[vbox-dev] How to start a VM from Python/COM ?

[Alexey Eromenko]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:27 AM, Nikolay Igotti
<nikolay.igotti at oracle.com> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>  First of all, it would be nice if you tried vboxshell.py first. It's
> strongly recommended
> to use uniform bindings (vboxapi.py) in all newly developed code.
>  With it code is pretty simple:
>
> from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager
> mgr = VirtualBoxManager(None, None)
> vbox = mgr.vbox
> name = "ubu"
> mach = vbox.findMachine(name)
> session = mgr.mgr.getSessionObject(vbox)
> progress = mach.launchVMProcess(session, "gui", "")
> progress.waitForCompletion(-1)
>

Your example works.

The official SDK's example does not. (SDKRef.pdf)

I would like to ask to update section v2.3.2 of SDKRef.pdf to working example.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"