Main/VirtualBox: eliminate redundant parameter to i_registerMedium, avoiding bugs with registering e.g. floppy images as hard disks. Main/Medium: switch over to CreateMedium, final API touch-ups, variable name cleanup, typo checking for backend support of fixed image creation, check for backends not supporting a particular device type Frontends/VBoxManage: cleanup, adapt to new API, generalize all operations which worked on hard disks only to all device types Frontends/VirtualBox: adapt to new API

VBoxManage: use constants rather than plain values and use RT_STR_TUPLE

Main,VBoxManage: Implement hotpluggable setting stubs

Main, Frontends: Make the port count of the SAS controller configurable and support up to 255 storage devices

Main,Frontends: Support for the USB storage controller

VBoxManage: comment typo

VBoxManage storageattach: check if the Additions image is really known

VBoxManage: introduced 'VBoxManage storageattach additions'

Frontends/VBoxManage: improve snapshot information, unify wrappers for opening a medium object, cleanup

VBoxManage: copy/paste bug preventing the iSCSI initiator string to reach the settings file

VBoxManage: fixed copy-and-paste bug; document 'storageattach --nonrotational'

FE/VBoxManage: Fix parse bug for --discard and --nonrotational

Legacy IDE Support: eliminating the API support for configuring the legacy IDE support for AHCI. Legacy IDE fields for settings have been preserved

Main: big API naming cleanup, use all caps acronyms everywhere, including SDK docs Frontends/VBoxManage: implement guestcontrol execute for new API, disabled by default

added 3 extra methods for 6124

Elinate use of NULL object references in the API - 6124

Frontends/VBoxManage: add a way to specify the iSCSI initiator (should only be used by people who know what they're doing, the default is normally the best choice)

Main/Machine: All attached devices will be detached automatically when a storage controller is removed from VM. Now this logic concentrated in the one place - function STDMETHODIMP Machine::RemoveStorageController.

FE/VBoxManage: Don't open the medium with read/write access if it is not required (showhdinfo and the source disk when cloning)

Change DiscardDevice to SetAutoDiscardForDevice

FE/VBoxManage: Add discard option

FE/VBoxManage: Allow CD/DVD drive hotplugging

Frontends/VBoxManage: make --port and --device parameter for storageattach optional if there is only one port or device per port

VBoxManage storageattach: make the --device parameter optional

Main/Machine+MediumAttachment+Console: add method for marking a 'hard disk' as non-rotational, which optimizes performance in modern guest OSes Frontends/VBoxManage+VirtualBox: support the new method ChangeLog: add quite a few forgotten improvements and fixes

Main/MediumAttachment+Machine: add a setting which controls the guest-triggered medium eject behavior, fix handling "implicit" media, and corresponding VBoxManage and documentation updates

FE/VBoxManage: Enable support for disk hotplug when using the CLI

Main/VirtualBox+Medium: resurrect the feature of changing the medium UUID when opening the image, which allows to resolve duplicate UUIDs without using external tools. Also fixes Medium::setIDs, which wasn't correctly working. Frontends/*: corresponding changes.

Frontend/VBoxManage: fix error message printing when the bootable option is wrong

VBoxManage: fixed crash in storageattach under certain circumstances

Frontends/VBoxManage: more paranoid error handling for finding media in storageattach

Frontends/VBoxManage: finally accept relative paths everywhere and convert them to absolute ones

Frontends/VBoxManage: typo in the medium type error handling code

Frontends/VBoxManage: small functionality/error handling fix with setting the medium type with storageattach

Frontends/VBoxManage: reorder code so that the medium type is set before attaching it to a storage controller

Frontends/VBoxManage: fix typo breaking the autodetection of the device type for drives on a non-floppy controller.

VBoxManage: merge the broken addiscsidisk into storageattach

Main: Bandwidth groups for disks (and later network) This introduces two new interfaces. The first one named IBandwidthGroup represents one I/O limit and can be assigned to several mediums which share this limit (which works only for harddisk images with the disabled host cache). The second one IBandwdithControl manages the groups and can create new ones and destroy them if not required anymore. VBoxManage: commands to access the bandwidth groups Syntax: VBoxManage storageattach <uuid|vmname> ... --bandwidthgroup <name> --bandwidthgroup assigns the specified device to the given group. VBoxManage bandwidthctl <uuid|vmname> --name <name> --add disk|network --limit <megabytes per second> --delete The --name parameter gives the name of the bandwidth group. --add creates a new group of the given type (only disk is implemented so far) with the given name. --limit sets the limit to the given amount of MB/s Note that limit can be changed while the VM is running. The VM will immediately pick up the new limit for the given group name. --delete deletes the group with the given name if it isn't used anymore. Trying to delete a still used group will result in an error. Example: VBoxManage bandwidthctl "Test VM" --name Limit --add disk --limit 20 Creates a group named Test having a 20 MB/s limit. VBoxManage storageattach "Test VM" --storagectl "SATA Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium test.vdi --bandwidthgroup Limit Adds a new disk to the SATA controller and assigns the bandwidth group Limit to it. VBoxManage storageattach "Test VM" --storagectl "SATA Controller" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd --medium test.vdi --bandwidthgroup none Removes the bandwidth limit from the disk. VBoxManage bandwidthctl "Test VM" --name Limit --add disk --limit 10 Changes the limit of bandwidth group Limit to 10 MB/s. If the VM is running the limit will be picked up immediately.

