id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host 12073,VBoxManage showvminfo --machinereadable XXX has inconsistent output format,gsp,,"The output of VBoxManage showvminfo --machinereadable is not as easy to parse as it should. To reproduce: {{{ VBoxManage showvminfo --machinereadable SomeVM | less }}} some of the values which are integers show with quotas, some not:[[BR]] {{{ cpus=4 sockSnd=""64"" }}} most of the keywords show without quotas, some with:[[BR]] {{{ VMStateChangeTime=""2013-09-04T08:07:24.020000000"" ""IDE-Controller-1-1""=""none"" }}} some items are merged in a strange way:[[BR]] {{{ Time offset=0rtcuseutc=""off"" }}} Boolean values should show without quotas to distinct them from strings: {{{ lpt2=""off"" }}} Quotas and newlines in user-editable text should be replaced by the proper escape-sequences: {{{ description=""Multiline Description with ""quotas"""" }}} Keywords should be language-neutral (don't localize): {{{ ""Disketten-Controller-0-1""=""none"" }}} Please consider to make the output valid JSON, this is much easier to parse ([http://www.json.org])",defect,closed,other,VirtualBox 4.2.16,obsolete,machinereadable,,all,Linux