Class: VirtualBox::HardDrive

Inherits:
Image show all
Defined in:
lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb

Overview

Represents a hard disk which is registered with VirtualBox.

Finding a Hard Drive

Hard drives can be found use HardDrive.all and HardDrive.find, which find all or a specific hard drive, respectively. Example below:

VirtualBox::HardDrive.all

Or:

VirtualBox::HardDrive.find("Foo.vdi")

Creating a Hard Drive

The hard drive is one of the few data items at the moment which supports new creation. Below is a simple example of how this works:

hd = VirtualBox::HardDrive.new
hd.location = "foo.vdi"
hd.size = 2400 # in megabytes
hd.save

# You can now access other attributes, since its saved:
hd.uuid
hd.location # will return a full path now

Although VDI is the default format for newly created hard drives, other formats are supported:

hd = VirtualBox::HardDrive.new
hd.format = "VMDK"
hd.location = "bar.vmdk"
hd.size = 9001 # Its over 9000! (If you don't understand the reference, just ignore this comment)
hd.save

Any formats listed by your VirtualBox installation's VBoxManage list hddbackends command can be used with the virtualbox gem.

Destroying Hard Drives

Hard drives can also be deleted, which will completely remove them from disk. This operation is not reversable.

hd = VirtualBox::HardDrive.find("foo")
hd.destroy

Cloning Hard Drives

Hard drives can just as easily be cloned as they can be created or destroyed.

hd = VirtualBox::HardDrive.find("foo")
cloned_hd = hd.clone("bar")

In addition to simply cloning hard drives, this command can be used to clone to a different format:

hd = VirtualBox::HardDrive.find("foo")
hd.clone("bar", "VMDK") # Will clone and convert to VMDK format

Attributes

Properties of the model are exposed using standard ruby instance methods which are generated on the fly. Because of this, they are not listed below as available instance methods.

These attributes can be accessed and modified via standard ruby-style instance.attribute and instance.attribute= methods. The attributes are listed below. If you aren't sure what this means or you can't understand why the below is listed, please read Attributable.

attribute :uuid, :readonly => true
attribute :location
attribute :accessible, :readonly => true
attribute :format, :default => "VDI"
attribute :size

Class Method Summary

Instance Method Summary

Methods inherited from Image

#empty_drive?, #filename, #initialize, parse_block, parse_blocks, parse_raw, set_relationship

Methods included from SubclassListing

included

Methods inherited from AbstractModel

#errors, #existing_record!, #inspect, #lazy_attribute?, #lazy_relationship?, #new_record!, #new_record?, #populate_attributes, #populate_relationship, #populate_relationships, reload!, #reload!, reload?, reloaded!, #save_attribute, #set_relationship, #write_attribute

Methods included from AbstractModel::Attributable

#attributes, #has_attribute?, included, #lazy_attribute?, #loaded_attribute?, #populate_attributes, #read_attribute, #readonly_attribute?, #write_attribute

Methods included from AbstractModel::Dirty

#changed?, #changes, #clear_dirty!, #ignore_dirty, #method_missing, #set_dirty!

Methods included from AbstractModel::Relatable

#destroy_relationship, #destroy_relationships, #has_relationship?, included, #lazy_relationship?, #loaded_relationship?, #populate_relationship, #populate_relationships, #read_relationship, #relationship_data, #save_relationship, #save_relationships, #set_relationship

Methods included from AbstractModel::Validatable

#add_error, #clear_errors, #errors, #valid?, #validates_presence_of

Constructor Details

This class inherits a constructor from VirtualBox::Image

Dynamic Method Handling

This class handles dynamic methods through the method_missing method in the class VirtualBox::AbstractModel::Dirty

Class Method Details

+ (Array<HardDrive>) all

Returns an array of all available hard drives as HardDrive objects.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 88

def all
  Global.global.media.hard_drives
end

+ (HardDrive) find(id, raise_errors = false)

Finds one specific hard drive by UUID or file name. If the hard drive can not be found, will return nil.

Parameters:

  • (String) id — The UUID or name of the hard drive
  • (Boolean) raise_errors (defaults to: false) — If true, Exceptions::CommandFailedException will be raised if the command failed.

