[vbox-dev] Difficulty of Distributing 3rd party Windows apps based on VBoxPython

[Klaus Espenlaub]

On 04.08.2011 10:32, Grigory Petrov wrote:
> On 02.08.11 15:08, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
>>> This is result of unfortunate feature of MSCOM, related to
>>> cross-bitness COM calls.
>> Could VBox project provide 32-bit COM interfaces on Windows 64-bit ?
>> (in addition to current 64-bit COM)
> I agree. A well-behaved inproc COM server should provide both 64-bit and
> 32-bit interfaces on 64-bit windows. Making VirtualBox more well-behaved
> will greatly increase it's popularity in areas where automation is
> required. And it's not hard to implement.

Just wasted a lot of time searching through MSDN and not finding 
anything useful. Found even claims 
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms810720.aspx) that our rather 
simple interfaces should work without trouble with both 32bit and 64bit 
clients. Which is not correct according to Alexey.

Also, just to get this right: most of our API is not provided by an 
"inproc" server, but by a "local" server, implemented by VBoxSVC.exe. 
This server has LOTS of local state, and at the moment I can't even 
imagine how 32bit and 64bit interfaces could possibly cooperate in such 
a server. Leave alone that I found no way to tell MIDL about any bitness.

Any hints are appreciated - I may have missed something totally obvious.

Klaus

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