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Hi Stéphane, <span style="font-family:"Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">fth0</span>,
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Thanks for your responses. I have done some digging/reading...</div>
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<span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important"><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/manager/chooser/UIChooserAbstractModel.cpp">https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/manager/chooser/UIChooserAbstractModel.cpp</a></span> </div>
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and the functions prefixToString() and optionToString(), I see the characters that define group and machine, but there are some other characters which don't make sense...but that I don't believe affects my situation. That 'gc' and 'go' both refer to groups,
that fixes my immediate issue.<br>
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Longer term, I will ditch parsing the XML configuration file as this is chasing my tail at best! After some investigation, I believe I can use:</div>
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<div>to give me each machine's name, UUID and group. Hopefully this works as expected as this is preferable to calling the API via a COM wrapper or the web server interface.</div>
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<div>Thanks again for the help,</div>
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<div>Bernard.</div>
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