[vbox-dev] Access the Virtualbox API inside the guest?

[Andreas Löffler]

Hi Scott,

there's no COM API on the guest like there's on the host. However, you 
can take a look at VBoxControl and see how it's done -- its source is in 
"src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxControl".

For invoking VBoxControl with VBS, maybe something like

Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "VBoxControl <parameters>", 0

(see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5fk67ky%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)

will do to hide the command line window (the "0" at the end of .Run) if 
you don't want to write your own client?

-Andreas



On 27.02.2012 14:02, Scott Gustafson wrote:
> I have found VboxControl, and that’s how I get the heartbeat indicator
> now, using “VboxControl guestproperty set”. Even when I run this command
> from a vbs script (shell.run “VboxControl guestproperty set…”) it still
> pops up a command window for an instant, since VboxConrtol is a
> command-line program, not an API call.
>
> Is there a way to access the functions in the guest’s VboxControl directly in a VBS script, like the/CreateObject("VirtualBox.VirtualBox")/  does in the host?
>
>
>
> (PS, the user forum, where I first posted my question, is forever asking for lots of info: what are you trying to do, what’s you host OS, what’s your guest OS, how many guests, why are you trying to do this, etc. That’s why I wrote a more descriptive question than just“How do I access the API in the guest?”, so I would try to cover all the simple time-consuming questions in one shot.)
>
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