> mode, the
11292 IFramebuffer implementation uses the memory buffer allocated and owned
11293 by the virtual machine. This buffer represents the video memory of the
11294 emulated video adapter (so called <i>guest VRAM</i>). The direct mode is
11295 usually faster because the implementation gets a raw pointer to the
11296 guest VRAM buffer which it can directly use for visualizing the contents
11297 of the virtual display, as opposed to the indirect mode where the
11298 contents of guest VRAM are copied to the memory buffer provided by
11299 the implementation every time a display update occurs.
11300
11301 It is important to note that the direct mode is really fast only when
11302 the implementation uses the given guest VRAM buffer directly, for
11303 example, by blitting it to the window representing the virtual machine's
11304 display, which saves at least one copy operation comparing to the
11305 indirect mode. However, using the guest VRAM buffer directly is not
11306 always possible: the format and the color depth of this buffer may be
11307 not supported by the target window, or it may be unknown (opaque) as in
11308 case of text or non-linear multi-plane VGA video modes. In this case,
11309 the indirect mode (that is always available) should be used as a
11310 fallback: when the guest VRAM contents are copied to the
11311 implementation-provided memory buffer, color and format conversion is
11312 done automatically by the underlying code.
11313
11314 The @a pixelFormat parameter defines whether the direct mode is
11315 available or not. If @a pixelFormat is <link
11316 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> then direct access to the guest
11317 VRAM buffer is not available -- the @a VRAM, @a bitsPerPixel and
11318 @a bytesPerLine parameters must be ignored and the implementation must use
11319 the indirect mode (where it provides its own buffer in one of the
11320 supported formats). In all other cases, @a pixelFormat together with
11321 @a bitsPerPixel and @a bytesPerLine define the format of the video memory
11322 buffer pointed to by the @a VRAM parameter and the implementation is
11323 free to choose which mode to use. To indicate that this frame buffer uses
11324 the direct mode, the implementation of the <link to="#usesGuestVRAM"/>
11325 attribute must return @c true and <link to="#address"/> must
11326 return exactly the same address that is passed in the @a VRAM parameter
11327 of this method; otherwise it is assumed that the indirect strategy is
11328 chosen.
11329
11330 The @a width and @a height parameters represent the size of the
11331 requested display mode in both modes. In case of indirect mode, the
11332 provided memory buffer should be big enough to store data of the given
11333 display mode. In case of direct mode, it is guaranteed that the given
11334 @a VRAM buffer contains enough space to represent the display mode of the
11335 given size. Note that this frame buffer's <link to="#width"/> and <link
11336 to="#height"/> attributes must return exactly the same values as
11337 passed to this method after the resize is completed (see below).
11338
11339 The @a finished output parameter determines if the implementation has
11340 finished resizing the frame buffer or not. If, for some reason, the
11341 resize cannot be finished immediately during this call, @a finished
11342 must be set to @c false, and the implementation must call
11343 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> after it has returned from
11344 this method as soon as possible. If @a finished is @c false, the
11345 machine will not call any frame buffer methods until
11346 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
11347
11348 Note that if the direct mode is chosen, the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>,
11349 <link to="#bytesPerLine"/> and <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attributes of
11350 this frame buffer must return exactly the same values as specified in the
11351 parameters of this method, after the resize is completed. If the
11352 indirect mode is chosen, these attributes must return values describing
11353 the format of the implementation's own memory buffer <link
11354 to="#address"/> points to. Note also that the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>
11355 value must always correlate with <link to="#pixelFormat"/>. Note that
11356 the <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attribute must never return <link
11357 to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> regardless of the selected mode.
11358
11359 <note>
11360 This method is called by the IDisplay object under the
11361 <link to="#lock"/> provided by this IFramebuffer
11362 implementation. If this method returns @c false in @a finished, then
11363 this lock is not released until
11364 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
11365 </note>
11366 </desc>
11367 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11368 <desc>
11369 Logical screen number. Must be used in the corresponding call to
11370 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> if this call is made.
11371 </desc>
11372 </param>
11373 <param name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11374 <desc>
11375 Pixel format of the memory buffer pointed to by @a VRAM.
11376 See also <link to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/>.
11377 </desc>
11378 </param>
11379 <param name="VRAM" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11380 <desc>Pointer to the virtual video card's VRAM (may be @c null).</desc>
11381 </param>
11382 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11383 <desc>Color depth, bits per pixel.</desc>
11384 </param>
11385 <param name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11386 <desc>Size of one scan line, in bytes.</desc>
11387 </param>
11388 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11389 <desc>Width of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
11390 </param>
11391 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11392 <desc>Height of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
11393 </param>
11394 <param name="finished" type="boolean" dir="return">
11395 <desc>
11396 Can the VM start using the new frame buffer immediately
11397 after this method returns or it should wait for
11398 <link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/>.
11399 </desc>
11400 </param>
11401 </method>
11402
11403 <method name="videoModeSupported">
11404 <desc>
11405 Returns whether the frame buffer implementation is willing to
11406 support a given video mode. In case it is not able to render
11407 the video mode (or for some reason not willing), it should
11408 return @c false. Usually this method is called when the guest
11409 asks the VMM device whether a given video mode is supported
11410 so the information returned is directly exposed to the guest.
11411 It is important that this method returns very quickly.
11412 </desc>
11413 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11414 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11415 <param name="bpp" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11416 <param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
11417 </method>
11418
11419 <method name="getVisibleRegion">
11420 <desc>
11421 Returns the visible region of this frame buffer.
11422
11423 If the @a rectangles parameter is @c null then the value of the
11424 @a count parameter is ignored and the number of elements necessary to
11425 describe the current visible region is returned in @a countCopied.
11426
11427 If @a rectangles is not @c null but @a count is less
11428 than the required number of elements to store region data, the method
11429 will report a failure. If @a count is equal or greater than the
11430 required number of elements, then the actual number of elements copied
11431 to the provided array will be returned in @a countCopied.
11432
11433 <note>
11434 The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
11435 this IFramebuffer object.
11436 </note>
11437 <note>
11438 Method not yet implemented.
11439 </note>
11440 </desc>
11441 <param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11442 <desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array to receive region data.</desc>
11443 </param>
11444 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11445 <desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
11446 </param>
11447 <param name="countCopied" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
11448 <desc>Number of elements copied to the @a rectangles array.</desc>
11449 </param>
11450 </method>
11451
11452 <method name="setVisibleRegion">
11453 <desc>
11454 Suggests a new visible region to this frame buffer. This region
11455 represents the area of the VM display which is a union of regions of
11456 all top-level windows of the guest operating system running inside the
11457 VM (if the Guest Additions for this system support this
11458 functionality). This information may be used by the frontends to
11459 implement the seamless desktop integration feature.
11460
11461 <note>
11462 The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
11463 this IFramebuffer object.
11464 </note>
11465 <note>
11466 The IFramebuffer implementation must make a copy of the provided
11467 array of rectangles.
11468 </note>
11469 <note>
11470 Method not yet implemented.
11471 </note>
11472 </desc>
11473 <param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11474 <desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array.</desc>
11475 </param>
11476 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11477 <desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
11478 </param>
11479 </method>
11480
11481 <method name="processVHWACommand">
11482 <desc>
11483 Posts a Video HW Acceleration Command to the frame buffer for processing.
11484 The commands used for 2D video acceleration (DDraw surface creation/destroying, blitting, scaling, color conversion, overlaying, etc.)
11485 are posted from quest to the host to be processed by the host hardware.
11486
11487 <note>
11488 The address of the provided command must be in the process space of
11489 this IFramebuffer object.
11490 </note>
11491 </desc>
11492
11493 <param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11494 <desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the command to execute.</desc>
11495 </param>
11496 </method>
11497
11498 </interface>
11499
11500 <interface
11501 name="IFramebufferOverlay" extends="IFramebuffer"
11502 uuid="0bcc1c7e-e415-47d2-bfdb-e4c705fb0f47"
11503 wsmap="suppress"
11504 >
11505 <desc>
11506 The IFramebufferOverlay interface represents an alpha blended overlay
11507 for displaying status icons above an IFramebuffer. It is always created
11508 not visible, so that it must be explicitly shown. It only covers a
11509 portion of the IFramebuffer, determined by its width, height and
11510 co-ordinates. It is always in packed pixel little-endian 32bit ARGB (in
11511 that order) format, and may be written to directly. Do re-read the
11512 width though, after setting it, as it may be adjusted (increased) to
11513 make it more suitable for the front end.
11514 </desc>
11515 <attribute name="x" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11516 <desc>X position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
11517 </attribute>
11518
11519 <attribute name="y" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11520 <desc>Y position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
11521 </attribute>
11522
11523 <attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="no">
11524 <desc>
11525 Whether the overlay is currently visible.
11526 </desc>
11527 </attribute>
11528
11529 <attribute name="alpha" type="unsigned long" readonly="no">
11530 <desc>
11531 The global alpha value for the overlay. This may or may not be
11532 supported by a given front end.
11533 </desc>
11534 </attribute>
11535
11536 <method name="move">
11537 <desc>
11538 Changes the overlay's position relative to the IFramebuffer.
11539 </desc>
11540 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11541 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11542 </method>
11543
11544 </interface>
11545
11546 <interface
11547 name="IDisplay" extends="$unknown"
11548 uuid="09EED313-CD56-4D06-BD56-FAC0F716B5DD"
11549 wsmap="managed"
11550 >
11551 <desc>
11552 The IDisplay interface represents the virtual machine's display.
11553
11554 The object implementing this interface is contained in each
11555 <link to="IConsole::display"/> attribute and represents the visual
11556 output of the virtual machine.
11557
11558 The virtual display supports pluggable output targets represented by the
11559 IFramebuffer interface. Examples of the output target are a window on
11560 the host computer or an RDP session's display on a remote computer.
11561 </desc>
11562 <method name="getScreenResolution">
11563 <desc>Queries display width, height and color depth for given screen.</desc>
11564 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11565 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
11566 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
11567 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
11568 </method>
11569
11570 <method name="setFramebuffer">
11571 <desc>
11572 Sets the framebuffer for given screen.
11573 </desc>
11574 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11575 <param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="in"/>
11576 </method>
11577
11578 <method name="getFramebuffer">
11579 <desc>
11580 Queries the framebuffer for given screen.
11581 </desc>
11582 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11583 <param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="out"/>
11584 <param name="xOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
11585 <param name="yOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
11586 </method>
11587
11588 <method name="setVideoModeHint">
11589 <desc>
11590 Asks VirtualBox to request the given video mode from
11591 the guest. This is just a hint and it cannot be guaranteed
11592 that the requested resolution will be used. Guest Additions
11593 are required for the request to be seen by guests. The caller
11594 should issue the request and wait for a resolution change and
11595 after a timeout retry.
11596
11597 Specifying @c 0 for either @a width, @a height or @a bitsPerPixel
11598 parameters means that the corresponding values should be taken from the
11599 current video mode (i.e. left unchanged).
11600
11601 If the guest OS supports multi-monitor configuration then the @a display
11602 parameter specifies the number of the guest display to send the hint to:
11603 @c 0 is the primary display, @c 1 is the first secondary and
11604 so on. If the multi-monitor configuration is not supported, @a display
11605 must be @c 0.
11606
11607 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
11608 The @a display is not associated with any monitor.
11609 </result>
11610
11611 </desc>
11612 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11613 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11614 <param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11615 <param name="display" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11616 </method>
11617
11618 <method name="setSeamlessMode">
11619 <desc>
11620 Enables or disables seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
11621 integration) mode.
11622 <note>
11623 Calling this method has no effect if <link
11624 to="IGuest::getFacilityStatus"/> with facility <link to="AdditionsFacilityType::Seamless"/>
11625 does not return <link to="AdditionsFacilityStatus::Active"/>.
11626 </note>
11627 </desc>
11628 <param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
11629 </method>
11630
11631 <method name="takeScreenShot">
11632 <desc>
11633 Takes a screen shot of the requested size and copies it to the
11634 32-bpp buffer allocated by the caller and pointed to by @a address.
11635 A pixel consists of 4 bytes in order: B, G, R, 0.
11636
11637 <note>This API can be used only locally by a VM process through the
11638 COM/XPCOM C++ API as it requires pointer support. It is not
11639 available for scripting langages, Java or any webservice clients.
11640 Unless you are writing a new VM frontend use
11641 <link to="#takeScreenShotToArray" />.
11642 </note>
11643
11644 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11645 Feature not implemented.
11646 </result>
11647 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11648 Could not take a screenshot.
11649 </result>
11650
11651 </desc>
11652 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11653 <param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
11654 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11655 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11656 </method>
11657
11658 <method name="takeScreenShotToArray">
11659 <desc>
11660 Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
11661 an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit RGBA format.
11662 A pixel consists of 4 bytes in order: R, G, B, 0xFF.
11663
11664 This API is slow, but could be the only option to get guest screenshot
11665 for scriptable languages not allowed to manipulate with addresses
11666 directly.
11667
11668 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11669 Feature not implemented.
11670 </result>
11671 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11672 Could not take a screenshot.
11673 </result>
11674 </desc>
11675 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11676 <desc>
11677 Monitor to take screenshot from.
11678 </desc>
11679 </param>
11680 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11681 <desc>
11682 Desired image width.
11683 </desc>
11684 </param>
11685 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11686 <desc>
11687 Desired image height.
11688 </desc>
11689 </param>
11690 <param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
11691 <desc>
11692 Array with resulting screen data.
11693 </desc>
11694 </param>
11695 </method>
11696
11697 <method name="takeScreenShotPNGToArray">
11698 <desc>
11699 Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
11700 PNG image in array.
11701
11702 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11703 Feature not implemented.
11704 </result>
11705 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11706 Could not take a screenshot.
11707 </result>
11708 </desc>
11709 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11710 <desc>
11711 Monitor to take the screenshot from.
11712 </desc>
11713 </param>
11714 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11715 <desc>
11716 Desired image width.
11717 </desc>
11718 </param>
11719 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11720 <desc>
11721 Desired image height.
11722 </desc>
11723 </param>
11724 <param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
11725 <desc>
11726 Array with resulting screen data.
11727 </desc>
11728 </param>
11729 </method>
11730
11731 <method name="drawToScreen">
11732 <desc>
11733 Draws a 32-bpp image of the specified size from the given buffer
11734 to the given point on the VM display.
11735
11736 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11737 Feature not implemented.
11738 </result>
11739 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11740 Could not draw to screen.
11741 </result>
11742
11743 </desc>
11744 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11745 <desc>
11746 Monitor to take the screenshot from.
11747 </desc>
11748 </param>
11749 <param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11750 <desc>
11751 Address to store the screenshot to
11752 </desc>
11753 </param>
11754 <param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11755 <desc>
11756 Relative to the screen top left corner.
11757 </desc>
11758 </param>
11759 <param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11760 <desc>
11761 Relative to the screen top left corner.
11762 </desc>
11763 </param>
11764 <param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11765 <desc>
11766 Desired image width.
11767 </desc>
11768 </param>
11769 <param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11770 <desc>
11771 Desired image height.
11772 </desc>
11773 </param>
11774 </method>
11775
11776 <method name="invalidateAndUpdate">
11777 <desc>
11778 Does a full invalidation of the VM display and instructs the VM
11779 to update it.
11780
11781 <result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11782 Could not invalidate and update screen.
11783 </result>
11784
11785 </desc>
11786 </method>
11787
11788 <method name="resizeCompleted">
11789 <desc>
11790 Signals that a framebuffer has completed the resize operation.
11791
11792 <result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11793 Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
11794 </result>
11795
11796 </desc>
11797 <param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11798 </method>
11799
11800 <method name="completeVHWACommand">
11801 <desc>
11802 Signals that the Video HW Acceleration command has completed.
11803 </desc>
11804
11805 <param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11806 <desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the completed command.</desc>
11807 </param>
11808 </method>
11809
11810 </interface>
11811
11812 <!--
11813 // INetworkAdapter
11814 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11815 -->
11816
11817 <enum
11818 name="NetworkAttachmentType"
11819 uuid="44bce1ee-99f7-4e8e-89fc-80597fd9eeaf"
11820 >
11821 <desc>
11822 Network attachment type.
11823 </desc>
11824
11825 <const name="Null" value="0">
11826 <desc>Null value, also means "not attached".</desc>
11827 </const>
11828 <const name="NAT" value="1"/>
11829 <const name="Bridged" value="2"/>
11830 <const name="Internal" value="3"/>
11831 <const name="HostOnly" value="4"/>
11832 <const name="VDE" value="5"/>
11833 </enum>
11834
11835 <enum
11836 name="NetworkAdapterType"
11837 uuid="3c2281e4-d952-4e87-8c7d-24379cb6a81c"
11838 >
11839 <desc>
11840 Network adapter type.
11841 </desc>
11842
11843 <const name="Null" value="0">
11844 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
11845 </const>
11846 <const name="Am79C970A" value="1">
11847 <desc>AMD PCNet-PCI II network card (Am79C970A).</desc>
11848 </const>
11849 <const name="Am79C973" value="2">
11850 <desc>AMD PCNet-FAST III network card (Am79C973).</desc>
11851 </const>
11852 <const name="I82540EM" value="3">
11853 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop network card (82540EM).</desc>
11854 </const>
11855 <const name="I82543GC" value="4">
11856 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 T Server network card (82543GC).</desc>
11857 </const>
11858 <const name="I82545EM" value="5">
11859 <desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Server network card (82545EM).</desc>
11860 </const>
11861 <const name="Virtio" value="6">
11862 <desc>Virtio network device.</desc>
11863 </const>
11864 </enum>
11865
11866 <enum
11867 name="NetworkAdapterPromiscModePolicy"
11868 uuid="c963768a-376f-4c85-8d84-d8ced4b7269e"
11869 >
11870 <desc>
11871 The promiscuous mode policy of an interface.
11872 </desc>
11873
11874 <const name="Deny" value="1">
11875 <desc>Deny promiscuous mode requests.</desc>
11876 </const>
11877 <const name="AllowNetwork" value="2">
11878 <desc>
11879 Allow promicuous mode, but restrict the scope it to the internal
11880 network so that it only applies to other VMs.
11881 </desc>
11882 </const>
11883 <const name="AllowAll" value="3">
11884 <desc>
11885 Allow promicuous mode, include unrelated traffic going over the wire
11886 and internally on the host.
11887 </desc>
11888 </const>
11889 </enum>
11890
11891 <interface
11892 name="INetworkAdapter" extends="$unknown"
11893 uuid="6aa240a1-dd58-478e-92e8-aac001ce5547"
11894 wsmap="managed"
11895 >
11896 <desc>
11897 Represents a virtual network adapter that is attached to a virtual machine.
11898 Each virtual machine has a fixed number of network adapter slots with one
11899 instance of this attached to each of them. Call
11900 <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter" /> to get the network adapter that
11901 is attached to a given slot in a given machine.
11902
11903 Each network adapter can be in one of five attachment modes, which are
11904 represented by the <link to="NetworkAttachmentType" /> enumeration;
11905 see the <link to="#attachmentType" /> attribute.
11906 </desc>
11907
11908 <attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType">
11909 <desc>
11910 Type of the virtual network adapter. Depending on this value,
11911 VirtualBox will provide a different virtual network hardware
11912 to the guest.
11913 </desc>
11914 </attribute>
11915
11916 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11917 <desc>
11918 Slot number this adapter is plugged into. Corresponds to
11919 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter"/>
11920 to obtain this instance.
11921 </desc>
11922 </attribute>
11923
11924 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
11925 <desc>
11926 Flag whether the network adapter is present in the
11927 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
11928 not contain this network adapter. Can only be changed when
11929 the VM is not running.
11930 </desc>
11931 </attribute>
11932
11933 <attribute name="MACAddress" type="wstring">
11934 <desc>
11935 Ethernet MAC address of the adapter, 12 hexadecimal characters. When setting
11936 it to @c null or an empty string, VirtualBox will generate a unique MAC address.
11937 </desc>
11938 </attribute>
11939
11940 <attribute name="attachmentType" type="NetworkAttachmentType" readonly="yes"/>
11941
11942 <attribute name="hostInterface" type="wstring">
11943 <desc>
11944 Name of the host network interface the VM is attached to.
11945 </desc>
11946 </attribute>
11947
11948 <attribute name="internalNetwork" type="wstring">
11949 <desc>
11950 Name of the internal network the VM is attached to.
11951 </desc>
11952 </attribute>
11953
11954 <attribute name="NATNetwork" type="wstring">
11955 <desc>
11956 Name of the NAT network the VM is attached to.
11957 </desc>
11958 </attribute>
11959
11960 <attribute name="VDENetwork" type="wstring">
11961 <desc>
11962 Name of the VDE switch the VM is attached to.
11963 </desc>
11964 </attribute>
11965
11966 <attribute name="cableConnected" type="boolean">
11967 <desc>
11968 Flag whether the adapter reports the cable as connected or not.
11969 It can be used to report offline situations to a VM.
11970 </desc>
11971 </attribute>
11972
11973 <attribute name="lineSpeed" type="unsigned long">
11974 <desc>
11975 Line speed reported by custom drivers, in units of 1 kbps.
11976 </desc>
11977 </attribute>
11978
11979 <attribute name="promiscModePolicy" type="NetworkAdapterPromiscModePolicy">
11980 <desc>
11981 The promiscuous mode policy of the network adapter when attached to an
11982 internal network, host only network or a bridge.
11983 </desc>
11984 </attribute>
11985
11986 <attribute name="traceEnabled" type="boolean">
11987 <desc>
11988 Flag whether network traffic from/to the network card should be traced.
11989 Can only be toggled when the VM is turned off.
11990 </desc>
11991 </attribute>
11992
11993 <attribute name="traceFile" type="wstring">
11994 <desc>
11995 Filename where a network trace will be stored. If not set, VBox-pid.pcap
11996 will be used.
11997 </desc>
11998 </attribute>
11999
12000 <attribute name="natDriver" type="INATEngine" readonly="yes">
12001 <desc>
12002 Points to the NAT engine which handles the network address translation
12003 for this interface. This is active only when the interface actually uses
12004 NAT (see <link to="#attachToNAT" />).
12005 </desc>
12006 </attribute>
12007
12008 <attribute name="bootPriority" type="unsigned long">
12009 <desc>
12010 Network boot priority of the adapter. Priority 1 is highest. If not set,
12011 the priority is considered to be at the lowest possible setting.
