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pyvbox: How to copy a file from a VM.py
"""pyvbox: How to copy a file from a VM.
"""
import os
import virtualbox
# Assume machine is already running.
vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
machine = vbox.find_machine("win7")
session = machine.create_session()
# copy notepad.exe to ./notepad.exe
gs = session.console.guest.create_session("mick", "password")
gs.copy_from("C:\\Windows\\System32\\notepad.exe", "notepad.exe")
gs.close()
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z00m1n commented Oct 29, 2015

There's been an API change in the underlying VirtualBox version; quote from the PDF that comes as part of the VirtualBox SDK, page 390:

Renamed IGuestSession::copyTo to IGuestSession::fileCopyToGuest.
Renamed IGuestSession::copyFrom to IGuestSession::fileCopyFromGuest.

Using copy_to fails with

AttributeError: Failed to find attribute copyTo in <virtualbox.library_ext.guest_session.IGuestSession object at 0x107966050>

Patching the sources to call fileCopyToGuest instead of copyTo fixes this. However, the file still doesn't seem to get copied; no error message, but no file on the VM either.

copy_from fails with the error message mentioned earlier, despite the fact that the underlying method being called isn't there anymore. Maybe there's a bug in the exception handling somewhere.

Patching the sources to call fileCopyFromGuest instead of copyFrom doesn't fix this.

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