Comment posted VirtualBox 3.1.2 with VBoxWeb on CentOS 5.4 by Ryan.
Ok, So I downloaded the RPM’s induvidually from the CHL repo and installed them,
but still nae joy
Ryan also commented
- Tried your instructions, there are a few problems with it.
The CHL repo seems to be broken
rpm -Uvh http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/chl-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CHL
These commands both work, but when I do a search for python26 or something it cant find it.
If I look at yum repolist it shows the CHL repo enabled but it still cant install any of the python packages
and when you do
root@snap vboxweb-read-only]# python26 VBoxWebSrv.py adduser user password
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “VBoxWebSrv.py”, line 535, in
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 “”, line 1, in
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py”, line 318, in __init__
import xpcom.vboxxpcom
File “/usr/lib/virtualbox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/vboxxpcom.py”, line 51, in
raise Exception, “Cannot find VBoxPython module”
Exception: Cannot find VBoxPython module
which seems to be the problem everyone is having
any ideas?
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May 5th, 2010 6:28 am
Tried your instructions, there are a few problems with it.
The CHL repo seems to be broken
rpm -Uvh http://yum.chrislea.com/centos/5/i386/chl-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CHL
These commands both work, but when I do a search for python26 or something it cant find it.
If I look at yum repolist it shows the CHL repo enabled but it still cant install any of the python packages
and when you do
root@snap vboxweb-read-only]# python26 VBoxWebSrv.py adduser user password
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “VBoxWebSrv.py”, line 535, in
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 “”, line 1, in
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py”, line 318, in __init__
import xpcom.vboxxpcom
File “/usr/lib/virtualbox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/vboxxpcom.py”, line 51, in
raise Exception, “Cannot find VBoxPython module”
Exception: Cannot find VBoxPython module
which seems to be the problem everyone is having
any ideas?
May 5th, 2010 11:18 am
Do the rpm command in one line first.
If yum doesnt find the python26, then try and find the rpm’s on the internet and then install them manually.
Then follow the other steps.
But yeah if you dont have python26 installed then you willl get the error you posted here.
May 6th, 2010 3:55 am
Ok, So I downloaded the RPM’s induvidually from the CHL repo and installed them,
but still nae joy