12012 </desc>
12013 </attribute>
12014
12015 <attribute name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup">
12016 <desc>The bandwidth group this network adapter is assigned to.</desc>
12017 </attribute>
12018
12019 <method name="attachToNAT">
12020 <desc>
12021 Attach the network adapter to the Network Address Translation (NAT) interface.
12022 </desc>
12023 </method>
12024
12025 <method name="attachToBridgedInterface">
12026 <desc>
12027 Attach the network adapter to a bridged host interface.
12028 </desc>
12029 </method>
12030
12031 <method name="attachToInternalNetwork">
12032 <desc>
12033 Attach the network adapter to an internal network.
12034 </desc>
12035 </method>
12036
12037 <method name="attachToHostOnlyInterface">
12038 <desc>
12039 Attach the network adapter to the host-only network.
12040 </desc>
12041 </method>
12042
12043 <method name="attachToVDE">
12044 <desc>
12045 Attach the network adapter to a VDE network.
12046 </desc>
12047 </method>
12048
12049 <method name="detach">
12050 <desc>
12051 Detach the network adapter
12052 </desc>
12053 </method>
12054 </interface>
12055
12056
12057 <!--
12058 // ISerialPort
12059 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12060 -->
12061
12062 <enum
12063 name="PortMode"
12064 uuid="533b5fe3-0185-4197-86a7-17e37dd39d76"
12065 >
12066 <desc>
12067 The PortMode enumeration represents possible communication modes for
12068 the virtual serial port device.
12069 </desc>
12070
12071 <const name="Disconnected" value="0">
12072 <desc>Virtual device is not attached to any real host device.</desc>
12073 </const>
12074 <const name="HostPipe" value="1">
12075 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a host pipe.</desc>
12076 </const>
12077 <const name="HostDevice" value="2">
12078 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a host device.</desc>
12079 </const>
12080 <const name="RawFile" value="3">
12081 <desc>Virtual device is attached to a raw file.</desc>
12082 </const>
12083 </enum>
12084
12085 <interface
12086 name="ISerialPort" extends="$unknown"
12087 uuid="937f6970-5103-4745-b78e-d28dcf1479a8"
12088 wsmap="managed"
12089 >
12090
12091 <desc>
12092 The ISerialPort interface represents the virtual serial port device.
12093
12094 The virtual serial port device acts like an ordinary serial port
12095 inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
12096 serial port hardware in one of two modes: host pipe or host device.
12097
12098 In host pipe mode, the #path attribute specifies the path to the pipe on
12099 the host computer that represents a serial port. The #server attribute
12100 determines if this pipe is created by the virtual machine process at
12101 machine startup or it must already exist before starting machine
12102 execution.
12103
12104 In host device mode, the #path attribute specifies the name of the
12105 serial port device on the host computer.
12106
12107 There is also a third communication mode: the disconnected mode. In this
12108 mode, the guest OS running inside the virtual machine will be able to
12109 detect the serial port, but all port write operations will be discarded
12110 and all port read operations will return no data.
12111
12112 <see>IMachine::getSerialPort</see>
12113 </desc>
12114
12115 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12116 <desc>
12117 Slot number this serial port is plugged into. Corresponds to
12118 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort"/>
12119 to obtain this instance.
12120 </desc>
12121 </attribute>
12122
12123 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12124 <desc>
12125 Flag whether the serial port is enabled. If disabled,
12126 the serial port will not be reported to the guest OS.
12127 </desc>
12128 </attribute>
12129
12130 <attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
12131 <desc>Base I/O address of the serial port.</desc>
12132 </attribute>
12133
12134 <attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
12135 <desc>IRQ number of the serial port.</desc>
12136 </attribute>
12137
12138 <attribute name="hostMode" type="PortMode">
12139 <desc>
12140 How is this port connected to the host.
12141 <note>
12142 Changing this attribute may fail if the conditions for
12143 <link to="#path"/> are not met.
12144 </note>
12145 </desc>
12146 </attribute>
12147
12148 <attribute name="server" type="boolean">
12149 <desc>
12150 Flag whether this serial port acts as a server (creates a new pipe on
12151 the host) or as a client (uses the existing pipe). This attribute is
12152 used only when <link to="#hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostPipe.
12153 </desc>
12154 </attribute>
12155
12156 <attribute name="path" type="wstring">
12157 <desc>
12158 Path to the serial port's pipe on the host when <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is
12159 PortMode_HostPipe, or the host serial device name when
12160 <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostDevice. For both
12161 cases, setting a @c null or empty string as the attribute's value
12162 is an error. Otherwise, the value of this property is ignored.
12163 </desc>
12164 </attribute>
12165
12166 </interface>
12167
12168 <!--
12169 // IParallelPort
12170 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12171 -->
12172
12173 <interface
12174 name="IParallelPort" extends="$unknown"
12175 uuid="0c925f06-dd10-4b77-8de8-294d738c3214"
12176 wsmap="managed"
12177 >
12178
12179 <desc>
12180 The IParallelPort interface represents the virtual parallel port device.
12181
12182 The virtual parallel port device acts like an ordinary parallel port
12183 inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
12184 parallel port hardware using the name of the parallel device on the host
12185 computer specified in the #path attribute.
12186
12187 Each virtual parallel port device is assigned a base I/O address and an
12188 IRQ number that will be reported to the guest operating system and used
12189 to operate the given parallel port from within the virtual machine.
12190
12191 <see>IMachine::getParallelPort</see>
12192 </desc>
12193
12194 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12195 <desc>
12196 Slot number this parallel port is plugged into. Corresponds to
12197 the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort"/>
12198 to obtain this instance.
12199 </desc>
12200 </attribute>
12201
12202 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12203 <desc>
12204 Flag whether the parallel port is enabled. If disabled,
12205 the parallel port will not be reported to the guest OS.
12206 </desc>
12207 </attribute>
12208
12209 <attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
12210 <desc>Base I/O address of the parallel port.</desc>
12211 </attribute>
12212
12213 <attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
12214 <desc>IRQ number of the parallel port.</desc>
12215 </attribute>
12216
12217 <attribute name="path" type="wstring">
12218 <desc>
12219 Host parallel device name. If this parallel port is enabled, setting a
12220 @c null or an empty string as this attribute's value will result into
12221 an error.
12222 </desc>
12223 </attribute>
12224
12225 </interface>
12226
12227
12228 <!--
12229 // IMachineDebugger
12230 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12231 -->
12232
12233 <interface
12234 name="IMachineDebugger" extends="$unknown"
12235 uuid="1bfd2fa9-0d91-44d3-9515-368dcbb3eb4d"
12236 wsmap="suppress"
12237 >
12238 <method name="dumpGuestCore">
12239 <desc>
12240 Takes a core dump of the guest.
12241
12242 See include/VBox/dbgfcorefmt.h for details on the file format.
12243 </desc>
12244 <param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="in">
12245 <desc>
12246 The name of the output file. The file must not exist.
12247 </desc>
12248 </param>
12249 <param name="compression" type="wstring" dir="in">
12250 <desc>
12251 Reserved for future compression method indicator.
12252 </desc>
12253 </param>
12254 </method>
12255
12256 <method name="dumpHostProcessCore">
12257 <desc>
12258 Takes a core dump of the VM process on the host.
12259
12260 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but it may show up
12261 in a dot release.
12262 </desc>
12263 <param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="in">
12264 <desc>
12265 The name of the output file. The file must not exist.
12266 </desc>
12267 </param>
12268 <param name="compression" type="wstring" dir="in">
12269 <desc>
12270 Reserved for future compression method indicator.
12271 </desc>
12272 </param>
12273 </method>
12274
12275 <method name="info">
12276 <desc>
12277 Interfaces with the info dumpers (DBGFInfo).
12278
12279 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but it may show up
12280 in a dot release.
12281 </desc>
12282 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
12283 <desc>
12284 The name of the info item.
12285 </desc>
12286 </param>
12287 <param name="args" type="wstring" dir="in">
12288 <desc>
12289 Arguments to the info dumper.
12290 </desc>
12291 </param>
12292 <param name="info" type="wstring" dir="return">
12293 <desc>
12294 The into string.
12295 </desc>
12296 </param>
12297 </method>
12298
12299 <method name="injectNMI">
12300 <desc>
12301 Inject an NMI into a running VT-x/AMD-V VM.
12302 </desc>
12303 </method>
12304
12305 <method name="modifyLogGroups">
12306 <desc>
12307 Modifies the group settings of the debug logger.
12308
12309 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12310 in a dot release.
12311 </desc>
12312 <param name="settings" type="wstring" dir="in">
12313 <desc>The group settings string. See iprt/log.h for details.</desc>
12314 </param>
12315 </method>
12316
12317 <method name="modifyLogFlags">
12318 <desc>
12319 Modifies the debug logger flags.
12320
12321 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12322 in a dot release.
12323 </desc>
12324 <param name="settings" type="wstring" dir="in">
12325 <desc>The flags settings string. See iprt/log.h for details.</desc>
12326 </param>
12327 </method>
12328
12329 <method name="modifyLogDestinations">
12330 <desc>
12331 Modifies the debug logger destinations.
12332
12333 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12334 in a dot release.
12335 </desc>
12336 <param name="settings" type="wstring" dir="in">
12337 <desc>The destination settings string. See iprt/log.h for details.</desc>
12338 </param>
12339 </method>
12340
12341 <method name="readPhysicalMemory">
12342 <desc>
12343 Reads guest physical memory, no side effects (MMIO++).
12344
12345 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12346 in a dot release.
12347 </desc>
12348 <param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
12349 <desc>The guest physical address.</desc>
12350 </param>
12351 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12352 <desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
12353 </param>
12354 <param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
12355 <desc>The bytes read.</desc>
12356 </param>
12357 </method>
12358
12359 <method name="writePhysicalMemory">
12360 <desc>
12361 Writes guest physical memory, access handles (MMIO++) are ignored.
12362
12363 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12364 in a dot release.
12365 </desc>
12366 <param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
12367 <desc>The guest physical address.</desc>
12368 </param>
12369 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12370 <desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
12371 </param>
12372 <param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="in">
12373 <desc>The bytes to write.</desc>
12374 </param>
12375 </method>
12376
12377 <method name="readVirtualMemory">
12378 <desc>
12379 Reads guest virtual memory, no side effects (MMIO++).
12380
12381 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12382 in a dot release.
12383 </desc>
12384 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12385 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12386 </param>
12387 <param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
12388 <desc>The guest virtual address.</desc>
12389 </param>
12390 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12391 <desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
12392 </param>
12393 <param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
12394 <desc>The bytes read.</desc>
12395 </param>
12396 </method>
12397
12398 <method name="writeVirtualMemory">
12399 <desc>
12400 Writes guest virtual memory, access handles (MMIO++) are ignored.
12401
12402 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12403 in a dot release.
12404 </desc>
12405 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12406 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12407 </param>
12408 <param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
12409 <desc>The guest virtual address.</desc>
12410 </param>
12411 <param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12412 <desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
12413 </param>
12414 <param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="in">
12415 <desc>The bytes to write.</desc>
12416 </param>
12417 </method>
12418
12419 <method name="detectOS">
12420 <desc>
12421 Tries to (re-)detect the guest OS kernel.
12422
12423 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12424 in a dot release.
12425 </desc>
12426 <param name="os" type="wstring" dir="return">
12427 <desc>
12428 The detected OS kernel on success.
12429 </desc>
12430 </param>
12431 </method>
12432
12433 <method name="getRegister">
12434 <desc>
12435 Gets one register.
12436
12437 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12438 in a dot release.
12439 </desc>
12440 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12441 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12442 </param>
12443 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
12444 <desc>The register name, case is ignored.</desc>
12445 </param>
12446 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
12447 <desc>
12448 The register value. This is usually a hex value (always 0x prefixed)
12449 but other format may be used for floating point registers (TBD).
12450 </desc>
12451 </param>
12452 </method>
12453
12454 <method name="getRegisters">
12455 <desc>
12456 Gets all the registers for the given CPU.
12457
12458 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12459 in a dot release.
12460 </desc>
12461 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12462 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12463 </param>
12464 <param name="names" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12465 <desc>Array containing the lowercase register names.</desc>
12466 </param>
12467 <param name="values" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
12468 <desc>
12469 Array paralell to the names holding the register values as if the
12470 register was returned by <link to="IMachineDebugger::getRegister"/>.
12471 </desc>
12472 </param>
12473 </method>
12474
12475 <method name="setRegister">
12476 <desc>
12477 Gets one register.
12478
12479 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12480 in a dot release.
12481 </desc>
12482 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12483 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12484 </param>
12485 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
12486 <desc>The register name, case is ignored.</desc>
12487 </param>
12488 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
12489 <desc>
12490 The new register value. Hexadecimal, decimal and octal formattings
12491 are supported in addition to any special formattings returned by
12492 the getters.
12493 </desc>
12494 </param>
12495 </method>
12496
12497 <method name="setRegisters">
12498 <desc>
12499 Sets zero or more registers atomically.
12500
12501 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12502 in a dot release.
12503 </desc>
12504 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12505 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12506 </param>
12507 <param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12508 <desc>Array containing the register names, case ignored.</desc>
12509 </param>
12510 <param name="values" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
12511 <desc>
12512 Array paralell to the names holding the register values. See
12513 <link to="IMachineDebugger::setRegister"/> for formatting
12514 guidelines.
12515 </desc>
12516 </param>
12517 </method>
12518
12519 <method name="dumpGuestStack">
12520 <desc>
12521 Produce a simple stack dump using the current guest state.
12522
12523 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12524 in a dot release.
12525 </desc>
12526 <param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12527 <desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
12528 </param>
12529 <param name="stack" type="wstring" dir="return">
12530 <desc>String containing the formatted stack dump.</desc>
12531 </param>
12532 </method>
12533
12534 <method name="resetStats">
12535 <desc>
12536 Reset VM statistics.
12537 </desc>
12538 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
12539 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
12540 </param>
12541 </method>
12542
12543 <method name="dumpStats">
12544 <desc>
12545 Dumps VM statistics.
12546 </desc>
12547 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
12548 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
12549 </param>
12550 </method>
12551
12552 <method name="getStats">
12553 <desc>
12554 Get the VM statistics in a XMLish format.
12555 </desc>
12556 <param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
12557 <desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
12558 </param>
12559 <param name="withDescriptions" type="boolean" dir="in">
12560 <desc>Whether to include the descriptions.</desc>
12561 </param>
12562 <param name="stats" type="wstring" dir="out">
12563 <desc>The XML document containing the statistics.</desc>
12564 </param>
12565 </method>
12566
12567 <attribute name="singlestep" type="boolean">
12568 <desc>Switch for enabling singlestepping.</desc>
12569 </attribute>
12570
12571 <attribute name="recompileUser" type="boolean">
12572 <desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for user mode code.</desc>
12573 </attribute>
12574
12575 <attribute name="recompileSupervisor" type="boolean">
12576 <desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for supervisor mode code.</desc>
12577 </attribute>
12578
12579 <attribute name="PATMEnabled" type="boolean">
12580 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the PATM component.</desc>
12581 </attribute>
12582
12583 <attribute name="CSAMEnabled" type="boolean">
12584 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the CSAM component.</desc>
12585 </attribute>
12586
12587 <attribute name="logEnabled" type="boolean">
12588 <desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the debug logger.</desc>
12589 </attribute>
12590
12591 <attribute name="logFlags" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12592 <desc>The debug logger flags.</desc>
12593 </attribute>
12594
12595 <attribute name="logGroups" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12596 <desc>The debug logger's group settings.</desc>
12597 </attribute>
12598
12599 <attribute name="logDestinations" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12600 <desc>The debug logger's destination settings.</desc>
12601 </attribute>
12602
12603 <attribute name="HWVirtExEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12604 <desc>
12605 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of CPU hardware
12606 virtualization extensions.
12607 </desc>
12608 </attribute>
12609
12610 <attribute name="HWVirtExNestedPagingEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12611 <desc>
12612 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the nested paging
12613 CPU hardware virtualization extension.
12614 </desc>
12615 </attribute>
12616
12617 <attribute name="HWVirtExVPIDEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12618 <desc>
12619 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the VPID
12620 VT-x extension.
12621 </desc>
12622 </attribute>
12623
12624 <attribute name="OSName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12625 <desc>
12626 Query the guest OS kernel name as detected by the DBGF.
12627
12628 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12629 in a dot release.
12630 </desc>
12631 </attribute>
12632
12633 <attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12634 <desc>
12635 Query the guest OS kernel version string as detected by the DBGF.
12636
12637 This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12638 in a dot release.
12639 </desc>
12640 </attribute>
12641
12642 <attribute name="PAEEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12643 <desc>
12644 Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the Physical
12645 Address Extension CPU feature.
12646 </desc>
12647 </attribute>
12648
12649 <attribute name="virtualTimeRate" type="unsigned long">
12650 <desc>
12651 The rate at which the virtual time runs expressed as a percentage.
12652 The accepted range is 2% to 20000%.
12653 </desc>
12654 </attribute>
12655
12656 <attribute name="VM" type="long long" readonly="yes">
12657 <desc>
12658 Gets the VM handle. This is only for internal use while
12659 we carve the details of this interface.
12660 </desc>
12661 </attribute>
12662
12663 </interface>
12664
12665 <!--
12666 // IUSBController
12667 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12668 -->
12669
12670 <interface
12671 name="IUSBController" extends="$unknown"
12672 uuid="6fdcccc5-abd3-4fec-9387-2ad3914fc4a8"
12673 wsmap="managed"
12674 >
12675 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12676 <desc>
12677 Flag whether the USB controller is present in the
12678 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
12679 not contain any USB controller. Can only be changed when
12680 the VM is powered off.
12681 </desc>
12682 </attribute>
12683
12684 <attribute name="enabledEhci" type="boolean">
12685 <desc>
12686 Flag whether the USB EHCI controller is present in the
12687 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
12688 not contain a USB EHCI controller. Can only be changed when
12689 the VM is powered off.
12690 </desc>
12691 </attribute>
12692
12693 <attribute name="proxyAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12694 <desc>
12695 Flag whether there is an USB proxy available.
12696 </desc>
12697 </attribute>
12698
12699 <attribute name="USBStandard" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12700 <desc>
12701 USB standard version which the controller implements.
12702 This is a BCD which means that the major version is in the
12703 high byte and minor version is in the low byte.
12704 </desc>
12705 </attribute>
12706
12707 <attribute name="deviceFilters" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
12708 <desc>
12709 List of USB device filters associated with the machine.
12710
12711 If the machine is currently running, these filters are activated
12712 every time a new (supported) USB device is attached to the host
12713 computer that was not ignored by global filters
12714 (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>).
12715
12716 These filters are also activated when the machine is powered up.
12717 They are run against a list of all currently available USB
12718 devices (in states
12719 <link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/>,
12720 <link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
12721 <link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>) that were not previously
12722 ignored by global filters.
12723
12724 If at least one filter matches the USB device in question, this
12725 device is automatically captured (attached to) the virtual USB
12726 controller of this machine.
12727
12728 <see>IUSBDeviceFilter, ::IUSBController</see>
12729 </desc>
12730 </attribute>
12731
12732 <method name="createDeviceFilter">
12733 <desc>
12734 Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
12735 the filter name are set to empty (any match),
12736 <i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
12737
12738 The created filter can then be added to the list of filters using
12739 <link to="#insertDeviceFilter"/>.
12740
12741 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12742 The virtual machine is not mutable.
12743 </result>
12744
12745 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
12746 </desc>
12747 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
12748 <desc>
12749 Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
12750 for more info.
12751 </desc>
12752 </param>
12753 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
12754 <desc>Created filter object.</desc>
12755 </param>
12756 </method>
12757
12758 <method name="insertDeviceFilter">
12759 <desc>
12760 Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
12761 in the list of filters.
12762
12763 Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. If the specified
12764 position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
12765 the list, the filter is added to the end of the collection.
12766
12767 <note>
12768 Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
12769 filter that is already in the collection, will return an
12770 error.
12771 </note>
12772
12773 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12774 Virtual machine is not mutable.
12775 </result>
12776 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
12777 USB device filter not created within this VirtualBox instance.
12778 </result>
12779 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
12780 USB device filter already in list.
12781 </result>
12782
12783 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
12784 </desc>
12785 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12786 <desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
12787 </param>
12788 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
12789 <desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
12790 </param>
12791 </method>
12792
12793 <method name="removeDeviceFilter">
12794 <desc>
12795 Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
12796 list of filters.
12797
12798 Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. Specifying a
12799 position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
12800 the list will produce an error.
12801
12802 <see>#deviceFilters</see>
12803
12804 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
12805 Virtual machine is not mutable.
12806 </result>
12807 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
12808 USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
12809 </result>
12810
12811 </desc>
12812 <param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12813 <desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
12814 </param>
12815 <param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
12816 <desc>Removed USB device filter.</desc>
12817 </param>
12818 </method>
12819
12820 </interface>
12821
12822
12823 <!--
12824 // IUSBDevice
12825 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12826 -->
12827
12828 <interface
12829 name="IUSBDevice" extends="$unknown"
12830 uuid="f8967b0b-4483-400f-92b5-8b675d98a85b"
12831 wsmap="managed"
12832 >
12833 <desc>
12834 The IUSBDevice interface represents a virtual USB device attached to the
12835 virtual machine.
12836
12837 A collection of objects implementing this interface is stored in the
12838 <link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/> attribute which lists all USB devices
12839 attached to a running virtual machine's USB controller.
12840 </desc>
12841
12842 <attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
12843 <desc>
12844 Unique USB device ID. This ID is built from #vendorId,
12845 #productId, #revision and #serialNumber.
12846 </desc>
12847 </attribute>
12848
12849 <attribute name="vendorId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12850 <desc>Vendor ID.</desc>
12851 </attribute>
12852
12853 <attribute name="productId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12854 <desc>Product ID.</desc>
12855 </attribute>
12856
12857 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12858 <desc>
12859 Product revision number. This is a packed BCD represented as
12860 unsigned short. The high byte is the integer part and the low
12861 byte is the decimal.
