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Hi,

I am working on Virtual Box SDK and I have a couple of questions. Any of your suggestions would be helpful.

1. When ever I start a VM, I need to get the IP address from DHCP for the first time, but upon subsequent restarts, I want the VMs to get the same IP address. Is it possible to do programatically using the SDK? Can you please point me to the specific class/function calls?

2. Where can I get the documentation for "VirtualBoxManager" class used in TestVBox.java . The SDK reference guide provides documentation for "IVirtualBox" and all but not for "VirtualBoxManager" class. Here is how it is used in TestVBox.java

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VirtualBoxManager mgr = VirtualBoxManager.createInstance(null);
IVirtualBox vbox = mgr.getVBox();
 mgr.startVm(m, null, 7000);

My Setup information:
Virtual box and API version: Version 4.2.12
Connection Type: object-oriented web service (OOWS)
Language: Java
Host OS: Windows 7 64

Thanks.

1) that is not possible directly, as Virtualbox is a hardware emulator. IP is already "software level". What you could do is use the guest execute. See IProcess, IGuestSession, IGuest, IConsole & IMachine
2) IVirtualBoxClient is the interface you're looking for.

noteirak wrote:1) that is not possible directly, as Virtualbox is a hardware emulator. IP is already "software level". What you could do is use the guest execute. See IProcess, IGuestSession, IGuest, IConsole & IMachine
2) IVirtualBoxClient is the interface you're looking for.

Hi noteirak,

Thanks for the reply. If not programatically, can I configure VirtualBox so that VMs get same IP address every time?

No you can't. IPs are OS configuration level, where Virtualbox is hardware.
What you can do is run some command in the guest using the interfaces I gave you, then you could configure the guest OS for a specific IP.

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