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I was wondering if anyone new the complexity that would go into creating a Frontend GUI for VBox. I have downloaded the source code for the SDL Frontend and have sort of skimmed through it to see how one would go about doing it. Is it as daunting a task as it seems. What I want to do with it is have a frontend that I have complete control over and is stripped over any ability for the user to close or exit out of and that will remain in full-screen mode. Our organization is researching a way where we can have a list of VM's that a user can choose from. Upon choosing one of the VM's, the program would launch the VM in full-screen mode and would remain so until the user logs out. At that time we would hibernate the VM and bring the list back up for the user to choose from. What would be the best way to go about doing this?

Thanks,

dmjaffa

It's actually very easy once you get to know the API. Additionally to implement around the API requires more than simple understanding of how VirtualBox functions work. Example: Machine States --> What you can/cannot do when a machine is in a certain state.

Very simple use case of the VBox api via the SOAP interface.