Hello Carlos,

VirtualBox has a COM API for this purpose.  Take a look through the code of 
VBoxManage to get an idea of how you can use it.

Regards,

Michael

On Thursday 31 May 2007 17:34:39 Carlos Silva wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I'm developing a web interface (Ruby on Rails based) to interact with
> certain functionalities of Virtual Box. Namely, I need to know which VMs
> are available in the machine and to be able to create, delete and alter
> VMs. I could use 'vboxmanage' for this but it's output is very human
> oriented. As for digging thought the XML the problem is that the manual
> specifically says that the XML structure is subject to change from version
> to version. Is there any API that does the same as 'vboxmanage' but in a
> more programmatic way?
>    If not, what is safer? Trust that 'vboxmanage' output will have the same
> structure in new versions or trust that the XML structure won't change?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Carlos Silva



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