[vbox-dev] just trying to start a VM

[Frédéric SOSSON]

thanks for your help

2009/8/6 Nikolay Igotti <Nikolay.Igotti at sun.com>:
>                  Frédéric,
>
>
> Following would be enough
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager
>
> style = None
> g_virtualBoxManager = VirtualBoxManager(style, None)
>
> def startMyMachine():
>       vb = g_virtualBoxManager.vbox
>       session = g_virtualBoxManager.mgr.getSessionObject(vb)
>       mach = vb.findMachine("Windows")
>             print "Starting VM",mach.id
>       p = vb.openRemoteSession(session, mach.id, "gui", "")
>       p.waitForCompletion(-1)
>
> startMyMachine()
>
>
>  Nikolay
>
> Frédéric SOSSON wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wrote those lines of python code trying to start a VM.
>>
>> Unfortunatly, I got this messge:
>>
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>  File "./startmyvm.py", line 38, in <module>
>>    startMyMachine()
>>  File "./startmyvm.py", line 32, in startMyMachine
>>    session = mgr.getSessionObject(vb)
>>  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py", line
>> 466, in getSessionObject
>>    return self.mgr.platform.getSessionObject(vbox)
>> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'getSessionObject'
>>
>>
>> ######################################################################################
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>>
>> import os,sys
>> import traceback
>> import shlex
>> import time
>>
>> from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager
>>
>> style = None
>> g_virtualBoxManager = VirtualBoxManager(style, None)
>> ctx = {'global':g_virtualBoxManager,
>>        'mgr':g_virtualBoxManager.mgr,
>>        'vb':g_virtualBoxManager.vbox,
>>        'ifaces':g_virtualBoxManager.constants,
>>        'remote':g_virtualBoxManager.remote,
>>        'type':g_virtualBoxManager.type,
>>        'run': lambda cmd,args: runCommandCb(ctx, cmd, args),
>>        'machById': lambda id: machById(ctx,id),
>>        '_machlist':None
>> }
>>
>> g_virtualBoxManager.deinit()
>> del g_virtualBoxManager
>>
>> def startMyMachine():
>>        mgr = ctx['mgr']
>>        vb = ctx['vb']
>> #       perf = ctx['perf']
>> #       uuid = mach.id
>>
>>        session = mgr.getSessionObject(vb)
>>        uuid = vb.findMachine("Windows_XP_Config_Standard")
>>        progress = vb.openRemoteSession(session, uuid, "gui", "")
>>
>>        print "Starting VM"
>>
>> startMyMachine()
>>
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>
>



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