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Send text to a running VirtualBox instance via the keyboard. No Guest Additions required.
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send_keyboard_to_virtualbox.py
# pip install virtualbox
import virtualbox
vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
machine = vbox.find_machine("Ubuntu 20")
session = machine.create_session()
session.console.keyboard.put_keys("Hello, world!")
# Source: https://github.com/sethmlarson/virtualbox-python/issues/142
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