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go-virtualbox

This is a wrapper package for Golang to interact with VirtualBox. The API is experimental at the moment and you should expect frequent changes.

API doc at http://godoc.org/github.com/riobard/go-virtualbox

Documentation

Overview

Package virtualbox implements wrappers to interact with VirtualBox.

VirtualBox Machine State Transition

A VirtualBox machine can be in one of the following states: 

poweroff: The VM is powered off and no previous running state saved.
running: The VM is running.
paused: The VM is paused, but its state is not saved to disk. If you quit VirtualBox, the state will be lost.
saved: The VM is powered off, and the previous state is saved on disk.
aborted: The VM process crashed. This should happen very rarely.

VBoxManage supports the following transitions between states: 

startvm <VM>: poweroff|saved --> running
controlvm <VM> pause: running --> paused
controlvm <VM> resume: paused --> running
controlvm <VM> savestate: running -> saved
controlvm <VM> acpipowerbutton: running --> poweroff
controlvm <VM> poweroff: running --> poweroff (unsafe)
controlvm <VM> reset: running --> poweroff --> running (unsafe)

Poweroff and reset are unsafe because they will lose state and might corrupt the disk image.

To make things simpler, the following transitions are used instead: 

start: poweroff|saved|paused|aborted --> running
stop: [paused|saved -->] running --> poweroff
save: [paused -->] running --> saved
restart: [paused|saved -->] running --> poweroff --> running
poweroff: [paused|saved -->] running --> poweroff (unsafe)
reset: [paused|saved -->] running --> poweroff --> running (unsafe)

The takeaway is we try our best to transit the virtual machine into the state you want it to be, and you only need to watch out for the potentially unsafe poweroff and reset.

Index

Constants

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const (
	Poweroff = MachineState("poweroff")
	Running  = MachineState("running")
	Paused   = MachineState("paused")
	Saved    = MachineState("saved")
	Aborted  = MachineState("aborted")
)
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const (
	NICNetAbsent       = NICNetwork("none")
	NICNetDisconnected = NICNetwork("null")
	NICNetNAT          = NICNetwork("nat")
	NICNetBridged      = NICNetwork("bridged")
	NICNetInternal     = NICNetwork("intnet")
	NICNetHostonly     = NICNetwork("hostonly")
	NICNetGeneric      = NICNetwork("generic")
)
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const (
	AMDPCNetPCIII         = NICHardware("Am79C970A")
	AMDPCNetFASTIII       = NICHardware("Am79C973")
	IntelPro1000MTDesktop = NICHardware("82540EM")
	IntelPro1000TServer   = NICHardware("82543GC")
	IntelPro1000MTServer  = NICHardware("82545EM")
	VirtIO                = NICHardware("virtio")
)
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const (
	PFTCP = PFProto("tcp")
	PFUDP = PFProto("udp")
)
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const (
	SysBusIDE    = SystemBus("ide")
	SysBusSATA   = SystemBus("sata")
	SysBusSCSI   = SystemBus("scsi")
	SysBusFloppy = SystemBus("floppy")
)
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const (
	CtrlLSILogic    = StorageControllerChipset("LSILogic")
	CtrlLSILogicSAS = StorageControllerChipset("LSILogicSAS")
	CtrlBusLogic    = StorageControllerChipset("BusLogic")
	CtrlIntelAHCI   = StorageControllerChipset("IntelAHCI")
	CtrlPIIX3       = StorageControllerChipset("PIIX3")
	CtrlPIIX4       = StorageControllerChipset("PIIX4")
	CtrlICH6        = StorageControllerChipset("ICH6")
	CtrlI82078      = StorageControllerChipset("I82078")
)
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const (
	DriveDVD = DriveType("dvddrive")
	DriveHDD = DriveType("hdd")
	DriveFDD = DriveType("fdd")
)

Variables

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var (
	VBM     string // Path to VBoxManage utility.
	Verbose bool   // Verbose mode.
)
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var (
	ErrMachineExist    = errors.New("machine already exists")
	ErrMachineNotExist = errors.New("machine does not exist")
	ErrVBMNotFound     = errors.New("VBoxManage not found")
)
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var (
	ErrHostonlyInterfaceCreation = errors.New("failed to create hostonly interface")
)

Functions

func AddHostonlyDHCP 

func AddHostonlyDHCP(ifname string, d DHCP) error

AddHostonlyDHCP adds a DHCP server to a host-only network.

func AddInternalDHCP 

func AddInternalDHCP(netname string, d DHCP) error

AddInternalDHCP adds a DHCP server to an internal network.

func DHCPs 

func DHCPs() (map[string]*DHCP, error)

DHCPs gets all DHCP server settings in a map keyed by DHCP.NetworkName.

func DelExtra 

func DelExtra(name, key string) error

DelExtraData deletes extra data. Name could be "global"|<uuid>|<vmname>

func HostonlyNets 

func HostonlyNets() (map[string]*HostonlyNet, error)

HostonlyNets gets all host-only networks in a map keyed by HostonlyNet.NetworkName.

func ListMachines 

func ListMachines() ([]string, error)

ListMachines lists all registered machines.

func MakeDiskImage 

func MakeDiskImage(dest string, size uint, r io.Reader) error

MakeDiskImage makes a disk image at dest with the given size in MB. If r is not nil, it will be read as a raw disk image to convert from.

func NATNets 

func NATNets() (map[string]NATNet, error)

NATNets gets all NAT networks in a map keyed by NATNet.Name.

func ParseIPv4Mask 

func ParseIPv4Mask(s string) net.IPMask

ParseIPv4Mask parses IPv4 netmask written in IP form (e.g. 255.255.255.0). This function should really belong to the net package.

func SetExtra 

func SetExtra(name, key, val string) error

SetExtra sets extra data. Name could be "global"|<uuid>|<vmname>

func ZeroFill 

func ZeroFill(w io.Writer, n int64) error

ZeroFill writes n zero bytes into w.

Types

type DHCP 

type DHCP struct {
	NetworkName string
	IPv4        net.IPNet
	LowerIP     net.IP
	UpperIP     net.IP
	Enabled     bool
}

DHCP server info.

type DriveType 

type DriveType string

DriveType represents the hardware type of a drive.

type Flag 

type Flag int
const (
	F_acpi Flag = 1 << iota
	F_ioapic
	F_rtcuseutc
	F_cpuhotplug
	F_pae
	F_longmode
	F_synthcpu
	F_hpet
	F_hwvirtex
	F_triplefaultreset
	F_nestedpaging
	F_largepages
	F_vtxvpid
	F_vtxux
	F_accelerate3d
)

Flag names in lowercases to be consistent with VBoxManage options.

func (Flag) Get 

func (f Flag) Get(o Flag) string

Test if flag is set. Return "on" or "off".

type HostonlyNet 

type HostonlyNet struct {
	Name        string
	GUID        string
	DHCP        bool
	IPv4        net.IPNet
	IPv6        net.IPNet
	HwAddr      net.HardwareAddr
	Medium      string
	Status      string
	NetworkName string // referenced in DHCP.NetworkName
}

Host-only network.

func CreateHostonlyNet 

func CreateHostonlyNet() (*HostonlyNet, error)

CreateHostonlyNet creates a new host-only network.

func (*HostonlyNet) Config 

func (n *HostonlyNet) Config() error

Config changes the configuration of the host-only network.

type Machine 

type Machine struct {
	Name       string
	UUID       string
	State      MachineState
	CPUs       uint
	Memory     uint // main memory (in MB)
	VRAM       uint // video memory (in MB)
	CfgFile    string
	BaseFolder string
	OSType     string
	Flag       Flag
	BootOrder  []string // max 4 slots, each in {none|floppy|dvd|disk|net}
}

Machine information.

func CreateMachine 

func CreateMachine(name, basefolder string) (*Machine, error)

CreateMachine creates a new machine. If basefolder is empty, use default.

func GetMachine 

func GetMachine(id string) (*Machine, error)

GetMachine finds a machine by its name or UUID.

func (*Machine) AddNATPF 

func (m *Machine) AddNATPF(n int, name string, rule PFRule) error

AddNATPF adds a NAT port forarding rule to the n-th NIC with the given name.

func (*Machine) AddStorageCtl 

func (m *Machine) AddStorageCtl(name string, ctl StorageController) error

AddStorageCtl adds a storage controller with the given name.

func (*Machine) AttachStorage 

func (m *Machine) AttachStorage(ctlName string, medium StorageMedium) error

AttachStorage attaches a storage medium to the named storage controller.

func (*Machine) DelNATPF 

func (m *Machine) DelNATPF(n int, name string) error

DelNATPF deletes the NAT port forwarding rule with the given name from the n-th NIC.

func (*Machine) DelStorageCtl 

func (m *Machine) DelStorageCtl(name string) error

DelStorageCtl deletes the storage controller with the given name.

func (*Machine) Delete 

func (m *Machine) Delete() error

Delete deletes the machine and associated disk images.

func (*Machine) Modify 

func (m *Machine) Modify() error

Modify changes the settings of the machine.

func (*Machine) Pause 

func (m *Machine) Pause() error

Pause pauses the execution of the machine.

func (*Machine) Poweroff 

func (m *Machine) Poweroff() error

Poweroff forcefully stops the machine. State is lost and might corrupt the disk image.

func (*Machine) Refresh 

func (m *Machine) Refresh() error

Refresh reloads the machine information.

func (*Machine) Reset 

func (m *Machine) Reset() error

Reset forcefully restarts the machine. State is lost and might corrupt the disk image.

func (*Machine) Restart 

func (m *Machine) Restart() error

Restart gracefully restarts the machine.

func (*Machine) Save 

func (m *Machine) Save() error

Suspend suspends the machine and saves its state to disk.

func (*Machine) SetNIC 

func (m *Machine) SetNIC(n int, nic NIC) error

SetNIC set the n-th NIC.

func (*Machine) Start 

func (m *Machine) Start() error

Start starts the machine.

func (*Machine) Stop 

func (m *Machine) Stop() error

Stop gracefully stops the machine.

type MachineState 

type MachineState string

type NATNet 

type NATNet struct {
	Name    string
	IPv4    net.IPNet
	IPv6    net.IPNet
	DHCP    bool
	Enabled bool
}

A NATNet defines a NAT network.

type NIC 

type NIC struct {
	Network         NICNetwork
	Hardware        NICHardware
	HostonlyAdapter string
}

NIC represents a virtualized network interface card.

type NICHardware 

type NICHardware string

NICHardware represents the type of NIC hardware.

type NICNetwork 

type NICNetwork string

NICNetwork represents the type of NIC networks.

type PFProto 

type PFProto string

PFProto represents the protocol of a port forwarding rule.

type PFRule 

type PFRule struct {
	Proto     PFProto
	HostIP    net.IP // can be nil to match any host interface
	HostPort  uint16
	GuestIP   net.IP // can be nil if guest IP is leased from built-in DHCP
	GuestPort uint16
}

PFRule represents a port forwarding rule.

func (PFRule) Format 

func (r PFRule) Format() string

Format returns the string needed as a command-line argument to VBoxManage.

func (PFRule) String 

func (r PFRule) String() string

String returns a human-friendly representation of the port forwarding rule.

type StorageController 

type StorageController struct {
	SysBus      SystemBus
	Ports       uint // SATA port count 1--30
	Chipset     StorageControllerChipset
	HostIOCache bool
	Bootable    bool
}

StorageController represents a virtualized storage controller.

type StorageControllerChipset 

type StorageControllerChipset string

StorageControllerChipset represents the hardware of a storage controller.

type StorageMedium 

type StorageMedium struct {
	Port      uint
	Device    uint
	DriveType DriveType
	Medium    string // none|emptydrive|<uuid>|<filename|host:<drive>|iscsi
}

StorageMedium represents the storage medium attached to a storage controller.

type SystemBus 

type SystemBus string

SystemBus represents the system bus of a storage controller.

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