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1	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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). When pointers representing input arguments (such
275	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 "1.12", 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()] <- Stuck <--[failure]-+
525	V \|
526	+-> PoweredOff --+-->[powerUp()]--> Starting --+ \| +-----[resume()]-----+
527	\| \| \| \| V \|
528	\| Aborted -----+ +--> Running --[pause()]--> Paused
529	\| \| ^ \| ^ \|
530	\| Saved -----------[powerUp()]--> Restoring -+ \| \| \| \|
531	\| ^ \| \| \| \|
532	\| \| +-----------------------------------------+-\|-------------------+ +
533	\| \| \| \| \|
534	\| \| +-- Saving <--------[takeSnapshot()]<-------+---------------------+
535	\| \| \| \|
536	\| +-------- Saving <--------[saveState()]<----------+---------------------+
537	\| \| \|
538	+-------------- Stopping -------[powerDown()]<----------+---------------------+
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() >= MachineState_FirstOnline &&
552	machine.GetState() <= 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 other 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	+-> PoweredOff --+ \|
592	\| \| \|
593	\|-> Aborted -----+-->[lengthy VM configuration call] --> SettingUp -----+
594	\| \|
595	+-> 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	+-> PoweredOff --+ \|
606	\| +-->[takeSnapshot()] -------------------> Saving ------+
607	+-> Aborted -----+
608
609	+-> PoweredOff --+
610	\| \|
611	\| Aborted -----+-->[restoreSnapshot() ]-------> RestoringSnapshot -+
612	\| \| [deleteSnapshot() ]-------> DeletingSnapshot --+
613	+-> 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 <= state <= LastOnline</tt> must be
631	@c true. The same relates to transient states for which
632	the condition <tt>FirstOnline <= state <= 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>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).</note>
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="c28be65f-1a8f-43b4-81f1-eb60cb516e66"
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="APIVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1437	<desc>
1438	A string representing the VirtualBox API version number. The format is
1439	2 integer numbers divided by an underscore (e.g. 1_0). After the
1440	first public release of packages with a particular API version the
1441	API will not be changed in an incompatible way. Note that this
1442	guarantee does not apply to development builds, and also there is no
1443	guarantee that this version is identical to the first two integer
1444	numbers of the package version.
1445	</desc>
1446	</attribute>
1447
1448	<attribute name="homeFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1449	<desc>
1450	Full path to the directory where the global settings file,
1451	<tt>VirtualBox.xml</tt>, is stored.
1452
1453	In this version of VirtualBox, the value of this property is
1454	always <tt><user_dir>/.VirtualBox</tt> (where
1455	<tt><user_dir></tt> is the path to the user directory,
1456	as determined by the host OS), and cannot be changed.
1457
1458	This path is also used as the base to resolve relative paths in
1459	places where relative paths are allowed (unless otherwise
1460	expressly indicated).
1461	</desc>
1462	</attribute>
1463
1464	<attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
1465	<desc>
1466	Full name of the global settings file.
1467	The value of this property corresponds to the value of
1468	<link to="#homeFolder"/> plus <tt>/VirtualBox.xml</tt>.
1469	</desc>
1470	</attribute>
1471
1472	<attribute name="host" type="IHost" readonly="yes">
1473	<desc>Associated host object.</desc>
1474	</attribute>
1475
1476	<attribute name="systemProperties" type="ISystemProperties" readonly="yes">
1477	<desc>Associated system information object.</desc>
1478	</attribute>
1479
1480	<attribute name="machines" type="IMachine" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1481	<desc>
1482	Array of machine objects registered within this VirtualBox instance.
1483	</desc>
1484	</attribute>
1485
1486	<attribute name="hardDisks" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1487	<desc>
1488	Array of medium objects known to this VirtualBox installation.
1489
1490	This array contains only base media. All differencing
1491	media of the given base medium can be enumerated using
1492	<link to="IMedium::children"/>.
1493	</desc>
1494	</attribute>
1495
1496	<attribute name="DVDImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1497	<desc>
1498	Array of CD/DVD image objects currently in use by this VirtualBox instance.
1499	</desc>
1500	</attribute>
1501
1502	<attribute name="floppyImages" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1503	<desc>
1504	Array of floppy image objects currently in use by this VirtualBox instance.
1505	</desc>
1506	</attribute>
1507
1508	<attribute name="progressOperations" type="IProgress" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1509
1510	<attribute name="guestOSTypes" type="IGuestOSType" readonly="yes" safearray="yes"/>
1511
1512	<attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
1513	<desc>
1514	Collection of global shared folders. Global shared folders are
1515	available to all virtual machines.
1516
1517	New shared folders are added to the collection using
1518	<link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
1519	removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
1520
1521	<note>
1522	In the current version of the product, global shared folders are not
1523	implemented and therefore this collection is always empty.
1524	</note>
1525	</desc>
1526	</attribute>
1527
1528	<attribute name="performanceCollector" type="IPerformanceCollector" readonly="yes">
1529	<desc>
1530	Associated performance collector object.
1531	</desc>
1532	</attribute>
1533
1534	<attribute name="DHCPServers" type="IDHCPServer" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1535	<desc>
1536	DHCP servers.
1537	</desc>
1538	</attribute>
1539
1540	<attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
1541	<desc>
1542	Event source for VirtualBox events.
1543	</desc>
1544	</attribute>
1545
1546	<attribute name="extensionPackManager" type="IExtPackManager" readonly="yes">
1547	<desc>
1548	The extension pack manager.
1549	</desc>
1550	</attribute>
1551
1552
1553	<attribute name="internalNetworks" type="wstring" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1554	<desc>
1555	Names of all internal networks.
1556	</desc>
1557	</attribute>
1558
1559	<attribute name="genericNetworkDrivers" type="wstring" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
1560	<desc>
1561	Names of all generic network drivers.
1562	</desc>
1563	</attribute>
1564
1565	<method name="composeMachineFilename">
1566	<desc>
1567	Returns a recommended full path of the settings file name for a new virtual
1568	machine.
1569
1570	This API serves two purposes:
1571
1572	<ul>
1573	<li>It gets called by <link to="#createMachine" /> if NULL is specified
1574	for the @a settingsFile argument there, which means that API should use
1575	a recommended default file name.</li>
1576
1577	<li>It can be called manually by a client software before creating a machine,
1578	e.g. if that client wants to pre-create the machine directory to create
1579	virtual hard disks in that directory together with the new machine
1580	settings file. In that case, the file name should be stripped from the
1581	full settings file path returned by this function to obtain the
1582	machine directory.</li>
1583	</ul>
1584
1585	See <link to="IMachine::name"/> and <link to="#createMachine"/> for more
1586	details about the machine name.
1587
1588	If @a baseFolder is a @c null or empty string (which is recommended), the
1589	default machine settings folder
1590	(see <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder" />) will be used as
1591	a base folder for the created machine, resulting in a file name like
1592	"/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/name/name.vbox". Otherwise the given base folder
1593	will be used.
1594
1595	This method does not access the host disks. In particular, it does not check
1596	for whether a machine of this name already exists.
1597	</desc>
1598	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1599	<desc>Suggested machine name.</desc>
1600	</param>
1601	<param name="baseFolder" type="wstring" dir="in">
1602	<desc>Base machine folder (optional).</desc>
1603	</param>
1604	<param name="file" type="wstring" dir="return">
1605	<desc>Fully qualified path where the machine would be created.</desc>
1606	</param>
1607	</method>
1608
1609	<method name="createMachine">
1610	<desc>
1611	Creates a new virtual machine by creating a machine settings file at
1612	the given location.
1613
1614	VirtualBox machine settings files use a custom XML dialect. Starting
1615	with VirtualBox 4.0, a ".vbox" extension is recommended, but not enforced,
1616	and machine files can be created at arbitrary locations.
1617
1618	However, it is is recommended that machines be created in the default
1619	machine folder (e.g. "/home/user/VirtualBox VMs/name/name.vbox"; see
1620	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultMachineFolder" />). If you specify
1621	NULL for the @a settingsFile argument, <link to="#composeMachineFilename" />
1622	is called automatically to have such a recommended name composed based
1623	on the machine name given in the @a name argument.
1624
1625	If the resulting settings file already exists, this method will fail,
1626	unless @a forceOverwrite is set.
1627
1628	The new machine is created unregistered, with the initial configuration
1629	set according to the specified guest OS type. A typical sequence of
1630	actions to create a new virtual machine is as follows:
1631
1632	<ol>
1633	<li>
1634	Call this method to have a new machine created. The returned machine
1635	object will be "mutable" allowing to change any machine property.
1636	</li>
1637
1638	<li>
1639	Configure the machine using the appropriate attributes and methods.
1640	</li>
1641
1642	<li>
1643	Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to write the settings
1644	to the machine's XML settings file. The configuration of the newly
1645	created machine will not be saved to disk until this method is
1646	called.
1647	</li>
1648
1649	<li>
1650	Call <link to="#registerMachine" /> to add the machine to the list
1651	of machines known to VirtualBox.
1652	</li>
1653	</ol>
1654
1655	The specified guest OS type identifier must match an ID of one of known
1656	guest OS types listed in the <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/>
1657	array.
1658
1659	Optionally, you may specify an UUID of to assign to the created machine.
1660	However, this is not recommended and you should normally pass an empty
1661	(@c null) UUID to this method so that a new UUID will be automatically
1662	generated for every created machine. You can use UUID
1663	00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 as @c null value.
1664
1665	<note>
1666	There is no way to change the name of the settings file or
1667	subfolder of the created machine directly.
1668	</note>
1669
1670	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1671	@a osTypeId is invalid.
1672	</result>
1673	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1674	Resulting settings file name is invalid or the settings file already
1675	exists or could not be created due to an I/O error.
1676	</result>
1677	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1678	@a name is empty or @c null.
1679	</result>
1680	</desc>
1681
1682	<param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1683	<desc>Fully qualified path where the settings file should be created,
1684	or NULL for a default folder and file based on the @a name argument
1685	(see <link to="#composeMachineFilename" />).</desc>
1686	</param>
1687	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
1688	<desc>Machine name.</desc>
1689	</param>
1690	<param name="osTypeId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1691	<desc>Guest OS Type ID.</desc>
1692	</param>
1693	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1694	<desc>Machine UUID (optional).</desc>
1695	</param>
1696	<param name="forceOverwrite" type="boolean" dir="in">
1697	<desc>If true, an existing machine settings file will be overwritten.</desc>
1698	</param>
1699	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1700	<desc>Created machine object.</desc>
1701	</param>
1702	</method>
1703
1704	<method name="openMachine">
1705	<desc>
1706	Opens a virtual machine from the existing settings file.
1707	The opened machine remains unregistered until you call
1708	<link to="#registerMachine"/>.
1709
1710	The specified settings file name must be fully qualified.
1711	The file must exist and be a valid machine XML settings file
1712	whose contents will be used to construct the machine object.
1713
1714	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1715	Settings file name invalid, not found or sharing violation.
1716	</result>
1717	</desc>
1718	<param name="settingsFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
1719	<desc>
1720	Name of the machine settings file.
1721	</desc>
1722	</param>
1723	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1724	<desc>Opened machine object.</desc>
1725	</param>
1726	<note>
1727	<link to="IMachine::settingsModified"/> will return
1728	@c false for the created machine, until any of machine settings
1729	are changed.
1730	</note>
1731	</method>
1732
1733	<method name="registerMachine">
1734	<desc>
1735
1736	Registers the machine previously created using
1737	<link to="#createMachine"/> or opened using
1738	<link to="#openMachine"/> within this VirtualBox installation. After
1739	successful method invocation, the
1740	<link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent"/> event is fired.
1741
1742	<note>
1743	This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
1744	to save all current machine settings before registering it.
1745	</note>
1746
1747	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1748	No matching virtual machine found.
1749	</result>
1750	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1751	Virtual machine was not created within this VirtualBox instance.
1752	</result>
1753
1754	</desc>
1755	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
1756	</method>
1757
1758	<method name="findMachine">
1759	<desc>
1760	Attempts to find a virtual machine given its name or UUID.
1761
1762	<note>Inaccessible machines cannot be found by name, only by UUID, because their name
1763	cannot safely be determined.</note>
1764
1765	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1766	Could not find registered machine matching @a nameOrId.
1767	</result>
1768
1769	</desc>
1770	<param name="nameOrId" type="wstring" dir="in">
1771	<desc>What to search for. This can either be the UUID or the name of a virtual machine.</desc>
1772	</param>
1773	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="return">
1774	<desc>Machine object, if found.</desc>
1775	</param>
1776	</method>
1777
1778	<method name="createAppliance">
1779	<desc>
1780	Creates a new appliance object, which represents an appliance in the Open Virtual Machine
1781	Format (OVF). This can then be used to import an OVF appliance into VirtualBox or to export
1782	machines as an OVF appliance; see the documentation for <link to="IAppliance" /> for details.
1783	</desc>
1784	<param name="appliance" type="IAppliance" dir="return">
1785	<desc>New appliance.</desc>
1786	</param>
1787	</method>
1788
1789	<method name="createHardDisk">
1790	<desc>
1791	Creates a new base medium object that will use the given storage
1792	format and location for medium data.
1793
1794	The actual storage unit is not created by this method. In order to
1795	do it, and before you are able to attach the created medium to
1796	virtual machines, you must call one of the following methods to
1797	allocate a format-specific storage unit at the specified location:
1798	<ul>
1799	<li><link to="IMedium::createBaseStorage"/></li>
1800	<li><link to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/></li>
1801	</ul>
1802
1803	Some medium attributes, such as <link to="IMedium::id"/>, may
1804	remain uninitialized until the medium storage unit is successfully
1805	created by one of the above methods.
1806
1807	After the storage unit is successfully created, it will be
1808	accessible through the <link to="#findMedium"/> method and can
1809	be found in the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array.
1810
1811	The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
1812	installation can be obtained using
1813	<link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>. If the @a format
1814	attribute is empty or @c null then the default storage format
1815	specified by <link to="ISystemProperties::defaultHardDiskFormat"/> will
1816	be used for creating a storage unit of the medium.
1817
1818	Note that the format of the location string is storage format specific.
1819	See <link to="IMedium::location"/> and IMedium for more details.
1820
1821	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1822	@a format identifier is invalid. See
1823	<link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
1824	</result>
1825	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1826	@a location is a not valid file name (for file-based formats only).
1827	</result>
1828	</desc>
1829	<param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
1830	<desc>
1831	Identifier of the storage format to use for the new medium.
1832	</desc>
1833	</param>
1834	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1835	<desc>
1836	Location of the storage unit for the new medium.
1837	</desc>
1838	</param>
1839	<param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1840	<desc>Created medium object.</desc>
1841	</param>
1842	</method>
1843
1844	<method name="openMedium">
1845	<desc>
1846	Opens a medium from an existing storage location.
1847
1848	Once a medium has been opened, it can be passed to other VirtualBox
1849	methods, in particular to <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
1850
1851	Depending on the given device type, the file at the storage location
1852	must be in one of the media formats understood by VirtualBox:
1853
1854	<ul>
1855	<li>With a "HardDisk" device type, the file must be a hard disk image
1856	in one of the formats supported by VirtualBox (see
1857	<link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats" />).
1858	After this method succeeds, if the medium is a base medium, it
1859	will be added to the <link to="#hardDisks"/> array attribute. </li>
1860	<li>With a "DVD" device type, the file must be an ISO 9960 CD/DVD image.
1861	After this method succeeds, the medium will be added to the
1862	<link to="#DVDImages"/> array attribute.</li>
1863	<li>With a "Floppy" device type, the file must be an RAW floppy image.
1864	After this method succeeds, the medium will be added to the
1865	<link to="#floppyImages"/> array attribute.</li>
1866	</ul>
1867
1868	After having been opened, the medium can be found by the <link to="#findMedium"/>
1869	method and can be attached to virtual machines. See <link to="IMedium" /> for more details.
1870
1871	The UUID of the newly opened medium will either be retrieved from the
1872	storage location, if the format supports it (e.g. for hard disk images),
1873	or a new UUID will be randomly generated (e.g. for ISO and RAW files).
1874	If for some reason you need to change the medium's UUID, use
1875	<link to="IMedium::setIDs" />.
1876
1877	If a differencing hard disk medium is to be opened by this method, the
1878	operation will succeed only if its parent medium and all ancestors,
1879	if any, are already known to this VirtualBox installation (for example,
1880	were opened by this method before).
1881
1882	This method attempts to guess the storage format of the specified medium
1883	by reading medium data at the specified location.
1884
1885	If @a accessMode is ReadWrite (which it should be for hard disks and floppies),
1886	the image is opened for read/write access and must have according permissions,
1887	as VirtualBox may actually write status information into the disk's metadata
1888	sections.
1889
1890	Note that write access is required for all typical hard disk usage in VirtualBox,
1891	since VirtualBox may need to write metadata such as a UUID into the image.
1892	The only exception is opening a source image temporarily for copying and
1893	cloning (see <link to="IMedium::cloneTo" /> when the image will be closed
1894	again soon.
1895
1896	The format of the location string is storage format specific. See
1897	<link to="IMedium::location"/> and IMedium for more details.
1898
1899	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
1900	Invalid medium storage file location or could not find the medium
1901	at the specified location.
1902	</result>
1903	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
1904	Could not get medium storage format.
1905	</result>
1906	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1907	Invalid medium storage format.
1908	</result>
1909	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
1910	Medium has already been added to a media registry.
1911	</result>
1912	</desc>
1913	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1914	<desc>
1915	Location of the storage unit that contains medium data in one of
1916	the supported storage formats.
1917	</desc>
1918	</param>
1919	<param name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1920	<desc>
1921	Must be one of "HardDisk", "DVD" or "Floppy".
1922	</desc>
1923	</param>
1924	<param name="accessMode" type="AccessMode" dir="in">
1925	<desc>Whether to open the image in read/write or read-only mode. For
1926	a "DVD" device type, this is ignored and read-only mode is always assumed.</desc>
1927	</param>
1928	<param name="forceNewUuid" type="boolean" dir="in">
1929	<desc>Allows the caller to request a completely new medium UUID for
1930	the image which is to be opened. Useful if one intends to open an exact
1931	copy of a previously opened image, as this would normally fail due to
1932	the duplicate UUID.</desc>
1933	</param>
1934	<param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1935	<desc>Opened medium object.</desc>
1936	</param>
1937	</method>
1938
1939	<method name="findMedium">
1940	<desc>
1941	Returns a medium of the given type that uses the given fully qualified
1942	location or UUID to store medium data.
1943
1944	The given medium must be known to this VirtualBox installation, i.e.
1945	it must be previously created by <link to="#createHardDisk"/> or opened
1946	by <link to="#openMedium"/>.
1947
1948	The search is done by comparing the value of the @a location argument to
1949	the <link to="IMedium::location"/> and <link to="IMedium::id" />
1950	attributes of each known medium.
1951
1952	On case sensitive file systems, a case sensitive comparison is performed,
1953	otherwise the case of symbols in the file path is ignored.
1954
1955	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
1956	No medium object matching @a location found.
1957	</result>
1958	</desc>
1959	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
1960	<desc>What to search for. This can either be the UUID or the location string of an open medium.</desc>
1961	</param>
1962	<param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
1963	<desc>Device type (must be HardDisk, DVD or Floppy)</desc>
1964	</param>
1965	<param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
1966	<desc>Medium object, if found.</desc>
1967	</param>
1968	</method>
1969
1970	<method name="getGuestOSType">
1971	<desc>
1972	Returns an object describing the specified guest OS type.
1973
1974	The requested guest OS type is specified using a string which is a
1975	mnemonic identifier of the guest operating system, such as
1976	<tt>"win31"</tt> or <tt>"ubuntu"</tt>. The guest OS type ID of a
1977	particular virtual machine can be read or set using the
1978	<link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/> attribute.
1979
1980	The <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes"/> collection contains all
1981	available guest OS type objects. Each object has an
1982	<link to="IGuestOSType::id"/> attribute which contains an identifier of
1983	the guest OS this object describes.
1984
1985	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
1986	@a id is not a valid Guest OS type.
1987	</result>
1988
1989	</desc>
1990	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
1991	<desc>Guest OS type ID string.</desc>
1992	</param>
1993	<param name="type" type="IGuestOSType" dir="return">
1994	<desc>Guest OS type object.</desc>
1995	</param>
1996	</method>
1997
1998	<method name="createSharedFolder">
1999	<desc>
2000	Creates a new global shared folder by associating the given logical
2001	name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
2002	folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
2003	<link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
2004	<note>
2005	In the current implementation, this operation is not
2006	implemented.
2007	</note>
2008	</desc>
2009	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2010	<desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
2011	</param>
2012	<param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
2013	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
2014	</param>
2015	<param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
2016	<desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
2017	</param>
2018	<param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
2019	<desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
2020	or not.</desc>
2021	</param>
2022	</method>
2023
2024	<method name="removeSharedFolder">
2025	<desc>
2026	Removes the global shared folder with the given name previously
2027	created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
2028	shared folders and stops sharing it.
2029	<note>
2030	In the current implementation, this operation is not
2031	implemented.
2032	</note>
2033	</desc>
2034	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2035	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
2036	</param>
2037	</method>
2038
2039	<method name="getExtraDataKeys">
2040	<desc>
2041	Returns an array representing the global extra data keys which currently
2042	have values defined.
2043	</desc>
2044	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2045	<desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
2046	</param>
2047	</method>
2048
2049	<method name="getExtraData">
2050	<desc>
2051	Returns associated global extra data.
2052
2053	If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
2054	succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
2055
2056	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2057	Settings file not accessible.
2058	</result>
2059	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2060	Could not parse the settings file.
2061	</result>
2062
2063	</desc>
2064	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2065	<desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
2066	</param>
2067	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
2068	<desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
2069	</param>
2070	</method>
2071
2072	<method name="setExtraData">
2073	<desc>
2074	Sets associated global extra data.
2075
2076	If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
2077	will be deleted.
2078
2079	<note>
2080	Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
2081	registered event listener using the
2082	<link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent"/>
2083	notification for a permission. If one of the listeners refuses the
2084	new value, the change will not be performed.
2085	</note>
2086	<note>
2087	On success, the
2088	<link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent"/> notification
2089	is called to inform all registered listeners about a successful data
2090	change.
2091	</note>
2092
2093	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
2094	Settings file not accessible.
2095	</result>
2096	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
2097	Could not parse the settings file.
2098	</result>
2099	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
2100	Modification request refused.
2101	</result>
2102
2103	</desc>
2104	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
2105	<desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
2106	</param>
2107	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
2108	<desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
2109	</param>
2110	</method>
2111
2112	<!--method name="createDHCPServerForInterface">
2113	<desc>
2114	Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2115	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2116	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2117	</result>
2118	</desc>
2119	<param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2120	<desc>Network Interface</desc>
2121	</param>
2122	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2123	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2124	</param>
2125	</method-->
2126
2127	<method name="createDHCPServer">
2128	<desc>
2129	Creates a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2130	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2131	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2132	</result>
2133	</desc>
2134	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2135	<desc>server name</desc>
2136	</param>
2137	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2138	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2139	</param>
2140	</method>
2141
2142	<method name="findDHCPServerByNetworkName">
2143	<desc>
2144	Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given internal network name
2145	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2146	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2147	</result>
2148
2149	</desc>
2150	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
2151	<desc>server name</desc>
2152	</param>
2153	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="return">
2154	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2155	</param>
2156	</method>
2157
2158	<!--method name="findDHCPServerForInterface">
2159	<desc>
2160	Searches a dhcp server settings to be used for the given interface
2161	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2162	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2163	</result>
2164	</desc>
2165	<param name="interface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="in">
2166	<desc>Network Interface</desc>
2167	</param>
2168	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="out">
2169	<desc>Dhcp server settings</desc>
2170	</param>
2171	</method-->
2172
2173	<method name="removeDHCPServer">
2174	<desc>
2175	Removes the dhcp server settings
2176	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
2177	Host network interface @a name already exists.
2178	</result>
2179	</desc>
2180	<param name="server" type="IDHCPServer" dir="in">
2181	<desc>Dhcp server settings to be removed</desc>
2182	</param>
2183	</method>
2184
2185
2186	<method name="checkFirmwarePresent">
2187	<desc>
2188	Check if this VirtualBox installation has a firmware
2189	of the given type available, either system-wide or per-user.
2190	Optionally, this may return a hint where this firmware can be
2191	downloaded from.
2192	</desc>
2193	<param name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType" dir="in">
2194	<desc>
2195	Type of firmware to check.
2196	</desc>
2197	</param>
2198	<param name="version" type="wstring" dir="in">
2199	<desc>Expected version number, usually empty string (presently ignored).</desc>
2200	</param>
2201
2202	<param name="url" type="wstring" dir="out">
2203	<desc>
2204	Suggested URL to download this firmware from.
2205	</desc>
2206	</param>
2207
2208	<param name="file" type="wstring" dir="out">
2209	<desc>
2210	Filename of firmware, only valid if result == TRUE.
2211	</desc>
2212	</param>
2213
2214	<param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
2215	<desc>If firmware of this type and version is available.</desc>
2216	</param>
2217	</method>
2218
2219	</interface>
2220
2221	<!--
2222	// IVFSExplorer
2223	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2224	-->
2225
2226	<enum
2227	name="VFSType"
2228	uuid="813999ba-b949-48a8-9230-aadc6285e2f2"
2229	>
2230	<desc>
2231	Virtual file systems supported by VFSExplorer.
2232	</desc>
2233
2234	<const name="File" value="1" />
2235	<const name="Cloud" value="2" />
2236	<const name="S3" value="3" />
2237	<const name="WebDav" value="4" />
2238	</enum>
2239
2240	<enum
2241	name="VFSFileType"
2242	uuid="714333cd-44e2-415f-a245-d378fa9b1242"
2243	>
2244	<desc>
2245	File types known by VFSExplorer.
2246	</desc>
2247
2248	<const name="Unknown" value="1" />
2249	<const name="Fifo" value="2" />
2250	<const name="DevChar" value="3" />
2251	<const name="Directory" value="4" />
2252	<const name="DevBlock" value="5" />
2253	<const name="File" value="6" />
2254	<const name="SymLink" value="7" />
2255	<const name="Socket" value="8" />
2256	<const name="WhiteOut" value="9" />
2257	</enum>
2258
2259	<interface
2260	name="IVFSExplorer" extends="$unknown"
2261	uuid="003d7f92-d38e-487f-b790-8c5e8631cb2f"
2262	wsmap="managed"
2263	>
2264	<desc>
2265	The VFSExplorer interface unifies access to different file system
2266	types. This includes local file systems as well remote file systems like
2267	S3. For a list of supported types see <link to="VFSType" />.
2268	An instance of this is returned by <link to="IAppliance::createVFSExplorer" />.
2269	</desc>
2270
2271	<attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2272	<desc>Returns the current path in the virtual file system.</desc>
2273	</attribute>
2274
2275	<attribute name="type" type="VFSType" readonly="yes">
2276	<desc>Returns the file system type which is currently in use.</desc>
2277	</attribute>
2278
2279	<method name="update">
2280	<desc>Updates the internal list of files/directories from the
2281	current directory level. Use <link to="#entryList" /> to get the full list
2282	after a call to this method.</desc>
2283
2284	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2285	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2286	</param>
2287	</method>
2288
2289	<method name="cd">
2290	<desc>Change the current directory level.</desc>
2291
2292	<param name="aDir" type="wstring" dir="in">
2293	<desc>The name of the directory to go in.</desc>
2294	</param>
2295
2296	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2297	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2298	</param>
2299	</method>
2300
2301	<method name="cdUp">
2302	<desc>Go one directory upwards from the current directory level.</desc>
2303
2304	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2305	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2306	</param>
2307	</method>
2308
2309	<method name="entryList">
2310	<desc>Returns a list of files/directories after a call to <link
2311	to="#update" />. The user is responsible for keeping this internal
2312	list up do date.</desc>
2313
2314	<param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2315	<desc>The list of names for the entries.</desc>
2316	</param>
2317
2318	<param name="aTypes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2319	<desc>The list of types for the entries.</desc>
2320	</param>
2321
2322	<param name="aSizes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2323	<desc>The list of sizes (in bytes) for the entries.</desc>
2324	</param>
2325
2326	<param name="aModes" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
2327	<desc>The list of file modes (in octal form) for the entries.</desc>
2328	</param>
2329	</method>
2330
2331	<method name="exists">
2332	<desc>Checks if the given file list exists in the current directory
2333	level.</desc>
2334
2335	<param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2336	<desc>The names to check.</desc>
2337	</param>
2338
2339	<param name="aExists" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
2340	<desc>The names which exist.</desc>
2341	</param>
2342	</method>
2343
2344	<method name="remove">
2345	<desc>Deletes the given files in the current directory level.</desc>
2346
2347	<param name="aNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
2348	<desc>The names to remove.</desc>
2349	</param>
2350
2351	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2352	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2353	</param>
2354	</method>
2355
2356	</interface>
2357
2358	<enum
2359	name="ImportOptions" extends="$unknown"
2360	uuid="0a981523-3b20-4004-8ee3-dfd322202ace"
2361	>
2362
2363	<desc>
2364	Import options, used with <link to="IAppliance::importMachines" />.
2365	</desc>
2366
2367	<const name="KeepAllMACs" value="1">
2368	<desc>Don't generate new MAC addresses of the attached network adapters.</desc>
2369	</const>
2370	<const name="KeepNATMACs" value="2">
2371	<desc>Don't generate new MAC addresses of the attached network adapters when they are using NAT.</desc>
2372	</const>
2373
2374	</enum>
2375
2376
2377	<!--
2378	// IAppliance
2379	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2380	-->
2381
2382	<interface
2383	name="IAppliance" extends="$unknown"
2384	uuid="3059cf9e-25c7-4f0b-9fa5-3c42e441670b"
2385	wsmap="managed"
2386	>
2387	<desc>
2388	Represents a platform-independent appliance in OVF format. An instance of this is returned
2389	by <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />, which can then be used to import and export
2390	virtual machines within an appliance with VirtualBox.
2391
2392	The OVF standard suggests two different physical file formats:
2393
2394	<ol>
2395	<li>If the appliance is distributed as a set of files, there must be at least one XML descriptor
2396	file that conforms to the OVF standard and carries an <tt>.ovf</tt> file extension. If
2397	this descriptor file references other files such as disk images, as OVF appliances typically
2398	do, those additional files must be in the same directory as the descriptor file.</li>
2399
2400	<li>If the appliance is distributed as a single file, it must be in TAR format and have the
2401	<tt>.ova</tt> file extension. This TAR file must then contain at least the OVF descriptor
2402	files and optionally other files.
2403
2404	At this time, VirtualBox does not not yet support the packed (TAR) variant; support will
2405	be added with a later version.</li>
2406	</ol>
2407
2408	<b>Importing</b> an OVF appliance into VirtualBox as instances of
2409	<link to="IMachine" /> involves the following sequence of API calls:
2410
2411	<ol>
2412	<li>Call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" />. This will create an empty IAppliance object.
2413	</li>
2414
2415	<li>On the new object, call <link to="#read" /> with the full path of the OVF file you
2416	would like to import. So long as this file is syntactically valid, this will succeed
2417	and fill the appliance object with the parsed data from the OVF file.
2418	</li>
2419
2420	<li>Next, call <link to="#interpret" />, which analyzes the OVF data and sets up the
2421	contents of the IAppliance attributes accordingly. These can be inspected by a
2422	VirtualBox front-end such as the GUI, and the suggestions can be displayed to the
2423	user. In particular, the <link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array contains
2424	instances of <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> which represent the virtual
2425	systems (machines) in the OVF, which in turn describe the virtual hardware prescribed
2426	by the OVF (network and hardware adapters, virtual disk images, memory size and so on).
2427	The GUI can then give the user the option to confirm and/or change these suggestions.
2428	</li>
2429
2430	<li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
2431	virtual system (machine) to override the suggestions made by the <link to="#interpret" /> routine.
2432	</li>
2433
2434	<li>Finally, call <link to="#importMachines" /> to create virtual machines in
2435	VirtualBox as instances of <link to="IMachine" /> that match the information in the
2436	virtual system descriptions. After this call succeeded, the UUIDs of the machines created
2437	can be found in the <link to="#machines" /> array attribute.
2438	</li>
2439	</ol>
2440
2441	<b>Exporting</b> VirtualBox machines into an OVF appliance involves the following steps:
2442
2443	<ol>
2444	<li>As with importing, first call <link to="IVirtualBox::createAppliance" /> to create
2445	an empty IAppliance object.
2446	</li>
2447
2448	<li>For each machine you would like to export, call <link to="IMachine::export" />
2449	with the IAppliance object you just created. Each such call creates one instance of
2450	<link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> inside the appliance.
2451	</li>
2452
2453	<li>If desired, call <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::setFinalValues" /> for each
2454	virtual system (machine) to override the suggestions made by the <link to="IMachine::export"/> routine.
2455	</li>
2456
2457	<li>Finally, call <link to="#write" /> with a path specification to have the OVF
2458	file written.</li>
2459	</ol>
2460
2461	</desc>
2462
2463	<attribute name="path" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
2464	<desc>Path to the main file of the OVF appliance, which is either the <tt>.ovf</tt> or
2465	the <tt>.ova</tt> file passed to <link to="#read" /> (for import) or
2466	<link to="#write" /> (for export).
2467	This attribute is empty until one of these methods has been called.
2468	</desc>
2469	</attribute>
2470
2471	<attribute name="disks" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2472	<desc>
2473	Array of virtual disk definitions. One such description exists for each
2474	disk definition in the OVF; each string array item represents one such piece of
2475	disk information, with the information fields separated by tab (\\t) characters.
2476
2477	The caller should be prepared for additional fields being appended to
2478	this string in future versions of VirtualBox and therefore check for
2479	the number of tabs in the strings returned.
2480
2481	In the current version, the following eight fields are returned per string
2482	in the array:
2483
2484	<ol>
2485	<li>Disk ID (unique string identifier given to disk)</li>
2486
2487	<li>Capacity (unsigned integer indicating the maximum capacity of the disk)</li>
2488
2489	<li>Populated size (optional unsigned integer indicating the current size of the
2490	disk; can be approximate; -1 if unspecified)</li>
2491
2492	<li>Format (string identifying the disk format, typically
2493	"http://www.vmware.com/specifications/vmdk.html#sparse")</li>
2494
2495	<li>Reference (where to find the disk image, typically a file name; if empty,
2496	then the disk should be created on import)</li>
2497
2498	<li>Image size (optional unsigned integer indicating the size of the image,
2499	which need not necessarily be the same as the values specified above, since
2500	the image may be compressed or sparse; -1 if not specified)</li>
2501
2502	<li>Chunk size (optional unsigned integer if the image is split into chunks;
2503	presently unsupported and always -1)</li>
2504
2505	<li>Compression (optional string equalling "gzip" if the image is gzip-compressed)</li>
2506	</ol>
2507	</desc>
2508	</attribute>
2509
2510	<attribute name="virtualSystemDescriptions" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2511	<desc> Array of virtual system descriptions. One such description is created
2512	for each virtual system (machine) found in the OVF.
2513	This array is empty until either <link to="#interpret" /> (for import) or <link to="IMachine::export" />
2514	(for export) has been called.
2515	</desc>
2516	</attribute>
2517
2518	<attribute name="machines" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
2519	<desc>
2520	Contains the UUIDs of the machines created from the information in this appliances. This is only
2521	relevant for the import case, and will only contain data after a call to <link to="#importMachines" />
2522	succeeded.
2523	</desc>
2524	</attribute>
2525
2526	<method name="read">
2527	<desc>
2528	Reads an OVF file into the appliance object.
2529
2530	This method succeeds if the OVF is syntactically valid and, by itself, without errors. The
2531	mere fact that this method returns successfully does not mean that VirtualBox supports all
2532	features requested by the appliance; this can only be examined after a call to <link to="#interpret" />.
2533	</desc>
2534	<param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
2535	<desc>
2536	Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
2537	on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
2538	</desc>
2539	</param>
2540	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2541	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2542	</param>
2543	</method>
2544
2545	<method name="interpret">
2546	<desc>
2547	Interprets the OVF data that was read when the appliance was constructed. After
2548	calling this method, one can inspect the
2549	<link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array attribute, which will then contain
2550	one <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> for each virtual machine found in
2551	the appliance.
2552
2553	Calling this method is the second step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
2554	see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2555
2556	After calling this method, one should call <link to="#getWarnings" /> to find out
2557	if problems were encountered during the processing which might later lead to
2558	errors.
2559	</desc>
2560	</method>
2561
2562	<method name="importMachines">
2563	<desc>
2564	Imports the appliance into VirtualBox by creating instances of <link to="IMachine" />
2565	and other interfaces that match the information contained in the appliance as
2566	closely as possible, as represented by the import instructions in the
2567	<link to="#virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array.
2568
2569	Calling this method is the final step of importing an appliance into VirtualBox;
2570	see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2571
2572	Since importing the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
2573	disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
2574	returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
2575
2576	After the import succeeded, the UUIDs of the IMachine instances created can be
2577	retrieved from the <link to="#machines" /> array attribute.
2578	</desc>
2579
2580	<param name="options" type="ImportOptions" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2581	<desc>Options for the importing operation.</desc>
2582	</param>
2583
2584	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2585	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2586	</param>
2587	</method>
2588
2589	<method name="createVFSExplorer">
2590	<desc>Returns a <link to="IVFSExplorer" /> object for the given URI.</desc>
2591
2592	<param name="aUri" type="wstring" dir="in">
2593	<desc>The URI describing the file system to use.</desc>
2594	</param>
2595
2596	<param name="aExplorer" type="IVFSExplorer" dir="return">
2597	<desc></desc>
2598	</param>
2599	</method>
2600
2601	<method name="write">
2602	<desc>
2603	Writes the contents of the appliance exports into a new OVF file.
2604
2605	Calling this method is the final step of exporting an appliance from VirtualBox;
2606	see <link to="IAppliance" /> for an overview.
2607
2608	Since exporting the appliance will most probably involve copying and converting
2609	disk images, which can take a long time, this method operates asynchronously and
2610	returns an IProgress object to allow the caller to monitor the progress.
2611	</desc>
2612	<param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
2613	<desc>
2614	Output format, as a string. Currently supported formats are "ovf-0.9" and "ovf-1.0";
2615	future versions of VirtualBox may support additional formats.
2616	</desc>
2617	</param>
2618	<param name="manifest" type="boolean" dir="in">
2619	<desc>
2620	Indicate if the optional manifest file (.mf) should be written. The manifest file
2621	is used for integrity checks prior import.
2622	</desc>
2623	</param>
2624	<param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
2625	<desc>
2626	Name of appliance file to open (either with an <tt>.ovf</tt> or <tt>.ova</tt> extension, depending
2627	on whether the appliance is distributed as a set of files or as a single file, respectively).
2628	</desc>
2629	</param>
2630	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
2631	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
2632	</param>
2633	</method>
2634
2635	<method name="getWarnings">
2636	<desc>Returns textual warnings which occurred during execution of <link to="#interpret" />.</desc>
2637
2638	<param name="aWarnings" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2639	<desc></desc>
2640	</param>
2641	</method>
2642
2643	</interface>
2644
2645	<enum
2646	name="VirtualSystemDescriptionType"
2647	uuid="303c0900-a746-4612-8c67-79003e91f459"
2648	>
2649	<desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription" /> to describe the type of
2650	a configuration value.</desc>
2651
2652	<const name="Ignore" value="1" />
2653	<const name="OS" value="2" />
2654	<const name="Name" value="3" />
2655	<const name="Product" value="4" />
2656	<const name="Vendor" value="5" />
2657	<const name="Version" value="6" />
2658	<const name="ProductUrl" value="7" />
2659	<const name="VendorUrl" value="8" />
2660	<const name="Description" value="9" />
2661	<const name="License" value="10" />
2662	<const name="Miscellaneous" value="11" />
2663	<const name="CPU" value="12" />
2664	<const name="Memory" value="13" />
2665	<const name="HardDiskControllerIDE" value="14" />
2666	<const name="HardDiskControllerSATA" value="15" />
2667	<const name="HardDiskControllerSCSI" value="16" />
2668	<const name="HardDiskControllerSAS" value="17" />
2669	<const name="HardDiskImage" value="18" />
2670	<const name="Floppy" value="19" />
2671	<const name="CDROM" value="20" />
2672	<const name="NetworkAdapter" value="21" />
2673	<const name="USBController" value="22" />
2674	<const name="SoundCard" value="23" />
2675	<const name="SettingsFile" value="24">
2676	<desc>Not used/implemented right now, will be added later in 4.1.x.</desc>
2677	</const>
2678	</enum>
2679
2680	<enum
2681	name="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType"
2682	uuid="56d9403f-3425-4118-9919-36f2a9b8c77c"
2683	>
2684	<desc>Used with <link to="IVirtualSystemDescription::getValuesByType" /> to describe the value
2685	type to fetch.</desc>
2686
2687	<const name="Reference" value="1" />
2688	<const name="Original" value="2" />
2689	<const name="Auto" value="3" />
2690	<const name="ExtraConfig" value="4" />
2691
2692	</enum>
2693
2694	<interface
2695	name="IVirtualSystemDescription" extends="$unknown"
2696	uuid="d7525e6c-531a-4c51-8e04-41235083a3d8"
2697	wsmap="managed"
2698	>
2699
2700	<desc>Represents one virtual system (machine) in an appliance. This interface is used in
2701	the <link to="IAppliance::virtualSystemDescriptions" /> array. After
2702	<link to="IAppliance::interpret" /> has been called, that array contains information
2703	about how the virtual systems described in the OVF should best be imported into
2704	VirtualBox virtual machines. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the steps required to
2705	import an OVF into VirtualBox.
2706	</desc>
2707
2708	<attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
2709	<desc>Return the number of virtual system description entries.</desc>
2710	</attribute>
2711
2712	<method name="getDescription">
2713	<desc>Returns information about the virtual system as arrays of instruction items. In each array, the
2714	items with the same indices correspond and jointly represent an import instruction for VirtualBox.
2715
2716	The list below identifies the value sets that are possible depending on the
2717	<link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" /> enum value in the array item in @a aTypes[]. In each case,
2718	the array item with the same index in @a aOvfValues[] will contain the original value as contained
2719	in the OVF file (just for informational purposes), and the corresponding item in @a aVBoxValues[]
2720	will contain a suggested value to be used for VirtualBox. Depending on the description type,
2721	the @a aExtraConfigValues[] array item may also be used.
2722
2723	<ul>
2724	<li>
2725	"OS": the guest operating system type. There must be exactly one such array item on import. The
2726	corresponding item in @a aVBoxValues[] contains the suggested guest operating system for VirtualBox.
2727	This will be one of the values listed in <link to="IVirtualBox::guestOSTypes" />. The corresponding
2728	item in @a aOvfValues[] will contain a numerical value that described the operating system in the OVF.
2729	</li>
2730	<li>
2731	"Name": the name to give to the new virtual machine. There can be at most one such array item;
2732	if none is present on import, then an automatic name will be created from the operating system
2733	type. The corresponding item im @a aOvfValues[] will contain the suggested virtual machine name
2734	from the OVF file, and @a aVBoxValues[] will contain a suggestion for a unique VirtualBox
2735	<link to="IMachine" /> name that does not exist yet.
2736	</li>
2737	<li>
2738	"Description": an arbitrary description.
2739	</li>
2740	<li>
2741	"License": the EULA section from the OVF, if present. It is the responsibility of the calling
2742	code to display such a license for agreement; the Main API does not enforce any such policy.
2743	</li>
2744	<li>
2745	Miscellaneous: reserved for future use.
2746	</li>
2747	<li>
2748	"CPU": the number of CPUs. There can be at most one such item, which will presently be ignored.
2749	</li>
2750	<li>
2751	"Memory": the amount of guest RAM, in bytes. There can be at most one such array item; if none
2752	is present on import, then VirtualBox will set a meaningful default based on the operating system
2753	type.
2754	</li>
2755	<li>
2756	"HardDiskControllerIDE": an IDE hard disk controller. There can be at most two such items.
2757	An optional value in @a aOvfValues[] and @a aVBoxValues[] can be "PIIX3" or "PIIX4" to specify
2758	the type of IDE controller; this corresponds to the ResourceSubType element which VirtualBox
2759	writes into the OVF.
2760	The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will contain an integer that items of the "Harddisk"
2761	type can use to specify which hard disk controller a virtual disk should be connected to.
2762	Note that in OVF, an IDE controller has two channels, corresponding to "master" and "slave"
2763	in traditional terminology, whereas the IDE storage controller that VirtualBox supports in
2764	its virtual machines supports four channels (primary master, primary slave, secondary master,
2765	secondary slave) and thus maps to two IDE controllers in the OVF sense.
2766	</li>
2767	<li>
2768	"HardDiskControllerSATA": an SATA hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item. This
2769	has no value in @a aOvfValues[] or @a aVBoxValues[].
2770	The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
2771	</li>
2772	<li>
2773	"HardDiskControllerSCSI": a SCSI hard disk controller. There can be at most one such item.
2774	The items in @a aOvfValues[] and @a aVBoxValues[] will either be "LsiLogic", "BusLogic" or
2775	"LsiLogicSas". (Note that in OVF, the LsiLogicSas controller is treated as a SCSI controller
2776	whereas VirtualBox considers it a class of storage controllers of its own; see
2777	<link to="StorageControllerType" />).
2778	The matching item in the @a aRefs[] array will be used as with IDE controllers (see above).
2779	</li>
2780	<li>
2781	"HardDiskImage": a virtual hard disk, most probably as a reference to an image file. There can be an
2782	arbitrary number of these items, one for each virtual disk image that accompanies the OVF.
2783
2784	The array item in @a aOvfValues[] will contain the file specification from the OVF file (without
2785	a path since the image file should be in the same location as the OVF file itself), whereas the
2786	item in @a aVBoxValues[] will contain a qualified path specification to where VirtualBox uses the
2787	hard disk image. This means that on import the image will be copied and converted from the
2788	"ovf" location to the "vbox" location; on export, this will be handled the other way round.
2789
2790	The matching item in the @a aExtraConfigValues[] array must contain a string of the following
2791	format: "controller=<index>;channel=<c>"
2792	In this string, <index> must be an integer specifying the hard disk controller to connect
2793	the image to. That number must be the index of an array item with one of the hard disk controller
2794	types (HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskControllerSATA, HardDiskControllerIDE).
2795	In addition, <c> must specify the channel to use on that controller. For IDE controllers,
2796	this can be 0 or 1 for master or slave, respectively. For compatibility with VirtualBox versions
2797	before 3.2, the values 2 and 3 (for secondary master and secondary slave) are also supported, but
2798	no longer exported. For SATA and SCSI controllers, the channel can range from 0-29.
2799	</li>
2800	<li>
2801	"CDROM": a virtual CD-ROM drive. The matching item in @a aExtraConfigValue[] contains the same
2802	attachment information as with "HardDiskImage" items.
2803	</li>
2804	<li>
2805	"CDROM": a virtual floppy drive. The matching item in @a aExtraConfigValue[] contains the same
2806	attachment information as with "HardDiskImage" items.
2807	</li>
2808	<li>
2809	"NetworkAdapter": a network adapter. The array item in @a aVBoxValues[] will specify the hardware
2810	for the network adapter, whereas the array item in @a aExtraConfigValues[] will have a string
2811	of the "type=<X>" format, where <X> must be either "NAT" or "Bridged".
2812	</li>
2813	<li>
2814	"USBController": a USB controller. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an
2815	item ispresent, USB support will be enabled for the new virtual machine.
2816	</li>
2817	<li>
2818	"SoundCard": a sound card. There can be at most one such item. If and only if such an item is
2819	present, sound support will be enabled for the new virtual machine. Note that the virtual
2820	machine in VirtualBox will always be presented with the standard VirtualBox soundcard, which
2821	may be different from the virtual soundcard expected by the appliance.
2822	</li>
2823	</ul>
2824
2825	</desc>
2826
2827	<param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2828	<desc></desc>
2829	</param>
2830
2831	<param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2832	<desc></desc>
2833	</param>
2834
2835	<param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2836	<desc></desc>
2837	</param>
2838
2839	<param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2840	<desc></desc>
2841	</param>
2842
2843	<param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2844	<desc></desc>
2845	</param>
2846
2847	</method>
2848
2849	<method name="getDescriptionByType">
2850	<desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescription" /> except that you can specify which types
2851	should be returned.</desc>
2852
2853	<param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2854	<desc></desc>
2855	</param>
2856
2857	<param name="aTypes" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2858	<desc></desc>
2859	</param>
2860
2861	<param name="aRefs" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2862	<desc></desc>
2863	</param>
2864
2865	<param name="aOvfValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2866	<desc></desc>
2867	</param>
2868
2869	<param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2870	<desc></desc>
2871	</param>
2872
2873	<param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
2874	<desc></desc>
2875	</param>
2876
2877	</method>
2878
2879	<method name="getValuesByType">
2880	<desc>This is the same as <link to="#getDescriptionByType" /> except that you can specify which
2881	value types should be returned. See <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" /> for possible
2882	values.</desc>
2883
2884	<param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2885	<desc></desc>
2886	</param>
2887
2888	<param name="aWhich" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionValueType" dir="in">
2889	<desc></desc>
2890	</param>
2891
2892	<param name="aValues" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
2893	<desc></desc>
2894	</param>
2895
2896	</method>
2897
2898	<method name="setFinalValues">
2899	<desc>
2900	This method allows the appliance's user to change the configuration for the virtual
2901	system descriptions. For each array item returned from <link to="#getDescription" />,
2902	you must pass in one boolean value and one configuration value.
2903
2904	Each item in the boolean array determines whether the particular configuration item
2905	should be enabled.
2906	You can only disable items of the types HardDiskControllerIDE, HardDiskControllerSATA,
2907	HardDiskControllerSCSI, HardDiskImage, CDROM, Floppy, NetworkAdapter, USBController
2908	and SoundCard.
2909
2910	For the "vbox" and "extra configuration" values, if you pass in the same arrays
2911	as returned in the aVBoxValues and aExtraConfigValues arrays from <link to="#getDescription"/>,
2912	the configuration remains unchanged. Please see the documentation for <link to="#getDescription"/>
2913	for valid configuration values for the individual array item types. If the
2914	corresponding item in the aEnabled array is @c false, the configuration value is ignored.
2915	</desc>
2916
2917	<param name="aEnabled" type="boolean" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2918	<desc></desc>
2919	</param>
2920
2921	<param name="aVBoxValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2922	<desc></desc>
2923	</param>
2924
2925	<param name="aExtraConfigValues" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
2926	<desc></desc>
2927	</param>
2928	</method>
2929
2930	<method name="addDescription">
2931	<desc>
2932	This method adds an additional description entry to the stack of already
2933	available descriptions for this virtual system. This is handy for writing
2934	values which aren't directly supported by VirtualBox. One example would
2935	be the License type of <link to="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" />.
2936	</desc>
2937
2938	<param name="aType" type="VirtualSystemDescriptionType" dir="in">
2939	<desc></desc>
2940	</param>
2941
2942	<param name="aVBoxValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
2943	<desc></desc>
2944	</param>
2945
2946	<param name="aExtraConfigValue" type="wstring" dir="in">
2947	<desc></desc>
2948	</param>
2949	</method>
2950	</interface>
2951
2952
2953	<!--
2954	// IMachine
2955	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2956	-->
2957
2958	<interface
2959	name="IInternalMachineControl" extends="$unknown"
2960	uuid="2087906d-bb92-43a0-8014-4cab009e4888"
2961	internal="yes"
2962	wsmap="suppress"
2963	>
2964	<method name="setRemoveSavedStateFile">
2965	<desc>
2966	Updates the flag whether the saved state file is removed on a
2967	machine state change from Saved to PoweredOff.
2968	</desc>
2969	<param name="aRemove" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
2970	</method>
2971
2972	<method name="updateState">
2973	<desc>
2974	Updates the VM state.
2975	<note>
2976	This operation will also update the settings file with the correct
2977	information about the saved state file and delete this file from disk
2978	when appropriate.
2979	</note>
2980	</desc>
2981	<param name="state" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
2982	</method>
2983
2984	<method name="getIPCId">
2985	<param name="id" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
2986	</method>
2987
2988	<method name="beginPowerUp">
2989	<desc>
2990	Tells VBoxSVC that <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> is under ways and
2991	gives it the progress object that should be part of any pending
2992	<link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> operations. The progress
2993	object may be called back to reflect an early cancelation, so some care
2994	have to be taken with respect to any cancelation callbacks. The console
2995	object will call <link to="IInternalMachineControl::endPowerUp"/>
2996	to signal the completion of the progress object.
2997	</desc>
2998	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in" />
2999	</method>
3000
3001	<method name="endPowerUp">
3002	<desc>
3003	Tells VBoxSVC that <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> has completed.
3004	This method may query status information from the progress object it
3005	received in <link to="IInternalMachineControl::beginPowerUp"/> and copy
3006	it over to any in-progress <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>
3007	call in order to complete that progress object.
3008	</desc>
3009	<param name="result" type="long" dir="in"/>
3010	</method>
3011
3012	<method name="beginPoweringDown">
3013	<desc>
3014	Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3015	stop the VM execution and power down.
3016	</desc>
3017	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="out">
3018	<desc>
3019	Progress object created by VBoxSVC to wait until
3020	the VM is powered down.
3021	</desc>
3022	</param>
3023	</method>
3024
3025	<method name="endPoweringDown">
3026	<desc>
3027	Called by the VM process to inform the server that powering
3028	down previously requested by #beginPoweringDown is either
3029	successfully finished or there was a failure.
3030
3031	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3032	Settings file not accessible.
3033	</result>
3034	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3035	Could not parse the settings file.
3036	</result>
3037
3038	</desc>
3039
3040	<param name="result" type="long" dir="in">
3041	<desc>@c S_OK to indicate success.
3042	</desc>
3043	</param>
3044	<param name="errMsg" type="wstring" dir="in">
3045	<desc>@c human readable error message in case of failure.
3046	</desc>
3047	</param>
3048	</method>
3049
3050	<method name="runUSBDeviceFilters">
3051	<desc>
3052	Asks the server to run USB devices filters of the associated
3053	machine against the given USB device and tell if there is
3054	a match.
3055	<note>
3056	Intended to be used only for remote USB devices. Local
3057	ones don't require to call this method (this is done
3058	implicitly by the Host and USBProxyService).
3059	</note>
3060	</desc>
3061	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
3062	<param name="matched" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
3063	<param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
3064	</method>
3065
3066	<method name="captureUSBDevice">
3067	<desc>
3068	Requests a capture of the given host USB device.
3069	When the request is completed, the VM process will
3070	get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3071	notification.
3072	</desc>
3073	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3074	</method>
3075
3076	<method name="detachUSBDevice">
3077	<desc>
3078	Notification that a VM is going to detach (@a done = @c false) or has
3079	already detached (@a done = @c true) the given USB device.
3080	When the @a done = @c true request is completed, the VM process will
3081	get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceDetach"/>
3082	notification.
3083	<note>
3084	In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3085	and filters of all VMs but this one on the detached device
3086	as if it were just attached to the host computer.
3087	</note>
3088	</desc>
3089	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
3090	<param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3091	</method>
3092
3093	<method name="autoCaptureUSBDevices">
3094	<desc>
3095	Requests a capture all matching USB devices attached to the host.
3096	When the request is completed, the VM process will
3097	get a <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onUSBDeviceAttach"/>
3098	notification per every captured device.
3099	</desc>
3100	</method>
3101
3102	<method name="detachAllUSBDevices">
3103	<desc>
3104	Notification that a VM that is being powered down. The done
3105	parameter indicates whether which stage of the power down
3106	we're at. When @a done = @c false the VM is announcing its
3107	intentions, while when @a done = @c true the VM is reporting
3108	what it has done.
3109	<note>
3110	In the @a done = @c true case, the server must run its own filters
3111	and filters of all VMs but this one on all detach devices as
3112	if they were just attached to the host computer.
3113	</note>
3114	</desc>
3115	<param name="done" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
3116	</method>
3117
3118	<method name="onSessionEnd">
3119	<desc>
3120	Triggered by the given session object when the session is about
3121	to close normally.
3122	</desc>
3123	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
3124	<desc>Session that is being closed</desc>
3125	</param>
3126	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3127	<desc>
3128	Used to wait until the corresponding machine is actually
3129	dissociated from the given session on the server.
3130	Returned only when this session is a direct one.
3131	</desc>
3132	</param>
3133	</method>
3134
3135	<method name="beginSavingState">
3136	<desc>
3137	Called by the VM process to inform the server it wants to
3138	save the current state and stop the VM execution.
3139	</desc>
3140	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="out">
3141	<desc>
3142	Progress object created by VBoxSVC to wait until
3143	the state is saved.
3144	</desc>
3145	</param>
3146	<param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3147	<desc>
3148	File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3149	</desc>
3150	</param>
3151	</method>
3152
3153	<method name="endSavingState">
3154	<desc>
3155	Called by the VM process to inform the server that saving
3156	the state previously requested by #beginSavingState is either
3157	successfully finished or there was a failure.
3158
3159	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3160	Settings file not accessible.
3161	</result>
3162	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3163	Could not parse the settings file.
3164	</result>
3165
3166	</desc>
3167
3168	<param name="result" type="long" dir="in">
3169	<desc>@c S_OK to indicate success.
3170	</desc>
3171	</param>
3172	<param name="errMsg" type="wstring" dir="in">
3173	<desc>@c human readable error message in case of failure.
3174	</desc>
3175	</param>
3176	</method>
3177
3178	<method name="adoptSavedState">
3179	<desc>
3180	Gets called by <link to="IConsole::adoptSavedState"/>.
3181	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3182	Invalid saved state file path.
3183	</result>
3184	</desc>
3185	<param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
3186	<desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
3187	</param>
3188	</method>
3189
3190	<method name="beginTakingSnapshot">
3191	<desc>
3192	Called from the VM process to request from the server to perform the
3193	server-side actions of creating a snapshot (creating differencing images
3194	and the snapshot object).
3195
3196	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
3197	Settings file not accessible.
3198	</result>
3199	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
3200	Could not parse the settings file.
3201	</result>
3202	</desc>
3203	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3204	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3205	</param>
3206	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3207	<desc>Snapshot name.</desc>
3208	</param>
3209	<param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
3210	<desc>Snapshot description.</desc>
3211	</param>
3212	<param name="consoleProgress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
3213	<desc>
3214	Progress object created by the VM process tracking the
3215	snapshot's progress. This has the following sub-operations:
3216	<ul>
3217	<li>setting up (weight 1);</li>
3218	<li>one for each medium attachment that needs a differencing image (weight 1 each);</li>
3219	<li>another one to copy the VM state (if offline with saved state, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3220	<li>another one to save the VM state (if online, weight is VM memory size in MB);</li>
3221	<li>finishing up (weight 1)</li>
3222	</ul>
3223	</desc>
3224	</param>
3225	<param name="fTakingSnapshotOnline" type="boolean" dir="in">
3226	<desc>
3227	Whether this is an online snapshot (i.e. the machine is running).
3228	</desc>
3229	</param>
3230	<param name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" dir="out">
3231	<desc>
3232	File path the VM process must save the execution state to.
3233	</desc>
3234	</param>
3235	</method>
3236
3237	<method name="endTakingSnapshot">
3238	<desc>
3239	Called by the VM process to inform the server that the snapshot
3240	previously requested by #beginTakingSnapshot is either
3241	successfully taken or there was a failure.
3242	</desc>
3243
3244	<param name="success" type="boolean" dir="in">
3245	<desc>@c true to indicate success and @c false otherwise</desc>
3246	</param>
3247	</method>
3248
3249	<method name="deleteSnapshot">
3250	<desc>
3251	Gets called by <link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot"/>,
3252	<link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshotAndAllChildren"/> and
3253	<link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshotRange"/>.
3254	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
3255	Snapshot has more than one child snapshot. Only possible if the
3256	delete operation does not delete all children or the range does
3257	not meet the linearity condition.
3258	</result>
3259	</desc>
3260	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3261	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3262	</param>
3263	<param name="startId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
3264	<desc>UUID of the first snapshot to delete.</desc>
3265	</param>
3266	<param name="endId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
3267	<desc>UUID of the last snapshot to delete.</desc>
3268	</param>
3269	<param name="deleteAllChildren" type="boolean" dir="in">
3270	<desc>Whether all children should be deleted.</desc>
3271	</param>
3272	<param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3273	<desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3274	</param>
3275	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3276	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3277	</param>
3278	</method>
3279
3280	<method name="finishOnlineMergeMedium">
3281	<desc>
3282	Gets called by <link to="IInternalSessionControl::onlineMergeMedium"/>.
3283	</desc>
3284	<param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
3285	<desc>The medium attachment which needs to be cleaned up.</desc>
3286	</param>
3287	<param name="source" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3288	<desc>Merge source medium.</desc>
3289	</param>
3290	<param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3291	<desc>Merge target medium.</desc>
3292	</param>
3293	<param name="mergeForward" type="boolean" dir="in">
3294	<desc>Merge direction.</desc>
3295	</param>
3296	<param name="parentForTarget" type="IMedium" dir="in">
3297	<desc>For forward merges: new parent for target medium.</desc>
3298	</param>
3299	<param name="childrenToReparent" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
3300	<desc>For backward merges: list of media which need their parent UUID
3301	updated.</desc>
3302	</param>
3303	</method>
3304
3305	<method name="restoreSnapshot">
3306	<desc>
3307	Gets called by <link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/>.
3308	</desc>
3309	<param name="initiator" type="IConsole" dir="in">
3310	<desc>The console object that initiated this call.</desc>
3311	</param>
3312	<param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
3313	<desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
3314	</param>
3315	<param name="machineState" type="MachineState" dir="out">
3316	<desc>New machine state after this operation is started.</desc>
3317	</param>
3318	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
3319	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
3320	</param>
3321	</method>
3322
3323	<method name="pullGuestProperties">
3324	<desc>
3325	Get the list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
3326	with their values, time stamps and flags and give responsibility for
3327	managing properties to the console.
3328	</desc>
3329	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3330	<desc>
3331	The names of the properties returned.
3332	</desc>
3333	</param>
3334	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3335	<desc>
3336	The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3337	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3338	</desc>
3339	</param>
3340	<param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3341	<desc>
3342	The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
3343	the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3344	</desc>
3345	</param>
3346	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
3347	<desc>
3348	The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
3349	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
3350	</desc>
3351	</param>
3352	</method>
3353
3354	<method name="pushGuestProperty">
3355	<desc>
3356	Update a single guest property in IMachine.
3357	</desc>
3358	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
3359	<desc>
3360	The name of the property to be updated.
3361	</desc>
3362	</param>
3363	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
3364	<desc>
3365	The value of the property.
3366	</desc>
3367	</param>
3368	<param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="in">
3369	<desc>
3370	The timestamp of the property.
3371	</desc>
3372	</param>
3373	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
3374	<desc>
3375	The flags of the property.
3376	</desc>
3377	</param>
3378	</method>
3379
3380	<method name="lockMedia">
3381	<desc>
3382	Locks all media attached to the machine for writing and parents of
3383	attached differencing media (if any) for reading. This operation is
3384	atomic so that if it fails no media is actually locked.
3385
3386	This method is intended to be called when the machine is in Starting or
3387	Restoring state. The locked media will be automatically unlocked when
3388	the machine is powered off or crashed.
3389	</desc>
3390	</method>
3391	<method name="unlockMedia">
3392	<desc>
3393	Unlocks all media previously locked using
3394	<link to="IInternalMachineControl::lockMedia"/>.
3395
3396	This method is intended to be used with teleportation so that it is
3397	possible to teleport between processes on the same machine.
3398	</desc>
3399	</method>
3400
3401	<method name="ejectMedium">
3402	<desc>
3403	Tells VBoxSVC that the guest has ejected the medium associated with
3404	the medium attachment.
3405	</desc>
3406	<param name="attachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
3407	<desc>
3408	The medium attachment where the eject happened.
3409	</desc>
3410	</param>
3411	<param name="newAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="return">
3412	<desc>
3413	A new reference to the medium attachment, as the config change can
3414	result in the creation of a new instance.
3415	</desc>
3416	</param>
3417	</method>
3418	</interface>
3419
3420	<interface
3421	name="IBIOSSettings" extends="$unknown"
3422	uuid="38b54279-dc35-4f5e-a431-835b867c6b5e"
3423	wsmap="managed"
3424	>
3425	<desc>
3426	The IBIOSSettings interface represents BIOS settings of the virtual
3427	machine. This is used only in the <link to="IMachine::BIOSSettings" /> attribute.