12862 </desc>
12863 </attribute>
12864
12865 <attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12866 <desc>Manufacturer string.</desc>
12867 </attribute>
12868
12869 <attribute name="product" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12870 <desc>Product string.</desc>
12871 </attribute>
12872
12873 <attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12874 <desc>Serial number string.</desc>
12875 </attribute>
12876
12877 <attribute name="address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
12878 <desc>Host specific address of the device.</desc>
12879 </attribute>
12880
12881 <attribute name="port" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12882 <desc>
12883 Host USB port number the device is physically
12884 connected to.
12885 </desc>
12886 </attribute>
12887
12888 <attribute name="version" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12889 <desc>
12890 The major USB version of the device - 1 or 2.
12891 </desc>
12892 </attribute>
12893
12894 <attribute name="portVersion" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
12895 <desc>
12896 The major USB version of the host USB port the device is
12897 physically connected to - 1 or 2. For devices not connected to
12898 anything this will have the same value as the version attribute.
12899 </desc>
12900 </attribute>
12901
12902 <attribute name="remote" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
12903 <desc>
12904 Whether the device is physically connected to a remote VRDE
12905 client or to a local host machine.
12906 </desc>
12907 </attribute>
12908
12909 </interface>
12910
12911
12912 <!--
12913 // IUSBDeviceFilter
12914 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12915 -->
12916
12917 <interface
12918 name="IUSBDeviceFilter" extends="$unknown"
12919 uuid="d6831fb4-1a94-4c2c-96ef-8d0d6192066d"
12920 wsmap="managed"
12921 >
12922 <desc>
12923 The IUSBDeviceFilter interface represents an USB device filter used
12924 to perform actions on a group of USB devices.
12925
12926 This type of filters is used by running virtual machines to
12927 automatically capture selected USB devices once they are physically
12928 attached to the host computer.
12929
12930 A USB device is matched to the given device filter if and only if all
12931 attributes of the device match the corresponding attributes of the
12932 filter (that is, attributes are joined together using the logical AND
12933 operation). On the other hand, all together, filters in the list of
12934 filters carry the semantics of the logical OR operation. So if it is
12935 desirable to create a match like "this vendor id OR this product id",
12936 one needs to create two filters and specify "any match" (see below)
12937 for unused attributes.
12938
12939 All filter attributes used for matching are strings. Each string
12940 is an expression representing a set of values of the corresponding
12941 device attribute, that will match the given filter. Currently, the
12942 following filtering expressions are supported:
12943
12944 <ul>
12945 <li><i>Interval filters</i>. Used to specify valid intervals for
12946 integer device attributes (Vendor ID, Product ID and Revision).
12947 The format of the string is:
12948
12949 <tt>int:((m)|([m]-[n]))(,(m)|([m]-[n]))*</tt>
12950
12951 where <tt>m</tt> and <tt>n</tt> are integer numbers, either in octal
12952 (starting from <tt>0</tt>), hexadecimal (starting from <tt>0x</tt>)
12953 or decimal (otherwise) form, so that <tt>m &lt; n</tt>. If <tt>m</tt>
12954 is omitted before a dash (<tt>-</tt>), the minimum possible integer
12955 is assumed; if <tt>n</tt> is omitted after a dash, the maximum
12956 possible integer is assumed.
12957 </li>
12958 <li><i>Boolean filters</i>. Used to specify acceptable values for
12959 boolean device attributes. The format of the string is:
12960
12961 <tt>true|false|yes|no|0|1</tt>
12962
12963 </li>
12964 <li><i>Exact match</i>. Used to specify a single value for the given
12965 device attribute. Any string that doesn't start with <tt>int:</tt>
12966 represents the exact match. String device attributes are compared to
12967 this string including case of symbols. Integer attributes are first
12968 converted to a string (see individual filter attributes) and then
12969 compared ignoring case.
12970
12971 </li>
12972 <li><i>Any match</i>. Any value of the corresponding device attribute
12973 will match the given filter. An empty or @c null string is
12974 used to construct this type of filtering expressions.
12975
12976 </li>
12977 </ul>
12978
12979 <note>
12980 On the Windows host platform, interval filters are not currently
12981 available. Also all string filter attributes
12982 (<link to="#manufacturer"/>, <link to="#product"/>,
12983 <link to="#serialNumber"/>) are ignored, so they behave as
12984 <i>any match</i> no matter what string expression is specified.
12985 </note>
12986
12987 <see>IUSBController::deviceFilters, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
12988 </desc>
12989
12990 <attribute name="name" type="wstring">
12991 <desc>
12992 Visible name for this filter.
12993 This name is used to visually distinguish one filter from another,
12994 so it can neither be @c null nor an empty string.
12995 </desc>
12996 </attribute>
12997
12998 <attribute name="active" type="boolean">
12999 <desc>Whether this filter active or has been temporarily disabled.</desc>
13000 </attribute>
13001
13002 <attribute name="vendorId" type="wstring">
13003 <desc>
13004 <link to="IUSBDevice::vendorId">Vendor ID</link> filter.
13005 The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
13006 has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
13007 (including leading zeroes).
13008 </desc>
13009 </attribute>
13010
13011 <attribute name="productId" type="wstring">
13012 <desc>
13013 <link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product ID</link> filter.
13014 The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
13015 has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
13016 (including leading zeroes).
13017 </desc>
13018 </attribute>
13019
13020 <attribute name="revision" type="wstring">
13021 <desc>
13022 <link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product revision number</link>
13023 filter. The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
13024 has the form <tt>IIFF</tt>, where <tt>I</tt> is the decimal digit
13025 of the integer part of the revision, and <tt>F</tt> is the
13026 decimal digit of its fractional part (including leading and
13027 trailing zeros).
13028 Note that for interval filters, it's best to use the hexadecimal
13029 form, because the revision is stored as a 16 bit packed BCD value;
13030 so the expression <tt>int:0x0100-0x0199</tt> will match any
13031 revision from <tt>1.0</tt> to <tt>1.99</tt>.
13032 </desc>
13033 </attribute>
13034
13035 <attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring">
13036 <desc>
13037 <link to="IUSBDevice::manufacturer">Manufacturer</link> filter.
13038 </desc>
13039 </attribute>
13040
13041 <attribute name="product" type="wstring">
13042 <desc>
13043 <link to="IUSBDevice::product">Product</link> filter.
13044 </desc>
13045 </attribute>
13046
13047 <attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring">
13048 <desc>
13049 <link to="IUSBDevice::serialNumber">Serial number</link> filter.
13050 </desc>
13051 </attribute>
13052
13053 <attribute name="port" type="wstring">
13054 <desc>
13055 <link to="IUSBDevice::port">Host USB port</link> filter.
13056 </desc>
13057 </attribute>
13058
13059 <attribute name="remote" type="wstring">
13060 <desc>
13061 <link to="IUSBDevice::remote">Remote state</link> filter.
13062 <note>
13063 This filter makes sense only for machine USB filters,
13064 i.e. it is ignored by IHostUSBDeviceFilter objects.
13065 </note>
13066 </desc>
13067 </attribute>
13068
13069 <attribute name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long">
13070 <desc>
13071 This is an advanced option for hiding one or more USB interfaces
13072 from the guest. The value is a bit mask where the bits that are set
13073 means the corresponding USB interface should be hidden, masked off
13074 if you like.
13075 This feature only works on Linux hosts.
13076 </desc>
13077 </attribute>
13078
13079 </interface>
13080
13081
13082 <!--
13083 // IHostUSBDevice
13084 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13085 -->
13086
13087 <enum
13088 name="USBDeviceState"
13089 uuid="b99a2e65-67fb-4882-82fd-f3e5e8193ab4"
13090 >
13091 <desc>
13092 USB device state. This enumeration represents all possible states
13093 of the USB device physically attached to the host computer regarding
13094 its state on the host computer and availability to guest computers
13095 (all currently running virtual machines).
13096
13097 Once a supported USB device is attached to the host, global USB
13098 filters (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>) are activated. They can
13099 either ignore the device, or put it to USBDeviceState_Held state, or do
13100 nothing. Unless the device is ignored by global filters, filters of all
13101 currently running guests (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are
13102 activated that can put it to USBDeviceState_Captured state.
13103
13104 If the device was ignored by global filters, or didn't match
13105 any filters at all (including guest ones), it is handled by the host
13106 in a normal way. In this case, the device state is determined by
13107 the host and can be one of USBDeviceState_Unavailable, USBDeviceState_Busy
13108 or USBDeviceState_Available, depending on the current device usage.
13109
13110 Besides auto-capturing based on filters, the device can be manually
13111 captured by guests (<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) if its
13112 state is USBDeviceState_Busy, USBDeviceState_Available or
13113 USBDeviceState_Held.
13114
13115 <note>
13116 Due to differences in USB stack implementations in Linux and Win32,
13117 states USBDeviceState_Busy and USBDeviceState_Unavailable are applicable
13118 only to the Linux version of the product. This also means that (<link
13119 to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) can only succeed on Win32 if the
13120 device state is USBDeviceState_Held.
13121 </note>
13122
13123 <see>IHostUSBDevice, IHostUSBDeviceFilter</see>
13124 </desc>
13125
13126 <const name="NotSupported" value="0">
13127 <desc>
13128 Not supported by the VirtualBox server, not available to guests.
13129 </desc>
13130 </const>
13131 <const name="Unavailable" value="1">
13132 <desc>
13133 Being used by the host computer exclusively,
13134 not available to guests.
13135 </desc>
13136 </const>
13137 <const name="Busy" value="2">
13138 <desc>
13139 Being used by the host computer, potentially available to guests.
13140 </desc>
13141 </const>
13142 <const name="Available" value="3">
13143 <desc>
13144 Not used by the host computer, available to guests (the host computer
13145 can also start using the device at any time).
13146 </desc>
13147 </const>
13148 <const name="Held" value="4">
13149 <desc>
13150 Held by the VirtualBox server (ignored by the host computer),
13151 available to guests.
13152 </desc>
13153 </const>
13154 <const name="Captured" value="5">
13155 <desc>
13156 Captured by one of the guest computers, not available
13157 to anybody else.
13158 </desc>
13159 </const>
13160 </enum>
13161
13162 <interface
13163 name="IHostUSBDevice" extends="IUSBDevice"
13164 uuid="173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a"
13165 wsmap="managed"
13166 >
13167 <desc>
13168 The IHostUSBDevice interface represents a physical USB device attached
13169 to the host computer.
13170
13171 Besides properties inherited from IUSBDevice, this interface adds the
13172 <link to="#state"/> property that holds the current state of the USB
13173 device.
13174
13175 <see>IHost::USBDevices, IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
13176 </desc>
13177
13178 <attribute name="state" type="USBDeviceState" readonly="yes">
13179 <desc>
13180 Current state of the device.
13181 </desc>
13182 </attribute>
13183
13184 <!-- @todo add class, subclass, bandwidth, configs, interfaces endpoints and such later. -->
13185
13186 </interface>
13187
13188
13189 <!--
13190 // IHostUSBDeviceFilter
13191 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13192 -->
13193
13194 <enum
13195 name="USBDeviceFilterAction"
13196 uuid="cbc30a49-2f4e-43b5-9da6-121320475933"
13197 >
13198 <desc>
13199 Actions for host USB device filters.
13200 <see>IHostUSBDeviceFilter, USBDeviceState</see>
13201 </desc>
13202
13203 <const name="Null" value="0">
13204 <desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
13205 </const>
13206 <const name="Ignore" value="1">
13207 <desc>Ignore the matched USB device.</desc>
13208 </const>
13209 <const name="Hold" value="2">
13210 <desc>Hold the matched USB device.</desc>
13211 </const>
13212 </enum>
13213
13214 <interface
13215 name="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" extends="IUSBDeviceFilter"
13216 uuid="4cc70246-d74a-400f-8222-3900489c0374"
13217 wsmap="managed"
13218 >
13219 <desc>
13220 The IHostUSBDeviceFilter interface represents a global filter for a
13221 physical USB device used by the host computer. Used indirectly in
13222 <link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>.
13223
13224 Using filters of this type, the host computer determines the initial
13225 state of the USB device after it is physically attached to the
13226 host's USB controller.
13227
13228 <note>
13229 The <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::remote"/> attribute is ignored by this type of
13230 filters, because it makes sense only for
13231 <link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters">machine USB filters</link>.
13232 </note>
13233
13234 <see>IHost::USBDeviceFilters</see>
13235 </desc>
13236
13237 <attribute name="action" type="USBDeviceFilterAction">
13238 <desc>
13239 Action performed by the host when an attached USB device
13240 matches this filter.
13241 </desc>
13242 </attribute>
13243
13244 </interface>
13245
13246 <!--
13247 // IAudioAdapter
13248 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13249 -->
13250
13251 <enum
13252 name="AudioDriverType"
13253 uuid="4bcc3d73-c2fe-40db-b72f-0c2ca9d68496"
13254 >
13255 <desc>
13256 Host audio driver type.
13257 </desc>
13258
13259 <const name="Null" value="0">
13260 <desc>Null value, also means "dummy audio driver".</desc>
13261 </const>
13262 <const name="WinMM" value="1">
13263 <desc>Windows multimedia (Windows hosts only).</desc>
13264 </const>
13265 <const name="OSS" value="2">
13266 <desc>Open Sound System (Linux hosts only).</desc>
13267 </const>
13268 <const name="ALSA" value="3">
13269 <desc>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (Linux hosts only).</desc>
13270 </const>
13271 <const name="DirectSound" value="4">
13272 <desc>DirectSound (Windows hosts only).</desc>
13273 </const>
13274 <const name="CoreAudio" value="5">
13275 <desc>CoreAudio (Mac hosts only).</desc>
13276 </const>
13277 <const name="MMPM" value="6">
13278 <desc>Reserved for historical reasons.</desc>
13279 </const>
13280 <const name="Pulse" value="7">
13281 <desc>PulseAudio (Linux hosts only).</desc>
13282 </const>
13283 <const name="SolAudio" value="8">
13284 <desc>Solaris audio (Solaris hosts only).</desc>
13285 </const>
13286 </enum>
13287
13288 <enum
13289 name="AudioControllerType"
13290 uuid="7afd395c-42c3-444e-8788-3ce80292f36c"
13291 >
13292 <desc>
13293 Virtual audio controller type.
13294 </desc>
13295
13296 <const name="AC97" value="0"/>
13297 <const name="SB16" value="1"/>
13298 <const name="HDA" value="2"/>
13299 </enum>
13300
13301 <interface
13302 name="IAudioAdapter" extends="$unknown"
13303 uuid="921873db-5f3f-4b69-91f9-7be9e535a2cb"
13304 wsmap="managed"
13305 >
13306 <desc>
13307 The IAudioAdapter interface represents the virtual audio adapter of
13308 the virtual machine. Used in <link to="IMachine::audioAdapter"/>.
13309 </desc>
13310 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
13311 <desc>
13312 Flag whether the audio adapter is present in the
13313 guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
13314 not contain any audio adapter. Can only be changed when
13315 the VM is not running.
13316 </desc>
13317 </attribute>
13318 <attribute name="audioController" type="AudioControllerType">
13319 <desc>
13320 The audio hardware we emulate.
13321 </desc>
13322 </attribute>
13323 <attribute name="audioDriver" type="AudioDriverType">
13324 <desc>
13325 Audio driver the adapter is connected to. This setting
13326 can only be changed when the VM is not running.
13327 </desc>
13328 </attribute>
13329 </interface>
13330
13331 <enum
13332 name="AuthType"
13333 uuid="7eef6ef6-98c2-4dc2-ab35-10d2b292028d"
13334 >
13335 <desc>
13336 VirtualBox authentication type.
13337 </desc>
13338
13339 <const name="Null" value="0">
13340 <desc>Null value, also means "no authentication".</desc>
13341 </const>
13342 <const name="External" value="1"/>
13343 <const name="Guest" value="2"/>
13344 </enum>
13345
13346 <!--
13347 // IVRDEServer
13348 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13349 -->
13350
13351 <interface
13352 name="IVRDEServer" extends="$unknown"
13353 uuid="be24e0db-e1d6-4d58-b85b-21053d1511b4"
13354 wsmap="managed"
13355 >
13356 <attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
13357 <desc>VRDE server status.</desc>
13358 </attribute>
13359
13360 <attribute name="authType" type="AuthType">
13361 <desc>VRDE authentication method.</desc>
13362 </attribute>
13363
13364 <attribute name="authTimeout" type="unsigned long">
13365 <desc>Timeout for guest authentication. Milliseconds.</desc>
13366 </attribute>
13367
13368 <attribute name="allowMultiConnection" type="boolean">
13369 <desc>
13370 Flag whether multiple simultaneous connections to the VM are permitted.
13371 Note that this will be replaced by a more powerful mechanism in the future.
13372 </desc>
13373 </attribute>
13374
13375 <attribute name="reuseSingleConnection" type="boolean">
13376 <desc>
13377 Flag whether the existing connection must be dropped and a new connection
13378 must be established by the VRDE server, when a new client connects in single
13379 connection mode.
13380 </desc>
13381 </attribute>
13382
13383 <attribute name="VRDEExtPack" type="wstring">
13384 <desc>
13385 The name of Extension Pack providing VRDE for this VM. Overrides
13386 <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultVRDEExtPack"/>.
13387 </desc>
13388 </attribute>
13389
13390 <attribute name="AuthLibrary" type="wstring">
13391 <desc>
13392 Library used for authentication of RDP clients by this VM. Overrides
13393 <link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary"/>.
13394 </desc>
13395 </attribute>
13396
13397 <attribute name="VRDEProperties" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
13398 <desc>
13399 Array of names of properties, which are supported by this VRDE server.
13400 </desc>
13401 </attribute>
13402
13403 <method name="setVRDEProperty">
13404 <desc>
13405 Sets a VRDE specific property string.
13406
13407 If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
13408 will be deleted.
13409
13410 </desc>
13411 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
13412 <desc>Name of the key to set.</desc>
13413 </param>
13414 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
13415 <desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
13416 </param>
13417 </method>
13418
13419 <method name="getVRDEProperty">
13420 <desc>
13421 Returns a VRDE specific property string.
13422
13423 If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
13424 succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
13425
13426 </desc>
13427 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
13428 <desc>Name of the key to get.</desc>
13429 </param>
13430 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
13431 <desc>Value of the requested key.</desc>
13432 </param>
13433 </method>
13434
13435 </interface>
13436
13437
13438 <!--
13439 // ISharedFolder
13440 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13441 -->
13442
13443 <interface
13444 name="ISharedFolder" extends="$unknown"
13445 uuid="8388da11-b559-4574-a5b7-2bd7acd5cef8"
13446 wsmap="struct"
13447 >
13448 <desc>
13449 The ISharedFolder interface represents a folder in the host computer's
13450 file system accessible from the guest OS running inside a virtual
13451 machine using an associated logical name.
13452
13453 There are three types of shared folders:
13454 <ul>
13455 <li><i>Global</i> (<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders"/>), shared
13456 folders available to all virtual machines.</li>
13457 <li><i>Permanent</i> (<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/>),
13458 VM-specific shared folders available to the given virtual machine at
13459 startup.</li>
13460 <li><i>Transient</i> (<link to="IConsole::sharedFolders"/>),
13461 VM-specific shared folders created in the session context (for
13462 example, when the virtual machine is running) and automatically
13463 discarded when the session is closed (the VM is powered off).</li>
13464 </ul>
13465
13466 Logical names of shared folders must be unique within the given scope
13467 (global, permanent or transient). However, they do not need to be unique
13468 across scopes. In this case, the definition of the shared folder in a
13469 more specific scope takes precedence over definitions in all other
13470 scopes. The order of precedence is (more specific to more general):
13471 <ol>
13472 <li>Transient definitions</li>
13473 <li>Permanent definitions</li>
13474 <li>Global definitions</li>
13475 </ol>
13476
13477 For example, if MyMachine has a shared folder named
13478 <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points to <tt>C:\\</tt>), then creating a
13479 transient shared folder named <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points
13480 to <tt>C:\\\\WINDOWS</tt>) will change the definition
13481 of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> in the guest OS so
13482 that <tt>\\\\VBOXSVR\\C_DRIVE</tt> will give access
13483 to <tt>C:\\WINDOWS</tt> instead of <tt>C:\\</tt> on the host
13484 PC. Removing the transient shared folder <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> will restore
13485 the previous (permanent) definition of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> that points
13486 to <tt>C:\\</tt> if it still exists.
13487
13488 Note that permanent and transient shared folders of different machines
13489 are in different name spaces, so they don't overlap and don't need to
13490 have unique logical names.
13491
13492 <note>
13493 Global shared folders are not implemented in the current version of the
13494 product.
13495 </note>
13496 </desc>
13497
13498 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13499 <desc>Logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
13500 </attribute>
13501
13502 <attribute name="hostPath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13503 <desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
13504 </attribute>
13505
13506 <attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13507 <desc>
13508 Whether the folder defined by the host path is currently
13509 accessible or not.
13510 For example, the folder can be inaccessible if it is placed
13511 on the network share that is not available by the time
13512 this property is read.
13513 </desc>
13514 </attribute>
13515
13516 <attribute name="writable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13517 <desc>
13518 Whether the folder defined by the host path is writable or
13519 not.
13520 </desc>
13521 </attribute>
13522
13523 <attribute name="autoMount" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13524 <desc>
13525 Whether the folder gets automatically mounted by the guest or not.
13526 </desc>
13527 </attribute>
13528
13529 <attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13530 <desc>
13531 Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
13532 check.
13533
13534 Accessibility checks are performed each time the <link to="#accessible"/>
13535 attribute is read. An empty string is returned if the last
13536 accessibility check was successful. A non-empty string indicates a
13537 failure and should normally describe a reason of the failure (for
13538 example, a file read error).
13539 </desc>
13540 </attribute>
13541
13542 </interface>
13543
13544 <!--
13545 // ISession
13546 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13547 -->
13548
13549 <interface
13550 name="IInternalSessionControl" extends="$unknown"
13551 uuid="3a975b65-27e7-42fa-9176-d097d7bd78d4"
13552 internal="yes"
13553 wsmap="suppress"
13554 >
13555 <method name="getPID">
13556 <desc>PID of the process that has created this Session object.
13557 </desc>
13558 <param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
13559 </method>
13560
13561 <method name="getRemoteConsole">
13562 <desc>
13563 Returns the console object suitable for remote control.
13564
13565 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13566 Session state prevents operation.