Main, FE/VBoxManage: Make it possible to mark specific controllers as bootable which means that the BIOS can access devices attached to the controller to boot from it

*: spelling fixes, thanks Timeless!

Main: API change, merge IVirtualBox::getMachine() with findMachine()

Main: have Machine::MountMedium() behave like AttachDevice (use IMedium* pointer instead of UUID); add missing saveSettings calls there

com/string: Remove bool conversion operator and other convenience error operators. They are hiding programming errors (like incorrect empty string checks, and in one case a free of the wrong pointer).

Main: Implemenation of per-machine media registries; VirtualBox::openMedium() no longer adds media to the global registry, instead a media are stored in a machine XML registry after Machine::AttachDevice() has been called; Machine::AttachDevice() now takes an IMedium object instead of a UUID; also make Machine::Unregister() work again for inaccessible machines

Main: combine IVirtualBox::openHardDisk(), openDVDImage(), openFloppyImage() into new IVirtualBox::openMedium(); add new IMedium::setImageUUIDs() method for a rare use case of the old openHardDisk(); optimize client code now that code is mostly the same

Main: merge IVirtualBox::FindHardDisk, GetHardDisk, FindDVDImage, GetDVDImage, FindFloppyImage and GetFloppyImage into one IVirtualBox::findMedium method

Main: rename ISession::close() to ISession::unlockMachine(); API documentation

Main: rename LockForSession() API to LockMachine() and fix parameters; move code from internal open*Session() methods into LockMachine()

Main: unbreak frontends broken by r63924

Main: reorganize session APIs

VBoxManage: Fix crash when changing the I/O cache option for a non existant controller

VBoxManage: fixed ''storageattach'' error handling

Main: Remove IoBackendType in StorageController and have a boolean setting fUseAsyncHostIOMgr instead; change XML settings and frontends accordingly; change VBoxManage storagectl syntax to --hostiocache on|off as well

Automated rebranding to Oracle copyright/license strings via filemuncher

Main: Introduce a per controller setting to switch to the unbuffered async I/O interface (UseNewIo). Configurable through VBoxManage, default is still buffered

*: RTGetOpt cleanup related to --help and --version (now standard option). Use RTGetOptPrintError.

VBoxManage: Bugfix

LsiLogic: Add SAS support for Main and Frontends

VBoxManage: 32-bit getopt index; kicked out non-working (&& vs ||) parameter checking that main shoudl be doing.

Frontends/VBoxManage: fix error message when trying to change any drive at runtime (as that's not the same as changing the medium), and clearly separate it from hard disk hot-plugging attempts. no functionality change.

Misc: Shut up annoying gcc warnings on darwin.

VBoxManage: no toggle mode (on/off) required for --forceunmount

VBoxManage: Implemented the --forceunmount option

API/Machine,Session: add a force mount parameter to MountMedium and the associated other places

VBoxManageStorageController: sata controller port count check

VBoxManage: ULONG => StorageBus_T

SystemProperties: function GetDeviceTypesForStorageBus() to get the supported device type for given storagebus

VBoxManageStorageController.cpp: Don't use doxygen comments (/** */) for normal code comments.

VBoxManage: ULONG => StorageControllerType_T

VBoxManage: fixed a bug where replacing hdd's was not allowed and added some auto detection for type.

VBoxManage: removed spaces after function names

VBoxManage: fixed bug which caused changing media during runtime to fail

API: make necessary adjustments to support DVD passthrough again, together with the necessary client code changes. Unfortunately it is not possible to define the API in the ideal way due to how settings are handled in MachineImpl.cpp.

VBoxManage: changed storageattach behaviour to match the syntax diagram

VBoxManage: storagectl => name, floppy => fdd, type => controller

VBoxManage: Added support for adding/removing storage controllers, and attaching/removing disks/drives to them