3428	</desc>
3429	<attribute name="logoFadeIn" type="boolean">
3430	<desc>Fade in flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3431	</attribute>
3432
3433	<attribute name="logoFadeOut" type="boolean">
3434	<desc>Fade out flag for BIOS logo animation.</desc>
3435	</attribute>
3436
3437	<attribute name="logoDisplayTime" type="unsigned long">
3438	<desc>BIOS logo display time in milliseconds (0 = default).</desc>
3439	</attribute>
3440
3441	<attribute name="logoImagePath" type="wstring">
3442	<desc>
3443	Local file system path for external BIOS splash image. Empty string
3444	means the default image is shown on boot.
3445	</desc>
3446	</attribute>
3447
3448	<attribute name="bootMenuMode" type="BIOSBootMenuMode">
3449	<desc>Mode of the BIOS boot device menu.</desc>
3450	</attribute>
3451
3452	<attribute name="ACPIEnabled" type="boolean">
3453	<desc>ACPI support flag.</desc>
3454	</attribute>
3455
3456	<attribute name="IOAPICEnabled" type="boolean">
3457	<desc>
3458	IO APIC support flag. If set, VirtualBox will provide an IO APIC
3459	and support IRQs above 15.
3460	</desc>
3461	</attribute>
3462
3463	<attribute name="timeOffset" type="long long">
3464	<desc>
3465	Offset in milliseconds from the host system time. This allows for
3466	guests running with a different system date/time than the host.
3467	It is equivalent to setting the system date/time in the BIOS except
3468	it is not an absolute value but a relative one. Guest Additions
3469	time synchronization honors this offset.
3470	</desc>
3471	</attribute>
3472
3473	<attribute name="PXEDebugEnabled" type="boolean">
3474	<desc>
3475	PXE debug logging flag. If set, VirtualBox will write extensive
3476	PXE trace information to the release log.
3477	</desc>
3478	</attribute>
3479
3480	</interface>
3481
3482	<enum
3483	name="CleanupMode"
3484	uuid="67897c50-7cca-47a9-83f6-ce8fd8eb5441"
3485	>
3486	<desc>Cleanup mode, used with <link to="IMachine::unregister" />.
3487	</desc>
3488	<const name="UnregisterOnly" value="1">
3489	<desc>Unregister only the machine, but neither delete snapshots nor detach media.</desc>
3490	</const>
3491	<const name="DetachAllReturnNone" value="2">
3492	<desc>Delete all snapshots and detach all media but return none; this will keep all media registered.</desc>
3493	</const>
3494	<const name="DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly" value="3">
3495	<desc>Delete all snapshots, detach all media and return hard disks for closing, but not removable media.</desc>
3496	</const>
3497	<const name="Full" value="4">
3498	<desc>Delete all snapshots, detach all media and return all media for closing.</desc>
3499	</const>
3500	</enum>
3501
3502	<interface
3503	name="IPciAddress" extends="$unknown"
3504	uuid="D88B324F-DB19-4D3B-A1A9-BF5B127199A8"
3505	wsmap="struct"
3506	>
3507
3508	<desc>
3509	Address on the PCI bus.
3510	</desc>
3511
3512	<attribute name="bus" type="short">
3513	<desc>
3514	Bus number.
3515	</desc>
3516	</attribute>
3517
3518	<attribute name="device" type="short">
3519	<desc>
3520	Device number.
3521	</desc>
3522	</attribute>
3523
3524	<attribute name="devFunction" type="short">
3525	<desc>
3526	Device function number.
3527	</desc>
3528	</attribute>
3529
3530	<method name="asLong">
3531	<desc>
3532	Convert PCI address into long.
3533	</desc>
3534	<param name="result" type="long" dir="return" />
3535	</method>
3536
3537	<method name="fromLong">
3538	<desc>
3539	Make PCI address from long.
3540	</desc>
3541	<param name="number" type="long" dir="in" />
3542	</method>
3543	</interface>
3544
3545	<interface
3546	name="IPciDeviceAttachment" extends="$unknown"
3547	uuid="91f33d6f-e621-4f70-a77e-15f0e3c714d5"
3548	wsmap="struct"
3549	>
3550
3551	<desc>
3552	Information about PCI attachments.
3553	</desc>
3554
3555	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3556	<desc>
3557	Device name.
3558	</desc>
3559	</attribute>
3560
3561	<attribute name="isPhysicalDevice" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3562	<desc>
3563	If this is physical or virtual device.
3564	</desc>
3565	</attribute>
3566
3567	<attribute name="hostAddress" type="long" readonly="yes">
3568	<desc>
3569	Address of device on the host, applicable only to host devices.
3570	</desc>
3571	</attribute>
3572
3573	<attribute name="guestAddress" type="long" readonly="yes">
3574	<desc>
3575	Address of device on the guest.
3576	</desc>
3577	</attribute>
3578
3579	</interface>
3580
3581	<enum
3582	name="CloneMode" extends="$unknown"
3583	uuid="A7A159FE-5096-4B8D-8C3C-D033CB0B35A8"
3584	>
3585
3586	<desc>
3587	Clone mode, used with <link to="IMachine::cloneTo" />.
3588	</desc>
3589
3590	<const name="MachineState" value="1">
3591	<desc>Clone the state of the selected machine.</desc>
3592	</const>
3593	<const name="MachineAndChildStates" value="2">
3594	<desc>Clone the state of the selected machine and its child snapshots if present.</desc>
3595	</const>
3596	<const name="AllStates" value="3">
3597	<desc>Clone all states (including all snapshots) of the machine, regardless of the machine object used.</desc>
3598	</const>
3599
3600	</enum>
3601
3602	<enum
3603	name="CloneOptions" extends="$unknown"
3604	uuid="22243f8e-96ab-497c-8cf0-f40a566c630b"
3605	>
3606
3607	<desc>
3608	Clone options, used with <link to="IMachine::cloneTo" />.
3609	</desc>
3610
3611	<const name="Link" value="1">
3612	<desc>Create a clone VM where all virtual disks are linked to the original VM.</desc>
3613	</const>
3614	<const name="KeepAllMACs" value="2">
3615	<desc>Don't generate new MAC addresses of the attached network adapters.</desc>
3616	</const>
3617	<const name="KeepNATMACs" value="3">
3618	<desc>Don't generate new MAC addresses of the attached network adapters when they are using NAT.</desc>
3619	</const>
3620	<const name="KeepDiskNames" value="4">
3621	<desc>Don't change the disk names.</desc>
3622	</const>
3623
3624	</enum>
3625
3626
3627	<interface
3628	name="IMachine" extends="$unknown"
3629	uuid="5eaa9319-62fc-4b0a-843c-0cb1940f8a91"
3630	wsmap="managed"
3631	>
3632	<desc>
3633	The IMachine interface represents a virtual machine, or guest, created
3634	in VirtualBox.
3635
3636	This interface is used in two contexts. First of all, a collection of
3637	objects implementing this interface is stored in the
3638	<link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> attribute which lists all the virtual
3639	machines that are currently registered with this VirtualBox
3640	installation. Also, once a session has been opened for the given virtual
3641	machine (e.g. the virtual machine is running), the machine object
3642	associated with the open session can be queried from the session object;
3643	see <link to="ISession"/> for details.
3644
3645	The main role of this interface is to expose the settings of the virtual
3646	machine and provide methods to change various aspects of the virtual
3647	machine's configuration. For machine objects stored in the
3648	<link to="IVirtualBox::machines"/> collection, all attributes are
3649	read-only unless explicitly stated otherwise in individual attribute
3650	and method descriptions.
3651
3652	In order to change a machine setting, a session for this machine must be
3653	opened using one of the <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> or
3654	<link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> methods. After the
3655	machine has been successfully locked for a session, a mutable machine object
3656	needs to be queried from the session object and then the desired settings
3657	changes can be applied to the returned object using IMachine attributes and
3658	methods. See the <link to="ISession"/> interface description for more
3659	information about sessions.
3660
3661	Note that IMachine does not provide methods to control virtual machine
3662	execution (such as start the machine, or power it down) -- these methods
3663	are grouped in a separate interface called <link to="IConsole" />.
3664
3665	<see><link to="ISession"/>, <link to="IConsole"/></see>
3666	</desc>
3667
3668	<attribute name="parent" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
3669	<desc>Associated parent object.</desc>
3670	</attribute>
3671
3672	<attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3673	<desc>
3674	Whether this virtual machine is currently accessible or not.
3675
3676	A machine is always deemed accessible unless it is registered <i>and</i>
3677	its settings file cannot be read or parsed (either because the file itself
3678	is unavailable or has invalid XML contents).
3679
3680	Every time this property is read, the accessibility state of
3681	this machine is re-evaluated. If the returned value is @c false,
3682	the <link to="#accessError"/> property may be used to get the
3683	detailed error information describing the reason of
3684	inaccessibility, including XML error messages.
3685
3686	When the machine is inaccessible, only the following properties
3687	can be used on it:
3688	<ul>
3689	<li><link to="#parent"/></li>
3690	<li><link to="#id"/></li>
3691	<li><link to="#settingsFilePath"/></li>
3692	<li><link to="#accessible"/></li>
3693	<li><link to="#accessError"/></li>
3694	</ul>
3695
3696	An attempt to access any other property or method will return
3697	an error.
3698
3699	The only possible action you can perform on an inaccessible
3700	machine is to unregister it using the
3701	<link to="IMachine::unregister"/> call (or, to check
3702	for the accessibility state once more by querying this
3703	property).
3704
3705	<note>
3706	In the current implementation, once this property returns
3707	@c true, the machine will never become inaccessible
3708	later, even if its settings file cannot be successfully
3709	read/written any more (at least, until the VirtualBox
3710	server is restarted). This limitation may be removed in
3711	future releases.
3712	</note>
3713	</desc>
3714	</attribute>
3715
3716	<attribute name="accessError" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
3717	<desc>
3718	Error information describing the reason of machine
3719	inaccessibility.
3720
3721	Reading this property is only valid after the last call to
3722	<link to="#accessible"/> returned @c false (i.e. the
3723	machine is currently inaccessible). Otherwise, a @c null
3724	IVirtualBoxErrorInfo object will be returned.
3725	</desc>
3726	</attribute>
3727
3728	<attribute name="name" type="wstring">
3729	<desc>
3730	Name of the virtual machine.
3731
3732	Besides being used for human-readable identification purposes
3733	everywhere in VirtualBox, the virtual machine name is also used
3734	as a name of the machine's settings file and as a name of the
3735	subdirectory this settings file resides in. Thus, every time you
3736	change the value of this property, the settings file will be
3737	renamed once you call <link to="#saveSettings"/> to confirm the
3738	change. The containing subdirectory will be also renamed, but
3739	only if it has exactly the same name as the settings file
3740	itself prior to changing this property (for backward compatibility
3741	with previous API releases). The above implies the following
3742	limitations:
3743	<ul>
3744	<li>The machine name cannot be empty.</li>
3745	<li>The machine name can contain only characters that are valid
3746	file name characters according to the rules of the file
3747	system used to store VirtualBox configuration.</li>
3748	<li>You cannot have two or more machines with the same name
3749	if they use the same subdirectory for storing the machine
3750	settings files.</li>
3751	<li>You cannot change the name of the machine if it is running,
3752	or if any file in the directory containing the settings file
3753	is being used by another running machine or by any other
3754	process in the host operating system at a time when
3755	<link to="#saveSettings"/> is called.
3756	</li>
3757	</ul>
3758	If any of the above limitations are hit, <link to="#saveSettings"/>
3759	will return an appropriate error message explaining the exact
3760	reason and the changes you made to this machine will not be saved.
3761
3762	Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, a “.vbox” extension of the settings
3763	file is recommended, but not enforced. (Previous versions always
3764	used a generic ".xml" extension.)
3765	</desc>
3766	</attribute>
3767
3768	<attribute name="description" type="wstring">
3769	<desc>
3770	Description of the virtual machine.
3771
3772	The description attribute can contain any text and is
3773	typically used to describe the hardware and software
3774	configuration of the virtual machine in detail (i.e. network
3775	settings, versions of the installed software and so on).
3776	</desc>
3777	</attribute>
3778
3779	<attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
3780	<desc>UUID of the virtual machine.</desc>
3781	</attribute>
3782
3783	<attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring">
3784	<desc>
3785	User-defined identifier of the Guest OS type.
3786	You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
3787	an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
3788	Guest OS type.
3789	<note>
3790	This value may differ from the value returned by
3791	<link to="IGuest::OSTypeId"/> if Guest Additions are
3792	installed to the guest OS.
3793	</note>
3794	</desc>
3795	</attribute>
3796
3797	<attribute name="hardwareVersion" type="wstring">
3798	<desc>Hardware version identifier. Internal use only for now.</desc>
3799	</attribute>
3800
3801	<attribute name="hardwareUUID" type="uuid" mod="string">
3802	<desc>
3803	The UUID presented to the guest via memory tables, hardware and guest
3804	properties. For most VMs this is the same as the @a id, but for VMs
3805	which have been cloned or teleported it may be the same as the source
3806	VM. This latter is because the guest shouldn't notice that it was
3807	cloned or teleported.
3808	</desc>
3809	</attribute>
3810
3811	<attribute name="CPUCount" type="unsigned long">
3812	<desc>Number of virtual CPUs in the VM.</desc>
3813	</attribute>
3814
3815	<attribute name="CPUHotPlugEnabled" type="boolean">
3816	<desc>
3817	This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows CPU
3818	hotplugging for this machine.</desc>
3819	</attribute>
3820
3821	<attribute name="CPUExecutionCap" type="unsigned long">
3822	<desc>
3823	Means to limit the number of CPU cycles a guest can use. The unit
3824	is percentage of host CPU cycles per second. The valid range
3825	is 1 - 100. 100 (the default) implies no limit.
3826	</desc>
3827	</attribute>
3828
3829	<attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long">
3830	<desc>System memory size in megabytes.</desc>
3831	</attribute>
3832
3833	<attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
3834	<desc>Memory balloon size in megabytes.</desc>
3835	</attribute>
3836
3837	<attribute name="pageFusionEnabled" type="boolean">
3838	<desc>
3839	This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows page
3840	fusion for this machine (64 bits host only).
3841	</desc>
3842	</attribute>
3843
3844	<attribute name="VRAMSize" type="unsigned long">
3845	<desc>Video memory size in megabytes.</desc>
3846	</attribute>
3847
3848	<attribute name="accelerate3DEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
3849	<desc>
3850	This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
3851	use of the 3D graphics support available on the host.</desc>
3852	</attribute>
3853
3854	<attribute name="accelerate2DVideoEnabled" type="boolean" default="false">
3855	<desc>
3856	This setting determines whether VirtualBox allows this machine to make
3857	use of the 2D video acceleration support available on the host.</desc>
3858	</attribute>
3859
3860	<attribute name="monitorCount" type="unsigned long">
3861	<desc>
3862	Number of virtual monitors.
3863	<note>
3864	Only effective on Windows XP and later guests with
3865	Guest Additions installed.
3866	</note>
3867	</desc>
3868	</attribute>
3869
3870	<attribute name="BIOSSettings" type="IBIOSSettings" readonly="yes">
3871	<desc>Object containing all BIOS settings.</desc>
3872	</attribute>
3873
3874	<attribute name="firmwareType" type="FirmwareType">
3875	<desc>Type of firmware (such as legacy BIOS or EFI), used for initial
3876	bootstrap in this VM.</desc>
3877	</attribute>
3878
3879	<attribute name="pointingHidType" type="PointingHidType">
3880	<desc>Type of pointing HID (such as mouse or tablet) used in this VM.
3881	The default is typically "PS2Mouse" but can vary depending on the
3882	requirements of the guest operating system.</desc>
3883	</attribute>
3884
3885	<attribute name="keyboardHidType" type="KeyboardHidType">
3886	<desc>Type of keyboard HID used in this VM.
3887	The default is typically "PS2Keyboard" but can vary depending on the
3888	requirements of the guest operating system.</desc>
3889	</attribute>
3890
3891	<attribute name="hpetEnabled" type="boolean">
3892	<desc>This attribute controls if High Precision Event Timer (HPET) is
3893	enabled in this VM. Use this property if you want to provide guests
3894	with additional time source, or if guest requires HPET to function correctly.
3895	Default is false.</desc>
3896	</attribute>
3897
3898	<attribute name="chipsetType" type="ChipsetType">
3899	<desc>Chipset type used in this VM.</desc>
3900	</attribute>
3901
3902	<attribute name="snapshotFolder" type="wstring">
3903	<desc>
3904	Full path to the directory used to store snapshot data
3905	(differencing media and saved state files) of this machine.
3906
3907	The initial value of this property is
3908	<tt><</tt><link to="#settingsFilePath">
3909	path_to_settings_file</link><tt>>/<</tt>
3910	<link to="#id">machine_uuid</link>
3911	<tt>></tt>.
3912
3913	Currently, it is an error to try to change this property on
3914	a machine that has snapshots (because this would require to
3915	move possibly large files to a different location).
3916	A separate method will be available for this purpose later.
3917
3918	<note>
3919	Setting this property to @c null or to an empty string will restore
3920	the initial value.
3921	</note>
3922	<note>
3923	When setting this property, the specified path can be
3924	absolute (full path) or relative to the directory where the
3925	<link to="#settingsFilePath">machine settings file</link>
3926	is located. When reading this property, a full path is
3927	always returned.
3928	</note>
3929	<note>
3930	The specified path may not exist, it will be created
3931	when necessary.
3932	</note>
3933	</desc>
3934	</attribute>
3935
3936	<attribute name="VRDEServer" type="IVRDEServer" readonly="yes">
3937	<desc>VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) server object.</desc>
3938	</attribute>
3939
3940	<attribute name="emulatedUSBWebcameraEnabled" type="boolean" default="false"/>
3941	<attribute name="emulatedUSBCardReaderEnabled" type="boolean" default="false"/>
3942
3943	<attribute name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3944	<desc>Array of media attached to this machine.</desc>
3945	</attribute>
3946
3947	<attribute name="USBController" type="IUSBController" readonly="yes">
3948	<desc>
3949	Associated USB controller object.
3950
3951	<note>
3952	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
3953	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
3954	</note>
3955	</desc>
3956	</attribute>
3957
3958	<attribute name="audioAdapter" type="IAudioAdapter" readonly="yes">
3959	<desc>Associated audio adapter, always present.</desc>
3960	</attribute>
3961
3962	<attribute name="storageControllers" type="IStorageController" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
3963	<desc>Array of storage controllers attached to this machine.</desc>
3964	</attribute>
3965
3966	<attribute name="settingsFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
3967	<desc>
3968	Full name of the file containing machine settings data.
3969	</desc>
3970	</attribute>
3971
3972	<attribute name="settingsModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
3973	<desc>
3974	Whether the settings of this machine have been modified
3975	(but neither yet saved nor discarded).
3976	<note>
3977	Reading this property is only valid on instances returned
3978	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
3979	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened
3980	by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
3981	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
3982	<link to="IMachine::unregister"/>. For all other
3983	cases, the settings can never be modified.
3984	</note>
3985	<note>
3986	For newly created unregistered machines, the value of this
3987	property is always @c true until <link to="#saveSettings"/>
3988	is called (no matter if any machine settings have been
3989	changed after the creation or not). For opened machines
3990	the value is set to @c false (and then follows to normal rules).
3991	</note>
3992	</desc>
3993	</attribute>
3994
3995	<attribute name="sessionState" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
3996	<desc>Current session state for this machine.</desc>
3997	</attribute>
3998
3999	<attribute name="sessionType" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4000	<desc>
4001	Type of the session. If <link to="#sessionState"/> is
4002	Spawning or Locked, this attribute contains the
4003	same value as passed to the
4004	<link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> method in the
4005	@a type parameter. If the session was used with
4006	<link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />, or if
4007	<link to="#sessionState"/> is SessionClosed, the value of this
4008	attribute is an empty string.
4009	</desc>
4010	</attribute>
4011
4012	<attribute name="sessionPid" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
4013	<desc>
4014	Identifier of the session process. This attribute contains the
4015	platform-dependent identifier of the process whose session was
4016	used with <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> call. The returned
4017	value is only valid if <link to="#sessionState"/> is Locked or
4018	Unlocking by the time this property is read.
4019	</desc>
4020	</attribute>
4021
4022	<attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
4023	<desc>Current execution state of this machine.</desc>
4024	</attribute>
4025
4026	<attribute name="lastStateChange" type="long long" readonly="yes">
4027	<desc>
4028	Time stamp of the last execution state change,
4029	in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
4030	</desc>
4031	</attribute>
4032
4033	<attribute name="stateFilePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4034	<desc>
4035	Full path to the file that stores the execution state of
4036	the machine when it is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state.
4037	<note>
4038	When the machine is not in the Saved state, this attribute is
4039	an empty string.
4040	</note>
4041	</desc>
4042	</attribute>
4043
4044	<attribute name="logFolder" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
4045	<desc>
4046	Full path to the folder that stores a set of rotated log files
4047	recorded during machine execution. The most recent log file is
4048	named <tt>VBox.log</tt>, the previous log file is
4049	named <tt>VBox.log.1</tt> and so on (up to <tt>VBox.log.3</tt>
4050	in the current version).
4051	</desc>
4052	</attribute>
4053
4054	<attribute name="currentSnapshot" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
4055	<desc>
4056	Current snapshot of this machine. This is @c null if the machine
4057	currently has no snapshots. If it is not @c null, then it was
4058	set by one of <link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot" />,
4059	<link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot" />
4060	or <link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot" />, depending on which
4061	was called last. See <link to="ISnapshot"/> for details.
4062	</desc>
4063	</attribute>
4064
4065	<attribute name="snapshotCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
4066	<desc>
4067	Number of snapshots taken on this machine. Zero means the
4068	machine doesn't have any snapshots.
4069	</desc>
4070	</attribute>
4071
4072	<attribute name="currentStateModified" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
4073	<desc>
4074	Returns @c true if the current state of the machine is not
4075	identical to the state stored in the current snapshot.
4076
4077	The current state is identical to the current snapshot only
4078	directly after one of the following calls are made:
4079
4080	<ul>
4081	<li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/>
4082	</li>
4083	<li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> (issued on a
4084	"powered off" or "saved" machine, for which
4085	<link to="#settingsModified"/> returns @c false)
4086	</li>
4087	</ul>
4088
4089	The current state remains identical until one of the following
4090	happens:
4091	<ul>
4092	<li>settings of the machine are changed</li>
4093	<li>the saved state is deleted</li>
4094	<li>the current snapshot is deleted</li>
4095	<li>an attempt to execute the machine is made</li>
4096	</ul>
4097
4098	<note>
4099	For machines that don't have snapshots, this property is
4100	always @c false.
4101	</note>
4102	</desc>
4103	</attribute>
4104
4105	<attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4106	<desc>
4107	Collection of shared folders for this machine (permanent shared
4108	folders). These folders are shared automatically at machine startup
4109	and available only to the guest OS installed within this machine.
4110
4111	New shared folders are added to the collection using
4112	<link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
4113	removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
4114	</desc>
4115	</attribute>
4116
4117	<attribute name="clipboardMode" type="ClipboardMode">
4118	<desc>
4119	Synchronization mode between the host OS clipboard
4120	and the guest OS clipboard.
4121	</desc>
4122	</attribute>
4123
4124	<attribute name="guestPropertyNotificationPatterns" type="wstring">
4125	<desc>
4126	A comma-separated list of simple glob patterns. Changes to guest
4127	properties whose name matches one of the patterns will generate an
4128	<link to="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent"/> signal.
4129	</desc>
4130	</attribute>
4131
4132	<attribute name="teleporterEnabled" type="boolean">
4133	<desc>
4134	When set to @a true, the virtual machine becomes a target teleporter
4135	the next time it is powered on. This can only set to @a true when the
4136	VM is in the @a PoweredOff or @a Aborted state.
4137
4138	<!-- This property is automatically set to @a false when the VM is powered
4139	on. (bird: This doesn't work yet ) -->
4140	</desc>
4141	</attribute>
4142
4143	<attribute name="teleporterPort" type="unsigned long">
4144	<desc>
4145	The TCP port the target teleporter will listen for incoming
4146	teleportations on.
4147
4148	0 means the port is automatically selected upon power on. The actual
4149	value can be read from this property while the machine is waiting for
4150	incoming teleportations.
4151	</desc>
4152	</attribute>
4153
4154	<attribute name="teleporterAddress" type="wstring">
4155	<desc>
4156	The address the target teleporter will listen on. If set to an empty
4157	string, it will listen on all addresses.
4158	</desc>
4159	</attribute>
4160
4161	<attribute name="teleporterPassword" type="wstring">
4162	<desc>
4163	The password to check for on the target teleporter. This is just a
4164	very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
4165	beaming a virtual machine to the wrong place.
4166	</desc>
4167	</attribute>
4168
4169	<attribute name="faultToleranceState" type="FaultToleranceState">
4170	<desc>
4171	Fault tolerance state; disabled, source or target.
4172	This property can be changed at any time. If you change it for a running
4173	VM, then the fault tolerance address and port must be set beforehand.
4174	</desc>
4175	</attribute>
4176
4177	<attribute name="faultTolerancePort" type="unsigned long">
4178	<desc>
4179	The TCP port the fault tolerance source or target will use for
4180	communication.
4181	</desc>
4182	</attribute>
4183
4184	<attribute name="faultToleranceAddress" type="wstring">
4185	<desc>
4186	The address the fault tolerance source or target.
4187	</desc>
4188	</attribute>
4189
4190	<attribute name="faultTolerancePassword" type="wstring">
4191	<desc>
4192	The password to check for on the standby VM. This is just a
4193	very basic measure to prevent simple hacks and operators accidentally
4194	choosing the wrong standby VM.
4195	</desc>
4196	</attribute>
4197
4198	<attribute name="faultToleranceSyncInterval" type="unsigned long">
4199	<desc>
4200	The interval in ms used for syncing the state between source and target.
4201	</desc>
4202	</attribute>
4203
4204	<attribute name="RTCUseUTC" type="boolean">
4205	<desc>
4206	When set to @a true, the RTC device of the virtual machine will run
4207	in UTC time, otherwise in local time. Especially Unix guests prefer
4208	the time in UTC.
4209	</desc>
4210	</attribute>
4211
4212	<attribute name="ioCacheEnabled" type="boolean">
4213	<desc>
4214	When set to @a true, the builtin I/O cache of the virtual machine
4215	will be enabled.
4216	</desc>
4217	</attribute>
4218
4219	<attribute name="ioCacheSize" type="unsigned long">
4220	<desc>
4221	Maximum size of the I/O cache in MB.
4222	</desc>
4223	</attribute>
4224
4225	<attribute name="bandwidthControl" type="IBandwidthControl" readonly="yes">
4226	<desc>
4227	Bandwidth control manager.
4228	</desc>
4229	</attribute>
4230
4231	<attribute name="pciDeviceAssignments" type="IPciDeviceAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
4232	<desc>Array of PCI devices assigned to this machine, to get list of all
4233	PCI devices attached to the machine use
4234	<link to="IConsole::attachedPciDevices"/> attribute, as this attribute
4235	is intended to list only devices additional to what described in
4236	virtual hardware config. Usually, this list keeps host's physical
4237	devices assigned to the particular machine.
4238	</desc>
4239	</attribute>
4240
4241	<method name="lockMachine">
4242	<desc>
4243	Locks the machine for the given session to enable the caller
4244	to make changes to the machine or start the VM or control
4245	VM execution.
4246
4247	There are two ways to lock a machine for such uses:
4248
4249	<ul>
4250	<li>If you want to make changes to the machine settings,
4251	you must obtain an exclusive write lock on the machine
4252	by setting @a lockType to @c Write.
4253
4254	This will only succeed if no other process has locked
4255	the machine to prevent conflicting changes. Only after
4256	an exclusive write lock has been obtained using this method, one
4257	can change all VM settings or execute the VM in the process
4258	space of the session object. (Note that the latter is only of
4259	interest if you actually want to write a new front-end for
4260	virtual machines; but this API gets called internally by
4261	the existing front-ends such as VBoxHeadless and the VirtualBox
4262	GUI to acquire a write lock on the machine that they are running.)
4263
4264	On success, write-locking the machine for a session creates
4265	a second copy of the IMachine object. It is this second object
4266	upon which changes can be made; in VirtualBox terminology, the
4267	second copy is "mutable". It is only this second, mutable machine
4268	object upon which you can call methods that change the
4269	machine state. After having called this method, you can
4270	obtain this second, mutable machine object using the
4271	<link to="ISession::machine" /> attribute.
4272	</li>
4273	<li>If you only want to check the machine state or control
4274	machine execution without actually changing machine
4275	settings (e.g. to get access to VM statistics or take
4276	a snapshot or save the machine state), then set the
4277	@a lockType argument to @c Shared.
4278
4279	If no other session has obtained a lock, you will obtain an
4280	exclusive write lock as described above. However, if another
4281	session has already obtained such a lock, then a link to that
4282	existing session will be established which allows you
4283	to control that existing session.
4284
4285	To find out which type of lock was obtained, you can
4286	inspect <link to="ISession::type" />, which will have been
4287	set to either @c WriteLock or @c Shared.
4288	</li>
4289	</ul>
4290
4291	In either case, you can get access to the <link to="IConsole" />
4292	object which controls VM execution.
4293
4294	Also in all of the above cases, one must always call
4295	<link to="ISession::unlockMachine" /> to release the lock on the machine, or
4296	the machine's state will eventually be set to "Aborted".
4297
4298	To change settings on a machine, the following sequence is typically
4299	performed:
4300
4301	<ol>
4302	<li>Call this method to obtain an exclusive write lock for the current session.</li>
4303
4304	<li>Obtain a mutable IMachine object from <link to="ISession::machine" />.</li>
4305
4306	<li>Change the settings of the machine by invoking IMachine methods.</li>
4307
4308	<li>Call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" />.</li>
4309
4310	<li>Release the write lock by calling <link to="ISession::unlockMachine"/>.</li>
4311	</ol>
4312
4313	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
4314	Virtual machine not registered.
4315	</result>
4316	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
4317	Process not started by OpenRemoteSession.
4318	</result>
4319	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4320	Session already open or being opened.
4321	</result>
4322	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
4323	Failed to assign machine to session.
4324	</result>
4325	</desc>
4326	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
4327	<desc>
4328	Session object for which the machine will be locked.
4329	</desc>
4330	</param>
4331	<param name="lockType" type="LockType" dir="in">
4332	<desc>
4333	If set to @c Write, then attempt to acquire an exclusive write lock or fail.
4334	If set to @c Shared, then either acquire an exclusive write lock or establish
4335	a link to an existing session.
4336	</desc>
4337	</param>
4338	</method>
4339
4340	<method name="launchVMProcess">
4341	<desc>
4342	Spawns a new process that will execute the virtual machine and obtains a shared
4343	lock on the machine for the calling session.
4344
4345	If launching the VM succeeds, the new VM process will create its own session
4346	and write-lock the machine for it, preventing conflicting changes from other
4347	processes. If the machine is already locked (because it is already running or
4348	because another session has a write lock), launching the VM process will therefore
4349	fail. Reversely, future attempts to obtain a write lock will also fail while the
4350	machine is running.
4351
4352	The caller's session object remains separate from the session opened by the new
4353	VM process. It receives its own <link to="IConsole" /> object which can be used
4354	to control machine execution, but it cannot be used to change all VM settings
4355	which would be available after a <link to="#lockMachine" /> call.
4356
4357	The caller must eventually release the session's shared lock by calling
4358	<link to="ISession::unlockMachine" /> on the local session object once this call
4359	has returned. However, the session's state (see <link to="ISession::state" />)
4360	will not return to "Unlocked" until the remote session has also unlocked
4361	the machine (i.e. the machine has stopped running).
4362
4363	Launching a VM process can take some time (a new VM is started in a new process,
4364	for which memory and other resources need to be set up). Because of this,
4365	an <link to="IProgress" /> object is returned to allow the caller to wait
4366	for this asynchronous operation to be completed. Until then, the caller's
4367	session object remains in the "Unlocked" state, and its <link to="ISession::machine" />
4368	and <link to="ISession::console" /> attributes cannot be accessed.
4369	It is recommended to use <link to="IProgress::waitForCompletion" /> or
4370	similar calls to wait for completion. Completion is signalled when the VM
4371	is powered on. If launching the VM fails, error messages can be queried
4372	via the progress object, if available.
4373
4374	The progress object will have at least 2 sub-operations. The first
4375	operation covers the period up to the new VM process calls powerUp.
4376	The subsequent operations mirror the <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/>
4377	progress object. Because <link to="IConsole::powerUp"/> may require
4378	some extra sub-operations, the <link to="IProgress::operationCount"/>
4379	may change at the completion of operation.
4380
4381	For details on the teleportation progress operation, see
4382	<link to="IConsole::powerUp"/>.
4383
4384	The @a environment argument is a string containing definitions of
4385	environment variables in the following format:
4386	<pre>
4387	NAME[=VALUE]\n
4388	NAME[=VALUE]\n
4389	...
4390	</pre>
4391	where <tt>\\n</tt> is the new line character. These environment
4392	variables will be appended to the environment of the VirtualBox server
4393	process. If an environment variable exists both in the server process
4394	and in this list, the value from this list takes precedence over the
4395	server's variable. If the value of the environment variable is
4396	omitted, this variable will be removed from the resulting environment.
4397	If the environment string is @c null or empty, the server environment
4398	is inherited by the started process as is.
4399
4400	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
4401	Virtual machine not registered.
4402	</result>
4403	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4404	Invalid session type @a type.
4405	</result>
4406	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4407	No machine matching @a machineId found.
4408	</result>
4409	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4410	Session already open or being opened.
4411	</result>
4412	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
4413	Launching process for machine failed.
4414	</result>
4415	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
4416	Failed to assign machine to session.
4417	</result>
4418	</desc>
4419	<param name="session" type="ISession" dir="in">
4420	<desc>
4421	Client session object to which the VM process will be connected (this
4422	must be in "Unlocked" state).
4423	</desc>
4424	</param>
4425	<param name="type" type="wstring" dir="in">
4426	<desc>
4427	Front-end to use for the new VM process. The following are currently supported:
4428	<ul>
4429	<li><tt>"gui"</tt>: VirtualBox Qt GUI front-end</li>
4430	<li><tt>"headless"</tt>: VBoxHeadless (VRDE Server) front-end</li>
4431	<li><tt>"sdl"</tt>: VirtualBox SDL front-end</li>
4432	<li><tt>"emergencystop"</tt>: reserved value, used for aborting
4433	the currently running VM or session owner. In this case the
4434	@a session parameter may be @c NULL (if it is non-null it isn't
4435	used in any way), and the @a progress return value will be always
4436	NULL. The operation completes immediately.</li>
4437	</ul>
4438	</desc>
4439	</param>
4440	<param name="environment" type="wstring" dir="in">
4441	<desc>
4442	Environment to pass to the VM process.
4443	</desc>
4444	</param>
4445	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
4446	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
4447	</param>
4448	</method>
4449
4450	<method name="setBootOrder">
4451	<desc>
4452	Puts the given device to the specified position in
4453	the boot order.
4454
4455	To indicate that no device is associated with the given position,
4456	<link to="DeviceType_Null"/> should be used.
4457
4458	@todo setHardDiskBootOrder(), setNetworkBootOrder()
4459
4460	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4461	Boot @a position out of range.
4462	</result>
4463	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
4464	Booting from USB @a device currently not supported.
4465	</result>
4466
4467	</desc>
4468	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4469	<desc>
4470	Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4471	devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4472	<link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4473	</desc>
4474	</param>
4475	<param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4476	<desc>
4477	The type of the device used to boot at the given position.
4478	</desc>
4479	</param>
4480	</method>
4481
4482	<method name="getBootOrder" const="yes">
4483	<desc>
4484	Returns the device type that occupies the specified
4485	position in the boot order.
4486
4487	@todo [remove?]
4488	If the machine can have more than one device of the returned type
4489	(such as hard disks), then a separate method should be used to
4490	retrieve the individual device that occupies the given position.
4491
4492	If here are no devices at the given position, then
4493	<link to="DeviceType_Null"/> is returned.
4494
4495	@todo getHardDiskBootOrder(), getNetworkBootOrder()
4496
4497	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4498	Boot @a position out of range.
4499	</result>
4500
4501	</desc>
4502	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
4503	<desc>
4504	Position in the boot order (@c 1 to the total number of
4505	devices the machine can boot from, as returned by
4506	<link to="ISystemProperties::maxBootPosition"/>).
4507	</desc>
4508	</param>
4509	<param name="device" type="DeviceType" dir="return">
4510	<desc>
4511	Device at the given position.
4512	</desc>
4513	</param>
4514	</method>
4515
4516	<method name="attachDevice">
4517	<desc>
4518	Attaches a device and optionally mounts a medium to the given storage
4519	controller (<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4520	at the indicated port and device.
4521
4522	This method is intended for managing storage devices in general while a
4523	machine is powered off. It can be used to attach and detach fixed
4524	and removable media. The following kind of media can be attached
4525	to a machine:
4526
4527	<ul>
4528	<li>For fixed and removable media, you can pass in a medium that was
4529	previously opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" />.
4530	</li>
4531
4532	<li>Only for storage devices supporting removable media (such as
4533	DVDs and floppies), you can also specify a null pointer to
4534	indicate an empty drive or one of the medium objects listed
4535	in the <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> and <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>
4536	arrays to indicate a host drive.
4537	For removable devices, you can also use <link to="IMachine::mountMedium"/>
4538	to change the media while the machine is running.
4539	</li>
4540	</ul>
4541
4542	In a VM's default configuration of virtual machines, the secondary
4543	master of the IDE controller is used for a CD/DVD drive.
4544
4545	After calling this returns successfully, a new instance of
4546	<link to="IMediumAttachment"/> will appear in the machine's list of medium
4547	attachments (see <link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/>).
4548
4549	See <link to="IMedium"/> and <link to="IMediumAttachment"/> for more
4550	information about attaching media.
4551
4552	The specified device slot must not have a device attached to it,
4553	or this method will fail.
4554
4555	<note>
4556	You cannot attach a device to a newly created machine until
4557	this machine's settings are saved to disk using
4558	<link to="#saveSettings"/>.
4559	</note>
4560	<note>
4561	If the medium is being attached indirectly, a new differencing medium
4562	will implicitly be created for it and attached instead. If the
4563	changes made to the machine settings (including this indirect
4564	attachment) are later cancelled using <link to="#discardSettings"/>,
4565	this implicitly created differencing medium will implicitly
4566	be deleted.
4567	</note>
4568
4569	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4570	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range, or
4571	file or UUID not found.
4572	</result>
4573	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4574	Machine must be registered before media can be attached.
4575	</result>
4576	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4577	Invalid machine state.
4578	</result>
4579	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4580	A medium is already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4581	</result>
4582
4583	</desc>
4584	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4585	<desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the device to.</desc>
4586	</param>
4587	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4588	<desc>Port to attach the device to. For an IDE controller, 0 specifies
4589	the primary controller and 1 specifies the secondary controller.
4590	For a SCSI controller, this must range from 0 to 15; for a SATA controller,
4591	from 0 to 29; for an SAS controller, from 0 to 7.</desc>
4592	</param>
4593	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4594	<desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the device to. This is only
4595	relevant for IDE controllers, for which 0 specifies the master device and
4596	1 specifies the slave device. For all other controller types, this must
4597	be 0.</desc>
4598	</param>
4599	<param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in">
4600	<desc>Device type of the attached device. For media opened by
4601	<link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" />, this must match the device type
4602	specified there.</desc>
4603	</param>
4604	<param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="in">
4605	<desc>Medium to mount or NULL for an empty drive.</desc>
4606	</param>
4607	</method>
4608
4609	<method name="detachDevice">
4610	<desc>
4611	Detaches the device attached to a device slot of the specified bus.
4612
4613	Detaching the device from the virtual machine is deferred. This means
4614	that the medium remains associated with the machine when this method
4615	returns and gets actually de-associated only after a successful
4616	<link to="#saveSettings"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/>
4617	for more detailed information about attaching media.
4618
4619	<note>
4620	You cannot detach a device from a running machine.
4621	</note>
4622	<note>
4623	Detaching differencing media implicitly created by <link
4624	to="#attachDevice"/> for the indirect attachment using this
4625	method will <b>not</b> implicitly delete them. The
4626	<link to="IMedium::deleteStorage"/> operation should be
4627	explicitly performed by the caller after the medium is successfully
4628	detached and the settings are saved with
4629	<link to="#saveSettings"/>, if it is the desired action.
4630	</note>
4631
4632	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4633	Attempt to detach medium from a running virtual machine.
4634	</result>
4635	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4636	No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4637	</result>
4638	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4639	Medium format does not support storage deletion.
4640	</result>
4641
4642	</desc>
4643	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4644	<desc>Name of the storage controller to detach the medium from.</desc>
4645	</param>
4646	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4647	<desc>Port number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4648	</param>
4649	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4650	<desc>Device slot number to detach the medium from.</desc>
4651	</param>
4652	</method>
4653
4654	<method name="passthroughDevice">
4655	<desc>
4656	Sets the passthrough mode of an existing DVD device. Changing the
4657	setting while the VM is running is forbidden. The setting is only used
4658	if at VM start the device is configured as a host DVD drive, in all
4659	other cases it is ignored. The device must already exist; see
4660	<link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4661
4662	The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4663	have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4664
4665	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4666	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4667	</result>
4668	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4669	Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4670	</result>
4671	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4672	Invalid machine state.
4673	</result>
4674
4675	</desc>
4676	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4677	<desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4678	</param>
4679	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4680	<desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4681	</param>
4682	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4683	<desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4684	</param>
4685	<param name="passthrough" type="boolean" dir="in">
4686	<desc>New value for the passthrough setting.</desc>
4687	</param>
4688	</method>
4689
4690	<method name="temporaryEjectDevice">
4691	<desc>
4692	Sets the behavior for guest-triggered medium eject. In some situations
4693	it is desirable that such ejects update the VM configuration, and in
4694	others the eject should keep the VM configuration. The device must
4695	already exist; see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to
4696	attach a new device.
4697
4698	The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4699	have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4700
4701	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4702	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4703	</result>
4704	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4705	Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4706	</result>
4707	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4708	Invalid machine state.
4709	</result>
4710
4711	</desc>
4712	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4713	<desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4714	</param>
4715	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4716	<desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4717	</param>
4718	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4719	<desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4720	</param>
4721	<param name="temporaryEject" type="boolean" dir="in">
4722	<desc>New value for the eject behavior.</desc>
4723	</param>
4724	</method>
4725
4726	<method name="nonRotationalDevice">
4727	<desc>
4728	Sets a flag in the device information which indicates that the medium
4729	is not based on rotational technology, i.e. that the access times are
4730	more or less independent of the position on the medium. This may or may
4731	not be supported by a particular drive, and is silently ignored in the
4732	latter case. At the moment only hard disks (which is a misnomer in this
4733	context) accept this setting. Changing the setting while the VM is
4734	running is forbidden. The device must already exist; see
4735	<link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4736
4737	The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4738	have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4739
4740	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4741	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4742	</result>
4743	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4744	Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4745	</result>
4746	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4747	Invalid machine state.
4748	</result>
4749
4750	</desc>
4751	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4752	<desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4753	</param>
4754	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4755	<desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4756	</param>
4757	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4758	<desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4759	</param>
4760	<param name="nonRotational" type="boolean" dir="in">
4761	<desc>New value for the non-rotational device flag.</desc>
4762	</param>
4763	</method>
4764
4765	<method name="setBandwidthGroupForDevice">
4766	<desc>
4767	Sets the bandwidth group of an existing storage device.
4768	The device must already exist; see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>
4769	for how to attach a new device.
4770
4771	The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4772	have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4773
4774	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4775	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4776	</result>
4777	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4778	Attempt to modify an unregistered virtual machine.
4779	</result>
4780	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4781	Invalid machine state.
4782	</result>
4783
4784	</desc>
4785	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4786	<desc>Name of the storage controller.</desc>
4787	</param>
4788	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4789	<desc>Storage controller port.</desc>
4790	</param>
4791	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4792	<desc>Device slot in the given port.</desc>
4793	</param>
4794	<param name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="in">
4795	<desc>New value for the bandwidth group or NULL for no group.</desc>
4796	</param>
4797	</method>
4798
4799	<method name="mountMedium">
4800	<desc>
4801	Mounts a medium (<link to="IMedium" />, identified
4802	by the given UUID @a id) to the given storage controller
4803	(<link to="IStorageController" />, identified by @a name),
4804	at the indicated port and device. The device must already exist;
4805	see <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for how to attach a new device.
4806
4807	This method is intended only for managing removable media, where the
4808	device is fixed but media is changeable at runtime (such as DVDs
4809	and floppies). It cannot be used for fixed media such as hard disks.
4810
4811	The @a controllerPort and @a device parameters specify the device slot and
4812	have have the same meaning as with <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />.
4813
4814	The specified device slot can have a medium mounted, which will be
4815	unmounted first. Specifying a zero UUID (or an empty string) for
4816	@a medium does just an unmount.
4817
4818	See <link to="IMedium"/> for more detailed information about
4819	attaching media.
4820
4821	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4822	SATA device, SATA port, IDE port or IDE slot out of range.
4823	</result>
4824	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
4825	Attempt to attach medium to an unregistered virtual machine.
4826	</result>
4827	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4828	Invalid machine state.
4829	</result>
4830	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
4831	Medium already attached to this or another virtual machine.
4832	</result>
4833
4834	</desc>
4835	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4836	<desc>Name of the storage controller to attach the medium to.</desc>
4837	</param>
4838	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4839	<desc>Port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4840	</param>
4841	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4842	<desc>Device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4843	</param>
4844	<param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="in">
4845	<desc>Medium to mount or NULL for an empty drive.</desc>
4846	</param>
4847	<param name="force" type="boolean" dir="in">
4848	<desc>Allows to force unmount/mount of a medium which is locked by
4849	the device slot in the given port to attach the medium to.</desc>
4850	</param>
4851	</method>
4852
4853	<method name="getMedium" const="yes">
4854	<desc>
4855	Returns the virtual medium attached to a device slot of the specified
4856	bus.
4857
4858	Note that if the medium was indirectly attached by
4859	<link to="#mountMedium"/> to the given device slot then this
4860	method will return not the same object as passed to the
4861	<link to="#mountMedium"/> call. See <link to="IMedium"/> for
4862	more detailed information about mounting a medium.
4863
4864	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4865	No medium attached to given slot/bus.
4866	</result>
4867
4868	</desc>
4869	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
4870	<desc>Name of the storage controller the medium is attached to.</desc>
4871	</param>
4872	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in">
4873	<desc>Port to query.</desc>
4874	</param>
4875	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in">
4876	<desc>Device slot in the given port to query.</desc>
4877	</param>
4878	<param name="medium" type="IMedium" dir="return">
4879	<desc>Attached medium object.</desc>
4880	</param>
4881	</method>
4882
4883	<method name="getMediumAttachmentsOfController" const="yes">
4884	<desc>
4885	Returns an array of medium attachments which are attached to the
4886	the controller with the given name.
4887
4888	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4889	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
4890	</result>
4891	</desc>
4892	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4893	<param name="mediumAttachments" type="IMediumAttachment" safearray="yes" dir="return"/>
4894	</method>
4895
4896	<method name="getMediumAttachment" const="yes">
4897	<desc>
4898	Returns a medium attachment which corresponds to the controller with
4899	the given name, on the given port and device slot.
4900
4901	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4902	No attachment exists for the given controller/port/device combination.
4903	</result>
4904	</desc>
4905	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
4906	<param name="controllerPort" type="long" dir="in"/>
4907	<param name="device" type="long" dir="in"/>
4908	<param name="attachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="return"/>
4909	</method>
4910
4911	<method name="attachHostPciDevice">
4912	<desc>
4913	Attaches host PCI device with the given (host) PCI address to the
4914	PCI bus of the virtual machine. Please note, that this operation
4915	is two phase, as real attachment will happen when VM will start,
4916	and most information will be delivered as IHostPciDevicePlugEvent
4917	on IVirtualBox event source.
4918
4919	<see><link to="IHostPciDevicePlugEvent"/></see>
4920
4921	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4922	Virtual machine state is not stopped (PCI hotplug not yet implemented).
4923	</result>
4924	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
4925	Virtual machine does not have a PCI controller allowing attachment of physical devices.
4926	</result>
4927	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4928	Hardware or host OS doesn't allow PCI device passthrought.
4929	</result>
4930	</desc>
4931	<param name="hostAddress" type="long" dir="in">
4932	<desc>Address of the host PCI device.</desc>
4933	</param>
4934	<param name="desiredGuestAddress" type="long" dir="in">
4935	<desc>Desired position of this device on guest PCI bus.</desc>
4936	</param>
4937	<param name="tryToUnbind" type="boolean" dir="in">
4938	<desc>If VMM shall try to unbind existing drivers from the
4939	device before attaching it to the guest.</desc>
4940	</param>
4941	</method>
4942
4943	<method name="detachHostPciDevice">
4944	<desc>
4945	Detach host PCI device from the virtual machine.
4946	Also HostPciDevicePlugEvent on IVirtualBox event source
4947	will be delivered. As currently we don't support hot device
4948	unplug, IHostPciDevicePlugEvent event is delivered immediately.
4949
4950	<see><link to="IHostPciDevicePlugEvent"/></see>
4951
4952	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
4953	Virtual machine state is not stopped (PCI hotplug not yet implemented).
4954	</result>
4955	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
4956	This host device is not attached to this machine.
4957	</result>
4958	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
4959	Virtual machine does not have a PCI controller allowing attachment of physical devices.
4960	</result>
4961	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
4962	Hardware or host OS doesn't allow PCI device passthrought.
4963	</result>
4964	</desc>
4965	<param name="hostAddress" type="long" dir="in">
4966	<desc>Address of the host PCI device.</desc>
4967	</param>
4968	</method>
4969
4970	<method name="getNetworkAdapter" const="yes">
4971	<desc>
4972	Returns the network adapter associated with the given slot.
4973	Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
4974	number of adapters per machine is defined by the
4975	<link to="ISystemProperties::getMaxNetworkAdapters"/> property,
4976	so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
4977
4978	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
4979	Invalid @a slot number.
4980	</result>
4981
4982	</desc>
4983	<param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
4984	<param name="adapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="return"/>
4985	</method>
4986
4987	<method name="addStorageController">
4988	<desc>
4989	Adds a new storage controller (SCSI, SAS or SATA controller) to the
4990	machine and returns it as an instance of
4991	<link to="IStorageController" />.
4992
4993	@a name identifies the controller for subsequent calls such as
4994	<link to="#getStorageControllerByName" />,
4995	<link to="#getStorageControllerByInstance" />,
4996	<link to="#removeStorageController" />,
4997	<link to="#attachDevice" /> or <link to="#mountMedium" />.
4998
4999	After the controller has been added, you can set its exact
5000	type by setting the <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
5001
5002	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5003	A storage controller with given name exists already.
5004	</result>
5005	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5006	Invalid @a controllerType.
5007	</result>
5008	</desc>
5009	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
5010	<param name="connectionType" type="StorageBus" dir="in"/>
5011	<param name="controller" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
5012	</method>
5013
5014	<method name="getStorageControllerByName" const="yes">
5015	<desc>
5016	Returns a storage controller with the given name.
5017
5018	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5019	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
5020	</result>
5021	</desc>
5022	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
5023	<param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
5024	</method>
5025
5026	<method name="getStorageControllerByInstance" const="yes">
5027	<desc>
5028	Returns a storage controller with the given instance number.
5029
5030	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5031	A storage controller with given instance number doesn't exist.
5032	</result>
5033	</desc>
5034	<param name="instance" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
5035	<param name="storageController" type="IStorageController" dir="return"/>
5036	</method>
5037
5038	<method name="removeStorageController">
5039	<desc>
5040	Removes a storage controller from the machine.
5041
5042	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5043	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
5044	</result>
5045	</desc>
5046	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
5047	</method>
5048
5049	<method name="setStorageControllerBootable">
5050	<desc>
5051	Sets the bootable flag of the storage controller with the given name.
5052
5053	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5054	A storage controller with given name doesn't exist.
5055	</result>
5056	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5057	Another storage controller is marked as bootable already.
5058	</result>
5059	</desc>
5060	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
5061	<param name="bootable" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
5062	</method>
5063
5064	<method name="getSerialPort" const="yes">
5065	<desc>
5066	Returns the serial port associated with the given slot.
5067	Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
5068	number of serial ports per machine is defined by the
5069	<link to="ISystemProperties::serialPortCount"/> property,
5070	so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
5071
5072	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5073	Invalid @a slot number.
5074	</result>
5075
5076	</desc>
5077	<param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
5078	<param name="port" type="ISerialPort" dir="return"/>
5079	</method>
5080
5081	<method name="getParallelPort" const="yes">
5082	<desc>
5083	Returns the parallel port associated with the given slot.
5084	Slots are numbered sequentially, starting with zero. The total
5085	number of parallel ports per machine is defined by the
5086	<link to="ISystemProperties::parallelPortCount"/> property,
5087	so the maximum slot number is one less than that property's value.
5088
5089	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5090	Invalid @a slot number.
5091	</result>
5092
5093	</desc>
5094	<param name="slot" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
5095	<param name="port" type="IParallelPort" dir="return"/>
5096	</method>
5097
5098	<method name="getExtraDataKeys">
5099	<desc>
5100	Returns an array representing the machine-specific extra data keys
5101	which currently have values defined.
5102	</desc>
5103	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5104	<desc>Array of extra data keys.</desc>
5105	</param>
5106	</method>
5107
5108	<method name="getExtraData">
5109	<desc>
5110	Returns associated machine-specific extra data.
5111
5112	If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
5113	succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
5114
5115	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5116	Settings file not accessible.
5117	</result>
5118	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5119	Could not parse the settings file.
5120	</result>
5121
5122	</desc>
5123	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
5124	<desc>Name of the data key to get.</desc>
5125	</param>
5126	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5127	<desc>Value of the requested data key.</desc>
5128	</param>
5129	</method>
5130
5131	<method name="setExtraData">
5132	<desc>
5133	Sets associated machine-specific extra data.
5134
5135	If you pass @c null or an empty string as a key @a value, the given
5136	@a key will be deleted.
5137
5138	<note>
5139	Before performing the actual data change, this method will ask all
5140	registered listeners using the
5141	<link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent"/>
5142	notification for a permission. If one of the listeners refuses the
5143	new value, the change will not be performed.
5144	</note>
5145	<note>
5146	On success, the
5147	<link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent"/> notification
5148	is called to inform all registered listeners about a successful data
5149	change.
5150	</note>
5151	<note>
5152	This method can be called outside the machine session and therefore
5153	it's a caller's responsibility to handle possible race conditions
5154	when several clients change the same key at the same time.
5155	</note>
5156
5157	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5158	Settings file not accessible.
5159	</result>
5160	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5161	Could not parse the settings file.
5162	</result>
5163
5164	</desc>
5165	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
5166	<desc>Name of the data key to set.</desc>
5167	</param>
5168	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5169	<desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
5170	</param>
5171	</method>
5172
5173	<method name="getCPUProperty" const="yes">
5174	<desc>
5175	Returns the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
5176
5177	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5178	Invalid property.
5179	</result>
5180
5181	</desc>
5182	<param name="property" type="CPUPropertyType" dir="in">
5183	<desc>
5184	Property type to query.
5185	</desc>
5186	</param>
5187	<param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
5188	<desc>
5189	Property value.
5190	</desc>
5191	</param>
5192	</method>
5193
5194	<method name="setCPUProperty">
5195	<desc>
5196	Sets the virtual CPU boolean value of the specified property.
5197
5198	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5199	Invalid property.
5200	</result>
5201
5202	</desc>
5203	<param name="property" type="CPUPropertyType" dir="in">
5204	<desc>
5205	Property type to query.
5206	</desc>
5207	</param>
5208	<param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
5209	<desc>
5210	Property value.
5211	</desc>
5212	</param>
5213	</method>
5214
5215	<method name="getCPUIDLeaf" const="yes">
5216	<desc>
5217	Returns the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
5218
5219	Currently supported index values for cpuid:
5220	Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
5221	Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
5222
5223	See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
5224	about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
5225	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5226	Invalid id.
5227	</result>
5228
5229	</desc>
5230	<param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5231	<desc>
5232	CPUID leaf index.
5233	</desc>
5234	</param>
5235	<param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5236	<desc>
5237	CPUID leaf value for register eax.
5238	</desc>
5239	</param>
5240	<param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5241	<desc>
5242	CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
5243	</desc>
5244	</param>
5245	<param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5246	<desc>
5247	CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
5248	</desc>
5249	</param>
5250	<param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5251	<desc>
5252	CPUID leaf value for register edx.
5253	</desc>
5254	</param>
5255	</method>
5256
5257	<method name="setCPUIDLeaf">
5258	<desc>
5259	Sets the virtual CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf. Note that these values
5260	are not passed unmodified. VirtualBox clears features that it doesn't support.
5261
5262	Currently supported index values for cpuid:
5263	Standard CPUID leafs: 0 - 0xA
5264	Extended CPUID leafs: 0x80000000 - 0x8000000A
5265
5266	See the Intel and AMD programmer's manuals for detailed information
5267	about the cpuid instruction and its leafs.
5268
5269	Do not use this method unless you know exactly what you're doing. Misuse can lead to
5270	random crashes inside VMs.
5271	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5272	Invalid id.
5273	</result>
5274
5275	</desc>
5276	<param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5277	<desc>
5278	CPUID leaf index.
5279	</desc>
5280	</param>
5281	<param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5282	<desc>
5283	CPUID leaf value for register eax.
5284	</desc>
5285	</param>
5286	<param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5287	<desc>
5288	CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
5289	</desc>
5290	</param>
5291	<param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5292	<desc>
5293	CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
5294	</desc>
5295	</param>
5296	<param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5297	<desc>
5298	CPUID leaf value for register edx.
5299	</desc>
5300	</param>
5301	</method>
5302
5303	<method name="removeCPUIDLeaf">
5304	<desc>
5305	Removes the virtual CPU cpuid leaf for the specified index
5306
5307	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5308	Invalid id.
5309	</result>
5310
5311	</desc>
5312	<param name="id" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5313	<desc>
5314	CPUID leaf index.
5315	</desc>
5316	</param>
5317	</method>
5318
5319	<method name="removeAllCPUIDLeaves">
5320	<desc>
5321	Removes all the virtual CPU cpuid leaves
5322	</desc>
5323	</method>
5324
5325	<method name="getHWVirtExProperty" const="yes">
5326	<desc>
5327	Returns the value of the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
5328
5329	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5330	Invalid property.
5331	</result>
5332
5333	</desc>
5334	<param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
5335	<desc>
5336	Property type to query.
5337	</desc>
5338	</param>
5339	<param name="value" type="boolean" dir="return">
5340	<desc>
5341	Property value.
5342	</desc>
5343	</param>
5344	</method>
5345
5346	<method name="setHWVirtExProperty">
5347	<desc>
5348	Sets a new value for the specified hardware virtualization boolean property.
5349
5350	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5351	Invalid property.
5352	</result>
5353
5354	</desc>
5355	<param name="property" type="HWVirtExPropertyType" dir="in">
5356	<desc>
5357	Property type to set.
5358	</desc>
5359	</param>
5360	<param name="value" type="boolean" dir="in">
5361	<desc>
5362	New property value.
5363	</desc>
5364	</param>
5365	</method>
5366
5367	<method name="saveSettings">
5368	<desc>
5369	Saves any changes to machine settings made since the session
5370	has been opened or a new machine has been created, or since the
5371	last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/> or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
5372	For registered machines, new settings become visible to all
5373	other VirtualBox clients after successful invocation of this
5374	method.
5375	<note>
5376	The method sends <link to="IMachineDataChangedEvent"/>
5377	notification event after the configuration has been successfully
5378	saved (only for registered machines).
5379	</note>
5380	<note>
5381	Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5382	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5383	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> but not
5384	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5385	<link to="IMachine::unregister"/>.
5386	</note>
5387
5388	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5389	Settings file not accessible.
5390	</result>
5391	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
5392	Could not parse the settings file.
5393	</result>
5394	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5395	Modification request refused.
5396	</result>
5397
5398	</desc>
5399	</method>
5400
5401	<method name="discardSettings">
5402	<desc>
5403	Discards any changes to the machine settings made since the session
5404	has been opened or since the last call to <link to="#saveSettings"/>
5405	or <link to="#discardSettings"/>.
5406	<note>
5407	Calling this method is only valid on instances returned
5408	by <link to="ISession::machine"/> and on new machines
5409	created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or
5410	opened by <link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/> but not
5411	yet registered, or on unregistered machines after calling
5412	<link to="IMachine::unregister"/>.
5413	</note>
5414
5415	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5416	Virtual machine is not mutable.
5417	</result>
5418
5419	</desc>
5420	</method>
5421
5422	<method name="unregister">
5423	<desc>
5424	Unregisters a machine previously registered with
5425	<link to="IVirtualBox::registerMachine"/> and optionally do additional
5426	cleanup before the machine is unregistered.
5427
5428	This method does not delete any files. It only changes the machine configuration and
5429	the list of registered machines in the VirtualBox object. To delete the files which
5430	belonged to the machine, including the XML file of the machine itself, call
5431	<link to="#delete"/>, optionally with the array of IMedium objects which was returned
5432	from this method.
5433
5434	How thoroughly this method cleans up the machine configuration before unregistering
5435	the machine depends on the @a cleanupMode argument.
5436
5437	<ul>
5438	<li>With "UnregisterOnly", the machine will only be unregistered, but no additional
5439	cleanup will be performed. The call will fail if the machine is in "Saved" state
5440	or has any snapshots or any media attached (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />).
5441	It is the responsibility of the caller to delete all such configuration in this mode.
5442	In this mode, the API behaves like the former @c IVirtualBox::unregisterMachine() API
5443	which it replaces.</li>
5444	<li>With "DetachAllReturnNone", the call will succeed even if the machine is in "Saved"
5445	state or if it has snapshots or media attached. All media attached to the current machine
5446	state or in snapshots will be detached. No medium objects will be returned;
5447	all of the machine's media will remain open.</li>
5448	<li>With "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly", the call will behave like with "DetachAllReturnNone",
5449	except that all the hard disk medium objects which were detached from the machine will
5450	be returned as an array. This allows for quickly passing them to the <link to="#delete" />
5451	API for closing and deletion.</li>
5452	<li>With "Full", the call will behave like with "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly", except
5453	that all media will be returned in the array, including removable media like DVDs and
5454	floppies. This might be useful if the user wants to inspect in detail which media were
5455	attached to the machine. Be careful when passing the media array to <link to="#delete" />
5456	in that case because users will typically want to preserve ISO and RAW image files.</li>
5457	</ul>
5458
5459	A typical implementation will use "DetachAllReturnHardDisksOnly" and then pass the
5460	resulting IMedium array to <link to="#delete"/>. This way, the machine is completely
5461	deleted with all its saved states and hard disk images, but images for removable
5462	drives (such as ISO and RAW files) will remain on disk.
5463
5464	This API does not verify whether the media files returned in the array are still
5465	attached to other machines (i.e. shared between several machines). If such a shared
5466	image is passed to <link to="#delete" /> however, closing the image will fail there
5467	and the image will be silently skipped.
5468
5469	This API may, however, move media from this machine's media registry to other media
5470	registries (see <link to="IMedium" /> for details on media registries). For machines
5471	created with VirtualBox 4.0 or later, if media from this machine's media registry
5472	are also attached to another machine (shared attachments), each such medium will be
5473	moved to another machine's registry. This is because without this machine's media
5474	registry, the other machine cannot find its media any more and would become inaccessible.
5475
5476	This API implicitly calls <link to="#saveSettings"/> to save all current machine settings
5477	before unregistering it. It may also silently call <link to="#saveSettings"/> on other machines
5478	if media are moved to other machines' media registries.
5479
5480	After successful method invocation, the <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent"/> event
5481	is fired.
5482
5483	The call will fail if the machine is currently locked (see <link to="ISession" />).
5484
5485	<note>
5486	If the given machine is inaccessible (see <link to="#accessible"/>), it
5487	will be unregistered and fully uninitialized right afterwards. As a result,
5488	the returned machine object will be unusable and an attempt to call
5489	<b>any</b> method will return the "Object not ready" error.
