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Try adding /opt/VirtualBox to your python path (export
PYTHON_PATH=/opt/VirtualBox)
Original comment by jshwright
on 9 Oct 2009 at 1:41
I had this problem. I resolved it by recompiling python with
--enable-unicode=ucs4.
Original comment by pseli...@gmail.com
on 14 Oct 2009 at 10:08
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I have the same trouble.. I try this : export PYTHON_PATH=/opt/VirtualBox
and isntalling python with the --enable-unicode=ucs4
Didn't work.
Original comment by fnbis...@gmail.com
on 7 Dec 2009 at 9:12
I've resolved it by running this command:
PYTHONPATH=/opt/VirtualBox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python python ./VBoxWebSrv.py
exactly PYTHONPATH and not PYTHON_PATH
Original comment by latyshev...@gmail.com
on 9 Dec 2009 at 7:44
doesn't work.
Original comment by xdaan....@gmail.com
on 2 Jan 2010 at 7:44
Same error, doesn't work for me also.
Original comment by fnbis...@gmail.com
on 25 Jan 2010 at 9:24
did not work for me oso
Original comment by fooderi...@gmail.com
on 28 Jan 2010 at 12:39
Linux mail.trezor.by 2.6.32-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 29 08:50:05 UTC 2010
i686 AMD
Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
virtualbox 3.1.2-2.
do not work for me also
Original comment by trez...@gmail.com
on 4 Feb 2010 at 4:50
Same problem
Original comment by nobodyd...@gmail.com
on 19 Feb 2010 at 10:56
Lets see if i can help...
My previous comment said that you have to have python with
--enable-unicode-ucs4 in the
build config. To verify if that is what you have you can run the following
script that
is attached. If the script outputs UCS2 then it will not work.
Original comment by pseli...@gmail.com
on 20 Feb 2010 at 3:42
Attachments:
I've run you script and effectively, the scripts outputs UCS2. I think that my
issue is that I installed python with
pacman. I'll try to install it manually with the enable unicode ucs4.
I'll try this and I will post back.
Thank you
Original comment by fnbis...@gmail.com
on 22 Feb 2010 at 2:54
I make a ./configure --enable-unicode-ucs4 and when I run your script it told
me again : UCS2
Original comment by fnbis...@gmail.com
on 22 Feb 2010 at 3:10
--enable-unicode-ucs4 must be --enable-unicode=ucs4
Original comment by fnbis...@gmail.com
on 22 Feb 2010 at 3:20
Now this is what I have :
[root@myhost vboxweb-read-only]# python VBoxWebSrv.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "VBoxWebSrv.py", line 535, in <module>
g_vboxManager = vboxapi.VirtualBoxManager(None, None)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py", line 470, in __init__
exec "self.platform = Platform"+style+"(platparams)"
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py", line 318, in __init__
import xpcom.vboxxpcom
File "/opt/VirtualBox/sdk//bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/vboxxpcom.py", line 51, in <module>
raise Exception, "Cannot find VBoxPython module"
Exception: Cannot find VBoxPython module
[root@myhost vboxweb-read-only]#
Original comment by fnbis...@gmail.com
on 22 Feb 2010 at 3:28
ok.
vboxapi tries to install itself in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib (depending on
pything
build etc)
tho. on x64 systems when you try to run VboxWebSrv.py
its actually trying to look for modules in /usr/lib64/... or
/usr/local/lib64/...
all you need to do is
cp -R /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi*
/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/
helped in my case.
tho still VBoxWeb not working as it should. cant see,create,control VMs.
PS. project is dead ?
Original comment by rolg...@gmail.com
on 3 Apr 2010 at 2:05
Also having the same issues.
Running Centos 5.3
And I am running the 64 bit version of centos.
Have installed Python 2.6 from the CHL repo.
(as per this
http://www.question-defense.com/2009/12/25/how-to-install-python-2-6-on-centos-5
-without-breaking-yum)
Have downloaded and installed the "all unix" version of virtual box from the
virtual
box website, the latest edition.
Have downloaded the latest version of the virtual box SDK.
Have run the python installer script after setting up the path to the virtual px
installation directory.
Any more info I can provide please let me know I would really like to get this
working. I can change distro's if need be
Got the latest version of vboxweb console from svn
when I go to run the VBoxwebSrv.py
I get
[root@snap vboxweb-read-only]# python26 VBoxWebSrv.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "VBoxWebSrv.py", line 535, in <module>
g_vboxManager = vboxapi.VirtualBoxManager(None, None)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py", line
470, in __init__
exec "self.platform = Platform"+style+"(platparams)"
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py", line
318, in __init__
import xpcom.vboxxpcom
ImportError: No module named xpcom.vboxxpcom
Any ideas?
