[vbox-dev] Python library to control virtualbox

Andreas pentagonik at sun.com
Tue Aug 19 22:16:30 GMT 2008


Hi Pascal,

the SDK shipped with VirtualBox contains the .wsdl files in the 
"sdk\webservice" folder. Further, take a look at the VirtualBox user 
manual in section 10.1.5.

A Python API (local and remote) will be available in the next version of 
VirtualBox.

Hope this helps,
Andreas




Pascal Bach wrote:
> Sorry for replying to myself :D
> 
> I just learned that there is a Webservice API in Virtualbox maybe this
> would be an even better fit for my use case. Where can I find some
> information about this?
> 
> Thank you for your reply
> 
> Kind regards,
> Pascal
> 
> Pascal Bach wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm currently working on a simple web interface to control my VirtualBox
>> VM's. To do that I wrote a small wrapper around VBoxManage. It is
>> currently very limited and provides only the functionality used by the
>> webinterface (mainly start, stop and pause).
>>
>> My question now is if there is already/binding that allows to control
>> VirtualBox from Python or an other language. If not are there any plans
>> to create such a library?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Pascal
>>
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