[vbox-dev] Python vboxapi: 'Class not registered'

[Nikolay Igotti]

  Hi Luiz,

Likely you have bitness mismatch between Python and VBox - Python shall 
be 64-bit too (that's COM limitation we couldn't do much about).

Thanks,
Nikolay

Luiz Carlos Geron пишет:
> I'm using windows 7 64 bits and I ran the vboxapisetup.py file (I 
> installed python after virtualbox so I suppose i needed to do this), 
> but I get this error:
>
> C:\>python
> ActivePython 2.6.5.12 (ActiveState Software Inc.) based on
> Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Mar 20 2010, 14:22:52) [MSC v.1500 32 bit 
> (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager
> >>> vboxManager = VirtualBoxManager(None, None)
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\vboxapi\__init__.py", line 470, in 
> __init_
> _
> exec "self.platform = Platform"+style+"(platparams)"
> File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\vboxapi\__init__.py", line 218, in 
> __init_
> _
> win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch('VirtualBox.Session')
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\gencache.py", line 
> 529, in
> EnsureDispatch
> disp = win32com.client.Dispatch(prog_id)
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\__init__.py", line 
> 95, in
> Dispatch
> dispatch, userName = 
> dynamic._GetGoodDispatchAndUserName(dispatch,userName,c
> lsctx)
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 
> 104, in
> _GetGoodDispatchAndUserName
> return (_GetGoodDispatch(IDispatch, clsctx), userName)
> File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32com\client\dynamic.py", line 
> 84, in _
> GetGoodDispatch
> IDispatch = pythoncom.CoCreateInstance(IDispatch, None, clsctx, 
> pythoncom.II
> D_IDispatch)
> pywintypes.com_error: (-2147221164, 'Class not registered', None, None)
> >>>
>
>
> I've tried both as a regular user and as Administrator, with the same 
> error. What does this mean and what can I do to at least find the cause?
>
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