VirtualBox

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7<chapter id="VirtualBoxAPI">
8
9 <title>&product-name; Programming Interfaces</title>
10
11 <para>
12 &product-name; comes with comprehensive support for third-party
13 developers. The so-called <emphasis>Main API</emphasis> of
14 &product-name; exposes the entire feature set of the virtualization
15 engine. It is completely documented and available to anyone who
16 wishes to control &product-name; programmatically.
17 </para>
18
19 <para>
20 The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM on Windows
21 hosts or XPCOM on other hosts. Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and
22 Python.
23 </para>
24
25 <para>
26 All programming information such as documentation, reference
27 information, header and other interface files, as well as samples
28 have been split out to a separate <emphasis role="bold">Software
29 Development Kit (SDK)</emphasis>. The SDK is available for download
30 from
31 <ulink url="http://www.virtualbox.org" />.
32 In particular, the SDK comes with a Programming Guide and Reference
33 manual in PDF format. This manual contains, among other things, the
34 information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.
35 </para>
36
37</chapter>
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