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What’s in pyvbox:
A complete implementation of the VirtualBox Main API
Create a VirtualBox instance and seamlessly explorer the potential of VirtualBox’s amazing Main API
Pythonic functions and names.
Introspection, documentation strings, getters and setters…
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Install and run
Simply run the following:
> python setup.py install > python setup.py test
Example:
> ipython
In [1]: import virtualbox
In [2]: vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
In [3]: session = virtualbox.Session()
In [4]: vm = vbox.find_machine('test_vm')
In [5]: progress = vm.launch_vm_process(session, 'headless', '')
In [6]: h, w, d = session.console.display.get_screen_resolution(0)
In [7]: png = session.console.display.take_screen_shot_png_to_array(0, h, w)
In [8]: with open('screenshot.png', 'wb') as f:
....: f.write(png)
In [9]: print(session.state)
Locked
In [10]: session.state
Out[10]: SessionState(2)
In [11]: session.console.power_down()
Issues
Source code for pyvbox is hosted on GitHub. Please file bug reports with GitHub’s issues system.
Compatibility
pyvbox utilises the VirtualBox project’s vboxapi to gain access to the underlying COM API primitives, which makes pyvbox compatible on systems where vboxapi is installed and functioning.
Change log
version 0.0.0 (10/05/2013)
builder
library primitives