I am not a python user so I have no idea if the paths are setup to point to the
correct module directories.
Original comment by ryan.lin...@gmail.com
on 10 May 2010 at 4:44
Try this:
before executing 'VBOX_INSTALL_PATH="/opt/VirtualBox" python vboxapisetup.py
install'
in /opt/VirtualBox/sdk/installer change in file
/opt/VirtualBox/sdk/installer/vboxapi/__init__.py from:
VboxBinDir = "/opt/VirtualBox/ "
to:
VboxBinDir = "/opt/VirtualBox"
Original comment by Zer0C...@gmail.com
on 13 May 2010 at 12:21
Here is what I believe to be the "core" of the problem...
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 9 2010, 11:16:46)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import vboxxpcom
### THIS IS SIMPLY A PRINT MESSAGE I ADDED TO PRINT THE CANDIDATES LIST
['VBoxPython2_6', 'VBoxPython2', 'VBoxPython']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/virtualbox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/vboxxpcom.py", line 51, in <module>
raise Exception, "Cannot find VBoxPython module"
Exception: Cannot find VBoxPython module
>>> import VBoxPython
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxPython.so: undefined symbol: Py_InitModule4
In essence the shared library VBoxPython.so can't find a prototype or some
other function. This happened in
debian a while back... http://timhatch.com/ark/2008/08/07/py_initmodule4_64 ...
Since I'm trying to do this
on RHEL 5.5 using the EPEL repository for Python 2.6 I imagine it has to do
something with the Python 2.6
from EPEL, but I'm not totally sure.
Original comment by dutko.a...@gmail.com
on 3 Jun 2010 at 7:32
WahhoO! I think I fixed this issue for my RHEL 5.5 x86_64 machine.
Point #1: The RHEL5 RPM distributed on this site doesn't have a
VirtualBox2_6.so library packaged. In order to
get that you need to use the "All Distributions" download and install it on
your system. It will be installed
under /opt/virtualbox.
Point #2: If you're using RHEL5 you need to enable the EPEL repository and
install python26-devel (yum install
python26-devel), which should also pull in python26-libs and python26 for i386
and x86_64.
Point #3: You need to install the sdk by doing (as root or the user with
permission to the relocated install dir)
.... VBOX_INSTALL_PATH=/opt/virtualbox python2.6 vboxapisetup.py install
Point #4: You need to setup the environment by doing the following under your
BASH instance ...
export PYTHONPATH=/opt/VirtualBox/:/opt/VirtualBox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/
Point #5: You can then invoke VBoxWebSrv.py from the vboxweb-read-only
directory like so ... python2.6
VBoxWebSrv.py
It works for me so I hope it helps you all.
By the way I found this issue by walking through the VBoxWebSrv.py script and
localizing the error to
/opt/VirtualBox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/vboxxpcom.py then attempting
the imports by hand,
then do a dependency check with ldd on the VBoxPython2_6.so library.
I found the following with ldd:
# ldd /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxPython2_6.so
libpython2.6.so.1.0 => not found
VBoxXPCOM.so => /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxXPCOM.so (0x00002ba52d7ae000)
VBoxRT.so => /opt/VirtualBox/VBoxRT.so (0x00002ba52da10000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00002ba52de57000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00002ba52e157000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00002ba52e365000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00002ba52e6bd000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x00002ba52e8d8000)
libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00002ba52eadc000)
libcrypt.so.1 => /lib64/libcrypt.so.1 (0x00002ba52ed60000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 (0x00002ba52ef98000)
librt.so.1 => /lib64/librt.so.1 (0x00002ba52f1ac000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x000000316a800000)
which prompted the install of python26-libs.
Original comment by dutko.a...@gmail.com
on 3 Jun 2010 at 9:03
Another note... if you get an error message from Cherry saying import zlib
failed it's probably because you
need to download the latest zlib source and do:
./configure -s
make
make install
Just to be safe I then rebuilt Python 2.6 and then as is always the case when
you reinstall Python I reinstalled
the VBox API. You should be fine with just building and installing zlib
though...
Original comment by dutko.a...@gmail.com
on 3 Jun 2010 at 9:57
Original comment by achim.ha...@gmail.com
on 26 Aug 2010 at 2:18
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
thereap...@googlemail.com
on 9 Oct 2009 at 12:11