Complete implementation of VirtualBox's COM API with a Pythonic interface
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Complete implementation of VirtualBox’s COM API with a Pythonic interface.
Installation
Go to VirtualBox’s downloads page (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) and download the VirtualBox SDK. Within the extracted ZIP file there is a directory called “installer”. Open a console within the installer directory and run python vboxapisetup.py install using your system Python. This installs vboxapi which is the interface that talks to VirtualBox via COM.
Next is to install this library:
To get the latest released version of virtualbox from PyPI run the following:
$ python -m pip install virtualbox
or to install the latest development version from GitHub:
$ git clone https://github.com/sethmlarson/virtualbox-python $ cd virtualbox-python $ python setup.py install
Getting Started
Listing Available Machines
>>> import virtualbox >>> vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox() >>> [m.name for m in vbox.machines] ["windows"]
Launching a Machine
>>> session = virtualbox.Session() >>> machine = vbox.find_machine("windows") >>> # progress = machine.launch_vm_process(session, "gui", "") >>> # For virtualbox API 6_1 and above (VirtualBox 6.1.2+), use the following: >>> progress = machine.launch_vm_process(session, "gui", []) >>> progress.wait_for_completion()
Querying the Machine
>>> session.state SessionState(2) # locked >>> machine.state MachineState(5) # running >>> height, width, _, _, _, _ = session.console.display.get_screen_resolution()
Interacting with the Machine
>>> session.console.keyboard.put_keys("Hello, world!") >>> guest_session = session.console.guest.create_session("Seth Larson", "password") >>> guest_session.directory_exists("C:\\Windows") True >>> proc, stdout, stderr = guest_session.execute("C:\\\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe", ["/C", "tasklist"]) >>> print(stdout) Image Name PID Session Name Session# Mem Usage ========================= ====== ================ ======== ============ System Idle Process 0 Console 0 28 K System 4 Console 0 236 K smss.exe 532 Console 0 432 K csrss.exe 596 Console 0 3,440 K winlogon.exe 620 Console 0 2,380 K services.exe 664 Console 0 3,780 K lsass.exe 676 Console 0 6,276 K VBoxService.exe 856 Console 0 3,972 K svchost.exe 900 Console 0 4,908 K svchost.exe 1016 Console 0 4,264 K svchost.exe 1144 Console 0 18,344 K svchost.exe 1268 Console 0 2,992 K svchost.exe 1372 Console 0 3,948 K spoolsv.exe 1468 Console 0 4,712 K svchost.exe 2000 Console 0 3,856 K wuauclt.exe 400 Console 0 7,176 K alg.exe 1092 Console 0 3,656 K wscntfy.exe 1532 Console 0 2,396 K explorer.exe 1728 Console 0 14,796 K wmiprvse.exe 1832 Console 0 7,096 K VBoxTray.exe 1940 Console 0 3,196 K ctfmon.exe 1948 Console 0 3,292 K cmd.exe 1284 Console 0 2,576 K tasklist.exe 124 Console 0 4,584 K
Registering Event Handlers
>>> def test(event): >>> print("scancode received: %r" % event.scancodes) >>> >>> session.console.keyboard.set_on_guest_keyboard(test) 140448201250560 scancode received: [35] scancode received: [23] scancode received: [163] scancode received: [151] scancode received: [57]
Powering-Down a Machine
>>> session.console.power_down()
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Apache-2.0
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