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

[Alexey Eromenko]

TRY 3:
This code I copied from "2.3.2 Common Python bindings layer" SDK PDF,
and modified a bit.
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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# This code assumes vboxapi.py from VirtualBox distribution
# being in PYTHONPATH, or installed system-wide
from vboxapi import VirtualBoxManager

# This code initializes VirtualBox manager with default style
# and parameters
virtualBoxManager = VirtualBoxManager(None, None)

vbox = virtualBoxManager.vbox
mgr = virtualBoxManager.mgr

print "Version is",vbox.version

def machById(id):
  mach = None
  for m in virtualBoxManager.getArray(vbox, ’machines’):
    if m.name == id or mach.id == id:
      mach = m
      break
  return mach


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Host: Mandriva Linux 2010, x64, python-2.6.4 (distro standard), VBox 4.0.2

Execution of this code fails:

[root at localhost sample]# ./vbox_adevel04.py
  File "./vbox_adevel04.py", line 18
    for m in virtualBoxManager.getArray(vbox, ’machines’):

SyntaxError: invalid syntax
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python dislikes the ’machines’ parameter.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"