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A few things have changed in the VirtualBox API - some small (capitalizations of things in function names like Ip to IP and Dhcp to DHCP) and some much larger (FindMedium is superceded by OpenMedium). The biggest change for the sake of this patch is the signature of CreateMachine is quite a bit different. Using the Oracle source as a guide, to spin up a VM with a given UUID, it looks like a text flag has to be passed in a new argument to CreateMachine. This flag is built in the VirtualBox 4.2 specific ifdefs and is kind of ugly but works. Additionally, there is now (unused) VM groups support in CreateMachine and the previous 'osTypeId' arg is currently set to nsnull as in the Oracle code. The FindMedium to OpenMedium changes were more straightforward and are pretty clear. The rest of the vbox template changes are basically spelling/capitalization changes from the looks of things. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Licensing
Note that much of the vbox in this directory is LGPLv2-only. Thus, it
cannot be linked into any software that also wants to use GPLv3+ code.
This readme file is:
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Explanation about the how multi-version support
for VirtualBox libvirt driver is implemented.
Since VirtualBox adds multiple new features for each release, it is but
natural that the C API which VirtualBox exposes is volatile across
versions and thus needs a good mechanism to handle multiple versions
during runtime. The solution was something like this:
Firstly the file structure is as below:
vbox_CAPI_v2_2.h
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.h
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.c
These files are C API/glue code files directly taken from the
VirtualBox OSE source and is needed for C API to work as expected.
vbox_driver.h
vbox_driver.c
These files have the main logic for registering the virtualbox driver
with libvirt.
vbox_V2_2.c
The file which has version dependent changes and includes the template
file for given below for all of its functionality.
vbox_tmpl.c
The file where all the real driver implementation code exists.
Now there would be a vbox_V*.c file (for eg: vbox_V2_2.c for V2.2) for
each major virtualbox version which would do some preprocessor magic
and include the template file (vbox_tmpl.c) in it for the functionality
it offers.