5490	</note>
5491
5492	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5493	Machine is currently locked for a session.
5494	</result>
5495	</desc>
5496
5497	<param name="cleanupMode" type="CleanupMode" dir="in">
5498	<desc>How to clean up after the machine has been unregistered.</desc>
5499	</param>
5500	<param name="aMedia" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="return">
5501	<desc>List of media detached from the machine, depending on the @a cleanupMode parameter.</desc>
5502	</param>
5503	</method>
5504
5505	<method name="delete">
5506	<desc>
5507	Deletes the files associated with this machine from disk. If medium objects are passed
5508	in with the @a aMedia argument, they are closed and, if closing was successful, their
5509	storage files are deleted as well. For convenience, this array of media files can be
5510	the same as the one returned from a previous <link to="#unregister" /> call.
5511
5512	This method must only be called on machines which are either write-locked (i.e. on instances
5513	returned by <link to="ISession::machine"/>) or on unregistered machines (i.e. not yet
5514	registered machines created by <link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/> or opened by
5515	<link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>, or after having called <link to="#unregister"/>).
5516
5517	The following files will be deleted by this method:
5518	<ul>
5519	<li>If <link to="#unregister" /> had been previously called with a @a cleanupMode
5520	argument other than "UnregisterOnly", this will delete all saved state files that
5521	the machine had in use; possibly one if the machine was in "Saved" state and one
5522	for each online snapshot that the machine had.</li>
5523	<li>On each medium object passed in the @a aMedia array, this will call
5524	<link to="IMedium::close" />. If that succeeds, this will attempt to delete the
5525	medium's storage on disk. Since the <link to="IMedium::close"/> call will fail if the medium is still
5526	in use, e.g. because it is still attached to a second machine; in that case the
5527	storage will not be deleted.</li>
5528	<li>Finally, the machine's own XML file will be deleted.</li>
5529	</ul>
5530
5531	Since deleting large disk image files can be a time-consuming I/O operation, this
5532	method operates asynchronously and returns an IProgress object to allow the caller
5533	to monitor the progress. There will be one sub-operation for each file that is
5534	being deleted (saved state or medium storage file).
5535
5536	<note>
5537	<link to="#settingsModified"/> will return @c true after this
5538	method successfully returns.
5539	</note>
5540
5541	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5542	Machine is registered but not write-locked.
5543	</result>
5544	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
5545	Could not delete the settings file.
5546	</result>
5547	</desc>
5548	<param name="aMedia" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
5549	<desc>List of media to be closed and whose storage files will be deleted.</desc>
5550	</param>
5551	<param name="aProgress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
5552	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
5553	</param>
5554	</method>
5555
5556	<method name="export">
5557	<desc>Exports the machine to an OVF appliance. See <link to="IAppliance" /> for the
5558	steps required to export VirtualBox machines to OVF.
5559	</desc>
5560
5561	<param name="aAppliance" type="IAppliance" dir="in">
5562	<desc>Appliance to export this machine to.</desc>
5563	</param>
5564	<param name="location" type="wstring" dir="in">
5565	<desc>The target location.</desc>
5566	</param>
5567	<param name="aDescription" type="IVirtualSystemDescription" dir="return">
5568	<desc>VirtualSystemDescription object which is created for this machine.</desc>
5569	</param>
5570	</method >
5571
5572	<method name="findSnapshot">
5573	<desc>
5574	Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given name or UUID.
5575
5576	Returns a snapshot of this machine with the given UUID.
5577	A @c null argument can be used to obtain the first snapshot
5578	taken on this machine. To traverse the whole tree of snapshots
5579	starting from the root, inspect the root snapshot's
5580	<link to="ISnapshot::children" /> attribute and recurse over those children.
5581
5582	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5583	Virtual machine has no snapshots or snapshot not found.
5584	</result>
5585
5586	</desc>
5587	<param name="nameOrId" type="wstring" dir="in">
5588	<desc>What to search for. Name or UUID of the snapshot to find</desc>
5589	</param>
5590	<param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="return">
5591	<desc>Snapshot object with the given name.</desc>
5592	</param>
5593	</method>
5594
5595	<method name="createSharedFolder">
5596	<desc>
5597	Creates a new permanent shared folder by associating the given logical
5598	name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
5599	folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
5600	<link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
5601
5602	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
5603	Shared folder already exists.
5604	</result>
5605	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
5606	Shared folder @a hostPath not accessible.
5607	</result>
5608
5609	</desc>
5610	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5611	<desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
5612	</param>
5613	<param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
5614	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
5615	</param>
5616	<param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
5617	<desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly.</desc>
5618	</param>
5619	<param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
5620	<desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
5621	or not.</desc>
5622	</param>
5623	</method>
5624
5625	<method name="removeSharedFolder">
5626	<desc>
5627	Removes the permanent shared folder with the given name previously
5628	created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
5629	shared folders and stops sharing it.
5630
5631	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5632	Virtual machine is not mutable.
5633	</result>
5634	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
5635	Shared folder @a name does not exist.
5636	</result>
5637
5638	</desc>
5639	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5640	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
5641	</param>
5642	</method>
5643
5644	<method name="canShowConsoleWindow">
5645	<desc>
5646	Returns @c true if the VM console process can activate the
5647	console window and bring it to foreground on the desktop of
5648	the host PC.
5649	<note>
5650	This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5651	currently open.
5652	</note>
5653
5654	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5655	Machine session is not open.
5656	</result>
5657
5658	</desc>
5659	<param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="return">
5660	<desc>
5661	@c true if the console window can be shown and @c false otherwise.
5662	</desc>
5663	</param>
5664	</method>
5665
5666	<method name="showConsoleWindow">
5667	<desc>
5668	Activates the console window and brings it to foreground on
5669	the desktop of the host PC. Many modern window managers on
5670	many platforms implement some sort of focus stealing
5671	prevention logic, so that it may be impossible to activate
5672	a window without the help of the currently active
5673	application. In this case, this method will return a non-zero
5674	identifier that represents the top-level window of the VM
5675	console process. The caller, if it represents a currently
5676	active process, is responsible to use this identifier (in a
5677	platform-dependent manner) to perform actual window
5678	activation.
5679	<note>
5680	This method will fail if a session for this machine is not
5681	currently open.
5682	</note>
5683
5684	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5685	Machine session is not open.
5686	</result>
5687
5688	</desc>
5689	<param name="winId" type="long long" dir="return">
5690	<desc>
5691	Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
5692	window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
5693	necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
5694	the given platform and/or VirtualBox front-end.
5695	</desc>
5696	</param>
5697	</method>
5698
5699	<method name="getGuestProperty" const="yes">
5700	<desc>
5701	Reads an entry from the machine's guest property store.
5702
5703	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5704	Machine session is not open.
5705	</result>
5706
5707	</desc>
5708	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
5709	<desc>
5710	The name of the property to read.
5711	</desc>
5712	</param>
5713	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out">
5714	<desc>
5715	The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5716	will be empty.
5717	</desc>
5718	</param>
5719	<param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out">
5720	<desc>
5721	The time at which the property was last modified, as seen by the
5722	server process.
5723	</desc>
5724	</param>
5725	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out">
5726	<desc>
5727	Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5728	"name=value" type entries.
5729	</desc>
5730	</param>
5731	</method>
5732
5733	<method name="getGuestPropertyValue" const="yes">
5734	<desc>
5735	Reads a value from the machine's guest property store.
5736
5737	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5738	Machine session is not open.
5739	</result>
5740
5741	</desc>
5742	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5743	<desc>
5744	The name of the property to read.
5745	</desc>
5746	</param>
5747	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
5748	<desc>
5749	The value of the property. If the property does not exist then this
5750	will be empty.
5751	</desc>
5752	</param>
5753	</method>
5754
5755	<method name="getGuestPropertyTimestamp" const="yes">
5756	<desc>
5757	Reads a property timestamp from the machine's guest property store.
5758
5759	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5760	Machine session is not open.
5761	</result>
5762
5763	</desc>
5764	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5765	<desc>
5766	The name of the property to read.
5767	</desc>
5768	</param>
5769	<param name="value" type="long long" dir="return">
5770	<desc>
5771	The timestamp. If the property does not exist then this will be
5772	empty.
5773	</desc>
5774	</param>
5775	</method>
5776
5777	<method name="setGuestProperty">
5778	<desc>
5779	Sets, changes or deletes an entry in the machine's guest property
5780	store.
5781
5782	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5783	Property cannot be changed.
5784	</result>
5785	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
5786	Invalid @a flags.
5787	</result>
5788	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5789	Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5790	</result>
5791	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5792	Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5793	</result>
5794
5795	</desc>
5796	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5797	<desc>
5798	The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5799	</desc>
5800	</param>
5801	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5802	<desc>
5803	The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5804	property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5805	created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5806	deleted if it exists.
5807	</desc>
5808	</param>
5809	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in">
5810	<desc>
5811	Additional property parameters, passed as a comma-separated list of
5812	"name=value" type entries.
5813	</desc>
5814	</param>
5815	</method>
5816
5817	<method name="setGuestPropertyValue">
5818	<desc>
5819	Sets, changes or deletes a value in the machine's guest property
5820	store. The flags field will be left unchanged or created empty for a
5821	new property.
5822
5823	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
5824	Property cannot be changed.
5825	</result>
5826	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
5827	Virtual machine is not mutable or session not open.
5828	</result>
5829	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
5830	Cannot set transient property when machine not running.
5831	</result>
5832	</desc>
5833
5834	<param name="property" type="wstring" dir="in">
5835	<desc>
5836	The name of the property to set, change or delete.
5837	</desc>
5838	</param>
5839	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
5840	<desc>
5841	The new value of the property to set, change or delete. If the
5842	property does not yet exist and value is non-empty, it will be
5843	created. If the value is @c null or empty, the property will be
5844	deleted if it exists.
5845	</desc>
5846	</param>
5847	</method>
5848
5849	<method name="enumerateGuestProperties" const="yes">
5850	<desc>
5851	Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
5852	with their values, time stamps and flags.
5853	</desc>
5854	<param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
5855	<desc>
5856	The patterns to match the properties against, separated by '\|'
5857	characters. If this is empty or @c null, all properties will match.
5858	</desc>
5859	</param>
5860	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5861	<desc>
5862	The names of the properties returned.
5863	</desc>
5864	</param>
5865	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5866	<desc>
5867	The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5868	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5869	</desc>
5870	</param>
5871	<param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5872	<desc>
5873	The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
5874	the corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5875	</desc>
5876	</param>
5877	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
5878	<desc>
5879	The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
5880	corresponding entries in the @a name array.
5881	</desc>
5882	</param>
5883	</method>
5884
5885	<method name="querySavedGuestSize" const="yes">
5886	<desc>
5887	Returns the guest dimensions from the saved state.
5888	</desc>
5889	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5890	<desc>
5891	Saved guest screen to query info from.
5892	</desc>
5893	</param>
5894	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5895	<desc>
5896	Guest width at the time of the saved state was taken.
5897	</desc>
5898	</param>
5899	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5900	<desc>
5901	Guest height at the time of the saved state was taken.
5902	</desc>
5903	</param>
5904	</method>
5905
5906	<method name="querySavedThumbnailSize">
5907	<desc>
5908	Returns size in bytes and dimensions in pixels of a saved thumbnail bitmap from saved state.
5909	</desc>
5910	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5911	<desc>
5912	Saved guest screen to query info from.
5913	</desc>
5914	</param>
5915	<param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5916	<desc>
5917	Size of buffer required to store the bitmap.
5918	</desc>
5919	</param>
5920	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5921	<desc>
5922	Bitmap width.
5923	</desc>
5924	</param>
5925	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5926	<desc>
5927	Bitmap height.
5928	</desc>
5929	</param>
5930	</method>
5931
5932	<method name="readSavedThumbnailToArray">
5933	<desc>
5934	Thumbnail is retrieved to an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit BGRA or RGBA format.
5935	</desc>
5936	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5937	<desc>
5938	Saved guest screen to read from.
5939	</desc>
5940	</param>
5941	<param name="BGR" type="boolean" dir="in">
5942	<desc>
5943	How to order bytes in the pixel. A pixel consists of 4 bytes. If this parameter is true, then
5944	bytes order is: B, G, R, 0xFF. If this parameter is false, then bytes order is: R, G, B, 0xFF.
5945	</desc>
5946	</param>
5947	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5948	<desc>
5949	Bitmap width.
5950	</desc>
5951	</param>
5952	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5953	<desc>
5954	Bitmap height.
5955	</desc>
5956	</param>
5957	<param name="data" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
5958	<desc>
5959	Array with resulting bitmap data.
5960	</desc>
5961	</param>
5962	</method>
5963
5964	<method name="readSavedThumbnailPNGToArray">
5965	<desc>
5966	Thumbnail in PNG format is retrieved to an array of bytes.
5967	</desc>
5968	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5969	<desc>
5970	Saved guest screen to read from.
5971	</desc>
5972	</param>
5973	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5974	<desc>
5975	Image width.
5976	</desc>
5977	</param>
5978	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
5979	<desc>
5980	Image height.
5981	</desc>
5982	</param>
5983	<param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
5984	<desc>
5985	Array with resulting PNG data.
5986	</desc>
5987	</param>
5988	</method>
5989
5990	<method name="querySavedScreenshotPNGSize">
5991	<desc>
5992	Returns size in bytes and dimensions of a saved PNG image of screenshot from saved state.
5993	</desc>
5994	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
5995	<desc>
5996	Saved guest screen to query info from.
5997	</desc>
5998	</param>
5999	<param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6000	<desc>
6001	Size of buffer required to store the PNG binary data.
6002	</desc>
6003	</param>
6004	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6005	<desc>
6006	Image width.
6007	</desc>
6008	</param>
6009	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6010	<desc>
6011	Image height.
6012	</desc>
6013	</param>
6014	</method>
6015
6016	<method name="readSavedScreenshotPNGToArray">
6017	<desc>
6018	Screenshot in PNG format is retrieved to an array of bytes.
6019	</desc>
6020	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6021	<desc>
6022	Saved guest screen to read from.
6023	</desc>
6024	</param>
6025	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6026	<desc>
6027	Image width.
6028	</desc>
6029	</param>
6030	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
6031	<desc>
6032	Image height.
6033	</desc>
6034	</param>
6035	<param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
6036	<desc>
6037	Array with resulting PNG data.
6038	</desc>
6039	</param>
6040	</method>
6041
6042	<method name="hotPlugCPU">
6043	<desc>
6044	Plugs a CPU into the machine.
6045	</desc>
6046	<param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6047	<desc>
6048	The CPU id to insert.
6049	</desc>
6050	</param>
6051	</method>
6052
6053	<method name="hotUnplugCPU">
6054	<desc>
6055	Removes a CPU from the machine.
6056	</desc>
6057	<param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6058	<desc>
6059	The CPU id to remove.
6060	</desc>
6061	</param>
6062	</method>
6063
6064	<method name="getCPUStatus">
6065	<desc>
6066	Returns the current status of the given CPU.
6067	</desc>
6068	<param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6069	<desc>
6070	The CPU id to check for.
6071	</desc>
6072	</param>
6073	<param name="attached" type="boolean" dir="return">
6074	<desc>
6075	Status of the CPU.
6076	</desc>
6077	</param>
6078	</method>
6079
6080	<method name="queryLogFilename">
6081	<desc>
6082	Queries for the VM log file name of an given index. Returns an empty
6083	string if a log file with that index doesn't exists.
6084	</desc>
6085	<param name="idx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6086	<desc>
6087	Which log file name to query. 0=current log file.
6088	</desc>
6089	</param>
6090	<param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="return">
6091	<desc>
6092	On return the full path to the log file or an empty string on error.
6093	</desc>
6094	</param>
6095	</method>
6096
6097	<method name="readLog">
6098	<desc>
6099	Reads the VM log file. The chunk size is limited, so even if you
6100	ask for a big piece there might be less data returned.
6101	</desc>
6102	<param name="idx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
6103	<desc>
6104	Which log file to read. 0=current log file.
6105	</desc>
6106	</param>
6107	<param name="offset" type="long long" dir="in">
6108	<desc>
6109	Offset in the log file.
6110	</desc>
6111	</param>
6112	<param name="size" type="long long" dir="in">
6113	<desc>
6114	Chunk size to read in the log file.
6115	</desc>
6116	</param>
6117	<param name="data" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
6118	<desc>
6119	Data read from the log file. A data size of 0 means end of file
6120	if the requested chunk size was not 0. This is the unprocessed
6121	file data, i.e. the line ending style depends on the platform of
6122	the system the server is running on.
6123	</desc>
6124	</param>
6125	</method>
6126
6127	<method name="cloneTo">
6128	<desc>
6129	Creates a clone of this machine, either as a full clone (which means
6130	creating independent copies of the hard disk media, save states and so
6131	on), or as a linked clone (which uses its own differencing media,
6132	sharing the parent media with the source machine).
6133
6134	The target machine object must have been created previously with <link
6135	to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>, and all the settings will be
6136	transferred except the VM name and the hardware UUID. You can set the
6137	VM name and the new hardware UUID when creating the target machine. The
6138	network MAC addresses are newly created for all newtwork adapters. You
6139	can change that behaviour with the options parameter. The operation is
6140	performed asynchronously, so the machine object will be not be usable
6141	until the @a progress object signals completion.
6142
6143	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6144	@a target is @c null.
6145	</result>
6146	</desc>
6147
6148	<param name="target" type="IMachine" dir="in">
6149	<desc>Target machine object.</desc>
6150	</param>
6151	<param name="mode" type="CloneMode" dir="in">
6152	<desc>Which states should be cloned.</desc>
6153	</param>
6154	<param name="options" type="CloneOptions" dir="in" safearray="yes">
6155	<desc>Options for the cloning operation.</desc>
6156	</param>
6157	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6158	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6159	</param>
6160	</method>
6161
6162	</interface>
6163
6164	<!--
6165	// IConsole
6166	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
6167	-->
6168
6169	<interface
6170	name="IVRDEServerInfo" extends="$unknown"
6171	uuid="714434a1-58c3-4aab-9049-7652c5df113b"
6172	wsmap="struct"
6173	>
6174	<desc>
6175	Contains information about the remote desktop (VRDE) server capabilities and status.
6176	This is used in the <link to="IConsole::VRDEServerInfo" /> attribute.
6177	</desc>
6178
6179	<attribute name="active" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
6180	<desc>
6181	Whether the remote desktop connection is active.
6182	</desc>
6183	</attribute>
6184
6185	<attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
6186	<desc>
6187	VRDE server port number. If this property is equal to <tt>0</tt>, then
6188	the VRDE server failed to start, usually because there are no free IP
6189	ports to bind to. If this property is equal to <tt>-1</tt>, then the VRDE
6190	server has not yet been started.
6191	</desc>
6192	</attribute>
6193
6194	<attribute name="numberOfClients" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6195	<desc>
6196	How many times a client connected.
6197	</desc>
6198	</attribute>
6199
6200	<attribute name="beginTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6201	<desc>
6202	When the last connection was established, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
6203	</desc>
6204	</attribute>
6205
6206	<attribute name="endTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6207	<desc>
6208	When the last connection was terminated or the current time, if
6209	connection is still active, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
6210	</desc>
6211	</attribute>
6212
6213	<attribute name="bytesSent" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6214	<desc>
6215	How many bytes were sent in last or current, if still active, connection.
6216	</desc>
6217	</attribute>
6218
6219	<attribute name="bytesSentTotal" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6220	<desc>
6221	How many bytes were sent in all connections.
6222	</desc>
6223	</attribute>
6224
6225	<attribute name="bytesReceived" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6226	<desc>
6227	How many bytes were received in last or current, if still active, connection.
6228	</desc>
6229	</attribute>
6230
6231	<attribute name="bytesReceivedTotal" type="long long" readonly="yes">
6232	<desc>
6233	How many bytes were received in all connections.
6234	</desc>
6235	</attribute>
6236
6237	<attribute name="user" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6238	<desc>
6239	Login user name supplied by the client.
6240	</desc>
6241	</attribute>
6242
6243	<attribute name="domain" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6244	<desc>
6245	Login domain name supplied by the client.
6246	</desc>
6247	</attribute>
6248
6249	<attribute name="clientName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6250	<desc>
6251	The client name supplied by the client.
6252	</desc>
6253	</attribute>
6254
6255	<attribute name="clientIP" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
6256	<desc>
6257	The IP address of the client.
6258	</desc>
6259	</attribute>
6260
6261	<attribute name="clientVersion" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6262	<desc>
6263	The client software version number.
6264	</desc>
6265	</attribute>
6266
6267	<attribute name="encryptionStyle" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
6268	<desc>
6269	Public key exchange method used when connection was established.
6270	Values: 0 - RDP4 public key exchange scheme.
6271	1 - X509 certificates were sent to client.
6272	</desc>
6273	</attribute>
6274
6275	</interface>
6276
6277	<interface
6278	name="IConsole" extends="$unknown"
6279	uuid="1968b7d3-e3bf-4ceb-99e0-cb7c913317bb"
6280	wsmap="managed"
6281	>
6282	<desc>
6283	The IConsole interface represents an interface to control virtual
6284	machine execution.
6285
6286	A console object gets created when a machine has been locked for a
6287	particular session (client process) using <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" />
6288	or <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>. The console object can
6289	then be found in the session's <link to="ISession::console" /> attribute.
6290
6291	Methods of the IConsole interface allow the caller to query the current
6292	virtual machine execution state, pause the machine or power it down, save
6293	the machine state or take a snapshot, attach and detach removable media
6294	and so on.
6295
6296	<see><link to="ISession"/></see>
6297	</desc>
6298
6299	<attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
6300	<desc>
6301	Machine object for this console session.
6302	<note>
6303	This is a convenience property, it has the same value as
6304	<link to="ISession::machine"/> of the corresponding session
6305	object.
6306	</note>
6307	</desc>
6308	</attribute>
6309
6310	<attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
6311	<desc>
6312	Current execution state of the machine.
6313	<note>
6314	This property always returns the same value as the corresponding
6315	property of the IMachine object for this console session.
6316	For the process that owns (executes) the VM, this is the
6317	preferable way of querying the VM state, because no IPC
6318	calls are made.
6319	</note>
6320	</desc>
6321	</attribute>
6322
6323	<attribute name="guest" type="IGuest" readonly="yes">
6324	<desc>Guest object.</desc>
6325	</attribute>
6326
6327	<attribute name="keyboard" type="IKeyboard" readonly="yes">
6328	<desc>
6329	Virtual keyboard object.
6330	<note>
6331	If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6332	the returned object will result in an error.
6333	</note>
6334	</desc>
6335	</attribute>
6336
6337	<attribute name="mouse" type="IMouse" readonly="yes">
6338	<desc>
6339	Virtual mouse object.
6340	<note>
6341	If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6342	the returned object will result in an error.
6343	</note>
6344	</desc>
6345	</attribute>
6346
6347	<attribute name="display" type="IDisplay" readonly="yes">
6348	<desc>Virtual display object.
6349	<note>
6350	If the machine is not running, any attempt to use
6351	the returned object will result in an error.
6352	</note>
6353	</desc>
6354	</attribute>
6355
6356	<attribute name="debugger" type="IMachineDebugger" readonly="yes">
6357	<desc>Debugging interface.</desc>
6358	</attribute>
6359
6360	<attribute name="USBDevices" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6361	<desc>
6362	Collection of USB devices currently attached to the virtual
6363	USB controller.
6364	<note>
6365	The collection is empty if the machine is not running.
6366	</note>
6367	</desc>
6368	</attribute>
6369
6370	<attribute name="remoteUSBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6371	<desc>
6372	List of USB devices currently attached to the remote VRDE client.
6373	Once a new device is physically attached to the remote host computer,
6374	it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
6375	</desc>
6376	</attribute>
6377
6378	<attribute name="sharedFolders" type="ISharedFolder" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6379	<desc>
6380	Collection of shared folders for the current session. These folders
6381	are called transient shared folders because they are available to the
6382	guest OS running inside the associated virtual machine only for the
6383	duration of the session (as opposed to
6384	<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/> which represent permanent shared
6385	folders). When the session is closed (e.g. the machine is powered down),
6386	these folders are automatically discarded.
6387
6388	New shared folders are added to the collection using
6389	<link to="#createSharedFolder"/>. Existing shared folders can be
6390	removed using <link to="#removeSharedFolder"/>.
6391	</desc>
6392	</attribute>
6393
6394	<attribute name="VRDEServerInfo" type="IVRDEServerInfo" readonly="yes">
6395	<desc>
6396	Interface that provides information on Remote Desktop Extension (VRDE) connection.
6397	</desc>
6398	</attribute>
6399
6400	<attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
6401	<desc>
6402	Event source for console events.
6403	</desc>
6404	</attribute>
6405
6406	<attribute name="attachedPciDevices" type="IPciDeviceAttachment" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
6407	<desc>Array of PCI devices attached to this machine.</desc>
6408	</attribute>
6409
6410	<attribute name="useHostClipboard" type="boolean">
6411	<desc>
6412	Whether the guest clipboard should be connected to the host one or
6413	whether it should only be allowed access to the VRDE clipboard. This
6414	setting may not affect existing guest clipboard connections which
6415	are already connected to the host clipboard.
6416	</desc>
6417	</attribute>
6418
6419	<method name="powerUp">
6420	<desc>
6421	Starts the virtual machine execution using the current machine
6422	state (that is, its current execution state, current settings and
6423	current storage devices).
6424
6425	<note>
6426	This method is only useful for front-ends that want to actually
6427	execute virtual machines in their own process (like the VirtualBox
6428	or VBoxSDL front-ends). Unless you are intending to write such a
6429	front-end, do not call this method. If you simply want to
6430	start virtual machine execution using one of the existing front-ends
6431	(for example the VirtualBox GUI or headless server), use
6432	<link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> instead; these
6433	front-ends will power up the machine automatically for you.
6434	</note>
6435
6436	If the machine is powered off or aborted, the execution will
6437	start from the beginning (as if the real hardware were just
6438	powered on).
6439
6440	If the machine is in the <link to="MachineState_Saved"/> state,
6441	it will continue its execution the point where the state has
6442	been saved.
6443
6444	If the machine <link to="IMachine::teleporterEnabled"/> property is
6445	enabled on the machine being powered up, the machine will wait for an
6446	incoming teleportation in the <link to="MachineState_TeleportingIn"/>
6447	state. The returned progress object will have at least three
6448	operations where the last three are defined as: (1) powering up and
6449	starting TCP server, (2) waiting for incoming teleportations, and
6450	(3) perform teleportation. These operations will be reflected as the
6451	last three operations of the progress objected returned by
6452	<link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/> as well.
6453
6454	<see><link to="#saveState"/></see>
6455
6456	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6457	Virtual machine already running.
6458	</result>
6459	<result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6460	Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6461	</result>
6462	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6463	Invalid saved state file.
6464	</result>
6465	</desc>
6466	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6467	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6468	</param>
6469	</method>
6470
6471	<method name="powerUpPaused">
6472	<desc>
6473	Identical to powerUp except that the VM will enter the
6474	<link to="MachineState_Paused"/> state, instead of
6475	<link to="MachineState_Running"/>.
6476
6477	<see><link to="#powerUp"/></see>
6478	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6479	Virtual machine already running.
6480	</result>
6481	<result name="VBOX_E_HOST_ERROR">
6482	Host interface does not exist or name not set.
6483	</result>
6484	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6485	Invalid saved state file.
6486	</result>
6487	</desc>
6488	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6489	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6490	</param>
6491	</method>
6492
6493	<method name="powerDown">
6494	<desc>
6495	Initiates the power down procedure to stop the virtual machine
6496	execution.
6497
6498	The completion of the power down procedure is tracked using the returned
6499	IProgress object. After the operation is complete, the machine will go
6500	to the PoweredOff state.
6501	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6502	Virtual machine must be Running, Paused or Stuck to be powered down.
6503	</result>
6504	</desc>
6505	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6506	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6507	</param>
6508	</method>
6509
6510	<method name="reset">
6511	<desc>Resets the virtual machine.
6512	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6513	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6514	</result>
6515	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6516	Virtual machine error in reset operation.
6517	</result>
6518	</desc>
6519	</method>
6520
6521	<method name="pause">
6522	<desc>Pauses the virtual machine execution.
6523	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6524	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6525	</result>
6526	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6527	Virtual machine error in suspend operation.
6528	</result>
6529	</desc>
6530	</method>
6531
6532	<method name="resume">
6533	<desc>Resumes the virtual machine execution.
6534	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6535	Virtual machine not in Paused state.
6536	</result>
6537	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
6538	Virtual machine error in resume operation.
6539	</result>
6540	</desc>
6541	</method>
6542
6543	<method name="powerButton">
6544	<desc>Sends the ACPI power button event to the guest.
6545	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6546	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6547	</result>
6548	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6549	Controlled power off failed.
6550	</result>
6551	</desc>
6552	</method>
6553
6554	<method name="sleepButton">
6555	<desc>Sends the ACPI sleep button event to the guest.
6556	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6557	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6558	</result>
6559	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6560	Sending sleep button event failed.
6561	</result>
6562	</desc>
6563	</method>
6564
6565	<method name="getPowerButtonHandled">
6566	<desc>Checks if the last power button event was handled by guest.
6567	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6568	Checking if the event was handled by the guest OS failed.
6569	</result>
6570	</desc>
6571	<param name="handled" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6572	</method>
6573
6574	<method name="getGuestEnteredACPIMode">
6575	<desc>Checks if the guest entered the ACPI mode G0 (working) or
6576	G1 (sleeping). If this method returns @c false, the guest will
6577	most likely not respond to external ACPI events.
6578	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6579	Virtual machine not in Running state.
6580	</result>
6581	</desc>
6582	<param name="entered" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
6583	</method>
6584
6585	<method name="saveState">
6586	<desc>
6587	Saves the current execution state of a running virtual machine
6588	and stops its execution.
6589
6590	After this operation completes, the machine will go to the
6591	Saved state. Next time it is powered up, this state will
6592	be restored and the machine will continue its execution from
6593	the place where it was saved.
6594
6595	This operation differs from taking a snapshot to the effect
6596	that it doesn't create new differencing media. Also, once
6597	the machine is powered up from the state saved using this method,
6598	the saved state is deleted, so it will be impossible to return
6599	to this state later.
6600
6601	<note>
6602	On success, this method implicitly calls
6603	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to save all current machine
6604	settings (including runtime changes to the DVD medium, etc.).
6605	Together with the impossibility to change any VM settings when it is
6606	in the Saved state, this guarantees adequate hardware
6607	configuration of the machine when it is restored from the saved
6608	state file.
6609	</note>
6610
6611	<note>
6612	The machine must be in the Running or Paused state, otherwise
6613	the operation will fail.
6614	</note>
6615	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6616	Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6617	</result>
6618	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6619	Failed to create directory for saved state file.
6620	</result>
6621
6622	<see><link to="#takeSnapshot"/></see>
6623	</desc>
6624	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6625	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6626	</param>
6627	</method>
6628
6629	<method name="adoptSavedState">
6630	<desc>
6631	Associates the given saved state file to the virtual machine.
6632
6633	On success, the machine will go to the Saved state. Next time it is
6634	powered up, it will be restored from the adopted saved state and
6635	continue execution from the place where the saved state file was
6636	created.
6637
6638	The specified saved state file path may be absolute or relative to the
6639	folder the VM normally saves the state to (usually,
6640	<link to="IMachine::snapshotFolder"/>).
6641
6642	<note>
6643	It's a caller's responsibility to make sure the given saved state
6644	file is compatible with the settings of this virtual machine that
6645	represent its virtual hardware (memory size, storage disk configuration
6646	etc.). If there is a mismatch, the behavior of the virtual machine
6647	is undefined.
6648	</note>
6649	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6650	Virtual machine state neither PoweredOff nor Aborted.
6651	</result>
6652	</desc>
6653	<param name="savedStateFile" type="wstring" dir="in">
6654	<desc>Path to the saved state file to adopt.</desc>
6655	</param>
6656	</method>
6657
6658	<method name="discardSavedState">
6659	<desc>
6660	Forcibly resets the machine to "Powered Off" state if it is
6661	currently in the "Saved" state (previously created by <link to="#saveState"/>).
6662	Next time the machine is powered up, a clean boot will occur.
6663	<note>
6664	This operation is equivalent to resetting or powering off
6665	the machine without doing a proper shutdown of the guest
6666	operating system; as with resetting a running phyiscal
6667	computer, it can can lead to data loss.
6668	</note>
6669	If @a fRemoveFile is @c true, the file in the machine directory
6670	into which the machine state was saved is also deleted. If
6671	this is @c false, then the state can be recovered and later
6672	re-inserted into a machine using <link to="#adoptSavedState" />.
6673	The location of the file can be found in the
6674	<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath" /> attribute.
6675	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6676	Virtual machine not in state Saved.
6677	</result>
6678	</desc>
6679	<param name="fRemoveFile" type="boolean" dir="in" >
6680	<desc>Whether to also remove the saved state file.</desc>
6681	</param>
6682	</method>
6683
6684	<method name="getDeviceActivity">
6685	<desc>
6686	Gets the current activity type of a given device or device group.
6687	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6688	Invalid device type.
6689	</result>
6690	</desc>
6691	<param name="type" type="DeviceType" dir="in"/>
6692	<param name="activity" type="DeviceActivity" dir="return"/>
6693	</method>
6694
6695	<method name="attachUSBDevice">
6696	<desc>
6697	Attaches a host USB device with the given UUID to the
6698	USB controller of the virtual machine.
6699
6700	The device needs to be in one of the following states:
6701	<link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
6702	<link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/> or
6703	<link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>,
6704	otherwise an error is immediately returned.
6705
6706	When the device state is
6707	<link to="USBDeviceState_Busy">Busy</link>, an error may also
6708	be returned if the host computer refuses to release it for some reason.
6709
6710	<see><link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>,
6711	<link to="USBDeviceState"/></see>
6712	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6713	Virtual machine state neither Running nor Paused.
6714	</result>
6715	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6716	Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6717	</result>
6718	</desc>
6719	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6720	<desc>UUID of the host USB device to attach.</desc>
6721	</param>
6722	</method>
6723
6724	<method name="detachUSBDevice">
6725	<desc>
6726	Detaches an USB device with the given UUID from the USB controller
6727	of the virtual machine.
6728
6729	After this method succeeds, the VirtualBox server re-initiates
6730	all USB filters as if the device were just physically attached
6731	to the host, but filters of this machine are ignored to avoid
6732	a possible automatic re-attachment.
6733
6734	<see><link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>,
6735	<link to="USBDeviceState"/></see>
6736
6737	<result name="VBOX_E_PDM_ERROR">
6738	Virtual machine does not have a USB controller.
6739	</result>
6740	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
6741	USB device not attached to this virtual machine.
6742	</result>
6743	</desc>
6744	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6745	<desc>UUID of the USB device to detach.</desc>
6746	</param>
6747	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6748	<desc>Detached USB device.</desc>
6749	</param>
6750	</method>
6751
6752	<method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
6753	<desc>
6754	Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
6755
6756	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6757	Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
6758	</result>
6759
6760	<see><link to="IUSBDevice::address"/></see>
6761	</desc>
6762	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6763	<desc>
6764	Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
6765	search for.
6766	</desc>
6767	</param>
6768	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6769	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6770	</param>
6771	</method>
6772
6773	<method name="findUSBDeviceById">
6774	<desc>
6775	Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
6776
6777	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
6778	Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
6779	</result>
6780
6781	<see><link to="IUSBDevice::id"/></see>
6782	</desc>
6783	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6784	<desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
6785	</param>
6786	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="return">
6787	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
6788	</param>
6789	</method>
6790
6791	<method name="createSharedFolder">
6792	<desc>
6793	Creates a transient new shared folder by associating the given logical
6794	name with the given host path, adds it to the collection of shared
6795	folders and starts sharing it. Refer to the description of
6796	<link to="ISharedFolder"/> to read more about logical names.
6797
6798	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6799	Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6800	</result>
6801	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6802	Shared folder already exists or not accessible.
6803	</result>
6804	</desc>
6805	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6806	<desc>Unique logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
6807	</param>
6808	<param name="hostPath" type="wstring" dir="in">
6809	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
6810	</param>
6811	<param name="writable" type="boolean" dir="in">
6812	<desc>Whether the share is writable or readonly</desc>
6813	</param>
6814	<param name="automount" type="boolean" dir="in">
6815	<desc>Whether the share gets automatically mounted by the guest
6816	or not.</desc>
6817	</param>
6818	</method>
6819
6820	<method name="removeSharedFolder">
6821	<desc>
6822	Removes a transient shared folder with the given name previously
6823	created by <link to="#createSharedFolder"/> from the collection of
6824	shared folders and stops sharing it.
6825	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6826	Virtual machine in Saved state or currently changing state.
6827	</result>
6828	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
6829	Shared folder does not exists.
6830	</result>
6831	</desc>
6832	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6833	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder to remove.</desc>
6834	</param>
6835	</method>
6836
6837	<method name="takeSnapshot">
6838	<desc>
6839	Saves the current execution state
6840	and all settings of the machine and creates differencing images
6841	for all normal (non-independent) media.
6842	See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6843
6844	This method can be called for a PoweredOff, Saved (see
6845	<link to="#saveState"/>), Running or
6846	Paused virtual machine. When the machine is PoweredOff, an
6847	offline snapshot is created. When the machine is Running a live
6848	snapshot is created, and an online snapshot is is created when Paused.
6849
6850	The taken snapshot is always based on the
6851	<link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot">current snapshot</link>
6852	of the associated virtual machine and becomes a new current snapshot.
6853
6854	<note>
6855	This method implicitly calls <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> to
6856	save all current machine settings before taking an offline snapshot.
6857	</note>
6858
6859	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6860	Virtual machine currently changing state.
6861	</result>
6862	</desc>
6863	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
6864	<desc>Short name for the snapshot.</desc>
6865	</param>
6866	<param name="description" type="wstring" dir="in">
6867	<desc>Optional description of the snapshot.</desc>
6868	</param>
6869	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6870	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6871	</param>
6872	</method>
6873
6874	<method name="deleteSnapshot">
6875	<desc>
6876	Starts deleting the specified snapshot asynchronously.
6877	See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
6878
6879	The execution state and settings of the associated machine stored in
6880	the snapshot will be deleted. The contents of all differencing media of
6881	this snapshot will be merged with the contents of their dependent child
6882	media to keep the medium chain valid (in other words, all changes
6883	represented by media being deleted will be propagated to their child
6884	medium). After that, this snapshot's differencing medium will be
6885	deleted. The parent of this snapshot will become a new parent for all
6886	its child snapshots.
6887
6888	If the deleted snapshot is the current one, its parent snapshot will
6889	become a new current snapshot. The current machine state is not directly
6890	affected in this case, except that currently attached differencing
6891	media based on media of the deleted snapshot will be also merged as
6892	described above.
6893
6894	If the deleted snapshot is the first or current snapshot, then the
6895	respective IMachine attributes will be adjusted. Deleting the current
6896	snapshot will also implicitly call <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>
6897	to make all current machine settings permanent.
6898
6899	Deleting a snapshot has the following preconditions:
6900
6901	<ul>
6902	<li>Child media of all normal media of the deleted snapshot
6903	must be accessible (see <link to="IMedium::state"/>) for this
6904	operation to succeed. If only one running VM refers to all images
6905	which participates in merging the operation can be performed while
6906	the VM is running. Otherwise all virtual machines whose media are
6907	directly or indirectly based on the media of deleted snapshot must
6908	be powered off. In any case, online snapshot deleting usually is
6909	slower than the same operation without any running VM.</li>
6910
6911	<li>You cannot delete the snapshot if a medium attached to it has
6912	more than one child medium (differencing images) because otherwise
6913	merging would be impossible. This might be the case if there is
6914	more than one child snapshot or differencing images were created
6915	for other reason (e.g. implicitly because of multiple machine
6916	attachments).</li>
6917	</ul>
6918
6919	The virtual machine's <link to="IMachine::state">state</link> is
6920	changed to "DeletingSnapshot", "DeletingSnapshotOnline" or
6921	"DeletingSnapshotPaused" while this operation is in progress.
6922
6923	<note>
6924	Merging medium contents can be very time and disk space
6925	consuming, if these media are big in size and have many
6926	children. However, if the snapshot being deleted is the last
6927	(head) snapshot on the branch, the operation will be rather
6928	quick.
6929	</note>
6930	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6931	The running virtual machine prevents deleting this snapshot. This
6932	happens only in very specific situations, usually snapshots can be
6933	deleted without trouble while a VM is running. The error message
6934	text explains the reason for the failure.
6935	</result>
6936	</desc>
6937	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6938	<desc>UUID of the snapshot to delete.</desc>
6939	</param>
6940	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6941	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6942	</param>
6943	</method>
6944
6945	<method name="deleteSnapshotAndAllChildren">
6946	<desc>
6947	Starts deleting the specified snapshot and all its children
6948	asynchronously. See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to
6949	snapshots. The conditions and many details are the same as with
6950	<link to="#deleteSnapshot"/>.
6951
6952	This operation is very fast if the snapshot subtree does not include
6953	the current state. It is still significantly faster than deleting the
6954	snapshots one by one if the current state is in the subtree and there
6955	are more than one snapshots from current state to the snapshot which
6956	marks the subtree, since it eliminates the incremental image merging.
6957
6958	<note>This API method is right now not implemented!</note>
6959
6960	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6961	The running virtual machine prevents deleting this snapshot. This
6962	happens only in very specific situations, usually snapshots can be
6963	deleted without trouble while a VM is running. The error message
6964	text explains the reason for the failure.
6965	</result>
6966	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
6967	The method is not implemented yet.
6968	</result>
6969	</desc>
6970	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
6971	<desc>UUID of the snapshot to delete, including all its children.</desc>
6972	</param>
6973	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
6974	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
6975	</param>
6976	</method>
6977
6978	<method name="deleteSnapshotRange">
6979	<desc>
6980	Starts deleting the specified snapshot range. This is limited to
6981	linear snapshot lists, which means there may not be any other child
6982	snapshots other than the direct sequence between the start and end
6983	snapshot. If the start and end snapshot point to the same snapshot this
6984	method is completely equivalent to <link to="#deleteSnapshot"/>. See
6985	<link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots. The
6986	conditions and many details are the same as with
6987	<link to="#deleteSnapshot"/>.
6988
6989	This operation is generally faster than deleting snapshots one by one
6990	and often also needs less extra disk space before freeing up disk space
6991	by deleting the removed disk images corresponding to the snapshot.
6992
6993	<note>This API method is right now not implemented!</note>
6994
6995	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
6996	The running virtual machine prevents deleting this snapshot. This
6997	happens only in very specific situations, usually snapshots can be
6998	deleted without trouble while a VM is running. The error message
6999	text explains the reason for the failure.
7000	</result>
7001	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
7002	The method is not implemented yet.
7003	</result>
7004	</desc>
7005	<param name="startId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7006	<desc>UUID of the first snapshot to delete.</desc>
7007	</param>
7008	<param name="endId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7009	<desc>UUID of the last snapshot to delete.</desc>
7010	</param>
7011	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7012	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
7013	</param>
7014	</method>
7015
7016	<method name="restoreSnapshot">
7017	<desc>
7018	Starts resetting the machine's current state to the state contained
7019	in the given snapshot, asynchronously. All current settings of the
7020	machine will be reset and changes stored in differencing media
7021	will be lost.
7022	See <link to="ISnapshot" /> for an introduction to snapshots.
7023
7024	After this operation is successfully completed, new empty differencing
7025	media are created for all normal media of the machine.
7026
7027	If the given snapshot is an online snapshot, the machine will go to
7028	the <link to="MachineState_Saved"> saved state</link>, so that the
7029	next time it is powered on, the execution state will be restored
7030	from the state of the snapshot.
7031
7032	<note>
7033	The machine must not be running, otherwise the operation will fail.
7034	</note>
7035
7036	<note>
7037	If the machine state is <link to="MachineState_Saved">Saved</link>
7038	prior to this operation, the saved state file will be implicitly
7039	deleted (as if <link to="IConsole::discardSavedState"/> were
7040	called).
7041	</note>
7042
7043	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
7044	Virtual machine is running.
7045	</result>
7046	</desc>
7047	<param name="snapshot" type="ISnapshot" dir="in">
7048	<desc>The snapshot to restore the VM state from.</desc>
7049	</param>
7050	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7051	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
7052	</param>
7053	</method>
7054
7055	<method name="teleport">
7056	<desc>
7057	Teleport the VM to a different host machine or process.
7058
7059	TODO explain the details.
7060
7061	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
7062	Virtual machine not running or paused.
7063	</result>
7064	</desc>
7065	<param name="hostname" type="wstring" dir="in">
7066	<desc>The name or IP of the host to teleport to.</desc>
7067	</param>
7068	<param name="tcpport" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7069	<desc>The TCP port to connect to (1..65535).</desc>
7070	</param>
7071	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
7072	<desc>The password.</desc>
7073	</param>
7074	<param name="maxDowntime" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7075	<desc>
7076	The maximum allowed downtime given as milliseconds. 0 is not a valid
7077	value. Recommended value: 250 ms.
7078
7079	The higher the value is, the greater the chance for a successful
7080	teleportation. A small value may easily result in the teleportation
7081	process taking hours and eventually fail.
7082
7083	<note>
7084	The current implementation treats this a guideline, not as an
7085	absolute rule.
7086	</note>
7087	</desc>
7088	</param>
7089	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7090	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
7091	</param>
7092	</method>
7093
7094	</interface>
7095
7096	<!--
7097	// IHost
7098	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7099	-->
7100
7101	<enum
7102	name="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType"
7103	uuid="1aa54aaf-2497-45a2-bfb1-8eb225e93d5b"
7104	>
7105	<desc>
7106	Type of encapsulation. Ethernet encapsulation includes both wired and
7107	wireless Ethernet connections.
7108	<see><link to="IHostNetworkInterface"/></see>
7109	</desc>
7110
7111	<const name="Unknown" value="0">
7112	<desc>
7113	The type of interface cannot be determined.
7114	</desc>
7115	</const>
7116	<const name="Ethernet" value="1">
7117	<desc>
7118	Ethernet frame encapsulation.
7119	</desc>
7120	</const>
7121	<const name="PPP" value="2">
7122	<desc>
7123	Point-to-point protocol encapsulation.
7124	</desc>
7125	</const>
7126	<const name="SLIP" value="3">
7127	<desc>
7128	Serial line IP encapsulation.
7129	</desc>
7130	</const>
7131	</enum>
7132
7133	<enum
7134	name="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus"
7135	uuid="CC474A69-2710-434B-8D99-C38E5D5A6F41"
7136	>
7137	<desc>
7138	Current status of the interface.
7139	<see><link to="IHostNetworkInterface"/></see>
7140	</desc>
7141
7142	<const name="Unknown" value="0">
7143	<desc>
7144	The state of interface cannot be determined.
7145	</desc>
7146	</const>
7147	<const name="Up" value="1">
7148	<desc>
7149	The interface is fully operational.
7150	</desc>
7151	</const>
7152	<const name="Down" value="2">
7153	<desc>
7154	The interface is not functioning.
7155	</desc>
7156	</const>
7157	</enum>
7158
7159	<enum
7160	name="HostNetworkInterfaceType"
7161	uuid="67431b00-9946-48a2-bc02-b25c5919f4f3"
7162	>
7163	<desc>
7164	Network interface type.
7165	</desc>
7166	<const name="Bridged" value="1"/>
7167	<const name="HostOnly" value="2"/>
7168	</enum>
7169
7170	<interface
7171	name="IHostNetworkInterface" extends="$unknown"
7172	uuid="ce6fae58-7642-4102-b5db-c9005c2320a8"
7173	wsmap="managed"
7174	>
7175	<desc>
7176	Represents one of host's network interfaces. IP V6 address and network
7177	mask are strings of 32 hexdecimal digits grouped by four. Groups are
7178	separated by colons.
7179	For example, fe80:0000:0000:0000:021e:c2ff:fed2:b030.
7180	</desc>
7181	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7182	<desc>Returns the host network interface name.</desc>
7183	</attribute>
7184
7185	<attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
7186	<desc>Returns the interface UUID.</desc>
7187	</attribute>
7188
7189	<attribute name="networkName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7190	<desc>Returns the name of a virtual network the interface gets attached to.</desc>
7191	</attribute>
7192
7193	<attribute name="dhcpEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7194	<desc>Specifies whether the DHCP is enabled for the interface.</desc>
7195	</attribute>
7196
7197	<attribute name="IPAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7198	<desc>Returns the IP V4 address of the interface.</desc>
7199	</attribute>
7200
7201	<attribute name="networkMask" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7202	<desc>Returns the network mask of the interface.</desc>
7203	</attribute>
7204
7205	<attribute name="IPV6Supported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7206	<desc>Specifies whether the IP V6 is supported/enabled for the interface.</desc>
7207	</attribute>
7208
7209	<attribute name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7210	<desc>Returns the IP V6 address of the interface.</desc>
7211	</attribute>
7212
7213	<attribute name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7214	<desc>Returns the length IP V6 network mask prefix of the interface.</desc>
7215	</attribute>
7216
7217	<attribute name="hardwareAddress" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7218	<desc>Returns the hardware address. For Ethernet it is MAC address.</desc>
7219	</attribute>
7220
7221	<attribute name="mediumType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceMediumType" readonly="yes">
7222	<desc>Type of protocol encapsulation used.</desc>
7223	</attribute>
7224
7225	<attribute name="status" type="HostNetworkInterfaceStatus" readonly="yes">
7226	<desc>Status of the interface.</desc>
7227	</attribute>
7228
7229	<attribute name="interfaceType" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" readonly="yes">
7230	<desc>specifies the host interface type.</desc>
7231	</attribute>
7232
7233	<method name="enableStaticIpConfig">
7234	<desc>sets and enables the static IP V4 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
7235	<param name="IPAddress" type="wstring" dir="in">
7236	<desc>
7237	IP address.
7238	</desc>
7239	</param>
7240	<param name="networkMask" type="wstring" dir="in">
7241	<desc>
7242	network mask.
7243	</desc>
7244	</param>
7245	</method>
7246
7247	<method name="enableStaticIpConfigV6">
7248	<desc>sets and enables the static IP V6 configuration for the given interface.</desc>
7249	<param name="IPV6Address" type="wstring" dir="in">
7250	<desc>
7251	IP address.
7252	</desc>
7253	</param>
7254	<param name="IPV6NetworkMaskPrefixLength" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7255	<desc>
7256	network mask.
7257	</desc>
7258	</param>
7259	</method>
7260
7261	<method name="enableDynamicIpConfig">
7262	<desc>enables the dynamic IP configuration.</desc>
7263	</method>
7264
7265	<method name="dhcpRediscover">
7266	<desc>refreshes the IP configuration for dhcp-enabled interface.</desc>
7267	</method>
7268
7269	</interface>
7270
7271	<interface
7272	name="IHost" extends="$unknown"
7273	uuid="dab4a2b8-c735-4f08-94fc-9bec84182e2f"
7274	wsmap="managed"
7275	>
7276	<desc>
7277	The IHost interface represents the physical machine that this VirtualBox
7278	installation runs on.
7279
7280	An object implementing this interface is returned by the
7281	<link to="IVirtualBox::host" /> attribute. This interface contains
7282	read-only information about the host's physical hardware (such as what
7283	processors and disks are available, what the host operating system is,
7284	and so on) and also allows for manipulating some of the host's hardware,
7285	such as global USB device filters and host interface networking.
7286
7287	</desc>
7288	<attribute name="DVDDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7289	<desc>List of DVD drives available on the host.</desc>
7290	</attribute>
7291
7292	<attribute name="floppyDrives" type="IMedium" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7293	<desc>List of floppy drives available on the host.</desc>
7294	</attribute>
7295
7296	<attribute name="USBDevices" type="IHostUSBDevice" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7297	<desc>
7298	List of USB devices currently attached to the host.
7299	Once a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
7300	it appears in this list and remains there until detached.
7301
7302	<note>
7303	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7304	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7305	</note>
7306	</desc>
7307	</attribute>
7308
7309	<attribute name="USBDeviceFilters" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
7310	<desc>
7311	List of USB device filters in action.
7312	When a new device is physically attached to the host computer,
7313	filters from this list are applied to it (in order they are stored
7314	in the list). The first matched filter will determine the
7315	<link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter::action">action</link>
7316	performed on the device.
7317
7318	Unless the device is ignored by these filters, filters of all
7319	currently running virtual machines
7320	(<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are applied to it.
7321
7322	<note>
7323	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7324	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7325	</note>
7326
7327	<see><link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter"/>,
7328	<link to="USBDeviceState"/></see>
7329	</desc>
7330	</attribute>
7331
7332	<attribute name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7333	<desc>List of host network interfaces currently defined on the host.</desc>
7334	</attribute>
7335
7336	<attribute name="processorCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7337	<desc>Number of (logical) CPUs installed in the host system.</desc>
7338	</attribute>
7339
7340	<attribute name="processorOnlineCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7341	<desc>Number of (logical) CPUs online in the host system.</desc>
7342	</attribute>
7343
7344	<attribute name="processorCoreCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7345	<desc>Number of physical processor cores installed in the host system.</desc>
7346	</attribute>
7347
7348	<method name="getProcessorSpeed">
7349	<desc>Query the (approximate) maximum speed of a specified host CPU in
7350	Megahertz.
7351	</desc>
7352	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7353	<desc>
7354	Identifier of the CPU.
7355	</desc>
7356	</param>
7357	<param name="speed" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7358	<desc>
7359	Speed value. 0 is returned if value is not known or @a cpuId is
7360	invalid.
7361	</desc>
7362	</param>
7363	</method>
7364
7365	<method name="getProcessorFeature">
7366	<desc>Query whether a CPU feature is supported or not.</desc>
7367	<param name="feature" type="ProcessorFeature" dir="in">
7368	<desc>
7369	CPU Feature identifier.
7370	</desc>
7371	</param>
7372	<param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return">
7373	<desc>
7374	Feature is supported or not.
7375	</desc>
7376	</param>
7377	</method>
7378
7379	<method name="getProcessorDescription">
7380	<desc>Query the model string of a specified host CPU.
7381	</desc>
7382	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7383	<desc>
7384	Identifier of the CPU.
7385	<note>
7386	The current implementation might not necessarily return the
7387	description for this exact CPU.
7388	</note>
7389	</desc>
7390	</param>
7391	<param name="description" type="wstring" dir="return">
7392	<desc>
7393	Model string. An empty string is returned if value is not known or
7394	@a cpuId is invalid.
7395	</desc>
7396	</param>
7397	</method>
7398
7399	<method name="getProcessorCPUIDLeaf">
7400	<desc>
7401	Returns the CPU cpuid information for the specified leaf.
7402	</desc>
7403	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7404	<desc>
7405	Identifier of the CPU. The CPU most be online.
7406	<note>
7407	The current implementation might not necessarily return the
7408	description for this exact CPU.
7409	</note>
7410	</desc>
7411	</param>
7412	<param name="leaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7413	<desc>
7414	CPUID leaf index (eax).
7415	</desc>
7416	</param>
7417	<param name="subLeaf" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7418	<desc>
7419	CPUID leaf sub index (ecx). This currently only applies to cache
7420	information on Intel CPUs. Use 0 if retrieving values for
7421	<link to="IMachine::setCPUIDLeaf"/>.
7422	</desc>
7423	</param>
7424	<param name="valEax" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7425	<desc>
7426	CPUID leaf value for register eax.
7427	</desc>
7428	</param>
7429	<param name="valEbx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7430	<desc>
7431	CPUID leaf value for register ebx.
7432	</desc>
7433	</param>
7434	<param name="valEcx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7435	<desc>
7436	CPUID leaf value for register ecx.
7437	</desc>
7438	</param>
7439	<param name="valEdx" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
7440	<desc>
7441	CPUID leaf value for register edx.
7442	</desc>
7443	</param>
7444	</method>
7445
7446	<attribute name="memorySize" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7447	<desc>Amount of system memory in megabytes installed in the host system.</desc>
7448	</attribute>
7449
7450	<attribute name="memoryAvailable" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7451	<desc>Available system memory in the host system.</desc>
7452	</attribute>
7453
7454	<attribute name="operatingSystem" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7455	<desc>Name of the host system's operating system.</desc>
7456	</attribute>
7457
7458	<attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
7459	<desc>Host operating system's version string.</desc>
7460	</attribute>
7461
7462	<attribute name="UTCTime" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7463	<desc>Returns the current host time in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.</desc>
7464	</attribute>
7465
7466	<attribute name="Acceleration3DAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
7467	<desc>Returns @c true when the host supports 3D hardware acceleration.</desc>
7468	</attribute>
7469
7470	<method name="createHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
7471	<desc>
7472	Creates a new adapter for Host Only Networking.
7473	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7474	Host network interface @a name already exists.
7475	</result>
7476	</desc>
7477	<param name="hostInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="out">
7478	<desc>
7479	Created host interface object.
7480	</desc>
7481	</param>
7482	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7483	<desc>
7484	Progress object to track the operation completion.
7485	</desc>
7486	</param>
7487	</method>
7488
7489	<method name="removeHostOnlyNetworkInterface">
7490	<desc>
7491	Removes the given Host Only Networking interface.
7492	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7493	No host network interface matching @a id found.
7494	</result>
7495	</desc>
7496	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7497	<desc>
7498	Adapter GUID.
7499	</desc>
7500	</param>
7501	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
7502	<desc>
7503	Progress object to track the operation completion.
7504	</desc>
7505	</param>
7506	</method>
7507
7508	<method name="createUSBDeviceFilter">
7509	<desc>
7510	Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
7511	the filter name are set to empty (any match),
7512	<i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
7513
7514	The created filter can be added to the list of filters using
7515	<link to="#insertUSBDeviceFilter"/>.
7516
7517	<see><link to="#USBDeviceFilters"/></see>
7518	</desc>
7519	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7520	<desc>
7521	Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/> for more information.
7522	</desc>
7523	</param>
7524	<param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
7525	<desc>Created filter object.</desc>
7526	</param>
7527	</method>
7528
7529	<method name="insertUSBDeviceFilter">
7530	<desc>
7531	Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
7532	in the list of filters.
7533
7534	Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. If the specified
7535	position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7536	the list, the filter is added at the end of the collection.
7537
7538	<note>
7539	Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
7540	filter already in the list is an error.
7541	</note>
7542	<note>
7543	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7544	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7545	</note>
7546
7547	<see><link to="#USBDeviceFilters"/></see>
7548
7549	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
7550	USB device filter is not created within this VirtualBox instance.
7551	</result>
7552	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7553	USB device filter already in list.
7554	</result>
7555
7556	</desc>
7557	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7558	<desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
7559	</param>
7560	<param name="filter" type="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
7561	<desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
7562	</param>
7563	</method>
7564
7565	<method name="removeUSBDeviceFilter">
7566	<desc>
7567	Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
7568	list of filters.
7569
7570	Positions are numbered starting from @c 0. Specifying a
7571	position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
7572	the list will produce an error.
7573
7574	<note>
7575	If USB functionality is not available in the given edition of
7576	VirtualBox, this method will set the result code to @c E_NOTIMPL.
7577	</note>
7578
7579	<see><link to="#USBDeviceFilters"/></see>
7580
7581	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
7582	USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
7583	</result>
7584
7585	</desc>
7586	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
7587	<desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
7588	</param>
7589	</method>
7590
7591	<method name="findHostDVDDrive">
7592	<desc>
7593	Searches for a host DVD drive with the given @c name.
7594
7595	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7596	Given @c name does not correspond to any host drive.
7597	</result>
7598
7599	</desc>
7600	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7601	<desc>Name of the host drive to search for</desc>
7602	</param>
7603	<param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7604	<desc>Found host drive object</desc>
7605	</param>
7606	</method>
7607
7608	<method name="findHostFloppyDrive">
7609	<desc>
7610	Searches for a host floppy drive with the given @c name.
7611
7612	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7613	Given @c name does not correspond to any host floppy drive.
7614	</result>
7615
7616	</desc>
7617	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7618	<desc>Name of the host floppy drive to search for</desc>
7619	</param>
7620	<param name="drive" type="IMedium" dir="return">
7621	<desc>Found host floppy drive object</desc>
7622	</param>
7623	</method>
7624
7625	<method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceByName">
7626	<desc>
7627	Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7628	the given @c name.
7629	<note>
7630	The method returns an error if the given @c name does not
7631	correspond to any host network interface.
7632	</note>
7633	</desc>
7634	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7635	<desc>Name of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7636	</param>
7637	<param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7638	<desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7639	</param>
7640	</method>
7641	<method name="findHostNetworkInterfaceById">
7642	<desc>
7643	Searches through all host network interfaces for an interface with
7644	the given GUID.
7645	<note>
7646	The method returns an error if the given GUID does not
7647	correspond to any host network interface.
7648	</note>
7649	</desc>
7650	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7651	<desc>GUID of the host network interface to search for.</desc>
7652	</param>
7653	<param name="networkInterface" type="IHostNetworkInterface" dir="return">
7654	<desc>Found host network interface object.</desc>
7655	</param>
7656	</method>
7657	<method name="findHostNetworkInterfacesOfType">
7658	<desc>
7659	Searches through all host network interfaces and returns a list of interfaces of the specified type
7660	</desc>
7661	<param name="type" type="HostNetworkInterfaceType" dir="in">
7662	<desc>type of the host network interfaces to search for.</desc>
7663	</param>
7664	<param name="networkInterfaces" type="IHostNetworkInterface" safearray="yes" dir="return">
7665	<desc>Found host network interface objects.</desc>
7666	</param>
7667	</method>
7668
7669	<method name="findUSBDeviceById">
7670	<desc>
7671	Searches for a USB device with the given UUID.
7672
7673	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7674	Given @c id does not correspond to any USB device.
7675	</result>
7676
7677	<see><link to="IUSBDevice::id"/></see>
7678	</desc>
7679	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
7680	<desc>UUID of the USB device to search for.</desc>
7681	</param>
7682	<param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7683	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7684	</param>
7685	</method>
7686
7687	<method name="findUSBDeviceByAddress">
7688	<desc>
7689	Searches for a USB device with the given host address.
7690
7691	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
7692	Given @c name does not correspond to any USB device.
7693	</result>
7694
7695	<see><link to="IUSBDevice::address"/></see>
7696	</desc>
7697	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
7698	<desc>
7699	Address of the USB device (as assigned by the host) to
7700	search for.
7701	</desc>
7702	</param>
7703	<param name="device" type="IHostUSBDevice" dir="return">
7704	<desc>Found USB device object.</desc>
7705	</param>
7706	</method>
7707
7708	<method name="generateMACAddress">
7709	<desc>
7710	Generates a valid Ethernet MAC address, 12 hexadecimal characters.
7711	</desc>
7712	<param name="address" type="wstring" dir="return">
7713	<desc>New Ethernet MAC address.</desc>
7714	</param>
7715	</method>
7716
7717	</interface>
7718
7719	<!--
7720	// ISystemProperties
7721	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
7722	-->
7723
7724	<interface
7725	name="ISystemProperties"
7726	extends="$unknown"
7727	uuid="8a0ab9ab-48c1-4d04-954b-4a751413d084"
7728	wsmap="managed"
7729	>
7730	<desc>
7731	The ISystemProperties interface represents global properties of the given
7732	VirtualBox installation.
7733
7734	These properties define limits and default values for various attributes
7735	and parameters. Most of the properties are read-only, but some can be
7736	changed by a user.
7737	</desc>
7738
7739	<attribute name="minGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7740	<desc>Minimum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7741	</attribute>
7742
7743	<attribute name="maxGuestRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7744	<desc>Maximum guest system memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7745	</attribute>
7746
7747	<attribute name="minGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7748	<desc>Minimum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7749	</attribute>
7750
7751	<attribute name="maxGuestVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7752	<desc>Maximum guest video memory in Megabytes.</desc>
7753	</attribute>
7754
7755	<attribute name="minGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7756	<desc>Minimum CPU count.</desc>
7757	</attribute>
7758
7759	<attribute name="maxGuestCPUCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7760	<desc>Maximum CPU count.</desc>
7761	</attribute>
7762
7763	<attribute name="maxGuestMonitors" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7764	<desc>Maximum of monitors which could be connected.</desc>
7765	</attribute>
7766
7767	<attribute name="infoVDSize" type="long long" readonly="yes">
7768	<desc>Maximum size of a virtual disk image in bytes. Informational value,
7769	does not reflect the limits of any virtual disk image format.</desc>
7770	</attribute>
7771
7772	<attribute name="serialPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7773	<desc>
7774	Maximum number of serial ports associated with every
7775	<link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7776	</desc>
7777	</attribute>
7778
7779	<attribute name="parallelPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7780	<desc>
7781	Maximum number of parallel ports associated with every
7782	<link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7783	</desc>
7784	</attribute>
7785
7786	<attribute name="maxBootPosition" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
7787	<desc>
7788	Maximum device position in the boot order. This value corresponds
7789	to the total number of devices a machine can boot from, to make it
7790	possible to include all possible devices to the boot list.
