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I'm the author of the Ubuntu VirtualBox indicator and have some additional questions/clarifications please...</div>
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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">name="GUI/GroupDefinitions/*",
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">'go=...' is a group</span></div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">'m=...': is a machine UUID</span></div>
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I noticed between version 1.5 and 1.6 there was the addition of the value <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">"n=GLOBAL" which I skip; I assume this is safe to do so?</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Stéphane Charette <stephanecharette@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:56<br>
<b>To:</b> vbox-dev@virtualbox.org <vbox-dev@virtualbox.org>; Bernard Giannetti <thebernmeister@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> VB xml format</font>
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<div>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>
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<div>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"><b>gc=</b></font>..."
in <font face="monospace"><ExtraDataItem name="GUI/GroupDefinitions/"</font>.<br clear="all">
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