Changeset 72919 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Main/idl/VirtualBox.xidl

Timestamp:

Jul 5, 2018 2:44:31 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

123468

Message:

Main/*: From now on any valid UTF8 string is considered a valid guest OS type. Of course not all of them are known, so the API clients must be prepared to deal with not having a matching IGuestOSType object.
Frontends/VBoxManage+VBoxShell: adjust to deal with the change

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Main/idl/VirtualBox.xidl (modified) (2 diffs)

trunk/src/VBox/Main/idl/VirtualBox.xidl

@@ -2640 +2640 @@
         the guest OS this object describes.
 
+        While this function returns an error for unknown guest OS types, they
+        can be still used without serious problems (if one accepts the fact
+        that there is no default VM config information).
+
         <result name="E_INVALIDARG">
           @a id is not a valid Guest OS type.
@@ -5026 +5030 @@
         You may use <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/> to obtain
         an IGuestOSType object representing details about the given
-        Guest OS type.
+        Guest OS type. All Guest OS types are considered valid, even those
+        which are not known to <link to="IVirtualBox::getGuestOSType"/>.
         <note>
           This value may differ from the value returned by