13567 </result>
13568 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13569 Session type prevents operation.
13570 </result>
13571
13572 </desc>
13573 <param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="return"/>
13574 </method>
13575
13576 <method name="assignMachine">
13577 <desc>
13578 Assigns the machine object associated with this direct-type
13579 session or informs the session that it will be a remote one
13580 (if @a machine == @c null).
13581
13582 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13583 Session state prevents operation.
13584 </result>
13585 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13586 Session type prevents operation.
13587 </result>
13588
13589 </desc>
13590 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
13591 </method>
13592
13593 <method name="assignRemoteMachine">
13594 <desc>
13595 Assigns the machine and the (remote) console object associated with
13596 this remote-type session.
13597
13598 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13599 Session state prevents operation.
13600 </result>
13601
13602 </desc>
13603 <param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
13604 <param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="in"/>
13605 </method>
13606
13607 <method name="updateMachineState">
13608 <desc>
13609 Updates the machine state in the VM process.
13610 Must be called only in certain cases
13611 (see the method implementation).
13612
13613 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13614 Session state prevents operation.
13615 </result>
13616 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13617 Session type prevents operation.
13618 </result>
13619
13620 </desc>
13621 <param name="aMachineState" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
13622 </method>
13623
13624 <method name="uninitialize">
13625 <desc>
13626 Uninitializes (closes) this session. Used by VirtualBox to close
13627 the corresponding remote session when the direct session dies
13628 or gets closed.
13629
13630 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13631 Session state prevents operation.
13632 </result>
13633
13634 </desc>
13635 </method>
13636
13637 <method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
13638 <desc>
13639 Triggered when settings of a network adapter of the
13640 associated virtual machine have changed.
13641
13642 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13643 Session state prevents operation.
13644 </result>
13645 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13646 Session type prevents operation.
13647 </result>
13648
13649 </desc>
13650 <param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in"/>
13651 <param name="changeAdapter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
13652 </method>
13653
13654 <method name="onSerialPortChange">
13655 <desc>
13656 Triggered when settings of a serial port of the
13657 associated virtual machine have changed.
13658
13659 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13660 Session state prevents operation.
13661 </result>
13662 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13663 Session type prevents operation.
13664 </result>
13665
13666 </desc>
13667 <param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in"/>
13668 </method>
13669
13670 <method name="onParallelPortChange">
13671 <desc>
13672 Triggered when settings of a parallel port of the
13673 associated virtual machine have changed.
13674
13675 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13676 Session state prevents operation.
13677 </result>
13678 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13679 Session type prevents operation.
13680 </result>
13681
13682 </desc>
13683 <param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in"/>
13684 </method>
13685
13686 <method name="onStorageControllerChange">
13687 <desc>
13688 Triggered when settings of a storage controller of the
13689 associated virtual machine have changed.
13690
13691 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13692 Session state prevents operation.
13693 </result>
13694 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13695 Session type prevents operation.
13696 </result>
13697
13698 </desc>
13699 </method>
13700
13701 <method name="onMediumChange">
13702 <desc>
13703 Triggered when attached media of the
13704 associated virtual machine have changed.
13705
13706 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13707 Session state prevents operation.
13708 </result>
13709 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13710 Session type prevents operation.
13711 </result>
13712
13713 </desc>
13714
13715 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in"/>
13716 <param name="force" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
13717 </method>
13718
13719 <method name="onStorageDeviceChange">
13720 <desc>
13721 Triggered when attached storage devices of the
13722 associated virtual machine have changed.
13723
13724 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13725 Session state prevents operation.
13726 </result>
13727 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13728 Session type prevents operation.
13729 </result>
13730
13731 </desc>
13732
13733 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in"/>
13734 <param name="remove" type="boolean" dir="in">
13735 <desc>TRUE if the device is removed, FALSE if it was added.</desc>
13736 </param>
13737 </method>
13738
13739 <method name="onCPUChange">
13740 <desc>
13741 Notification when a CPU changes.
13742 </desc>
13743 <param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13744 <desc>The CPU which changed</desc>
13745 </param>
13746 <param name="add" type="boolean" dir="in">
13747 <desc>Flag whether the CPU was added or removed</desc>
13748 </param>
13749 </method>
13750
13751 <method name="onCPUExecutionCapChange">
13752 <desc>
13753 Notification when the CPU execution cap changes.
13754 </desc>
13755 <param name="executionCap" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13756 <desc>The new CPU execution cap value. (1-100)</desc>
13757 </param>
13758 </method>
13759
13760 <method name="onVRDEServerChange">
13761 <desc>
13762 Triggered when settings of the VRDE server object of the
13763 associated virtual machine have changed.
13764
13765 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13766 Session state prevents operation.
13767 </result>
13768 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13769 Session type prevents operation.
13770 </result>
13771
13772 </desc>
13773 <param name="restart" type="boolean" dir="in">
13774 <desc>Flag whether the server must be restarted</desc>
13775 </param>
13776 </method>
13777
13778 <method name="onUSBControllerChange">
13779 <desc>
13780 Triggered when settings of the USB controller object of the
13781 associated virtual machine have changed.
13782
13783 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13784 Session state prevents operation.
13785 </result>
13786 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13787 Session type prevents operation.
13788 </result>
13789
13790 </desc>
13791 </method>
13792
13793 <method name="onSharedFolderChange">
13794 <desc>
13795 Triggered when a permanent (global or machine) shared folder has been
13796 created or removed.
13797 <note>
13798 We don't pass shared folder parameters in this notification because
13799 the order in which parallel notifications are delivered is not defined,
13800 therefore it could happen that these parameters were outdated by the
13801 time of processing this notification.
13802 </note>
13803
13804 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13805 Session state prevents operation.
13806 </result>
13807 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13808 Session type prevents operation.
13809 </result>
13810
13811 </desc>
13812 <param name="global" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
13813 </method>
13814
13815 <method name="onUSBDeviceAttach">
13816 <desc>
13817 Triggered when a request to capture a USB device (as a result
13818 of matched USB filters or direct call to
13819 <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
13820 A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
13821 describes a failure.
13822
13823 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13824 Session state prevents operation.
13825 </result>
13826 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13827 Session type prevents operation.
13828 </result>
13829
13830 </desc>
13831 <param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
13832 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
13833 <param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
13834 </method>
13835
13836 <method name="onUSBDeviceDetach">
13837 <desc>
13838 Triggered when a request to release the USB device (as a result
13839 of machine termination or direct call to
13840 <link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
13841 A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
13842 describes a failure.
13843
13844 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13845 Session state prevents operation.
13846 </result>
13847 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13848 Session type prevents operation.
13849 </result>
13850
13851 </desc>
13852 <param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
13853 <param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
13854 </method>
13855
13856 <method name="onShowWindow">
13857 <desc>
13858 Called by <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> and by
13859 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> in order to notify
13860 console listeners
13861 <link to="ICanShowWindowEvent"/>
13862 and <link to="IShowWindowEvent"/>.
13863
13864 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13865 Session type prevents operation.
13866 </result>
13867
13868 </desc>
13869 <param name="check" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
13870 <param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
13871 <param name="winId" type="long long" dir="out"/>
13872 </method>
13873
13874 <method name="onBandwidthGroupChange">
13875 <desc>
13876 Notification when one of the bandwidth groups change.
13877 </desc>
13878 <param name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="in">
13879 <desc>The bandwidth group which changed.</desc>
13880 </param>
13881 </method>
13882
13883 <method name="accessGuestProperty">
13884 <desc>
13885 Called by <link to="IMachine::getGuestProperty"/> and by
13886 <link to="IMachine::setGuestProperty"/> in order to read and
13887 modify guest properties.
13888
13889 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13890 Machine session is not open.
13891 </result>
13892 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13893 Session type is not direct.
13894 </result>
13895
13896 </desc>
13897 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13898 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13899 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
13900 <param name="isSetter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
13901 <param name="retValue" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
13902 <param name="retTimestamp" type="long long" dir="out"/>
13903 <param name="retFlags" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
13904 </method>
13905
13906 <method name="enumerateGuestProperties">
13907 <desc>
13908 Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
13909 with their values, time stamps and flags.
13910
13911 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13912 Machine session is not open.
13913 </result>
13914 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13915 Session type is not direct.
13916 </result>
13917
13918 </desc>
13919 <param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
13920 <desc>
13921 The patterns to match the properties against as a comma-separated
13922 string. If this is empty, all properties currently set will be
13923 returned.
13924 </desc>
13925 </param>
13926 <param name="key" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13927 <desc>
13928 The key names of the properties returned.
13929 </desc>
13930 </param>
13931 <param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13932 <desc>
13933 The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
13934 corresponding entries in the @a key array.
13935 </desc>
13936 </param>
13937 <param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13938 <desc>
13939 The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
13940 the corresponding entries in the @a key array.
13941 </desc>
13942 </param>
13943 <param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13944 <desc>
13945 The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
13946 corresponding entries in the @a key array.
13947 </desc>
13948 </param>
13949 </method>
13950
13951 <method name="onlineMergeMedium">
13952 <desc>
13953 Triggers online merging of a hard disk. Used internally when deleting
13954 a snapshot while a VM referring to the same hard disk chain is running.
13955
13956 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13957 Machine session is not open.
13958 </result>
13959 <result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13960 Session type is not direct.
13961 </result>
13962
13963 </desc>
13964 <param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
13965 <desc>The medium attachment to identify the medium chain.</desc>
13966 </param>
13967 <param name="sourceIdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13968 <desc>The index of the source image in the chain.
13969 Redundant, but drastically reduces IPC.</desc>
13970 </param>
13971 <param name="targetIdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13972 <desc>The index of the target image in the chain.
13973 Redundant, but drastically reduces IPC.</desc>
13974 </param>
13975 <param name="source" type="IMedium" dir="in">
13976 <desc>Merge source medium.</desc>
13977 </param>
13978 <param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
13979 <desc>Merge target medium.</desc>
13980 </param>
13981 <param name="mergeForward" type="boolean" dir="in">
13982 <desc>Merge direction.</desc>
13983 </param>
13984 <param name="parentForTarget" type="IMedium" dir="in">
13985 <desc>For forward merges: new parent for target medium.</desc>
13986 </param>
13987 <param name="childrenToReparent" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
13988 <desc>For backward merges: list of media which need their parent UUID
13989 updated.</desc>
13990 </param>
13991 <param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
13992 <desc>
13993 Progress object for this operation.
13994 </desc>
13995 </param>
13996 </method>
13997
13998 </interface>
13999
14000 <interface
14001 name="ISession" extends="$unknown"
14002 uuid="12F4DCDB-12B2-4EC1-B7CD-DDD9F6C5BF4D"
14003 wsmap="managed"
14004 >
14005 <desc>
14006 The ISession interface represents a client process and allows for locking
14007 virtual machines (represented by IMachine objects) to prevent conflicting
14008 changes to the machine.
14009
14010 Any caller wishing to manipulate a virtual machine needs to create a session
14011 object first, which lives in its own process space. Such session objects are
14012 then associated with <link to="IMachine" /> objects living in the VirtualBox
14013 server process to coordinate such changes.
14014
14015 There are two typical scenarios in which sessions are used:
14016
14017 <ul>
14018 <li>To alter machine settings or control a running virtual machine, one
14019 needs to lock a machine for a given session (client process) by calling
14020 <link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>.
14021
14022 Whereas multiple sessions may control a running virtual machine, only
14023 one process can obtain a write lock on the machine to prevent conflicting
14024 changes. A write lock is also needed if a process wants to actually run a
14025 virtual machine in its own context, such as the VirtualBox GUI or
14026 VBoxHeadless front-ends. They must also lock a machine for their own
14027 sessions before they are allowed to power up the virtual machine.
14028
14029 As a result, no machine settings can be altered while another process is
14030 already using it, either because that process is modifying machine settings
14031 or because the machine is running.
14032 </li>
14033 <li>
14034 To start a VM using one of the existing VirtualBox front-ends (e.g. the
14035 VirtualBox GUI or VBoxHeadless), one would use
14036 <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>, which also takes a session object
14037 as its first parameter. This session then identifies the caller and lets the
14038 caller control the started machine (for example, pause machine execution or
14039 power it down) as well as be notified about machine execution state changes.
14040 </li>
14041 </ul>
14042
14043 How sessions objects are created in a client process depends on whether you use
14044 the Main API via COM or via the webservice:
14045
14046 <ul>
14047 <li>When using the COM API directly, an object of the Session class from the
14048 VirtualBox type library needs to be created. In regular COM C++ client code,
14049 this can be done by calling <tt>createLocalObject()</tt>, a standard COM API.
14050 This object will then act as a local session object in further calls to open
14051 a session.
14052 </li>
14053
14054 <li>In the webservice, the session manager (IWebsessionManager) instead creates
14055 a session object automatically whenever <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" />
14056 is called. A managed object reference to that session object can be retrieved by
14057 calling <link to="IWebsessionManager::getSessionObject" />.
14058 </li>
14059 </ul>
14060 </desc>
14061
14062 <attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
14063 <desc>Current state of this session.</desc>
14064 </attribute>
14065
14066 <attribute name="type" type="SessionType" readonly="yes">
14067 <desc>
14068 Type of this session. The value of this attribute is valid only
14069 if the session currently has a machine locked (i.e. its
14070 <link to="#state" /> is Locked), otherwise an error will be returned.
14071 </desc>
14072 </attribute>
14073
14074 <attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
14075 <desc>Machine object associated with this session.</desc>
14076 </attribute>
14077
14078 <attribute name="console" type="IConsole" readonly="yes">
14079 <desc>Console object associated with this session.</desc>
14080 </attribute>
14081
14082 <method name="unlockMachine">
14083 <desc>
14084 Unlocks a machine that was previously locked for the current session.
14085
14086 Calling this method is required every time a machine has been locked
14087 for a particular session using the <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess" />
14088 or <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> calls. Otherwise the state of
14089 the machine will be set to <link to="MachineState_Aborted" /> on the
14090 server, and changes made to the machine settings will be lost.
14091
14092 Generally, it is recommended to unlock all machines explicitly
14093 before terminating the application (regardless of the reason for
14094 the termination).
14095
14096 <note>
14097 Do not expect the session state (<link to="ISession::state" />
14098 to return to "Unlocked" immediately after you invoke this method,
14099 particularly if you have started a new VM process. The session
14100 state will automatically return to "Unlocked" once the VM is no
14101 longer executing, which can of course take a very long time.
14102 </note>
14103
14104 <result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
14105 Session is not locked.
14106 </result>
14107
14108 </desc>
14109 </method>
14110
14111 </interface>
14112
14113 <!--
14114 // IStorageController
14115 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14116 -->
14117
14118 <enum
14119 name="StorageBus"
14120 uuid="eee67ab3-668d-4ef5-91e0-7025fe4a0d7a"
14121 >
14122 <desc>
14123 The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or Floppy);
14124 see <link to="IStorageController::bus" />.
14125 </desc>
14126 <const name="Null" value="0">
14127 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
14128 </const>
14129 <const name="IDE" value="1"/>
14130 <const name="SATA" value="2"/>
14131 <const name="SCSI" value="3"/>
14132 <const name="Floppy" value="4"/>
14133 <const name="SAS" value="5"/>
14134 </enum>
14135
14136 <enum
14137 name="StorageControllerType"
14138 uuid="8a412b8a-f43e-4456-bd37-b474f0879a58"
14139 >
14140 <desc>
14141 The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
14142 to the guest; see <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
14143 </desc>
14144
14145 <const name="Null" value="0">
14146 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
14147 </const>
14148 <const name="LsiLogic" value="1">
14149 <desc>A SCSI controller of the LsiLogic variant.</desc>
14150 </const>
14151 <const name="BusLogic" value="2">
14152 <desc>A SCSI controller of the BusLogic variant.</desc>
14153 </const>
14154 <const name="IntelAhci" value="3">
14155 <desc>An Intel AHCI SATA controller; this is the only variant for SATA.</desc>
14156 </const>
14157 <const name="PIIX3" value="4">
14158 <desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX3 variant.</desc>
14159 </const>
14160 <const name="PIIX4" value="5">
14161 <desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX4 variant.</desc>
14162 </const>
14163 <const name="ICH6" value="6">
14164 <desc>An IDE controller of the ICH6 variant.</desc>
14165 </const>
14166 <const name="I82078" value="7">
14167 <desc>A floppy disk controller; this is the only variant for floppy drives.</desc>
14168 </const>
14169 <const name="LsiLogicSas" value="8">
14170 <desc>A variant of the LsiLogic controller using SAS.</desc>
14171 </const>
14172 </enum>
14173
14174 <enum
14175 name="ChipsetType"
14176 uuid="8b4096a8-a7c3-4d3b-bbb1-05a0a51ec394"
14177 >
14178 <desc>
14179 Type of emulated chipset (mostly southbridge).
14180 </desc>
14181
14182 <const name="Null" value="0">
14183 <desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
14184 </const>
14185 <const name="PIIX3" value="1">
14186 <desc>A PIIX3 (PCI IDE ISA Xcelerator) chipset.</desc>
14187 </const>
14188 <const name="ICH9" value="2">
14189 <desc>A ICH9 (I/O Controller Hub) chipset.</desc>
14190 </const>
14191 </enum>
14192
14193 <interface
14194 name="IStorageController" extends="$unknown"
14195 uuid="a1556333-09b6-46d9-bfb7-fc239b7fbe1e"
14196 wsmap="managed"
14197 >
14198 <desc>
14199 Represents a storage controller that is attached to a virtual machine
14200 (<link to="IMachine" />). Just as drives (hard disks, DVDs, FDs) are
14201 attached to storage controllers in a real computer, virtual drives
14202 (represented by <link to="IMediumAttachment" />) are attached to virtual
14203 storage controllers, represented by this interface.
14204
14205 As opposed to physical hardware, VirtualBox has a very generic concept
14206 of a storage controller, and for purposes of the Main API, all virtual
14207 storage is attached to virtual machines via instances of this interface.
14208 There are five types of such virtual storage controllers: IDE, SCSI, SATA,
14209 SAS and Floppy (see <link to="#bus" />). Depending on which of these four
14210 is used, certain sub-types may be available and can be selected in
14211 <link to="#controllerType" />.
14212
14213 Depending on these settings, the guest operating system might see
14214 significantly different virtual hardware.
14215 </desc>
14216
14217 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14218 <desc>
14219 Name of the storage controller, as originally specified with
14220 <link to="IMachine::addStorageController" />. This then uniquely
14221 identifies this controller with other method calls such as
14222 <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> and <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />.
14223 </desc>
14224 </attribute>
14225
14226 <attribute name="maxDevicesPerPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14227 <desc>
14228 Maximum number of devices which can be attached to one port.
14229 </desc>
14230 </attribute>
14231
14232 <attribute name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14233 <desc>
14234 Minimum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
14235 </desc>
14236 </attribute>
14237
14238 <attribute name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14239 <desc>
14240 Maximum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
14241 </desc>
14242 </attribute>
14243
14244 <attribute name="instance" type="unsigned long">
14245 <desc>
14246 The instance number of the device in the running VM.
14247 </desc>
14248 </attribute>
14249
14250 <attribute name="portCount" type="unsigned long">
14251 <desc>
14252 The number of currently usable ports on the controller.
14253 The minimum and maximum number of ports for one controller are
14254 stored in <link to="IStorageController::minPortCount"/>
14255 and <link to="IStorageController::maxPortCount"/>.
14256 </desc>
14257 </attribute>
14258
14259 <attribute name="bus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
14260 <desc>
14261 The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or Floppy).
14262 </desc>
14263 </attribute>
14264
14265 <attribute name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType">
14266 <desc>
14267 The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
14268 to the guest.
14269 Depending on this value, VirtualBox will provide a different
14270 virtual storage controller hardware to the guest.
14271 For SATA, SAS and floppy controllers, only one variant is
14272 available, but for IDE and SCSI, there are several.
14273
14274 For SCSI controllers, the default type is LsiLogic.
14275 </desc>
14276 </attribute>
14277
14278 <attribute name="useHostIOCache" type="boolean">
14279 <desc>
14280 If true, the storage controller emulation will use a dedicated I/O thread, enable the host I/O
14281 caches and use synchronous file APIs on the host. This was the only option in the API before
14282 VirtualBox 3.2 and is still the default for IDE controllers.
14283
14284 If false, the host I/O cache will be disabled for image files attached to this storage controller.
14285 Instead, the storage controller emulation will use asynchronous I/O APIs on the host. This makes
14286 it possible to turn off the host I/O caches because the emulation can handle unaligned access to
14287 the file. This should be used on OS X and Linux hosts if a high I/O load is expected or many
14288 virtual machines are running at the same time to prevent I/O cache related hangs.
14289 This option new with the API of VirtualBox 3.2 and is now the default for non-IDE storage controllers.
14290 </desc>
14291 </attribute>
14292
14293 <attribute name="bootable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14294 <desc>
14295 Returns whether it is possible to boot from disks attached to this controller.
14296 </desc>
14297 </attribute>
14298
14299 <method name="getIDEEmulationPort">
14300 <desc>
14301 Gets the corresponding port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
14302 Works only with SATA controllers.
14303
14304 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
14305 The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3.
14306 </result>
14307 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
14308 The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
14309 </result>
14310
14311 </desc>
14312 <param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
14313 <param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="return"/>
14314 </method>
14315
14316 <method name="setIDEEmulationPort">
14317 <desc>
14318 Sets the port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
14319 Works only with SATA controllers.
14320
14321 <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
14322 The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3 or the
14323 @a portNumber is not in the range 0 to 29.
14324 </result>
14325 <result name="E_NOTIMPL">
14326 The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
14327 </result>
14328
14329 </desc>
14330 <param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
14331 <param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="in"/>
14332 </method>
14333
14334 </interface>
14335
14336<if target="wsdl">
14337
14338 <!--
14339 // IManagedObjectRef
14340 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14341 -->
14342
14343 <interface
14344 name="IManagedObjectRef" extends="$unknown"
14345 uuid="9474d09d-2313-46de-b568-a42b8718e8ed"
14346 internal="yes"
14347 wsmap="managed"
14348 wscpp="hardcoded"
14349 >
14350 <desc>
14351 Managed object reference.
14352
14353 Only within the webservice, a managed object reference (which is really
14354 an opaque number) allows a webservice client to address an object
14355 that lives in the address space of the webservice server.
