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Reputation: 19

Listing names of available Virtualbox VMs using Python

How do I list the names of available VirtualBox virtual machines with pyvb modules?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1643

Answers (2)

rools
rools

Reputation: 1675

To complete the answer from Findekano, I will add the last line:

import vboxapi 
virtualBoxManager = vboxapi.VirtualBoxManager(None, None) 
vbox = virtualBoxManager.vbox
vboxVMList = virtualBoxManager.getArray(vbox, 'machines')
vboxNameList = [mach.name for mach in vboxVMList]

Upvotes: 1

Jay Zhu
Jay Zhu

Reputation: 1672

A good resource to learn VBox Python API is read the implementation of vboxweb

For your specific question, you can take a look at line 289 of VBoxWebSrv.py to see how virtual machines are populated.

In a nut shell, the code could be like below:

import vboxapi 
virtualBoxManager = vboxapi.VirtualBoxManager(None, None) 
vbox = virtualBoxManager.vbox
vboxVMList=virtualBoxManager.getArray(vbox, 'machines')

Upvotes: 4

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