Index: /trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/platform/darwin/VBoxUtils-darwin-cocoa.mm
===================================================================
--- /trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/platform/darwin/VBoxUtils-darwin-cocoa.mm	(revision 50474)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/platform/darwin/VBoxUtils-darwin-cocoa.mm	(revision 50475)
@@ -91,4 +91,9 @@
 {
     return [NSString stringWithUTF8String: pcszString];
+}
+
+QString darwinFromNativeString(NativeNSStringRef pString)
+{
+    return [pString cStringUsingEncoding :NSASCIIStringEncoding];
 }
 
Index: /trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/platform/darwin/VBoxUtils-darwin.h
===================================================================
--- /trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/platform/darwin/VBoxUtils-darwin.h	(revision 50474)
+++ /trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/platform/darwin/VBoxUtils-darwin.h	(revision 50475)
@@ -50,4 +50,5 @@
 NativeNSViewRef darwinToNativeViewImpl(NativeNSWindowRef pWindow);
 NativeNSStringRef darwinToNativeString(const char* pcszString);
+QString darwinFromNativeString(NativeNSStringRef pString);
 
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