14356
14357 Behind each managed object reference, there is a COM object that lives
14358 in the webservice server's address space. The COM object is not freed
14359 until the managed object reference is released, either by an explicit
14360 call to <link to="IManagedObjectRef::release" /> or by logging off from
14361 the webservice (<link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />), which releases
14362 all objects created during the webservice session.
14363
14364 Whenever a method call of the VirtualBox API returns a COM object, the
14365 webservice representation of that method will instead return a
14366 managed object reference, which can then be used to invoke methods
14367 on that object.
14368 </desc>
14369
14370 <method name="getInterfaceName">
14371 <desc>
14372 Returns the name of the interface that this managed object represents,
14373 for example, "IMachine", as a string.
14374 </desc>
14375 <param name="return" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
14376 </method>
14377
14378 <method name="release">
14379 <desc>
14380 Releases this managed object reference and frees the resources that
14381 were allocated for it in the webservice server process. After calling
14382 this method, the identifier of the reference can no longer be used.
14383 </desc>
14384 </method>
14385
14386 </interface>
14387
14388 <!--
14389 // IWebsessionManager
14390 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14391 -->
14392
14393 <interface
14394 name="IWebsessionManager" extends="$unknown"
14395 uuid="dea1b4c7-2de3-418a-850d-7868617f7733"
14396 internal="yes"
14397 wsmap="global"
14398 wscpp="hardcoded"
14399 >
14400 <desc>
14401 Websession manager. This provides essential services
14402 to webservice clients.
14403 </desc>
14404 <method name="logon">
14405 <desc>
14406 Logs a new client onto the webservice and returns a managed object reference to
14407 the IVirtualBox instance, which the client can then use as a basis to further
14408 queries, since all calls to the VirtualBox API are based on the IVirtualBox
14409 interface, in one way or the other.
14410 </desc>
14411 <param name="username" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
14412 <param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
14413 <param name="return" type="IVirtualBox" dir="return"/>
14414 </method>
14415
14416 <method name="getSessionObject">
14417 <desc>
14418 Returns a managed object reference to the internal ISession object that was created
14419 for this web service session when the client logged on.
14420
14421 <see>ISession</see>
14422 </desc>
14423 <param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
14424 <param name="return" type="ISession" dir="return"/>
14425 </method>
14426
14427 <method name="logoff">
14428 <desc>
14429 Logs off the client who has previously logged on with <link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />
14430 and destroys all resources associated with the session (most importantly, all
14431 managed objects created in the server while the session was active).
14432 </desc>
14433 <param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
14434 </method>
14435
14436 </interface>
14437
14438</if>
14439
14440 <!--
14441 // IPerformanceCollector & friends
14442 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14443 -->
14444
14445 <interface
14446 name="IPerformanceMetric" extends="$unknown"
14447 uuid="2a1a60ae-9345-4019-ad53-d34ba41cbfe9" wsmap="managed"
14448 >
14449 <desc>
14450 The IPerformanceMetric interface represents parameters of the given
14451 performance metric.
14452 </desc>
14453
14454 <attribute name="metricName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14455 <desc>
14456 Name of the metric.
14457 </desc>
14458 </attribute>
14459
14460 <attribute name="object" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
14461 <desc>
14462 Object this metric belongs to.
14463 </desc>
14464 </attribute>
14465
14466 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14467 <desc>
14468 Textual description of the metric.
14469 </desc>
14470 </attribute>
14471
14472 <attribute name="period" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14473 <desc>
14474 Time interval between samples, measured in seconds.
14475 </desc>
14476 </attribute>
14477
14478 <attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14479 <desc>
14480 Number of recent samples retained by the performance collector for this
14481 metric.
14482
14483 When the collected sample count exceeds this number, older samples
14484 are discarded.
14485 </desc>
14486 </attribute>
14487
14488 <attribute name="unit" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14489 <desc>
14490 Unit of measurement.
14491 </desc>
14492 </attribute>
14493
14494 <attribute name="minimumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
14495 <desc>
14496 Minimum possible value of this metric.
14497 </desc>
14498 </attribute>
14499
14500 <attribute name="maximumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
14501 <desc>
14502 Maximum possible value of this metric.
14503 </desc>
14504 </attribute>
14505 </interface>
14506
14507 <interface
14508 name="IPerformanceCollector" extends="$unknown"
14509 uuid="e22e1acb-ac4a-43bb-a31c-17321659b0c6"
14510 wsmap="managed"
14511 >
14512 <desc>
14513 The IPerformanceCollector interface represents a service that collects
14514 and stores performance metrics data.
14515
14516 Performance metrics are associated with objects of interfaces like IHost
14517 and IMachine. Each object has a distinct set of performance metrics. The
14518 set can be obtained with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/>.
14519
14520 Metric data is collected at the specified intervals and is retained
14521 internally. The interval and the number of retained samples can be set
14522 with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. Both metric data
14523 and collection settings are not persistent, they are discarded as soon as
14524 VBoxSVC process terminates. Moreover, metric settings and data associated
14525 with a particular VM only exist while VM is running. They disappear as
14526 soon as VM shuts down. It is not possible to set up metrics for machines
14527 that are powered off. One needs to start VM first, then set up metric
14528 collection parameters.
14529
14530 Metrics are organized hierarchically, with each level separated by a
14531 slash (/) character. Generally, the scheme for metric names is like this:
14532
14533 <tt>Category/Metric[/SubMetric][:aggregation]</tt>
14534
14535 "Category/Metric" together form the base metric name. A base metric is
14536 the smallest unit for which a sampling interval and the number of
14537 retained samples can be set. Only base metrics can be enabled and
14538 disabled. All sub-metrics are collected when their base metric is
14539 collected. Collected values for any set of sub-metrics can be queried
14540 with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />.
14541
14542 For example "CPU/Load/User:avg" metric name stands for the "CPU"
14543 category, "Load" metric, "User" submetric, "average" aggregate. An
14544 aggregate function is computed over all retained data. Valid aggregate
14545 functions are:
14546
14547 <ul>
14548 <li>avg -- average</li>
14549 <li>min -- minimum</li>
14550 <li>max -- maximum</li>
14551 </ul>
14552
14553 When setting up metric parameters, querying metric data, enabling or
14554 disabling metrics wildcards can be used in metric names to specify a
14555 subset of metrics. For example, to select all CPU-related metrics
14556 use <tt>CPU/*</tt>, all averages can be queried using <tt>*:avg</tt> and
14557 so on. To query metric values without aggregates <tt>*:</tt> can be used.
14558
14559 The valid names for base metrics are:
14560
14561 <ul>
14562 <li>CPU/Load</li>
14563 <li>CPU/MHz</li>
14564 <li>RAM/Usage</li>
14565 <li>RAM/VMM</li>
14566 </ul>
14567
14568 The general sequence for collecting and retrieving the metrics is:
14569 <ul>
14570 <li>
14571 Obtain an instance of IPerformanceCollector with
14572 <link to="IVirtualBox::performanceCollector" />
14573 </li>
14574 <li>
14575 Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metrics
14576 will be collected for. Use references to IHost and IMachine objects.
14577 </li>
14578 <li>
14579 Allocate and populate an array with base metric names the data will
14580 be collected for.
14581 </li>
14582 <li>
14583 Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. From now on
14584 the metric data will be collected and stored.
14585 </li>
14586 <li>
14587 Wait for the data to get collected.
14588 </li>
14589 <li>
14590 Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metric
14591 values will be queried for. You can re-use the object array used for
14592 setting base metrics.
14593 </li>
14594 <li>
14595 Allocate and populate an array with metric names the data will be
14596 collected for. Note that metric names differ from base metric names.
14597 </li>
14598 <li>
14599 Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />. The data
14600 that have been collected so far are returned. Note that the values
14601 are still retained internally and data collection continues.
14602 </li>
14603 </ul>
14604
14605 For an example of usage refer to the following files in VirtualBox SDK:
14606 <ul>
14607 <li>
14608 Java: <tt>bindings/webservice/java/jax-ws/samples/metrictest.java</tt>
14609 </li>
14610 <li>
14611 Python: <tt>bindings/xpcom/python/sample/shellcommon.py</tt>
14612 </li>
14613 </ul>
14614 </desc>
14615
14616 <attribute name="metricNames" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
14617 <desc>
14618 Array of unique names of metrics.
14619
14620 This array represents all metrics supported by the performance
14621 collector. Individual objects do not necessarily support all of them.
14622 <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/> can be used to get the
14623 list of supported metrics for a particular object.
14624 </desc>
14625 </attribute>
14626
14627 <method name="getMetrics">
14628 <desc>
14629 Returns parameters of specified metrics for a set of objects.
14630 <note>
14631 @c Null metrics array means all metrics. @c Null object array means
14632 all existing objects.
14633 </note>
14634 </desc>
14635 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14636 <desc>
14637 Metric name filter. Currently, only a comma-separated list of metrics
14638 is supported.
14639 </desc>
14640 </param>
14641 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14642 <desc>
14643 Set of objects to return metric parameters for.
14644 </desc>
14645 </param>
14646 <param name="metrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
14647 <desc>
14648 Array of returned metric parameters.
14649 </desc>
14650 </param>
14651 </method>
14652
14653 <method name="setupMetrics">
14654 <desc>
14655 Sets parameters of specified base metrics for a set of objects. Returns
14656 an array of <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics
14657 have been affected.
14658 <note>
14659 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
14660 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
14661 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
14662 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
14663 form metric/object pairs.
14664 </note>
14665 </desc>
14666 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14667 <desc>
14668 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
14669 support.
14670 </desc>
14671 </param>
14672 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14673 <desc>
14674 Set of objects to setup metric parameters for.
14675 </desc>
14676 </param>
14677 <param name="period" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14678 <desc>
14679 Time interval in seconds between two consecutive samples of
14680 performance data.
14681 </desc>
14682 </param>
14683 <param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14684 <desc>
14685 Number of samples to retain in performance data history. Older
14686 samples get discarded.
14687 </desc>
14688 </param>
14689 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
14690 <desc>
14691 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
14692 </desc>
14693 </param>
14694 </method>
14695
14696 <method name="enableMetrics">
14697 <desc>
14698 Turns on collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
14699 <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
14700 affected.
14701 <note>
14702 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
14703 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
14704 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
14705 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
14706 form metric/object pairs.
14707 </note>
14708 </desc>
14709 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14710 <desc>
14711 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
14712 support.
14713 </desc>
14714 </param>
14715 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14716 <desc>
14717 Set of objects to enable metrics for.
14718 </desc>
14719 </param>
14720 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
14721 <desc>
14722 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
14723 </desc>
14724 </param>
14725 </method>
14726
14727 <method name="disableMetrics">
14728 <desc>
14729 Turns off collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
14730 <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
14731 affected.
14732 <note>
14733 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
14734 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
14735 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
14736 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
14737 form metric/object pairs.
14738 </note>
14739 </desc>
14740 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14741 <desc>
14742 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
14743 support.
14744 </desc>
14745 </param>
14746 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14747 <desc>
14748 Set of objects to disable metrics for.
14749 </desc>
14750 </param>
14751 <param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
14752 <desc>
14753 Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
14754 </desc>
14755 </param>
14756 </method>
14757
14758 <method name="queryMetricsData">
14759 <desc>
14760 Queries collected metrics data for a set of objects.
14761
14762 The data itself and related metric information are returned in seven
14763 parallel and one flattened array of arrays. Elements of
14764 <tt>returnMetricNames, returnObjects, returnUnits, returnScales,
14765 returnSequenceNumbers, returnDataIndices and returnDataLengths</tt> with
14766 the same index describe one set of values corresponding to a single
14767 metric.
14768
14769 The <tt>returnData</tt> parameter is a flattened array of arrays. Each
14770 start and length of a sub-array is indicated by
14771 <tt>returnDataIndices</tt> and <tt>returnDataLengths</tt>. The first
14772 value for metric <tt>metricNames[i]</tt> is at
14773 <tt>returnData[returnIndices[i]]</tt>.
14774
14775 <note>
14776 @c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
14777 empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
14778 contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
14779 metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
14780 form metric/object pairs.
14781 </note>
14782 <note>
14783 Data collection continues behind the scenes after call to @c
14784 queryMetricsData. The return data can be seen as the snapshot of the
14785 current state at the time of @c queryMetricsData call. The internally
14786 kept metric values are not cleared by the call. This makes possible
14787 querying different subsets of metrics or aggregates with subsequent
14788 calls. If periodic querying is needed it is highly suggested to query
14789 the values with @c interval*count period to avoid confusion. This way
14790 a completely new set of data values will be provided by each query.
14791 </note>
14792 </desc>
14793 <param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14794 <desc>
14795 Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
14796 support.
14797 </desc>
14798 </param>
14799 <param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
14800 <desc>
14801 Set of objects to query metrics for.
14802 </desc>
14803 </param>
14804 <param name="returnMetricNames" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14805 <desc>
14806 Names of metrics returned in @c returnData.
14807 </desc>
14808 </param>
14809 <param name="returnObjects" type="$unknown" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14810 <desc>
14811 Objects associated with metrics returned in @c returnData.
14812 </desc>
14813 </param>
14814 <param name="returnUnits" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14815 <desc>
14816 Units of measurement for each returned metric.
14817 </desc>
14818 </param>
14819 <param name="returnScales" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14820 <desc>
14821 Divisor that should be applied to return values in order to get
14822 floating point values. For example:
14823 <tt>(double)returnData[returnDataIndices[0]+i] / returnScales[0]</tt>
14824 will retrieve the floating point value of i-th sample of the first
14825 metric.
14826 </desc>
14827 </param>
14828 <param name="returnSequenceNumbers" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14829 <desc>
14830 Sequence numbers of the first elements of value sequences of
14831 particular metrics returned in @c returnData. For aggregate metrics
14832 it is the sequence number of the sample the aggregate started
14833 calculation from.
14834 </desc>
14835 </param>
14836 <param name="returnDataIndices" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14837 <desc>
14838 Indices of the first elements of value sequences of particular
14839 metrics returned in @c returnData.
14840 </desc>
14841 </param>
14842 <param name="returnDataLengths" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14843 <desc>
14844 Lengths of value sequences of particular metrics.
14845 </desc>
14846 </param>
14847 <param name="returnData" type="long" dir="return" safearray="yes">
14848 <desc>
14849 Flattened array of all metric data containing sequences of values for
14850 each metric.
14851 </desc>
14852 </param>
14853 </method>
14854
14855 </interface>
14856
14857 <enum
14858 name="NATAliasMode"
14859 uuid="67772168-50d9-11df-9669-7fb714ee4fa1"
14860 >
14861 <desc></desc>
14862 <const name="AliasLog" value="0x1">
14863 <desc></desc>
14864 </const>
14865 <const name="AliasProxyOnly" value="0x02">
14866 <desc></desc>
14867 </const>
14868 <const name="AliasUseSamePorts" value="0x04">
14869 <desc></desc>
14870 </const>
14871 </enum>
14872
14873 <enum
14874 name="NATProtocol"
14875 uuid="e90164be-eb03-11de-94af-fff9b1c1b19f"
14876 >
14877 <desc>Protocol definitions used with NAT port-forwarding rules.</desc>
14878 <const name="UDP" value="0">
14879 <desc>Port-forwarding uses UDP protocol.</desc>
14880 </const>
14881 <const name="TCP" value="1">
14882 <desc>Port-forwarding uses TCP protocol.</desc>
14883 </const>
14884 </enum>
14885
14886 <interface
14887 name="INATEngine" extends="$unknown"
14888 uuid="4b286616-eb03-11de-b0fb-1701eca42246"
14889 wsmap="managed"
14890 >
14891 <desc>Interface for managing a NAT engine which is used with a virtual machine. This
14892 allows for changing NAT behavior such as port-forwarding rules. This interface is
14893 used in the <link to="INetworkAdapter::natDriver" /> attribute.</desc>
14894 <attribute name="network" type="wstring">
14895 <desc>The network attribute of the NAT engine (the same value is used with built-in
14896 DHCP server to fill corresponding fields of DHCP leases).</desc>
14897 </attribute>
14898 <attribute name="hostIP" type="wstring">
14899 <desc>IP of host interface to bind all opened sockets to.
14900 <note>Changing this does not change binding of port forwarding.</note>
14901 </desc>
14902 </attribute>
14903 <attribute name="tftpPrefix" type="wstring">
14904 <desc>TFTP prefix attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
14905 the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.</desc>
14906 </attribute>
14907 <attribute name="tftpBootFile" type="wstring">
14908 <desc>TFTP boot file attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
14909 the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.</desc>
14910 </attribute>
14911 <attribute name="tftpNextServer" type="wstring">
14912 <desc>TFTP server attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
14913 the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.
14914 <note>The preferred form is IPv4 addresses.</note>
14915 </desc>
14916 </attribute>
14917 <attribute name="aliasMode" type="unsigned long">
14918 <desc></desc>
14919 </attribute>
14920 <attribute name="dnsPassDomain" type="boolean">
14921 <desc>Whether the DHCP server should pass the DNS domain used by the host.</desc>
14922 </attribute>
14923 <attribute name="dnsProxy" type="boolean">
14924 <desc>Whether the DHCP server (and the DNS traffic by NAT) should pass the address
14925 of the DNS proxy and process traffic using DNS servers registered on the host.</desc>
14926 </attribute>
14927 <attribute name="dnsUseHostResolver" type="boolean">
14928 <desc>Whether the DHCP server (and the DNS traffic by NAT) should pass the address
14929 of the DNS proxy and process traffic using the host resolver mechanism.</desc>
14930 </attribute>
14931 <attribute name="redirects" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
14932 <desc>Array of NAT port-forwarding rules in string representation, in the following
14933 format: "name,protocol id,host ip,host port,guest ip,guest port".</desc>
14934 </attribute>
14935 <method name="setNetworkSettings">
14936 <desc>Sets network configuration of the NAT engine.</desc>
14937 <param name="mtu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14938 <desc>MTU (maximum transmission unit) of the NAT engine in bytes.</desc>
14939 </param>
14940 <param name="sockSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14941 <desc>Capacity of the socket send buffer in bytes when creating a new socket.</desc>
14942 </param>
14943 <param name="sockRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14944 <desc>Capacity of the socket receive buffer in bytes when creating a new socket.</desc>
14945 </param>
14946 <param name="TcpWndSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14947 <desc>Initial size of the NAT engine's sending TCP window in bytes when
14948 establishing a new TCP connection.</desc>
14949 </param>
14950 <param name="TcpWndRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14951 <desc>Initial size of the NAT engine's receiving TCP window in bytes when
14952 establishing a new TCP connection.</desc>
14953 </param>
14954 </method>
14955 <method name="getNetworkSettings">
14956 <desc>Returns network configuration of NAT engine. See <link to="#setNetworkSettings" />
14957 for parameter descriptions.</desc>
14958 <param name="mtu" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14959 <param name="sockSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14960 <param name="sockRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14961 <param name="TcpWndSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14962 <param name="TcpWndRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
14963 </method>
14964 <method name="addRedirect">
14965 <desc>Adds a new NAT port-forwarding rule.</desc>
14966 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
14967 <desc>The name of the rule. An empty name is acceptable, in which case the NAT engine
14968 auto-generates one using the other parameters.</desc>
14969 </param>
14970 <param name="proto" type="NATProtocol" dir="in">
14971 <desc>Protocol handled with the rule.</desc>
14972 </param>
14973 <param name="hostIp" type="wstring" dir="in">
14974 <desc>IP of the host interface to which the rule should apply. An empty ip address is
14975 acceptable, in which case the NAT engine binds the handling socket to any interface.</desc>
14976 </param>
14977 <param name="hostPort" type="unsigned short" dir="in">
14978 <desc>The port number to listen on.</desc>
14979 </param>
14980 <param name="guestIp" type="wstring" dir="in">
14981 <desc>The IP address of the guest which the NAT engine will forward matching packets
14982 to. An empty IP address is acceptable, in which case the NAT engine will forward
14983 packets to the first DHCP lease (x.x.x.15).</desc>
14984 </param>
14985 <param name="guestPort" type="unsigned short" dir="in">
14986 <desc>The port number to forward.</desc>
14987 </param>
14988 </method>
14989 <method name="removeRedirect">
14990 <desc>Removes a port-forwarding rule that was previously registered.</desc>
14991 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
14992 <desc>The name of the rule to delete.</desc>
14993 </param>
14994 </method>
14995 </interface>
14996
14997 <!--
14998 // IExtPackManager
14999 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15000 -->
15001
15002 <interface
15003 name="IExtPackPlugIn" extends="$unknown"
15004 uuid="58000040-e718-4746-bbce-4b86d96da461"
15005 wsmap="suppress"
15006 >
15007 <desc>
15008 Interface for keeping information about a plug-in that ships with an
15009 extension pack.
15010 </desc>
15011 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15012 <desc>The plug-in name.</desc>
15013 </attribute>
15014 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15015 <desc>The plug-in description.</desc>
15016 </attribute>
15017 <attribute name="frontend" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15018 <desc>
15019 The name of the frontend or component name this plug-in plugs into.
15020 </desc>
15021 </attribute>
15022 <attribute name="modulePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15023 <desc> The module path. </desc>
15024 </attribute>
15025 </interface>
15026
15027 <interface
15028 name="IExtPackBase" extends="$unknown"
15029 uuid="5ffb0b64-0ad6-467d-af62-1157e7dc3c99"
15030 wsmap="suppress"
15031 >
15032 <desc>
15033 Interface for querying information about an extension pack as well as
15034 accessing COM objects within it.
