My environment is Ubuntu 16.04, Python3.5.2, pyvbox 2.0.0.
I'm trying to work through this introduction (package page on the 'cheese shop' site.)
Even before the failed call in the title of this post, I run into a problem with vbox.find_machine ("windows")
, my vbox
instance doesn't have a find_machine
method at all, but I was able to get the machine
object from vbox.machines
.
The real trouble is progress = machine.launch_vm_process(session, "gui", "")
, I get the following lengthy error output:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
VBoxError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-27-de73b705dd2c> in <module>()
----> 1 progress = machine.launch_vm_process(session, "gui", "")
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library_ext/machine.py in launch_vm_process(self, session, type_p, environment)
181 local_session = session
182 p = super(IMachine, self).launch_vm_process(local_session,
--> 183 type_p, environment)
184 if session is None:
185 p.wait_for_completion(-1)
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library.py in launch_vm_process(self, session, name, environment)
12799 raise TypeError("environment can only be an instance of type basestring")
12800 progress = self._call("launchVMProcess",
> 12801 in_p=[session, name, environment])
12802 progress = IProgress(progress)
12803 return progress
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library_base.py in _call(self, name, in_p)
190 method = self._search_attr(name)
191 if inspect.isfunction(method) or inspect.ismethod(method):
--> 192 return self._call_method(method, in_p=in_p)
193 else:
194 return method
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library_base.py in _call_method(self, method, in_p)
218 default_msg = getattr(exc, 'message', str(exc))
219 errobj.msg = getattr(exc, 'msg', default_msg)
--> 220 raise errobj
221 return ret
VBoxError: 0xffffffff (internal error in PyXPCOM, parameter must be a bytes object)
How do I work around this? The details of the stack trace are beyond my knowledge of the package.
EDIT: I forgot to name the VirtualBox version, from Help > About: VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 5.1.38_Ubuntu r122592
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