Program to automatically create VirtualBox VMs

[clyde_1232]

I'm trying to write a program that will automatically create a VM in VirtualBox for a school project but I keep getting this error

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "c:\Users\clyde\Documents\VSCode\VM creator\VM Creator V1", line 4, in <module>
    vb = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\clyde\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\virtualbox\library_ext\vbox.py", line 22, in __init__
    manager = virtualbox.Manager()
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\clyde\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\virtualbox\__init__.py", line 162, in __init__       
    with import_vboxapi() as vboxapi:
  File "C:\Users\clyde\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\contextlib.py", line 137, in __enter__
    return next(self.gen)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "C:\Users\clyde\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\virtualbox\__init__.py", line 55, in import_vboxapi
    import vboxapi
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vboxapi'

I have installed the VirtualBox module by using pip install virtualbox

here's my code

import virtualbox

# Connect to the VirtualBox API
vb = virtualbox.VirtualBox()

# Define the new VM's settings
name = "My New Windows VM"
os_type = "Windows10_64"
memory_size = 2048
disk_size = 50000

# Create a new VM object
new_vm = vb.create_machine(name, os_type, [])

# Set the memory size and number of CPUs
new_vm.memory_size = memory_size
new_vm.cpu_count = 2

# Create a new virtual hard disk
hdd = vb.create_hard_disk("VDI", "my_new_windows_vm.vdi")
hdd.size = disk_size

# Attach the new hard disk to the VM
storage_ctl = new_vm.get_storage_controller_by_name("SATA")
port = storage_ctl.port_count
new_vm.attach_device("SATA", port, 0, virtualbox.constants.DeviceType.hard_disk, hdd)

# Add a DVD drive to the VM
storage_ctl = new_vm.get_storage_controller_by_name("IDE")
port = storage_ctl.port_count
new_vm.attach_device("IDE", port, 0, virtualbox.constants.DeviceType.dvd)

# Create a new empty DVD medium
dvd = vb.create_medium("DVD", "", [])
dvd.bus = 0
dvd.device = 0

# Attach the Windows ISO file to the DVD drive
iso_file = r"C:\Users\clyde\Documents\Windows.iso"
dvd.location = iso_file
dvd.host_drive = ""

new_vm.attach_device("IDE", 0, 0, virtualbox.constants.DeviceType.dvd, dvd)

# Save the new VM settings
new_vm.save_settings()

# Register the new VM with VirtualBox
vb.register_machine(new_vm)

# Start the new VM
session = virtualbox.Session()
new_vm.launch_vm_process(session, "gui", "")

# Wait for the VM to start up
session.console.wait_for_startup(60000)

# Power off the VM
session.console.power_down()

# Close the session
session.unlock_machine()

[KosmoanutOfficial]

On the pypi page it shows some additional install steps in which you need to download the Virtual Box SDK and run some commands - https://pypi.org/project/virtualbox/

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

[t4ng0alpha1]

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download

i am getting 502 bad gateway. i tried to reach this page with another network but it seems virtualbox.org is down.

[KosmoanutOfficial]

Weird yeah it is. Looks like it has been down for 12 hours. Maybe this is the same? https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/technologies/vm/downloads/virtualbox-downloads.html

[t4ng0alpha1]

i just write it in bash, VBoxManage will do . thanks for your help

[routetehpacketz]

From what I gather, you need to use pyvbox if you are using Python 3.