[vbox-dev] good way of detecting guest vm reboot?

[Knut St. Osmundsen]

Huihong Luo wrote:
> need to do some cleanup after a guest reboot, e.g., to close all taskbar
> buttons and system tray icons from that vm.
>  
> One way is to detect the additions state from the vm, any other better
> way to detect a reboot?

Depends on where in the code you are.  If you program the main API, the
additions state change event is the best way to detect it I think.  On a
deeper level there are several ways to get a callback when the VM is
reset.  PDM Device & Drivers have pfnReset callback which gets worked
when the VM is reset or reboot.  On the VM level there one can register
a callback via VMR3AtStateRegister that gets called on every state
change and it would then be possible to take action when leaving any of
the VMSTATE_RESETTING* states.

Hope this was of some help.


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