[vbox-dev] Difficulty of Distributing 3rd party Windows apps based on VBoxPython

[Nikolay Igotti]

  Hi Alexey,

This is result of unfortunate feature of MSCOM, related to
cross-bitness COM calls. One approach I could suggest, is to download
appropriate Python
dynamically, depending on bitness, if you care that much of
redistributable size (also don't know about licensing implications).
With VBoxManage
you have same situation, just VBoxManage binary is either 32 or 64-bit.

    Nikolay


On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently Distributing Windows apps based on VBoxPython is difficult,
> due to the need of whole stack of python for both 32- and 64-bit
> systems.
>
> This is esp. a problem, where we need modules.
>
> Now we must ship a lot in our (GNS3) installer:
> 1. python 32-bit
> 2. pyQt 32-bit
> 3. pyWin 32-bit
> 4. python 64-bit
> 5. pyQt 64-bit
> 6. pyWin 64-bit
>
> If I were to drop use of VBoxPython, but rather move to VBoxManage, we
> would need only python 32-bit for all Windows platforms.
> Another problem is VBoxSVC bug.#9239.
>
> Is there a way to use VBoxPython from Python 32-bit on Windows 64-bit ?
>
> --
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
>
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