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> On Nov 4, 2021, at 11:04 AM, Klaus Espenlaub <klaus.espenl...@oracle.com> > wrote: > > Hi Bernard, > >> On 2021-11-04 09:11, Bernard Giannetti wrote: >> Hi Stéphane, fth0, Klaus, >> >> Thanks for your responses. I have done some digging/reading... >> >> Looking at >> >> https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/manager/chooser/UIChooserAbstractModel.cpp >> >> >> and the functions prefixToString() and optionToString(), I see the >> characters that define group and machine, but there are some other >> characters which don't make sense...but that I don't believe affects my >> situation. That 'gc' and 'go' both refer to groups, that fixes my immediate >> issue. >> >> Longer term, I will ditch parsing the XML configuration file as this is >> chasing my tail at best! After some investigation, I believe I can use: >> >> VBoxManage list vms --long >> >> to give me each machine's name, UUID and group. Hopefully this works as >> expected as this is preferable to calling the API via a COM wrapper or the >> web server interface. > > My recommendation would be using the Python API bindings since that's rather > convenient, balancing flexibility with pretty limited impact from API changes > (that said, the Python API bindings may not be available in a certain > VirtualBox installation, depending on how annoying the support of a specific > Linux distro's Python 2/3 migration strategy is). > > If you insist using "VBoxManage" (one of the main source of useless error > reports e.g. from Vagrant fans) then I would at least hope you go for an > approach which will be a little more reliable ("VBoxManage list vms --long" > produces human readable output, i.e. it can change relatively arbitrarily): > go for a two-stage approach. First get the list of VM UUIDs with "VBoxManage > list vms", and then get the detail information you need with "VBoxManage > showvminfo uuid --machinereadable". The output of the latter should be a lot > easier to process. It is kind of a list of shell variables (anything with an > all lowercase name is the associated VBoxManage modifyvm option name, > anything mixed case has no direct correspondence), with string values > possibly containing spaces in "". > > In principle this could be also offered with "VBoxManage list vms --long", > but so far no one has thought of this and therefore it wouldn't work for > existing VirtualBox releases. > > Klaus > >> >> >> Thanks again for the help, >> >> Bernard. > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > vbox-dev@virtualbox.org > https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
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