7791	<see><link to="IMachine::setBootOrder"/></see>
7792	</desc>
7793	</attribute>
7794
7795	<attribute name="defaultMachineFolder" type="wstring">
7796	<desc>
7797	Full path to the default directory used to create new or open
7798	existing machines when a machine settings file name contains no
7799	path.
7800
7801	Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, by default, this attribute contains
7802	the full path of folder named "VirtualBox VMs" in the user's
7803	home directory, which depends on the host platform.
7804
7805	When setting this attribute, a full path must be specified.
7806	Setting this property to @c null or an empty string or the
7807	special value "Machines" (for compatibility reasons) will restore
7808	that default value.
7809
7810	If the folder specified herein does not exist, it will be created
7811	automatically as needed.
7812
7813	<see>
7814	<link to="IVirtualBox::createMachine"/>,
7815	<link to="IVirtualBox::openMachine"/>
7816	</see>
7817	</desc>
7818	</attribute>
7819
7820	<attribute name="mediumFormats" type="IMediumFormat" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
7821	<desc>
7822	List of all medium storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
7823	installation.
7824
7825	Keep in mind that the medium format identifier
7826	(<link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>) used in other API calls like
7827	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to refer to a particular
7828	medium format is a case-insensitive string. This means that, for
7829	example, all of the following strings:
7830	<pre>
7831	"VDI"
7832	"vdi"
7833	"VdI"</pre>
7834	refer to the same medium format.
7835
7836	Note that the virtual medium framework is backend-based, therefore
7837	the list of supported formats depends on what backends are currently
7838	installed.
7839
7840	<see><link to="IMediumFormat"/></see>
7841	</desc>
7842	</attribute>
7843
7844	<attribute name="defaultHardDiskFormat" type="wstring">
7845	<desc>
7846	Identifier of the default medium format used by VirtualBox.
7847
7848	The medium format set by this attribute is used by VirtualBox
7849	when the medium format was not specified explicitly. One example is
7850	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> with the empty
7851	format argument. A more complex example is implicit creation of
7852	differencing media when taking a snapshot of a virtual machine:
7853	this operation will try to use a format of the parent medium first
7854	and if this format does not support differencing media the default
7855	format specified by this argument will be used.
7856
7857	The list of supported medium formats may be obtained by the
7858	<link to="#mediumFormats"/> call. Note that the default medium
7859	format must have a capability to create differencing media;
7860	otherwise operations that create media implicitly may fail
7861	unexpectedly.
7862
7863	The initial value of this property is <tt>"VDI"</tt> in the current
7864	version of the VirtualBox product, but may change in the future.
7865
7866	<note>
7867	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7868	initial value.
7869	</note>
7870
7871	<see>
7872	<link to="#mediumFormats"/>,
7873	<link to="IMediumFormat::id"/>,
7874	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>
7875	</see>
7876	</desc>
7877	</attribute>
7878
7879	<attribute name="freeDiskSpaceWarning" type="long long">
7880	<desc>Issue a warning if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7881	intensive operation is expected to go below) the given size in
7882	bytes.</desc>
7883	</attribute>
7884
7885	<attribute name="freeDiskSpacePercentWarning" type="unsigned long">
7886	<desc>Issue a warning if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7887	intensive operation is expected to go below) the given percentage.</desc>
7888	</attribute>
7889
7890	<attribute name="freeDiskSpaceError" type="long long">
7891	<desc>Issue an error if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7892	intensive operation is expected to go below) the given size in
7893	bytes.</desc>
7894	</attribute>
7895
7896	<attribute name="freeDiskSpacePercentError" type="unsigned long">
7897	<desc>Issue an error if the free disk space is below (or in some disk
7898	intensive operation is expected to go below) the given percentage.</desc>
7899	</attribute>
7900
7901	<attribute name="VRDEAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7902	<desc>
7903	Library that provides authentication for Remote Desktop clients. The library
7904	is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7905	in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration.
7906
7907	The system library extension (".DLL" or ".so") must be omitted.
7908	A full path can be specified; if not, then the library must reside on the
7909	system's default library path.
7910
7911	The default value of this property is <tt>"VBoxAuth"</tt>. There is a library
7912	of that name in one of the default VirtualBox library directories.
7913
7914	For details about VirtualBox authentication libraries and how to implement
7915	them, please refer to the VirtualBox manual.
7916
7917	<note>
7918	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7919	initial value.
7920	</note>
7921	</desc>
7922	</attribute>
7923
7924	<attribute name="webServiceAuthLibrary" type="wstring">
7925	<desc>
7926	Library that provides authentication for webservice clients. The library
7927	is used if a virtual machine's authentication type is set to "external"
7928	in the VM RemoteDisplay configuration and will be called from
7929	within the <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> implementation.
7930
7931	As opposed to <link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary" />,
7932	there is no per-VM setting for this, as the webservice is a global
7933	resource (if it is running). Only for this setting (for the webservice),
7934	setting this value to a literal <tt>"null"</tt> string disables authentication,
7935	meaning that <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" /> will always succeed,
7936	no matter what user name and password are supplied.
7937
7938	The initial value of this property is <tt>"VBoxAuth"</tt>,
7939	meaning that the webservice will use the same authentication
7940	library that is used by default for VRDE (again, see
7941	<link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary" />).
7942	The format and calling convention of authentication libraries
7943	is the same for the webservice as it is for VRDE.
7944
7945	<note>
7946	Setting this property to @c null or empty string will restore the
7947	initial value.
7948	</note>
7949	</desc>
7950	</attribute>
7951
7952	<attribute name="defaultVRDEExtPack" type="wstring">
7953	<desc>
7954	The name of the extension pack providing the default VRDE.
7955
7956	This attribute is for choosing between multiple extension packs
7957	providing VRDE. If only one is installed, it will automatically be the
7958	default one. The attribute value can be empty if no VRDE extension
7959	pack is installed.
7960
7961	For details about VirtualBox Remote Desktop Extension and how to
7962	implement one, please refer to the VirtualBox SDK.
7963	</desc>
7964	</attribute>
7965
7966	<attribute name="logHistoryCount" type="unsigned long">
7967	<desc>
7968	This value specifies how many old release log files are kept.
7969	</desc>
7970	</attribute>
7971
7972	<attribute name="defaultAudioDriver" type="AudioDriverType" readonly="yes">
7973	<desc>This value hold the default audio driver for the current
7974	system.</desc>
7975	</attribute>
7976
7977
7978	<method name="getMaxNetworkAdapters">
7979	<desc>
7980	Maximum total number of network adapters associated with every
7981	<link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7982	</desc>
7983
7984	<param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
7985	<desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
7986	</param>
7987
7988
7989	<param name="maxNetworkAdapters" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
7990	<desc>The maximum total number of network adapters allowed.</desc>
7991	</param>
7992
7993	</method>
7994
7995	<method name="getMaxNetworkAdaptersOfType">
7996	<desc>
7997	Maximum number of network adapters of a given attachment type,
7998	associated with every <link to="IMachine"/> instance.
7999	</desc>
8000
8001	<param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
8002	<desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
8003	</param>
8004
8005	<param name="type" type="NetworkAttachmentType" dir="in">
8006	<desc>Type of attachment.</desc>
8007	</param>
8008
8009	<param name="maxNetworkAdapters" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8010	<desc>The maximum number of network adapters allowed for
8011	particular chipset and attachment type.</desc>
8012	</param>
8013
8014	</method>
8015
8016
8017	<method name="getMaxDevicesPerPortForStorageBus">
8018	<desc>Returns the maximum number of devices which can be attached to a port
8019	for the given storage bus.</desc>
8020
8021	<param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
8022	<desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
8023	</param>
8024
8025	<param name="maxDevicesPerPort" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8026	<desc>The maximum number of devices which can be attached to the port for the given
8027	storage bus.</desc>
8028	</param>
8029	</method>
8030
8031	<method name="getMinPortCountForStorageBus">
8032	<desc>Returns the minimum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
8033
8034	<param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
8035	<desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
8036	</param>
8037
8038	<param name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8039	<desc>The minimum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
8040	</param>
8041	</method>
8042
8043	<method name="getMaxPortCountForStorageBus">
8044	<desc>Returns the maximum number of ports the given storage bus supports.</desc>
8045
8046	<param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
8047	<desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
8048	</param>
8049
8050	<param name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8051	<desc>The maximum number of ports for the given storage bus.</desc>
8052	</param>
8053	</method>
8054
8055	<method name="getMaxInstancesOfStorageBus">
8056	<desc>Returns the maximum number of storage bus instances which
8057	can be configured for each VM. This corresponds to the number of
8058	storage controllers one can have. Value may depend on chipset type
8059	used.</desc>
8060
8061	<param name="chipset" type="ChipsetType" dir="in">
8062	<desc>The chipset type to get the value for.</desc>
8063	</param>
8064
8065	<param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
8066	<desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
8067	</param>
8068
8069	<param name="maxInstances" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
8070	<desc>The maximum number of instances for the given storage bus.</desc>
8071	</param>
8072	</method>
8073
8074	<method name="getDeviceTypesForStorageBus">
8075	<desc>Returns list of all the supported device types
8076	(<link to="DeviceType"/>) for the given type of storage
8077	bus.</desc>
8078
8079	<param name="bus" type="StorageBus" dir="in">
8080	<desc>The storage bus type to get the value for.</desc>
8081	</param>
8082
8083	<param name="deviceTypes" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="return">
8084	<desc>The list of all supported device types for the given storage bus.</desc>
8085	</param>
8086	</method>
8087
8088	<method name="getDefaultIoCacheSettingForStorageController">
8089	<desc>Returns the default I/O cache setting for the
8090	given storage controller</desc>
8091
8092	<param name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType" dir="in">
8093	<desc>The storage controller to the setting for.</desc>
8094	</param>
8095
8096	<param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="return">
8097	<desc>Returned flag indicating the default value</desc>
8098	</param>
8099	</method>
8100	</interface>
8101
8102	<!--
8103	// IGuest
8104	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8105	-->
8106
8107	<interface
8108	name="IGuestOSType" extends="$unknown"
8109	uuid="432c1546-1354-4abf-bf08-878a32a373f5"
8110	wsmap="struct"
8111	>
8112	<desc>
8113	</desc>
8114
8115	<attribute name="familyId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8116	<desc>Guest OS family identifier string.</desc>
8117	</attribute>
8118
8119	<attribute name="familyDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8120	<desc>Human readable description of the guest OS family.</desc>
8121	</attribute>
8122
8123	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8124	<desc>Guest OS identifier string.</desc>
8125	</attribute>
8126
8127	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8128	<desc>Human readable description of the guest OS.</desc>
8129	</attribute>
8130
8131	<attribute name="is64Bit" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8132	<desc>Returns @c true if the given OS is 64-bit</desc>
8133	</attribute>
8134
8135	<attribute name="recommendedIOAPIC" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8136	<desc>Returns @c true if IO APIC recommended for this OS type.</desc>
8137	</attribute>
8138
8139	<attribute name="recommendedVirtEx" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8140	<desc>Returns @c true if VT-x or AMD-V recommended for this OS type.</desc>
8141	</attribute>
8142
8143	<attribute name="recommendedRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8144	<desc>Recommended RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
8145	</attribute>
8146
8147	<attribute name="recommendedVRAM" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
8148	<desc>Recommended video RAM size in Megabytes.</desc>
8149	</attribute>
8150
8151	<attribute name="recommendedHDD" type="long long" readonly="yes">
8152	<desc>Recommended hard disk size in bytes.</desc>
8153	</attribute>
8154
8155	<attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType" readonly="yes">
8156	<desc>Returns recommended network adapter for this OS type.</desc>
8157	</attribute>
8158
8159	<attribute name="recommendedPae" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8160	<desc>Returns @c true if using PAE is recommended for this OS type.</desc>
8161	</attribute>
8162
8163	<attribute name="recommendedDvdStorageController" type="StorageControllerType" readonly="yes">
8164	<desc>Recommended storage controller type for DVD/CD drives.</desc>
8165	</attribute>
8166
8167	<attribute name="recommendedDvdStorageBus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
8168	<desc>Recommended storage bus type for DVD/CD drives.</desc>
8169	</attribute>
8170
8171	<attribute name="recommendedHdStorageController" type="StorageControllerType" readonly="yes">
8172	<desc>Recommended storage controller type for HD drives.</desc>
8173	</attribute>
8174
8175	<attribute name="recommendedHdStorageBus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
8176	<desc>Recommended storage bus type for HD drives.</desc>
8177	</attribute>
8178
8179	<attribute name="recommendedFirmware" type="FirmwareType" readonly="yes">
8180	<desc>Recommended firmware type.</desc>
8181	</attribute>
8182
8183	<attribute name="recommendedUsbHid" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8184	<desc>Returns @c true if using USB Human Interface Devices, such as keyboard and mouse recommended.</desc>
8185	</attribute>
8186
8187	<attribute name="recommendedHpet" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8188	<desc>Returns @c true if using HPET is recommended for this OS type.</desc>
8189	</attribute>
8190
8191	<attribute name="recommendedUsbTablet" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8192	<desc>Returns @c true if using a USB Tablet is recommended.</desc>
8193	</attribute>
8194
8195	<attribute name="recommendedRtcUseUtc" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
8196	<desc>Returns @c true if the RTC of this VM should be set to UTC</desc>
8197	</attribute>
8198
8199	<attribute name="recommendedChipset" type="ChipsetType" readonly="yes">
8200	<desc>Recommended chipset type.</desc>
8201	</attribute>
8202
8203	<attribute name="recommendedAudioController" type="AudioControllerType" readonly="yes">
8204	<desc>Recommended audio type.</desc>
8205	</attribute>
8206
8207	</interface>
8208
8209	<enum
8210	name="AdditionsFacilityType"
8211	uuid="98f7f957-89fb-49b6-a3b1-31e3285eb1d8"
8212	>
8213	<desc>
8214	Guest Additions facility IDs.
8215	</desc>
8216
8217	<const name="None" value="0">
8218	<desc>No/invalid facility.</desc>
8219	</const>
8220	<const name="VBoxGuestDriver" value="20">
8221	<desc>VirtualBox base driver (VBoxGuest).</desc>
8222	</const>
8223	<const name="VBoxService" value="100">
8224	<desc>VirtualBox system service (VBoxService).</desc>
8225	</const>
8226	<const name="VBoxTrayClient" value="101">
8227	<desc>VirtualBox desktop integration (VBoxTray on Windows, VBoxClient on non-Windows).</desc>
8228	</const>
8229	<const name="Seamless" value="1000">
8230	<desc>Seamless guest desktop integration.</desc>
8231	</const>
8232	<const name="Graphics" value="1100">
8233	<desc>Guest graphics mode. If not enabled, seamless rendering will not work, resize hints
8234	are not immediately acted on and guest display resizes are probably not initiated by
8235	the guest additions.
8236	</desc>
8237	</const>
8238	<const name="All" value="2147483646">
8239	<desc>All facilities selected.</desc>
8240	</const>
8241	</enum>
8242
8243	<enum
8244	name="AdditionsFacilityClass"
8245	uuid="446451b2-c88d-4e5d-84c9-91bc7f533f5f"
8246	>
8247	<desc>
8248	Guest Additions facility classes.
8249	</desc>
8250
8251	<const name="None" value="0">
8252	<desc>No/invalid class.</desc>
8253	</const>
8254	<const name="Driver" value="10">
8255	<desc>Driver.</desc>
8256	</const>
8257	<const name="Service" value="30">
8258	<desc>System service.</desc>
8259	</const>
8260	<const name="Program" value="50">
8261	<desc>Program.</desc>
8262	</const>
8263	<const name="Feature" value="100">
8264	<desc>Feature.</desc>
8265	</const>
8266	<const name="ThirdParty" value="999">
8267	<desc>Third party.</desc>
8268	</const>
8269	<const name="All" value="2147483646">
8270	<desc>All facility classes selected.</desc>
8271	</const>
8272	</enum>
8273
8274	<enum
8275	name="AdditionsFacilityStatus"
8276	uuid="ce06f9e1-394e-4fe9-9368-5a88c567dbde"
8277	>
8278	<desc>
8279	Guest Additions facility states.
8280	</desc>
8281
8282	<const name="Inactive" value="0">
8283	<desc>Facility is not active.</desc>
8284	</const>
8285	<const name="Paused" value="1">
8286	<desc>Facility has been paused.</desc>
8287	</const>
8288	<const name="PreInit" value="20">
8289	<desc>Facility is preparing to initialize.</desc>
8290	</const>
8291	<const name="Init" value="30">
8292	<desc>Facility is initializing.</desc>
8293	</const>
8294	<const name="Active" value="50">
8295	<desc>Facility is up and running.</desc>
8296	</const>
8297	<const name="Terminating" value="100">
8298	<desc>Facility is shutting down.</desc>
8299	</const>
8300	<const name="Terminated" value="101">
8301	<desc>Facility successfully shut down.</desc>
8302	</const>
8303	<const name="Failed" value="800">
8304	<desc>Facility failed to start.</desc>
8305	</const>
8306	<const name="Unknown" value="999">
8307	<desc>Facility status is unknown.</desc>
8308	</const>
8309	</enum>
8310
8311	<interface
8312	name="IAdditionsFacility" extends="$unknown"
8313	uuid="54992946-6af1-4e49-98ec-58b558b7291e"
8314	wsmap="struct"
8315	>
8316	<desc>
8317	Structure representing a Guest Additions facility.
8318	</desc>
8319
8320	<attribute name="classType" type="AdditionsFacilityClass" readonly="yes">
8321	<desc>The class this facility is part of.</desc>
8322	</attribute>
8323
8324	<attribute name="lastUpdated" type="long long" readonly="yes">
8325	<desc>
8326	Time stamp of the last status update,
8327	in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
8328	</desc>
8329	</attribute>
8330
8331	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8332	<desc>The facility's friendly name.</desc>
8333	</attribute>
8334
8335	<attribute name="status" type="AdditionsFacilityStatus" readonly="yes">
8336	<desc>The current status.</desc>
8337	</attribute>
8338
8339	<attribute name="type" type="AdditionsFacilityType" readonly="yes">
8340	<desc>The facility's type ID.</desc>
8341	</attribute>
8342	</interface>
8343
8344	<enum
8345	name="AdditionsRunLevelType"
8346	uuid="a25417ee-a9dd-4f5b-b0dc-377860087754"
8347	>
8348	<desc>
8349	Guest Additions run level type.
8350	</desc>
8351
8352	<const name="None" value="0">
8353	<desc>Guest Additions are not loaded.</desc>
8354	</const>
8355	<const name="System" value="1">
8356	<desc>Guest drivers are loaded.</desc>
8357	</const>
8358	<const name="Userland" value="2">
8359	<desc>Common components (such as application services) are loaded.</desc>
8360	</const>
8361	<const name="Desktop" value="3">
8362	<desc>Per-user desktop components are loaded.</desc>
8363	</const>
8364	</enum>
8365
8366	<enum
8367	name="AdditionsUpdateFlag"
8368	uuid="726a818d-18d6-4389-94e8-3e9e6826171a"
8369	>
8370	<desc>
8371	Guest Additions update flags.
8372	</desc>
8373
8374	<const name="None" value="0">
8375	<desc>No flag set.</desc>
8376	</const>
8377	<const name="WaitForUpdateStartOnly" value="1">
8378	<desc>Only wait for the update process being started and do not
8379	wait while peforming the actual update.</desc>
8380	</const>
8381	</enum>
8382
8383	<enum
8384	name="ExecuteProcessFlag"
8385	uuid="286ceb91-5f66-4c96-9845-4483e90e00ae"
8386	>
8387	<desc>
8388	Guest process execution flags.
8389	</desc>
8390
8391	<const name="None" value="0">
8392	<desc>No flag set.</desc>
8393	</const>
8394	<const name="WaitForProcessStartOnly" value="1">
8395	<desc>Only use the specified timeout value to wait for starting the guest process - the guest
8396	process itself then uses an infinite timeout.</desc>
8397	</const>
8398	<const name="IgnoreOrphanedProcesses" value="2">
8399	<desc>Do not report an error when executed processes are still alive when VBoxService or the guest OS is shutting down.</desc>
8400	</const>
8401	<const name="Hidden" value="4">
8402	<desc>Don't show the started process according to the guest OS guidelines.</desc>
8403	</const>
8404	<const name="NoProfile" value="8">
8405	<desc>Do not use the user's profile data when exeuting a process. Only available for Windows guests.</desc>
8406	</const>
8407	</enum>
8408
8409	<enum
8410	name="ExecuteProcessStatus"
8411	uuid="153768d9-d971-4098-8b5a-c5cb1ab9ea88"
8412	>
8413	<desc>
8414	Guest process execution status.
8415	</desc>
8416	<const name="Undefined" value="0">
8417	<desc>Process is in an undefined state.</desc>
8418	</const>
8419
8420	<const name="Started" value="1">
8421	<desc>Process has been started.</desc>
8422	</const>
8423	<const name="TerminatedNormally" value="2">
8424	<desc>Process terminated normally.</desc>
8425	</const>
8426	<const name="TerminatedSignal" value="3">
8427	<desc>Process terminated via signal.</desc>
8428	</const>
8429	<const name="TerminatedAbnormally" value="4">
8430	<desc>Process terminated abnormally.</desc>
8431	</const>
8432	<const name="TimedOutKilled" value="5">
8433	<desc>Process timed out and was killed.</desc>
8434	</const>
8435	<const name="TimedOutAbnormally" value="6">
8436	<desc>Process timed out and was not killed successfully.</desc>
8437	</const>
8438	<const name="Down" value="7">
8439	<desc>Service/OS is stopping, process was killed.</desc>
8440	</const>
8441	<const name="Error" value="8">
8442	<desc>Something went wrong (error code in flags).</desc>
8443	</const>
8444	</enum>
8445
8446	<enum
8447	name="ProcessInputFlag"
8448	uuid="5d38c1dd-2604-4ddf-92e5-0c0cdd3bdbd5"
8449	>
8450	<desc>
8451	Guest process input flags.
8452	</desc>
8453	<const name="None" value="0">
8454	<desc>No flag set.</desc>
8455	</const>
8456	<const name="EndOfFile" value="1">
8457	<desc>End of file (input) reached.</desc>
8458	</const>
8459	</enum>
8460
8461	<enum
8462	name="ProcessOutputFlag"
8463	uuid="9979e85a-52bb-40b7-870c-57115e27e0f1"
8464	>
8465	<desc>
8466	Guest process output flags for specifying which
8467	type of output to retrieve.
8468	</desc>
8469	<const name="None" value="0">
8470	<desc>No flags set. Get output from stdout.</desc>
8471	</const>
8472	<const name="StdErr" value="1">
8473	<desc>Get output from stderr.</desc>
8474	</const>
8475	</enum>
8476
8477	<enum
8478	name="CopyFileFlag"
8479	uuid="23f79fdf-738a-493d-b80b-42d607c9b916"
8480	>
8481	<desc>
8482	Host/Guest copy flags. At the moment none of these flags
8483	are implemented.
8484	</desc>
8485	<const name="None" value="0">
8486	<desc>No flag set.</desc>
8487	</const>
8488	<const name="Recursive" value="1">
8489	<desc>Copy directories recursively.</desc>
8490	</const>
8491	<const name="Update" value="2">
8492	<desc>Only copy when the source file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing.</desc>
8493	</const>
8494	<const name="FollowLinks" value="4">
8495	<desc>Follow symbolic links.</desc>
8496	</const>
8497	</enum>
8498
8499	<enum
8500	name="DirectoryCreateFlag"
8501	uuid="bd721b0e-ced5-4f79-b368-249897c32a36"
8502	>
8503	<desc>
8504	Directory creation flags.
8505	</desc>
8506	<const name="None" value="0">
8507	<desc>No flag set.</desc>
8508	</const>
8509	<const name="Parents" value="1">
8510	<desc>No error if existing, make parent directories as needed.</desc>
8511	</const>
8512	</enum>
8513
8514	<enum
8515	name="DirectoryOpenFlag"
8516	uuid="fc8f6203-0072-4f34-bd08-0b35e50bf071"
8517	>
8518	<desc>
8519	Directory open flags.
8520	</desc>
8521	<const name="None" value="0">
8522	<desc>No flag set.</desc>
8523	</const>
8524	</enum>
8525
8526	<enum
8527	name="GuestDirEntryType"
8528	uuid="6d19d924-1b77-4fc8-b369-a3b2c85c8241"
8529	>
8530	<desc>
8531	Guest directory entry type.
8532	</desc>
8533	<const name="Unknown" value="0">
8534	<desc>Unknown.</desc>
8535	</const>
8536	<const name="Directory" value="4">
8537	<desc>Regular file.</desc>
8538	</const>
8539	<const name="File" value="10">
8540	<desc>Regular file.</desc>
8541	</const>
8542	<const name="Symlink" value="12">
8543	<desc>Symbolic link.</desc>
8544	</const>
8545	</enum>
8546
8547	<interface
8548	name="IGuestDirEntry" extends="$unknown"
8549	uuid="20a66efc-c2f6-4438-826f-38454c04369e"
8550	wsmap="struct"
8551	>
8552	<desc>
8553	Structure representing a directory entry on the guest OS.
8554	</desc>
8555	<attribute name="nodeId" type="long long" readonly="yes">
8556	<desc>The unique identifier (within the guest's file system) of this file system object.</desc>
8557	</attribute>
8558	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8559	<desc>The filename.</desc>
8560	</attribute>
8561	<attribute name="type" type="GuestDirEntryType" readonly="yes">
8562	<desc>The entry type.</desc>
8563	</attribute>
8564	</interface>
8565
8566	<interface
8567	name="IGuest" extends="$unknown"
8568	uuid="ed109b6e-0578-4b17-8ace-52646789f1a0"
8569	wsmap="managed"
8570	>
8571	<desc>
8572	The IGuest interface represents information about the operating system
8573	running inside the virtual machine. Used in
8574	<link to="IConsole::guest"/>.
8575
8576	IGuest provides information about the guest operating system, whether
8577	Guest Additions are installed and other OS-specific virtual machine
8578	properties.
8579	</desc>
8580
8581	<attribute name="OSTypeId" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8582	<desc>
8583	Identifier of the Guest OS type as reported by the Guest
8584	Additions.
8585	You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
8586	an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
8587	Guest OS type.
8588	<note>
8589	If Guest Additions are not installed, this value will be
8590	the same as <link to="IMachine::OSTypeId"/>.
8591	</note>
8592	</desc>
8593	</attribute>
8594
8595	<attribute name="additionsRunLevel" type="AdditionsRunLevelType" readonly="yes">
8596	<desc>
8597	Current run level of the Guest Additions.
8598	</desc>
8599	</attribute>
8600
8601	<attribute name="additionsVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
8602	<desc>
8603	Version of the Guest Additions including the revision (3 decimal numbers
8604	separated by dots + revision number) installed on the guest or empty
8605	when the Additions are not installed.
8606	</desc>
8607	</attribute>
8608
8609	<attribute name="facilities" type="IAdditionsFacility" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
8610	<desc>
8611	Array of current known facilities. Only returns facilities where a status is known,
8612	e.g. facilities with an unknown status will not be returned.
8613	</desc>
8614	</attribute>
8615
8616	<attribute name="memoryBalloonSize" type="unsigned long">
8617	<desc>Guest system memory balloon size in megabytes (transient property).</desc>
8618	</attribute>
8619
8620	<attribute name="statisticsUpdateInterval" type="unsigned long">
8621	<desc>Interval to update guest statistics in seconds.</desc>
8622	</attribute>
8623
8624	<method name="internalGetStatistics">
8625	<desc>
8626	Internal method; do not use as it might change at any time.
8627	</desc>
8628	<param name="cpuUser" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8629	<desc>Percentage of processor time spent in user mode as seen by the guest.</desc>
8630	</param>
8631	<param name="cpuKernel" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8632	<desc>Percentage of processor time spent in kernel mode as seen by the guest.</desc>
8633	</param>
8634	<param name="cpuIdle" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8635	<desc>Percentage of processor time spent idling as seen by the guest.</desc>
8636	</param>
8637	<param name="memTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8638	<desc>Total amount of physical guest RAM.</desc>
8639	</param>
8640	<param name="memFree" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8641	<desc>Free amount of physical guest RAM.</desc>
8642	</param>
8643	<param name="memBalloon" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8644	<desc>Amount of ballooned physical guest RAM.</desc>
8645	</param>
8646	<param name="memShared" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8647	<desc>Amount of shared physical guest RAM.</desc>
8648	</param>
8649	<param name="memCache" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8650	<desc>Total amount of guest (disk) cache memory.</desc>
8651	</param>
8652	<param name="pagedTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8653	<desc>Total amount of space in the page file.</desc>
8654	</param>
8655	<param name="memAllocTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8656	<desc>Total amount of memory allocated by the hypervisor.</desc>
8657	</param>
8658	<param name="memFreeTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8659	<desc>Total amount of free memory available in the hypervisor.</desc>
8660	</param>
8661	<param name="memBalloonTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8662	<desc>Total amount of memory ballooned by the hypervisor.</desc>
8663	</param>
8664	<param name="memSharedTotal" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8665	<desc>Total amount of shared memory in the hypervisor.</desc>
8666	</param>
8667	</method>
8668
8669	<method name="getFacilityStatus">
8670	<desc>
8671	Get the current status of a Guest Additions facility.
8672	</desc>
8673	<param name="facility" type="AdditionsFacilityType" dir="in">
8674	<desc>Facility to check status for.</desc>
8675	</param>
8676	<param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out">
8677	<desc>Timestamp (in ms) of last status update seen by the host.</desc>
8678	</param>
8679	<param name="status" type="AdditionsFacilityStatus" dir="return">
8680	<desc>The current (latest) facility status.</desc>
8681	</param>
8682	</method>
8683
8684	<method name="getAdditionsStatus">
8685	<desc>
8686	Retrieve the current status of a certain Guest Additions run level.
8687
8688	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
8689	Wrong status level specified.
8690	</result>
8691
8692	</desc>
8693	<param name="level" type="AdditionsRunLevelType" dir="in">
8694	<desc>Status level to check</desc>
8695	</param>
8696	<param name="active" type="boolean" dir="return">
8697	<desc>Flag whether the status level has been reached or not</desc>
8698	</param>
8699	</method>
8700
8701	<method name="setCredentials">
8702	<desc>
8703	Store login credentials that can be queried by guest operating
8704	systems with Additions installed. The credentials are transient
8705	to the session and the guest may also choose to erase them. Note
8706	that the caller cannot determine whether the guest operating system
8707	has queried or made use of the credentials.
8708
8709	<result name="VBOX_E_VM_ERROR">
8710	VMM device is not available.
8711	</result>
8712
8713	</desc>
8714	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8715	<desc>User name string, can be empty</desc>
8716	</param>
8717	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8718	<desc>Password string, can be empty</desc>
8719	</param>
8720	<param name="domain" type="wstring" dir="in">
8721	<desc>Domain name (guest logon scheme specific), can be empty</desc>
8722	</param>
8723	<param name="allowInteractiveLogon" type="boolean" dir="in">
8724	<desc>
8725	Flag whether the guest should alternatively allow the user to
8726	interactively specify different credentials. This flag might
8727	not be supported by all versions of the Additions.
8728	</desc>
8729	</param>
8730	</method>
8731
8732	<method name="executeProcess">
8733	<desc>
8734	Executes an existing program inside the guest VM.
8735
8736	<note>
8737	Starting at VirtualBox 4.1.2 guest process execution by default is limited
8738	to serve up to 5 guest processes at a time. If a new guest process gets started
8739	which would exceed this limit, the oldest not running guest process will be discarded
8740	in order to be able to run that new process. Also, retrieving output from this
8741	old guest process will not be possible anymore then. If all 5 guest processes
8742	are still active and running, starting a new guest process will result in an
8743	appropriate error message.
8744
8745	To raise or lower the guest process execution limit, either the guest property
8746	"/VirtualBox/GuestAdd/VBoxService/--control-procs-max-kept" or VBoxService'
8747	command line by specifying "--control-procs-max-kept" needs to be modified.
8748	A restart of the guest OS is required afterwards. To serve unlimited guest
8749	processes, a value of "0" needs to be set (not recommended).
8750	</note>
8751
8752	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8753	Could not execute process.
8754	</result>
8755
8756	</desc>
8757	<param name="execName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8758	<desc>
8759	Full path name of the command to execute on the guest; the
8760	commands has to exists in the guest VM in order to be executed.
8761	</desc>
8762	</param>
8763	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8764	<desc>
8765	<link to="ExecuteProcessFlag"/> flags.
8766	</desc>
8767	</param>
8768	<param name="arguments" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
8769	<desc>
8770	Array of arguments passed to the execution command.
8771	</desc>
8772	</param>
8773	<param name="environment" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
8774	<desc>
8775	Environment variables that can be set while the command is being
8776	executed, in form of "NAME=VALUE"; one pair per entry. To unset a
8777	variable just set its name ("NAME") without a value.
8778	</desc>
8779	</param>
8780	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8781	<desc>
8782	User name under which the command will be executed; has to exist
8783	and have the appropriate rights to execute programs in the VM.
8784	</desc>
8785	</param>
8786	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8787	<desc>
8788	Password of the user account specified.
8789	</desc>
8790	</param>
8791	<param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8792	<desc>
8793	The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for finished program
8794	execution. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
8795	</desc>
8796	</param>
8797	<param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8798	<desc>
8799	The PID (process ID) of the started command for later reference.
8800	</desc>
8801	</param>
8802	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8803	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8804	</param>
8805	</method>
8806
8807	<method name="getProcessOutput">
8808	<desc>
8809	Retrieves output of a formerly started process.
8810
8811	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8812	Could not retrieve output.
8813	</result>
8814
8815	</desc>
8816	<param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8817	<desc>
8818	Process id returned by earlier <link to="#executeProcess"/> call.
8819	</desc>
8820	</param>
8821	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8822	<desc>
8823	<link to="ProcessOutputFlag"/> flags.
8824	</desc>
8825	</param>
8826	<param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8827	<desc>
8828	The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for output
8829	data. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
8830	</desc>
8831	</param>
8832	<param name="size" type="long long" dir="in">
8833	<desc>
8834	Size in bytes to read in the buffer.
8835	</desc>
8836	</param>
8837	<param name="data" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
8838	<desc>
8839	Buffer for retrieving the actual output. A data size of 0 means end of file
8840	if the requested size was not 0. This is the unprocessed
8841	output data, i.e. the line ending style depends on the platform of
8842	the system the server is running on.
8843	</desc>
8844	</param>
8845	</method>
8846
8847	<method name="getProcessStatus">
8848	<desc>
8849	Retrieves status, exit code and the exit reason of a formerly started process.
8850
8851	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8852	Process with specified PID was not found.
8853	</result>
8854
8855	</desc>
8856	<param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8857	<desc>
8858	Process id returned by earlier <link to="#executeProcess"/> call.
8859	</desc>
8860	</param>
8861	<param name="exitcode" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8862	<desc>
8863	The exit code (if available).
8864	</desc>
8865	</param>
8866	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="out">
8867	<desc>
8868	Additional flags of process status. Not used at the moment and
8869	must be set to 0.
8870	</desc>
8871	</param>
8872	<param name="reason" type="ExecuteProcessStatus" dir="return">
8873	<desc>
8874	The current process status.
8875	</desc>
8876	</param>
8877	</method>
8878
8879	<method name="copyFromGuest">
8880	<desc>
8881	Copies files/directories from guest to the host.
8882
8883	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8884	Error while copying.
8885	</result>
8886
8887	</desc>
8888	<param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
8889	<desc>
8890	Source file on the guest to copy.
8891	</desc>
8892	</param>
8893	<param name="dest" type="wstring" dir="in">
8894	<desc>
8895	Destination path on the host.
8896	</desc>
8897	</param>
8898	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8899	<desc>
8900	User name under which the copy command will be executed; the
8901	user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to read from
8902	the source path.
8903	</desc>
8904	</param>
8905	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8906	<desc>
8907	Password of the user account specified.
8908	</desc>
8909	</param>
8910	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8911	<desc>
8912	<link to="CopyFileFlag"/> flags. Not used at the moment and should be set to 0.
8913	</desc>
8914	</param>
8915	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8916	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8917	</param>
8918	</method>
8919
8920	<method name="copyToGuest">
8921	<desc>
8922	Copies files/directories from host to the guest.
8923
8924	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8925	Error while copying.
8926	</result>
8927
8928	</desc>
8929	<param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
8930	<desc>
8931	Source file on the host to copy.
8932	</desc>
8933	</param>
8934	<param name="dest" type="wstring" dir="in">
8935	<desc>
8936	Destination path on the guest.
8937	</desc>
8938	</param>
8939	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8940	<desc>
8941	User name under which the copy command will be executed; the
8942	user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to write to
8943	the destination path.
8944	</desc>
8945	</param>
8946	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8947	<desc>
8948	Password of the user account specified.
8949	</desc>
8950	</param>
8951	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8952	<desc>
8953	<link to="CopyFileFlag"/> flags. Not used at the moment and should be set to 0.
8954	</desc>
8955	</param>
8956	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
8957	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
8958	</param>
8959	</method>
8960
8961	<method name="directoryClose">
8962	<desc>
8963	Closes a formerly opened guest directory.
8964
8965	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8966	Error while closing directory.
8967	</result>
8968
8969	</desc>
8970	<param name="handle" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
8971	<desc>
8972	Handle of opened directory to close.
8973	</desc>
8974	</param>
8975	</method>
8976
8977	<method name="directoryCreate">
8978	<desc>
8979	Creates a directory on the guest.
8980
8981	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
8982	Error while creating directory.
8983	</result>
8984
8985	</desc>
8986	<param name="directory" type="wstring" dir="in">
8987	<desc>
8988	Directory to create.
8989	</desc>
8990	</param>
8991	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
8992	<desc>
8993	User name under which the directory creation will be executed; the
8994	user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to create the
8995	desired directory.
8996	</desc>
8997	</param>
8998	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
8999	<desc>
9000	Password of the user account specified.
9001	</desc>
9002	</param>
9003	<param name="mode" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9004	<desc>
9005	File mode.
9006	</desc>
9007	</param>
9008	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9009	<desc>
9010	<link to="DirectoryCreateFlag"/> flags.
9011	</desc>
9012	</param>
9013	</method>
9014
9015	<method name="directoryOpen">
9016	<desc>
9017	Opens a directory on the guest.
9018
9019	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9020	Error while opening / reading directory.
9021	</result>
9022
9023	</desc>
9024	<param name="directory" type="wstring" dir="in">
9025	<desc>
9026	Directory to read.
9027	</desc>
9028	</param>
9029	<param name="filter" type="wstring" dir="in">
9030	<desc>
9031	Directory filter (DOS style wildcards). Set to empty
9032	string if no filter required.
9033	</desc>
9034	</param>
9035	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9036	<desc>
9037	<link to="DirectoryOpenFlag"/> flags.
9038	</desc>
9039	</param>
9040	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
9041	<desc>
9042	User name under which the directory reading will be performed; the
9043	user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to access / read the
9044	desired directory.
9045	</desc>
9046	</param>
9047	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
9048	<desc>
9049	Password of the user account specified.
9050	</desc>
9051	</param>
9052	<param name="handle" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
9053	<desc>
9054	Handle of opened directory returned by openDirectory.
9055	</desc>
9056	</param>
9057	</method>
9058
9059	<method name="directoryRead">
9060	<desc>
9061	Reads the next directory entry of an opened guest directory.
9062
9063	<result name="E_ABORT">
9064	When the end of the directory has been reached.
9065	</result>
9066
9067	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9068	Error while opening / reading directory.
9069	</result>
9070
9071	</desc>
9072	<param name="handle" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9073	<desc>
9074	Handle of opened directory returned by openDirectory.
9075	</desc>
9076	</param>
9077	<param name="entry" type="IGuestDirEntry" dir="return">
9078	<desc>
9079	Information about next directory entry on success.
9080	</desc>
9081	</param>
9082	</method>
9083
9084	<method name="fileExists">
9085	<desc>
9086	Checks if the specified file name exists and is a regular file.
9087
9088	If the file name ends with a slash or backslash, the function assumes
9089	it's a directory and will check if the specified directory exists and
9090	is a regular directory.
9091
9092	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9093	Error while looking up information.
9094	</result>
9095
9096	</desc>
9097	<param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
9098	<desc>
9099	Full path of file to check.
9100	</desc>
9101	</param>
9102	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
9103	<desc>
9104	User name under which the lookup will be performed; the
9105	user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to access / read the
9106	desired directory.
9107	</desc>
9108	</param>
9109	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
9110	<desc>
9111	Password of the user account specified.
9112	</desc>
9113	</param>
9114	<param name="exists" type="boolean" dir="return">
9115	<desc>
9116	True if it's a regular file, false if it isn't (or doesn't exist).
9117	</desc>
9118	</param>
9119	</method>
9120
9121	<method name="fileQuerySize">
9122	<desc>
9123	Queries the size of a file, given the path to it.
9124
9125	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9126	Error while looking up information.
9127	</result>
9128
9129	</desc>
9130	<param name="file" type="wstring" dir="in">
9131	<desc>
9132	Full path of file to query file size for.
9133	</desc>
9134	</param>
9135	<param name="userName" type="wstring" dir="in">
9136	<desc>
9137	User name under which the lookup will be performed; the
9138	user has to exist and have the appropriate rights to access / read the
9139	desired directory.
9140	</desc>
9141	</param>
9142	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in">
9143	<desc>
9144	Password of the user account specified.
9145	</desc>
9146	</param>
9147	<param name="size" type="long long" dir="return">
9148	<desc>
9149	Size (in bytes) of file specified.
9150	</desc>
9151	</param>
9152	</method>
9153
9154	<method name="setProcessInput">
9155	<desc>
9156	Sends input into a formerly started process.
9157
9158	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9159	Could not send input.
9160	</result>
9161
9162	</desc>
9163	<param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9164	<desc>
9165	Process id returned by earlier <link to="#executeProcess"/> call.
9166	</desc>
9167	</param>
9168	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9169	<desc>
9170	<link to="ProcessInputFlag"/> flags.
9171	</desc>
9172	</param>
9173	<param name="timeoutMS" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9174	<desc>
9175	The maximum timeout value (in msec) to wait for getting the
9176	data transfered to the guest. Pass 0 for an infinite timeout.
9177	</desc>
9178	</param>
9179	<param name="data" type="octet" dir="in" safearray="yes">
9180	<desc>
9181	Buffer of input data to send to the started process to.
9182	</desc>
9183	</param>
9184	<param name="written" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
9185	<desc>
9186	Number of bytes written.
9187	</desc>
9188	</param>
9189	</method>
9190
9191	<method name="updateGuestAdditions">
9192	<desc>
9193	Updates already installed Guest Additions in a VM
9194	(Windows guests only).
9195
9196	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9197	Error while updating.
9198	</result>
9199
9200	</desc>
9201	<param name="source" type="wstring" dir="in">
9202	<desc>
9203	Path to the Guest Additions .ISO file to use for the upate.
9204	</desc>
9205	</param>
9206	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9207	<desc>
9208	<link to="AdditionsUpdateFlag"/> flags.
9209	</desc>
9210	</param>
9211	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
9212	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
9213	</param>
9214	</method>
9215
9216	</interface>
9217
9218
9219	<!--
9220	// IProgress
9221	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9222	-->
9223
9224	<interface
9225	name="IProgress" extends="$unknown"
9226	uuid="c20238e4-3221-4d3f-8891-81ce92d9f913"
9227	wsmap="managed"
9228	>
9229	<desc>
9230	The IProgress interface is used to track and control
9231	asynchronous tasks within VirtualBox.
9232
9233	An instance of this is returned every time VirtualBox starts
9234	an asynchronous task (in other words, a separate thread) which
9235	continues to run after a method call returns. For example,
9236	<link to="IConsole::saveState" />, which saves the state of
9237	a running virtual machine, can take a long time to complete.
9238	To be able to display a progress bar, a user interface such as
9239	the VirtualBox graphical user interface can use the IProgress
9240	object returned by that method.
9241
9242	Note that IProgress is a "read-only" interface in the sense
9243	that only the VirtualBox internals behind the Main API can
9244	create and manipulate progress objects, whereas client code
9245	can only use the IProgress object to monitor a task's
9246	progress and, if <link to="#cancelable" /> is @c true,
9247	cancel the task by calling <link to="#cancel" />.
9248
9249	A task represented by IProgress consists of either one or
9250	several sub-operations that run sequentially, one by one (see
9251	<link to="#operation" /> and <link to="#operationCount" />).
9252	Every operation is identified by a number (starting from 0)
9253	and has a separate description.
9254
9255	You can find the individual percentage of completion of the current
9256	operation in <link to="#operationPercent" /> and the
9257	percentage of completion of the task as a whole
9258	in <link to="#percent" />.
9259
9260	Similarly, you can wait for the completion of a particular
9261	operation via <link to="#waitForOperationCompletion" /> or
9262	for the completion of the whole task via
9263	<link to="#waitForCompletion" />.
9264	</desc>
9265
9266	<attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
9267	<desc>ID of the task.</desc>
9268	</attribute>
9269
9270	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9271	<desc>Description of the task.</desc>
9272	</attribute>
9273
9274	<attribute name="initiator" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
9275	<desc>Initiator of the task.</desc>
9276	</attribute>
9277
9278	<attribute name="cancelable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9279	<desc>Whether the task can be interrupted.</desc>
9280	</attribute>
9281
9282	<attribute name="percent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9283	<desc>
9284	Current progress value of the task as a whole, in percent.
9285	This value depends on how many operations are already complete.
9286	Returns 100 if <link to="#completed" /> is @c true.
9287	</desc>
9288	</attribute>
9289
9290	<attribute name="timeRemaining" type="long" readonly="yes">
9291	<desc>
9292	Estimated remaining time until the task completes, in
9293	seconds. Returns 0 once the task has completed; returns -1
9294	if the remaining time cannot be computed, in particular if
9295	the current progress is 0.
9296
9297	Even if a value is returned, the estimate will be unreliable
9298	for low progress values. It will become more reliable as the
9299	task progresses; it is not recommended to display an ETA
9300	before at least 20% of a task have completed.
9301	</desc>
9302	</attribute>
9303
9304	<attribute name="completed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9305	<desc>Whether the task has been completed.</desc>
9306	</attribute>
9307
9308	<attribute name="canceled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9309	<desc>Whether the task has been canceled.</desc>
9310	</attribute>
9311
9312	<attribute name="resultCode" type="long" readonly="yes">
9313	<desc>
9314	Result code of the progress task.
9315	Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true.
9316	</desc>
9317	</attribute>
9318
9319	<attribute name="errorInfo" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
9320	<desc>
9321	Extended information about the unsuccessful result of the
9322	progress operation. May be @c null if no extended information
9323	is available.
9324	Valid only if <link to="#completed"/> is @c true and
9325	<link to="#resultCode"/> indicates a failure.
9326	</desc>
9327	</attribute>
9328
9329	<attribute name="operationCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9330	<desc>
9331	Number of sub-operations this task is divided into.
9332	Every task consists of at least one suboperation.
9333	</desc>
9334	</attribute>
9335
9336	<attribute name="operation" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9337	<desc>Number of the sub-operation being currently executed.</desc>
9338	</attribute>
9339
9340	<attribute name="operationDescription" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9341	<desc>
9342	Description of the sub-operation being currently executed.
9343	</desc>
9344	</attribute>
9345
9346	<attribute name="operationPercent" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9347	<desc>Progress value of the current sub-operation only, in percent.</desc>
9348	</attribute>
9349
9350	<attribute name="operationWeight" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
9351	<desc>Weight value of the current sub-operation only.</desc>
9352	</attribute>
9353
9354	<attribute name="timeout" type="unsigned long">
9355	<desc>
9356	When non-zero, this specifies the number of milliseconds after which
9357	the operation will automatically be canceled. This can only be set on
9358	cancelable objects.
9359	</desc>
9360	</attribute>
9361
9362	<method name="setCurrentOperationProgress">
9363	<desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
9364	<param name="percent" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
9365	</method>
9366	<method name="setNextOperation">
9367	<desc>Internal method, not to be called externally.</desc>
9368	<param name="nextOperationDescription" type="wstring" dir="in" />
9369	<param name="nextOperationsWeight" type="unsigned long" dir="in" />
9370	</method>
9371
9372	<method name="waitForCompletion">
9373	<desc>
9374	Waits until the task is done (including all sub-operations)
9375	with a given timeout in milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
9376
9377	Note that the VirtualBox/XPCOM/COM/native event queues of the calling
9378	thread are not processed while waiting. Neglecting event queues may
9379	have dire consequences (degrade performance, resource hogs,
9380	deadlocks, etc.), this is specially so for the main thread on
9381	platforms using XPCOM. Callers are adviced wait for short periods
9382	and service their event queues between calls, or to create a worker
9383	thread to do the waiting.
9384
9385	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9386	Failed to wait for task completion.
9387	</result>
9388	</desc>
9389
9390	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
9391	<desc>
9392	Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
9393	</desc>
9394	</param>
9395	</method>
9396
9397	<method name="waitForOperationCompletion">
9398	<desc>
9399	Waits until the given operation is done with a given timeout in
9400	milliseconds; specify -1 for an indefinite wait.
9401
9402	See <link to="#waitForCompletion"> for event queue considerations.</link>
9403
9404	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
9405	Failed to wait for operation completion.
9406	</result>
9407
9408	</desc>
9409	<param name="operation" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
9410	<desc>
9411	Number of the operation to wait for.
9412	Must be less than <link to="#operationCount"/>.
9413	</desc>
9414	</param>
9415	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
9416	<desc>
9417	Maximum time in milliseconds to wait or -1 to wait indefinitely.
9418	</desc>
9419	</param>
9420	</method>
9421
9422	<method name="waitForAsyncProgressCompletion">
9423	<desc>
9424	Waits until the other task is completed (including all
9425	sub-operations) and forward all changes from the other progress to
9426	this progress. This means sub-operation number, description, percent
9427	and so on.
9428
9429	You have to take care on setting up at least the same count on
9430	sub-operations in this progress object like there are in the other
9431	progress object.
9432
9433	If the other progress object supports cancel and this object gets any
9434	cancel request (when here enabled as well), it will be forwarded to
9435	the other progress object.
9436
9437	If there is an error in the other progress, this error isn't
9438	automatically transfered to this progress object. So you have to
9439	check any operation error within the other progress object, after
9440	this method returns.
9441	</desc>
9442
9443	<param name="pProgressAsync" type="IProgress" dir="in">
9444	<desc>
9445	The progress object of the asynchrony process.
9446	</desc>
9447	</param>
9448	</method>
9449
9450	<method name="cancel">
9451	<desc>
9452	Cancels the task.
9453	<note>
9454	If <link to="#cancelable"/> is @c false, then this method will fail.
9455	</note>
9456
9457	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
9458	Operation cannot be canceled.
9459	</result>
9460
9461	</desc>
9462	</method>
9463
9464	</interface>
9465
9466	<!--
9467	// ISnapshot
9468	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9469	-->
9470
9471	<interface
9472	name="ISnapshot" extends="$unknown"
9473	uuid="0472823b-c6e7-472a-8e9f-d732e86b8463"
9474	wsmap="managed"
9475	>
9476	<desc>
9477	The ISnapshot interface represents a snapshot of the virtual
9478	machine.
9479
9480	Together with the differencing media that are created
9481	when a snapshot is taken, a machine can be brought back to
9482	the exact state it was in when the snapshot was taken.
9483
9484	The ISnapshot interface has no methods, only attributes; snapshots
9485	are controlled through methods of the <link to="IConsole" /> interface
9486	which also manage the media associated with the snapshot.
9487	The following operations exist:
9488
9489	<ul>
9490	<li><link to="IConsole::takeSnapshot"/> creates a new snapshot
9491	by creating new, empty differencing images for the machine's
9492	media and saving the VM settings and (if the VM is running)
9493	the current VM state in the snapshot.
9494
9495	The differencing images will then receive all data written to
9496	the machine's media, while their parent (base) images
9497	remain unmodified after the snapshot has been taken (see
9498	<link to="IMedium" /> for details about differencing images).
9499	This simplifies restoring a machine to the state of a snapshot:
9500	only the differencing images need to be deleted.
9501
9502	The current machine state is not changed by taking a snapshot
9503	except that <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" /> is set to
9504	the newly created snapshot, which is also added to the machine's
9505	snapshots tree.
9506	</li>
9507
9508	<li><link to="IConsole::restoreSnapshot"/> resets a machine to
9509	the state of a previous snapshot by deleting the differencing
9510	image of each of the machine's media and setting the machine's
9511	settings and state to the state that was saved in the snapshot (if any).
9512
9513	This destroys the machine's current state. After calling this,
9514	<link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" /> points to the snapshot
9515	that was restored.
9516	</li>
9517
9518	<li><link to="IConsole::deleteSnapshot"/> deletes a snapshot
9519	without affecting the current machine state.
9520
9521	This does not change the current machine state, but instead frees the
9522	resources allocated when the snapshot was taken: the settings and machine
9523	state file are deleted (if any), and the snapshot's differencing image for
9524	each of the machine's media gets merged with its parent image.
9525
9526	Neither the current machine state nor other snapshots are affected
9527	by this operation, except that parent media will be modified
9528	to contain the disk data associated with the snapshot being deleted.
9529
9530	When deleting the current snapshot, the <link to="IMachine::currentSnapshot" />
9531	attribute is set to the current snapshot's parent or NULL if it
9532	has no parent. Otherwise the attribute is unchanged.
9533	</li>
9534	</ul>
9535
9536	Each snapshot contains a copy of virtual machine's settings (hardware
9537	configuration etc.). This copy is contained in an immutable (read-only)
9538	instance of <link to="IMachine" /> which is available from the snapshot's
9539	<link to="#machine" /> attribute. When restoring the snapshot, these
9540	settings are copied back to the original machine.
9541
9542	In addition, if the machine was running when the
9543	snapshot was taken (<link to="IMachine::state"/> is <link to="MachineState_Running"/>),
9544	the current VM state is saved in the snapshot (similarly to what happens
9545	when a VM's state is saved). The snapshot is then said to be <i>online</i>
9546	because when restoring it, the VM will be running.
9547
9548	If the machine was in <link to="MachineState_Saved">saved</link> saved,
9549	the snapshot receives a copy of the execution state file
9550	(<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/>).
9551
9552	Otherwise, if the machine was not running (<link to="MachineState_PoweredOff"/>
9553	or <link to="MachineState_Aborted"/>), the snapshot is <i>offline</i>;
9554	it then contains a so-called "zero execution state", representing a
9555	machine that is powered off.
9556	</desc>
9557
9558	<attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
9559	<desc>UUID of the snapshot.</desc>
9560	</attribute>
9561
9562	<attribute name="name" type="wstring">
9563	<desc>Short name of the snapshot.
9564	<note>Setting this attribute causes <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to
9565	be called implicitly.</note>
9566	</desc>
9567	</attribute>
9568
9569	<attribute name="description" type="wstring">
9570	<desc>Optional description of the snapshot.
9571	<note>Setting this attribute causes <link to="IMachine::saveSettings" /> to
9572	be called implicitly.</note>
9573	</desc>
9574	</attribute>
9575
9576	<attribute name="timeStamp" type="long long" readonly="yes">
9577	<desc>
9578	Time stamp of the snapshot, in milliseconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
9579	</desc>
9580	</attribute>
9581
9582	<attribute name="online" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
9583	<desc>
9584	@c true if this snapshot is an online snapshot and @c false otherwise.
9585
9586	When this attribute is @c true, the
9587	<link to="IMachine::stateFilePath"/> attribute of the
9588	<link to="#machine"/> object associated with this snapshot
9589	will point to the saved state file. Otherwise, it will be
9590	an empty string.
9591	</desc>
9592	</attribute>
9593
9594	<attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
9595	<desc>
9596	Virtual machine this snapshot is taken on. This object
9597	stores all settings the machine had when taking this snapshot.
9598	<note>
9599	The returned machine object is immutable, i.e. no
9600	any settings can be changed.
9601	</note>
9602	</desc>
9603	</attribute>
9604
9605	<attribute name="parent" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes">
9606	<desc>
9607	Parent snapshot (a snapshot this one is based on), or
9608	@c null if the snapshot has no parent (i.e. is the first snapshot).
9609	</desc>
9610	</attribute>
9611
9612	<attribute name="children" type="ISnapshot" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
9613	<desc>
9614	Child snapshots (all snapshots having this one as a parent).
9615	By inspecting this attribute starting with a machine's root snapshot
9616	(which can be obtained by calling <link to="IMachine::findSnapshot" />
9617	with a @c null UUID), a machine's snapshots tree can be iterated over.
9618	</desc>
9619	</attribute>
9620
9621	<method name="getChildrenCount" const="yes">
9622	<desc>
9623	Returns the number of direct childrens of this snapshot.
9624	</desc>
9625	<param name="childrenCount" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
9626	<desc>
9627	</desc>
9628	</param>
9629	</method>
9630
9631	</interface>
9632
9633
9634	<!--
9635	// IMedium
9636	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
9637	-->
9638
9639	<enum
9640	name="MediumState"
9641	uuid="ef41e980-e012-43cd-9dea-479d4ef14d13"
9642	>
9643	<desc>
9644	Virtual medium state.
9645	<see><link to="IMedium"/></see>
9646	</desc>
9647
9648	<const name="NotCreated" value="0">
9649	<desc>
9650	Associated medium storage does not exist (either was not created yet or
9651	was deleted).
9652	</desc>
9653	</const>
9654	<const name="Created" value="1">
9655	<desc>
9656	Associated storage exists and accessible; this gets set if the
9657	accessibility check performed by <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />
9658	was successful.
9659	</desc>
9660	</const>
9661	<const name="LockedRead" value="2">
9662	<desc>
9663	Medium is locked for reading (see <link to="IMedium::lockRead"/>),
9664	no data modification is possible.
9665	</desc>
9666	</const>
9667	<const name="LockedWrite" value="3">
9668	<desc>
9669	Medium is locked for writing (see <link to="IMedium::lockWrite"/>),
9670	no concurrent data reading or modification is possible.
9671	</desc>
9672	</const>
9673	<const name="Inaccessible" value="4">
9674	<desc>
9675	Medium accessibility check (see <link to="IMedium::refreshState" />) has
9676	not yet been performed, or else, associated medium storage is not
9677	accessible. In the first case, <link to="IMedium::lastAccessError"/>
9678	is empty, in the second case, it describes the error that occurred.
9679	</desc>
9680	</const>
9681	<const name="Creating" value="5">
9682	<desc>
9683	Associated medium storage is being created.
9684	</desc>
9685	</const>
9686	<const name="Deleting" value="6">
9687	<desc>
9688	Associated medium storage is being deleted.
9689	</desc>
9690	</const>
9691	</enum>
9692
9693	<enum
9694	name="MediumType"
9695	uuid="fe663fb5-c244-4e1b-9d81-c628b417dd04"
9696	>
9697	<desc>
9698	Virtual medium type. For each <link to="IMedium" />, this defines how the medium is
9699	attached to a virtual machine (see <link to="IMediumAttachment" />) and what happens
9700	when a snapshot (see <link to="ISnapshot" />) is taken of a virtual machine which has
9701	the medium attached. At the moment DVD and floppy media are always of type "writethrough".
9702	</desc>
9703
9704	<const name="Normal" value="0">
9705	<desc>
9706	Normal medium (attached directly or indirectly, preserved
9707	when taking snapshots).
9708	</desc>
9709	</const>
9710	<const name="Immutable" value="1">
9711	<desc>
9712	Immutable medium (attached indirectly, changes are wiped out
9713	the next time the virtual machine is started).
9714	</desc>
9715	</const>
9716	<const name="Writethrough" value="2">
9717	<desc>
9718	Write through medium (attached directly, ignored when
9719	taking snapshots).
9720	</desc>
9721	</const>
9722	<const name="Shareable" value="3">
9723	<desc>
9724	Allow using this medium concurrently by several machines.
9725	<note>Present since VirtualBox 3.2.0, and accepted since 3.2.8.</note>
9726	</desc>
9727	</const>
9728	<const name="Readonly" value="4">
9729	<desc>
9730	A readonly medium, which can of course be used by several machines.
9731	<note>Present and accepted since VirtualBox 4.0.</note>
9732	</desc>
9733	</const>
9734	<const name="MultiAttach" value="5">
9735	<desc>
9736	A medium which is is indirectly attached, so that one base medium can
9737	be used for several VMs which have their own differencing medium to
9738	store their modifications. In some sense a variant of Immutable
9739	with unset AutoReset flag in each differencing medium.
9740	<note>Present and accepted since VirtualBox 4.0.</note>
9741	</desc>
9742	</const>
9743	</enum>
9744
9745	<enum
9746	name="MediumVariant"
9747	uuid="584ea502-143b-4ab0-ad14-d1028fdf0316"
9748	>
9749	<desc>
9750	Virtual medium image variant. More than one flag may be set.
9751	<see><link to="IMedium"/></see>
9752	</desc>
9753
9754	<const name="Standard" value="0">
9755	<desc>
9756	No particular variant requested, results in using the backend default.
9757	</desc>
9758	</const>
9759	<const name="VmdkSplit2G" value="0x01">
9760	<desc>
9761	VMDK image split in chunks of less than 2GByte.
9762	</desc>
9763	</const>
9764	<const name="VmdkStreamOptimized" value="0x04">
9765	<desc>
9766	VMDK streamOptimized image. Special import/export format which is
9767	read-only/append-only.
9768	</desc>
9769	</const>
9770	<const name="VmdkESX" value="0x08">
9771	<desc>
9772	VMDK format variant used on ESX products.
9773	</desc>
9774	</const>
9775	<const name="Fixed" value="0x10000">
9776	<desc>
9777	Fixed image. Only allowed for base images.
9778	</desc>
9779	</const>
9780	<const name="Diff" value="0x20000">
9781	<desc>
9782	Differencing image. Only allowed for child images.
9783	</desc>
9784	</const>
9785	<const name="NoCreateDir" value="0x40000000">
9786	<desc>
9787	Special flag which suppresses automatic creation of the subdirectory.
9788	Only used when passing the medium variant as an input parameter.
9789	</desc>
9790	</const>
9791	</enum>
9792
9793	<interface
9794	name="IMediumAttachment" extends="$unknown"
9795	uuid="b5dfbb8c-7498-48c3-bf10-78fc60f064e1"
9796	wsmap="struct"
9797	>
9798	<desc>
9799	The IMediumAttachment interface links storage media to virtual machines.
9800	For each medium (<link to="IMedium"/>) which has been attached to a
9801	storage controller (<link to="IStorageController"/>) of a machine
9802	(<link to="IMachine"/>) via the <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />
9803	method, one instance of IMediumAttachment is added to the machine's
9804	<link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> array attribute.
9805
9806	Each medium attachment specifies the storage controller as well as a
9807	port and device number and the IMedium instance representing a virtual
9808	hard disk or floppy or DVD image.
9809
9810	For removable media (DVDs or floppies), there are two additional
9811	options. For one, the IMedium instance can be @c null to represent
9812	an empty drive with no media inserted (see <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />);
9813	secondly, the medium can be one of the pseudo-media for host drives
9814	listed in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives"/> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives"/>.
9815
9816	<h3>Attaching Hard Disks</h3>
9817
9818	Hard disks are attached to virtual machines using the
9819	<link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> method and detached using the
9820	<link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> method. Depending on a medium's
9821	type (see <link to="IMedium::type" />), hard disks are attached either
9822	<i>directly</i> or <i>indirectly</i>.
9823
9824	When a hard disk is being attached directly, it is associated with the
9825	virtual machine and used for hard disk operations when the machine is
9826	running. When a hard disk is being attached indirectly, a new differencing
9827	hard disk linked to it is implicitly created and this differencing hard
9828	disk is associated with the machine and used for hard disk operations.
