building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 2 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 19 2.3.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 27

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii 2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . xxviii 3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . 7.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlii 7.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xliii 7.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . xlv 7.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvi Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples liii

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 28 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 45 2.3.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 53

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvii 2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . xxviii 3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . 7.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlii 7.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xliii 7.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . xlv 7.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvi Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples liii

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 2 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 20 2.3.6 C bindings to the VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 28 3.1

DMI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 9.13 Configuring the custom ACPI table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 9.14 Fine-tuning timers and time synchronization that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258. 35 2 Installation details physical network). Python Support This package contains Python scripting support for the VirtualBox API (see chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258). For this to work, an already working

DMI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 9.13 Configuring the custom ACPI table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 9.14 Fine-tuning timers and time synchronization that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258. 35 2 Installation details physical network). Python Support This package contains Python scripting support for the VirtualBox API (see chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258). For this to work, an already working

DMI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 9.13 Configuring the custom ACPI table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 9.14 Fine-tuning timers and time synchronization that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258. 35 2 Installation details physical network). Python Support This package contains Python scripting support for the VirtualBox API (see chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258). For this to work, an already working

DMI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 9.13 Configuring the custom ACPI table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 9.14 Fine-tuning timers and time synchronization that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258. 35 2 Installation details physical network). Python Support This package contains Python scripting support for the VirtualBox API (see chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258). For this to work, an already working

DMI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 9.13 Configuring the custom ACPI table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 9.14 Fine-tuning timers and time synchronization that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258. 35 2 Installation details physical network). Python Support This package contains Python scripting support for the VirtualBox API (see chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces, page 258). For this to work, an already working