[vbox-dev] createHardDisk and createBaseStorage

[Nikolay Igotti]

 It means exactly that :). Could you please post relevant pieces of code 
(ideally as shell extension),otherwise it's pretty hard to guess. 
Machine shall be mutable (i.e. with opened session) to perform 
modifications - see shell commands changing VM persistent state.

  Nikolay

Frédéric SOSSON wrote:
> after using addStorageController, I got this message: The machine is
> not mutable (state is 1)
>
> what does it mean?
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> 2009/8/10 Frédéric SOSSON <fsosson at gmail.com>:
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>> OK, thanx for the piece of code provided by Nikolay
>>
>> 2009/8/10 Klaus Espenlaub <Klaus.Espenlaub at sun.com>:
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>>> Frédéric SOSSON wrote:
>>>       
>>>> do you mean vboxshell ?
>>>>         
>>> no, I usually don't mean vboxshell if I type VBoxManage ;)
>>>
>>> I know that many python programmers are highly allergic to C++ code, but
>>> with VirtualBox it's just a fact that the vast majority of code which uses
>>> the API is C++. And it should give you at least a hint what the usual
>>> sequence of API calls is.
>>>
>>> Nikolay provided python code which does the job, but the same information
>>> could be easily distilled out of VBoxManageDisk.cpp in the VirtualBox
>>> sources. Or by looking at the API documentation.
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
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>>>> 2009/8/10 Klaus Espenlaub <Klaus.Espenlaub at sun.com>:
>>>>         
>>>>> Frédéric SOSSON wrote:
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I try to create hard disk and to use createBaseStorage...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you have a small sample ?
>>>>>>             
>>>>> The usual "sample" is VBoxManage. The total tool is relatively big, but
>>>>> each
>>>>> subcommand is usually pretty straightforward.
>>>>>
>>>>> Klaus
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>>
>>>>         
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>> Frédéric SOSSON
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