9829	This also means that if <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> performs
9830	a direct attachment then the same hard disk will be returned in response
9831	to the subsequent <link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> call; however if
9832	an indirect attachment is performed then
9833	<link to="IMachine::getMedium"/> will return the implicitly created
9834	differencing hard disk, not the original one passed to <link
9835	to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>. In detail:
9836
9837	<ul>
9838	<li><b>Normal base</b> hard disks that do not have children (i.e.
9839	differencing hard disks linked to them) and that are not already
9840	attached to virtual machines in snapshots are attached <b>directly</b>.
9841	Otherwise, they are attached <b>indirectly</b> because having
9842	dependent children or being part of the snapshot makes it impossible
9843	to modify hard disk contents without breaking the integrity of the
9844	dependent party. The <link to="IMedium::readOnly"/> attribute allows to
9845	quickly determine the kind of the attachment for the given hard
9846	disk. Note that if a normal base hard disk is to be indirectly
9847	attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
9848	procedure called <i>smart attachment</i> is performed (see below).</li>
9849	<li><b>Normal differencing</b> hard disks are like normal base hard disks:
9850	they are attached <b>directly</b> if they do not have children and are
9851	not attached to virtual machines in snapshots, and <b>indirectly</b>
9852	otherwise. Note that the smart attachment procedure is never performed
9853	for differencing hard disks.</li>
9854	<li><b>Immutable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>indirectly</b> because
9855	they are designed to be non-writable. If an immutable hard disk is
9856	attached to a virtual machine with snapshots then a special
9857	procedure called smart attachment is performed (see below).</li>
9858	<li><b>Writethrough</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
9859	also as designed. This also means that writethrough hard disks cannot
9860	have other hard disks linked to them at all.</li>
9861	<li><b>Shareable</b> hard disks are always attached <b>directly</b>,
9862	also as designed. This also means that shareable hard disks cannot
9863	have other hard disks linked to them at all. They behave almost
9864	like writethrough hard disks, except that shareable hard disks can
9865	be attached to several virtual machines which are running, allowing
9866	concurrent accesses. You need special cluster software running in
9867	the virtual machines to make use of such disks.</li>
9868	</ul>
9869
9870	Note that the same hard disk, regardless of its type, may be attached to
9871	more than one virtual machine at a time. In this case, the machine that is
9872	started first gains exclusive access to the hard disk and attempts to
9873	start other machines having this hard disk attached will fail until the
9874	first machine is powered down.
9875
9876	Detaching hard disks is performed in a <i>deferred</i> fashion. This means
9877	that the given hard disk remains associated with the given machine after a
9878	successful <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/> call until
9879	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is called to save all changes to
9880	machine settings to disk. This deferring is necessary to guarantee that
9881	the hard disk configuration may be restored at any time by a call to
9882	<link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> before the settings
9883	are saved (committed).
9884
9885	Note that if <link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> is called after
9886	indirectly attaching some hard disks to the machine but before a call to
9887	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> is made, it will implicitly delete
9888	all differencing hard disks implicitly created by
9889	<link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/> for these indirect attachments.
9890	Such implicitly created hard disks will also be immediately deleted when
9891	detached explicitly using the <link to="IMachine::detachDevice"/>
9892	call if it is made before <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/>. This
9893	implicit deletion is safe because newly created differencing hard
9894	disks do not contain any user data.
9895
9896	However, keep in mind that detaching differencing hard disks that were
9897	implicitly created by <link to="IMachine::attachDevice"/>
9898	before the last <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call will
9899	<b>not</b> implicitly delete them as they may already contain some data
9900	(for example, as a result of virtual machine execution). If these hard
9901	disks are no more necessary, the caller can always delete them explicitly
9902	using <link to="IMedium::deleteStorage"/> after they are actually de-associated
9903	from this machine by the <link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call.
9904
9905	<h3>Smart Attachment</h3>
9906
9907	When normal base or immutable hard disks are indirectly attached to a
9908	virtual machine then some additional steps are performed to make sure the
9909	virtual machine will have the most recent "view" of the hard disk being
9910	attached. These steps include walking through the machine's snapshots
9911	starting from the current one and going through ancestors up to the first
9912	snapshot. Hard disks attached to the virtual machine in all
9913	of the encountered snapshots are checked whether they are descendants of
9914	the given normal base or immutable hard disk. The first found child (which
9915	is the differencing hard disk) will be used instead of the normal base or
9916	immutable hard disk as a parent for creating a new differencing hard disk
9917	that will be actually attached to the machine. And only if no descendants
9918	are found or if the virtual machine does not have any snapshots then the
9919	normal base or immutable hard disk will be used itself as a parent for
9920	this differencing hard disk.
9921
9922	It is easier to explain what smart attachment does using the
9923	following example:
9924	<pre>
9925	BEFORE attaching B.vdi: AFTER attaching B.vdi:
9926
9927	Snapshot 1 (B.vdi) Snapshot 1 (B.vdi)
9928	Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi) Snapshot 2 (D1->B.vdi)
9929	Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi) Snapshot 3 (D2->D1.vdi)
9930	Snapshot 4 (none) Snapshot 4 (none)
9931	CurState (none) CurState (D3->D2.vdi)
9932
9933	NOT
9934	...
9935	CurState (D3->B.vdi)
9936	</pre>
9937	The first column is the virtual machine configuration before the base hard
9938	disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> is attached, the second column shows the machine after
9939	this hard disk is attached. Constructs like <tt>D1->B.vdi</tt> and similar
9940	mean that the hard disk that is actually attached to the machine is a
9941	differencing hard disk, <tt>D1.vdi</tt>, which is linked to (based on)
9942	another hard disk, <tt>B.vdi</tt>.
9943
9944	As we can see from the example, the hard disk <tt>B.vdi</tt> was detached
9945	from the machine before taking Snapshot 4. Later, after Snapshot 4 was
9946	taken, the user decides to attach <tt>B.vdi</tt> again. <tt>B.vdi</tt> has
9947	dependent child hard disks (<tt>D1.vdi</tt>, <tt>D2.vdi</tt>), therefore
9948	it cannot be attached directly and needs an indirect attachment (i.e.
9949	implicit creation of a new differencing hard disk). Due to the smart
9950	attachment procedure, the new differencing hard disk
9951	(<tt>D3.vdi</tt>) will be based on <tt>D2.vdi</tt>, not on
9952	<tt>B.vdi</tt> itself, since <tt>D2.vdi</tt> is the most recent view of
9953	<tt>B.vdi</tt> existing for this snapshot branch of the given virtual
9954	machine.
9955
9956	Note that if there is more than one descendant hard disk of the given base
9957	hard disk found in a snapshot, and there is an exact device, channel and
9958	bus match, then this exact match will be used. Otherwise, the youngest
9959	descendant will be picked up.
9960
9961	There is one more important aspect of the smart attachment procedure which
9962	is not related to snapshots at all. Before walking through the snapshots
9963	as described above, the backup copy of the current list of hard disk
9964	attachment is searched for descendants. This backup copy is created when
9965	the hard disk configuration is changed for the first time after the last
9966	<link to="IMachine::saveSettings"/> call and used by
9967	<link to="IMachine::discardSettings"/> to undo the recent hard disk
9968	changes. When such a descendant is found in this backup copy, it will be
9969	simply re-attached back, without creating a new differencing hard disk for
9970	it. This optimization is necessary to make it possible to re-attach the
9971	base or immutable hard disk to a different bus, channel or device slot
9972	without losing the contents of the differencing hard disk actually
9973	attached to the machine in place of it.
9974
9975	</desc>
9976
9977	<attribute name="medium" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
9978	<desc>Medium object associated with this attachment; it
9979	can be @c null for removable devices.</desc>
9980	</attribute>
9981
9982	<attribute name="controller" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
9983	<desc>Name of the storage controller of this attachment; this
9984	refers to one of the controllers in <link to="IMachine::storageControllers" />
9985	by name.</desc>
9986	</attribute>
9987
9988	<attribute name="port" type="long" readonly="yes">
9989	<desc>Port number of this attachment.
9990	See <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> for the meaning of this value for the different controller types.
9991	</desc>
9992	</attribute>
9993
9994	<attribute name="device" type="long" readonly="yes">
9995	<desc>Device slot number of this attachment.
9996	See <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> for the meaning of this value for the different controller types.
9997	</desc>
9998	</attribute>
9999
10000	<attribute name="type" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
10001	<desc>Device type of this attachment.</desc>
10002	</attribute>
10003
10004	<attribute name="passthrough" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10005	<desc>Pass I/O requests through to a device on the host.</desc>
10006	</attribute>
10007
10008	<attribute name="temporaryEject" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10009	<desc>Whether guest-triggered eject results in unmounting the medium.</desc>
10010	</attribute>
10011
10012	<attribute name="isEjected" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10013	<desc>Signals that the removable medium has been ejected. This is not
10014	necessarily equivalent to having a @c null medium association.</desc>
10015	</attribute>
10016
10017	<attribute name="nonRotational" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10018	<desc>Whether the associated medium is non-rotational.</desc>
10019	</attribute>
10020
10021	<attribute name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" readonly="yes">
10022	<desc>The bandwidth group this medium attachment is assigned to.</desc>
10023	</attribute>
10024
10025	</interface>
10026
10027	<interface
10028	name="IMedium" extends="$unknown"
10029	uuid="53f9cc0c-e0fd-40a5-a404-a7a5272082cd"
10030	wsmap="managed"
10031	>
10032	<desc>
10033	The IMedium interface represents virtual storage for a machine's
10034	hard disks, CD/DVD or floppy drives. It will typically represent
10035	a disk image on the host, for example a VDI or VMDK file representing
10036	a virtual hard disk, or an ISO or RAW file representing virtual
10037	removable media, but can also point to a network location (e.g.
10038	for iSCSI targets).
10039
10040	Instances of IMedium are connected to virtual machines by way of medium
10041	attachments, which link the storage medium to a particular device slot
10042	of a storage controller of the virtual machine.
10043	In the VirtualBox API, virtual storage is therefore always represented
10044	by the following chain of object links:
10045
10046	<ul>
10047	<li><link to="IMachine::storageControllers"/> contains an array of
10048	storage controllers (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or a floppy controller;
10049	these are instances of <link to="IStorageController"/>).</li>
10050	<li><link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments"/> contains an array of
10051	medium attachments (instances of <link to="IMediumAttachment"/>
10052	created by <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />),
10053	each containing a storage controller from the above array, a
10054	port/device specification, and an instance of IMedium representing
10055	the medium storage (image file).
10056
10057	For removable media, the storage medium is optional; a medium
10058	attachment with no medium represents a CD/DVD or floppy drive
10059	with no medium inserted. By contrast, hard disk attachments
10060	will always have an IMedium object attached.</li>
10061	<li>Each IMedium in turn points to a storage unit (such as a file
10062	on the host computer or a network resource) that holds actual
10063	data. This location is represented by the <link to="#location"/>
10064	attribute.</li>
10065	</ul>
10066
10067	Existing media are opened using <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>;
10068	new hard disk media can be created with the VirtualBox API using the
10069	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> method. Differencing hard
10070	disks (see below) are usually implicitly created by VirtualBox as
10071	needed, but may also be created explicitly using <link to="#createDiffStorage"/>.
10072	VirtualBox cannot create CD/DVD or floppy images (ISO and RAW files); these
10073	should be created with external tools and then opened from within VirtualBox.
10074
10075	Only for CD/DVDs and floppies, an IMedium instance can also represent a host
10076	drive. In that case the <link to="#id" /> attribute contains the UUID of
10077	one of the drives in <link to="IHost::DVDDrives" /> or <link to="IHost::floppyDrives" />.
10078
10079	<h3>Media registries</h3>
10080
10081	When a medium has been opened or created using one of the aforementioned
10082	APIs, it becomes "known" to VirtualBox. Known media can be attached
10083	to virtual machines and accessed through <link to="IVirtualBox::findMedium"/>.
10084	They also appear in the global
10085	<link to="IVirtualBox::hardDisks" />,
10086	<link to="IVirtualBox::DVDImages" /> and
10087	<link to="IVirtualBox::floppyImages" /> arrays.
10088
10089	Prior to VirtualBox 4.0, opening a medium added it to a global media registry
10090	in the VirtualBox.xml file, which was shared between all machines and made
10091	transporting machines and their media from one host to another difficult.
10092
10093	Starting with VirtualBox 4.0, media are only added to a registry when they are
10094	<i>attached</i> to a machine using <link to="IMachine::attachDevice" />. For
10095	backwards compatibility, which registry a medium is added to depends on which
10096	VirtualBox version created a machine:
10097
10098	<ul>
10099	<li>If the medium has first been attached to a machine which was created by
10100	VirtualBox 4.0 or later, it is added to that machine's media registry in
10101	the machine XML settings file. This way all information about a machine's
10102	media attachments is contained in a single file and can be transported
10103	easily.</li>
10104	<li>For older media attachments (i.e. if the medium was first attached to a
10105	machine which was created with a VirtualBox version before 4.0), media
10106	continue to be registered in the global VirtualBox settings file, for
10107	backwards compatibility.</li>
10108	</ul>
10109
10110	See <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium" /> for more information.
10111
10112	Media are removed from media registries by the <link to="IMedium::close"/>,
10113	<link to="#deleteStorage"/> and <link to="#mergeTo"/> methods.
10114
10115	<h3>Accessibility checks</h3>
10116
10117	VirtualBox defers media accessibility checks until the <link to="#refreshState" />
10118	method is called explicitly on a medium. This is done to make the VirtualBox object
10119	ready for serving requests as fast as possible and let the end-user
10120	application decide if it needs to check media accessibility right away or not.
10121
10122	As a result, when VirtualBox starts up (e.g. the VirtualBox
10123	object gets created for the first time), all known media are in the
10124	"Inaccessible" state, but the value of the <link to="#lastAccessError"/>
10125	attribute is an empty string because no actual accessibility check has
10126	been made yet.
10127
10128	After calling <link to="#refreshState" />, a medium is considered
10129	<i>accessible</i> if its storage unit can be read. In that case, the
10130	<link to="#state"/> attribute has a value of "Created". If the storage
10131	unit cannot be read (for example, because it is located on a disconnected
10132	network resource, or was accidentally deleted outside VirtualBox),
10133	the medium is considered <i>inaccessible</i>, which is indicated by the
10134	"Inaccessible" state. The exact reason why the medium is inaccessible can be
10135	obtained by reading the <link to="#lastAccessError"/> attribute.
10136
10137	<h3>Medium types</h3>
10138
10139	There are five types of medium behavior which are stored in the
10140	<link to="#type"/> attribute (see <link to="MediumType" />) and
10141	which define the medium's behavior with attachments and snapshots.
10142
10143	All media can be also divided in two groups: <i>base</i> media and
10144	<i>differencing</i> media. A base medium contains all sectors of the
10145	medium data in its own storage and therefore can be used independently.
10146	In contrast, a differencing medium is a "delta" to some other medium and
10147	contains only those sectors which differ from that other medium, which is
10148	then called a <i>parent</i>. The differencing medium is said to be
10149	<i>linked to</i> that parent. The parent may be itself a differencing
10150	medium, thus forming a chain of linked media. The last element in that
10151	chain must always be a base medium. Note that several differencing
10152	media may be linked to the same parent medium.
10153
10154	Differencing media can be distinguished from base media by querying the
10155	<link to="#parent"/> attribute: base media do not have parents they would
10156	depend on, so the value of this attribute is always @c null for them.
10157	Using this attribute, it is possible to walk up the medium tree (from the
10158	child medium to its parent). It is also possible to walk down the tree
10159	using the <link to="#children"/> attribute.
10160
10161	Note that the type of all differencing media is "normal"; all other
10162	values are meaningless for them. Base media may be of any type.
10163
10164	<h3>Automatic composition of the file name part</h3>
10165
10166	Another extension to the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute is that
10167	there is a possibility to cause VirtualBox to compose a unique value for
10168	the file name part of the location using the UUID of the hard disk. This
10169	applies only to hard disks in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> state,
10170	e.g. before the storage unit is created, and works as follows. You set the
10171	value of the <link to="IMedium::location"/> attribute to a location
10172	specification which only contains the path specification but not the file
10173	name part and ends with either a forward slash or a backslash character.
10174	In response, VirtualBox will generate a new UUID for the hard disk and
10175	compose the file name using the following pattern:
10176	<pre>
10177	<path>/{<uuid>}.<ext>
10178	</pre>
10179	where <tt><path></tt> is the supplied path specification,
10180	<tt><uuid></tt> is the newly generated UUID and <tt><ext></tt>
10181	is the default extension for the storage format of this hard disk. After
10182	that, you may call any of the methods that create a new hard disk storage
10183	unit and they will use the generated UUID and file name.
10184	</desc>
10185
10186	<attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
10187	<desc>
10188	UUID of the medium. For a newly created medium, this value is a randomly
10189	generated UUID.
10190
10191	<note>
10192	For media in one of MediumState_NotCreated, MediumState_Creating or
10193	MediumState_Deleting states, the value of this property is undefined
10194	and will most likely be an empty UUID.
10195	</note>
10196	</desc>
10197	</attribute>
10198
10199	<attribute name="description" type="wstring">
10200	<desc>
10201	Optional description of the medium. For a newly created medium the value
10202	of this attribute is an empty string.
10203
10204	Medium types that don't support this attribute will return E_NOTIMPL in
10205	attempt to get or set this attribute's value.
10206
10207	<note>
10208	For some storage types, reading this attribute may return an outdated
10209	(last known) value when <link to="#state"/> is <link
10210	to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> or <link
10211	to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> because the value of this attribute is
10212	stored within the storage unit itself. Also note that changing the
10213	attribute value is not possible in such case, as well as when the
10214	medium is the <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state.
10215	</note>
10216	</desc>
10217	</attribute>
10218
10219	<attribute name="state" type="MediumState" readonly="yes">
10220	<desc>
10221	Returns the current medium state, which is the last state set by
10222	the accessibility check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
10223	If that method has not yet been called on the medium, the state
10224	is "Inaccessible"; as opposed to truly inaccessible media, the
10225	value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will be an empty string in
10226	that case.
10227
10228	<note>As of version 3.1, this no longer performs an accessibility check
10229	automatically; call <link to="#refreshState"/> for that.
10230	</note>
10231	</desc>
10232	</attribute>
10233
10234	<attribute name="variant" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
10235	<desc>
10236	Returns the storage format variant information for this medium
10237	as a combination of the flags described at <link to="MediumVariant" />.
10238	Before <link to="#refreshState"/> is called this method returns
10239	an undefined value.
10240	</desc>
10241	</attribute>
10242
10243	<attribute name="location" type="wstring">
10244	<desc>
10245	Location of the storage unit holding medium data.
10246
10247	The format of the location string is medium type specific. For medium
10248	types using regular files in a host's file system, the location
10249	string is the full file name.
10250
10251	Some medium types may support changing the storage unit location by
10252	simply changing the value of this property. If this operation is not
10253	supported, the implementation will return E_NOTIMPL in attempt to set
10254	this attribute's value.
10255
10256	When setting a value of the location attribute which is a regular file
10257	in the host's file system, the given file name may be either relative to
10258	the <link to="IVirtualBox::homeFolder">VirtualBox home folder</link> or
10259	absolute. Note that if the given location specification does not contain
10260	the file extension part then a proper default extension will be
10261	automatically appended by the implementation depending on the medium type.
10262	</desc>
10263	</attribute>
10264
10265	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10266	<desc>
10267	Name of the storage unit holding medium data.
10268
10269	The returned string is a short version of the <link to="#location"/>
10270	attribute that is suitable for representing the medium in situations
10271	where the full location specification is too long (such as lists
10272	and comboboxes in GUI frontends). This string is also used by frontends
10273	to sort the media list alphabetically when needed.
10274
10275	For example, for locations that are regular files in the host's file
10276	system, the value of this attribute is just the file name (+ extension),
10277	without the path specification.
10278
10279	Note that as opposed to the <link to="#location"/> attribute, the name
10280	attribute will not necessary be unique for a list of media of the
10281	given type and format.
10282	</desc>
10283	</attribute>
10284
10285	<attribute name="deviceType" type="DeviceType" readonly="yes">
10286	<desc>Kind of device (DVD/Floppy/HardDisk) which is applicable to this
10287	medium.</desc>
10288	</attribute>
10289
10290	<attribute name="hostDrive" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10291	<desc>True if this corresponds to a drive on the host.</desc>
10292	</attribute>
10293
10294	<attribute name="size" type="long long" readonly="yes">
10295	<desc>
10296	Physical size of the storage unit used to hold medium data (in bytes).
10297
10298	<note>
10299	For media whose <link to="#state"/> is <link
10300	to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
10301	last known size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> media,
10302	the returned value is zero.
10303	</note>
10304	</desc>
10305	</attribute>
10306
10307	<attribute name="format" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10308	<desc>
10309	Storage format of this medium.
10310
10311	The value of this attribute is a string that specifies a backend used
10312	to store medium data. The storage format is defined when you create a
10313	new medium or automatically detected when you open an existing medium,
10314	and cannot be changed later.
10315
10316	The list of all storage formats supported by this VirtualBox
10317	installation can be obtained using
10318	<link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
10319	</desc>
10320	</attribute>
10321
10322	<attribute name="mediumFormat" type="IMediumFormat" readonly="yes">
10323	<desc>
10324	Storage medium format object corresponding to this medium.
10325
10326	The value of this attribute is a reference to the medium format object
10327	that specifies the backend properties used to store medium data. The
10328	storage format is defined when you create a new medium or automatically
10329	detected when you open an existing medium, and cannot be changed later.
10330
10331	<note>@c null is returned if there is no associated medium format
10332	object. This can e.g. happen for medium objects representing host
10333	drives and other special medium objects.</note>
10334	</desc>
10335	</attribute>
10336
10337	<attribute name="type" type="MediumType">
10338	<desc>
10339	Type (role) of this medium.
10340
10341	The following constraints apply when changing the value of this
10342	attribute:
10343	<ul>
10344	<li>If a medium is attached to a virtual machine (either in the
10345	current state or in one of the snapshots), its type cannot be
10346	changed.
10347	</li>
10348	<li>As long as the medium has children, its type cannot be set
10349	to <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
10350	</li>
10351	<li>The type of all differencing media is
10352	<link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and cannot be changed.
10353	</li>
10354	</ul>
10355
10356	The type of a newly created or opened medium is set to
10357	<link to="MediumType_Normal"/>, except for DVD and floppy media,
10358	which have a type of <link to="MediumType_Writethrough"/>.
10359	</desc>
10360	</attribute>
10361
10362	<attribute name="allowedTypes" type="MediumType" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
10363	<desc>
10364	Returns which medium types can selected for this medium.
10365
10366	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
10367	This attribute is not implemented at the moment.
10368	</result>
10369	</desc>
10370	</attribute>
10371
10372	<attribute name="parent" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
10373	<desc>
10374	Parent of this medium (the medium this medium is directly based
10375	on).
10376
10377	Only differencing media have parents. For base (non-differencing)
10378	media, @c null is returned.
10379	</desc>
10380	</attribute>
10381
10382	<attribute name="children" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
10383	<desc>
10384	Children of this medium (all differencing media directly based
10385	on this medium). A @c null array is returned if this medium
10386	does not have any children.
10387	</desc>
10388	</attribute>
10389
10390	<attribute name="base" type="IMedium" readonly="yes">
10391	<desc>
10392	Base medium of this medium.
10393
10394	If this is a differencing medium, its base medium is the medium
10395	the given medium branch starts from. For all other types of media, this
10396	property returns the medium object itself (i.e. the same object this
10397	property is read on).
10398	</desc>
10399	</attribute>
10400
10401	<attribute name="readOnly" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
10402	<desc>
10403	Returns @c true if this medium is read-only and @c false otherwise.
10404
10405	A medium is considered to be read-only when its contents cannot be
10406	modified without breaking the integrity of other parties that depend on
10407	this medium such as its child media or snapshots of virtual machines
10408	where this medium is attached to these machines. If there are no
10409	children and no such snapshots then there is no dependency and the
10410	medium is not read-only.
10411
10412	The value of this attribute can be used to determine the kind of the
10413	attachment that will take place when attaching this medium to a
10414	virtual machine. If the value is @c false then the medium will
10415	be attached directly. If the value is @c true then the medium
10416	will be attached indirectly by creating a new differencing child
10417	medium for that. See the interface description for more information.
10418
10419	Note that all <link to="MediumType_Immutable">Immutable</link> media
10420	are always read-only while all
10421	<link to="MediumType_Writethrough">Writethrough</link> media are
10422	always not.
10423
10424	<note>
10425	The read-only condition represented by this attribute is related to
10426	the medium type and usage, not to the current
10427	<link to="IMedium::state">medium state</link> and not to the read-only
10428	state of the storage unit.
10429	</note>
10430	</desc>
10431	</attribute>
10432
10433	<attribute name="logicalSize" type="long long" readonly="yes">
10434	<desc>
10435	Logical size of this medium (in bytes), as reported to the
10436	guest OS running inside the virtual machine this medium is
10437	attached to. The logical size is defined when the medium is created
10438	and cannot be changed later.
10439
10440	<note>
10441	Reading this property on a differencing medium will return the size
10442	of its <link to="#base"/> medium.
10443	</note>
10444	<note>
10445	For media whose state is <link to="#state"/> is <link
10446	to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/>, the value of this property is the
10447	last known logical size. For <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
10448	media, the returned value is zero.
10449	</note>
10450	</desc>
10451	</attribute>
10452
10453	<attribute name="autoReset" type="boolean">
10454	<desc>
10455	Whether this differencing medium will be automatically reset each
10456	time a virtual machine it is attached to is powered up. This
10457	attribute is automatically set to @c true for the last
10458	differencing image of an "immutable" medium (see
10459	<link to="MediumType" />).
10460
10461	See <link to="#reset"/> for more information about resetting
10462	differencing media.
10463
10464	<note>
10465	Reading this property on a base (non-differencing) medium will
10466	always @c false. Changing the value of this property in this
10467	case is not supported.
10468	</note>
10469
10470	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10471	This is not a differencing medium (when changing the attribute
10472	value).
10473	</result>
10474	</desc>
10475	</attribute>
10476
10477	<attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
10478	<desc>
10479	Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
10480	check performed by <link to="#refreshState"/>.
10481
10482	An empty string is returned if the last accessibility check
10483	was successful or has not yet been called. As a result, if
10484	<link to="#state" /> is "Inaccessible" and this attribute is empty,
10485	then <link to="#refreshState"/> has yet to be called; this is the
10486	default value of media after VirtualBox initialization.
10487	A non-empty string indicates a failure and should normally describe
10488	a reason of the failure (for example, a file read error).
10489	</desc>
10490	</attribute>
10491
10492	<attribute name="machineIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
10493	<desc>
10494	Array of UUIDs of all machines this medium is attached to.
10495
10496	A @c null array is returned if this medium is not attached to any
10497	machine or to any machine's snapshot.
10498
10499	<note>
10500	The returned array will include a machine even if this medium is not
10501	attached to that machine in the current state but attached to it in
10502	one of the machine's snapshots. See <link to="#getSnapshotIds"/> for
10503	details.
10504	</note>
10505	</desc>
10506	</attribute>
10507
10508	<method name="setIDs">
10509	<desc>
10510	Changes the UUID and parent UUID for a hard disk medium.
10511	</desc>
10512	<param name="setImageId" type="boolean" dir="in">
10513	<desc>
10514	Select whether a new image UUID is set or not.
10515	</desc>
10516	</param>
10517	<param name="imageId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
10518	<desc>
10519	New UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a new
10520	UUID is automatically created, provided that @a setImageId is @c true.
10521	Specifying a zero UUID is not allowed.
10522	</desc>
10523	</param>
10524	<param name="setParentId" type="boolean" dir="in">
10525	<desc>
10526	Select whether a new parent UUID is set or not.
10527	</desc>
10528	</param>
10529	<param name="parentId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
10530	<desc>
10531	New parent UUID for the image. If an empty string is passed, then a
10532	new UUID is automatically created, provided @a setParentId is
10533	@c true. A zero UUID is valid.
10534	</desc>
10535	</param>
10536	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
10537	Invalid parameter combination.
10538	</result>
10539	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10540	Medium is not a hard disk medium.
10541	</result>
10542	</method>
10543
10544	<method name="refreshState">
10545	<desc>
10546	If the current medium state (see <link to="MediumState"/>) is one of
10547	"Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead", then this performs an
10548	accessibility check on the medium and sets the value of the <link to="#state"/>
10549	attribute accordingly; that value is also returned for convenience.
10550
10551	For all other state values, this does not perform a refresh but returns
10552	the state only.
10553
10554	The refresh, if performed, may take a long time (several seconds or even
10555	minutes, depending on the storage unit location and format) because it performs an
10556	accessibility check of the storage unit. This check may cause a significant
10557	delay if the storage unit of the given medium is, for example, a file located
10558	on a network share which is not currently accessible due to connectivity
10559	problems. In that case, the call will not return until a timeout
10560	interval defined by the host OS for this operation expires. For this reason,
10561	it is recommended to never read this attribute on the main UI thread to avoid
10562	making the UI unresponsive.
10563
10564	If the last known state of the medium is "Created" and the accessibility
10565	check fails, then the state would be set to "Inaccessible", and
10566	<link to="#lastAccessError"/> may be used to get more details about the
10567	failure. If the state of the medium is "LockedRead", then it remains the
10568	same, and a non-empty value of <link to="#lastAccessError"/> will
10569	indicate a failed accessibility check in this case.
10570
10571	Note that not all medium states are applicable to all medium types.
10572	</desc>
10573	<param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10574	<desc>
10575	New medium state.
10576	</desc>
10577	</param>
10578	</method>
10579
10580	<method name="getSnapshotIds">
10581	<desc>
10582	Returns an array of UUIDs of all snapshots of the given machine where
10583	this medium is attached to.
10584
10585	If the medium is attached to the machine in the current state, then the
10586	first element in the array will always be the ID of the queried machine
10587	(i.e. the value equal to the @c machineId argument), followed by
10588	snapshot IDs (if any).
10589
10590	If the medium is not attached to the machine in the current state, then
10591	the array will contain only snapshot IDs.
10592
10593	The returned array may be @c null if this medium is not attached
10594	to the given machine at all, neither in the current state nor in one of
10595	the snapshots.
10596	</desc>
10597	<param name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in">
10598	<desc>
10599	UUID of the machine to query.
10600	</desc>
10601	</param>
10602	<param name="snapshotIds" type="uuid" mod="string" safearray="yes" dir="return">
10603	<desc>
10604	Array of snapshot UUIDs of the given machine using this medium.
10605	</desc>
10606	</param>
10607	</method>
10608
10609	<method name="lockRead">
10610	<desc>
10611	Locks this medium for reading.
10612
10613	A read lock is shared: many clients can simultaneously lock the
10614	same medium for reading unless it is already locked for writing (see
10615	<link to="#lockWrite"/>) in which case an error is returned.
10616
10617	When the medium is locked for reading, it cannot be modified
10618	from within VirtualBox. This means that any method that changes
10619	the properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit
10620	will return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise). That
10621	includes an attempt to start a virtual machine that wants to
10622	write to the the medium.
10623
10624	When the virtual machine is started up, it locks for reading all
10625	media it uses in read-only mode. If some medium cannot be locked
10626	for reading, the startup procedure will fail.
10627	A medium is typically locked for reading while it is used by a running
10628	virtual machine but has a depending differencing image that receives
10629	the actual write operations. This way one base medium can have
10630	multiple child differencing images which can be written to
10631	simultaneously. Read-only media such as DVD and floppy images are
10632	also locked for reading only (so they can be in use by multiple
10633	machines simultaneously).
10634
10635	A medium is also locked for reading when it is the source of a
10636	write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
10637
10638	The medium locked for reading must be unlocked using the <link
10639	to="#unlockRead"/> method. Calls to <link to="#lockRead"/>
10640	can be nested and must be followed by the same number of paired
10641	<link to="#unlockRead"/> calls.
10642
10643	This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
10644	"LockedRead" on success. The medium's previous state must be
10645	one of "Created", "Inaccessible" or "LockedRead".
10646
10647	Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
10648	a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
10649	the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
10650	storage unit.
10651
10652	This method returns the current state of the medium
10653	<i>before</i> the operation.
10654
10655	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10656	Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
10657	creating, deleting).
10658	</result>
10659
10660	</desc>
10661	<param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10662	<desc>
10663	State of the medium after the operation.
10664	</desc>
10665	</param>
10666	</method>
10667
10668	<method name="unlockRead">
10669	<desc>
10670	Cancels the read lock previously set by <link to="#lockRead"/>.
10671
10672	For both success and failure, this method returns the current state
10673	of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
10674
10675	See <link to="#lockRead"/> for more details.
10676
10677	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10678	Medium not locked for reading.
10679	</result>
10680
10681	</desc>
10682	<param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10683	<desc>
10684	State of the medium after the operation.
10685	</desc>
10686	</param>
10687	</method>
10688
10689	<method name="lockWrite">
10690	<desc>
10691	Locks this medium for writing.
10692
10693	A write lock, as opposed to <link to="#lockRead"/>, is
10694	exclusive: there may be only one client holding a write lock,
10695	and there may be no read locks while the write lock is held.
10696	As a result, read-locking fails if a write lock is held, and
10697	write-locking fails if either a read or another write lock is held.
10698
10699	When a medium is locked for writing, it cannot be modified
10700	from within VirtualBox, and it is not guaranteed that the values
10701	of its properties are up-to-date. Any method that changes the
10702	properties of this medium or contents of the storage unit will
10703	return an error (unless explicitly stated otherwise).
10704
10705	When a virtual machine is started up, it locks for writing all
10706	media it uses to write data to. If any medium could not be locked
10707	for writing, the startup procedure will fail. If a medium has
10708	differencing images, then while the machine is running, only
10709	the last ("leaf") differencing image is locked for writing,
10710	whereas its parents are locked for reading only.
10711
10712	A medium is also locked for writing when it is the target of a
10713	write operation such as <link to="#cloneTo"/> or <link to="#mergeTo"/>.
10714
10715	The medium locked for writing must be unlocked using the <link
10716	to="#unlockWrite"/> method. Write locks <i>cannot</i> be nested.
10717
10718	This method sets the medium state (see <link to="#state"/>) to
10719	"LockedWrite" on success. The medium's previous state must be
10720	either "Created" or "Inaccessible".
10721
10722	Locking an inaccessible medium is not an error; this method performs
10723	a logical lock that prevents modifications of this medium through
10724	the VirtualBox API, not a physical file-system lock of the underlying
10725	storage unit.
10726
10727	For both, success and failure, this method returns the current
10728	state of the medium <i>before</i> the operation.
10729
10730	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10731	Invalid medium state (e.g. not created, locked, inaccessible,
10732	creating, deleting).
10733	</result>
10734
10735	</desc>
10736	<param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10737	<desc>
10738	State of the medium after the operation.
10739	</desc>
10740	</param>
10741	</method>
10742
10743	<method name="unlockWrite">
10744	<desc>
10745	Cancels the write lock previously set by <link to="#lockWrite"/>.
10746
10747	For both success and failure, this method returns the current
10748	state of the medium <i>after</i> the operation.
10749
10750	See <link to="#lockWrite"/> for more details.
10751
10752	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10753	Medium not locked for writing.
10754	</result>
10755
10756	</desc>
10757	<param name="state" type="MediumState" dir="return">
10758	<desc>
10759	State of the medium after the operation.
10760	</desc>
10761	</param>
10762	</method>
10763
10764	<method name="close">
10765	<desc>
10766	Closes this medium.
10767
10768	The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine
10769	and must not have any known child media, otherwise the
10770	operation will fail.
10771
10772	When the medium is successfully closed, it is removed from
10773	the list of registered media, but its storage unit is not
10774	deleted. In particular, this means that this medium can
10775	later be opened again using the <link to="IVirtualBox::openMedium"/>
10776	call.
10777
10778	Note that after this method successfully returns, the given medium
10779	object becomes uninitialized. This means that any attempt
10780	to call any of its methods or attributes will fail with the
10781	<tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error.
10782
10783	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
10784	Invalid medium state (other than not created, created or
10785	inaccessible).
10786	</result>
10787	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
10788	Medium attached to virtual machine.
10789	</result>
10790	<result name="VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR">
10791	Settings file not accessible.
10792	</result>
10793	<result name="VBOX_E_XML_ERROR">
10794	Could not parse the settings file.
10795	</result>
10796
10797	</desc>
10798	</method>
10799
10800	<!-- property methods -->
10801
10802	<method name="getProperty" const="yes">
10803	<desc>
10804	Returns the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
10805
10806	The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10807	be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10808
10809	<note>If this method returns an empty string in @a value, the requested
10810	property is supported but currently not assigned any value.</note>
10811
10812	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
10813	Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
10814	</result>
10815	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
10816	</desc>
10817	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
10818	<desc>Name of the property to get.</desc>
10819	</param>
10820	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
10821	<desc>Current property value.</desc>
10822	</param>
10823	</method>
10824
10825	<method name="setProperty">
10826	<desc>
10827	Sets the value of the custom medium property with the given name.
10828
10829	The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10830	be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10831
10832	<note>Setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is
10833	equivalent to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is
10834	defined for this property) will be used by the format backend in this
10835	case.</note>
10836
10837	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
10838	Requested property does not exist (not supported by the format).
10839	</result>
10840	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
10841	</desc>
10842	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
10843	<desc>Name of the property to set.</desc>
10844	</param>
10845	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
10846	<desc>Property value to set.</desc>
10847	</param>
10848	</method>
10849
10850	<method name="getProperties" const="yes">
10851	<desc>
10852	Returns values for a group of properties in one call.
10853
10854	The names of the properties to get are specified using the @a names
10855	argument which is a list of comma-separated property names or
10856	an empty string if all properties are to be returned.
10857	<note>Currently the value of this argument is ignored and the method
10858	always returns all existing properties.</note>
10859
10860	The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10861	be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10862
10863	The method returns two arrays, the array of property names corresponding
10864	to the @a names argument and the current values of these properties.
10865	Both arrays have the same number of elements with each element at the
10866	given index in the first array corresponds to an element at the same
10867	index in the second array.
10868
10869	For properties that do not have assigned values, an empty string is
10870	returned at the appropriate index in the @a returnValues array.
10871
10872	</desc>
10873	<param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in">
10874	<desc>
10875	Names of properties to get.
10876	</desc>
10877	</param>
10878	<param name="returnNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
10879	<desc>Names of returned properties.</desc>
10880	</param>
10881	<param name="returnValues" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
10882	<desc>Values of returned properties.</desc>
10883	</param>
10884	</method>
10885
10886	<method name="setProperties">
10887	<desc>
10888	Sets values for a group of properties in one call.
10889
10890	The names of the properties to set are passed in the @a names
10891	array along with the new values for them in the @a values array. Both
10892	arrays have the same number of elements with each element at the given
10893	index in the first array corresponding to an element at the same index
10894	in the second array.
10895
10896	If there is at least one property name in @a names that is not valid,
10897	the method will fail before changing the values of any other properties
10898	from the @a names array.
10899
10900	Using this method over <link to="#setProperty"/> is preferred if you
10901	need to set several properties at once since it is more efficient.
10902
10903	The list of all properties supported by the given medium format can
10904	be obtained with <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>.
10905
10906	Setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is equivalent
10907	to deleting the existing value. A default value (if it is defined for
10908	this property) will be used by the format backend in this case.
10909	</desc>
10910	<param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
10911	<desc>Names of properties to set.</desc>
10912	</param>
10913	<param name="values" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="in">
10914	<desc>Values of properties to set.</desc>
10915	</param>
10916	</method>
10917
10918	<!-- storage methods -->
10919
10920	<method name="createBaseStorage">
10921	<desc>
10922	Starts creating a hard disk storage unit (fixed/dynamic, according
10923	to the variant flags) in in the background. The previous storage unit
10924	created for this object, if any, must first be deleted using
10925	<link to="#deleteStorage"/>, otherwise the operation will fail.
10926
10927	Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
10928	<link to="MediumState_Creating"/> state. If the create operation
10929	fails, the medium will be placed back in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
10930	state.
10931
10932	After the returned progress object reports that the operation has
10933	successfully completed, the medium state will be set to <link
10934	to="MediumState_Created"/>, the medium will be remembered by this
10935	VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
10936
10937	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10938	The variant of storage creation operation is not supported. See <link
10939	to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
10940	</result>
10941	</desc>
10942	<param name="logicalSize" type="long long" dir="in">
10943	<desc>Maximum logical size of the medium in bytes.</desc>
10944	</param>
10945	<param name="variant" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
10946	<desc>Exact image variant which should be created (as a combination of
10947	<link to="MediumVariant" /> flags).</desc>
10948	</param>
10949	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10950	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10951	</param>
10952	</method>
10953
10954	<method name="deleteStorage">
10955	<desc>
10956	Starts deleting the storage unit of this medium.
10957
10958	The medium must not be attached to any known virtual machine and must
10959	not have any known child media, otherwise the operation will fail.
10960	It will also fail if there is no storage unit to delete or if deletion
10961	is already in progress, or if the medium is being in use (locked for
10962	read or for write) or inaccessible. Therefore, the only valid state for
10963	this operation to succeed is <link to="MediumState_Created"/>.
10964
10965	Before the operation starts, the medium is placed in
10966	<link to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and gets removed from the list
10967	of remembered hard disks (media registry). If the delete operation
10968	fails, the medium will be remembered again and placed back to
10969	<link to="MediumState_Created"/> state.
10970
10971	After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
10972	complete, the medium state will be set to
10973	<link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/> and you will be able to use one of
10974	the storage creation methods to create it again.
10975
10976	<see><link to="#close"/></see>
10977
10978	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
10979	Medium is attached to a virtual machine.
10980	</result>
10981	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
10982	Storage deletion is not allowed because neither of storage creation
10983	operations are supported. See
10984	<link to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/>.
10985	</result>
10986
10987	<note>
10988	If the deletion operation fails, it is not guaranteed that the storage
10989	unit still exists. You may check the <link to="IMedium::state"/> value
10990	to answer this question.
10991	</note>
10992	</desc>
10993	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
10994	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
10995	</param>
10996	</method>
10997
10998	<!-- diff methods -->
10999
11000	<method name="createDiffStorage">
11001	<desc>
11002	Starts creating an empty differencing storage unit based on this
11003	medium in the format and at the location defined by the @a target
11004	argument.
11005
11006	The target medium must be in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
11007	state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit). Upon successful
11008	completion, this operation will set the type of the target medium to
11009	<link to="MediumType_Normal"/> and create a storage unit necessary to
11010	represent the differencing medium data in the given format (according
11011	to the storage format of the target object).
11012
11013	After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
11014	successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
11015	VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
11016
11017	<note>
11018	The medium will be set to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
11019	state for the duration of this operation.
11020	</note>
11021	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_IN_USE">
11022	Medium not in @c NotCreated state.
11023	</result>
11024	</desc>
11025	<param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
11026	<desc>Target medium.</desc>
11027	</param>
11028	<param name="variant" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11029	<desc>Exact image variant which should be created (as a combination of
11030	<link to="MediumVariant" /> flags).</desc>
11031	</param>
11032	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
11033	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
11034	</param>
11035	</method>
11036
11037	<method name="mergeTo">
11038	<desc>
11039	Starts merging the contents of this medium and all intermediate
11040	differencing media in the chain to the given target medium.
11041
11042	The target medium must be either a descendant of this medium or
11043	its ancestor (otherwise this method will immediately return a failure).
11044	It follows that there are two logical directions of the merge operation:
11045	from ancestor to descendant (<i>forward merge</i>) and from descendant to
11046	ancestor (<i>backward merge</i>). Let us consider the following medium
11047	chain:
11048
11049	<pre>Base <- Diff_1 <- Diff_2</pre>
11050
11051	Here, calling this method on the <tt>Base</tt> medium object with
11052	<tt>Diff_2</tt> as an argument will be a forward merge; calling it on
11053	<tt>Diff_2</tt> with <tt>Base</tt> as an argument will be a backward
11054	merge. Note that in both cases the contents of the resulting medium
11055	will be the same, the only difference is the medium object that takes
11056	the result of the merge operation. In case of the forward merge in the
11057	above example, the result will be written to <tt>Diff_2</tt>; in case of
11058	the backward merge, the result will be written to <tt>Base</tt>. In
11059	other words, the result of the operation is always stored in the target
11060	medium.
11061
11062	Upon successful operation completion, the storage units of all media in
11063	the chain between this (source) medium and the target medium, including
11064	the source medium itself, will be automatically deleted and the
11065	relevant medium objects (including this medium) will become
11066	uninitialized. This means that any attempt to call any of
11067	their methods or attributes will fail with the
11068	<tt>"Object not ready" (E_ACCESSDENIED)</tt> error. Applied to the above
11069	example, the forward merge of <tt>Base</tt> to <tt>Diff_2</tt> will
11070	delete and uninitialize both <tt>Base</tt> and <tt>Diff_1</tt> media.
11071	Note that <tt>Diff_2</tt> in this case will become a base medium
11072	itself since it will no longer be based on any other medium.
11073
11074	Considering the above, all of the following conditions must be met in
11075	order for the merge operation to succeed:
11076	<ul>
11077	<li>
11078	Neither this (source) medium nor any intermediate
11079	differencing medium in the chain between it and the target
11080	medium is attached to any virtual machine.
11081	</li>
11082	<li>
11083	Neither the source medium nor the target medium is an
11084	<link to="MediumType_Immutable"/> medium.
11085	</li>
11086	<li>
11087	The part of the medium tree from the source medium to the
11088	target medium is a linear chain, i.e. all medium in this
11089	chain have exactly one child which is the next medium in this
11090	chain. The only exception from this rule is the target medium in
11091	the forward merge operation; it is allowed to have any number of
11092	child media because the merge operation will not change its
11093	logical contents (as it is seen by the guest OS or by children).
11094	</li>
11095	<li>
11096	None of the involved media are in
11097	<link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> or
11098	<link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state.
11099	</li>
11100	</ul>
11101
11102	<note>
11103	This (source) medium and all intermediates will be placed to <link
11104	to="MediumState_Deleting"/> state and the target medium will be
11105	placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/> state and for the
11106	duration of this operation.
11107	</note>
11108	</desc>
11109	<param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
11110	<desc>Target medium.</desc>
11111	</param>
11112	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
11113	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
11114	</param>
11115	</method>
11116
11117	<!-- clone method -->
11118
11119	<method name="cloneTo">
11120	<desc>
11121	Starts creating a clone of this medium in the format and at the
11122	location defined by the @a target argument.
11123
11124	The target medium must be either in <link to="MediumState_NotCreated"/>
11125	state (i.e. must not have an existing storage unit) or in
11126	<link to="MediumState_Created"/> state (i.e. created and not locked, and
11127	big enough to hold the data or else the copy will be partial). Upon
11128	successful completion, the cloned medium will contain exactly the
11129	same sector data as the medium being cloned, except that in the
11130	first case a new UUID for the clone will be randomly generated, and in
11131	the second case the UUID will remain unchanged.
11132
11133	The @a parent argument defines which medium will be the parent
11134	of the clone. Passing a @c null reference indicates that the clone will
11135	be a base image, i.e. completely independent. It is possible to specify
11136	an arbitrary medium for this parameter, including the parent of the
11137	medium which is being cloned. Even cloning to a child of the source
11138	medium is possible. Note that when cloning to an existing image, the
11139	@a parent argument is ignored.
11140
11141	After the returned progress object reports that the operation is
11142	successfully complete, the target medium gets remembered by this
11143	VirtualBox installation and may be attached to virtual machines.
11144
11145	<note>
11146	This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/>
11147	state for the duration of this operation.
11148	</note>
11149	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
11150	The specified cloning variant is not supported at the moment.
11151	</result>
11152	</desc>
11153	<param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
11154	<desc>Target medium.</desc>
11155	</param>
11156	<param name="variant" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11157	<desc>Exact image variant which should be created (as a combination of
11158	<link to="MediumVariant" /> flags).</desc>
11159	</param>
11160	<param name="parent" type="IMedium" dir="in">
11161	<desc>Parent of the cloned medium.</desc>
11162	</param>
11163	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
11164	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
11165	</param>
11166	</method>
11167
11168	<!-- other methods -->
11169
11170	<method name="compact">
11171	<desc>
11172	Starts compacting of this medium. This means that the medium is
11173	transformed into a possibly more compact storage representation.
11174	This potentially creates temporary images, which can require a
11175	substantial amount of additional disk space.
11176
11177	This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
11178	state and all its parent media (if any) will be placed to
11179	<link to="MediumState_LockedRead"/> state for the duration of this
11180	operation.
11181
11182	Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
11183	or later as the result of the background operation via the object
11184	returned via the @a progress parameter.
11185
11186	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11187	Medium format does not support compacting (but potentially
11188	needs it).
11189	</result>
11190	</desc>
11191	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
11192	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
11193	</param>
11194	</method>
11195
11196	<method name="resize">
11197	<desc>
11198	Starts resizing this medium. This means that the nominal size of the
11199	medium is set to the new value. Both increasing and decreasing the
11200	size is possible, and there are no safety checks, since VirtualBox
11201	does not make any assumptions about the medium contents.
11202
11203	Resizing usually needs additional disk space, and possibly also
11204	some temporary disk space. Note that resize does not create a full
11205	temporary copy of the medium, so the additional disk space requirement
11206	is usually much lower than using the clone operation.
11207
11208	This medium will be placed to <link to="MediumState_LockedWrite"/>
11209	state for the duration of this operation.
11210
11211	Please note that the results can be either returned straight away,
11212	or later as the result of the background operation via the object
11213	returned via the @a progress parameter.
11214
11215	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11216	Medium format does not support resizing.
11217	</result>
11218	</desc>
11219	<param name="logicalSize" type="long long" dir="in">
11220	<desc>New nominal capacity of the medium in bytes.</desc>
11221	</param>
11222	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
11223	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
11224	</param>
11225	</method>
11226
11227	<method name="reset">
11228	<desc>
11229	Starts erasing the contents of this differencing medium.
11230
11231	This operation will reset the differencing medium to its initial
11232	state when it does not contain any sector data and any read operation is
11233	redirected to its parent medium. This automatically gets called
11234	during VM power-up for every medium whose <link to="#autoReset" />
11235	attribute is @c true.
11236
11237	The medium will be write-locked for the duration of this operation (see
11238	<link to="#lockWrite" />).
11239
11240	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
11241	This is not a differencing medium.
11242	</result>
11243	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
11244	Medium is not in <link to="MediumState_Created"/> or
11245	<link to="MediumState_Inaccessible"/> state.
11246	</result>
11247	</desc>
11248	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="return">
11249	<desc>Progress object to track the operation completion.</desc>
11250	</param>
11251	</method>
11252
11253	</interface>
11254
11255
11256	<!--
11257	// IMediumFormat
11258	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11259	-->
11260
11261	<enum
11262	name="DataType"
11263	uuid="d90ea51e-a3f1-4a01-beb1-c1723c0d3ba7"
11264	>
11265	<const name="Int32" value="0"/>
11266	<const name="Int8" value="1"/>
11267	<const name="String" value="2"/>
11268	</enum>
11269
11270	<enum
11271	name="DataFlags"
11272	uuid="86884dcf-1d6b-4f1b-b4bf-f5aa44959d60"
11273	>
11274	<const name="None" value="0x00"/>
11275	<const name="Mandatory" value="0x01"/>
11276	<const name="Expert" value="0x02"/>
11277	<const name="Array" value="0x04"/>
11278	<const name="FlagMask" value="0x07"/>
11279	</enum>
11280
11281	<enum
11282	name="MediumFormatCapabilities"
11283	uuid="7342ba79-7ce0-4d94-8f86-5ed5a185d9bd"
11284	>
11285	<desc>
11286	Medium format capability flags.
11287	</desc>
11288
11289	<const name="Uuid" value="0x01">
11290	<desc>
11291	Supports UUIDs as expected by VirtualBox code.
11292	</desc>
11293	</const>
11294
11295	<const name="CreateFixed" value="0x02">
11296	<desc>
11297	Supports creating fixed size images, allocating all space instantly.
11298	</desc>
11299	</const>
11300
11301	<const name="CreateDynamic" value="0x04">
11302	<desc>
11303	Supports creating dynamically growing images, allocating space on
11304	demand.
11305	</desc>
11306	</const>
11307
11308	<const name="CreateSplit2G" value="0x08">
11309	<desc>
11310	Supports creating images split in chunks of a bit less than 2 GBytes.
11311	</desc>
11312	</const>
11313
11314	<const name="Differencing" value="0x10">
11315	<desc>
11316	Supports being used as a format for differencing media (see <link
11317	to="IMedium::createDiffStorage"/>).
11318	</desc>
11319	</const>
11320
11321	<const name="Asynchronous" value="0x20">
11322	<desc>
11323	Supports asynchronous I/O operations for at least some configurations.
11324	</desc>
11325	</const>
11326
11327	<const name="File" value="0x40">
11328	<desc>
11329	The format backend operates on files (the <link to="IMedium::location"/>
11330	attribute of the medium specifies a file used to store medium
11331	data; for a list of supported file extensions see
11332	<link to="IMediumFormat::describeFileExtensions"/>).
11333	</desc>
11334	</const>
11335
11336	<const name="Properties" value="0x80">
11337	<desc>
11338	The format backend uses the property interface to configure the storage
11339	location and properties (the <link to="IMediumFormat::describeProperties"/>
11340	method is used to get access to properties supported by the given medium format).
11341	</desc>
11342	</const>
11343
11344	<const name="TcpNetworking" value="0x100">
11345	<desc>
11346	The format backend uses the TCP networking interface for network access.
11347	</desc>
11348	</const>
11349
11350	<const name="VFS" value="0x200">
11351	<desc>
11352	The format backend supports virtual filesystem functionality.
11353	</desc>
11354	</const>
11355
11356	<const name="CapabilityMask" value="0x3FF"/>
11357	</enum>
11358
11359	<interface
11360	name="IMediumFormat" extends="$unknown"
11361	uuid="9bd5b655-ea47-4637-99f3-aad0948be35b"
11362	wsmap="managed"
11363	>
11364	<desc>
11365	The IMediumFormat interface represents a medium format.
11366
11367	Each medium format has an associated backend which is used to handle
11368	media stored in this format. This interface provides information
11369	about the properties of the associated backend.
11370
11371	Each medium format is identified by a string represented by the
11372	<link to="#id"/> attribute. This string is used in calls like
11373	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/> to specify the desired
11374	format.
11375
11376	The list of all supported medium formats can be obtained using
11377	<link to="ISystemProperties::mediumFormats"/>.
11378
11379	<see><link to="IMedium"/></see>
11380	</desc>
11381
11382	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11383	<desc>
11384	Identifier of this format.
11385
11386	The format identifier is a non-@c null non-empty ASCII string. Note that
11387	this string is case-insensitive. This means that, for example, all of
11388	the following strings:
11389	<pre>
11390	"VDI"
11391	"vdi"
11392	"VdI"</pre>
11393	refer to the same medium format.
11394
11395	This string is used in methods of other interfaces where it is necessary
11396	to specify a medium format, such as
11397	<link to="IVirtualBox::createHardDisk"/>.
11398	</desc>
11399	</attribute>
11400
11401	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
11402	<desc>
11403	Human readable description of this format.
11404
11405	Mainly for use in file open dialogs.
11406	</desc>
11407	</attribute>
11408
11409	<attribute name="capabilities" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11410	<desc>
11411	Capabilities of the format as a set of bit flags.
11412
11413	For the meaning of individual capability flags see
11414	<link to="MediumFormatCapabilities"/>.
11415	</desc>
11416	</attribute>
11417
11418	<method name="describeFileExtensions">
11419	<desc>
11420	Returns two arrays describing the supported file extensions.
11421
11422	The first array contains the supported extensions and the seconds one
11423	the type each extension supports. Both have the same size.
11424
11425	Note that some backends do not work on files, so this array may be
11426	empty.
11427
11428	<see><link to="IMediumFormat::capabilities"/></see>
11429	</desc>
11430	<param name="extensions" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11431	<desc>The array of supported extensions.</desc>
11432	</param>
11433	<param name="type" type="DeviceType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11434	<desc>The array which indicates the device type for every given extension.</desc>
11435	</param>
11436	</method>
11437
11438	<method name="describeProperties" const="yes">
11439	<desc>
11440	Returns several arrays describing the properties supported by this
11441	format.
11442
11443	An element with the given index in each array describes one
11444	property. Thus, the number of elements in each returned array is the
11445	same and corresponds to the number of supported properties.
11446
11447	The returned arrays are filled in only if the
11448	<link to="MediumFormatCapabilities_Properties"/> flag is set.
11449	All arguments must be non-@c null.
11450
11451	<see><link to="DataType"/>, <link to="DataFlags"/></see>
11452	</desc>
11453
11454	<param name="names" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11455	<desc>Array of property names.</desc>
11456	</param>
11457	<param name="description" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11458	<desc>Array of property descriptions.</desc>
11459	</param>
11460	<param name="types" type="DataType" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11461	<desc>Array of property types.</desc>
11462	</param>
11463	<param name="flags" type="unsigned long" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11464	<desc>Array of property flags.</desc>
11465	</param>
11466	<param name="defaults" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
11467	<desc>Array of default property values.</desc>
11468	</param>
11469	</method>
11470
11471	</interface>
11472
11473
11474	<!--
11475	// IKeyboard
11476	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11477	-->
11478
11479	<interface
11480	name="IKeyboard" extends="$unknown"
11481	uuid="f6916ec5-a881-4237-898f-7de58cf88672"
11482	wsmap="managed"
11483	>
11484	<desc>
11485	The IKeyboard interface represents the virtual machine's keyboard. Used
11486	in <link to="IConsole::keyboard"/>.
11487
11488	Use this interface to send keystrokes or the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence
11489	to the virtual machine.
11490
11491	</desc>
11492	<method name="putScancode">
11493	<desc>Sends a scancode to the keyboard.
11494
11495	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11496	Could not send scan code to virtual keyboard.
11497	</result>
11498
11499	</desc>
11500	<param name="scancode" type="long" dir="in"/>
11501	</method>
11502
11503	<method name="putScancodes">
11504	<desc>Sends an array of scancodes to the keyboard.
11505
11506	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11507	Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
11508	</result>
11509
11510	</desc>
11511	<param name="scancodes" type="long" dir="in" safearray="yes"/>
11512	<param name="codesStored" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
11513	</method>
11514
11515	<method name="putCAD">
11516	<desc>Sends the Ctrl-Alt-Del sequence to the keyboard. This
11517	function is nothing special, it is just a convenience function
11518	calling <link to="IKeyboard::putScancodes"/> with the proper scancodes.
11519
11520	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11521	Could not send all scan codes to virtual keyboard.
11522	</result>
11523
11524	</desc>
11525	</method>
11526
11527	<attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
11528	<desc>
11529	Event source for keyboard events.
11530	</desc>
11531	</attribute>
11532
11533	</interface>
11534
11535
11536	<!--
11537	// IMouse
11538	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11539	-->
11540
11541	<enum
11542	name="MouseButtonState"
11543	uuid="9ee094b8-b28a-4d56-a166-973cb588d7f8"
11544	>
11545	<desc>
11546	Mouse button state.
11547	</desc>
11548
11549	<const name="LeftButton" value="0x01"/>
11550	<const name="RightButton" value="0x02"/>
11551	<const name="MiddleButton" value="0x04"/>
11552	<const name="WheelUp" value="0x08"/>
11553	<const name="WheelDown" value="0x10"/>
11554	<const name="XButton1" value="0x20"/>
11555	<const name="XButton2" value="0x40"/>
11556	<const name="MouseStateMask" value="0x7F"/>
11557	</enum>
11558
11559	<interface
11560	name="IMouse" extends="$unknown"
11561	uuid="05044a52-7811-4f00-ae3a-0ab7ff707b10"
11562	wsmap="managed"
11563	>
11564	<desc>
11565	The IMouse interface represents the virtual machine's mouse. Used in
11566	<link to="IConsole::mouse"/>.
11567
11568	Through this interface, the virtual machine's virtual mouse can be
11569	controlled.
11570	</desc>
11571
11572	<attribute name="absoluteSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11573	<desc>
11574	Whether the guest OS supports absolute mouse pointer positioning
11575	or not.
11576	<note>
11577	You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
11578	event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
11579	during virtual machine execution.
11580	</note>
11581	<see><link to="#putMouseEventAbsolute"/></see>
11582	</desc>
11583	</attribute>
11584
11585	<attribute name="relativeSupported" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11586	<desc>
11587	Whether the guest OS supports relative mouse pointer positioning
11588	or not.
11589	<note>
11590	You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
11591	event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
11592	during virtual machine execution.
11593	</note>
11594	<see><link to="#putMouseEvent"/></see>
11595	</desc>
11596	</attribute>
11597
11598	<attribute name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11599	<desc>
11600	Whether the guest OS can currently switch to drawing it's own mouse
11601	cursor on demand.
11602	<note>
11603	You can use the <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent"/>
11604	event to be instantly informed about changes of this attribute
11605	during virtual machine execution.
11606	</note>
11607	<see><link to="#putMouseEvent"/></see>
11608	</desc>
11609	</attribute>
11610
11611	<method name="putMouseEvent">
11612	<desc>
11613	Initiates a mouse event using relative pointer movements
11614	along x and y axis.
11615
11616	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
11617	Console not powered up.
11618	</result>
11619	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11620	Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
11621	</result>
11622
11623	</desc>
11624
11625	<param name="dx" type="long" dir="in">
11626	<desc>
11627	Amount of pixels the mouse should move to the right.
11628	Negative values move the mouse to the left.
11629	</desc>
11630	</param>
11631	<param name="dy" type="long" dir="in">
11632	<desc>
11633	Amount of pixels the mouse should move downwards.
11634	Negative values move the mouse upwards.
11635	</desc>
11636	</param>
11637	<param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
11638	<desc>
11639	Amount of mouse wheel moves.
11640	Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
11641	negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
11642	</desc>
11643	</param>
11644	<param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
11645	<desc>
11646	Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
11647	Positive values describe a movement to the left,
11648	negative values describe a movement to the right.
11649	</desc>
11650	</param>
11651	<param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
11652	<desc>
11653	The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
11654	a mouse button as follows:
11655	<table>
11656	<tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
11657	<tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
11658	<tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
11659	</table>
11660	A value of <tt>1</tt> means the corresponding button is pressed.
11661	otherwise it is released.
11662	</desc>
11663	</param>
11664	</method>
11665
11666	<method name="putMouseEventAbsolute">
11667	<desc>
11668	Positions the mouse pointer using absolute x and y coordinates.
11669	These coordinates are expressed in pixels and
11670	start from <tt>[1,1]</tt> which corresponds to the top left
11671	corner of the virtual display.
11672
11673	<result name="E_ACCESSDENIED">
11674	Console not powered up.
11675	</result>
11676	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
11677	Could not send mouse event to virtual mouse.
11678	</result>
11679
11680	<note>
11681	This method will have effect only if absolute mouse
11682	positioning is supported by the guest OS.
11683	</note>
11684
11685	<see><link to="#absoluteSupported"/></see>
11686	</desc>
11687
11688	<param name="x" type="long" dir="in">
11689	<desc>
11690	X coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
11691	</desc>
11692	</param>
11693	<param name="y" type="long" dir="in">
11694	<desc>
11695	Y coordinate of the pointer in pixels, starting from @c 1.
11696	</desc>
11697	</param>
11698	<param name="dz" type="long" dir="in">
11699	<desc>
11700	Amount of mouse wheel moves.
11701	Positive values describe clockwise wheel rotations,
11702	negative values describe counterclockwise rotations.
11703	</desc>
11704	</param>
11705	<param name="dw" type="long" dir="in">
11706	<desc>
11707	Amount of horizontal mouse wheel moves.
11708	Positive values describe a movement to the left,
11709	negative values describe a movement to the right.
11710	</desc>
11711	</param>
11712	<param name="buttonState" type="long" dir="in">
11713	<desc>
11714	The current state of mouse buttons. Every bit represents
11715	a mouse button as follows:
11716	<table>
11717	<tr><td>Bit 0 (<tt>0x01</tt>)</td><td>left mouse button</td></tr>
11718	<tr><td>Bit 1 (<tt>0x02</tt>)</td><td>right mouse button</td></tr>
11719	<tr><td>Bit 2 (<tt>0x04</tt>)</td><td>middle mouse button</td></tr>
11720	</table>
11721	A value of @c 1 means the corresponding button is pressed.
11722	otherwise it is released.
