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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+    Copyright (C) 2006-2022 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+
+    This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as
+    available from https://www.virtualbox.org.
+
+    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+    as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the
+    License.
+
+    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+    WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+    General Public License for more details.
+
+    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+    along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
+
+    SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"[
+<!ENTITY % all.entities SYSTEM "all-entities.ent">
+%all.entities;
+]>
+<chapter id="VirtualBoxAPI">
+
+  <title>&product-name; Programming Interfaces</title>
+
+  <para>
+    &product-name; comes with comprehensive support for third-party
+    developers. The so-called <emphasis>Main API</emphasis> of
+    &product-name; exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
+    engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
+    wishes to control &product-name; programmatically.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM on Windows
+    hosts or XPCOM on other hosts. Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
+    Python.
+  </para>
+
+  <para>
+    All programming information such as documentation, reference
+    information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
+    have been split out to a separate <emphasis role="bold">Software
+    Development Kit (SDK)</emphasis>. The SDK is available for download
+    from
+    <ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org" />.
+    In particular, the SDK comes with a Programming Guide and Reference
+    manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
+    information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
+  </para>
+
+</chapter>