15035 </desc>
15036 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15037 <desc>The extension pack name. This is unique.</desc>
15038 </attribute>
15039 <attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15040 <desc>The extension pack description.</desc>
15041 </attribute>
15042 <attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15043 <desc>
15044 The extension pack version string. This is on the same form as
15045 other VirtualBox version strings, i.e.: "1.2.3", "1.2.3_BETA1",
15046 "1.2.3-OSE", "1.2.3r45678", "1.2.3r45678-OSE", "1.2.3_BETA1-r45678"
15047 or "1.2.3_BETA1-r45678-OSE"
15048 </desc>
15049 </attribute>
15050 <attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15051 <desc>The extension pack internal revision number.</desc>
15052 </attribute>
15053 <attribute name="VRDEModule" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15054 <desc>The name of the VRDE module if the extension pack sports one.</desc>
15055 </attribute>
15056 <attribute name="plugIns" type="IExtPackPlugIn" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
15057 <desc>Plug-ins provided by this extension pack.</desc>
15058 </attribute>
15059 <attribute name="usable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15060 <desc>
15061 Indicates whether the extension pack is usable or not.
15062
15063 There are a number of reasons why an extension pack might be unusable,
15064 typical examples would be broken installation/file or that it is
15065 incompatible with the current VirtualBox version.
15066 </desc>
15067 </attribute>
15068 <attribute name="whyUnusable" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15069 <desc>
15070 String indicating why the extension pack is not usable. This is an
15071 empty string if usable and always a non-empty string if not usable.
15072 </desc>
15073 </attribute>
15074 <attribute name="showLicense" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15075 <desc>Whether to show the license before installation</desc>
15076 </attribute>
15077 <attribute name="license" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15078 <desc>
15079 The default HTML license text for the extension pack. Same as
15080 calling <link to="#queryLicense">queryLicense</link> with
15081 preferredLocale and preferredLanguage as empty strings and format set
15082 to html.
15083 </desc>
15084 </attribute>
15085
15086 <method name="queryLicense">
15087 <desc>
15088 Full feature version of the license attribute.
15089 </desc>
15090 <param name="preferredLocale" type="wstring" dir="in">
15091 <desc>
15092 The preferred license locale. Pass an empty string to get the default
15093 license.
15094 </desc>
15095 </param>
15096 <param name="preferredLanguage" type="wstring" dir="in">
15097 <desc>
15098 The preferred license language. Pass an empty string to get the
15099 default language for the locale.
15100 </desc>
15101 </param>
15102 <param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
15103 <desc>
15104 The license format: html, rtf or txt. If a license is present there
15105 will always be an HTML of it, the rich text format (RTF) and plain
15106 text (txt) versions are optional. If
15107 </desc>
15108 </param>
15109 <param name="licenseText" type="wstring" dir="return">
15110 <desc>The license text.</desc>
15111 </param>
15112 </method>
15113
15114 </interface>
15115
15116 <interface
15117 name="IExtPack" extends="IExtPackBase"
15118 uuid="431685da-3618-4ebc-b038-833ba829b4b2"
15119 wsmap="suppress"
15120 >
15121 <desc>
15122 Interface for querying information about an extension pack as well as
15123 accessing COM objects within it.
15124 </desc>
15125 <method name="queryObject">
15126 <desc>
15127 Queries the IUnknown interface to an object in the extension pack
15128 main module. This allows plug-ins and others to talk directly to an
15129 extension pack.
15130 </desc>
15131 <param name="objUuid" type="wstring" dir="in">
15132 <desc>The object ID. What exactly this is </desc>
15133 </param>
15134 <param name="returnInterface" type="$unknown" dir="return">
15135 <desc>The queried interface.</desc>
15136 </param>
15137 </method>
15138 </interface>
15139
15140 <interface
15141 name="IExtPackFile" extends="IExtPackBase"
15142 uuid="b6b49f55-efcc-4f08-b486-56e8d8afb10b"
15143 wsmap="suppress"
15144 >
15145 <desc>
15146 Extension pack file (aka tarball, .vbox-extpack) representation returned
15147 by IExtPackManager::openExtPackFile. This provides the base extension
15148 pack information with the addition of the file name. It also provides an
15149 alternative to IExtPackManager::install.
15150 </desc>
15151 <attribute name="filePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15152 <desc>
15153 The path to the extension pack file.
15154 </desc>
15155 </attribute>
15156
15157 <method name="install">
15158 <desc>
15159 Install the extension pack.
15160 </desc>
15161 <param name="replace" type="boolean" dir="in">
15162 <desc>
15163 Set this to automatically uninstall any existing extension pack with
15164 the same name as the one being installed.
15165 </desc>
15166 </param>
15167 <param name="displayInfo" type="wstring" dir="in">
15168 <desc>
15169 Platform specific display information. Reserved for future hacks.
15170 </desc>
15171 </param>
15172 <param name="progess" type="IProgress" dir="return">
15173 <desc>
15174 Progress object for the operation.
15175 </desc>
15176 </param>
15177 </method>
15178 </interface>
15179
15180 <interface
15181 name="IExtPackManager" extends="$unknown"
15182 uuid="2451b1ba-ab1c-42fb-b453-c58433bea8c7"
15183 wsmap="suppress"
15184 >
15185 <desc>
15186 Interface for managing VirtualBox Extension Packs.
15187
15188 TODO: Describe extension packs, how they are managed and how to create
15189 one.
15190 </desc>
15191
15192 <attribute name="installedExtPacks" type="IExtPack" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
15193 <desc>
15194 List of the installed extension packs.
15195 </desc>
15196 </attribute>
15197
15198 <method name="find">
15199 <desc>
15200 Returns the extension pack with the specified name if found.
15201
15202 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
15203 No extension pack matching @a name was found.
15204 </result>
15205 </desc>
15206 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15207 <desc>The name of the extension pack to locate.</desc>
15208 </param>
15209 <param name="returnData" type="IExtPack" dir="return">
15210 <desc>The extension pack if found.</desc>
15211 </param>
15212 </method>
15213
15214 <method name="openExtPackFile">
15215 <desc>
15216 Attempts to open an extension pack file in preparation for
15217 installation.
15218 </desc>
15219 <param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
15220 <desc>The path of the extension pack tarball.</desc>
15221 </param>
15222 <param name="file" type="IExtPackFile" dir="return">
15223 <desc>The interface of the extension pack file object.</desc>
15224 </param>
15225 </method>
15226
15227 <method name="uninstall">
15228 <desc>Uninstalls an extension pack, removing all related files.</desc>
15229 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15230 <desc>The name of the extension pack to uninstall.</desc>
15231 </param>
15232 <param name="forcedRemoval" type="boolean" dir="in">
15233 <desc>
15234 Forced removal of the extension pack. This means that the uninstall
15235 hook will not be called.
15236 </desc>
15237 </param>
15238 <param name="displayInfo" type="wstring" dir="in">
15239 <desc>
15240 Platform specific display information. Reserved for future hacks.
15241 </desc>
15242 </param>
15243 <param name="progess" type="IProgress" dir="return">
15244 <desc>
15245 Progress object for the operation.
15246 </desc>
15247 </param>
15248 </method>
15249
15250 <method name="cleanup">
15251 <desc>Cleans up failed installs and uninstalls</desc>
15252 </method>
15253
15254 <method name="QueryAllPlugInsForFrontend">
15255 <desc>
15256 Gets the path to all the plug-in modules for a given frontend.
15257
15258 This is a convenience method that is intended to simplify the plug-in
15259 loading process for a frontend.
15260 </desc>
15261 <param name="frontendName" type="wstring" dir="in">
15262 <desc>The name of the frontend or component.</desc>
15263 </param>
15264 <param name="plugInModules" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15265 <desc>Array containing the plug-in modules (full paths).</desc>
15266 </param>
15267 </method>
15268
15269 <method name="IsExtPackUsable">
15270 <desc>Check if the given extension pack is loaded and usable.</desc>
15271 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15272 <desc>The name of the extension pack to check for.</desc>
15273 </param>
15274 <param name="usable" type="boolean" dir="return">
15275 <desc>Is the given extension pack loaded and usable.</desc>
15276 </param>
15277 </method>
15278
15279 </interface>
15280
15281 <!--
15282 // BandwidthGroupType
15283 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15284 -->
15285 <enum
15286 name="BandwidthGroupType"
15287 uuid="1d92b67d-dc69-4be9-ad4c-93a01e1e0c8e">
15288
15289 <desc>
15290 Type of a bandwidth control group.
15291 </desc>
15292
15293 <const name="Null" value="0">
15294 <desc>
15295 Null type, must be first.
15296 </desc>
15297 </const>
15298
15299 <const name="Disk" value="1">
15300 <desc>
15301 The bandwidth group controls disk I/O.
15302 </desc>
15303 </const>
15304
15305 <const name="Network" value="2">
15306 <desc>
15307 The bandwidth group controls network I/O.
15308 </desc>
15309 </const>
15310
15311 </enum>
15312
15313 <!--
15314 // IBandwidthGroup
15315 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15316 -->
15317 <interface
15318 name="IBandwidthGroup" extends="$unknown"
15319 uuid="badea2d7-0261-4146-89f0-6a57cc34833d"
15320 wsmap="managed"
15321 >
15322 <desc>Represents one bandwidth group.</desc>
15323
15324 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15325 <desc>Name of the group.</desc>
15326 </attribute>
15327
15328 <attribute name="type" type="BandwidthGroupType" readonly="yes">
15329 <desc>Type of the group.</desc>
15330 </attribute>
15331
15332 <attribute name="reference" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15333 <desc>How many devices/medium attachements use this group.</desc>
15334 </attribute>
15335
15336 <attribute name="maxMbPerSec" type="unsigned long">
15337 <desc>The maximum number of MBytes which can be transfered by all
15338 entities attached to this group during one second.</desc>
15339 </attribute>
15340
15341 </interface>
15342
15343 <!--
15344 // IBandwidthControl
15345 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15346 -->
15347 <interface
15348 name="IBandwidthControl" extends="$unknown"
15349 uuid="d0a24db0-f756-11df-98cf-0800200c9a66"
15350 wsmap="managed"
15351 >
15352 <desc>
15353 Controls the bandwidth groups of one machine used to cap I/O done by a VM.
15354 This includes network and disk I/O.
15355 </desc>
15356
15357 <attribute name="numGroups" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15358 <desc>
15359 The current number of existing bandwidth groups managed.
15360 </desc>
15361 </attribute>
15362
15363 <method name="CreateBandwidthGroup">
15364 <desc>
15365 Creates a new bandwidth group.
15366 </desc>
15367
15368 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15369 <desc>Name of the bandwidth group.</desc>
15370 </param>
15371 <param name="type" type="BandwidthGroupType" dir="in">
15372 <desc>The type of the bandwidth group (network or disk).</desc>
15373 </param>
15374 <param name="maxMbPerSec" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15375 <desc>The maximum number of MBytes which can be transfered by all
15376 entities attached to this group during one second.</desc>
15377 </param>
15378 </method>
15379
15380 <method name="DeleteBandwidthGroup">
15381 <desc>
15382 Deletes a new bandwidth group.
15383 </desc>
15384
15385 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15386 <desc>Name of the bandwidth group to delete.</desc>
15387 </param>
15388 </method>
15389
15390 <method name="GetBandwidthGroup" const="yes">
15391 <desc>
15392 Get a bandwidth group by name.
15393 </desc>
15394
15395 <param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15396 <desc>Name of the bandwidth group to get.</desc>
15397 </param>
15398 <param name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="return">
15399 <desc>Where to store the bandwidth group on success.</desc>
15400 </param>
15401 </method>
15402
15403 <method name="GetAllBandwidthGroups" const="yes">
15404 <desc>
15405 Get all managed bandwidth groups.
15406 </desc>
15407
15408 <param name="bandwidthGroups" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15409 <desc>The array of managed bandwidth groups.</desc>
15410 </param>
15411 </method>
15412 </interface>
15413
15414 <!--
15415 // IVirtualBoxClient
15416 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15417 -->
15418
15419 <interface
15420 name="IVirtualBoxClient" extends="$unknown"
15421 uuid="5fe0bd48-1181-40d1-991f-3b02f269a823"
15422 wsmap="suppress"
15423 >
15424 <desc>
15425 Convenience interface for client applications. Treat this as a
15426 singleton, i.e. never create more than one instance of this interface.
15427
15428 At the moment only available for clients of the local API (not usable
15429 via the webservice). Once the session logic is redesigned this might
15430 change.
15431 </desc>
15432
15433 <attribute name="virtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
15434 <desc>
15435 Reference to the server-side API root object.
15436 </desc>
15437 </attribute>
15438
15439 <attribute name="session" type="ISession" readonly="yes">
15440 <desc>
15441 Create a new session object and return the reference to it.
15442 </desc>
15443 </attribute>
15444
15445 <attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
15446 <desc>
15447 Event source for VirtualBoxClient events.
15448 </desc>
15449 </attribute>
15450
15451 </interface>
15452
15453 <!--
15454 // Events
15455 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15456 -->
15457 <enum
15458 name="VBoxEventType"
15459 uuid="cce48db6-8561-479d-8d46-1358bab45d4e"
15460 >
15461
15462 <desc>
15463 Type of an event.
15464 See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
15465 </desc>
15466
15467 <const name="Invalid" value="0">
15468 <desc>
15469 Invalid event, must be first.
15470 </desc>
15471 </const>
15472
15473 <const name="Any" value="1">
15474 <desc>
15475 Wildcard for all events.
15476 Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
15477 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
15478 </desc>
15479 </const>
15480
15481 <const name="Vetoable" value="2">
15482 <desc>
15483 Wildcard for all vetoable events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only
15484 used in registerListener() call to simplify registration.
15485 </desc>
15486 </const>
15487
15488 <const name="MachineEvent" value="3">
15489 <desc>
15490 Wildcard for all machine events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
15491 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
15492 </desc>
15493 </const>
15494
15495 <const name="SnapshotEvent" value="4">
15496 <desc>
15497 Wildcard for all snapshot events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
15498 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
15499 </desc>
15500 </const>
15501
15502 <const name="InputEvent" value="5">
15503 <desc>
15504 Wildcard for all input device (keyboard, mouse) events.
15505 Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
15506 registerListener() call to simplify registration.
15507 </desc>
15508 </const>
15509
15510 <const name="LastWildcard" value="31">
15511 <desc>
15512 Last wildcard.
15513 </desc>
15514 </const>
15515
15516 <const name="OnMachineStateChanged" value="32">
15517 <desc>
15518 See <link to="IMachineStateChangedEvent">IMachineStateChangedEvent</link>.
15519 </desc>
15520 </const>
15521 <const name="OnMachineDataChanged" value="33">
15522 <desc>
15523 See <link to="IMachineDataChangedEvent">IMachineDataChangedEvent</link>.
15524 </desc>
15525 </const>
15526 <const name="OnExtraDataChanged" value="34">
15527 <desc>
15528 See <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent">IExtraDataChangedEvent</link>.
15529 </desc>
15530 </const>
15531 <const name="OnExtraDataCanChange" value="35">
15532 <desc>
15533 See <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent">IExtraDataCanChangeEvent</link>.
15534 </desc>
15535 </const>
15536 <const name="OnMediumRegistered" value="36">
15537 <desc>
15538 See <link to="IMediumRegisteredEvent">IMediumRegisteredEvent</link>.
15539 </desc>
15540 </const>
15541 <const name="OnMachineRegistered" value="37">
15542 <desc>
15543 See <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent">IMachineRegisteredEvent</link>.
15544 </desc>
15545 </const>
15546 <const name="OnSessionStateChanged" value="38">
15547 <desc>
15548 See <link to="ISessionStateChangedEvent">ISessionStateChangedEvent</link>.
15549 </desc>
15550 </const>
15551 <const name="OnSnapshotTaken" value="39">
15552 <desc>
15553 See <link to="ISnapshotTakenEvent">ISnapshotTakenEvent</link>.
15554 </desc>
15555 </const>
15556 <const name="OnSnapshotDeleted" value="40">
15557 <desc>
15558 See <link to="ISnapshotDeletedEvent">ISnapshotDeletedEvent</link>.
15559 </desc>
15560 </const>
15561 <const name="OnSnapshotChanged" value="41">
15562 <desc>
15563 See <link to="ISnapshotChangedEvent">ISnapshotChangedEvent</link>.
15564 </desc>
15565 </const>
15566 <const name="OnGuestPropertyChanged" value="42">
15567 <desc>
15568 See <link to="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent">IGuestPropertyChangedEvent</link>.
15569 </desc>
15570 </const>
15571 <!-- Console events -->
15572 <const name="OnMousePointerShapeChanged" value="43">
15573 <desc>
15574 See <link to="IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent">IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent</link>.
15575 </desc>
15576 </const>
15577 <const name="OnMouseCapabilityChanged" value="44">
15578 <desc>
15579 See <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent">IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent</link>.
15580 </desc>
15581 </const>
15582 <const name="OnKeyboardLedsChanged" value="45">
15583 <desc>
15584 See <link to="IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent">IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent</link>.
15585 </desc>
15586 </const>
15587 <const name="OnStateChanged" value="46">
15588 <desc>
15589 See <link to="IStateChangedEvent">IStateChangedEvent</link>.
15590 </desc>
15591 </const>
15592 <const name="OnAdditionsStateChanged" value="47">
15593 <desc>
15594 See <link to="IAdditionsStateChangedEvent">IAdditionsStateChangedEvent</link>.
15595 </desc>
15596 </const>
15597 <const name="OnNetworkAdapterChanged" value="48">
15598 <desc>
15599 See <link to="INetworkAdapterChangedEvent">INetworkAdapterChangedEvent</link>.
15600 </desc>
15601 </const>
15602 <const name="OnSerialPortChanged" value="49">
15603 <desc>
15604 See <link to="ISerialPortChangedEvent">ISerialPortChangedEvent</link>.
15605 </desc>
15606 </const>
15607 <const name="OnParallelPortChanged" value="50">
15608 <desc>
15609 See <link to="IParallelPortChangedEvent">IParallelPortChangedEvent</link>.
15610 </desc>
15611 </const>
15612 <const name="OnStorageControllerChanged" value="51">
15613 <desc>
15614 See <link to="IStorageControllerChangedEvent">IStorageControllerChangedEvent</link>.
15615 </desc>
15616 </const>
15617 <const name="OnMediumChanged" value="52">
15618 <desc>
15619 See <link to="IMediumChangedEvent">IMediumChangedEvent</link>.
15620 </desc>
15621 </const>
15622 <const name="OnVRDEServerChanged" value="53">
15623 <desc>
15624 See <link to="IVRDEServerChangedEvent">IVRDEServerChangedEvent</link>.
15625 </desc>
15626 </const>
15627 <const name="OnUSBControllerChanged" value="54">
15628 <desc>
15629 See <link to="IUSBControllerChangedEvent">IUSBControllerChangedEvent</link>.
15630 </desc>
15631 </const>
15632 <const name="OnUSBDeviceStateChanged" value="55">
15633 <desc>
15634 See <link to="IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent">IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent</link>.
15635 </desc>
15636 </const>
15637 <const name="OnSharedFolderChanged" value="56">
15638 <desc>
15639 See <link to="ISharedFolderChangedEvent">ISharedFolderChangedEvent</link>.
15640 </desc>
15641 </const>
15642 <const name="OnRuntimeError" value="57">
15643 <desc>
15644 See <link to="IRuntimeErrorEvent">IRuntimeErrorEvent</link>.
15645 </desc>
15646 </const>
15647 <const name="OnCanShowWindow" value="58">
15648 <desc>
15649 See <link to="ICanShowWindowEvent">ICanShowWindowEvent</link>.
15650 </desc>
15651 </const>
15652 <const name="OnShowWindow" value="59">
15653 <desc>
15654 See <link to="IShowWindowEvent">IShowWindowEvent</link>.
15655 </desc>
15656 </const>
15657 <const name="OnCPUChanged" value="60">
15658 <desc>
15659 See <link to="ICPUChangedEvent">ICPUChangedEvent</link>.
15660 </desc>
15661 </const>
15662 <const name="OnVRDEServerInfoChanged" value="61">
15663 <desc>
15664 See <link to="IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent">IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent</link>.
15665 </desc>
15666 </const>
15667 <const name="OnEventSourceChanged" value="62">
15668 <desc>
15669 See <link to="IEventSourceChangedEvent">IEventSourceChangedEvent</link>.
15670 </desc>
15671 </const>
15672 <const name="OnCPUExecutionCapChanged" value="63">
15673 <desc>
15674 See <link to="ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent">ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent</link>.
15675 </desc>
15676 </const>
15677 <const name="OnGuestKeyboard" value="64">
15678 <desc>
15679 See <link to="IGuestKeyboardEvent">IGuestKeyboardEvent</link>.
15680 </desc>
15681 </const>
15682 <const name="OnGuestMouse" value="65">
15683 <desc>
15684 See <link to="IGuestMouseEvent">IGuestMouseEvent</link>.
15685 </desc>
15686 </const>
15687 <const name="OnNATRedirect" value="66">
15688 <desc>
15689 See <link to="INATRedirectEvent">INATRedirectEvent</link>.
15690 </desc>
15691 </const>
15692 <const name="OnHostPciDevicePlug" value="67">
15693 <desc>
15694 See <link to="IHostPciDevicePlugEvent">IHostPciDevicePlugEvent</link>.
15695 </desc>
15696 </const>
15697 <const name="OnVBoxSVCAvailabilityChanged" value="68">
15698 <desc>
15699 See <link to="IVBoxSVCAvailabilityChangedEvent">IVBoxSVCAvailablityChangedEvent</link>.
15700 </desc>
15701 </const>
15702 <const name="OnBandwidthGroupChanged" value="69">
15703 <desc>
15704 See <link to="IBandwidthGroupChangedEvent">IBandwidthGroupChangedEvent</link>.
15705 </desc>
15706 </const>
15707 <const name="OnGuestMonitorChanged" value="70">
15708 <desc>
15709 See <link to="IGuestMonitorChangedEvent">IGuestMonitorChangedEvent</link>.
15710 </desc>
15711 </const>
15712 <const name="OnStorageDeviceChanged" value="71">
15713 <desc>
15714 See <link to="IStorageDeviceChangedEvent">IStorageDeviceChangedEvent</link>.
15715 </desc>
15716 </const>
15717
15718 <!-- Last event marker -->
15719 <const name="Last" value="72">
15720 <desc>
15721 Must be last event, used for iterations and structures relying on numerical event values.
15722 </desc>
15723 </const>
15724
15725 </enum>
15726
15727 <interface
15728 name="IEventSource" extends="$unknown"
15729 uuid="9b6e1aee-35f3-4f4d-b5bb-ed0ecefd8538"
15730 wsmap="managed"
15731 >
15732 <desc>
15733 Event source. Generally, any object which could generate events can be an event source,
15734 or aggregate one. To simplify using one-way protocols such as webservices running on top of HTTP(S),
15735 an event source can work with listeners in either active or passive mode. In active mode it is up to
15736 the IEventSource implementation to call <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" />, in passive mode the
15737 event source keeps track of pending events for each listener and returns available events on demand.
