[vbox-dev] Actually adding a disk provider to a running VM ???

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Hi Christophe,

Christophe Devriese wrote:
> I have added a new "HDDCore" in Devices/Storage (just a ramdisk, by way 
> of an exercise before trying something more ambitious).
> 
> It compiles, and it's added statically to the list of registered backends.
> 
> Now how do I create a VM that actually uses this new backend ? Would it 
> be best to use a python script that uses IVirutalBox::CreateHardDisk ? 
> Is "format" identical to "backend" ? And the documentation states then 
> to call "createBaseStorage", which i assume I can forego if it's not 
> image backed, right ?

VirtualBox is open source, so it comes with _very_ extensive samples, 
the most complete one being the VBoxManage source code.

Yes, use CreateHardDisk, and the format is the backend name. See 
handleAddiSCSIDisk() in src/VBox/Frontends/VBoxManage/VBoxManageDisk.cpp 
for how things are done for iSCSI, which is also a HDD backend which 
can't create new images, and actually doesn't use the location for 
anything but informational purposes.

Klaus