<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Bernard, hi Stéphane,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">the only "documentation" of the VirtualBox.xml format that I know of is the VirtualBox source code, and you'll find the group attribute names in src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/manager/chooser/UIChooserAbstractModel.cpp (search for "go", including the quotes).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AFAIU, "go" represents an open group, "gc" represents a closed group. I'm not sure about the roles of "n" for "name" and "nf" for "name favorite".</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards</div><div class="">fth0<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 03.11.2021 um 10:30 schrieb Bernard Giannetti <<a href="mailto:thebernmeister@hotmail.com" class="">thebernmeister@hotmail.com</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Hi,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">I'm the author of the Ubuntu VirtualBox indicator and have some additional questions/clarifications please...</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">My indicator parses the VirtualBox configuration file at ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml to determine the virtual machines and groups. Using only the XMLtags ExtraDataItem where <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">name="GUI/GroupDefinitions/*", I have assumed that:</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">'go=...' is a group</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="">'m=...': is a machine UUID</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">I noticed between version 1.5 and 1.6 there was the addition of the value <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">"n=GLOBAL" which I skip; I assume this is safe to do so?</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">As Stéphane reported below, I have not seen the name="gc=..." before and cannot reproduce this under version 1.5 or 1.6. Can 'gc' be treated the same as 'go' (that is, a group)?</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div id="Signature" class=""><div class=""><div class=""></div><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="line-height: 18px;" class=""><font face="Arial" size="2" class=""><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span></font></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span><div style="line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="2" style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Thanks,</span></font></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="2" style="line-height: normal;" class=""><br style="line-height: 18px;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span></font></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""></span><div class=""><font face="Arial" size="2" style="line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Bernard.</span></font></div><font face="Arial" size="2" style="line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);" class=""></font></div></div></div></div></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div id="appendonsend" class=""></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><hr tabindex="-1" style="display: inline-block; width: 961.375px;" class=""><div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Stéphane Charette <<a href="mailto:stephanecharette@gmail.com" class="">stephanecharette@gmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:56<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" class="">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a> <<a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" class="">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a>>; Bernard Giannetti <<a href="mailto:thebernmeister@hotmail.com" class="">thebernmeister@hotmail.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>VB xml format</font><div class=""> </div></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Devs,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Is there documentation available for the VirtualBox XML file format? Specifically, what you'd expect to find in Ubuntu at this location: ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bernard Giannetti (the author of the VirtualBox indicator on Ubuntu) and I are trying to understand some fields and could use some assistance. Specifically, right now we're trying to understand the meaning of "<font face="monospace" class=""><b class="">gc=</b></font>..." in <font face="monospace" class=""><ExtraDataItem name="GUI/GroupDefinitions/"</font>.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stéphane</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="left" valign="bottom" width="107" style="line-height: 0; vertical-align: bottom; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px;" class=""><a href="https://about.me/stephane.charette?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=thumb" target="_blank" class=""><img alt="" width="105" height="70" src="https://thumbs.about.me/thumbnail/users/s/t/e/stephane.charette_emailsig.jpg?_1613974105_595" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: block; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);" class=""></a></td><td align="left" valign="bottom" style="line-height: 1.1; vertical-align: bottom; padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px;" class=""><img width="1" height="1" src="https://about.me/t/sig?u=stephane.charette" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;" class=""><div style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: "Proxima Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;" class="">Stéphane Charette</div><a href="https://about.me/stephane.charette?promo=email_sig&utm_source=product&utm_medium=email_sig&utm_campaign=edit_panel&utm_content=thumb" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12px; color: rgb(43, 130, 173); font-family: "Proxima Nova", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif !important;" class="">about.me/stephane.charette</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">vbox-dev mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="mailto:vbox-dev@virtualbox.org" class="">vbox-dev@virtualbox.org</a></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class=""><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev" class="">https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev</a></span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>