[vbox-dev] IMachine methods in source code?

[Frank Mehnert]

Sorry, that information is not available in VMM and I don't see the
reason why you would need it. And beyond the doxygen'd source code
there is no further documentation.

Kind regards,

Frank

On Friday 06 June 2014 15:12:37 Johannes DeWitt wrote:
> Thanks.
> Once i have that pRoot, how can i obtain for example the path of the
> machine (like the GetSettingsFilePath() ) ?
> If you don't have time for answer these specific questions, can you tell me
> where can i find the documentation about the tree attributes?
> 
> 2014-06-06 14:51 GMT+02:00 Frank Mehnert <frank.mehnert at oracle.com>:
> > Johannes,
> > 
> > On Friday 06 June 2014 14:46:46 Johannes DeWitt wrote:
> > > I, i need to use come IMachine methods in source code. For example, if a
> > > want to use the GetSettingsFilePath() function (used in
> > > tstVBoxAPIXPCOM.cpp) in a cpp file of the source code, for example in a
> > 
> > cpp
> > 
> > > file in /src/VBox/VMM/VMMAll/, how can i do it?
> > > And which headers files i need to include?
> > 
> > that's actually not the intended way to use !VirtualBox. VMM and Main
> > are strictly separated, and in particular the IMachine code you are
> > talking about lives in VBoxSVC while the VMM code lives in the VBoxSVC
> > client (either the VirtualBox process or the VBoxHeadless process).
> > 
> > Inside VMM you should always have a pRoot handle,
> > 
> >   pRoot = CFGMR3GetRoot(pVM);
> > 
> > Using this pRoot handle you can access the CFGM tree for that particular
> > VM.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Frank
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Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande
Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697
Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher