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58 lines
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!--
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Copyright (C) 2006-2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
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This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as
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available from https://www.virtualbox.org.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the
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License.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
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-->
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<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"[
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<!ENTITY % all.entities SYSTEM "all-entities.ent">
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%all.entities;
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]>
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<chapter id="VirtualBoxAPI">
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<title>&product-name; Programming Interfaces</title>
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<para>
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&product-name; comes with comprehensive support for third-party
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developers. The so-called <emphasis>Main API</emphasis> of
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&product-name; exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
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engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
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wishes to control &product-name; programmatically.
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</para>
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<para>
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The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM on Windows
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hosts or XPCOM on other hosts. Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
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Python.
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</para>
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<para>
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All programming information such as documentation, reference
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information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
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have been split out to a separate <emphasis role="bold">Software
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Development Kit (SDK)</emphasis>. The SDK is available for download
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from
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<ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org" />.
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In particular, the SDK comes with a Programming Guide and Reference
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manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
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information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
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</para>
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</chapter>
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