How to read files from virtual machine using Python

[Golfer3082]

I'm running a virtual machine on my system using Oracle VirtualBox , what i'm trying to accomplish is to read file on virtual machine from my physical system . i'm using virtualbox api (pyvbox) to interface with VirtualBox . This the first time i'm using a virtualbox api.

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>>> import virtualbox
>>> vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
>>> vm =vbox.find_machine("XPBox")
>>> session = vm.create_session()
>>> gs = session.console.guest.create_session('xphandler' , ' qwerty')
>>> process, stdout, stderr = gs.execute('C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe', ['/C', 'tasklist'])

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#29>", line 1, in <module>
    process, stdout, stderr = gs.execute('C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd.exe', ['/C', 'tasklist'])
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualbox\library_ext\guest_session.py", line 54, in execute
    process.wait_for(int(library.ProcessWaitResult.start), 0)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualbox\library.py", line 13666, in wait_for
    reason = ProcessWaitResult(reason)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\virtualbox\library.py", line 121, in __init__
    raise ValueError("Can not find enumeration where value=%s" % value)
ValueError: Can not find enumeration where value=None
>>> 

This is the output when i type the below given solution.

[maomao]

same question

[noteirak]

Could you give a bit more input here? Give a sample code, and give us the error you get and what you would expect to happen.