[vbox-dev] VB xml format

[fth0]

Hi Bernard, hi Stéphane,

the only "documentation" of the VirtualBox.xml format that I know of is the VirtualBox source code, and you'll find the group attribute names in src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/manager/chooser/UIChooserAbstractModel.cpp (search for "go", including the quotes).

AFAIU, "go" represents an open group, "gc" represents a closed group. I'm not sure about the roles of "n" for "name" and "nf" for "name favorite".

Regards
fth0

> Am 03.11.2021 um 10:30 schrieb Bernard Giannetti <thebernmeister at hotmail.com>:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the author of the Ubuntu VirtualBox indicator and have some additional questions/clarifications please...
> 
> My indicator parses the VirtualBox configuration file at ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml to determine the virtual machines and groups.  Using only the XMLtags ExtraDataItem where name="GUI/GroupDefinitions/*", I have assumed that:
> 
> 'go=...' is a group
> 'm=...': is a machine UUID
> 
> I noticed between version 1.5 and 1.6 there was the addition of the value "n=GLOBAL" which I skip; I assume this is safe to do so?
> 
> As Stéphane reported below, I have not seen the name="gc=..." before and cannot reproduce this under version 1.5 or 1.6.  Can 'gc' be treated the same as 'go' (that is, a group)?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bernard.
> 
> From: Stéphane Charette <stephanecharette at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, 3 November 2021 17:56
> To: vbox-dev at virtualbox.org <vbox-dev at virtualbox.org>; Bernard Giannetti <thebernmeister at hotmail.com>
> Subject: VB xml format
>  
> Devs,
> 
> Is there documentation available for the VirtualBox XML file format?  Specifically, what you'd expect to find in Ubuntu at this location:  ~/.config/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml
> 
> Bernard Giannetti (the author of the VirtualBox indicator on Ubuntu) and I are trying to understand some fields and could use some assistance.  Specifically, right now we're trying to understand the meaning of "gc=..." in <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/GroupDefinitions/".
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stéphane
> 
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