Web Service and Extension Packs

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RichF
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Web Service and Extension Packs

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Anyone know the reason why the web service cannot access the extension pack API? It would be nice if at least IExtPackBase was available to check what packs were installed.
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Re: Web Service and Extension Packs

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Re: Web Service and Extension Packs

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Noteirak,

The web service does not include any of the interfaces (IExtPackBase, IExtPackManager, etc) for dealing with extension packs.

After searching through the source code, I found in the "VirtualBox.xidl" definition file that they are all suppressed:

<interface
name="IExtPackBase" extends="$unknown"
uuid="aa204a12-5b29-45a5-b5d6-c2bafcdb9b0b"
wsmap="suppress"

Wondering if anyone knew a specific reason for this. Since certain features are only part of the extension pack (VRDP, disk encryption), would be useful to have the ability to (at a minimum) check if it is installed.

Rich
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