[vbox-dev] temporary guest property?

[Huihong Luo]

/**
* The guest property flag values which are currently accepted.
*/
enum ePropFlags
{
NILFLAG = 0,
TRANSIENT = RT_BIT(1),
RDONLYGUEST = RT_BIT(2),
RDONLYHOST = RT_BIT(3),
READONLY = RDONLYGUEST | RDONLYHOST,
ALLFLAGS = TRANSIENT | READONLY
};
 
is TRANSIENT the flag to use? it seems won't persist to xml after vm is shutdown. This is better than the case without any flags.


--- On Wed, 7/14/10, Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com> wrote:


From: Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] temporary guest property?
To: "Huihong Luo" <huisinro at yahoo.com>
Cc: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:03 AM


Hello Huihong,

Le mercredi 14 juillet 2010 à 07:57 -0700, Huihong Luo a écrit :
> Do you meant vbox already supports temp property? or need some more
> work.
> 
> However, when I call IMachine::SetGuestProperty(), then I open the
> machine settings file, I see it inside the xml file. Is this correct? 
Currently we don't support properties which aren't written to the XML,
because for us "temporary" means until the VM is fully shut down, but it
still has to last over saving and restoring the VM.  So - needs more
work.

I just wanted to point out that implication to you.

Regards,

Michael
-- 
ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG   Michael Thayer
Werkstrasse 24                     VirtualBox engineer
71384 Weinstadt, Germany           mailto:michael.thayer at sun.com

Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München
Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603

Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V.
Rijnzathe 6, 3454PV De Meern, Niederlande
Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697
Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven 


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.virtualbox.org/pipermail/vbox-dev/attachments/20100714/93c1f43c/attachment.html>