11723	</desc>
11724	</param>
11725	</method>
11726
11727	<attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
11728	<desc>
11729	Event source for mouse events.
11730	</desc>
11731	</attribute>
11732
11733	</interface>
11734
11735	<!--
11736	// IDisplay
11737	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
11738	-->
11739
11740	<enum
11741	name="FramebufferPixelFormat"
11742	uuid="7acfd5ed-29e3-45e3-8136-73c9224f3d2d"
11743	>
11744	<desc>
11745	Format of the video memory buffer. Constants represented by this enum can
11746	be used to test for particular values of <link
11747	to="IFramebuffer::pixelFormat"/>. See also <link
11748	to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/>.
11749
11750	See also www.fourcc.org for more information about FOURCC pixel formats.
11751	</desc>
11752
11753	<const name="Opaque" value="0">
11754	<desc>
11755	Unknown buffer format (the user may not assume any particular format of
11756	the buffer).
11757	</desc>
11758	</const>
11759	<const name="FOURCC_RGB" value="0x32424752">
11760	<desc>
11761	Basic RGB format (<link to="IFramebuffer::bitsPerPixel"/> determines the
11762	bit layout).
11763	</desc>
11764	</const>
11765	</enum>
11766
11767	<interface
11768	name="IFramebuffer" extends="$unknown"
11769	uuid="b7ed347a-5765-40a0-ae1c-f543eb4ddeaf"
11770	wsmap="suppress"
11771	>
11772	<attribute name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" readonly="yes">
11773	<desc>Address of the start byte of the frame buffer.</desc>
11774	</attribute>
11775
11776	<attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11777	<desc>Frame buffer width, in pixels.</desc>
11778	</attribute>
11779
11780	<attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11781	<desc>Frame buffer height, in pixels.</desc>
11782	</attribute>
11783
11784	<attribute name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11785	<desc>
11786	Color depth, in bits per pixel. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
11787	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, valid values
11788	are: 8, 15, 16, 24 and 32.
11789	</desc>
11790	</attribute>
11791
11792	<attribute name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11793	<desc>
11794	Scan line size, in bytes. When <link to="#pixelFormat"/> is <link
11795	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_FOURCC_RGB">FOURCC_RGB</link>, the
11796	size of the scan line must be aligned to 32 bits.
11797	</desc>
11798	</attribute>
11799
11800	<attribute name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11801	<desc>
11802	Frame buffer pixel format. It's either one of the values defined by <link
11803	to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/> or a raw FOURCC code.
11804	<note>
11805	This attribute must never return <link
11806	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> -- the format of the buffer
11807	<link to="#address"/> points to must be always known.
11808	</note>
11809	</desc>
11810	</attribute>
11811
11812	<attribute name="usesGuestVRAM" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
11813	<desc>
11814	Defines whether this frame buffer uses the virtual video card's memory
11815	buffer (guest VRAM) directly or not. See <link
11816	to="IFramebuffer::requestResize"/> for more information.
11817	</desc>
11818	</attribute>
11819
11820	<attribute name="heightReduction" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
11821	<desc>
11822	Hint from the frame buffer about how much of the standard
11823	screen height it wants to use for itself. This information is
11824	exposed to the guest through the VESA BIOS and VMMDev interface
11825	so that it can use it for determining its video mode table. It
11826	is not guaranteed that the guest respects the value.
11827	</desc>
11828	</attribute>
11829
11830	<attribute name="overlay" type="IFramebufferOverlay" readonly="yes">
11831	<desc>
11832	An alpha-blended overlay which is superposed over the frame buffer.
11833	The initial purpose is to allow the display of icons providing
11834	information about the VM state, including disk activity, in front
11835	ends which do not have other means of doing that. The overlay is
11836	designed to controlled exclusively by IDisplay. It has no locking
11837	of its own, and any changes made to it are not guaranteed to be
11838	visible until the affected portion of IFramebuffer is updated. The
11839	overlay can be created lazily the first time it is requested. This
11840	attribute can also return @c null to signal that the overlay is not
11841	implemented.
11842	</desc>
11843	</attribute>
11844
11845	<attribute name="winId" type="long long" readonly="yes">
11846	<desc>
11847	Platform-dependent identifier of the window where context of this
11848	frame buffer is drawn, or zero if there's no such window.
11849	</desc>
11850	</attribute>
11851
11852	<method name="lock">
11853	<desc>
11854	Locks the frame buffer.
11855	Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
11856	bound to.
11857	</desc>
11858	</method>
11859
11860	<method name="unlock">
11861	<desc>
11862	Unlocks the frame buffer.
11863	Gets called by the IDisplay object where this frame buffer is
11864	bound to.
11865	</desc>
11866	</method>
11867
11868	<method name="notifyUpdate">
11869	<desc>
11870	Informs about an update.
11871	Gets called by the display object where this buffer is
11872	registered.
11873	</desc>
11874	<param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11875	<param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11876	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11877	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
11878	</method>
11879
11880	<method name="requestResize">
11881	<desc>
11882	Requests a size and pixel format change.
11883
11884	There are two modes of working with the video buffer of the virtual
11885	machine. The <i>indirect</i> mode implies that the IFramebuffer
11886	implementation allocates a memory buffer for the requested display mode
11887	and provides it to the virtual machine. In <i>direct</i> mode, the
11888	IFramebuffer implementation uses the memory buffer allocated and owned
11889	by the virtual machine. This buffer represents the video memory of the
11890	emulated video adapter (so called <i>guest VRAM</i>). The direct mode is
11891	usually faster because the implementation gets a raw pointer to the
11892	guest VRAM buffer which it can directly use for visualizing the contents
11893	of the virtual display, as opposed to the indirect mode where the
11894	contents of guest VRAM are copied to the memory buffer provided by
11895	the implementation every time a display update occurs.
11896
11897	It is important to note that the direct mode is really fast only when
11898	the implementation uses the given guest VRAM buffer directly, for
11899	example, by blitting it to the window representing the virtual machine's
11900	display, which saves at least one copy operation comparing to the
11901	indirect mode. However, using the guest VRAM buffer directly is not
11902	always possible: the format and the color depth of this buffer may be
11903	not supported by the target window, or it may be unknown (opaque) as in
11904	case of text or non-linear multi-plane VGA video modes. In this case,
11905	the indirect mode (that is always available) should be used as a
11906	fallback: when the guest VRAM contents are copied to the
11907	implementation-provided memory buffer, color and format conversion is
11908	done automatically by the underlying code.
11909
11910	The @a pixelFormat parameter defines whether the direct mode is
11911	available or not. If @a pixelFormat is <link
11912	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> then direct access to the guest
11913	VRAM buffer is not available -- the @a VRAM, @a bitsPerPixel and
11914	@a bytesPerLine parameters must be ignored and the implementation must use
11915	the indirect mode (where it provides its own buffer in one of the
11916	supported formats). In all other cases, @a pixelFormat together with
11917	@a bitsPerPixel and @a bytesPerLine define the format of the video memory
11918	buffer pointed to by the @a VRAM parameter and the implementation is
11919	free to choose which mode to use. To indicate that this frame buffer uses
11920	the direct mode, the implementation of the <link to="#usesGuestVRAM"/>
11921	attribute must return @c true and <link to="#address"/> must
11922	return exactly the same address that is passed in the @a VRAM parameter
11923	of this method; otherwise it is assumed that the indirect strategy is
11924	chosen.
11925
11926	The @a width and @a height parameters represent the size of the
11927	requested display mode in both modes. In case of indirect mode, the
11928	provided memory buffer should be big enough to store data of the given
11929	display mode. In case of direct mode, it is guaranteed that the given
11930	@a VRAM buffer contains enough space to represent the display mode of the
11931	given size. Note that this frame buffer's <link to="#width"/> and <link
11932	to="#height"/> attributes must return exactly the same values as
11933	passed to this method after the resize is completed (see below).
11934
11935	The @a finished output parameter determines if the implementation has
11936	finished resizing the frame buffer or not. If, for some reason, the
11937	resize cannot be finished immediately during this call, @a finished
11938	must be set to @c false, and the implementation must call
11939	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> after it has returned from
11940	this method as soon as possible. If @a finished is @c false, the
11941	machine will not call any frame buffer methods until
11942	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
11943
11944	Note that if the direct mode is chosen, the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>,
11945	<link to="#bytesPerLine"/> and <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attributes of
11946	this frame buffer must return exactly the same values as specified in the
11947	parameters of this method, after the resize is completed. If the
11948	indirect mode is chosen, these attributes must return values describing
11949	the format of the implementation's own memory buffer <link
11950	to="#address"/> points to. Note also that the <link to="#bitsPerPixel"/>
11951	value must always correlate with <link to="#pixelFormat"/>. Note that
11952	the <link to="#pixelFormat"/> attribute must never return <link
11953	to="FramebufferPixelFormat_Opaque"/> regardless of the selected mode.
11954
11955	<note>
11956	This method is called by the IDisplay object under the
11957	<link to="#lock"/> provided by this IFramebuffer
11958	implementation. If this method returns @c false in @a finished, then
11959	this lock is not released until
11960	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> is called.
11961	</note>
11962	</desc>
11963	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11964	<desc>
11965	Logical screen number. Must be used in the corresponding call to
11966	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/> if this call is made.
11967	</desc>
11968	</param>
11969	<param name="pixelFormat" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11970	<desc>
11971	Pixel format of the memory buffer pointed to by @a VRAM.
11972	See also <link to="FramebufferPixelFormat"/>.
11973	</desc>
11974	</param>
11975	<param name="VRAM" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
11976	<desc>Pointer to the virtual video card's VRAM (may be @c null).</desc>
11977	</param>
11978	<param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11979	<desc>Color depth, bits per pixel.</desc>
11980	</param>
11981	<param name="bytesPerLine" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11982	<desc>Size of one scan line, in bytes.</desc>
11983	</param>
11984	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11985	<desc>Width of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
11986	</param>
11987	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
11988	<desc>Height of the guest display, in pixels.</desc>
11989	</param>
11990	<param name="finished" type="boolean" dir="return">
11991	<desc>
11992	Can the VM start using the new frame buffer immediately
11993	after this method returns or it should wait for
11994	<link to="IDisplay::resizeCompleted"/>.
11995	</desc>
11996	</param>
11997	</method>
11998
11999	<method name="videoModeSupported">
12000	<desc>
12001	Returns whether the frame buffer implementation is willing to
12002	support a given video mode. In case it is not able to render
12003	the video mode (or for some reason not willing), it should
12004	return @c false. Usually this method is called when the guest
12005	asks the VMM device whether a given video mode is supported
12006	so the information returned is directly exposed to the guest.
12007	It is important that this method returns very quickly.
12008	</desc>
12009	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12010	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12011	<param name="bpp" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12012	<param name="supported" type="boolean" dir="return"/>
12013	</method>
12014
12015	<method name="getVisibleRegion">
12016	<desc>
12017	Returns the visible region of this frame buffer.
12018
12019	If the @a rectangles parameter is @c null then the value of the
12020	@a count parameter is ignored and the number of elements necessary to
12021	describe the current visible region is returned in @a countCopied.
12022
12023	If @a rectangles is not @c null but @a count is less
12024	than the required number of elements to store region data, the method
12025	will report a failure. If @a count is equal or greater than the
12026	required number of elements, then the actual number of elements copied
12027	to the provided array will be returned in @a countCopied.
12028
12029	<note>
12030	The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
12031	this IFramebuffer object.
12032	</note>
12033	<note>
12034	Method not yet implemented.
12035	</note>
12036	</desc>
12037	<param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
12038	<desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array to receive region data.</desc>
12039	</param>
12040	<param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12041	<desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
12042	</param>
12043	<param name="countCopied" type="unsigned long" dir="return">
12044	<desc>Number of elements copied to the @a rectangles array.</desc>
12045	</param>
12046	</method>
12047
12048	<method name="setVisibleRegion">
12049	<desc>
12050	Suggests a new visible region to this frame buffer. This region
12051	represents the area of the VM display which is a union of regions of
12052	all top-level windows of the guest operating system running inside the
12053	VM (if the Guest Additions for this system support this
12054	functionality). This information may be used by the frontends to
12055	implement the seamless desktop integration feature.
12056
12057	<note>
12058	The address of the provided array must be in the process space of
12059	this IFramebuffer object.
12060	</note>
12061	<note>
12062	The IFramebuffer implementation must make a copy of the provided
12063	array of rectangles.
12064	</note>
12065	<note>
12066	Method not yet implemented.
12067	</note>
12068	</desc>
12069	<param name="rectangles" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
12070	<desc>Pointer to the @c RTRECT array.</desc>
12071	</param>
12072	<param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12073	<desc>Number of @c RTRECT elements in the @a rectangles array.</desc>
12074	</param>
12075	</method>
12076
12077	<method name="processVHWACommand">
12078	<desc>
12079	Posts a Video HW Acceleration Command to the frame buffer for processing.
12080	The commands used for 2D video acceleration (DDraw surface creation/destroying, blitting, scaling, color conversion, overlaying, etc.)
12081	are posted from quest to the host to be processed by the host hardware.
12082
12083	<note>
12084	The address of the provided command must be in the process space of
12085	this IFramebuffer object.
12086	</note>
12087	</desc>
12088
12089	<param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
12090	<desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the command to execute.</desc>
12091	</param>
12092	</method>
12093
12094	</interface>
12095
12096	<interface
12097	name="IFramebufferOverlay" extends="IFramebuffer"
12098	uuid="0bcc1c7e-e415-47d2-bfdb-e4c705fb0f47"
12099	wsmap="suppress"
12100	>
12101	<desc>
12102	The IFramebufferOverlay interface represents an alpha blended overlay
12103	for displaying status icons above an IFramebuffer. It is always created
12104	not visible, so that it must be explicitly shown. It only covers a
12105	portion of the IFramebuffer, determined by its width, height and
12106	co-ordinates. It is always in packed pixel little-endian 32bit ARGB (in
12107	that order) format, and may be written to directly. Do re-read the
12108	width though, after setting it, as it may be adjusted (increased) to
12109	make it more suitable for the front end.
12110	</desc>
12111	<attribute name="x" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12112	<desc>X position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
12113	</attribute>
12114
12115	<attribute name="y" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12116	<desc>Y position of the overlay, relative to the frame buffer.</desc>
12117	</attribute>
12118
12119	<attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="no">
12120	<desc>
12121	Whether the overlay is currently visible.
12122	</desc>
12123	</attribute>
12124
12125	<attribute name="alpha" type="unsigned long" readonly="no">
12126	<desc>
12127	The global alpha value for the overlay. This may or may not be
12128	supported by a given front end.
12129	</desc>
12130	</attribute>
12131
12132	<method name="move">
12133	<desc>
12134	Changes the overlay's position relative to the IFramebuffer.
12135	</desc>
12136	<param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12137	<param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12138	</method>
12139
12140	</interface>
12141
12142	<interface
12143	name="IDisplay" extends="$unknown"
12144	uuid="09EED313-CD56-4D06-BD56-FAC0F716B5DD"
12145	wsmap="managed"
12146	>
12147	<desc>
12148	The IDisplay interface represents the virtual machine's display.
12149
12150	The object implementing this interface is contained in each
12151	<link to="IConsole::display"/> attribute and represents the visual
12152	output of the virtual machine.
12153
12154	The virtual display supports pluggable output targets represented by the
12155	IFramebuffer interface. Examples of the output target are a window on
12156	the host computer or an RDP session's display on a remote computer.
12157	</desc>
12158	<method name="getScreenResolution">
12159	<desc>Queries display width, height and color depth for given screen.</desc>
12160	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12161	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
12162	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
12163	<param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="out"/>
12164	</method>
12165
12166	<method name="setFramebuffer">
12167	<desc>
12168	Sets the framebuffer for given screen.
12169	</desc>
12170	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12171	<param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="in"/>
12172	</method>
12173
12174	<method name="getFramebuffer">
12175	<desc>
12176	Queries the framebuffer for given screen.
12177	</desc>
12178	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12179	<param name="framebuffer" type="IFramebuffer" dir="out"/>
12180	<param name="xOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
12181	<param name="yOrigin" type="long" dir="out"/>
12182	</method>
12183
12184	<method name="setVideoModeHint">
12185	<desc>
12186	Asks VirtualBox to request the given video mode from
12187	the guest. This is just a hint and it cannot be guaranteed
12188	that the requested resolution will be used. Guest Additions
12189	are required for the request to be seen by guests. The caller
12190	should issue the request and wait for a resolution change and
12191	after a timeout retry.
12192
12193	Specifying @c 0 for either @a width, @a height or @a bitsPerPixel
12194	parameters means that the corresponding values should be taken from the
12195	current video mode (i.e. left unchanged).
12196
12197	If the guest OS supports multi-monitor configuration then the @a display
12198	parameter specifies the number of the guest display to send the hint to:
12199	@c 0 is the primary display, @c 1 is the first secondary and
12200	so on. If the multi-monitor configuration is not supported, @a display
12201	must be @c 0.
12202
12203	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
12204	The @a display is not associated with any monitor.
12205	</result>
12206
12207	</desc>
12208	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12209	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12210	<param name="bitsPerPixel" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12211	<param name="display" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12212	</method>
12213
12214	<method name="setSeamlessMode">
12215	<desc>
12216	Enables or disables seamless guest display rendering (seamless desktop
12217	integration) mode.
12218	<note>
12219	Calling this method has no effect if <link
12220	to="IGuest::getFacilityStatus"/> with facility @c Seamless
12221	does not return @c Active.
12222	</note>
12223	</desc>
12224	<param name="enabled" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
12225	</method>
12226
12227	<method name="takeScreenShot">
12228	<desc>
12229	Takes a screen shot of the requested size and copies it to the
12230	32-bpp buffer allocated by the caller and pointed to by @a address.
12231	A pixel consists of 4 bytes in order: B, G, R, 0.
12232
12233	<note>This API can be used only locally by a VM process through the
12234	COM/XPCOM C++ API as it requires pointer support. It is not
12235	available for scripting langages, Java or any webservice clients.
12236	Unless you are writing a new VM frontend use
12237	<link to="#takeScreenShotToArray" />.
12238	</note>
12239
12240	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
12241	Feature not implemented.
12242	</result>
12243	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
12244	Could not take a screenshot.
12245	</result>
12246
12247	</desc>
12248	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12249	<param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in"/>
12250	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12251	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12252	</method>
12253
12254	<method name="takeScreenShotToArray">
12255	<desc>
12256	Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
12257	an array of bytes in uncompressed 32-bit RGBA format.
12258	A pixel consists of 4 bytes in order: R, G, B, 0xFF.
12259
12260	This API is slow, but could be the only option to get guest screenshot
12261	for scriptable languages not allowed to manipulate with addresses
12262	directly.
12263
12264	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
12265	Feature not implemented.
12266	</result>
12267	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
12268	Could not take a screenshot.
12269	</result>
12270	</desc>
12271	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12272	<desc>
12273	Monitor to take screenshot from.
12274	</desc>
12275	</param>
12276	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12277	<desc>
12278	Desired image width.
12279	</desc>
12280	</param>
12281	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12282	<desc>
12283	Desired image height.
12284	</desc>
12285	</param>
12286	<param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
12287	<desc>
12288	Array with resulting screen data.
12289	</desc>
12290	</param>
12291	</method>
12292
12293	<method name="takeScreenShotPNGToArray">
12294	<desc>
12295	Takes a guest screen shot of the requested size and returns it as
12296	PNG image in array.
12297
12298	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
12299	Feature not implemented.
12300	</result>
12301	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
12302	Could not take a screenshot.
12303	</result>
12304	</desc>
12305	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12306	<desc>
12307	Monitor to take the screenshot from.
12308	</desc>
12309	</param>
12310	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12311	<desc>
12312	Desired image width.
12313	</desc>
12314	</param>
12315	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12316	<desc>
12317	Desired image height.
12318	</desc>
12319	</param>
12320	<param name="screenData" type="octet" dir="return" safearray="yes">
12321	<desc>
12322	Array with resulting screen data.
12323	</desc>
12324	</param>
12325	</method>
12326
12327	<method name="drawToScreen">
12328	<desc>
12329	Draws a 32-bpp image of the specified size from the given buffer
12330	to the given point on the VM display.
12331
12332	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
12333	Feature not implemented.
12334	</result>
12335	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
12336	Could not draw to screen.
12337	</result>
12338
12339	</desc>
12340	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12341	<desc>
12342	Monitor to take the screenshot from.
12343	</desc>
12344	</param>
12345	<param name="address" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
12346	<desc>
12347	Address to store the screenshot to
12348	</desc>
12349	</param>
12350	<param name="x" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12351	<desc>
12352	Relative to the screen top left corner.
12353	</desc>
12354	</param>
12355	<param name="y" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12356	<desc>
12357	Relative to the screen top left corner.
12358	</desc>
12359	</param>
12360	<param name="width" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12361	<desc>
12362	Desired image width.
12363	</desc>
12364	</param>
12365	<param name="height" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12366	<desc>
12367	Desired image height.
12368	</desc>
12369	</param>
12370	</method>
12371
12372	<method name="invalidateAndUpdate">
12373	<desc>
12374	Does a full invalidation of the VM display and instructs the VM
12375	to update it.
12376
12377	<result name="VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR">
12378	Could not invalidate and update screen.
12379	</result>
12380
12381	</desc>
12382	</method>
12383
12384	<method name="resizeCompleted">
12385	<desc>
12386	Signals that a framebuffer has completed the resize operation.
12387
12388	<result name="VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED">
12389	Operation only valid for external frame buffers.
12390	</result>
12391
12392	</desc>
12393	<param name="screenId" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
12394	</method>
12395
12396	<method name="completeVHWACommand">
12397	<desc>
12398	Signals that the Video HW Acceleration command has completed.
12399	</desc>
12400
12401	<param name="command" type="octet" mod="ptr" dir="in">
12402	<desc>Pointer to VBOXVHWACMD containing the completed command.</desc>
12403	</param>
12404	</method>
12405
12406	</interface>
12407
12408	<!--
12409	// INetworkAdapter
12410	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12411	-->
12412
12413	<enum
12414	name="NetworkAttachmentType"
12415	uuid="2ac4bc71-6b82-417a-acd1-f7426d2570d6"
12416	>
12417	<desc>
12418	Network attachment type.
12419	</desc>
12420
12421	<const name="Null" value="0">
12422	<desc>Null value, also means "not attached".</desc>
12423	</const>
12424	<const name="NAT" value="1"/>
12425	<const name="Bridged" value="2"/>
12426	<const name="Internal" value="3"/>
12427	<const name="HostOnly" value="4"/>
12428	<const name="Generic" value="5"/>
12429	</enum>
12430
12431	<enum
12432	name="NetworkAdapterType"
12433	uuid="3c2281e4-d952-4e87-8c7d-24379cb6a81c"
12434	>
12435	<desc>
12436	Network adapter type.
12437	</desc>
12438
12439	<const name="Null" value="0">
12440	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
12441	</const>
12442	<const name="Am79C970A" value="1">
12443	<desc>AMD PCNet-PCI II network card (Am79C970A).</desc>
12444	</const>
12445	<const name="Am79C973" value="2">
12446	<desc>AMD PCNet-FAST III network card (Am79C973).</desc>
12447	</const>
12448	<const name="I82540EM" value="3">
12449	<desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop network card (82540EM).</desc>
12450	</const>
12451	<const name="I82543GC" value="4">
12452	<desc>Intel PRO/1000 T Server network card (82543GC).</desc>
12453	</const>
12454	<const name="I82545EM" value="5">
12455	<desc>Intel PRO/1000 MT Server network card (82545EM).</desc>
12456	</const>
12457	<const name="Virtio" value="6">
12458	<desc>Virtio network device.</desc>
12459	</const>
12460	</enum>
12461
12462	<enum
12463	name="NetworkAdapterPromiscModePolicy"
12464	uuid="c963768a-376f-4c85-8d84-d8ced4b7269e"
12465	>
12466	<desc>
12467	The promiscuous mode policy of an interface.
12468	</desc>
12469
12470	<const name="Deny" value="1">
12471	<desc>Deny promiscuous mode requests.</desc>
12472	</const>
12473	<const name="AllowNetwork" value="2">
12474	<desc>
12475	Allow promicuous mode, but restrict the scope it to the internal
12476	network so that it only applies to other VMs.
12477	</desc>
12478	</const>
12479	<const name="AllowAll" value="3">
12480	<desc>
12481	Allow promicuous mode, include unrelated traffic going over the wire
12482	and internally on the host.
12483	</desc>
12484	</const>
12485	</enum>
12486
12487	<interface
12488	name="INetworkAdapter" extends="$unknown"
12489	uuid="8b2e705c-0547-4008-b7bc-788757346092"
12490	wsmap="managed"
12491	>
12492	<desc>
12493	Represents a virtual network adapter that is attached to a virtual machine.
12494	Each virtual machine has a fixed number of network adapter slots with one
12495	instance of this attached to each of them. Call
12496	<link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter" /> to get the network adapter that
12497	is attached to a given slot in a given machine.
12498
12499	Each network adapter can be in one of five attachment modes, which are
12500	represented by the <link to="NetworkAttachmentType" /> enumeration;
12501	see the <link to="#attachmentType" /> attribute.
12502	</desc>
12503
12504	<attribute name="adapterType" type="NetworkAdapterType">
12505	<desc>
12506	Type of the virtual network adapter. Depending on this value,
12507	VirtualBox will provide a different virtual network hardware
12508	to the guest.
12509	</desc>
12510	</attribute>
12511
12512	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12513	<desc>
12514	Slot number this adapter is plugged into. Corresponds to
12515	the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter"/>
12516	to obtain this instance.
12517	</desc>
12518	</attribute>
12519
12520	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12521	<desc>
12522	Flag whether the network adapter is present in the
12523	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
12524	not contain this network adapter. Can only be changed when
12525	the VM is not running.
12526	</desc>
12527	</attribute>
12528
12529	<attribute name="MACAddress" type="wstring">
12530	<desc>
12531	Ethernet MAC address of the adapter, 12 hexadecimal characters. When setting
12532	it to @c null or an empty string, VirtualBox will generate a unique MAC address.
12533	</desc>
12534	</attribute>
12535
12536	<attribute name="attachmentType" type="NetworkAttachmentType">
12537	<desc>
12538	Sets/Gets network attachment type of this network adapter.
12539	</desc>
12540	</attribute>
12541
12542	<attribute name="bridgedInterface" type="wstring">
12543	<desc>
12544	Name of the network interface the VM should be bridged to.
12545	</desc>
12546	</attribute>
12547
12548	<attribute name="hostOnlyInterface" type="wstring">
12549	<desc>
12550	Name of the host only network interface the VM is attached to.
12551	</desc>
12552	</attribute>
12553
12554	<attribute name="internalNetwork" type="wstring">
12555	<desc>
12556	Name of the internal network the VM is attached to.
12557	</desc>
12558	</attribute>
12559
12560	<attribute name="NATNetwork" type="wstring">
12561	<desc>
12562	Name of the NAT network the VM is attached to.
12563	</desc>
12564	</attribute>
12565
12566	<attribute name="genericDriver" type="wstring">
12567	<desc>
12568	Name of the driver to use for the "Generic" network attachment type.
12569	</desc>
12570	</attribute>
12571
12572	<attribute name="cableConnected" type="boolean">
12573	<desc>
12574	Flag whether the adapter reports the cable as connected or not.
12575	It can be used to report offline situations to a VM.
12576	</desc>
12577	</attribute>
12578
12579	<attribute name="lineSpeed" type="unsigned long">
12580	<desc>
12581	Line speed reported by custom drivers, in units of 1 kbps.
12582	</desc>
12583	</attribute>
12584
12585	<attribute name="promiscModePolicy" type="NetworkAdapterPromiscModePolicy">
12586	<desc>
12587	The promiscuous mode policy of the network adapter when attached to an
12588	internal network, host only network or a bridge.
12589	</desc>
12590	</attribute>
12591
12592	<attribute name="traceEnabled" type="boolean">
12593	<desc>
12594	Flag whether network traffic from/to the network card should be traced.
12595	Can only be toggled when the VM is turned off.
12596	</desc>
12597	</attribute>
12598
12599	<attribute name="traceFile" type="wstring">
12600	<desc>
12601	Filename where a network trace will be stored. If not set, VBox-pid.pcap
12602	will be used.
12603	</desc>
12604	</attribute>
12605
12606	<attribute name="natDriver" type="INATEngine" readonly="yes">
12607	<desc>
12608	Points to the NAT engine which handles the network address translation
12609	for this interface. This is active only when the interface actually uses
12610	NAT.
12611	</desc>
12612	</attribute>
12613
12614	<attribute name="bootPriority" type="unsigned long">
12615	<desc>
12616	Network boot priority of the adapter. Priority 1 is highest. If not set,
12617	the priority is considered to be at the lowest possible setting.
12618	</desc>
12619	</attribute>
12620
12621	<attribute name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup">
12622	<desc>The bandwidth group this network adapter is assigned to.</desc>
12623	</attribute>
12624
12625	<!-- property methods -->
12626
12627	<method name="getProperty" const="yes">
12628	<desc>
12629	Returns the value of the network attachment property with the given name.
12630
12631	If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
12632	succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
12633
12634	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
12635	</desc>
12636	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
12637	<desc>Name of the property to get.</desc>
12638	</param>
12639	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
12640	<desc>Current property value.</desc>
12641	</param>
12642	</method>
12643
12644	<method name="setProperty">
12645	<desc>
12646	Sets the value of the network attachment property with the given name.
12647
12648	Setting the property value to @c null or an empty string is equivalent
12649	to deleting the existing value.
12650
12651	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">@a name is @c null or empty.</result>
12652	</desc>
12653	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
12654	<desc>Name of the property to set.</desc>
12655	</param>
12656	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
12657	<desc>Property value to set.</desc>
12658	</param>
12659	</method>
12660
12661	<method name="getProperties" const="yes">
12662	<desc>
12663	Returns values for a group of properties in one call.
12664
12665	The names of the properties to get are specified using the @a names
12666	argument which is a list of comma-separated property names or
12667	an empty string if all properties are to be returned.
12668	<note>Currently the value of this argument is ignored and the method
12669	always returns all existing properties.</note>
12670
12671	The method returns two arrays, the array of property names corresponding
12672	to the @a names argument and the current values of these properties.
12673	Both arrays have the same number of elements with each element at the
12674	given index in the first array corresponds to an element at the same
12675	index in the second array.
12676	</desc>
12677	<param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in">
12678	<desc>
12679	Names of properties to get.
12680	</desc>
12681	</param>
12682	<param name="returnNames" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="out">
12683	<desc>Names of returned properties.</desc>
12684	</param>
12685	<param name="returnValues" type="wstring" safearray="yes" dir="return">
12686	<desc>Values of returned properties.</desc>
12687	</param>
12688	</method>
12689
12690	</interface>
12691
12692
12693	<!--
12694	// ISerialPort
12695	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12696	-->
12697
12698	<enum
12699	name="PortMode"
12700	uuid="533b5fe3-0185-4197-86a7-17e37dd39d76"
12701	>
12702	<desc>
12703	The PortMode enumeration represents possible communication modes for
12704	the virtual serial port device.
12705	</desc>
12706
12707	<const name="Disconnected" value="0">
12708	<desc>Virtual device is not attached to any real host device.</desc>
12709	</const>
12710	<const name="HostPipe" value="1">
12711	<desc>Virtual device is attached to a host pipe.</desc>
12712	</const>
12713	<const name="HostDevice" value="2">
12714	<desc>Virtual device is attached to a host device.</desc>
12715	</const>
12716	<const name="RawFile" value="3">
12717	<desc>Virtual device is attached to a raw file.</desc>
12718	</const>
12719	</enum>
12720
12721	<interface
12722	name="ISerialPort" extends="$unknown"
12723	uuid="937f6970-5103-4745-b78e-d28dcf1479a8"
12724	wsmap="managed"
12725	>
12726
12727	<desc>
12728	The ISerialPort interface represents the virtual serial port device.
12729
12730	The virtual serial port device acts like an ordinary serial port
12731	inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
12732	serial port hardware in one of two modes: host pipe or host device.
12733
12734	In host pipe mode, the #path attribute specifies the path to the pipe on
12735	the host computer that represents a serial port. The #server attribute
12736	determines if this pipe is created by the virtual machine process at
12737	machine startup or it must already exist before starting machine
12738	execution.
12739
12740	In host device mode, the #path attribute specifies the name of the
12741	serial port device on the host computer.
12742
12743	There is also a third communication mode: the disconnected mode. In this
12744	mode, the guest OS running inside the virtual machine will be able to
12745	detect the serial port, but all port write operations will be discarded
12746	and all port read operations will return no data.
12747
12748	<see><link to="IMachine::getSerialPort"/></see>
12749	</desc>
12750
12751	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12752	<desc>
12753	Slot number this serial port is plugged into. Corresponds to
12754	the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort"/>
12755	to obtain this instance.
12756	</desc>
12757	</attribute>
12758
12759	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12760	<desc>
12761	Flag whether the serial port is enabled. If disabled,
12762	the serial port will not be reported to the guest OS.
12763	</desc>
12764	</attribute>
12765
12766	<attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
12767	<desc>Base I/O address of the serial port.</desc>
12768	</attribute>
12769
12770	<attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
12771	<desc>IRQ number of the serial port.</desc>
12772	</attribute>
12773
12774	<attribute name="hostMode" type="PortMode">
12775	<desc>
12776	How is this port connected to the host.
12777	<note>
12778	Changing this attribute may fail if the conditions for
12779	<link to="#path"/> are not met.
12780	</note>
12781	</desc>
12782	</attribute>
12783
12784	<attribute name="server" type="boolean">
12785	<desc>
12786	Flag whether this serial port acts as a server (creates a new pipe on
12787	the host) or as a client (uses the existing pipe). This attribute is
12788	used only when <link to="#hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostPipe.
12789	</desc>
12790	</attribute>
12791
12792	<attribute name="path" type="wstring">
12793	<desc>
12794	Path to the serial port's pipe on the host when <link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is
12795	PortMode_HostPipe, or the host serial device name when
12796	<link to="ISerialPort::hostMode"/> is PortMode_HostDevice. For both
12797	cases, setting a @c null or empty string as the attribute's value
12798	is an error. Otherwise, the value of this property is ignored.
12799	</desc>
12800	</attribute>
12801
12802	</interface>
12803
12804	<!--
12805	// IParallelPort
12806	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12807	-->
12808
12809	<interface
12810	name="IParallelPort" extends="$unknown"
12811	uuid="0c925f06-dd10-4b77-8de8-294d738c3214"
12812	wsmap="managed"
12813	>
12814
12815	<desc>
12816	The IParallelPort interface represents the virtual parallel port device.
12817
12818	The virtual parallel port device acts like an ordinary parallel port
12819	inside the virtual machine. This device communicates to the real
12820	parallel port hardware using the name of the parallel device on the host
12821	computer specified in the #path attribute.
12822
12823	Each virtual parallel port device is assigned a base I/O address and an
12824	IRQ number that will be reported to the guest operating system and used
12825	to operate the given parallel port from within the virtual machine.
12826
12827	<see><link to="IMachine::getParallelPort"/></see>
12828	</desc>
12829
12830	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
12831	<desc>
12832	Slot number this parallel port is plugged into. Corresponds to
12833	the value you pass to <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort"/>
12834	to obtain this instance.
12835	</desc>
12836	</attribute>
12837
12838	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
12839	<desc>
12840	Flag whether the parallel port is enabled. If disabled,
12841	the parallel port will not be reported to the guest OS.
12842	</desc>
12843	</attribute>
12844
12845	<attribute name="IOBase" type="unsigned long">
12846	<desc>Base I/O address of the parallel port.</desc>
12847	</attribute>
12848
12849	<attribute name="IRQ" type="unsigned long">
12850	<desc>IRQ number of the parallel port.</desc>
12851	</attribute>
12852
12853	<attribute name="path" type="wstring">
12854	<desc>
12855	Host parallel device name. If this parallel port is enabled, setting a
12856	@c null or an empty string as this attribute's value will result in
12857	an error.
12858	</desc>
12859	</attribute>
12860
12861	</interface>
12862
12863
12864	<!--
12865	// IMachineDebugger
12866	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
12867	-->
12868
12869	<interface
12870	name="IMachineDebugger" extends="$unknown"
12871	uuid="1bfd2fa9-0d91-44d3-9515-368dcbb3eb4d"
12872	wsmap="suppress"
12873	>
12874	<method name="dumpGuestCore">
12875	<desc>
12876	Takes a core dump of the guest.
12877
12878	See include/VBox/dbgfcorefmt.h for details on the file format.
12879	</desc>
12880	<param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="in">
12881	<desc>
12882	The name of the output file. The file must not exist.
12883	</desc>
12884	</param>
12885	<param name="compression" type="wstring" dir="in">
12886	<desc>
12887	Reserved for future compression method indicator.
12888	</desc>
12889	</param>
12890	</method>
12891
12892	<method name="dumpHostProcessCore">
12893	<desc>
12894	Takes a core dump of the VM process on the host.
12895
12896	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but it may show up
12897	in a dot release.
12898	</desc>
12899	<param name="filename" type="wstring" dir="in">
12900	<desc>
12901	The name of the output file. The file must not exist.
12902	</desc>
12903	</param>
12904	<param name="compression" type="wstring" dir="in">
12905	<desc>
12906	Reserved for future compression method indicator.
12907	</desc>
12908	</param>
12909	</method>
12910
12911	<method name="info">
12912	<desc>
12913	Interfaces with the info dumpers (DBGFInfo).
12914
12915	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but it may show up
12916	in a dot release.
12917	</desc>
12918	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
12919	<desc>
12920	The name of the info item.
12921	</desc>
12922	</param>
12923	<param name="args" type="wstring" dir="in">
12924	<desc>
12925	Arguments to the info dumper.
12926	</desc>
12927	</param>
12928	<param name="info" type="wstring" dir="return">
12929	<desc>
12930	The into string.
12931	</desc>
12932	</param>
12933	</method>
12934
12935	<method name="injectNMI">
12936	<desc>
12937	Inject an NMI into a running VT-x/AMD-V VM.
12938	</desc>
12939	</method>
12940
12941	<method name="modifyLogGroups">
12942	<desc>
12943	Modifies the group settings of the debug logger.
12944
12945	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12946	in a dot release.
12947	</desc>
12948	<param name="settings" type="wstring" dir="in">
12949	<desc>The group settings string. See iprt/log.h for details.</desc>
12950	</param>
12951	</method>
12952
12953	<method name="modifyLogFlags">
12954	<desc>
12955	Modifies the debug logger flags.
12956
12957	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12958	in a dot release.
12959	</desc>
12960	<param name="settings" type="wstring" dir="in">
12961	<desc>The flags settings string. See iprt/log.h for details.</desc>
12962	</param>
12963	</method>
12964
12965	<method name="modifyLogDestinations">
12966	<desc>
12967	Modifies the debug logger destinations.
12968
12969	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12970	in a dot release.
12971	</desc>
12972	<param name="settings" type="wstring" dir="in">
12973	<desc>The destination settings string. See iprt/log.h for details.</desc>
12974	</param>
12975	</method>
12976
12977	<method name="readPhysicalMemory">
12978	<desc>
12979	Reads guest physical memory, no side effects (MMIO++).
12980
12981	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
12982	in a dot release.
12983	</desc>
12984	<param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
12985	<desc>The guest physical address.</desc>
12986	</param>
12987	<param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
12988	<desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
12989	</param>
12990	<param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
12991	<desc>The bytes read.</desc>
12992	</param>
12993	</method>
12994
12995	<method name="writePhysicalMemory">
12996	<desc>
12997	Writes guest physical memory, access handles (MMIO++) are ignored.
12998
12999	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13000	in a dot release.
13001	</desc>
13002	<param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
13003	<desc>The guest physical address.</desc>
13004	</param>
13005	<param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13006	<desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
13007	</param>
13008	<param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="in">
13009	<desc>The bytes to write.</desc>
13010	</param>
13011	</method>
13012
13013	<method name="readVirtualMemory">
13014	<desc>
13015	Reads guest virtual memory, no side effects (MMIO++).
13016
13017	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13018	in a dot release.
13019	</desc>
13020	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13021	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13022	</param>
13023	<param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
13024	<desc>The guest virtual address.</desc>
13025	</param>
13026	<param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13027	<desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
13028	</param>
13029	<param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="return">
13030	<desc>The bytes read.</desc>
13031	</param>
13032	</method>
13033
13034	<method name="writeVirtualMemory">
13035	<desc>
13036	Writes guest virtual memory, access handles (MMIO++) are ignored.
13037
13038	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13039	in a dot release.
13040	</desc>
13041	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13042	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13043	</param>
13044	<param name="address" type="long long" dir="in">
13045	<desc>The guest virtual address.</desc>
13046	</param>
13047	<param name="size" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13048	<desc>The number of bytes to read.</desc>
13049	</param>
13050	<param name="bytes" type="octet" safearray="yes" dir="in">
13051	<desc>The bytes to write.</desc>
13052	</param>
13053	</method>
13054
13055	<method name="detectOS">
13056	<desc>
13057	Tries to (re-)detect the guest OS kernel.
13058
13059	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13060	in a dot release.
13061	</desc>
13062	<param name="os" type="wstring" dir="return">
13063	<desc>
13064	The detected OS kernel on success.
13065	</desc>
13066	</param>
13067	</method>
13068
13069	<method name="getRegister">
13070	<desc>
13071	Gets one register.
13072
13073	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13074	in a dot release.
13075	</desc>
13076	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13077	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13078	</param>
13079	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
13080	<desc>The register name, case is ignored.</desc>
13081	</param>
13082	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
13083	<desc>
13084	The register value. This is usually a hex value (always 0x prefixed)
13085	but other format may be used for floating point registers (TBD).
13086	</desc>
13087	</param>
13088	</method>
13089
13090	<method name="getRegisters">
13091	<desc>
13092	Gets all the registers for the given CPU.
13093
13094	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13095	in a dot release.
13096	</desc>
13097	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13098	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13099	</param>
13100	<param name="names" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13101	<desc>Array containing the lowercase register names.</desc>
13102	</param>
13103	<param name="values" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
13104	<desc>
13105	Array paralell to the names holding the register values as if the
13106	register was returned by <link to="IMachineDebugger::getRegister"/>.
13107	</desc>
13108	</param>
13109	</method>
13110
13111	<method name="setRegister">
13112	<desc>
13113	Gets one register.
13114
13115	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13116	in a dot release.
13117	</desc>
13118	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13119	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13120	</param>
13121	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
13122	<desc>The register name, case is ignored.</desc>
13123	</param>
13124	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
13125	<desc>
13126	The new register value. Hexadecimal, decimal and octal formattings
13127	are supported in addition to any special formattings returned by
13128	the getters.
13129	</desc>
13130	</param>
13131	</method>
13132
13133	<method name="setRegisters">
13134	<desc>
13135	Sets zero or more registers atomically.
13136
13137	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13138	in a dot release.
13139	</desc>
13140	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13141	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13142	</param>
13143	<param name="names" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13144	<desc>Array containing the register names, case ignored.</desc>
13145	</param>
13146	<param name="values" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
13147	<desc>
13148	Array paralell to the names holding the register values. See
13149	<link to="IMachineDebugger::setRegister"/> for formatting
13150	guidelines.
13151	</desc>
13152	</param>
13153	</method>
13154
13155	<method name="dumpGuestStack">
13156	<desc>
13157	Produce a simple stack dump using the current guest state.
13158
13159	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13160	in a dot release.
13161	</desc>
13162	<param name="cpuId" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13163	<desc>The identifier of the Virtual CPU.</desc>
13164	</param>
13165	<param name="stack" type="wstring" dir="return">
13166	<desc>String containing the formatted stack dump.</desc>
13167	</param>
13168	</method>
13169
13170	<method name="resetStats">
13171	<desc>
13172	Reset VM statistics.
13173	</desc>
13174	<param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
13175	<desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
13176	</param>
13177	</method>
13178
13179	<method name="dumpStats">
13180	<desc>
13181	Dumps VM statistics.
13182	</desc>
13183	<param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
13184	<desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
13185	</param>
13186	</method>
13187
13188	<method name="getStats">
13189	<desc>
13190	Get the VM statistics in a XMLish format.
13191	</desc>
13192	<param name="pattern" type="wstring" dir="in">
13193	<desc>The selection pattern. A bit similar to filename globbing.</desc>
13194	</param>
13195	<param name="withDescriptions" type="boolean" dir="in">
13196	<desc>Whether to include the descriptions.</desc>
13197	</param>
13198	<param name="stats" type="wstring" dir="out">
13199	<desc>The XML document containing the statistics.</desc>
13200	</param>
13201	</method>
13202
13203	<attribute name="singlestep" type="boolean">
13204	<desc>Switch for enabling singlestepping.</desc>
13205	</attribute>
13206
13207	<attribute name="recompileUser" type="boolean">
13208	<desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for user mode code.</desc>
13209	</attribute>
13210
13211	<attribute name="recompileSupervisor" type="boolean">
13212	<desc>Switch for forcing code recompilation for supervisor mode code.</desc>
13213	</attribute>
13214
13215	<attribute name="PATMEnabled" type="boolean">
13216	<desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the PATM component.</desc>
13217	</attribute>
13218
13219	<attribute name="CSAMEnabled" type="boolean">
13220	<desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the CSAM component.</desc>
13221	</attribute>
13222
13223	<attribute name="logEnabled" type="boolean">
13224	<desc>Switch for enabling and disabling the debug logger.</desc>
13225	</attribute>
13226
13227	<attribute name="logFlags" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13228	<desc>The debug logger flags.</desc>
13229	</attribute>
13230
13231	<attribute name="logGroups" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13232	<desc>The debug logger's group settings.</desc>
13233	</attribute>
13234
13235	<attribute name="logDestinations" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13236	<desc>The debug logger's destination settings.</desc>
13237	</attribute>
13238
13239	<attribute name="HWVirtExEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13240	<desc>
13241	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of CPU hardware
13242	virtualization extensions.
13243	</desc>
13244	</attribute>
13245
13246	<attribute name="HWVirtExNestedPagingEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13247	<desc>
13248	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the nested paging
13249	CPU hardware virtualization extension.
13250	</desc>
13251	</attribute>
13252
13253	<attribute name="HWVirtExVPIDEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13254	<desc>
13255	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the VPID
13256	VT-x extension.
13257	</desc>
13258	</attribute>
13259
13260	<attribute name="OSName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13261	<desc>
13262	Query the guest OS kernel name as detected by the DBGF.
13263
13264	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13265	in a dot release.
13266	</desc>
13267	</attribute>
13268
13269	<attribute name="OSVersion" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13270	<desc>
13271	Query the guest OS kernel version string as detected by the DBGF.
13272
13273	This feature is not implemented in the 4.0.0 release but may show up
13274	in a dot release.
13275	</desc>
13276	</attribute>
13277
13278	<attribute name="PAEEnabled" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13279	<desc>
13280	Flag indicating whether the VM is currently making use of the Physical
13281	Address Extension CPU feature.
13282	</desc>
13283	</attribute>
13284
13285	<attribute name="virtualTimeRate" type="unsigned long">
13286	<desc>
13287	The rate at which the virtual time runs expressed as a percentage.
13288	The accepted range is 2% to 20000%.
13289	</desc>
13290	</attribute>
13291
13292	<attribute name="VM" type="long long" readonly="yes">
13293	<desc>
13294	Gets the VM handle. This is only for internal use while
13295	we carve the details of this interface.
13296	</desc>
13297	</attribute>
13298
13299	</interface>
13300
13301	<!--
13302	// IUSBController
13303	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13304	-->
13305
13306	<interface
13307	name="IUSBController" extends="$unknown"
13308	uuid="6fdcccc5-abd3-4fec-9387-2ad3914fc4a8"
13309	wsmap="managed"
13310	>
13311	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
13312	<desc>
13313	Flag whether the USB controller is present in the
13314	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
13315	not contain any USB controller. Can only be changed when
13316	the VM is powered off.
13317	</desc>
13318	</attribute>
13319
13320	<attribute name="enabledEhci" type="boolean">
13321	<desc>
13322	Flag whether the USB EHCI controller is present in the
13323	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
13324	not contain a USB EHCI controller. Can only be changed when
13325	the VM is powered off.
13326	</desc>
13327	</attribute>
13328
13329	<attribute name="proxyAvailable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13330	<desc>
13331	Flag whether there is an USB proxy available.
13332	</desc>
13333	</attribute>
13334
13335	<attribute name="USBStandard" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13336	<desc>
13337	USB standard version which the controller implements.
13338	This is a BCD which means that the major version is in the
13339	high byte and minor version is in the low byte.
13340	</desc>
13341	</attribute>
13342
13343	<attribute name="deviceFilters" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
13344	<desc>
13345	List of USB device filters associated with the machine.
13346
13347	If the machine is currently running, these filters are activated
13348	every time a new (supported) USB device is attached to the host
13349	computer that was not ignored by global filters
13350	(<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>).
13351
13352	These filters are also activated when the machine is powered up.
13353	They are run against a list of all currently available USB
13354	devices (in states
13355	<link to="USBDeviceState_Available"/>,
13356	<link to="USBDeviceState_Busy"/>,
13357	<link to="USBDeviceState_Held"/>) that were not previously
13358	ignored by global filters.
13359
13360	If at least one filter matches the USB device in question, this
13361	device is automatically captured (attached to) the virtual USB
13362	controller of this machine.
13363
13364	<see><link to="IUSBDeviceFilter"/>, <link to="IUSBController"/></see>
13365	</desc>
13366	</attribute>
13367
13368	<method name="createDeviceFilter">
13369	<desc>
13370	Creates a new USB device filter. All attributes except
13371	the filter name are set to empty (any match),
13372	<i>active</i> is @c false (the filter is not active).
13373
13374	The created filter can then be added to the list of filters using
13375	<link to="#insertDeviceFilter"/>.
13376
13377	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13378	The virtual machine is not mutable.
13379	</result>
13380
13381	<see><link to="#deviceFilters"/></see>
13382	</desc>
13383	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
13384	<desc>
13385	Filter name. See <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::name"/>
13386	for more info.
13387	</desc>
13388	</param>
13389	<param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
13390	<desc>Created filter object.</desc>
13391	</param>
13392	</method>
13393
13394	<method name="insertDeviceFilter">
13395	<desc>
13396	Inserts the given USB device to the specified position
13397	in the list of filters.
13398
13399	Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. If the specified
13400	position is equal to or greater than the number of elements in
13401	the list, the filter is added to the end of the collection.
13402
13403	<note>
13404	Duplicates are not allowed, so an attempt to insert a
13405	filter that is already in the collection, will return an
13406	error.
13407	</note>
13408
13409	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13410	Virtual machine is not mutable.
13411	</result>
13412	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
13413	USB device filter not created within this VirtualBox instance.
13414	</result>
13415	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
13416	USB device filter already in list.
13417	</result>
13418
13419	<see><link to="#deviceFilters"/></see>
13420	</desc>
13421	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13422	<desc>Position to insert the filter to.</desc>
13423	</param>
13424	<param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="in">
13425	<desc>USB device filter to insert.</desc>
13426	</param>
13427	</method>
13428
13429	<method name="removeDeviceFilter">
13430	<desc>
13431	Removes a USB device filter from the specified position in the
13432	list of filters.
13433
13434	Positions are numbered starting from <tt>0</tt>. Specifying a
13435	position equal to or greater than the number of elements in
13436	the list will produce an error.
13437
13438	<see><link to="#deviceFilters"/></see>
13439
13440	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
13441	Virtual machine is not mutable.
13442	</result>
13443	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
13444	USB device filter list empty or invalid @a position.
13445	</result>
13446
13447	</desc>
13448	<param name="position" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
13449	<desc>Position to remove the filter from.</desc>
13450	</param>
13451	<param name="filter" type="IUSBDeviceFilter" dir="return">
13452	<desc>Removed USB device filter.</desc>
13453	</param>
13454	</method>
13455
13456	</interface>
13457
13458
13459	<!--
13460	// IUSBDevice
13461	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13462	-->
13463
13464	<interface
13465	name="IUSBDevice" extends="$unknown"
13466	uuid="f8967b0b-4483-400f-92b5-8b675d98a85b"
13467	wsmap="managed"
13468	>
13469	<desc>
13470	The IUSBDevice interface represents a virtual USB device attached to the
13471	virtual machine.
13472
13473	A collection of objects implementing this interface is stored in the
13474	<link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/> attribute which lists all USB devices
13475	attached to a running virtual machine's USB controller.
13476	</desc>
13477
13478	<attribute name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
13479	<desc>
13480	Unique USB device ID. This ID is built from #vendorId,
13481	#productId, #revision and #serialNumber.
13482	</desc>
13483	</attribute>
13484
13485	<attribute name="vendorId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13486	<desc>Vendor ID.</desc>
13487	</attribute>
13488
13489	<attribute name="productId" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13490	<desc>Product ID.</desc>
13491	</attribute>
13492
13493	<attribute name="revision" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13494	<desc>
13495	Product revision number. This is a packed BCD represented as
13496	unsigned short. The high byte is the integer part and the low
13497	byte is the decimal.
13498	</desc>
13499	</attribute>
13500
13501	<attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13502	<desc>Manufacturer string.</desc>
13503	</attribute>
13504
13505	<attribute name="product" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13506	<desc>Product string.</desc>
13507	</attribute>
13508
13509	<attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13510	<desc>Serial number string.</desc>
13511	</attribute>
13512
13513	<attribute name="address" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
13514	<desc>Host specific address of the device.</desc>
13515	</attribute>
13516
13517	<attribute name="port" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13518	<desc>
13519	Host USB port number the device is physically
13520	connected to.
13521	</desc>
13522	</attribute>
13523
13524	<attribute name="version" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13525	<desc>
13526	The major USB version of the device - 1 or 2.
13527	</desc>
13528	</attribute>
13529
13530	<attribute name="portVersion" type="unsigned short" readonly="yes">
13531	<desc>
13532	The major USB version of the host USB port the device is
13533	physically connected to - 1 or 2. For devices not connected to
13534	anything this will have the same value as the version attribute.
13535	</desc>
13536	</attribute>
13537
13538	<attribute name="remote" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
13539	<desc>
13540	Whether the device is physically connected to a remote VRDE
13541	client or to a local host machine.
13542	</desc>
13543	</attribute>
13544
13545	</interface>
13546
13547
13548	<!--
13549	// IUSBDeviceFilter
13550	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13551	-->
13552
13553	<interface
13554	name="IUSBDeviceFilter" extends="$unknown"
13555	uuid="d6831fb4-1a94-4c2c-96ef-8d0d6192066d"
13556	wsmap="managed"
13557	>
13558	<desc>
13559	The IUSBDeviceFilter interface represents an USB device filter used
13560	to perform actions on a group of USB devices.
13561
13562	This type of filters is used by running virtual machines to
13563	automatically capture selected USB devices once they are physically
13564	attached to the host computer.
13565
13566	A USB device is matched to the given device filter if and only if all
13567	attributes of the device match the corresponding attributes of the
13568	filter (that is, attributes are joined together using the logical AND
13569	operation). On the other hand, all together, filters in the list of
13570	filters carry the semantics of the logical OR operation. So if it is
13571	desirable to create a match like "this vendor id OR this product id",
13572	one needs to create two filters and specify "any match" (see below)
13573	for unused attributes.
13574
13575	All filter attributes used for matching are strings. Each string
13576	is an expression representing a set of values of the corresponding
13577	device attribute, that will match the given filter. Currently, the
13578	following filtering expressions are supported:
13579
13580	<ul>
13581	<li><i>Interval filters</i>. Used to specify valid intervals for
13582	integer device attributes (Vendor ID, Product ID and Revision).
13583	The format of the string is:
13584
13585	<tt>int:((m)\|([m]-[n]))(,(m)\|([m]-[n]))*</tt>
13586
13587	where <tt>m</tt> and <tt>n</tt> are integer numbers, either in octal
13588	(starting from <tt>0</tt>), hexadecimal (starting from <tt>0x</tt>)
13589	or decimal (otherwise) form, so that <tt>m < n</tt>. If <tt>m</tt>
13590	is omitted before a dash (<tt>-</tt>), the minimum possible integer
13591	is assumed; if <tt>n</tt> is omitted after a dash, the maximum
13592	possible integer is assumed.
13593	</li>
13594	<li><i>Boolean filters</i>. Used to specify acceptable values for
13595	boolean device attributes. The format of the string is:
13596
13597	<tt>true\|false\|yes\|no\|0\|1</tt>
13598
13599	</li>
13600	<li><i>Exact match</i>. Used to specify a single value for the given
13601	device attribute. Any string that doesn't start with <tt>int:</tt>
13602	represents the exact match. String device attributes are compared to
13603	this string including case of symbols. Integer attributes are first
13604	converted to a string (see individual filter attributes) and then
13605	compared ignoring case.
13606
13607	</li>
13608	<li><i>Any match</i>. Any value of the corresponding device attribute
13609	will match the given filter. An empty or @c null string is
13610	used to construct this type of filtering expressions.
13611
13612	</li>
13613	</ul>
13614
13615	<note>
13616	On the Windows host platform, interval filters are not currently
13617	available. Also all string filter attributes
13618	(<link to="#manufacturer"/>, <link to="#product"/>,
13619	<link to="#serialNumber"/>) are ignored, so they behave as
13620	<i>any match</i> no matter what string expression is specified.
13621	</note>
13622
13623	<see><link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>,
13624	<link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter"/></see>
13625	</desc>
13626
13627	<attribute name="name" type="wstring">
13628	<desc>
13629	Visible name for this filter.
13630	This name is used to visually distinguish one filter from another,
13631	so it can neither be @c null nor an empty string.
13632	</desc>
13633	</attribute>
13634
13635	<attribute name="active" type="boolean">
13636	<desc>Whether this filter active or has been temporarily disabled.</desc>
13637	</attribute>
13638
13639	<attribute name="vendorId" type="wstring">
13640	<desc>
13641	<link to="IUSBDevice::vendorId">Vendor ID</link> filter.
13642	The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
13643	has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
13644	(including leading zeroes).
13645	</desc>
13646	</attribute>
13647
13648	<attribute name="productId" type="wstring">
13649	<desc>
13650	<link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product ID</link> filter.
13651	The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
13652	has the form <tt>XXXX</tt>, where <tt>X</tt> is the hex digit
13653	(including leading zeroes).
13654	</desc>
13655	</attribute>
13656
13657	<attribute name="revision" type="wstring">
13658	<desc>
13659	<link to="IUSBDevice::productId">Product revision number</link>
13660	filter. The string representation for the <i>exact matching</i>
13661	has the form <tt>IIFF</tt>, where <tt>I</tt> is the decimal digit
13662	of the integer part of the revision, and <tt>F</tt> is the
13663	decimal digit of its fractional part (including leading and
13664	trailing zeros).
13665	Note that for interval filters, it's best to use the hexadecimal
13666	form, because the revision is stored as a 16 bit packed BCD value;
13667	so the expression <tt>int:0x0100-0x0199</tt> will match any
13668	revision from <tt>1.0</tt> to <tt>1.99</tt>.
13669	</desc>
13670	</attribute>
13671
13672	<attribute name="manufacturer" type="wstring">
13673	<desc>
13674	<link to="IUSBDevice::manufacturer">Manufacturer</link> filter.
13675	</desc>
13676	</attribute>
13677
13678	<attribute name="product" type="wstring">
13679	<desc>
13680	<link to="IUSBDevice::product">Product</link> filter.
13681	</desc>
13682	</attribute>
13683
13684	<attribute name="serialNumber" type="wstring">
13685	<desc>
13686	<link to="IUSBDevice::serialNumber">Serial number</link> filter.
13687	</desc>
13688	</attribute>
13689
13690	<attribute name="port" type="wstring">
13691	<desc>
13692	<link to="IUSBDevice::port">Host USB port</link> filter.
13693	</desc>
13694	</attribute>
13695
13696	<attribute name="remote" type="wstring">
13697	<desc>
13698	<link to="IUSBDevice::remote">Remote state</link> filter.
13699	<note>
13700	This filter makes sense only for machine USB filters,
13701	i.e. it is ignored by IHostUSBDeviceFilter objects.
13702	</note>
13703	</desc>
13704	</attribute>
13705
13706	<attribute name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long">
13707	<desc>
13708	This is an advanced option for hiding one or more USB interfaces
13709	from the guest. The value is a bit mask where the bits that are set
13710	means the corresponding USB interface should be hidden, masked off
13711	if you like.
13712	This feature only works on Linux hosts.
13713	</desc>
13714	</attribute>
13715
13716	</interface>
13717
13718
13719	<!--
13720	// IHostUSBDevice
13721	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13722	-->
13723
13724	<enum
13725	name="USBDeviceState"
13726	uuid="b99a2e65-67fb-4882-82fd-f3e5e8193ab4"
13727	>
13728	<desc>
13729	USB device state. This enumeration represents all possible states
13730	of the USB device physically attached to the host computer regarding
13731	its state on the host computer and availability to guest computers
13732	(all currently running virtual machines).
13733
13734	Once a supported USB device is attached to the host, global USB
13735	filters (<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>) are activated. They can
13736	either ignore the device, or put it to USBDeviceState_Held state, or do
13737	nothing. Unless the device is ignored by global filters, filters of all
13738	currently running guests (<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters"/>) are
13739	activated that can put it to USBDeviceState_Captured state.
13740
13741	If the device was ignored by global filters, or didn't match
13742	any filters at all (including guest ones), it is handled by the host
13743	in a normal way. In this case, the device state is determined by
13744	the host and can be one of USBDeviceState_Unavailable, USBDeviceState_Busy
13745	or USBDeviceState_Available, depending on the current device usage.
13746
13747	Besides auto-capturing based on filters, the device can be manually
13748	captured by guests (<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) if its
13749	state is USBDeviceState_Busy, USBDeviceState_Available or
13750	USBDeviceState_Held.
13751
13752	<note>
13753	Due to differences in USB stack implementations in Linux and Win32,
13754	states USBDeviceState_Busy and USBDeviceState_Unavailable are applicable
13755	only to the Linux version of the product. This also means that (<link
13756	to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) can only succeed on Win32 if the
13757	device state is USBDeviceState_Held.
13758	</note>
13759
13760	<see><link to="IHostUSBDevice"/>, <link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter"/></see>
13761	</desc>
13762
13763	<const name="NotSupported" value="0">
13764	<desc>
13765	Not supported by the VirtualBox server, not available to guests.
13766	</desc>
13767	</const>
13768	<const name="Unavailable" value="1">
13769	<desc>
13770	Being used by the host computer exclusively,
13771	not available to guests.
13772	</desc>
13773	</const>
13774	<const name="Busy" value="2">
13775	<desc>
13776	Being used by the host computer, potentially available to guests.
13777	</desc>
13778	</const>
13779	<const name="Available" value="3">
13780	<desc>
13781	Not used by the host computer, available to guests (the host computer
13782	can also start using the device at any time).
13783	</desc>
13784	</const>
13785	<const name="Held" value="4">
13786	<desc>
13787	Held by the VirtualBox server (ignored by the host computer),
13788	available to guests.
13789	</desc>
13790	</const>
13791	<const name="Captured" value="5">
13792	<desc>
13793	Captured by one of the guest computers, not available
13794	to anybody else.
13795	</desc>
13796	</const>
13797	</enum>
13798
13799	<interface
13800	name="IHostUSBDevice" extends="IUSBDevice"
13801	uuid="173b4b44-d268-4334-a00d-b6521c9a740a"
13802	wsmap="managed"
13803	>
13804	<desc>
13805	The IHostUSBDevice interface represents a physical USB device attached
13806	to the host computer.
13807
13808	Besides properties inherited from IUSBDevice, this interface adds the
13809	<link to="#state"/> property that holds the current state of the USB
13810	device.
