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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…
Project hosting provided by github.com.
Install and run
Simply run the following:
> python setup.py install
or PyPi:
> pip install pyvbox
Exploring the library:
> ipython In [1]: import virtualbox In [2]: virtualbox? In [3]: virtualbox.VirtualBox? In [4]: virtualbox.library.IMachine? In [5]: virtualbox.library.MachineState? In [6]: virtualbox.library.MachineState.teleported?
Listing machines:
> ipython
In [1]: import virtualbox
In [2]: vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
In [3]: print("VM(s):\n + %s" % "\n + ".join([vm.name for vm in vbox.machines]))
VM(s):
+ filestore
+ xpsp3
+ win7
+ win8
+ test_vm
Start screen shot stop:
> 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, 'gui', '')
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.state >= 2
Out[11]: True
In [12]: 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. Therefore, pyvbox is compatible on systems which have a running vboxapi.
Change log
version 0.0.3 (30/05/2012)
added manage
version 0.0.2 (28/05/2013)
library ext module
version 0.0.1 (27/05/2013)
packaged
version 0.0.0 (20/05/2013)
builder
library primitives
2 maintainers
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