Greetings, Andreas! Thanks for the suggestion, the ",0" on the end of the shell.run line was it! I'd forgotten about that window-state number. ",7" seems to keep the VboxControl window from showing, and I only get a slight flicker on the taskbar. That's good enough for me.
(I have not figured out how to get my responses to nest like yours and the other developers. Sorry for the messy arrangement...) Scott Gustafson R&G Construction Cabinet & Millwork North Plainfield, NJ 908-755-9422 -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Löffler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:23 AM To: Scott Gustafson Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [vbox-dev] Access the Virtualbox API inside the guest? Hi Scott, there's no COM API on the guest like there's on the host. However, you can take a look at VBoxControl and see how it's done -- its source is in "src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxControl". For invoking VBoxControl with VBS, maybe something like Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") shell.Run "VBoxControl <parameters>", 0 (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d5fk67ky%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) will do to hide the command line window (the "0" at the end of .Run) if you don't want to write your own client? -Andreas On 27.02.2012 14:02, Scott Gustafson wrote: > I have found VboxControl, and that's how I get the heartbeat indicator > now, using "VboxControl guestproperty set". Even when I run this command > from a vbs script (shell.run "VboxControl guestproperty set...") it still > pops up a command window for an instant, since VboxConrtol is a > command-line program, not an API call. > > Is there a way to access the functions in the guest's VboxControl directly in > a VBS script, like the/CreateObject("VirtualBox.VirtualBox")/ does in the > host? > > > > (PS, the user forum, where I first posted my question, is forever asking for > lots of info: what are you trying to do, what's you host OS, what's your > guest OS, how many guests, why are you trying to do this, etc. That's why I > wrote a more descriptive question than just"How do I access the API in the > guest?", so I would try to cover all the simple time-consuming questions in > one shot.) > > Scott Gustafson > > R&G Construction Cabinet & Millwork > > North Plainfield, NJ > > 908-755-9422 > > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev -- Kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen ******************************************************************* Andreas Löffler | VirtualBox Engineering Oracle Virtualization ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Werkstrasse 24 D-71384 Weinstadt, Germany Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Astrid Kepper, Val Maher _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
