[vbox-dev] find available storage at location before creating a medium

[Maxime Dor]

I am wondering the same thing, but I believe that comes from the 
glue/auto-creation of the Java code with the API.

See https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/11316

On 14/01/2013 09:52, gal wrote:
> Using value() method of the enum and converting to long worked...
> Is there a reason the value() method returns int and the 
> IMedium::createBaseStorage demands long?
> Thanks,
> Gal.
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> On 01/13/2013 09:39 PM, Maxime Dor wrote:
>> See inline answers
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>> On 13/01/2013 16:52, gal wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I use the JAVA API.
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>>> In order to create a harddisk I use vbox.createHardDisk and then 
>>> IMedium::createBaseStorage method.
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>>> First, the method createBaseStorage requires two long values. the 
>>> second value seems to be a value which comes from the enumaration 
>>> MediumVariant. Is there a way to extract the long value of a medium 
>>> variant from the enumeration? I used fixed values from the source 
>>> code...
>> You can use the value() method on the Enum value I believe
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>>> Is there a way to know ( using the API ), before trying to create a 
>>> disk file on the host that there is enough space to generate the 
>>> disk on that partition ? (e.g.  when specifying full location, r/o 
>>> location, fixed disk which is larger than the actual space left on 
>>> that partition etc... )?
>>>
>> Never tryed that, maybe sopmeone has a better answer for you.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Gal.
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