15738
15739 See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
15740 </desc>
15741
15742 <method name="createListener">
15743 <desc>
15744 Creates a new listener object, useful for passive mode.
15745 </desc>
15746 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="return"/>
15747 </method>
15748
15749 <method name="createAggregator">
15750 <desc>
15751 Creates an aggregator event source, collecting events from multiple sources.
15752 This way a single listener can listen for events coming from multiple sources,
15753 using a single blocking getEvent() on the returned aggregator.
15754 </desc>
15755 <param name="subordinates" type="IEventSource" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15756 <desc>
15757 Subordinate event source this one aggregatres.
15758 </desc>
15759 </param>
15760 <param name="result" type="IEventSource" dir="return">
15761 <desc>
15762 Event source aggregating passed sources.
15763 </desc>
15764 </param>
15765 </method>
15766
15767 <method name="registerListener">
15768 <desc>
15769 Register an event listener.
15770
15771 <note>
15772 To avoid system overload, the VirtualBox server process checks if passive event
15773 listeners call <link to="IEventSource::getEvent"/> frequently enough. In the
15774 current implementation, if more than 500 pending events are detected for a passive
15775 event listener, it is forcefully unregistered by the system, and further
15776 <link to="#getEvent" /> calls will return @c VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND.
15777 </note>
15778 </desc>
15779 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
15780 <desc>Listener to register.</desc>
15781 </param>
15782 <param name="interesting" type="VBoxEventType" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15783 <desc>
15784 Event types listener is interested in. One can use wildcards like -
15785 <link to="VBoxEventType_Any"/> to specify wildcards, matching more
15786 than one event.
15787 </desc>
15788 </param>
15789 <param name="active" type="boolean" dir="in">
15790 <desc>
15791 Which mode this listener is operating in.
15792 In active mode, <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> is called directly.
15793 In passive mode, an internal event queue is created for this this IEventListener.
15794 For each event coming in, it is added to queues for all interested registered passive
15795 listeners. It is then up to the external code to call the listener's
15796 <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> method. When done with an event, the
15797 external code must call <link to="#eventProcessed" />.
15798 </desc>
15799 </param>
15800 </method>
15801
15802 <method name="unregisterListener">
15803 <desc>
15804 Unregister an event listener. If listener is passive, and some waitable events are still
15805 in queue they are marked as processed automatically.
15806 </desc>
15807 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
15808 <desc>Listener to unregister.</desc>
15809 </param>
15810 </method>
15811
15812 <method name="fireEvent">
15813 <desc>
15814 Fire an event for this source.
15815 </desc>
15816 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
15817 <desc>Event to deliver.</desc>
15818 </param>
15819 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
15820 <desc>
15821 Maximum time to wait for event processing (if event is waitable), in ms;
15822 0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
15823 </desc>
15824 </param>
15825 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
15826 <desc>true if an event was delivered to all targets, or is non-waitable.</desc>
15827 </param>
15828 </method>
15829
15830 <method name="getEvent">
15831 <desc>
15832 Get events from this peer's event queue (for passive mode). Calling this method
15833 regularly is required for passive event listeners to avoid system overload;
15834 see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" /> for details.
15835
15836 <result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
15837 Listener is not registered, or autounregistered.
15838 </result>
15839 </desc>
15840 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
15841 <desc>Which listener to get data for.</desc>
15842 </param>
15843 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
15844 <desc>
15845 Maximum time to wait for events, in ms;
15846 0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
15847 </desc>
15848 </param>
15849 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="return">
15850 <desc>Event retrieved, or null if none available.</desc>
15851 </param>
15852 </method>
15853
15854 <method name="eventProcessed">
15855 <desc>
15856 Must be called for waitable events after a particular listener finished its
15857 event processing. When all listeners of a particular event have called this
15858 method, the system will then call <link to="IEvent::setProcessed" />.
15859 </desc>
15860 <param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
15861 <desc>Which listener processed event.</desc>
15862 </param>
15863 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
15864 <desc>Which event.</desc>
15865 </param>
15866 </method>
15867
15868 </interface>
15869
15870 <interface
15871 name="IEventListener" extends="$unknown"
15872 uuid="67099191-32e7-4f6c-85ee-422304c71b90"
15873 wsmap="managed"
15874 >
15875 <desc>
15876 Event listener. An event listener can work in either active or passive mode, depending on the way
15877 it was registered.
15878 See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
15879 </desc>
15880
15881 <method name="handleEvent">
15882 <desc>
15883 Handle event callback for active listeners. It is not called for passive listeners. After
15884 calling handleEvent() on all active listeners and having received acknowledgement from all
15885 passive listeners via IEventSource::eventProcessed(), the event is marked as processed and
15886 IEvent::waitProcessed() will return immediately.
15887 </desc>
15888 <param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
15889 <desc>Event available.</desc>
15890 </param>
15891 </method>
15892
15893 </interface>
15894
15895 <interface
15896 name="IEvent" extends="$unknown"
15897 uuid="0ca2adba-8f30-401b-a8cd-fe31dbe839c0"
15898 wsmap="managed"
15899 >
15900 <desc>
15901 Abstract parent interface for VirtualBox events. Actual events will typically implement
15902 a more specific interface which derives from this (see below).
15903
15904 <b>Introduction to VirtualBox events</b>
15905
15906 Generally speaking, an event (represented by this interface) signals that something
15907 happened, while an event listener (see <link to="IEventListener" />) represents an
15908 entity that is interested in certain events. In order for this to work with
15909 unidirectional protocols (i.e. web services), the concepts of passive and active
15910 listener are used.
15911
15912 Event consumers can register themselves as listeners, providing an array of
15913 events they are interested in (see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" />).
15914 When an event triggers, the listener is notified about the event. The exact
15915 mechanism of the notification depends on whether the listener was registered as
15916 an active or passive listener:
15917
15918 <ul>
15919 <li>An active listener is very similar to a callback: it is a function invoked
15920 by the API. As opposed to the callbacks that were used in the API before
15921 VirtualBox 4.0 however, events are now objects with an interface hierarchy.
15922 </li>
15923
15924 <li>Passive listeners are somewhat trickier to implement, but do not require
15925 a client function to be callable, which is not an option with scripting
15926 languages or web service clients. Internally the <link to="IEventSource" />
15927 implementation maintains an event queue for each passive listener, and
15928 newly arrived events are put in this queue. When the listener calls
15929 <link to="IEventSource::getEvent"/>, first element from its internal event
15930 queue is returned. When the client completes processing of an event,
15931 the <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" /> function must be called,
15932 acknowledging that the event was processed. It supports implementing
15933 waitable events. On passive listener unregistration, all events from its
15934 queue are auto-acknowledged.
15935 </li>
15936 </ul>
15937
15938 Waitable events are useful in situations where the event generator wants to track
15939 delivery or a party wants to wait until all listeners have completed the event. A
15940 typical example would be a vetoable event (see <link to="IVetoEvent" />) where a
15941 listeners might veto a certain action, and thus the event producer has to make
15942 sure that all listeners have processed the event and not vetoed before taking
15943 the action.
15944
15945 A given event may have both passive and active listeners at the same time.
15946
15947 <b>Using events</b>
15948
15949 Any VirtualBox object capable of producing externally visible events provides an
15950 @c eventSource read-only attribute, which is of the type <link to="IEventSource" />.
15951 This event source object is notified by VirtualBox once something has happened, so
15952 consumers may register event listeners with this event source. To register a listener,
15953 an object implementing the <link to="IEventListener" /> interface must be provided.
15954 For active listeners, such an object is typically created by the consumer, while for
15955 passive listeners <link to="IEventSource::createListener" /> should be used. Please
15956 note that a listener created with @c createListener() must not be used as an active listener.
15957
15958 Once created, the listener must be registered to listen for the desired events
15959 (see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" />), providing an array of
15960 <link to="VBoxEventType" /> enums. Those elements can either be the individual
15961 event IDs or wildcards matching multiple event IDs.
15962
15963 After registration, the callback's <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> method is
15964 called automatically when the event is triggered, while passive listeners have to call
15965 <link to="IEventSource::getEvent" /> and <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" /> in
15966 an event processing loop.
15967
15968 The IEvent interface is an abstract parent interface for all such VirtualBox events
15969 coming in. As a result, the standard use pattern inside <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" />
15970 or the event processing loop is to check the <link to="#type" /> attribute of the event and
15971 then cast to the appropriate specific interface using @c QueryInterface().
15972 </desc>
15973
15974 <attribute name="type" readonly="yes" type="VBoxEventType">
15975 <desc>
15976 Event type.
15977 </desc>
15978 </attribute>
15979
15980 <attribute name="source" readonly="yes" type="IEventSource">
15981 <desc>
15982 Source of this event.
15983 </desc>
15984 </attribute>
15985
15986 <attribute name="waitable" readonly="yes" type="boolean">
15987 <desc>
15988 If we can wait for this event being processed. If false, waitProcessed() returns immediately,
15989 and setProcessed() doesn't make sense. Non-waitable events are generally better performing,
15990 as no additional overhead associated with waitability imposed.
15991 Waitable events are needed when one need to be able to wait for particular event processed,
15992 for example for vetoable changes, or if event refers to some resource which need to be kept immutable
15993 until all consumers confirmed events.
15994 </desc>
15995 </attribute>
15996
15997 <method name="setProcessed">
15998 <desc>
15999 Internal method called by the system when all listeners of a particular event have called
16000 <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" />. This should not be called by client code.
16001 </desc>
16002 </method>
16003
16004 <method name="waitProcessed">
16005 <desc>
16006 Wait until time outs, or this event is processed. Event must be waitable for this operation to have
16007 described semantics, for non-waitable returns true immediately.
16008 </desc>
16009 <param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
16010 <desc>
16011 Maximum time to wait for event processeing, in ms;
16012 0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
16013 </desc>
16014 </param>
16015 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
16016 <desc>If this event was processed before timeout.</desc>
16017 </param>
16018 </method>
16019 </interface>
16020
16021
16022 <interface
16023 name="IReusableEvent" extends="IEvent"
16024 uuid="69bfb134-80f6-4266-8e20-16371f68fa25"
16025 wsmap="managed"
16026 >
16027 <desc>Base abstract interface for all reusable events.</desc>
16028
16029 <attribute name="generation" readonly="yes" type="unsigned long">
16030 <desc>Current generation of event, incremented on reuse.</desc>
16031 </attribute>
16032
16033 <method name="reuse">
16034 <desc>
16035 Marks an event as reused, increments 'generation', fields shall no
16036 longer be considered valid.
16037 </desc>
16038 </method>
16039 </interface>
16040
16041 <interface
16042 name="IMachineEvent" extends="IEvent"
16043 uuid="92ed7b1a-0d96-40ed-ae46-a564d484325e"
16044 wsmap="managed" id="MachineEvent"
16045 >
16046 <desc>Base abstract interface for all machine events.</desc>
16047
16048 <attribute name="machineId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
16049 <desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
16050 </attribute>
16051
16052 </interface>
16053
16054 <interface
16055 name="IMachineStateChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16056 uuid="5748F794-48DF-438D-85EB-98FFD70D18C9"
16057 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineStateChanged"
16058 >
16059 <desc>Machine state change event.</desc>
16060
16061 <attribute name="state" readonly="yes" type="MachineState">
16062 <desc>New execution state.</desc>
16063 </attribute>
16064 </interface>
16065
16066 <interface
16067 name="IMachineDataChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16068 uuid="6AA70A6C-0DCA-4810-8C5C-457B278E3D49"
16069 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineDataChanged"
16070 >
16071 <desc>
16072 Any of the settings of the given machine has changed.
16073 </desc>
16074 </interface>
16075
16076 <interface
16077 name="IMediumRegisteredEvent" extends="IEvent"
16078 uuid="53fac49a-b7f1-4a5a-a4ef-a11dd9c2a458"
16079 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMediumRegistered"
16080 >
16081 <desc>
16082 The given medium was registered or unregistered
16083 within this VirtualBox installation.
16084 </desc>
16085
16086 <attribute name="mediumId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
16087 <desc>ID of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
16088 </attribute>
16089
16090 <attribute name="mediumType" readonly="yes" type="DeviceType">
16091 <desc>Type of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
16092 </attribute>
16093
16094 <attribute name="registered" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16095 <desc>
16096 If @c true, the medium was registered, otherwise it was
16097 unregistered.
16098 </desc>
16099 </attribute>
16100 </interface>
16101
16102 <interface
16103 name="IMachineRegisteredEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16104 uuid="c354a762-3ff2-4f2e-8f09-07382ee25088"
16105 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineRegistered"
16106 >
16107 <desc>
16108 The given machine was registered or unregistered
16109 within this VirtualBox installation.
16110 </desc>
16111
16112 <attribute name="registered" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16113 <desc>
16114 If @c true, the machine was registered, otherwise it was
16115 unregistered.
16116 </desc>
16117 </attribute>
16118 </interface>
16119
16120 <interface
16121 name="ISessionStateChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16122 uuid="714a3eef-799a-4489-86cd-fe8e45b2ff8e"
16123 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSessionStateChanged"
16124 >
16125 <desc>
16126 The state of the session for the given machine was changed.
16127 <see>IMachine::sessionState</see>
16128 </desc>
16129
16130 <attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
16131 <desc>
16132 New session state.
16133 </desc>
16134 </attribute>
16135 </interface>
16136
16137 <interface
16138 name="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16139 uuid="3f63597a-26f1-4edb-8dd2-6bddd0912368"
16140 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestPropertyChanged"
16141 >
16142 <desc>
16143 Notification when a guest property has changed.
16144 </desc>
16145
16146 <attribute name="name" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
16147 <desc>
16148 The name of the property that has changed.
16149 </desc>
16150 </attribute>
16151
16152 <attribute name="value" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
16153 <desc>
16154 The new property value.
16155 </desc>
16156 </attribute>
16157
16158 <attribute name="flags" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
16159 <desc>
16160 The new property flags.
16161 </desc>
16162 </attribute>
16163
16164 </interface>
16165
16166 <interface
16167 name="ISnapshotEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16168 uuid="21637b0e-34b8-42d3-acfb-7e96daf77c22"
16169 wsmap="managed" id="SnapshotEvent"
16170 >
16171 <desc>Base interface for all snapshot events.</desc>
16172
16173 <attribute name="snapshotId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
16174 <desc>ID of the snapshot this event relates to.</desc>
16175 </attribute>
16176
16177 </interface>
16178
16179 <interface
16180 name="ISnapshotTakenEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
16181 uuid="d27c0b3d-6038-422c-b45e-6d4a0503d9f1"
16182 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotTaken"
16183 >
16184 <desc>
16185 A new snapshot of the machine has been taken.
16186 <see>ISnapshot</see>
16187 </desc>
16188 </interface>
16189
16190 <interface
16191 name="ISnapshotDeletedEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
16192 uuid="c48f3401-4a9e-43f4-b7a7-54bd285e22f4"
16193 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotDeleted"
16194 >
16195 <desc>
16196 Snapshot of the given machine has been deleted.
16197
16198 <note>
16199 This notification is delivered <b>after</b> the snapshot
16200 object has been uninitialized on the server (so that any
16201 attempt to call its methods will return an error).
16202 </note>
16203
16204 <see>ISnapshot</see>
16205 </desc>
16206 </interface>
16207
16208 <interface
16209 name="ISnapshotChangedEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
16210 uuid="07541941-8079-447a-a33e-47a69c7980db"
16211 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotChanged"
16212 >
16213 <desc>
16214 Snapshot properties (name and/or description) have been changed.
16215 <see>ISnapshot</see>
16216 </desc>
16217 </interface>
16218
16219 <interface
16220 name="IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16221 uuid="a6dcf6e8-416b-4181-8c4a-45ec95177aef"
16222 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMousePointerShapeChanged"
16223 >
16224 <desc>
16225 Notification when the guest mouse pointer shape has
16226 changed. The new shape data is given.
16227 </desc>
16228
16229 <attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16230 <desc>
16231 Flag whether the pointer is visible.
16232 </desc>
16233 </attribute>
16234 <attribute name="alpha" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16235 <desc>
16236 Flag whether the pointer has an alpha channel.
16237 </desc>
16238 </attribute>
16239 <attribute name="xhot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16240 <desc>
16241 The pointer hot spot X coordinate.
16242 </desc>
16243 </attribute>
16244 <attribute name="yhot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16245 <desc>
16246 The pointer hot spot Y coordinate.
16247 </desc>
16248 </attribute>
16249 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16250 <desc>
16251 Width of the pointer shape in pixels.
16252 </desc>
16253 </attribute>
16254 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16255 <desc>
16256 Height of the pointer shape in pixels.
16257 </desc>
16258 </attribute>
16259 <attribute name="shape" type="octet" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
16260 <desc>
16261 Shape buffer arrays.
16262
16263 The @a shape buffer contains a 1-bpp (bits per pixel) AND mask
16264 followed by a 32-bpp XOR (color) mask.
16265
16266 For pointers without alpha channel the XOR mask pixels are 32
16267 bit values: (lsb)BGR0(msb). For pointers with alpha channel
16268 the XOR mask consists of (lsb)BGRA(msb) 32 bit values.
16269
16270 An AND mask is used for pointers with alpha channel, so if the
16271 callback does not support alpha, the pointer could be
16272 displayed as a normal color pointer.
16273
16274 The AND mask is a 1-bpp bitmap with byte aligned scanlines. The
16275 size of the AND mask therefore is <tt>cbAnd = (width + 7) / 8 *
16276 height</tt>. The padding bits at the end of each scanline are
16277 undefined.
16278
16279 The XOR mask follows the AND mask on the next 4-byte aligned
16280 offset: <tt>uint8_t *pXor = pAnd + (cbAnd + 3) &amp; ~3</tt>.
16281 Bytes in the gap between the AND and the XOR mask are undefined.
16282 The XOR mask scanlines have no gap between them and the size of
16283 the XOR mask is: <tt>cXor = width * 4 * height</tt>.
16284
16285 <note>
16286 If @a shape is 0, only the pointer visibility is changed.
16287 </note>
16288 </desc>
16289 </attribute>
16290 </interface>
16291
16292 <interface
16293 name="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16294 uuid="d633ad48-820c-4207-b46c-6bd3596640d5"
16295 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMouseCapabilityChanged"
16296 >
16297 <desc>
16298 Notification when the mouse capabilities reported by the
16299 guest have changed. The new capabilities are passed.
16300 </desc>
16301 <attribute name="supportsAbsolute" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16302 <desc>
16303 Supports absolute coordinates.
16304 </desc>
16305 </attribute>
16306 <attribute name="supportsRelative" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16307 <desc>
16308 Supports relative coordinates.
16309 </desc>
16310 </attribute>
16311 <attribute name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16312 <desc>
16313 If host cursor is needed.
16314 </desc>
16315 </attribute>
16316 </interface>
16317
16318 <interface
16319 name="IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16320 uuid="6DDEF35E-4737-457B-99FC-BC52C851A44F"
16321 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnKeyboardLedsChanged"
16322 >
16323 <desc>
16324 Notification when the guest OS executes the KBD_CMD_SET_LEDS command
16325 to alter the state of the keyboard LEDs.
16326 </desc>
16327 <attribute name="numLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16328 <desc>
16329 NumLock status.
16330 </desc>
16331 </attribute>
16332 <attribute name="capsLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16333 <desc>
16334 CapsLock status.
16335 </desc>
16336 </attribute>
16337 <attribute name="scrollLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16338 <desc>
16339 ScrollLock status.
16340 </desc>
16341 </attribute>
16342 </interface>
16343
16344 <interface
16345 name="IStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16346 uuid="4376693C-CF37-453B-9289-3B0F521CAF27"
16347 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStateChanged"
16348 >
16349 <desc>
16350 Notification when the execution state of the machine has changed.
16351 The new state is given.
16352 </desc>
16353 <attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
16354 <desc>
16355 New machine state.
16356 </desc>
16357 </attribute>
16358 </interface>
16359
16360 <interface
16361 name="IAdditionsStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16362 uuid="D70F7915-DA7C-44C8-A7AC-9F173490446A"
16363 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnAdditionsStateChanged"
16364 >
16365 <desc>
16366 Notification when a Guest Additions property changes.
16367 Interested callees should query IGuest attributes to
16368 find out what has changed.
16369 </desc>
16370 </interface>
16371
16372 <interface
16373 name="INetworkAdapterChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16374 uuid="08889892-1EC6-4883-801D-77F56CFD0103"
16375 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnNetworkAdapterChanged"
16376 >
16377 <desc>
16378 Notification when a property of one of the
16379 virtual <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter">network adapters</link>
16380 changes. Interested callees should use INetworkAdapter methods and
16381 attributes to find out what has changed.
16382 </desc>
16383 <attribute name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" readonly="yes">
16384 <desc>
16385 Network adapter that is subject to change.
16386 </desc>
16387 </attribute>
16388 </interface>
16389
16390 <interface
16391 name="ISerialPortChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16392 uuid="3BA329DC-659C-488B-835C-4ECA7AE71C6C"
16393 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSerialPortChanged"
16394 >
16395 <desc>
16396 Notification when a property of one of the
16397 virtual <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort">serial ports</link> changes.
16398 Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and attributes
16399 to find out what has changed.
16400 </desc>
16401 <attribute name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" readonly="yes">
16402 <desc>
16403 Serial port that is subject to change.
16404 </desc>
16405 </attribute>
16406 </interface>
16407
16408 <interface
16409 name="IParallelPortChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16410 uuid="813C99FC-9849-4F47-813E-24A75DC85615"
16411 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnParallelPortChanged"
16412 >
16413 <desc>
16414 Notification when a property of one of the
16415 virtual <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort">parallel ports</link>
16416 changes. Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and
16417 attributes to find out what has changed.