Returns:



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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 99

def find(id, raise_errors=false)
  raw = Command.vboxmanage("showhdinfo", id)

  data = raw.split(/\n\n/).collect { |v| parse_block(v) }.find { |v| !v.nil? }

  # Set equivalent fields
  data[:format] = data[:"storage format"]
  data[:size] = data[:"logical size"].split(/\s+/)[0] if data.has_key?(:"logical size")

  # Return new object
  new(data)
rescue Exceptions::CommandFailedException
  raise if raise_errors
  nil
end

+ (Object) populate_relationship(caller, doc) 



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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 115

def populate_relationship(caller, doc)
  result = Proxies::Collection.new(caller)

  doc.css("MediaRegistry HardDisks HardDisk").each do |hd_node|
    data = {}
    hd_node.attributes.each do |key, value|
      data[key.downcase.to_sym] = value.to_s
    end

    # Strip the brackets off of UUID
    data[:uuid] = data[:uuid][1..-2]

    # Expand location relative to config location
    data[:location] = Global.expand_path(data[:location]) if data[:location]

    result << new(data)
  end

  result
end

Instance Method Details

- (HardDrive) clone(outputfile, format = "VDI", raise_errors = false)

Clone hard drive, possibly also converting formats. All formats supported by your local VirtualBox installation are supported here. If no format is specified, the format of the source drive will be used.

Parameters:

  • (String) outputfile — The output file. This should be just a single filename, since VirtualBox will place it in the hard drives folder.
  • (String) format (defaults to: "VDI") — The format to convert to.
  • (Boolean) raise_errors (defaults to: false) — If true, Exceptions::CommandFailedException will be raised if the command failed.

Returns:

  • (HardDrive) — The new, cloned hard drive, or nil on failure. 


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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 149

def clone(outputfile, format="VDI", raise_errors=false)
  raw = Command.vboxmanage("clonehd", uuid, outputfile, "--format", format, "--remember")
  return nil unless raw =~ /UUID: (.+?)$/

  self.class.find($1.to_s)
rescue Exceptions::CommandFailedException
  raise if raise_errors
  nil
end

- (Boolean) create(raise_errors = false)

Creates a new hard drive.

This method should NEVER be called. Call #save instead.

Parameters:

Returns:

  • (Boolean) — True if command was successful, false otherwise. 


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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 179

def create(raise_errors=false)
  if !valid?
    raise Exceptions::ValidationFailedException.new(errors) if raise_errors
    return false
  end

  raw = Command.vboxmanage("createhd", "--filename", location, "--size", size, "--format", read_attribute(:format), "--remember")
  return nil unless raw =~ /UUID: (.+?)$/

  # Just replace our attributes with the newly created ones. This also
  # will set new_record to false.
  populate_attributes(self.class.find($1.to_s).attributes)

  # Return the success of the command
  true
rescue Exceptions::CommandFailedException
  raise if raise_errors
  false
end

- (Boolean) destroy(raise_errors = false)

Destroys the hard drive. This deletes the hard drive off of disk.

This operation is not reversable.

Parameters:

Returns:

  • (Boolean) — True if command was successful, false otherwise. 


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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 226

def destroy(raise_errors=false)
  Command.vboxmanage("closemedium", "disk", uuid, "--delete")
  true
rescue Exceptions::CommandFailedException
  raise if raise_errors
  false
end

- (Object) image_type

Override of Image#image_type.



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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 160

def image_type
  "hdd"
end

- (Object) load_attribute(name)

Lazy load the lazy attributes for this model.



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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 235

def load_attribute(name)
  # Since the lazy attributes are related, we just load them all at once
  loaded_hd = self.class.find(uuid, true)

  write_attribute(:size, loaded_hd.size)
  write_attribute(:accessible, loaded_hd.accessible)
end

- (Boolean) save(raise_errors = false)

Saves the hard drive object. If the hard drive is new, this will create a new hard drive. Otherwise, it will save any other details about the existing hard drive.

Currently, saving existing hard drives does nothing. This is a limitation of VirtualBox, rather than the library itself.

Parameters:

Returns:

  • (Boolean) — True if command was successful, false otherwise. 


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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 209

def save(raise_errors=false)
  if new_record?
    # Create a new hard drive
    create(raise_errors)
  else
    super
  end
end

- (Object) validate

Validates a hard drive.



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# File 'lib/virtualbox/hard_drive.rb', line 165

def validate
  super

  validates_presence_of :format
  validates_presence_of :size
end