Hi Ian,
On 20.09.2011 17:24, Ian Chapman wrote:
Hi,
This is using the SOAP interface from Perl. When editing a guest's
settings, if storage (eg hard disk image) is attached to a controller
and then the settings of the guest are subsequently discarded
(IMachine::discardSettings), the medium still believes it is attached to
the guest, but the guest does not agree. The medium becomes impossible
to release from the guest.
What do you mean by "attached to the guest, but the guest does not
agree"? VirtualBox has two kinds of such associations: the medium
registry location, and the actual usage of a medium by a particular VM
(or snapshot). The former isn't easily seen (except by looking at the VM
config file), however the latter is shown e.g. in the "Usage" field of
the output of "VBoxManage list hdds" (which just uses API calls, so you
could do the same through SOAP if you insisted).
Secondly if you change a storage controller
type (eg IDE) from PIIX3 to PIIX4 for example, it still retains it
setting even after IMachine::discardSettings is called. All other guest
settings such as audio, network, display, memory etc get discarded as
expected.
That's a clear (and easy to spot) bug in the implementation. Changing
this attribute doesn't take the necessary backup which is needed for
rolling back.considered the case of changing
Is this intended behaviour, a bug or am I completely missing something
in the API that I should being doing instead? I'm currently using VB
4.1.2 but I've seen this in previous releases.
None of this sounds intentional, but with the first issue I don't know
what to look for. I'm sure I aborted storage attachment changes, and
later attached the medium to some other VM without trouble. So that
needs a bit more detailed explanation...
Klaus
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