building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 14 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4 Using the Main API documentation to write web service clients 29 5 The VirtualBox COM/XPCOM API 30 5.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.4 Event queue processing

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 14 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 4 Using the Main API documentation to write web service clients 29 5 The VirtualBox COM/XPCOM API 30 5.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 5.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 5.4 Event queue processing

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 17 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Visual Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 34 2.3.6 C binding to XPCOM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 17 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Visual Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 34 2.3.6 C binding to XPCOM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 39

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 16 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Visual Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 33 2.3.6 C binding to XPCOM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 18 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Visual Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 35 2.3.6 C binding to XPCOM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 39

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 18 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Visual Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 35 2.3.6 C binding to XPCOM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 22 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 39 2.3.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 47

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 22 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 39 2.3.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 47

building blocks of VirtualBox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 1.2 Two guises of the same “Main API”: the web service or COM/XPCOM . . . . . . 20 1.3 About web services in general . . . . . . . . . 2.3.1 Python COM API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 2.3.3 C++ COM API . . . . . . . . Basic and Visual Basic Script (VBS) on Windows hosts . . . . . . 37 2.3.6 C binding to VirtualBox API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 3 Basic VirtualBox concepts; some examples 45 3