13811
13812	<see><link to="IHost::USBDevices"/>,
13813	<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/></see>
13814	</desc>
13815
13816	<attribute name="state" type="USBDeviceState" readonly="yes">
13817	<desc>
13818	Current state of the device.
13819	</desc>
13820	</attribute>
13821
13822	<!-- @todo add class, subclass, bandwidth, configs, interfaces endpoints and such later. -->
13823
13824	</interface>
13825
13826
13827	<!--
13828	// IHostUSBDeviceFilter
13829	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13830	-->
13831
13832	<enum
13833	name="USBDeviceFilterAction"
13834	uuid="cbc30a49-2f4e-43b5-9da6-121320475933"
13835	>
13836	<desc>
13837	Actions for host USB device filters.
13838	<see><link to="IHostUSBDeviceFilter"/>, <link to="USBDeviceState"/></see>
13839	</desc>
13840
13841	<const name="Null" value="0">
13842	<desc>Null value (never used by the API).</desc>
13843	</const>
13844	<const name="Ignore" value="1">
13845	<desc>Ignore the matched USB device.</desc>
13846	</const>
13847	<const name="Hold" value="2">
13848	<desc>Hold the matched USB device.</desc>
13849	</const>
13850	</enum>
13851
13852	<interface
13853	name="IHostUSBDeviceFilter" extends="IUSBDeviceFilter"
13854	uuid="4cc70246-d74a-400f-8222-3900489c0374"
13855	wsmap="managed"
13856	>
13857	<desc>
13858	The IHostUSBDeviceFilter interface represents a global filter for a
13859	physical USB device used by the host computer. Used indirectly in
13860	<link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/>.
13861
13862	Using filters of this type, the host computer determines the initial
13863	state of the USB device after it is physically attached to the
13864	host's USB controller.
13865
13866	<note>
13867	The <link to="IUSBDeviceFilter::remote"/> attribute is ignored by this type of
13868	filters, because it makes sense only for
13869	<link to="IUSBController::deviceFilters">machine USB filters</link>.
13870	</note>
13871
13872	<see><link to="IHost::USBDeviceFilters"/></see>
13873	</desc>
13874
13875	<attribute name="action" type="USBDeviceFilterAction">
13876	<desc>
13877	Action performed by the host when an attached USB device
13878	matches this filter.
13879	</desc>
13880	</attribute>
13881
13882	</interface>
13883
13884	<!--
13885	// IAudioAdapter
13886	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13887	-->
13888
13889	<enum
13890	name="AudioDriverType"
13891	uuid="4bcc3d73-c2fe-40db-b72f-0c2ca9d68496"
13892	>
13893	<desc>
13894	Host audio driver type.
13895	</desc>
13896
13897	<const name="Null" value="0">
13898	<desc>Null value, also means "dummy audio driver".</desc>
13899	</const>
13900	<const name="WinMM" value="1">
13901	<desc>Windows multimedia (Windows hosts only).</desc>
13902	</const>
13903	<const name="OSS" value="2">
13904	<desc>Open Sound System (Linux hosts only).</desc>
13905	</const>
13906	<const name="ALSA" value="3">
13907	<desc>Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (Linux hosts only).</desc>
13908	</const>
13909	<const name="DirectSound" value="4">
13910	<desc>DirectSound (Windows hosts only).</desc>
13911	</const>
13912	<const name="CoreAudio" value="5">
13913	<desc>CoreAudio (Mac hosts only).</desc>
13914	</const>
13915	<const name="MMPM" value="6">
13916	<desc>Reserved for historical reasons.</desc>
13917	</const>
13918	<const name="Pulse" value="7">
13919	<desc>PulseAudio (Linux hosts only).</desc>
13920	</const>
13921	<const name="SolAudio" value="8">
13922	<desc>Solaris audio (Solaris hosts only).</desc>
13923	</const>
13924	</enum>
13925
13926	<enum
13927	name="AudioControllerType"
13928	uuid="7afd395c-42c3-444e-8788-3ce80292f36c"
13929	>
13930	<desc>
13931	Virtual audio controller type.
13932	</desc>
13933
13934	<const name="AC97" value="0"/>
13935	<const name="SB16" value="1"/>
13936	<const name="HDA" value="2"/>
13937	</enum>
13938
13939	<interface
13940	name="IAudioAdapter" extends="$unknown"
13941	uuid="921873db-5f3f-4b69-91f9-7be9e535a2cb"
13942	wsmap="managed"
13943	>
13944	<desc>
13945	The IAudioAdapter interface represents the virtual audio adapter of
13946	the virtual machine. Used in <link to="IMachine::audioAdapter"/>.
13947	</desc>
13948	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
13949	<desc>
13950	Flag whether the audio adapter is present in the
13951	guest system. If disabled, the virtual guest hardware will
13952	not contain any audio adapter. Can only be changed when
13953	the VM is not running.
13954	</desc>
13955	</attribute>
13956	<attribute name="audioController" type="AudioControllerType">
13957	<desc>
13958	The audio hardware we emulate.
13959	</desc>
13960	</attribute>
13961	<attribute name="audioDriver" type="AudioDriverType">
13962	<desc>
13963	Audio driver the adapter is connected to. This setting
13964	can only be changed when the VM is not running.
13965	</desc>
13966	</attribute>
13967	</interface>
13968
13969	<enum
13970	name="AuthType"
13971	uuid="7eef6ef6-98c2-4dc2-ab35-10d2b292028d"
13972	>
13973	<desc>
13974	VirtualBox authentication type.
13975	</desc>
13976
13977	<const name="Null" value="0">
13978	<desc>Null value, also means "no authentication".</desc>
13979	</const>
13980	<const name="External" value="1"/>
13981	<const name="Guest" value="2"/>
13982	</enum>
13983
13984	<!--
13985	// IVRDEServer
13986	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
13987	-->
13988
13989	<interface
13990	name="IVRDEServer" extends="$unknown"
13991	uuid="d38de40a-c2c1-4e95-b5a4-167b05f5694c"
13992	wsmap="managed"
13993	>
13994	<attribute name="enabled" type="boolean">
13995	<desc>VRDE server status.</desc>
13996	</attribute>
13997
13998	<attribute name="authType" type="AuthType">
13999	<desc>VRDE authentication method.</desc>
14000	</attribute>
14001
14002	<attribute name="authTimeout" type="unsigned long">
14003	<desc>Timeout for guest authentication. Milliseconds.</desc>
14004	</attribute>
14005
14006	<attribute name="allowMultiConnection" type="boolean">
14007	<desc>
14008	Flag whether multiple simultaneous connections to the VM are permitted.
14009	Note that this will be replaced by a more powerful mechanism in the future.
14010	</desc>
14011	</attribute>
14012
14013	<attribute name="reuseSingleConnection" type="boolean">
14014	<desc>
14015	Flag whether the existing connection must be dropped and a new connection
14016	must be established by the VRDE server, when a new client connects in single
14017	connection mode.
14018	</desc>
14019	</attribute>
14020
14021	<attribute name="VRDEExtPack" type="wstring">
14022	<desc>
14023	The name of Extension Pack providing VRDE for this VM. Overrides
14024	<link to="ISystemProperties::defaultVRDEExtPack"/>.
14025	</desc>
14026	</attribute>
14027
14028	<attribute name="authLibrary" type="wstring">
14029	<desc>
14030	Library used for authentication of RDP clients by this VM. Overrides
14031	<link to="ISystemProperties::VRDEAuthLibrary"/>.
14032	</desc>
14033	</attribute>
14034
14035	<attribute name="VRDEProperties" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
14036	<desc>
14037	Array of names of properties, which are supported by this VRDE server.
14038	</desc>
14039	</attribute>
14040
14041	<method name="setVRDEProperty">
14042	<desc>
14043	Sets a VRDE specific property string.
14044
14045	If you pass @c null or empty string as a key @a value, the given @a key
14046	will be deleted.
14047
14048	</desc>
14049	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
14050	<desc>Name of the key to set.</desc>
14051	</param>
14052	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in">
14053	<desc>Value to assign to the key.</desc>
14054	</param>
14055	</method>
14056
14057	<method name="getVRDEProperty" const="yes">
14058	<desc>
14059	Returns a VRDE specific property string.
14060
14061	If the requested data @a key does not exist, this function will
14062	succeed and return an empty string in the @a value argument.
14063
14064	</desc>
14065	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="in">
14066	<desc>Name of the key to get.</desc>
14067	</param>
14068	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="return">
14069	<desc>Value of the requested key.</desc>
14070	</param>
14071	</method>
14072
14073	</interface>
14074
14075
14076	<!--
14077	// ISharedFolder
14078	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14079	-->
14080
14081	<interface
14082	name="ISharedFolder" extends="$unknown"
14083	uuid="8388da11-b559-4574-a5b7-2bd7acd5cef8"
14084	wsmap="struct"
14085	>
14086	<desc>
14087	The ISharedFolder interface represents a folder in the host computer's
14088	file system accessible from the guest OS running inside a virtual
14089	machine using an associated logical name.
14090
14091	There are three types of shared folders:
14092	<ul>
14093	<li><i>Global</i> (<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders"/>), shared
14094	folders available to all virtual machines.</li>
14095	<li><i>Permanent</i> (<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders"/>),
14096	VM-specific shared folders available to the given virtual machine at
14097	startup.</li>
14098	<li><i>Transient</i> (<link to="IConsole::sharedFolders"/>),
14099	VM-specific shared folders created in the session context (for
14100	example, when the virtual machine is running) and automatically
14101	discarded when the session is closed (the VM is powered off).</li>
14102	</ul>
14103
14104	Logical names of shared folders must be unique within the given scope
14105	(global, permanent or transient). However, they do not need to be unique
14106	across scopes. In this case, the definition of the shared folder in a
14107	more specific scope takes precedence over definitions in all other
14108	scopes. The order of precedence is (more specific to more general):
14109	<ol>
14110	<li>Transient definitions</li>
14111	<li>Permanent definitions</li>
14112	<li>Global definitions</li>
14113	</ol>
14114
14115	For example, if MyMachine has a shared folder named
14116	<tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points to <tt>C:\\</tt>), then creating a
14117	transient shared folder named <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> (that points
14118	to <tt>C:\\\\WINDOWS</tt>) will change the definition
14119	of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> in the guest OS so
14120	that <tt>\\\\VBOXSVR\\C_DRIVE</tt> will give access
14121	to <tt>C:\\WINDOWS</tt> instead of <tt>C:\\</tt> on the host
14122	PC. Removing the transient shared folder <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> will restore
14123	the previous (permanent) definition of <tt>C_DRIVE</tt> that points
14124	to <tt>C:\\</tt> if it still exists.
14125
14126	Note that permanent and transient shared folders of different machines
14127	are in different name spaces, so they don't overlap and don't need to
14128	have unique logical names.
14129
14130	<note>
14131	Global shared folders are not implemented in the current version of the
14132	product.
14133	</note>
14134	</desc>
14135
14136	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14137	<desc>Logical name of the shared folder.</desc>
14138	</attribute>
14139
14140	<attribute name="hostPath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14141	<desc>Full path to the shared folder in the host file system.</desc>
14142	</attribute>
14143
14144	<attribute name="accessible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14145	<desc>
14146	Whether the folder defined by the host path is currently
14147	accessible or not.
14148	For example, the folder can be inaccessible if it is placed
14149	on the network share that is not available by the time
14150	this property is read.
14151	</desc>
14152	</attribute>
14153
14154	<attribute name="writable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14155	<desc>
14156	Whether the folder defined by the host path is writable or
14157	not.
14158	</desc>
14159	</attribute>
14160
14161	<attribute name="autoMount" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14162	<desc>
14163	Whether the folder gets automatically mounted by the guest or not.
14164	</desc>
14165	</attribute>
14166
14167	<attribute name="lastAccessError" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14168	<desc>
14169	Text message that represents the result of the last accessibility
14170	check.
14171
14172	Accessibility checks are performed each time the <link to="#accessible"/>
14173	attribute is read. An empty string is returned if the last
14174	accessibility check was successful. A non-empty string indicates a
14175	failure and should normally describe a reason of the failure (for
14176	example, a file read error).
14177	</desc>
14178	</attribute>
14179
14180	</interface>
14181
14182	<!--
14183	// ISession
14184	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14185	-->
14186
14187	<interface
14188	name="IInternalSessionControl" extends="$unknown"
14189	uuid="0bdda5da-67c8-47be-a610-b83a7fa3e8b6"
14190	internal="yes"
14191	wsmap="suppress"
14192	>
14193	<method name="getPID">
14194	<desc>PID of the process that has created this Session object.
14195	</desc>
14196	<param name="pid" type="unsigned long" dir="return"/>
14197	</method>
14198
14199	<method name="getRemoteConsole">
14200	<desc>
14201	Returns the console object suitable for remote control.
14202
14203	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14204	Session state prevents operation.
14205	</result>
14206	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14207	Session type prevents operation.
14208	</result>
14209
14210	</desc>
14211	<param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="return"/>
14212	</method>
14213
14214	<method name="assignMachine">
14215	<desc>
14216	Assigns the machine object associated with this direct-type
14217	session or informs the session that it will be a remote one
14218	(if @a machine == @c null).
14219
14220	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14221	Session state prevents operation.
14222	</result>
14223	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14224	Session type prevents operation.
14225	</result>
14226
14227	</desc>
14228	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
14229	</method>
14230
14231	<method name="assignRemoteMachine">
14232	<desc>
14233	Assigns the machine and the (remote) console object associated with
14234	this remote-type session.
14235
14236	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14237	Session state prevents operation.
14238	</result>
14239
14240	</desc>
14241	<param name="machine" type="IMachine" dir="in"/>
14242	<param name="console" type="IConsole" dir="in"/>
14243	</method>
14244
14245	<method name="updateMachineState">
14246	<desc>
14247	Updates the machine state in the VM process.
14248	Must be called only in certain cases
14249	(see the method implementation).
14250
14251	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14252	Session state prevents operation.
14253	</result>
14254	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14255	Session type prevents operation.
14256	</result>
14257
14258	</desc>
14259	<param name="aMachineState" type="MachineState" dir="in"/>
14260	</method>
14261
14262	<method name="uninitialize">
14263	<desc>
14264	Uninitializes (closes) this session. Used by VirtualBox to close
14265	the corresponding remote session when the direct session dies
14266	or gets closed.
14267
14268	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14269	Session state prevents operation.
14270	</result>
14271
14272	</desc>
14273	</method>
14274
14275	<method name="onNetworkAdapterChange">
14276	<desc>
14277	Triggered when settings of a network adapter of the
14278	associated virtual machine have changed.
14279
14280	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14281	Session state prevents operation.
14282	</result>
14283	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14284	Session type prevents operation.
14285	</result>
14286
14287	</desc>
14288	<param name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" dir="in"/>
14289	<param name="changeAdapter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
14290	</method>
14291
14292	<method name="onSerialPortChange">
14293	<desc>
14294	Triggered when settings of a serial port of the
14295	associated virtual machine have changed.
14296
14297	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14298	Session state prevents operation.
14299	</result>
14300	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14301	Session type prevents operation.
14302	</result>
14303
14304	</desc>
14305	<param name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" dir="in"/>
14306	</method>
14307
14308	<method name="onParallelPortChange">
14309	<desc>
14310	Triggered when settings of a parallel port of the
14311	associated virtual machine have changed.
14312
14313	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14314	Session state prevents operation.
14315	</result>
14316	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14317	Session type prevents operation.
14318	</result>
14319
14320	</desc>
14321	<param name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" dir="in"/>
14322	</method>
14323
14324	<method name="onStorageControllerChange">
14325	<desc>
14326	Triggered when settings of a storage controller of the
14327	associated virtual machine have changed.
14328
14329	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14330	Session state prevents operation.
14331	</result>
14332	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14333	Session type prevents operation.
14334	</result>
14335
14336	</desc>
14337	</method>
14338
14339	<method name="onMediumChange">
14340	<desc>
14341	Triggered when attached media of the
14342	associated virtual machine have changed.
14343
14344	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14345	Session state prevents operation.
14346	</result>
14347	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14348	Session type prevents operation.
14349	</result>
14350
14351	</desc>
14352
14353	<param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
14354	<desc>The medium attachment which changed.</desc>
14355	</param>
14356	<param name="force" type="boolean" dir="in">
14357	<desc>If the medium change was forced.</desc>
14358	</param>
14359	</method>
14360
14361	<method name="onStorageDeviceChange">
14362	<desc>
14363	Triggered when attached storage devices of the
14364	associated virtual machine have changed.
14365
14366	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14367	Session state prevents operation.
14368	</result>
14369	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14370	Session type prevents operation.
14371	</result>
14372
14373	</desc>
14374
14375	<param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
14376	<desc>The medium attachment which changed.</desc>
14377	</param>
14378	<param name="remove" type="boolean" dir="in">
14379	<desc>TRUE if the device is removed, FALSE if it was added.</desc>
14380	</param>
14381	</method>
14382
14383	<method name="onCPUChange">
14384	<desc>
14385	Notification when a CPU changes.
14386	</desc>
14387	<param name="cpu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14388	<desc>The CPU which changed</desc>
14389	</param>
14390	<param name="add" type="boolean" dir="in">
14391	<desc>Flag whether the CPU was added or removed</desc>
14392	</param>
14393	</method>
14394
14395	<method name="onCPUExecutionCapChange">
14396	<desc>
14397	Notification when the CPU execution cap changes.
14398	</desc>
14399	<param name="executionCap" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14400	<desc>The new CPU execution cap value. (1-100)</desc>
14401	</param>
14402	</method>
14403
14404	<method name="onVRDEServerChange">
14405	<desc>
14406	Triggered when settings of the VRDE server object of the
14407	associated virtual machine have changed.
14408
14409	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14410	Session state prevents operation.
14411	</result>
14412	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14413	Session type prevents operation.
14414	</result>
14415
14416	</desc>
14417	<param name="restart" type="boolean" dir="in">
14418	<desc>Flag whether the server must be restarted</desc>
14419	</param>
14420	</method>
14421
14422	<method name="onUSBControllerChange">
14423	<desc>
14424	Triggered when settings of the USB controller object of the
14425	associated virtual machine have changed.
14426
14427	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14428	Session state prevents operation.
14429	</result>
14430	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14431	Session type prevents operation.
14432	</result>
14433
14434	</desc>
14435	</method>
14436
14437	<method name="onSharedFolderChange">
14438	<desc>
14439	Triggered when a permanent (global or machine) shared folder has been
14440	created or removed.
14441	<note>
14442	We don't pass shared folder parameters in this notification because
14443	the order in which parallel notifications are delivered is not defined,
14444	therefore it could happen that these parameters were outdated by the
14445	time of processing this notification.
14446	</note>
14447
14448	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14449	Session state prevents operation.
14450	</result>
14451	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14452	Session type prevents operation.
14453	</result>
14454
14455	</desc>
14456	<param name="global" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
14457	</method>
14458
14459	<method name="onUSBDeviceAttach">
14460	<desc>
14461	Triggered when a request to capture a USB device (as a result
14462	of matched USB filters or direct call to
14463	<link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
14464	A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
14465	describes a failure.
14466
14467	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14468	Session state prevents operation.
14469	</result>
14470	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14471	Session type prevents operation.
14472	</result>
14473
14474	</desc>
14475	<param name="device" type="IUSBDevice" dir="in"/>
14476	<param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
14477	<param name="maskedInterfaces" type="unsigned long" dir="in"/>
14478	</method>
14479
14480	<method name="onUSBDeviceDetach">
14481	<desc>
14482	Triggered when a request to release the USB device (as a result
14483	of machine termination or direct call to
14484	<link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>) has completed.
14485	A @c null @a error object means success, otherwise it
14486	describes a failure.
14487
14488	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14489	Session state prevents operation.
14490	</result>
14491	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14492	Session type prevents operation.
14493	</result>
14494
14495	</desc>
14496	<param name="id" type="uuid" mod="string" dir="in"/>
14497	<param name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" dir="in"/>
14498	</method>
14499
14500	<method name="onShowWindow">
14501	<desc>
14502	Called by <link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> and by
14503	<link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> in order to notify
14504	console listeners
14505	<link to="ICanShowWindowEvent"/>
14506	and <link to="IShowWindowEvent"/>.
14507
14508	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14509	Session type prevents operation.
14510	</result>
14511
14512	</desc>
14513	<param name="check" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
14514	<param name="canShow" type="boolean" dir="out"/>
14515	<param name="winId" type="long long" dir="out"/>
14516	</method>
14517
14518	<method name="onBandwidthGroupChange">
14519	<desc>
14520	Notification when one of the bandwidth groups change.
14521	</desc>
14522	<param name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="in">
14523	<desc>The bandwidth group which changed.</desc>
14524	</param>
14525	</method>
14526
14527	<method name="accessGuestProperty">
14528	<desc>
14529	Called by <link to="IMachine::getGuestProperty"/> and by
14530	<link to="IMachine::setGuestProperty"/> in order to read and
14531	modify guest properties.
14532
14533	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14534	Machine session is not open.
14535	</result>
14536	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14537	Session type is not direct.
14538	</result>
14539
14540	</desc>
14541	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
14542	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
14543	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
14544	<param name="isSetter" type="boolean" dir="in"/>
14545	<param name="retValue" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
14546	<param name="retTimestamp" type="long long" dir="out"/>
14547	<param name="retFlags" type="wstring" dir="out"/>
14548	</method>
14549
14550	<method name="enumerateGuestProperties" const="yes">
14551	<desc>
14552	Return a list of the guest properties matching a set of patterns along
14553	with their values, time stamps and flags.
14554
14555	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14556	Machine session is not open.
14557	</result>
14558	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14559	Session type is not direct.
14560	</result>
14561
14562	</desc>
14563	<param name="patterns" type="wstring" dir="in">
14564	<desc>
14565	The patterns to match the properties against as a comma-separated
14566	string. If this is empty, all properties currently set will be
14567	returned.
14568	</desc>
14569	</param>
14570	<param name="key" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14571	<desc>
14572	The key names of the properties returned.
14573	</desc>
14574	</param>
14575	<param name="value" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14576	<desc>
14577	The values of the properties returned. The array entries match the
14578	corresponding entries in the @a key array.
14579	</desc>
14580	</param>
14581	<param name="timestamp" type="long long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14582	<desc>
14583	The time stamps of the properties returned. The array entries match
14584	the corresponding entries in the @a key array.
14585	</desc>
14586	</param>
14587	<param name="flags" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
14588	<desc>
14589	The flags of the properties returned. The array entries match the
14590	corresponding entries in the @a key array.
14591	</desc>
14592	</param>
14593	</method>
14594
14595	<method name="onlineMergeMedium">
14596	<desc>
14597	Triggers online merging of a hard disk. Used internally when deleting
14598	a snapshot while a VM referring to the same hard disk chain is running.
14599
14600	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_VM_STATE">
14601	Machine session is not open.
14602	</result>
14603	<result name="VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE">
14604	Session type is not direct.
14605	</result>
14606
14607	</desc>
14608	<param name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" dir="in">
14609	<desc>The medium attachment to identify the medium chain.</desc>
14610	</param>
14611	<param name="sourceIdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14612	<desc>The index of the source image in the chain.
14613	Redundant, but drastically reduces IPC.</desc>
14614	</param>
14615	<param name="targetIdx" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
14616	<desc>The index of the target image in the chain.
14617	Redundant, but drastically reduces IPC.</desc>
14618	</param>
14619	<param name="source" type="IMedium" dir="in">
14620	<desc>Merge source medium.</desc>
14621	</param>
14622	<param name="target" type="IMedium" dir="in">
14623	<desc>Merge target medium.</desc>
14624	</param>
14625	<param name="mergeForward" type="boolean" dir="in">
14626	<desc>Merge direction.</desc>
14627	</param>
14628	<param name="parentForTarget" type="IMedium" dir="in">
14629	<desc>For forward merges: new parent for target medium.</desc>
14630	</param>
14631	<param name="childrenToReparent" type="IMedium" safearray="yes" dir="in">
14632	<desc>For backward merges: list of media which need their parent UUID
14633	updated.</desc>
14634	</param>
14635	<param name="progress" type="IProgress" dir="in">
14636	<desc>
14637	Progress object for this operation.
14638	</desc>
14639	</param>
14640	</method>
14641
14642	</interface>
14643
14644	<interface
14645	name="ISession" extends="$unknown"
14646	uuid="12F4DCDB-12B2-4EC1-B7CD-DDD9F6C5BF4D"
14647	wsmap="managed"
14648	>
14649	<desc>
14650	The ISession interface represents a client process and allows for locking
14651	virtual machines (represented by IMachine objects) to prevent conflicting
14652	changes to the machine.
14653
14654	Any caller wishing to manipulate a virtual machine needs to create a session
14655	object first, which lives in its own process space. Such session objects are
14656	then associated with <link to="IMachine" /> objects living in the VirtualBox
14657	server process to coordinate such changes.
14658
14659	There are two typical scenarios in which sessions are used:
14660
14661	<ul>
14662	<li>To alter machine settings or control a running virtual machine, one
14663	needs to lock a machine for a given session (client process) by calling
14664	<link to="IMachine::lockMachine"/>.
14665
14666	Whereas multiple sessions may control a running virtual machine, only
14667	one process can obtain a write lock on the machine to prevent conflicting
14668	changes. A write lock is also needed if a process wants to actually run a
14669	virtual machine in its own context, such as the VirtualBox GUI or
14670	VBoxHeadless front-ends. They must also lock a machine for their own
14671	sessions before they are allowed to power up the virtual machine.
14672
14673	As a result, no machine settings can be altered while another process is
14674	already using it, either because that process is modifying machine settings
14675	or because the machine is running.
14676	</li>
14677	<li>
14678	To start a VM using one of the existing VirtualBox front-ends (e.g. the
14679	VirtualBox GUI or VBoxHeadless), one would use
14680	<link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess"/>, which also takes a session object
14681	as its first parameter. This session then identifies the caller and lets the
14682	caller control the started machine (for example, pause machine execution or
14683	power it down) as well as be notified about machine execution state changes.
14684	</li>
14685	</ul>
14686
14687	How sessions objects are created in a client process depends on whether you use
14688	the Main API via COM or via the webservice:
14689
14690	<ul>
14691	<li>When using the COM API directly, an object of the Session class from the
14692	VirtualBox type library needs to be created. In regular COM C++ client code,
14693	this can be done by calling <tt>createLocalObject()</tt>, a standard COM API.
14694	This object will then act as a local session object in further calls to open
14695	a session.
14696	</li>
14697
14698	<li>In the webservice, the session manager (IWebsessionManager) instead creates
14699	a session object automatically whenever <link to="IWebsessionManager::logon" />
14700	is called. A managed object reference to that session object can be retrieved by
14701	calling <link to="IWebsessionManager::getSessionObject" />.
14702	</li>
14703	</ul>
14704	</desc>
14705
14706	<attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
14707	<desc>Current state of this session.</desc>
14708	</attribute>
14709
14710	<attribute name="type" type="SessionType" readonly="yes">
14711	<desc>
14712	Type of this session. The value of this attribute is valid only
14713	if the session currently has a machine locked (i.e. its
14714	<link to="#state" /> is Locked), otherwise an error will be returned.
14715	</desc>
14716	</attribute>
14717
14718	<attribute name="machine" type="IMachine" readonly="yes">
14719	<desc>Machine object associated with this session.</desc>
14720	</attribute>
14721
14722	<attribute name="console" type="IConsole" readonly="yes">
14723	<desc>Console object associated with this session.</desc>
14724	</attribute>
14725
14726	<method name="unlockMachine">
14727	<desc>
14728	Unlocks a machine that was previously locked for the current session.
14729
14730	Calling this method is required every time a machine has been locked
14731	for a particular session using the <link to="IMachine::launchVMProcess" />
14732	or <link to="IMachine::lockMachine" /> calls. Otherwise the state of
14733	the machine will be set to <link to="MachineState_Aborted" /> on the
14734	server, and changes made to the machine settings will be lost.
14735
14736	Generally, it is recommended to unlock all machines explicitly
14737	before terminating the application (regardless of the reason for
14738	the termination).
14739
14740	<note>
14741	Do not expect the session state (<link to="ISession::state" />
14742	to return to "Unlocked" immediately after you invoke this method,
14743	particularly if you have started a new VM process. The session
14744	state will automatically return to "Unlocked" once the VM is no
14745	longer executing, which can of course take a very long time.
14746	</note>
14747
14748	<result name="E_UNEXPECTED">
14749	Session is not locked.
14750	</result>
14751
14752	</desc>
14753	</method>
14754
14755	</interface>
14756
14757	<!--
14758	// IStorageController
14759	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14760	-->
14761
14762	<enum
14763	name="StorageBus"
14764	uuid="eee67ab3-668d-4ef5-91e0-7025fe4a0d7a"
14765	>
14766	<desc>
14767	The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or Floppy);
14768	see <link to="IStorageController::bus" />.
14769	</desc>
14770	<const name="Null" value="0">
14771	<desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
14772	</const>
14773	<const name="IDE" value="1"/>
14774	<const name="SATA" value="2"/>
14775	<const name="SCSI" value="3"/>
14776	<const name="Floppy" value="4"/>
14777	<const name="SAS" value="5"/>
14778	</enum>
14779
14780	<enum
14781	name="StorageControllerType"
14782	uuid="8a412b8a-f43e-4456-bd37-b474f0879a58"
14783	>
14784	<desc>
14785	The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
14786	to the guest; see <link to="IStorageController::controllerType" />.
14787	</desc>
14788
14789	<const name="Null" value="0">
14790	<desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
14791	</const>
14792	<const name="LsiLogic" value="1">
14793	<desc>A SCSI controller of the LsiLogic variant.</desc>
14794	</const>
14795	<const name="BusLogic" value="2">
14796	<desc>A SCSI controller of the BusLogic variant.</desc>
14797	</const>
14798	<const name="IntelAhci" value="3">
14799	<desc>An Intel AHCI SATA controller; this is the only variant for SATA.</desc>
14800	</const>
14801	<const name="PIIX3" value="4">
14802	<desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX3 variant.</desc>
14803	</const>
14804	<const name="PIIX4" value="5">
14805	<desc>An IDE controller of the PIIX4 variant.</desc>
14806	</const>
14807	<const name="ICH6" value="6">
14808	<desc>An IDE controller of the ICH6 variant.</desc>
14809	</const>
14810	<const name="I82078" value="7">
14811	<desc>A floppy disk controller; this is the only variant for floppy drives.</desc>
14812	</const>
14813	<const name="LsiLogicSas" value="8">
14814	<desc>A variant of the LsiLogic controller using SAS.</desc>
14815	</const>
14816	</enum>
14817
14818	<enum
14819	name="ChipsetType"
14820	uuid="8b4096a8-a7c3-4d3b-bbb1-05a0a51ec394"
14821	>
14822	<desc>
14823	Type of emulated chipset (mostly southbridge).
14824	</desc>
14825
14826	<const name="Null" value="0">
14827	<desc>@c null value. Never used by the API.</desc>
14828	</const>
14829	<const name="PIIX3" value="1">
14830	<desc>A PIIX3 (PCI IDE ISA Xcelerator) chipset.</desc>
14831	</const>
14832	<const name="ICH9" value="2">
14833	<desc>A ICH9 (I/O Controller Hub) chipset.</desc>
14834	</const>
14835	</enum>
14836
14837	<interface
14838	name="IStorageController" extends="$unknown"
14839	uuid="a1556333-09b6-46d9-bfb7-fc239b7fbe1e"
14840	wsmap="managed"
14841	>
14842	<desc>
14843	Represents a storage controller that is attached to a virtual machine
14844	(<link to="IMachine" />). Just as drives (hard disks, DVDs, FDs) are
14845	attached to storage controllers in a real computer, virtual drives
14846	(represented by <link to="IMediumAttachment" />) are attached to virtual
14847	storage controllers, represented by this interface.
14848
14849	As opposed to physical hardware, VirtualBox has a very generic concept
14850	of a storage controller, and for purposes of the Main API, all virtual
14851	storage is attached to virtual machines via instances of this interface.
14852	There are five types of such virtual storage controllers: IDE, SCSI, SATA,
14853	SAS and Floppy (see <link to="#bus" />). Depending on which of these four
14854	is used, certain sub-types may be available and can be selected in
14855	<link to="#controllerType" />.
14856
14857	Depending on these settings, the guest operating system might see
14858	significantly different virtual hardware.
14859	</desc>
14860
14861	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
14862	<desc>
14863	Name of the storage controller, as originally specified with
14864	<link to="IMachine::addStorageController" />. This then uniquely
14865	identifies this controller with other method calls such as
14866	<link to="IMachine::attachDevice" /> and <link to="IMachine::mountMedium" />.
14867	</desc>
14868	</attribute>
14869
14870	<attribute name="maxDevicesPerPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14871	<desc>
14872	Maximum number of devices which can be attached to one port.
14873	</desc>
14874	</attribute>
14875
14876	<attribute name="minPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14877	<desc>
14878	Minimum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
14879	</desc>
14880	</attribute>
14881
14882	<attribute name="maxPortCount" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
14883	<desc>
14884	Maximum number of ports that <link to="IStorageController::portCount"/> can be set to.
14885	</desc>
14886	</attribute>
14887
14888	<attribute name="instance" type="unsigned long">
14889	<desc>
14890	The instance number of the device in the running VM.
14891	</desc>
14892	</attribute>
14893
14894	<attribute name="portCount" type="unsigned long">
14895	<desc>
14896	The number of currently usable ports on the controller.
14897	The minimum and maximum number of ports for one controller are
14898	stored in <link to="IStorageController::minPortCount"/>
14899	and <link to="IStorageController::maxPortCount"/>.
14900	</desc>
14901	</attribute>
14902
14903	<attribute name="bus" type="StorageBus" readonly="yes">
14904	<desc>
14905	The bus type of the storage controller (IDE, SATA, SCSI, SAS or Floppy).
14906	</desc>
14907	</attribute>
14908
14909	<attribute name="controllerType" type="StorageControllerType">
14910	<desc>
14911	The exact variant of storage controller hardware presented
14912	to the guest.
14913	Depending on this value, VirtualBox will provide a different
14914	virtual storage controller hardware to the guest.
14915	For SATA, SAS and floppy controllers, only one variant is
14916	available, but for IDE and SCSI, there are several.
14917
14918	For SCSI controllers, the default type is LsiLogic.
14919	</desc>
14920	</attribute>
14921
14922	<attribute name="useHostIOCache" type="boolean">
14923	<desc>
14924	If true, the storage controller emulation will use a dedicated I/O thread, enable the host I/O
14925	caches and use synchronous file APIs on the host. This was the only option in the API before
14926	VirtualBox 3.2 and is still the default for IDE controllers.
14927
14928	If false, the host I/O cache will be disabled for image files attached to this storage controller.
14929	Instead, the storage controller emulation will use asynchronous I/O APIs on the host. This makes
14930	it possible to turn off the host I/O caches because the emulation can handle unaligned access to
14931	the file. This should be used on OS X and Linux hosts if a high I/O load is expected or many
14932	virtual machines are running at the same time to prevent I/O cache related hangs.
14933	This option new with the API of VirtualBox 3.2 and is now the default for non-IDE storage controllers.
14934	</desc>
14935	</attribute>
14936
14937	<attribute name="bootable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
14938	<desc>
14939	Returns whether it is possible to boot from disks attached to this controller.
14940	</desc>
14941	</attribute>
14942
14943	<method name="getIDEEmulationPort">
14944	<desc>
14945	Gets the corresponding port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
14946	Works only with SATA controllers.
14947
14948	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
14949	The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3.
14950	</result>
14951	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
14952	The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
14953	</result>
14954
14955	</desc>
14956	<param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
14957	<param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="return"/>
14958	</method>
14959
14960	<method name="setIDEEmulationPort">
14961	<desc>
14962	Sets the port number which is emulated as an IDE device.
14963	Works only with SATA controllers.
14964
14965	<result name="E_INVALIDARG">
14966	The @a devicePosition is not in the range 0 to 3 or the
14967	@a portNumber is not in the range 0 to 29.
14968	</result>
14969	<result name="E_NOTIMPL">
14970	The storage controller type is not SATAIntelAhci.
14971	</result>
14972
14973	</desc>
14974	<param name="devicePosition" type="long" dir="in"/>
14975	<param name="portNumber" type="long" dir="in"/>
14976	</method>
14977
14978	</interface>
14979
14980	<if target="wsdl">
14981
14982	<!--
14983	// IManagedObjectRef
14984	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
14985	-->
14986
14987	<interface
14988	name="IManagedObjectRef" extends="$unknown"
14989	uuid="9474d09d-2313-46de-b568-a42b8718e8ed"
14990	internal="yes"
14991	wsmap="managed"
14992	wscpp="hardcoded"
14993	>
14994	<desc>
14995	Managed object reference.
14996
14997	Only within the webservice, a managed object reference (which is really
14998	an opaque number) allows a webservice client to address an object
14999	that lives in the address space of the webservice server.
15000
15001	Behind each managed object reference, there is a COM object that lives
15002	in the webservice server's address space. The COM object is not freed
15003	until the managed object reference is released, either by an explicit
15004	call to <link to="IManagedObjectRef::release" /> or by logging off from
15005	the webservice (<link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />), which releases
15006	all objects created during the webservice session.
15007
15008	Whenever a method call of the VirtualBox API returns a COM object, the
15009	webservice representation of that method will instead return a
15010	managed object reference, which can then be used to invoke methods
15011	on that object.
15012	</desc>
15013
15014	<method name="getInterfaceName">
15015	<desc>
15016	Returns the name of the interface that this managed object represents,
15017	for example, "IMachine", as a string.
15018	</desc>
15019	<param name="return" type="wstring" dir="return"/>
15020	</method>
15021
15022	<method name="release">
15023	<desc>
15024	Releases this managed object reference and frees the resources that
15025	were allocated for it in the webservice server process. After calling
15026	this method, the identifier of the reference can no longer be used.
15027	</desc>
15028	</method>
15029
15030	</interface>
15031
15032	<!--
15033	// IWebsessionManager
15034	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15035	-->
15036
15037	<interface
15038	name="IWebsessionManager" extends="$unknown"
15039	uuid="dea1b4c7-2de3-418a-850d-7868617f7733"
15040	internal="yes"
15041	wsmap="global"
15042	wscpp="hardcoded"
15043	>
15044	<desc>
15045	Websession manager. This provides essential services
15046	to webservice clients.
15047	</desc>
15048	<method name="logon">
15049	<desc>
15050	Logs a new client onto the webservice and returns a managed object reference to
15051	the IVirtualBox instance, which the client can then use as a basis to further
15052	queries, since all calls to the VirtualBox API are based on the IVirtualBox
15053	interface, in one way or the other.
15054	</desc>
15055	<param name="username" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
15056	<param name="password" type="wstring" dir="in"/>
15057	<param name="return" type="IVirtualBox" dir="return"/>
15058	</method>
15059
15060	<method name="getSessionObject">
15061	<desc>
15062	Returns a managed object reference to the internal ISession object that was created
15063	for this web service session when the client logged on.
15064
15065	<see><link to="ISession"/></see>
15066	</desc>
15067	<param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
15068	<param name="return" type="ISession" dir="return"/>
15069	</method>
15070
15071	<method name="logoff">
15072	<desc>
15073	Logs off the client who has previously logged on with <link to="IWebsessionManager::logoff" />
15074	and destroys all resources associated with the session (most importantly, all
15075	managed objects created in the server while the session was active).
15076	</desc>
15077	<param name="refIVirtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" dir="in"/>
15078	</method>
15079
15080	</interface>
15081
15082	</if>
15083
15084	<!--
15085	// IPerformanceCollector & friends
15086	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15087	-->
15088
15089	<interface
15090	name="IPerformanceMetric" extends="$unknown"
15091	uuid="2a1a60ae-9345-4019-ad53-d34ba41cbfe9" wsmap="managed"
15092	>
15093	<desc>
15094	The IPerformanceMetric interface represents parameters of the given
15095	performance metric.
15096	</desc>
15097
15098	<attribute name="metricName" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15099	<desc>
15100	Name of the metric.
15101	</desc>
15102	</attribute>
15103
15104	<attribute name="object" type="$unknown" readonly="yes">
15105	<desc>
15106	Object this metric belongs to.
15107	</desc>
15108	</attribute>
15109
15110	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15111	<desc>
15112	Textual description of the metric.
15113	</desc>
15114	</attribute>
15115
15116	<attribute name="period" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15117	<desc>
15118	Time interval between samples, measured in seconds.
15119	</desc>
15120	</attribute>
15121
15122	<attribute name="count" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15123	<desc>
15124	Number of recent samples retained by the performance collector for this
15125	metric.
15126
15127	When the collected sample count exceeds this number, older samples
15128	are discarded.
15129	</desc>
15130	</attribute>
15131
15132	<attribute name="unit" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15133	<desc>
15134	Unit of measurement.
15135	</desc>
15136	</attribute>
15137
15138	<attribute name="minimumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
15139	<desc>
15140	Minimum possible value of this metric.
15141	</desc>
15142	</attribute>
15143
15144	<attribute name="maximumValue" type="long" readonly="yes">
15145	<desc>
15146	Maximum possible value of this metric.
15147	</desc>
15148	</attribute>
15149	</interface>
15150
15151	<interface
15152	name="IPerformanceCollector" extends="$unknown"
15153	uuid="e22e1acb-ac4a-43bb-a31c-17321659b0c6"
15154	wsmap="managed"
15155	>
15156	<desc>
15157	The IPerformanceCollector interface represents a service that collects
15158	and stores performance metrics data.
15159
15160	Performance metrics are associated with objects of interfaces like IHost
15161	and IMachine. Each object has a distinct set of performance metrics. The
15162	set can be obtained with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/>.
15163
15164	Metric data is collected at the specified intervals and is retained
15165	internally. The interval and the number of retained samples can be set
15166	with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. Both metric data
15167	and collection settings are not persistent, they are discarded as soon as
15168	VBoxSVC process terminates. Moreover, metric settings and data associated
15169	with a particular VM only exist while VM is running. They disappear as
15170	soon as VM shuts down. It is not possible to set up metrics for machines
15171	that are powered off. One needs to start VM first, then set up metric
15172	collection parameters.
15173
15174	Metrics are organized hierarchically, with each level separated by a
15175	slash (/) character. Generally, the scheme for metric names is like this:
15176
15177	<tt>Category/Metric[/SubMetric][:aggregation]</tt>
15178
15179	"Category/Metric" together form the base metric name. A base metric is
15180	the smallest unit for which a sampling interval and the number of
15181	retained samples can be set. Only base metrics can be enabled and
15182	disabled. All sub-metrics are collected when their base metric is
15183	collected. Collected values for any set of sub-metrics can be queried
15184	with <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />.
15185
15186	For example "CPU/Load/User:avg" metric name stands for the "CPU"
15187	category, "Load" metric, "User" submetric, "average" aggregate. An
15188	aggregate function is computed over all retained data. Valid aggregate
15189	functions are:
15190
15191	<ul>
15192	<li>avg -- average</li>
15193	<li>min -- minimum</li>
15194	<li>max -- maximum</li>
15195	</ul>
15196
15197	When setting up metric parameters, querying metric data, enabling or
15198	disabling metrics wildcards can be used in metric names to specify a
15199	subset of metrics. For example, to select all CPU-related metrics
15200	use <tt>CPU/</tt>, all averages can be queried using <tt>:avg</tt> and
15201	so on. To query metric values without aggregates <tt>*:</tt> can be used.
15202
15203	The valid names for base metrics are:
15204
15205	<ul>
15206	<li>CPU/Load</li>
15207	<li>CPU/MHz</li>
15208	<li>RAM/Usage</li>
15209	<li>RAM/VMM</li>
15210	</ul>
15211
15212	The general sequence for collecting and retrieving the metrics is:
15213	<ul>
15214	<li>
15215	Obtain an instance of IPerformanceCollector with
15216	<link to="IVirtualBox::performanceCollector" />
15217	</li>
15218	<li>
15219	Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metrics
15220	will be collected for. Use references to IHost and IMachine objects.
15221	</li>
15222	<li>
15223	Allocate and populate an array with base metric names the data will
15224	be collected for.
15225	</li>
15226	<li>
15227	Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::setupMetrics" />. From now on
15228	the metric data will be collected and stored.
15229	</li>
15230	<li>
15231	Wait for the data to get collected.
15232	</li>
15233	<li>
15234	Allocate and populate an array with references to objects the metric
15235	values will be queried for. You can re-use the object array used for
15236	setting base metrics.
15237	</li>
15238	<li>
15239	Allocate and populate an array with metric names the data will be
15240	collected for. Note that metric names differ from base metric names.
15241	</li>
15242	<li>
15243	Call <link to="IPerformanceCollector::queryMetricsData" />. The data
15244	that have been collected so far are returned. Note that the values
15245	are still retained internally and data collection continues.
15246	</li>
15247	</ul>
15248
15249	For an example of usage refer to the following files in VirtualBox SDK:
15250	<ul>
15251	<li>
15252	Java: <tt>bindings/webservice/java/jax-ws/samples/metrictest.java</tt>
15253	</li>
15254	<li>
15255	Python: <tt>bindings/xpcom/python/sample/shellcommon.py</tt>
15256	</li>
15257	</ul>
15258	</desc>
15259
15260	<attribute name="metricNames" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
15261	<desc>
15262	Array of unique names of metrics.
15263
15264	This array represents all metrics supported by the performance
15265	collector. Individual objects do not necessarily support all of them.
15266	<link to="IPerformanceCollector::getMetrics"/> can be used to get the
15267	list of supported metrics for a particular object.
15268	</desc>
15269	</attribute>
15270
15271	<method name="getMetrics">
15272	<desc>
15273	Returns parameters of specified metrics for a set of objects.
15274	<note>
15275	@c Null metrics array means all metrics. @c Null object array means
15276	all existing objects.
15277	</note>
15278	</desc>
15279	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15280	<desc>
15281	Metric name filter. Currently, only a comma-separated list of metrics
15282	is supported.
15283	</desc>
15284	</param>
15285	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15286	<desc>
15287	Set of objects to return metric parameters for.
15288	</desc>
15289	</param>
15290	<param name="metrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15291	<desc>
15292	Array of returned metric parameters.
15293	</desc>
15294	</param>
15295	</method>
15296
15297	<method name="setupMetrics">
15298	<desc>
15299	Sets parameters of specified base metrics for a set of objects. Returns
15300	an array of <link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics
15301	have been affected.
15302	<note>
15303	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
15304	empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
15305	contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
15306	metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
15307	form metric/object pairs.
15308	</note>
15309	</desc>
15310	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15311	<desc>
15312	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
15313	support.
15314	</desc>
15315	</param>
15316	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15317	<desc>
15318	Set of objects to setup metric parameters for.
15319	</desc>
15320	</param>
15321	<param name="period" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15322	<desc>
15323	Time interval in seconds between two consecutive samples of
15324	performance data.
15325	</desc>
15326	</param>
15327	<param name="count" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15328	<desc>
15329	Number of samples to retain in performance data history. Older
15330	samples get discarded.
15331	</desc>
15332	</param>
15333	<param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15334	<desc>
15335	Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
15336	</desc>
15337	</param>
15338	</method>
15339
15340	<method name="enableMetrics">
15341	<desc>
15342	Turns on collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
15343	<link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
15344	affected.
15345	<note>
15346	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
15347	empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
15348	contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
15349	metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
15350	form metric/object pairs.
15351	</note>
15352	</desc>
15353	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15354	<desc>
15355	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
15356	support.
15357	</desc>
15358	</param>
15359	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15360	<desc>
15361	Set of objects to enable metrics for.
15362	</desc>
15363	</param>
15364	<param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15365	<desc>
15366	Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
15367	</desc>
15368	</param>
15369	</method>
15370
15371	<method name="disableMetrics">
15372	<desc>
15373	Turns off collecting specified base metrics. Returns an array of
15374	<link to="IPerformanceMetric" /> describing the metrics have been
15375	affected.
15376	<note>
15377	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
15378	empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
15379	contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
15380	metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
15381	form metric/object pairs.
15382	</note>
15383	</desc>
15384	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15385	<desc>
15386	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
15387	support.
15388	</desc>
15389	</param>
15390	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15391	<desc>
15392	Set of objects to disable metrics for.
15393	</desc>
15394	</param>
15395	<param name="affectedMetrics" type="IPerformanceMetric" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15396	<desc>
15397	Array of metrics that have been modified by the call to this method.
15398	</desc>
15399	</param>
15400	</method>
15401
15402	<method name="queryMetricsData">
15403	<desc>
15404	Queries collected metrics data for a set of objects.
15405
15406	The data itself and related metric information are returned in seven
15407	parallel and one flattened array of arrays. Elements of
15408	<tt>returnMetricNames, returnObjects, returnUnits, returnScales,
15409	returnSequenceNumbers, returnDataIndices and returnDataLengths</tt> with
15410	the same index describe one set of values corresponding to a single
15411	metric.
15412
15413	The <tt>returnData</tt> parameter is a flattened array of arrays. Each
15414	start and length of a sub-array is indicated by
15415	<tt>returnDataIndices</tt> and <tt>returnDataLengths</tt>. The first
15416	value for metric <tt>metricNames[i]</tt> is at
15417	<tt>returnData[returnIndices[i]]</tt>.
15418
15419	<note>
15420	@c Null or empty metric name array means all metrics. @c Null or
15421	empty object array means all existing objects. If metric name array
15422	contains a single element and object array contains many, the single
15423	metric name array element is applied to each object array element to
15424	form metric/object pairs.
15425	</note>
15426	<note>
15427	Data collection continues behind the scenes after call to @c
15428	queryMetricsData. The return data can be seen as the snapshot of the
15429	current state at the time of @c queryMetricsData call. The internally
15430	kept metric values are not cleared by the call. This makes possible
15431	querying different subsets of metrics or aggregates with subsequent
15432	calls. If periodic querying is needed it is highly suggested to query
15433	the values with @c interval*count period to avoid confusion. This way
15434	a completely new set of data values will be provided by each query.
15435	</note>
15436	</desc>
15437	<param name="metricNames" type="wstring" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15438	<desc>
15439	Metric name filter. Comma-separated list of metrics with wildcard
15440	support.
15441	</desc>
15442	</param>
15443	<param name="objects" type="$unknown" dir="in" safearray="yes">
15444	<desc>
15445	Set of objects to query metrics for.
15446	</desc>
15447	</param>
15448	<param name="returnMetricNames" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15449	<desc>
15450	Names of metrics returned in @c returnData.
15451	</desc>
15452	</param>
15453	<param name="returnObjects" type="$unknown" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15454	<desc>
15455	Objects associated with metrics returned in @c returnData.
15456	</desc>
15457	</param>
15458	<param name="returnUnits" type="wstring" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15459	<desc>
15460	Units of measurement for each returned metric.
15461	</desc>
15462	</param>
15463	<param name="returnScales" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15464	<desc>
15465	Divisor that should be applied to return values in order to get
15466	floating point values. For example:
15467	<tt>(double)returnData[returnDataIndices[0]+i] / returnScales[0]</tt>
15468	will retrieve the floating point value of i-th sample of the first
15469	metric.
15470	</desc>
15471	</param>
15472	<param name="returnSequenceNumbers" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15473	<desc>
15474	Sequence numbers of the first elements of value sequences of
15475	particular metrics returned in @c returnData. For aggregate metrics
15476	it is the sequence number of the sample the aggregate started
15477	calculation from.
15478	</desc>
15479	</param>
15480	<param name="returnDataIndices" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15481	<desc>
15482	Indices of the first elements of value sequences of particular
15483	metrics returned in @c returnData.
15484	</desc>
15485	</param>
15486	<param name="returnDataLengths" type="unsigned long" dir="out" safearray="yes">
15487	<desc>
15488	Lengths of value sequences of particular metrics.
15489	</desc>
15490	</param>
15491	<param name="returnData" type="long" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15492	<desc>
15493	Flattened array of all metric data containing sequences of values for
15494	each metric.
15495	</desc>
15496	</param>
15497	</method>
15498
15499	</interface>
15500
15501	<enum
15502	name="NATAliasMode"
15503	uuid="67772168-50d9-11df-9669-7fb714ee4fa1"
15504	>
15505	<desc></desc>
15506	<const name="AliasLog" value="0x1">
15507	<desc></desc>
15508	</const>
15509	<const name="AliasProxyOnly" value="0x02">
15510	<desc></desc>
15511	</const>
15512	<const name="AliasUseSamePorts" value="0x04">
15513	<desc></desc>
15514	</const>
15515	</enum>
15516
15517	<enum
15518	name="NATProtocol"
15519	uuid="e90164be-eb03-11de-94af-fff9b1c1b19f"
15520	>
15521	<desc>Protocol definitions used with NAT port-forwarding rules.</desc>
15522	<const name="UDP" value="0">
15523	<desc>Port-forwarding uses UDP protocol.</desc>
15524	</const>
15525	<const name="TCP" value="1">
15526	<desc>Port-forwarding uses TCP protocol.</desc>
15527	</const>
15528	</enum>
15529
15530	<interface
15531	name="INATEngine" extends="$unknown"
15532	uuid="4b286616-eb03-11de-b0fb-1701eca42246"
15533	wsmap="managed"
15534	>
15535	<desc>Interface for managing a NAT engine which is used with a virtual machine. This
15536	allows for changing NAT behavior such as port-forwarding rules. This interface is
15537	used in the <link to="INetworkAdapter::natDriver" /> attribute.</desc>
15538	<attribute name="network" type="wstring">
15539	<desc>The network attribute of the NAT engine (the same value is used with built-in
15540	DHCP server to fill corresponding fields of DHCP leases).</desc>
15541	</attribute>
15542	<attribute name="hostIP" type="wstring">
15543	<desc>IP of host interface to bind all opened sockets to.
15544	<note>Changing this does not change binding of port forwarding.</note>
15545	</desc>
15546	</attribute>
15547	<attribute name="tftpPrefix" type="wstring">
15548	<desc>TFTP prefix attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
15549	the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.</desc>
15550	</attribute>
15551	<attribute name="tftpBootFile" type="wstring">
15552	<desc>TFTP boot file attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
15553	the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.</desc>
15554	</attribute>
15555	<attribute name="tftpNextServer" type="wstring">
15556	<desc>TFTP server attribute which is used with the built-in DHCP server to fill
15557	the corresponding fields of DHCP leases.
15558	<note>The preferred form is IPv4 addresses.</note>
15559	</desc>
15560	</attribute>
15561	<attribute name="aliasMode" type="unsigned long">
15562	<desc></desc>
15563	</attribute>
15564	<attribute name="dnsPassDomain" type="boolean">
15565	<desc>Whether the DHCP server should pass the DNS domain used by the host.</desc>
15566	</attribute>
15567	<attribute name="dnsProxy" type="boolean">
15568	<desc>Whether the DHCP server (and the DNS traffic by NAT) should pass the address
15569	of the DNS proxy and process traffic using DNS servers registered on the host.</desc>
15570	</attribute>
15571	<attribute name="dnsUseHostResolver" type="boolean">
15572	<desc>Whether the DHCP server (and the DNS traffic by NAT) should pass the address
15573	of the DNS proxy and process traffic using the host resolver mechanism.</desc>
15574	</attribute>
15575	<attribute name="redirects" type="wstring" readonly="yes" safearray="yes">
15576	<desc>Array of NAT port-forwarding rules in string representation, in the following
15577	format: "name,protocol id,host ip,host port,guest ip,guest port".</desc>
15578	</attribute>
15579	<method name="setNetworkSettings">
15580	<desc>Sets network configuration of the NAT engine.</desc>
15581	<param name="mtu" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15582	<desc>MTU (maximum transmission unit) of the NAT engine in bytes.</desc>
15583	</param>
15584	<param name="sockSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15585	<desc>Capacity of the socket send buffer in bytes when creating a new socket.</desc>
15586	</param>
15587	<param name="sockRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15588	<desc>Capacity of the socket receive buffer in bytes when creating a new socket.</desc>
15589	</param>
15590	<param name="TcpWndSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15591	<desc>Initial size of the NAT engine's sending TCP window in bytes when
15592	establishing a new TCP connection.</desc>
15593	</param>
15594	<param name="TcpWndRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
15595	<desc>Initial size of the NAT engine's receiving TCP window in bytes when
15596	establishing a new TCP connection.</desc>
15597	</param>
15598	</method>
15599	<method name="getNetworkSettings">
15600	<desc>Returns network configuration of NAT engine. See <link to="#setNetworkSettings" />
15601	for parameter descriptions.</desc>
15602	<param name="mtu" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
15603	<param name="sockSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
15604	<param name="sockRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
15605	<param name="TcpWndSnd" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
15606	<param name="TcpWndRcv" type="unsigned long" dir="out" />
15607	</method>
15608	<method name="addRedirect">
15609	<desc>Adds a new NAT port-forwarding rule.</desc>
15610	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15611	<desc>The name of the rule. An empty name is acceptable, in which case the NAT engine
15612	auto-generates one using the other parameters.</desc>
15613	</param>
15614	<param name="proto" type="NATProtocol" dir="in">
15615	<desc>Protocol handled with the rule.</desc>
15616	</param>
15617	<param name="hostIp" type="wstring" dir="in">
15618	<desc>IP of the host interface to which the rule should apply. An empty ip address is
15619	acceptable, in which case the NAT engine binds the handling socket to any interface.</desc>
15620	</param>
15621	<param name="hostPort" type="unsigned short" dir="in">
15622	<desc>The port number to listen on.</desc>
15623	</param>
15624	<param name="guestIp" type="wstring" dir="in">
15625	<desc>The IP address of the guest which the NAT engine will forward matching packets
15626	to. An empty IP address is acceptable, in which case the NAT engine will forward
15627	packets to the first DHCP lease (x.x.x.15).</desc>
15628	</param>
15629	<param name="guestPort" type="unsigned short" dir="in">
15630	<desc>The port number to forward.</desc>
15631	</param>
15632	</method>
15633	<method name="removeRedirect">
15634	<desc>Removes a port-forwarding rule that was previously registered.</desc>
15635	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15636	<desc>The name of the rule to delete.</desc>
15637	</param>
15638	</method>
15639	</interface>
15640
15641	<!--
15642	// IExtPackManager
15643	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15644	-->
15645
15646	<interface
15647	name="IExtPackPlugIn" extends="$unknown"
15648	uuid="58000040-e718-4746-bbce-4b86d96da461"
15649	wsmap="suppress"
15650	>
15651	<desc>
15652	Interface for keeping information about a plug-in that ships with an
15653	extension pack.
15654	</desc>
15655	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15656	<desc>The plug-in name.</desc>
15657	</attribute>
15658	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15659	<desc>The plug-in description.</desc>
15660	</attribute>
15661	<attribute name="frontend" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15662	<desc>
15663	The name of the frontend or component name this plug-in plugs into.
15664	</desc>
15665	</attribute>
15666	<attribute name="modulePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15667	<desc> The module path. </desc>
15668	</attribute>
15669	</interface>
15670
15671	<interface
15672	name="IExtPackBase" extends="$unknown"
15673	uuid="5ffb0b64-0ad6-467d-af62-1157e7dc3c99"
15674	wsmap="suppress"
15675	>
15676	<desc>
15677	Interface for querying information about an extension pack as well as
15678	accessing COM objects within it.
15679	</desc>
15680	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15681	<desc>The extension pack name. This is unique.</desc>
15682	</attribute>
15683	<attribute name="description" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15684	<desc>The extension pack description.</desc>
15685	</attribute>
15686	<attribute name="version" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15687	<desc>
15688	The extension pack version string. This is on the same form as
15689	other VirtualBox version strings, i.e.: "1.2.3", "1.2.3_BETA1",
15690	"1.2.3-OSE", "1.2.3r45678", "1.2.3r45678-OSE", "1.2.3_BETA1-r45678"
15691	or "1.2.3_BETA1-r45678-OSE"
15692	</desc>
15693	</attribute>
15694	<attribute name="revision" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15695	<desc>The extension pack internal revision number.</desc>
15696	</attribute>
15697	<attribute name="VRDEModule" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15698	<desc>The name of the VRDE module if the extension pack sports one.</desc>
15699	</attribute>
15700	<attribute name="plugIns" type="IExtPackPlugIn" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
15701	<desc>Plug-ins provided by this extension pack.</desc>
15702	</attribute>
15703	<attribute name="usable" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15704	<desc>
15705	Indicates whether the extension pack is usable or not.
15706
15707	There are a number of reasons why an extension pack might be unusable,
15708	typical examples would be broken installation/file or that it is
15709	incompatible with the current VirtualBox version.
15710	</desc>
15711	</attribute>
15712	<attribute name="whyUnusable" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15713	<desc>
15714	String indicating why the extension pack is not usable. This is an
15715	empty string if usable and always a non-empty string if not usable.
15716	</desc>
15717	</attribute>
15718	<attribute name="showLicense" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
15719	<desc>Whether to show the license before installation</desc>
15720	</attribute>
15721	<attribute name="license" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15722	<desc>
15723	The default HTML license text for the extension pack. Same as
15724	calling <link to="#queryLicense">queryLicense</link> with
15725	preferredLocale and preferredLanguage as empty strings and format set
15726	to html.
15727	</desc>
15728	</attribute>
15729
15730	<method name="queryLicense">
15731	<desc>
15732	Full feature version of the license attribute.
15733	</desc>
15734	<param name="preferredLocale" type="wstring" dir="in">
15735	<desc>
15736	The preferred license locale. Pass an empty string to get the default
15737	license.
15738	</desc>
15739	</param>
15740	<param name="preferredLanguage" type="wstring" dir="in">
15741	<desc>
15742	The preferred license language. Pass an empty string to get the
15743	default language for the locale.
15744	</desc>
15745	</param>
15746	<param name="format" type="wstring" dir="in">
15747	<desc>
15748	The license format: html, rtf or txt. If a license is present there
15749	will always be an HTML of it, the rich text format (RTF) and plain
15750	text (txt) versions are optional. If
15751	</desc>
15752	</param>
15753	<param name="licenseText" type="wstring" dir="return">
15754	<desc>The license text.</desc>
15755	</param>
15756	</method>
15757
15758	</interface>
15759
15760	<interface
15761	name="IExtPack" extends="IExtPackBase"
15762	uuid="431685da-3618-4ebc-b038-833ba829b4b2"
15763	wsmap="suppress"
15764	>
15765	<desc>
15766	Interface for querying information about an extension pack as well as
15767	accessing COM objects within it.
15768	</desc>
15769	<method name="queryObject">
15770	<desc>
15771	Queries the IUnknown interface to an object in the extension pack
15772	main module. This allows plug-ins and others to talk directly to an
15773	extension pack.
15774	</desc>
15775	<param name="objUuid" type="wstring" dir="in">
15776	<desc>The object ID. What exactly this is </desc>
15777	</param>
15778	<param name="returnInterface" type="$unknown" dir="return">
15779	<desc>The queried interface.</desc>
15780	</param>
15781	</method>
15782	</interface>
15783
15784	<interface
15785	name="IExtPackFile" extends="IExtPackBase"
15786	uuid="b6b49f55-efcc-4f08-b486-56e8d8afb10b"
15787	wsmap="suppress"
15788	>
15789	<desc>
15790	Extension pack file (aka tarball, .vbox-extpack) representation returned
15791	by <link to="IExtPackManager::openExtPackFile"/>. This provides the base
15792	extension pack information with the addition of the file name.
15793	</desc>
15794	<attribute name="filePath" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15795	<desc>
15796	The path to the extension pack file.
15797	</desc>
15798	</attribute>
15799
15800	<method name="install">
15801	<desc>
15802	Install the extension pack.
15803	</desc>
15804	<param name="replace" type="boolean" dir="in">
15805	<desc>
15806	Set this to automatically uninstall any existing extension pack with
15807	the same name as the one being installed.
15808	</desc>
15809	</param>
15810	<param name="displayInfo" type="wstring" dir="in">
15811	<desc>
15812	Platform specific display information. Reserved for future hacks.
15813	</desc>
15814	</param>
15815	<param name="progess" type="IProgress" dir="return">
15816	<desc>
15817	Progress object for the operation.
15818	</desc>
15819	</param>
15820	</method>
15821	</interface>
15822
15823	<interface
15824	name="IExtPackManager" extends="$unknown"
15825	uuid="3295e6ce-b051-47b2-9514-2c588bfe7554"
15826	wsmap="suppress"
15827	>
15828	<desc>
15829	Interface for managing VirtualBox Extension Packs.
15830
15831	TODO: Describe extension packs, how they are managed and how to create
15832	one.
15833	</desc>
15834
15835	<attribute name="installedExtPacks" type="IExtPack" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
15836	<desc>
15837	List of the installed extension packs.
15838	</desc>
15839	</attribute>
15840
15841	<method name="find">
15842	<desc>
15843	Returns the extension pack with the specified name if found.
15844
15845	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
15846	No extension pack matching @a name was found.
15847	</result>
15848	</desc>
15849	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15850	<desc>The name of the extension pack to locate.</desc>
15851	</param>
15852	<param name="returnData" type="IExtPack" dir="return">
15853	<desc>The extension pack if found.</desc>
15854	</param>
15855	</method>
15856
15857	<method name="openExtPackFile">
15858	<desc>
15859	Attempts to open an extension pack file in preparation for
15860	installation.
