Hi Klaus, 2016-05-25 18:26 GMT+02:00 Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenl...@oracle.com>: > Hi Miroslav, > > On 19.05.2016 14:36, Miroslav Matějů wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I’ve created a Python script to list the hierarchy of virtual disks in >> command-line interface. It helps to get a quick reference of the >> snapshot sizes. This can be viewed in Virtual Media Manager in GUI, >> however I need to do it on a headless server. > > > What's unclean about the script is that it's scraping the info out of > VBoxManage. Python (up to VirtualBox 5.0.x only python 2.x, we're working on > covering python 3.x with 5.1, which isn't 100% complete) can talk to the > VirtualBox API, which gives it direct access to the information. > > Klaus
Thanks for your comment. I was not seeking the information about VirtualBox API after I saw all the necessary information in a machine-readable format in the output of VBoxManage. I should have written that my way is most likely a quick and dirty one. However, it still may help directly or inspire someone to make a more correct solution. Best regards, Miroslav _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list vbox-dev@virtualbox.org https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