16418 </desc>
16419 <attribute name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" readonly="yes">
16420 <desc>
16421 Parallel port that is subject to change.
16422 </desc>
16423 </attribute>
16424 </interface>
16425
16426 <interface
16427 name="IStorageControllerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16428 uuid="715212BF-DA59-426E-8230-3831FAA52C56"
16429 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStorageControllerChanged"
16430 >
16431 <desc>
16432 Notification when a
16433 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
16434 changes.
16435 </desc>
16436 </interface>
16437
16438 <interface
16439 name="IMediumChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16440 uuid="0FE2DA40-5637-472A-9736-72019EABD7DE"
16441 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMediumChanged"
16442 >
16443 <desc>
16444 Notification when a
16445 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
16446 changes.
16447 </desc>
16448 <attribute name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes">
16449 <desc>
16450 Medium attachment that is subject to change.
16451 </desc>
16452 </attribute>
16453 </interface>
16454
16455 <interface
16456 name="ICPUChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16457 uuid="D0F0BECC-EE17-4D17-A8CC-383B0EB55E9D"
16458 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCPUChanged"
16459 >
16460 <desc>
16461 Notification when a CPU changes.
16462 </desc>
16463 <attribute name="cpu" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16464 <desc>
16465 The CPU which changed.
16466 </desc>
16467 </attribute>
16468 <attribute name="add" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16469 <desc>
16470 Flag whether the CPU was added or removed.
16471 </desc>
16472 </attribute>
16473 </interface>
16474
16475 <interface
16476 name="ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16477 uuid="dfa7e4f5-b4a4-44ce-85a8-127ac5eb59dc"
16478 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCPUExecutionCapChanged"
16479 >
16480 <desc>
16481 Notification when the CPU execution cap changes.
16482 </desc>
16483 <attribute name="executionCap" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16484 <desc>
16485 The new CPU execution cap value. (1-100)
16486 </desc>
16487 </attribute>
16488 </interface>
16489
16490 <interface
16491 name="IGuestKeyboardEvent" extends="IEvent"
16492 uuid="88394258-7006-40d4-b339-472ee3801844"
16493 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestKeyboard"
16494 >
16495 <desc>
16496 Notification when guest keyboard event happens.
16497 </desc>
16498 <attribute name="scancodes" type="long" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
16499 <desc>
16500 Array of scancodes.
16501 </desc>
16502 </attribute>
16503 </interface>
16504
16505 <interface
16506 name="IGuestMouseEvent" extends="IReusableEvent"
16507 uuid="1f85d35c-c524-40ff-8e98-307000df0992"
16508 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestMouse"
16509 >
16510 <desc>
16511 Notification when guest mouse event happens.
16512 </desc>
16513
16514 <attribute name="absolute" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16515 <desc>
16516 If this event is relative or absolute.
16517 </desc>
16518 </attribute>
16519
16520 <attribute name="x" type="long" readonly="yes">
16521 <desc>
16522 New X position, or X delta.
16523 </desc>
16524 </attribute>
16525
16526 <attribute name="y" type="long" readonly="yes">
16527 <desc>
16528 New Y position, or Y delta.
16529 </desc>
16530 </attribute>
16531
16532 <attribute name="z" type="long" readonly="yes">
16533 <desc>
16534 Z delta.
16535 </desc>
16536 </attribute>
16537
16538 <attribute name="w" type="long" readonly="yes">
16539 <desc>
16540 W delta.
16541 </desc>
16542 </attribute>
16543
16544 <attribute name="buttons" type="long" readonly="yes">
16545 <desc>
16546 Button state bitmask.
16547 </desc>
16548 </attribute>
16549
16550 </interface>
16551
16552
16553 <interface
16554 name="IVRDEServerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16555 uuid="a06fd66a-3188-4c8c-8756-1395e8cb691c"
16556 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVRDEServerChanged"
16557 >
16558 <desc>
16559 Notification when a property of the
16560 <link to="IMachine::VRDEServer">VRDE server</link> changes.
16561 Interested callees should use IVRDEServer methods and attributes to
16562 find out what has changed.
16563 </desc>
16564 </interface>
16565
16566 <interface
16567 name="IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16568 uuid="dd6a1080-e1b7-4339-a549-f0878115596e"
16569 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVRDEServerInfoChanged"
16570 >
16571 <desc>
16572 Notification when the status of the VRDE server changes. Interested callees
16573 should use <link to="IConsole::VRDEServerInfo">IVRDEServerInfo</link>
16574 attributes to find out what is the current status.
16575 </desc>
16576 </interface>
16577
16578 <interface
16579 name="IUSBControllerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16580 uuid="93BADC0C-61D9-4940-A084-E6BB29AF3D83"
16581 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnUSBControllerChanged"
16582 >
16583 <desc>
16584 Notification when a property of the virtual
16585 <link to="IMachine::USBController">USB controller</link> changes.
16586 Interested callees should use IUSBController methods and attributes to
16587 find out what has changed.
16588 </desc>
16589 </interface>
16590
16591 <interface
16592 name="IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16593 uuid="806da61b-6679-422a-b629-51b06b0c6d93"
16594 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnUSBDeviceStateChanged"
16595 >
16596 <desc>
16597 Notification when a USB device is attached to or detached from
16598 the virtual USB controller.
16599
16600 This notification is sent as a result of the indirect
16601 request to attach the device because it matches one of the
16602 machine USB filters, or as a result of the direct request
16603 issued by <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/> or
16604 <link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>.
16605
16606 This notification is sent in case of both a succeeded and a
16607 failed request completion. When the request succeeds, the
16608 @a error parameter is @c null, and the given device has been
16609 already added to (when @a attached is @c true) or removed from
16610 (when @a attached is @c false) the collection represented by
16611 <link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/>. On failure, the collection
16612 doesn't change and the @a error parameter represents the error
16613 message describing the failure.
16614 </desc>
16615 <attribute name="device" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes">
16616 <desc>
16617 Device that is subject to state change.
16618 </desc>
16619 </attribute>
16620 <attribute name="attached" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16621 <desc>
16622 @c true if the device was attached and @c false otherwise.
16623 </desc>
16624 </attribute>
16625 <attribute name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
16626 <desc>
16627 @c null on success or an error message object on failure.
16628 </desc>
16629 </attribute>
16630 </interface>
16631
16632 <interface
16633 name="ISharedFolderChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16634 uuid="B66349B5-3534-4239-B2DE-8E1535D94C0B"
16635 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSharedFolderChanged"
16636 >
16637 <desc>
16638 Notification when a shared folder is added or removed.
16639 The @a scope argument defines one of three scopes:
16640 <link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders">global shared folders</link>
16641 (<link to="Scope_Global">Global</link>),
16642 <link to="IMachine::sharedFolders">permanent shared folders</link> of
16643 the machine (<link to="Scope_Machine">Machine</link>) or <link
16644 to="IConsole::sharedFolders">transient shared folders</link> of the
16645 machine (<link to="Scope_Session">Session</link>). Interested callees
16646 should use query the corresponding collections to find out what has
16647 changed.
16648 </desc>
16649 <attribute name="scope" type="Scope" readonly="yes">
16650 <desc>
16651 Scope of the notification.
16652 </desc>
16653 </attribute>
16654 </interface>
16655
16656 <interface
16657 name="IRuntimeErrorEvent" extends="IEvent"
16658 uuid="883DD18B-0721-4CDE-867C-1A82ABAF914C"
16659 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnRuntimeError"
16660 >
16661 <desc>
16662 Notification when an error happens during the virtual
16663 machine execution.
16664
16665 There are three kinds of runtime errors:
16666 <ul>
16667 <li><i>fatal</i></li>
16668 <li><i>non-fatal with retry</i></li>
16669 <li><i>non-fatal warnings</i></li>
16670 </ul>
16671
16672 <b>Fatal</b> errors are indicated by the @a fatal parameter set
16673 to @c true. In case of fatal errors, the virtual machine
16674 execution is always paused before calling this notification, and
16675 the notification handler is supposed either to immediately save
16676 the virtual machine state using <link to="IConsole::saveState"/>
16677 or power it off using <link to="IConsole::powerDown"/>.
16678 Resuming the execution can lead to unpredictable results.
16679
16680 <b>Non-fatal</b> errors and warnings are indicated by the
16681 @a fatal parameter set to @c false. If the virtual machine
16682 is in the Paused state by the time the error notification is
16683 received, it means that the user can <i>try to resume</i> the machine
16684 execution after attempting to solve the problem that caused the
16685 error. In this case, the notification handler is supposed
16686 to show an appropriate message to the user (depending on the
16687 value of the @a id parameter) that offers several actions such
16688 as <i>Retry</i>, <i>Save</i> or <i>Power Off</i>. If the user
16689 wants to retry, the notification handler should continue
16690 the machine execution using the <link to="IConsole::resume"/>
16691 call. If the machine execution is not Paused during this
16692 notification, then it means this notification is a <i>warning</i>
16693 (for example, about a fatal condition that can happen very soon);
16694 no immediate action is required from the user, the machine
16695 continues its normal execution.
16696
16697 Note that in either case the notification handler
16698 <b>must not</b> perform any action directly on a thread
16699 where this notification is called. Everything it is allowed to
16700 do is to post a message to another thread that will then talk
16701 to the user and take the corresponding action.
16702
16703 Currently, the following error identifiers are known:
16704 <ul>
16705 <li><tt>"HostMemoryLow"</tt></li>
16706 <li><tt>"HostAudioNotResponding"</tt></li>
16707 <li><tt>"VDIStorageFull"</tt></li>
16708 <li><tt>"3DSupportIncompatibleAdditions"</tt></li>
16709 </ul>
16710 </desc>
16711 <attribute name="fatal" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16712 <desc>
16713 Whether the error is fatal or not.
16714 </desc>
16715 </attribute>
16716 <attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16717 <desc>
16718 Error identifier.
16719 </desc>
16720 </attribute>
16721 <attribute name="message" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16722 <desc>
16723 Optional error message.
16724 </desc>
16725 </attribute>
16726 </interface>
16727
16728
16729 <interface
16730 name="IEventSourceChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16731 uuid="e7932cb8-f6d4-4ab6-9cbf-558eb8959a6a"
16732 waitable="yes"
16733 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnEventSourceChanged"
16734 >
16735 <desc>
16736 Notification when an event source state changes (listener added or removed).
16737 </desc>
16738
16739 <attribute name="listener" type="IEventListener" readonly="yes">
16740 <desc>
16741 Event listener which has changed.
16742 </desc>
16743 </attribute>
16744
16745 <attribute name="add" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16746 <desc>
16747 Flag whether listener was added or removed.
16748 </desc>
16749 </attribute>
16750 </interface>
16751
16752 <interface
16753 name="IExtraDataChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16754 uuid="024F00CE-6E0B-492A-A8D0-968472A94DC7"
16755 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnExtraDataChanged"
16756 >
16757 <desc>
16758 Notification when machine specific or global extra data
16759 has changed.
16760 </desc>
16761 <attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
16762 <desc>
16763 ID of the machine this event relates to.
16764 Null for global extra data changes.
16765 </desc>
16766 </attribute>
16767 <attribute name="key" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16768 <desc>
16769 Extra data key that has changed.
16770 </desc>
16771 </attribute>
16772 <attribute name="value" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16773 <desc>
16774 Extra data value for the given key.
16775 </desc>
16776 </attribute>
16777 </interface>
16778
16779 <interface
16780 name="IVetoEvent" extends="IEvent"
16781 uuid="9a1a4130-69fe-472f-ac10-c6fa25d75007"
16782 wsmap="managed"
16783 >
16784 <desc>Base abstract interface for veto events.</desc>
16785
16786 <method name="addVeto">
16787 <desc>
16788 Adds a veto on this event.
16789 </desc>
16790 <param name="reason" type="wstring" dir="in">
16791 <desc>
16792 Reason for veto, could be null or empty string.
16793 </desc>
16794 </param>
16795 </method>
16796
16797 <method name="isVetoed">
16798 <desc>
16799 If this event was vetoed.
16800 </desc>
16801 <param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
16802 <desc>
16803 Reason for veto.
16804 </desc>
16805 </param>
16806 </method>
16807
16808 <method name="getVetos">
16809 <desc>
16810 Current veto reason list, if size is 0 - no veto.
16811 </desc>
16812 <param name="result" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
16813 <desc>
16814 Array of reasons for veto provided by different event handlers.
16815 </desc>
16816 </param>
16817 </method>
16818
16819 </interface>
16820
16821 <interface
16822 name="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent" extends="IVetoEvent"
16823 uuid="245d88bd-800a-40f8-87a6-170d02249a55"
16824 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnExtraDataCanChange"
16825 waitable="true"
16826 >
16827 <desc>
16828 Notification when someone tries to change extra data for
16829 either the given machine or (if @c null) global extra data.
16830 This gives the chance to veto against changes.
16831 </desc>
16832 <attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
16833 <desc>
16834 ID of the machine this event relates to.
16835 Null for global extra data changes.
16836 </desc>
16837 </attribute>
16838 <attribute name="key" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16839 <desc>
16840 Extra data key that has changed.
16841 </desc>
16842 </attribute>
16843 <attribute name="value" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16844 <desc>
16845 Extra data value for the given key.
16846 </desc>
16847 </attribute>
16848 </interface>
16849
16850 <interface
16851 name="ICanShowWindowEvent" extends="IVetoEvent"
16852 uuid="adf292b0-92c9-4a77-9d35-e058b39fe0b9"
16853 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCanShowWindow"
16854 waitable="true"
16855 >
16856 <desc>
16857 Notification when a call to
16858 <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> is made by a
16859 front-end to check if a subsequent call to
16860 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> can succeed.
16861
16862 The callee should give an answer appropriate to the current
16863 machine state using event veto. This answer must
16864 remain valid at least until the next
16865 <link to="IConsole::state">machine state</link> change.
16866 </desc>
16867 </interface>
16868
16869 <interface
16870 name="IShowWindowEvent" extends="IEvent"
16871 uuid="B0A0904D-2F05-4D28-855F-488F96BAD2B2"
16872 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnShowWindow"
16873 waitable="true"
16874 >
16875 <desc>
16876 Notification when a call to
16877 <link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/>
16878 requests the console window to be activated and brought to
16879 foreground on the desktop of the host PC.
16880
16881 This notification should cause the VM console process to
16882 perform the requested action as described above. If it is
16883 impossible to do it at a time of this notification, this
16884 method should return a failure.
16885
16886 Note that many modern window managers on many platforms
16887 implement some sort of focus stealing prevention logic, so
16888 that it may be impossible to activate a window without the
16889 help of the currently active application (which is supposedly
16890 an initiator of this notification). In this case, this method
16891 must return a non-zero identifier that represents the
16892 top-level window of the VM console process. The caller, if it
16893 represents a currently active process, is responsible to use
16894 this identifier (in a platform-dependent manner) to perform
16895 actual window activation.
16896
16897 This method must set @a winId to zero if it has performed all
16898 actions necessary to complete the request and the console
16899 window is now active and in foreground, to indicate that no
16900 further action is required on the caller's side.
16901 </desc>
16902 <attribute name="winId" type="long long">
16903 <desc>
16904 Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
16905 window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
16906 necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
16907 the given platform and/or this VirtualBox front-end.
16908 </desc>
16909 </attribute>
16910 </interface>
16911
16912 <interface
16913 name="INATRedirectEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16914 uuid="57DE97D7-3CBB-42A0-888F-610D5832D16B"
16915 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnNATRedirect"
16916 >
16917 <desc>
16918 Notification when NAT redirect rule added or removed.
16919 </desc>
16920 <attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16921 <desc>
16922 Adapter which NAT attached to.
16923 </desc>
16924 </attribute>
16925 <attribute name="remove" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16926 <desc>
16927 Whether rule remove or add.
16928 </desc>
16929 </attribute>
16930 <attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16931 <desc>
16932 Name of the rule.
16933 </desc>
16934 </attribute>
16935 <attribute name="proto" type="NATProtocol" readonly="yes">
16936 <desc>
16937 Protocol (TCP or UDP) of the redirect rule.
16938 </desc>
16939 </attribute>
16940 <attribute name="hostIp" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16941 <desc>
16942 Host ip address to bind socket on.
16943 </desc>
16944 </attribute>
16945 <attribute name="hostPort" type="long" readonly="yes">
16946 <desc>
16947 Host port to bind socket on.
16948 </desc>
16949 </attribute>
16950 <attribute name="guestIp" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16951 <desc>
16952 Guest ip address to redirect to.
16953 </desc>
16954 </attribute>
16955 <attribute name="guestPort" type="long" readonly="yes">
16956 <desc>
16957 Guest port to redirect to.
16958 </desc>
16959 </attribute>
16960 </interface>
16961
16962 <interface
16963 name="IHostPciDevicePlugEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16964 waitable="yes"
16965 uuid="9cebfc27-c579-4965-8eb7-d31794cd7dcf"
16966 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnHostPciDevicePlug"
16967 >
16968 <desc>
16969 Notification when host PCI device is plugged/unplugged. Plugging
16970 usually takes place on VM startup, unplug - when
16971 IMachine::DetachHostPciDevice is called.
16972
16973 <see>IMachine::DetachHostPciDevice</see>
16974
16975 </desc>
16976
16977 <attribute name="plugged" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16978 <desc>
16979 If device successfully plugged or unplugged.
16980 </desc>
16981 </attribute>
16982
16983 <attribute name="success" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16984 <desc>
16985 If operation was successful, if false - 'message' attribute
16986 may be of interest.
16987 </desc>
16988 </attribute>
16989
16990 <attribute name="attachment" type="IPciDeviceAttachment" readonly="yes">
16991 <desc>
16992 Attachment info for this device.
16993 </desc>
16994 </attribute>
16995
16996 <attribute name="message" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
16997 <desc>
16998 Optional error message.
16999 </desc>
17000 </attribute>
17001
17002 </interface>
17003
17004 <interface
17005 name="IVBoxSVCAvailabilityChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17006 uuid="97c78fcd-d4fc-485f-8613-5af88bfcfcdc"
17007 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVBoxSVCAvailabilityChanged"
17008 >
17009 <desc>
17010 Notification when VBoxSVC becomes unavailable (due to a crash or similar
17011 unexpected circumstances) or available again.
17012 </desc>
17013
17014 <attribute name="available" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17015 <desc>
17016 Whether VBoxSVC is available now.
17017 </desc>
17018 </attribute>
17019 </interface>
17020
17021 <interface
17022 name="IBandwidthGroupChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17023 uuid="334df94a-7556-4cbc-8c04-043096b02d82"
17024 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnBandwidthGroupChanged"
17025 >
17026 <desc>
17027 Notification when one of the bandwidth groups changed
17028 </desc>
17029 <attribute name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" readonly="yes">
17030 <desc>
17031 The changed bandwidth group.
17032 </desc>
17033 </attribute>
17034 </interface>
17035
17036 <enum
17037 name="GuestMonitorChangedEventType"
17038 uuid="ef172985-7e36-4297-95be-e46396968d66"
17039 >
17040
17041 <desc>
17042 How the guest monitor has been changed.
17043 </desc>
17044
17045 <const name="Enabled" value="0">
17046 <desc>
17047 The guest monitor has been enabled by the guest.
17048 </desc>
17049 </const>
17050
17051 <const name="Disabled" value="1">
17052 <desc>
17053 The guest monitor has been disabled by the guest.
17054 </desc>
17055 </const>
17056
17057 <const name="NewOrigin" value="2">
17058 <desc>
17059 The guest monitor origin has changed in the guest.
17060 </desc>
17061 </const>
17062 </enum>
17063
17064 <interface
17065 name="IGuestMonitorChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17066 uuid="0f7b8a22-c71f-4a36-8e5f-a77d01d76090"
17067 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestMonitorChanged"
17068 >
17069 <desc>
17070 Notification when the guest enables one of its monitors.
17071 </desc>
17072
17073 <attribute name="changeType" type="GuestMonitorChangedEventType" readonly="yes">
17074 <desc>
17075 What was changed for this guest monitor.
17076 </desc>
17077 </attribute>
17078
17079 <attribute name="screenId" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17080 <desc>
17081 The monitor which was changed.
17082 </desc>
17083 </attribute>
17084
17085 <attribute name="originX" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17086 <desc>
17087 Physical X origin relative to the primary screen.
17088 Valid for Enabled and NewOrigin.
17089 </desc>
17090 </attribute>
17091
17092 <attribute name="originY" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17093 <desc>
17094 Physical Y origin relative to the primary screen.
17095 Valid for Enabled and NewOrigin.
17096 </desc>
17097 </attribute>
17098
17099 <attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17100 <desc>
17101 Width of the screen.
17102 Valid for Enabled.
17103 </desc>
17104 </attribute>
17105
17106 <attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17107 <desc>
17108 Height of the screen.
17109 Valid for Enabled.
17110 </desc>
17111 </attribute>
17112
17113 </interface>
17114
17115 <interface
17116 name="IStorageDeviceChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17117 uuid="8a5c2dce-e341-49d4-afce-c95979f7d70c"
17118 wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStorageDeviceChanged"
17119 >
17120 <desc>
17121 Notification when a
17122 <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">storage device</link>
17123 is attached or removed.
17124 </desc>
17125 <attribute name="storageDevice" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes">
17126 <desc>
17127 Storage device that is subject to change.
17128 </desc>
17129 </attribute>
17130 <attribute name="removed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17131 <desc>
17132 Flag whether the device was removed or added to the VM.
17133 </desc>
17134 </attribute>
17135 </interface>
17136
17137 <module name="VBoxSVC" context="LocalServer">
17138 <class name="VirtualBox" uuid="B1A7A4F2-47B9-4A1E-82B2-07CCD5323C3F"
17139 namespace="virtualbox.org">
17140 <interface name="IVirtualBox" default="yes"/>
17141 </class>
17142 </module>
17143
17144 <module name="VBoxC" context="InprocServer" threadingModel="Free">
17145 <class name="VirtualBoxClient" uuid="dd3fc71d-26c0-4fe1-bf6f-67f633265bba"
17146 namespace="virtualbox.org">
17147 <interface name="IVirtualBoxClient" default="yes"/>
17148 </class>
17149
17150 <class name="Session" uuid="3C02F46D-C9D2-4F11-A384-53F0CF917214"
17151 namespace="virtualbox.org">
17152 <interface name="ISession" default="yes"/>
17153 </class>
17154 </module>
17155
17156</library>
17157
17158</idl>
17159
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