15861	</desc>
15862	<param name="path" type="wstring" dir="in">
15863	<desc>The path of the extension pack tarball.</desc>
15864	</param>
15865	<param name="file" type="IExtPackFile" dir="return">
15866	<desc>The interface of the extension pack file object.</desc>
15867	</param>
15868	</method>
15869
15870	<method name="uninstall">
15871	<desc>Uninstalls an extension pack, removing all related files.</desc>
15872	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15873	<desc>The name of the extension pack to uninstall.</desc>
15874	</param>
15875	<param name="forcedRemoval" type="boolean" dir="in">
15876	<desc>
15877	Forced removal of the extension pack. This means that the uninstall
15878	hook will not be called.
15879	</desc>
15880	</param>
15881	<param name="displayInfo" type="wstring" dir="in">
15882	<desc>
15883	Platform specific display information. Reserved for future hacks.
15884	</desc>
15885	</param>
15886	<param name="progess" type="IProgress" dir="return">
15887	<desc>
15888	Progress object for the operation.
15889	</desc>
15890	</param>
15891	</method>
15892
15893	<method name="cleanup">
15894	<desc>Cleans up failed installs and uninstalls</desc>
15895	</method>
15896
15897	<method name="queryAllPlugInsForFrontend">
15898	<desc>
15899	Gets the path to all the plug-in modules for a given frontend.
15900
15901	This is a convenience method that is intended to simplify the plug-in
15902	loading process for a frontend.
15903	</desc>
15904	<param name="frontendName" type="wstring" dir="in">
15905	<desc>The name of the frontend or component.</desc>
15906	</param>
15907	<param name="plugInModules" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
15908	<desc>Array containing the plug-in modules (full paths).</desc>
15909	</param>
15910	</method>
15911
15912	<method name="isExtPackUsable">
15913	<desc>Check if the given extension pack is loaded and usable.</desc>
15914	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
15915	<desc>The name of the extension pack to check for.</desc>
15916	</param>
15917	<param name="usable" type="boolean" dir="return">
15918	<desc>Is the given extension pack loaded and usable.</desc>
15919	</param>
15920	</method>
15921
15922	</interface>
15923
15924	<!--
15925	// BandwidthGroupType
15926	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15927	-->
15928	<enum
15929	name="BandwidthGroupType"
15930	uuid="1d92b67d-dc69-4be9-ad4c-93a01e1e0c8e">
15931
15932	<desc>
15933	Type of a bandwidth control group.
15934	</desc>
15935
15936	<const name="Null" value="0">
15937	<desc>
15938	Null type, must be first.
15939	</desc>
15940	</const>
15941
15942	<const name="Disk" value="1">
15943	<desc>
15944	The bandwidth group controls disk I/O.
15945	</desc>
15946	</const>
15947
15948	<const name="Network" value="2">
15949	<desc>
15950	The bandwidth group controls network I/O.
15951	</desc>
15952	</const>
15953
15954	</enum>
15955
15956	<!--
15957	// IBandwidthGroup
15958	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15959	-->
15960	<interface
15961	name="IBandwidthGroup" extends="$unknown"
15962	uuid="badea2d7-0261-4146-89f0-6a57cc34833d"
15963	wsmap="managed"
15964	>
15965	<desc>Represents one bandwidth group.</desc>
15966
15967	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
15968	<desc>Name of the group.</desc>
15969	</attribute>
15970
15971	<attribute name="type" type="BandwidthGroupType" readonly="yes">
15972	<desc>Type of the group.</desc>
15973	</attribute>
15974
15975	<attribute name="reference" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
15976	<desc>How many devices/medium attachements use this group.</desc>
15977	</attribute>
15978
15979	<attribute name="maxMbPerSec" type="unsigned long">
15980	<desc>The maximum number of MBytes which can be transfered by all
15981	entities attached to this group during one second.</desc>
15982	</attribute>
15983
15984	</interface>
15985
15986	<!--
15987	// IBandwidthControl
15988	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
15989	-->
15990	<interface
15991	name="IBandwidthControl" extends="$unknown"
15992	uuid="e2eb3930-d2f4-4f87-be17-0707e30f019f"
15993	wsmap="managed"
15994	>
15995	<desc>
15996	Controls the bandwidth groups of one machine used to cap I/O done by a VM.
15997	This includes network and disk I/O.
15998	</desc>
15999
16000	<attribute name="numGroups" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16001	<desc>
16002	The current number of existing bandwidth groups managed.
16003	</desc>
16004	</attribute>
16005
16006	<method name="createBandwidthGroup">
16007	<desc>
16008	Creates a new bandwidth group.
16009	</desc>
16010
16011	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
16012	<desc>Name of the bandwidth group.</desc>
16013	</param>
16014	<param name="type" type="BandwidthGroupType" dir="in">
16015	<desc>The type of the bandwidth group (network or disk).</desc>
16016	</param>
16017	<param name="maxMbPerSec" type="unsigned long" dir="in">
16018	<desc>The maximum number of MBytes which can be transfered by all
16019	entities attached to this group during one second.</desc>
16020	</param>
16021	</method>
16022
16023	<method name="deleteBandwidthGroup">
16024	<desc>
16025	Deletes a new bandwidth group.
16026	</desc>
16027
16028	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
16029	<desc>Name of the bandwidth group to delete.</desc>
16030	</param>
16031	</method>
16032
16033	<method name="getBandwidthGroup" const="yes">
16034	<desc>
16035	Get a bandwidth group by name.
16036	</desc>
16037
16038	<param name="name" type="wstring" dir="in">
16039	<desc>Name of the bandwidth group to get.</desc>
16040	</param>
16041	<param name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="return">
16042	<desc>Where to store the bandwidth group on success.</desc>
16043	</param>
16044	</method>
16045
16046	<method name="getAllBandwidthGroups" const="yes">
16047	<desc>
16048	Get all managed bandwidth groups.
16049	</desc>
16050
16051	<param name="bandwidthGroups" type="IBandwidthGroup" dir="return" safearray="yes">
16052	<desc>The array of managed bandwidth groups.</desc>
16053	</param>
16054	</method>
16055	</interface>
16056
16057	<!--
16058	// IVirtualBoxClient
16059	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
16060	-->
16061
16062	<interface
16063	name="IVirtualBoxClient" extends="$unknown"
16064	uuid="5fe0bd48-1181-40d1-991f-3b02f269a823"
16065	wsmap="suppress"
16066	>
16067	<desc>
16068	Convenience interface for client applications. Treat this as a
16069	singleton, i.e. never create more than one instance of this interface.
16070
16071	At the moment only available for clients of the local API (not usable
16072	via the webservice). Once the session logic is redesigned this might
16073	change.
16074	</desc>
16075
16076	<attribute name="virtualBox" type="IVirtualBox" readonly="yes">
16077	<desc>
16078	Reference to the server-side API root object.
16079	</desc>
16080	</attribute>
16081
16082	<attribute name="session" type="ISession" readonly="yes">
16083	<desc>
16084	Create a new session object and return the reference to it.
16085	</desc>
16086	</attribute>
16087
16088	<attribute name="eventSource" type="IEventSource" readonly="yes">
16089	<desc>
16090	Event source for VirtualBoxClient events.
16091	</desc>
16092	</attribute>
16093
16094	</interface>
16095
16096	<!--
16097	// Events
16098	/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
16099	-->
16100	<enum
16101	name="VBoxEventType"
16102	uuid="cce48db6-8561-479d-8d46-1358bab45d4e"
16103	>
16104
16105	<desc>
16106	Type of an event.
16107	See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
16108	</desc>
16109
16110	<const name="Invalid" value="0">
16111	<desc>
16112	Invalid event, must be first.
16113	</desc>
16114	</const>
16115
16116	<const name="Any" value="1">
16117	<desc>
16118	Wildcard for all events.
16119	Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
16120	<link to="IEventSource::registerListener"/> call to simplify registration.
16121	</desc>
16122	</const>
16123
16124	<const name="Vetoable" value="2">
16125	<desc>
16126	Wildcard for all vetoable events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only
16127	used in <link to="IEventSource::registerListener"/> call to simplify registration.
16128	</desc>
16129	</const>
16130
16131	<const name="MachineEvent" value="3">
16132	<desc>
16133	Wildcard for all machine events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
16134	<link to="IEventSource::registerListener"/> call to simplify registration.
16135	</desc>
16136	</const>
16137
16138	<const name="SnapshotEvent" value="4">
16139	<desc>
16140	Wildcard for all snapshot events. Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
16141	<link to="IEventSource::registerListener"/> call to simplify registration.
16142	</desc>
16143	</const>
16144
16145	<const name="InputEvent" value="5">
16146	<desc>
16147	Wildcard for all input device (keyboard, mouse) events.
16148	Events of this type are never delivered, and only used in
16149	<link to="IEventSource::registerListener"/> call to simplify registration.
16150	</desc>
16151	</const>
16152
16153	<const name="LastWildcard" value="31">
16154	<desc>
16155	Last wildcard.
16156	</desc>
16157	</const>
16158
16159	<const name="OnMachineStateChanged" value="32">
16160	<desc>
16161	See <link to="IMachineStateChangedEvent">IMachineStateChangedEvent</link>.
16162	</desc>
16163	</const>
16164	<const name="OnMachineDataChanged" value="33">
16165	<desc>
16166	See <link to="IMachineDataChangedEvent">IMachineDataChangedEvent</link>.
16167	</desc>
16168	</const>
16169	<const name="OnExtraDataChanged" value="34">
16170	<desc>
16171	See <link to="IExtraDataChangedEvent">IExtraDataChangedEvent</link>.
16172	</desc>
16173	</const>
16174	<const name="OnExtraDataCanChange" value="35">
16175	<desc>
16176	See <link to="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent">IExtraDataCanChangeEvent</link>.
16177	</desc>
16178	</const>
16179	<const name="OnMediumRegistered" value="36">
16180	<desc>
16181	See <link to="IMediumRegisteredEvent">IMediumRegisteredEvent</link>.
16182	</desc>
16183	</const>
16184	<const name="OnMachineRegistered" value="37">
16185	<desc>
16186	See <link to="IMachineRegisteredEvent">IMachineRegisteredEvent</link>.
16187	</desc>
16188	</const>
16189	<const name="OnSessionStateChanged" value="38">
16190	<desc>
16191	See <link to="ISessionStateChangedEvent">ISessionStateChangedEvent</link>.
16192	</desc>
16193	</const>
16194	<const name="OnSnapshotTaken" value="39">
16195	<desc>
16196	See <link to="ISnapshotTakenEvent">ISnapshotTakenEvent</link>.
16197	</desc>
16198	</const>
16199	<const name="OnSnapshotDeleted" value="40">
16200	<desc>
16201	See <link to="ISnapshotDeletedEvent">ISnapshotDeletedEvent</link>.
16202	</desc>
16203	</const>
16204	<const name="OnSnapshotChanged" value="41">
16205	<desc>
16206	See <link to="ISnapshotChangedEvent">ISnapshotChangedEvent</link>.
16207	</desc>
16208	</const>
16209	<const name="OnGuestPropertyChanged" value="42">
16210	<desc>
16211	See <link to="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent">IGuestPropertyChangedEvent</link>.
16212	</desc>
16213	</const>
16214	<!-- Console events -->
16215	<const name="OnMousePointerShapeChanged" value="43">
16216	<desc>
16217	See <link to="IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent">IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent</link>.
16218	</desc>
16219	</const>
16220	<const name="OnMouseCapabilityChanged" value="44">
16221	<desc>
16222	See <link to="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent">IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent</link>.
16223	</desc>
16224	</const>
16225	<const name="OnKeyboardLedsChanged" value="45">
16226	<desc>
16227	See <link to="IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent">IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent</link>.
16228	</desc>
16229	</const>
16230	<const name="OnStateChanged" value="46">
16231	<desc>
16232	See <link to="IStateChangedEvent">IStateChangedEvent</link>.
16233	</desc>
16234	</const>
16235	<const name="OnAdditionsStateChanged" value="47">
16236	<desc>
16237	See <link to="IAdditionsStateChangedEvent">IAdditionsStateChangedEvent</link>.
16238	</desc>
16239	</const>
16240	<const name="OnNetworkAdapterChanged" value="48">
16241	<desc>
16242	See <link to="INetworkAdapterChangedEvent">INetworkAdapterChangedEvent</link>.
16243	</desc>
16244	</const>
16245	<const name="OnSerialPortChanged" value="49">
16246	<desc>
16247	See <link to="ISerialPortChangedEvent">ISerialPortChangedEvent</link>.
16248	</desc>
16249	</const>
16250	<const name="OnParallelPortChanged" value="50">
16251	<desc>
16252	See <link to="IParallelPortChangedEvent">IParallelPortChangedEvent</link>.
16253	</desc>
16254	</const>
16255	<const name="OnStorageControllerChanged" value="51">
16256	<desc>
16257	See <link to="IStorageControllerChangedEvent">IStorageControllerChangedEvent</link>.
16258	</desc>
16259	</const>
16260	<const name="OnMediumChanged" value="52">
16261	<desc>
16262	See <link to="IMediumChangedEvent">IMediumChangedEvent</link>.
16263	</desc>
16264	</const>
16265	<const name="OnVRDEServerChanged" value="53">
16266	<desc>
16267	See <link to="IVRDEServerChangedEvent">IVRDEServerChangedEvent</link>.
16268	</desc>
16269	</const>
16270	<const name="OnUSBControllerChanged" value="54">
16271	<desc>
16272	See <link to="IUSBControllerChangedEvent">IUSBControllerChangedEvent</link>.
16273	</desc>
16274	</const>
16275	<const name="OnUSBDeviceStateChanged" value="55">
16276	<desc>
16277	See <link to="IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent">IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent</link>.
16278	</desc>
16279	</const>
16280	<const name="OnSharedFolderChanged" value="56">
16281	<desc>
16282	See <link to="ISharedFolderChangedEvent">ISharedFolderChangedEvent</link>.
16283	</desc>
16284	</const>
16285	<const name="OnRuntimeError" value="57">
16286	<desc>
16287	See <link to="IRuntimeErrorEvent">IRuntimeErrorEvent</link>.
16288	</desc>
16289	</const>
16290	<const name="OnCanShowWindow" value="58">
16291	<desc>
16292	See <link to="ICanShowWindowEvent">ICanShowWindowEvent</link>.
16293	</desc>
16294	</const>
16295	<const name="OnShowWindow" value="59">
16296	<desc>
16297	See <link to="IShowWindowEvent">IShowWindowEvent</link>.
16298	</desc>
16299	</const>
16300	<const name="OnCPUChanged" value="60">
16301	<desc>
16302	See <link to="ICPUChangedEvent">ICPUChangedEvent</link>.
16303	</desc>
16304	</const>
16305	<const name="OnVRDEServerInfoChanged" value="61">
16306	<desc>
16307	See <link to="IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent">IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent</link>.
16308	</desc>
16309	</const>
16310	<const name="OnEventSourceChanged" value="62">
16311	<desc>
16312	See <link to="IEventSourceChangedEvent">IEventSourceChangedEvent</link>.
16313	</desc>
16314	</const>
16315	<const name="OnCPUExecutionCapChanged" value="63">
16316	<desc>
16317	See <link to="ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent">ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent</link>.
16318	</desc>
16319	</const>
16320	<const name="OnGuestKeyboard" value="64">
16321	<desc>
16322	See <link to="IGuestKeyboardEvent">IGuestKeyboardEvent</link>.
16323	</desc>
16324	</const>
16325	<const name="OnGuestMouse" value="65">
16326	<desc>
16327	See <link to="IGuestMouseEvent">IGuestMouseEvent</link>.
16328	</desc>
16329	</const>
16330	<const name="OnNATRedirect" value="66">
16331	<desc>
16332	See <link to="INATRedirectEvent">INATRedirectEvent</link>.
16333	</desc>
16334	</const>
16335	<const name="OnHostPciDevicePlug" value="67">
16336	<desc>
16337	See <link to="IHostPciDevicePlugEvent">IHostPciDevicePlugEvent</link>.
16338	</desc>
16339	</const>
16340	<const name="OnVBoxSVCAvailabilityChanged" value="68">
16341	<desc>
16342	See <link to="IVBoxSVCAvailabilityChangedEvent">IVBoxSVCAvailablityChangedEvent</link>.
16343	</desc>
16344	</const>
16345	<const name="OnBandwidthGroupChanged" value="69">
16346	<desc>
16347	See <link to="IBandwidthGroupChangedEvent">IBandwidthGroupChangedEvent</link>.
16348	</desc>
16349	</const>
16350	<const name="OnGuestMonitorChanged" value="70">
16351	<desc>
16352	See <link to="IGuestMonitorChangedEvent">IGuestMonitorChangedEvent</link>.
16353	</desc>
16354	</const>
16355	<const name="OnStorageDeviceChanged" value="71">
16356	<desc>
16357	See <link to="IStorageDeviceChangedEvent">IStorageDeviceChangedEvent</link>.
16358	</desc>
16359	</const>
16360
16361	<!-- Last event marker -->
16362	<const name="Last" value="72">
16363	<desc>
16364	Must be last event, used for iterations and structures relying on numerical event values.
16365	</desc>
16366	</const>
16367
16368	</enum>
16369
16370	<interface
16371	name="IEventSource" extends="$unknown"
16372	uuid="9b6e1aee-35f3-4f4d-b5bb-ed0ecefd8538"
16373	wsmap="managed"
16374	>
16375	<desc>
16376	Event source. Generally, any object which could generate events can be an event source,
16377	or aggregate one. To simplify using one-way protocols such as webservices running on top of HTTP(S),
16378	an event source can work with listeners in either active or passive mode. In active mode it is up to
16379	the IEventSource implementation to call <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" />, in passive mode the
16380	event source keeps track of pending events for each listener and returns available events on demand.
16381
16382	See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
16383	</desc>
16384
16385	<method name="createListener">
16386	<desc>
16387	Creates a new listener object, useful for passive mode.
16388	</desc>
16389	<param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="return"/>
16390	</method>
16391
16392	<method name="createAggregator">
16393	<desc>
16394	Creates an aggregator event source, collecting events from multiple sources.
16395	This way a single listener can listen for events coming from multiple sources,
16396	using a single blocking <link to="#getEvent"/> on the returned aggregator.
16397	</desc>
16398	<param name="subordinates" type="IEventSource" dir="in" safearray="yes">
16399	<desc>
16400	Subordinate event source this one aggregatres.
16401	</desc>
16402	</param>
16403	<param name="result" type="IEventSource" dir="return">
16404	<desc>
16405	Event source aggregating passed sources.
16406	</desc>
16407	</param>
16408	</method>
16409
16410	<method name="registerListener">
16411	<desc>
16412	Register an event listener.
16413
16414	<note>
16415	To avoid system overload, the VirtualBox server process checks if passive event
16416	listeners call <link to="IEventSource::getEvent"/> frequently enough. In the
16417	current implementation, if more than 500 pending events are detected for a passive
16418	event listener, it is forcefully unregistered by the system, and further
16419	<link to="#getEvent" /> calls will return @c VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND.
16420	</note>
16421	</desc>
16422	<param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
16423	<desc>Listener to register.</desc>
16424	</param>
16425	<param name="interesting" type="VBoxEventType" dir="in" safearray="yes">
16426	<desc>
16427	Event types listener is interested in. One can use wildcards like -
16428	<link to="VBoxEventType_Any"/> to specify wildcards, matching more
16429	than one event.
16430	</desc>
16431	</param>
16432	<param name="active" type="boolean" dir="in">
16433	<desc>
16434	Which mode this listener is operating in.
16435	In active mode, <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> is called directly.
16436	In passive mode, an internal event queue is created for this this IEventListener.
16437	For each event coming in, it is added to queues for all interested registered passive
16438	listeners. It is then up to the external code to call the listener's
16439	<link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> method. When done with an event, the
16440	external code must call <link to="#eventProcessed" />.
16441	</desc>
16442	</param>
16443	</method>
16444
16445	<method name="unregisterListener">
16446	<desc>
16447	Unregister an event listener. If listener is passive, and some waitable events are still
16448	in queue they are marked as processed automatically.
16449	</desc>
16450	<param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
16451	<desc>Listener to unregister.</desc>
16452	</param>
16453	</method>
16454
16455	<method name="fireEvent">
16456	<desc>
16457	Fire an event for this source.
16458	</desc>
16459	<param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
16460	<desc>Event to deliver.</desc>
16461	</param>
16462	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
16463	<desc>
16464	Maximum time to wait for event processing (if event is waitable), in ms;
16465	0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
16466	</desc>
16467	</param>
16468	<param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
16469	<desc>true if an event was delivered to all targets, or is non-waitable.</desc>
16470	</param>
16471	</method>
16472
16473	<method name="getEvent">
16474	<desc>
16475	Get events from this peer's event queue (for passive mode). Calling this method
16476	regularly is required for passive event listeners to avoid system overload;
16477	see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" /> for details.
16478
16479	<result name="VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND">
16480	Listener is not registered, or autounregistered.
16481	</result>
16482	</desc>
16483	<param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
16484	<desc>Which listener to get data for.</desc>
16485	</param>
16486	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
16487	<desc>
16488	Maximum time to wait for events, in ms;
16489	0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
16490	</desc>
16491	</param>
16492	<param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="return">
16493	<desc>Event retrieved, or null if none available.</desc>
16494	</param>
16495	</method>
16496
16497	<method name="eventProcessed">
16498	<desc>
16499	Must be called for waitable events after a particular listener finished its
16500	event processing. When all listeners of a particular event have called this
16501	method, the system will then call <link to="IEvent::setProcessed" />.
16502	</desc>
16503	<param name="listener" type="IEventListener" dir="in">
16504	<desc>Which listener processed event.</desc>
16505	</param>
16506	<param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
16507	<desc>Which event.</desc>
16508	</param>
16509	</method>
16510
16511	</interface>
16512
16513	<interface
16514	name="IEventListener" extends="$unknown"
16515	uuid="67099191-32e7-4f6c-85ee-422304c71b90"
16516	wsmap="managed"
16517	>
16518	<desc>
16519	Event listener. An event listener can work in either active or passive mode, depending on the way
16520	it was registered.
16521	See <link to="IEvent" /> for an introduction to VirtualBox event handling.
16522	</desc>
16523
16524	<method name="handleEvent">
16525	<desc>
16526	Handle event callback for active listeners. It is not called for
16527	passive listeners. After calling <link to="#handleEvent"/> on all active listeners
16528	and having received acknowledgement from all passive listeners via
16529	<link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed"/>, the event is marked as
16530	processed and <link to="IEvent::waitProcessed"/> will return
16531	immediately.
16532	</desc>
16533	<param name="event" type="IEvent" dir="in">
16534	<desc>Event available.</desc>
16535	</param>
16536	</method>
16537
16538	</interface>
16539
16540	<interface
16541	name="IEvent" extends="$unknown"
16542	uuid="0ca2adba-8f30-401b-a8cd-fe31dbe839c0"
16543	wsmap="managed"
16544	>
16545	<desc>
16546	Abstract parent interface for VirtualBox events. Actual events will typically implement
16547	a more specific interface which derives from this (see below).
16548
16549	<b>Introduction to VirtualBox events</b>
16550
16551	Generally speaking, an event (represented by this interface) signals that something
16552	happened, while an event listener (see <link to="IEventListener" />) represents an
16553	entity that is interested in certain events. In order for this to work with
16554	unidirectional protocols (i.e. web services), the concepts of passive and active
16555	listener are used.
16556
16557	Event consumers can register themselves as listeners, providing an array of
16558	events they are interested in (see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" />).
16559	When an event triggers, the listener is notified about the event. The exact
16560	mechanism of the notification depends on whether the listener was registered as
16561	an active or passive listener:
16562
16563	<ul>
16564	<li>An active listener is very similar to a callback: it is a function invoked
16565	by the API. As opposed to the callbacks that were used in the API before
16566	VirtualBox 4.0 however, events are now objects with an interface hierarchy.
16567	</li>
16568
16569	<li>Passive listeners are somewhat trickier to implement, but do not require
16570	a client function to be callable, which is not an option with scripting
16571	languages or web service clients. Internally the <link to="IEventSource" />
16572	implementation maintains an event queue for each passive listener, and
16573	newly arrived events are put in this queue. When the listener calls
16574	<link to="IEventSource::getEvent"/>, first element from its internal event
16575	queue is returned. When the client completes processing of an event,
16576	the <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" /> function must be called,
16577	acknowledging that the event was processed. It supports implementing
16578	waitable events. On passive listener unregistration, all events from its
16579	queue are auto-acknowledged.
16580	</li>
16581	</ul>
16582
16583	Waitable events are useful in situations where the event generator wants to track
16584	delivery or a party wants to wait until all listeners have completed the event. A
16585	typical example would be a vetoable event (see <link to="IVetoEvent" />) where a
16586	listeners might veto a certain action, and thus the event producer has to make
16587	sure that all listeners have processed the event and not vetoed before taking
16588	the action.
16589
16590	A given event may have both passive and active listeners at the same time.
16591
16592	<b>Using events</b>
16593
16594	Any VirtualBox object capable of producing externally visible events provides an
16595	@c eventSource read-only attribute, which is of the type <link to="IEventSource" />.
16596	This event source object is notified by VirtualBox once something has happened, so
16597	consumers may register event listeners with this event source. To register a listener,
16598	an object implementing the <link to="IEventListener" /> interface must be provided.
16599	For active listeners, such an object is typically created by the consumer, while for
16600	passive listeners <link to="IEventSource::createListener" /> should be used. Please
16601	note that a listener created with <link to="IEventSource::createListener"/> must not be used as an active listener.
16602
16603	Once created, the listener must be registered to listen for the desired events
16604	(see <link to="IEventSource::registerListener" />), providing an array of
16605	<link to="VBoxEventType" /> enums. Those elements can either be the individual
16606	event IDs or wildcards matching multiple event IDs.
16607
16608	After registration, the callback's <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" /> method is
16609	called automatically when the event is triggered, while passive listeners have to call
16610	<link to="IEventSource::getEvent" /> and <link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" /> in
16611	an event processing loop.
16612
16613	The IEvent interface is an abstract parent interface for all such VirtualBox events
16614	coming in. As a result, the standard use pattern inside <link to="IEventListener::handleEvent" />
16615	or the event processing loop is to check the <link to="#type" /> attribute of the event and
16616	then cast to the appropriate specific interface using @c QueryInterface().
16617	</desc>
16618
16619	<attribute name="type" readonly="yes" type="VBoxEventType">
16620	<desc>
16621	Event type.
16622	</desc>
16623	</attribute>
16624
16625	<attribute name="source" readonly="yes" type="IEventSource">
16626	<desc>
16627	Source of this event.
16628	</desc>
16629	</attribute>
16630
16631	<attribute name="waitable" readonly="yes" type="boolean">
16632	<desc>
16633	If we can wait for this event being processed. If false, <link to="#waitProcessed"/> returns immediately,
16634	and <link to="#setProcessed"/> doesn't make sense. Non-waitable events are generally better performing,
16635	as no additional overhead associated with waitability imposed.
16636	Waitable events are needed when one need to be able to wait for particular event processed,
16637	for example for vetoable changes, or if event refers to some resource which need to be kept immutable
16638	until all consumers confirmed events.
16639	</desc>
16640	</attribute>
16641
16642	<method name="setProcessed">
16643	<desc>
16644	Internal method called by the system when all listeners of a particular event have called
16645	<link to="IEventSource::eventProcessed" />. This should not be called by client code.
16646	</desc>
16647	</method>
16648
16649	<method name="waitProcessed">
16650	<desc>
16651	Wait until time outs, or this event is processed. Event must be waitable for this operation to have
16652	described semantics, for non-waitable returns true immediately.
16653	</desc>
16654	<param name="timeout" type="long" dir="in">
16655	<desc>
16656	Maximum time to wait for event processeing, in ms;
16657	0 = no wait, -1 = indefinite wait.
16658	</desc>
16659	</param>
16660	<param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
16661	<desc>If this event was processed before timeout.</desc>
16662	</param>
16663	</method>
16664	</interface>
16665
16666
16667	<interface
16668	name="IReusableEvent" extends="IEvent"
16669	uuid="69bfb134-80f6-4266-8e20-16371f68fa25"
16670	wsmap="managed"
16671	>
16672	<desc>Base abstract interface for all reusable events.</desc>
16673
16674	<attribute name="generation" readonly="yes" type="unsigned long">
16675	<desc>Current generation of event, incremented on reuse.</desc>
16676	</attribute>
16677
16678	<method name="reuse">
16679	<desc>
16680	Marks an event as reused, increments 'generation', fields shall no
16681	longer be considered valid.
16682	</desc>
16683	</method>
16684	</interface>
16685
16686	<interface
16687	name="IMachineEvent" extends="IEvent"
16688	uuid="92ed7b1a-0d96-40ed-ae46-a564d484325e"
16689	wsmap="managed" id="MachineEvent"
16690	>
16691	<desc>Base abstract interface for all machine events.</desc>
16692
16693	<attribute name="machineId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
16694	<desc>ID of the machine this event relates to.</desc>
16695	</attribute>
16696
16697	</interface>
16698
16699	<interface
16700	name="IMachineStateChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16701	uuid="5748F794-48DF-438D-85EB-98FFD70D18C9"
16702	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineStateChanged"
16703	>
16704	<desc>Machine state change event.</desc>
16705
16706	<attribute name="state" readonly="yes" type="MachineState">
16707	<desc>New execution state.</desc>
16708	</attribute>
16709	</interface>
16710
16711	<interface
16712	name="IMachineDataChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16713	uuid="abe94809-2e88-4436-83d7-50f3e64d0503"
16714	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineDataChanged"
16715	>
16716	<desc>
16717	Any of the settings of the given machine has changed.
16718	</desc>
16719
16720	<attribute name="temporary" readonly="yes" type="boolean">
16721	<desc>@c true if the settings change is temporary. All permanent
16722	settings changes will trigger an event, and only temporary settings
16723	changes for running VMs will trigger an event. Note: sending events
16724	for temporary changes is NOT IMPLEMENTED.</desc>
16725	</attribute>
16726	</interface>
16727
16728	<interface
16729	name="IMediumRegisteredEvent" extends="IEvent"
16730	uuid="53fac49a-b7f1-4a5a-a4ef-a11dd9c2a458"
16731	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMediumRegistered"
16732	>
16733	<desc>
16734	The given medium was registered or unregistered
16735	within this VirtualBox installation.
16736	</desc>
16737
16738	<attribute name="mediumId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
16739	<desc>ID of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
16740	</attribute>
16741
16742	<attribute name="mediumType" readonly="yes" type="DeviceType">
16743	<desc>Type of the medium this event relates to.</desc>
16744	</attribute>
16745
16746	<attribute name="registered" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16747	<desc>
16748	If @c true, the medium was registered, otherwise it was
16749	unregistered.
16750	</desc>
16751	</attribute>
16752	</interface>
16753
16754	<interface
16755	name="IMachineRegisteredEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16756	uuid="c354a762-3ff2-4f2e-8f09-07382ee25088"
16757	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMachineRegistered"
16758	>
16759	<desc>
16760	The given machine was registered or unregistered
16761	within this VirtualBox installation.
16762	</desc>
16763
16764	<attribute name="registered" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16765	<desc>
16766	If @c true, the machine was registered, otherwise it was
16767	unregistered.
16768	</desc>
16769	</attribute>
16770	</interface>
16771
16772	<interface
16773	name="ISessionStateChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16774	uuid="714a3eef-799a-4489-86cd-fe8e45b2ff8e"
16775	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSessionStateChanged"
16776	>
16777	<desc>
16778	The state of the session for the given machine was changed.
16779	<see><link to="IMachine::sessionState"/></see>
16780	</desc>
16781
16782	<attribute name="state" type="SessionState" readonly="yes">
16783	<desc>
16784	New session state.
16785	</desc>
16786	</attribute>
16787	</interface>
16788
16789	<interface
16790	name="IGuestPropertyChangedEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16791	uuid="3f63597a-26f1-4edb-8dd2-6bddd0912368"
16792	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestPropertyChanged"
16793	>
16794	<desc>
16795	Notification when a guest property has changed.
16796	</desc>
16797
16798	<attribute name="name" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
16799	<desc>
16800	The name of the property that has changed.
16801	</desc>
16802	</attribute>
16803
16804	<attribute name="value" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
16805	<desc>
16806	The new property value.
16807	</desc>
16808	</attribute>
16809
16810	<attribute name="flags" readonly="yes" type="wstring">
16811	<desc>
16812	The new property flags.
16813	</desc>
16814	</attribute>
16815
16816	</interface>
16817
16818	<interface
16819	name="ISnapshotEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
16820	uuid="21637b0e-34b8-42d3-acfb-7e96daf77c22"
16821	wsmap="managed" id="SnapshotEvent"
16822	>
16823	<desc>Base interface for all snapshot events.</desc>
16824
16825	<attribute name="snapshotId" readonly="yes" type="uuid" mod="string">
16826	<desc>ID of the snapshot this event relates to.</desc>
16827	</attribute>
16828
16829	</interface>
16830
16831	<interface
16832	name="ISnapshotTakenEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
16833	uuid="d27c0b3d-6038-422c-b45e-6d4a0503d9f1"
16834	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotTaken"
16835	>
16836	<desc>
16837	A new snapshot of the machine has been taken.
16838	<see><link to="ISnapshot"/></see>
16839	</desc>
16840	</interface>
16841
16842	<interface
16843	name="ISnapshotDeletedEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
16844	uuid="c48f3401-4a9e-43f4-b7a7-54bd285e22f4"
16845	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotDeleted"
16846	>
16847	<desc>
16848	Snapshot of the given machine has been deleted.
16849
16850	<note>
16851	This notification is delivered <b>after</b> the snapshot
16852	object has been uninitialized on the server (so that any
16853	attempt to call its methods will return an error).
16854	</note>
16855
16856	<see><link to="ISnapshot"/></see>
16857	</desc>
16858	</interface>
16859
16860	<interface
16861	name="ISnapshotChangedEvent" extends="ISnapshotEvent"
16862	uuid="07541941-8079-447a-a33e-47a69c7980db"
16863	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSnapshotChanged"
16864	>
16865	<desc>
16866	Snapshot properties (name and/or description) have been changed.
16867	<see><link to="ISnapshot"/></see>
16868	</desc>
16869	</interface>
16870
16871	<interface
16872	name="IMousePointerShapeChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16873	uuid="a6dcf6e8-416b-4181-8c4a-45ec95177aef"
16874	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMousePointerShapeChanged"
16875	>
16876	<desc>
16877	Notification when the guest mouse pointer shape has
16878	changed. The new shape data is given.
16879	</desc>
16880
16881	<attribute name="visible" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16882	<desc>
16883	Flag whether the pointer is visible.
16884	</desc>
16885	</attribute>
16886	<attribute name="alpha" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16887	<desc>
16888	Flag whether the pointer has an alpha channel.
16889	</desc>
16890	</attribute>
16891	<attribute name="xhot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16892	<desc>
16893	The pointer hot spot X coordinate.
16894	</desc>
16895	</attribute>
16896	<attribute name="yhot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16897	<desc>
16898	The pointer hot spot Y coordinate.
16899	</desc>
16900	</attribute>
16901	<attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16902	<desc>
16903	Width of the pointer shape in pixels.
16904	</desc>
16905	</attribute>
16906	<attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
16907	<desc>
16908	Height of the pointer shape in pixels.
16909	</desc>
16910	</attribute>
16911	<attribute name="shape" type="octet" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
16912	<desc>
16913	Shape buffer arrays.
16914
16915	The @a shape buffer contains a 1-bpp (bits per pixel) AND mask
16916	followed by a 32-bpp XOR (color) mask.
16917
16918	For pointers without alpha channel the XOR mask pixels are 32
16919	bit values: (lsb)BGR0(msb). For pointers with alpha channel
16920	the XOR mask consists of (lsb)BGRA(msb) 32 bit values.
16921
16922	An AND mask is used for pointers with alpha channel, so if the
16923	callback does not support alpha, the pointer could be
16924	displayed as a normal color pointer.
16925
16926	The AND mask is a 1-bpp bitmap with byte aligned scanlines. The
16927	size of the AND mask therefore is <tt>cbAnd = (width + 7) / 8 *
16928	height</tt>. The padding bits at the end of each scanline are
16929	undefined.
16930
16931	The XOR mask follows the AND mask on the next 4-byte aligned
16932	offset: <tt>uint8_t *pXor = pAnd + (cbAnd + 3) & ~3</tt>.
16933	Bytes in the gap between the AND and the XOR mask are undefined.
16934	The XOR mask scanlines have no gap between them and the size of
16935	the XOR mask is: <tt>cXor = width * 4 * height</tt>.
16936
16937	<note>
16938	If @a shape is 0, only the pointer visibility is changed.
16939	</note>
16940	</desc>
16941	</attribute>
16942	</interface>
16943
16944	<interface
16945	name="IMouseCapabilityChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16946	uuid="d633ad48-820c-4207-b46c-6bd3596640d5"
16947	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMouseCapabilityChanged"
16948	>
16949	<desc>
16950	Notification when the mouse capabilities reported by the
16951	guest have changed. The new capabilities are passed.
16952	</desc>
16953	<attribute name="supportsAbsolute" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16954	<desc>
16955	Supports absolute coordinates.
16956	</desc>
16957	</attribute>
16958	<attribute name="supportsRelative" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16959	<desc>
16960	Supports relative coordinates.
16961	</desc>
16962	</attribute>
16963	<attribute name="needsHostCursor" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16964	<desc>
16965	If host cursor is needed.
16966	</desc>
16967	</attribute>
16968	</interface>
16969
16970	<interface
16971	name="IKeyboardLedsChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16972	uuid="6DDEF35E-4737-457B-99FC-BC52C851A44F"
16973	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnKeyboardLedsChanged"
16974	>
16975	<desc>
16976	Notification when the guest OS executes the KBD_CMD_SET_LEDS command
16977	to alter the state of the keyboard LEDs.
16978	</desc>
16979	<attribute name="numLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16980	<desc>
16981	NumLock status.
16982	</desc>
16983	</attribute>
16984	<attribute name="capsLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16985	<desc>
16986	CapsLock status.
16987	</desc>
16988	</attribute>
16989	<attribute name="scrollLock" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
16990	<desc>
16991	ScrollLock status.
16992	</desc>
16993	</attribute>
16994	</interface>
16995
16996	<interface
16997	name="IStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
16998	uuid="4376693C-CF37-453B-9289-3B0F521CAF27"
16999	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStateChanged"
17000	>
17001	<desc>
17002	Notification when the execution state of the machine has changed.
17003	The new state is given.
17004	</desc>
17005	<attribute name="state" type="MachineState" readonly="yes">
17006	<desc>
17007	New machine state.
17008	</desc>
17009	</attribute>
17010	</interface>
17011
17012	<interface
17013	name="IAdditionsStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17014	uuid="D70F7915-DA7C-44C8-A7AC-9F173490446A"
17015	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnAdditionsStateChanged"
17016	>
17017	<desc>
17018	Notification when a Guest Additions property changes.
17019	Interested callees should query IGuest attributes to
17020	find out what has changed.
17021	</desc>
17022	</interface>
17023
17024	<interface
17025	name="INetworkAdapterChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17026	uuid="08889892-1EC6-4883-801D-77F56CFD0103"
17027	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnNetworkAdapterChanged"
17028	>
17029	<desc>
17030	Notification when a property of one of the
17031	virtual <link to="IMachine::getNetworkAdapter">network adapters</link>
17032	changes. Interested callees should use INetworkAdapter methods and
17033	attributes to find out what has changed.
17034	</desc>
17035	<attribute name="networkAdapter" type="INetworkAdapter" readonly="yes">
17036	<desc>
17037	Network adapter that is subject to change.
17038	</desc>
17039	</attribute>
17040	</interface>
17041
17042	<interface
17043	name="ISerialPortChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17044	uuid="3BA329DC-659C-488B-835C-4ECA7AE71C6C"
17045	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSerialPortChanged"
17046	>
17047	<desc>
17048	Notification when a property of one of the
17049	virtual <link to="IMachine::getSerialPort">serial ports</link> changes.
17050	Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and attributes
17051	to find out what has changed.
17052	</desc>
17053	<attribute name="serialPort" type="ISerialPort" readonly="yes">
17054	<desc>
17055	Serial port that is subject to change.
17056	</desc>
17057	</attribute>
17058	</interface>
17059
17060	<interface
17061	name="IParallelPortChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17062	uuid="813C99FC-9849-4F47-813E-24A75DC85615"
17063	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnParallelPortChanged"
17064	>
17065	<desc>
17066	Notification when a property of one of the
17067	virtual <link to="IMachine::getParallelPort">parallel ports</link>
17068	changes. Interested callees should use ISerialPort methods and
17069	attributes to find out what has changed.
17070	</desc>
17071	<attribute name="parallelPort" type="IParallelPort" readonly="yes">
17072	<desc>
17073	Parallel port that is subject to change.
17074	</desc>
17075	</attribute>
17076	</interface>
17077
17078	<interface
17079	name="IStorageControllerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17080	uuid="715212BF-DA59-426E-8230-3831FAA52C56"
17081	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStorageControllerChanged"
17082	>
17083	<desc>
17084	Notification when a
17085	<link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
17086	changes.
17087	</desc>
17088	</interface>
17089
17090	<interface
17091	name="IMediumChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17092	uuid="0FE2DA40-5637-472A-9736-72019EABD7DE"
17093	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnMediumChanged"
17094	>
17095	<desc>
17096	Notification when a
17097	<link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">medium attachment</link>
17098	changes.
17099	</desc>
17100	<attribute name="mediumAttachment" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes">
17101	<desc>
17102	Medium attachment that is subject to change.
17103	</desc>
17104	</attribute>
17105	</interface>
17106
17107	<interface
17108	name="ICPUChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17109	uuid="D0F0BECC-EE17-4D17-A8CC-383B0EB55E9D"
17110	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCPUChanged"
17111	>
17112	<desc>
17113	Notification when a CPU changes.
17114	</desc>
17115	<attribute name="cpu" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17116	<desc>
17117	The CPU which changed.
17118	</desc>
17119	</attribute>
17120	<attribute name="add" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17121	<desc>
17122	Flag whether the CPU was added or removed.
17123	</desc>
17124	</attribute>
17125	</interface>
17126
17127	<interface
17128	name="ICPUExecutionCapChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17129	uuid="dfa7e4f5-b4a4-44ce-85a8-127ac5eb59dc"
17130	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCPUExecutionCapChanged"
17131	>
17132	<desc>
17133	Notification when the CPU execution cap changes.
17134	</desc>
17135	<attribute name="executionCap" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17136	<desc>
17137	The new CPU execution cap value. (1-100)
17138	</desc>
17139	</attribute>
17140	</interface>
17141
17142	<interface
17143	name="IGuestKeyboardEvent" extends="IEvent"
17144	uuid="88394258-7006-40d4-b339-472ee3801844"
17145	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestKeyboard"
17146	>
17147	<desc>
17148	Notification when guest keyboard event happens.
17149	</desc>
17150	<attribute name="scancodes" type="long" safearray="yes" readonly="yes">
17151	<desc>
17152	Array of scancodes.
17153	</desc>
17154	</attribute>
17155	</interface>
17156
17157	<interface
17158	name="IGuestMouseEvent" extends="IReusableEvent"
17159	uuid="1f85d35c-c524-40ff-8e98-307000df0992"
17160	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestMouse"
17161	>
17162	<desc>
17163	Notification when guest mouse event happens.
17164	</desc>
17165
17166	<attribute name="absolute" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17167	<desc>
17168	If this event is relative or absolute.
17169	</desc>
17170	</attribute>
17171
17172	<attribute name="x" type="long" readonly="yes">
17173	<desc>
17174	New X position, or X delta.
17175	</desc>
17176	</attribute>
17177
17178	<attribute name="y" type="long" readonly="yes">
17179	<desc>
17180	New Y position, or Y delta.
17181	</desc>
17182	</attribute>
17183
17184	<attribute name="z" type="long" readonly="yes">
17185	<desc>
17186	Z delta.
17187	</desc>
17188	</attribute>
17189
17190	<attribute name="w" type="long" readonly="yes">
17191	<desc>
17192	W delta.
17193	</desc>
17194	</attribute>
17195
17196	<attribute name="buttons" type="long" readonly="yes">
17197	<desc>
17198	Button state bitmask.
17199	</desc>
17200	</attribute>
17201
17202	</interface>
17203
17204
17205	<interface
17206	name="IVRDEServerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17207	uuid="a06fd66a-3188-4c8c-8756-1395e8cb691c"
17208	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVRDEServerChanged"
17209	>
17210	<desc>
17211	Notification when a property of the
17212	<link to="IMachine::VRDEServer">VRDE server</link> changes.
17213	Interested callees should use IVRDEServer methods and attributes to
17214	find out what has changed.
17215	</desc>
17216	</interface>
17217
17218	<interface
17219	name="IVRDEServerInfoChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17220	uuid="dd6a1080-e1b7-4339-a549-f0878115596e"
17221	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVRDEServerInfoChanged"
17222	>
17223	<desc>
17224	Notification when the status of the VRDE server changes. Interested callees
17225	should use <link to="IConsole::VRDEServerInfo">IVRDEServerInfo</link>
17226	attributes to find out what is the current status.
17227	</desc>
17228	</interface>
17229
17230	<interface
17231	name="IUSBControllerChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17232	uuid="93BADC0C-61D9-4940-A084-E6BB29AF3D83"
17233	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnUSBControllerChanged"
17234	>
17235	<desc>
17236	Notification when a property of the virtual
17237	<link to="IMachine::USBController">USB controller</link> changes.
17238	Interested callees should use IUSBController methods and attributes to
17239	find out what has changed.
17240	</desc>
17241	</interface>
17242
17243	<interface
17244	name="IUSBDeviceStateChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17245	uuid="806da61b-6679-422a-b629-51b06b0c6d93"
17246	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnUSBDeviceStateChanged"
17247	>
17248	<desc>
17249	Notification when a USB device is attached to or detached from
17250	the virtual USB controller.
17251
17252	This notification is sent as a result of the indirect
17253	request to attach the device because it matches one of the
17254	machine USB filters, or as a result of the direct request
17255	issued by <link to="IConsole::attachUSBDevice"/> or
17256	<link to="IConsole::detachUSBDevice"/>.
17257
17258	This notification is sent in case of both a succeeded and a
17259	failed request completion. When the request succeeds, the
17260	@a error parameter is @c null, and the given device has been
17261	already added to (when @a attached is @c true) or removed from
17262	(when @a attached is @c false) the collection represented by
17263	<link to="IConsole::USBDevices"/>. On failure, the collection
17264	doesn't change and the @a error parameter represents the error
17265	message describing the failure.
17266	</desc>
17267	<attribute name="device" type="IUSBDevice" readonly="yes">
17268	<desc>
17269	Device that is subject to state change.
17270	</desc>
17271	</attribute>
17272	<attribute name="attached" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17273	<desc>
17274	@c true if the device was attached and @c false otherwise.
17275	</desc>
17276	</attribute>
17277	<attribute name="error" type="IVirtualBoxErrorInfo" readonly="yes">
17278	<desc>
17279	@c null on success or an error message object on failure.
17280	</desc>
17281	</attribute>
17282	</interface>
17283
17284	<interface
17285	name="ISharedFolderChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17286	uuid="B66349B5-3534-4239-B2DE-8E1535D94C0B"
17287	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnSharedFolderChanged"
17288	>
17289	<desc>
17290	Notification when a shared folder is added or removed.
17291	The @a scope argument defines one of three scopes:
17292	<link to="IVirtualBox::sharedFolders">global shared folders</link>
17293	(<link to="Scope_Global">Global</link>),
17294	<link to="IMachine::sharedFolders">permanent shared folders</link> of
17295	the machine (<link to="Scope_Machine">Machine</link>) or <link
17296	to="IConsole::sharedFolders">transient shared folders</link> of the
17297	machine (<link to="Scope_Session">Session</link>). Interested callees
17298	should use query the corresponding collections to find out what has
17299	changed.
17300	</desc>
17301	<attribute name="scope" type="Scope" readonly="yes">
17302	<desc>
17303	Scope of the notification.
17304	</desc>
17305	</attribute>
17306	</interface>
17307
17308	<interface
17309	name="IRuntimeErrorEvent" extends="IEvent"
17310	uuid="883DD18B-0721-4CDE-867C-1A82ABAF914C"
17311	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnRuntimeError"
17312	>
17313	<desc>
17314	Notification when an error happens during the virtual
17315	machine execution.
17316
17317	There are three kinds of runtime errors:
17318	<ul>
17319	<li><i>fatal</i></li>
17320	<li><i>non-fatal with retry</i></li>
17321	<li><i>non-fatal warnings</i></li>
17322	</ul>
17323
17324	<b>Fatal</b> errors are indicated by the @a fatal parameter set
17325	to @c true. In case of fatal errors, the virtual machine
17326	execution is always paused before calling this notification, and
17327	the notification handler is supposed either to immediately save
17328	the virtual machine state using <link to="IConsole::saveState"/>
17329	or power it off using <link to="IConsole::powerDown"/>.
17330	Resuming the execution can lead to unpredictable results.
17331
17332	<b>Non-fatal</b> errors and warnings are indicated by the
17333	@a fatal parameter set to @c false. If the virtual machine
17334	is in the Paused state by the time the error notification is
17335	received, it means that the user can <i>try to resume</i> the machine
17336	execution after attempting to solve the problem that caused the
17337	error. In this case, the notification handler is supposed
17338	to show an appropriate message to the user (depending on the
17339	value of the @a id parameter) that offers several actions such
17340	as <i>Retry</i>, <i>Save</i> or <i>Power Off</i>. If the user
17341	wants to retry, the notification handler should continue
17342	the machine execution using the <link to="IConsole::resume"/>
17343	call. If the machine execution is not Paused during this
17344	notification, then it means this notification is a <i>warning</i>
17345	(for example, about a fatal condition that can happen very soon);
17346	no immediate action is required from the user, the machine
17347	continues its normal execution.
17348
17349	Note that in either case the notification handler
17350	<b>must not</b> perform any action directly on a thread
17351	where this notification is called. Everything it is allowed to
17352	do is to post a message to another thread that will then talk
17353	to the user and take the corresponding action.
17354
17355	Currently, the following error identifiers are known:
17356	<ul>
17357	<li><tt>"HostMemoryLow"</tt></li>
17358	<li><tt>"HostAudioNotResponding"</tt></li>
17359	<li><tt>"VDIStorageFull"</tt></li>
17360	<li><tt>"3DSupportIncompatibleAdditions"</tt></li>
17361	</ul>
17362	</desc>
17363	<attribute name="fatal" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17364	<desc>
17365	Whether the error is fatal or not.
17366	</desc>
17367	</attribute>
17368	<attribute name="id" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17369	<desc>
17370	Error identifier.
17371	</desc>
17372	</attribute>
17373	<attribute name="message" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17374	<desc>
17375	Optional error message.
17376	</desc>
17377	</attribute>
17378	</interface>
17379
17380
17381	<interface
17382	name="IEventSourceChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17383	uuid="e7932cb8-f6d4-4ab6-9cbf-558eb8959a6a"
17384	waitable="yes"
17385	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnEventSourceChanged"
17386	>
17387	<desc>
17388	Notification when an event source state changes (listener added or removed).
17389	</desc>
17390
17391	<attribute name="listener" type="IEventListener" readonly="yes">
17392	<desc>
17393	Event listener which has changed.
17394	</desc>
17395	</attribute>
17396
17397	<attribute name="add" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17398	<desc>
17399	Flag whether listener was added or removed.
17400	</desc>
17401	</attribute>
17402	</interface>
17403
17404	<interface
17405	name="IExtraDataChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17406	uuid="024F00CE-6E0B-492A-A8D0-968472A94DC7"
17407	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnExtraDataChanged"
17408	>
17409	<desc>
17410	Notification when machine specific or global extra data
17411	has changed.
17412	</desc>
17413	<attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
17414	<desc>
17415	ID of the machine this event relates to.
17416	Null for global extra data changes.
17417	</desc>
17418	</attribute>
17419	<attribute name="key" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17420	<desc>
17421	Extra data key that has changed.
17422	</desc>
17423	</attribute>
17424	<attribute name="value" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17425	<desc>
17426	Extra data value for the given key.
17427	</desc>
17428	</attribute>
17429	</interface>
17430
17431	<interface
17432	name="IVetoEvent" extends="IEvent"
17433	uuid="9a1a4130-69fe-472f-ac10-c6fa25d75007"
17434	wsmap="managed"
17435	>
17436	<desc>Base abstract interface for veto events.</desc>
17437
17438	<method name="addVeto">
17439	<desc>
17440	Adds a veto on this event.
17441	</desc>
17442	<param name="reason" type="wstring" dir="in">
17443	<desc>
17444	Reason for veto, could be null or empty string.
17445	</desc>
17446	</param>
17447	</method>
17448
17449	<method name="isVetoed">
17450	<desc>
17451	If this event was vetoed.
17452	</desc>
17453	<param name="result" type="boolean" dir="return">
17454	<desc>
17455	Reason for veto.
17456	</desc>
17457	</param>
17458	</method>
17459
17460	<method name="getVetos">
17461	<desc>
17462	Current veto reason list, if size is 0 - no veto.
17463	</desc>
17464	<param name="result" type="wstring" dir="return" safearray="yes">
17465	<desc>
17466	Array of reasons for veto provided by different event handlers.
17467	</desc>
17468	</param>
17469	</method>
17470
17471	</interface>
17472
17473	<interface
17474	name="IExtraDataCanChangeEvent" extends="IVetoEvent"
17475	uuid="245d88bd-800a-40f8-87a6-170d02249a55"
17476	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnExtraDataCanChange"
17477	waitable="true"
17478	>
17479	<desc>
17480	Notification when someone tries to change extra data for
17481	either the given machine or (if @c null) global extra data.
17482	This gives the chance to veto against changes.
17483	</desc>
17484	<attribute name="machineId" type="uuid" mod="string" readonly="yes">
17485	<desc>
17486	ID of the machine this event relates to.
17487	Null for global extra data changes.
17488	</desc>
17489	</attribute>
17490	<attribute name="key" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17491	<desc>
17492	Extra data key that has changed.
17493	</desc>
17494	</attribute>
17495	<attribute name="value" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17496	<desc>
17497	Extra data value for the given key.
17498	</desc>
17499	</attribute>
17500	</interface>
17501
17502	<interface
17503	name="ICanShowWindowEvent" extends="IVetoEvent"
17504	uuid="adf292b0-92c9-4a77-9d35-e058b39fe0b9"
17505	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnCanShowWindow"
17506	waitable="true"
17507	>
17508	<desc>
17509	Notification when a call to
17510	<link to="IMachine::canShowConsoleWindow"/> is made by a
17511	front-end to check if a subsequent call to
17512	<link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/> can succeed.
17513
17514	The callee should give an answer appropriate to the current
17515	machine state using event veto. This answer must
17516	remain valid at least until the next
17517	<link to="IConsole::state">machine state</link> change.
17518	</desc>
17519	</interface>
17520
17521	<interface
17522	name="IShowWindowEvent" extends="IEvent"
17523	uuid="B0A0904D-2F05-4D28-855F-488F96BAD2B2"
17524	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnShowWindow"
17525	waitable="true"
17526	>
17527	<desc>
17528	Notification when a call to
17529	<link to="IMachine::showConsoleWindow"/>
17530	requests the console window to be activated and brought to
17531	foreground on the desktop of the host PC.
17532
17533	This notification should cause the VM console process to
17534	perform the requested action as described above. If it is
17535	impossible to do it at a time of this notification, this
17536	method should return a failure.
17537
17538	Note that many modern window managers on many platforms
17539	implement some sort of focus stealing prevention logic, so
17540	that it may be impossible to activate a window without the
17541	help of the currently active application (which is supposedly
17542	an initiator of this notification). In this case, this method
17543	must return a non-zero identifier that represents the
17544	top-level window of the VM console process. The caller, if it
17545	represents a currently active process, is responsible to use
17546	this identifier (in a platform-dependent manner) to perform
17547	actual window activation.
17548
17549	This method must set @a winId to zero if it has performed all
17550	actions necessary to complete the request and the console
17551	window is now active and in foreground, to indicate that no
17552	further action is required on the caller's side.
17553	</desc>
17554	<attribute name="winId" type="long long">
17555	<desc>
17556	Platform-dependent identifier of the top-level VM console
17557	window, or zero if this method has performed all actions
17558	necessary to implement the <i>show window</i> semantics for
17559	the given platform and/or this VirtualBox front-end.
17560	</desc>
17561	</attribute>
17562	</interface>
17563
17564	<interface
17565	name="INATRedirectEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
17566	uuid="57DE97D7-3CBB-42A0-888F-610D5832D16B"
17567	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnNATRedirect"
17568	>
17569	<desc>
17570	Notification when NAT redirect rule added or removed.
17571	</desc>
17572	<attribute name="slot" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17573	<desc>
17574	Adapter which NAT attached to.
17575	</desc>
17576	</attribute>
17577	<attribute name="remove" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17578	<desc>
17579	Whether rule remove or add.
17580	</desc>
17581	</attribute>
17582	<attribute name="name" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17583	<desc>
17584	Name of the rule.
17585	</desc>
17586	</attribute>
17587	<attribute name="proto" type="NATProtocol" readonly="yes">
17588	<desc>
17589	Protocol (TCP or UDP) of the redirect rule.
17590	</desc>
17591	</attribute>
17592	<attribute name="hostIp" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17593	<desc>
17594	Host ip address to bind socket on.
17595	</desc>
17596	</attribute>
17597	<attribute name="hostPort" type="long" readonly="yes">
17598	<desc>
17599	Host port to bind socket on.
17600	</desc>
17601	</attribute>
17602	<attribute name="guestIp" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17603	<desc>
17604	Guest ip address to redirect to.
17605	</desc>
17606	</attribute>
17607	<attribute name="guestPort" type="long" readonly="yes">
17608	<desc>
17609	Guest port to redirect to.
17610	</desc>
17611	</attribute>
17612	</interface>
17613
17614	<interface
17615	name="IHostPciDevicePlugEvent" extends="IMachineEvent"
17616	waitable="yes"
17617	uuid="9cebfc27-c579-4965-8eb7-d31794cd7dcf"
17618	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnHostPciDevicePlug"
17619	>
17620	<desc>
17621	Notification when host PCI device is plugged/unplugged. Plugging
17622	usually takes place on VM startup, unplug - when
17623	<link to="IMachine::detachHostPciDevice"/> is called.
17624
17625	<see><link to="IMachine::detachHostPciDevice"/></see>
17626
17627	</desc>
17628
17629	<attribute name="plugged" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17630	<desc>
17631	If device successfully plugged or unplugged.
17632	</desc>
17633	</attribute>
17634
17635	<attribute name="success" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17636	<desc>
17637	If operation was successful, if false - 'message' attribute
17638	may be of interest.
17639	</desc>
17640	</attribute>
17641
17642	<attribute name="attachment" type="IPciDeviceAttachment" readonly="yes">
17643	<desc>
17644	Attachment info for this device.
17645	</desc>
17646	</attribute>
17647
17648	<attribute name="message" type="wstring" readonly="yes">
17649	<desc>
17650	Optional error message.
17651	</desc>
17652	</attribute>
17653
17654	</interface>
17655
17656	<interface
17657	name="IVBoxSVCAvailabilityChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17658	uuid="97c78fcd-d4fc-485f-8613-5af88bfcfcdc"
17659	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnVBoxSVCAvailabilityChanged"
17660	>
17661	<desc>
17662	Notification when VBoxSVC becomes unavailable (due to a crash or similar
17663	unexpected circumstances) or available again.
17664	</desc>
17665
17666	<attribute name="available" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17667	<desc>
17668	Whether VBoxSVC is available now.
17669	</desc>
17670	</attribute>
17671	</interface>
17672
17673	<interface
17674	name="IBandwidthGroupChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17675	uuid="334df94a-7556-4cbc-8c04-043096b02d82"
17676	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnBandwidthGroupChanged"
17677	>
17678	<desc>
17679	Notification when one of the bandwidth groups changed
17680	</desc>
17681	<attribute name="bandwidthGroup" type="IBandwidthGroup" readonly="yes">
17682	<desc>
17683	The changed bandwidth group.
17684	</desc>
17685	</attribute>
17686	</interface>
17687
17688	<enum
17689	name="GuestMonitorChangedEventType"
17690	uuid="ef172985-7e36-4297-95be-e46396968d66"
17691	>
17692
17693	<desc>
17694	How the guest monitor has been changed.
17695	</desc>
17696
17697	<const name="Enabled" value="0">
17698	<desc>
17699	The guest monitor has been enabled by the guest.
17700	</desc>
17701	</const>
17702
17703	<const name="Disabled" value="1">
17704	<desc>
17705	The guest monitor has been disabled by the guest.
17706	</desc>
17707	</const>
17708
17709	<const name="NewOrigin" value="2">
17710	<desc>
17711	The guest monitor origin has changed in the guest.
17712	</desc>
17713	</const>
17714	</enum>
17715
17716	<interface
17717	name="IGuestMonitorChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17718	uuid="0f7b8a22-c71f-4a36-8e5f-a77d01d76090"
17719	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnGuestMonitorChanged"
17720	>
17721	<desc>
17722	Notification when the guest enables one of its monitors.
17723	</desc>
17724
17725	<attribute name="changeType" type="GuestMonitorChangedEventType" readonly="yes">
17726	<desc>
17727	What was changed for this guest monitor.
17728	</desc>
17729	</attribute>
17730
17731	<attribute name="screenId" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17732	<desc>
17733	The monitor which was changed.
17734	</desc>
17735	</attribute>
17736
17737	<attribute name="originX" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17738	<desc>
17739	Physical X origin relative to the primary screen.
17740	Valid for Enabled and NewOrigin.
17741	</desc>
17742	</attribute>
17743
17744	<attribute name="originY" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17745	<desc>
17746	Physical Y origin relative to the primary screen.
17747	Valid for Enabled and NewOrigin.
17748	</desc>
17749	</attribute>
17750
17751	<attribute name="width" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17752	<desc>
17753	Width of the screen.
17754	Valid for Enabled.
17755	</desc>
17756	</attribute>
17757
17758	<attribute name="height" type="unsigned long" readonly="yes">
17759	<desc>
17760	Height of the screen.
17761	Valid for Enabled.
17762	</desc>
17763	</attribute>
17764
17765	</interface>
17766
17767	<interface
17768	name="IStorageDeviceChangedEvent" extends="IEvent"
17769	uuid="8a5c2dce-e341-49d4-afce-c95979f7d70c"
17770	wsmap="managed" autogen="VBoxEvent" id="OnStorageDeviceChanged"
17771	>
17772	<desc>
17773	Notification when a
17774	<link to="IMachine::mediumAttachments">storage device</link>
17775	is attached or removed.
17776	</desc>
17777	<attribute name="storageDevice" type="IMediumAttachment" readonly="yes">
17778	<desc>
17779	Storage device that is subject to change.
17780	</desc>
17781	</attribute>
17782	<attribute name="removed" type="boolean" readonly="yes">
17783	<desc>
17784	Flag whether the device was removed or added to the VM.
17785	</desc>
17786	</attribute>
17787	</interface>
17788
17789	<module name="VBoxSVC" context="LocalServer">
17790	<class name="VirtualBox" uuid="B1A7A4F2-47B9-4A1E-82B2-07CCD5323C3F"
17791	namespace="virtualbox.org">
17792	<interface name="IVirtualBox" default="yes"/>
17793	</class>
17794	</module>
17795
17796	<module name="VBoxC" context="InprocServer" threadingModel="Free">
17797	<class name="VirtualBoxClient" uuid="dd3fc71d-26c0-4fe1-bf6f-67f633265bba"
17798	namespace="virtualbox.org">
17799	<interface name="IVirtualBoxClient" default="yes"/>
17800	</class>
17801
17802	<class name="Session" uuid="3C02F46D-C9D2-4F11-A384-53F0CF917214"
17803	namespace="virtualbox.org">
17804	<interface name="ISession" default="yes"/>
17805	</class>
17806	</module>
17807
17808	</library>
17809
17810	</idl>
17811
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