Controlling VirtualBox machine settings from guest system

[Roman Rader]

Hello

As I found from documentation and source code, there's no possibility to
modify machine settings from guest system.

I want to patch VB to treat certain guestproperties as settings - hence
we'll have ability (using VBoxControl) to change RAM amount for example,
from guest system (now instantly of course, but after reboot).

Do I think right way about guestproperties?
Maybe there exists some more appropriate way to do it?

[Ian Chapman]

Post by Roman Rader
As I found from documentation and source code, there's no possibility to
modify machine settings from guest system.
I want to patch VB to treat certain guestproperties as settings - hence
we'll have ability (using VBoxControl) to change RAM amount for example,
from guest system (now instantly of course, but after reboot).
Do I think right way about guestproperties?
Maybe there exists some more appropriate way to do it?

You could do it from the guest system via the virtualbox webservice that
comes with VirtualBox which exposes the API making it accessible over
the network for example, including guests running within that VirtualBox
instance. You can then write your own scripts or use one of the several
3rd party utilities.

[Roman Rader]

Yeah, webservice is good idea, thanks!

The aim is to provide such interface without any preparations on host
(starting web service or other).. just using with Guest Additions.


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ian Chapman

Post by Ian Chapman

Post by Roman Rader
As I found from documentation and source code, there's no possibility to
modify machine settings from guest system.
I want to patch VB to treat certain guestproperties as settings - hence
we'll have ability (using VBoxControl) to change RAM amount for example,
from guest system (now instantly of course, but after reboot).
Do I think right way about guestproperties?
Maybe there exists some more appropriate way to do it?

You could do it from the guest system via the virtualbox webservice that
comes with VirtualBox which exposes the API making it accessible over
the network for example, including guests running within that VirtualBox
instance. You can then write your own scripts or use one of the several
3rd party utilities.
--
Ian Chapman.
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