Tested VirtualBox version:

VBoxManage.exe --version
7.2.4r170995

Tested LLM:

ibm/granite-4-h-tiny: https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-tiny

Prerequistes:

• VirtualBox
• Run vboxapisetup.py for vboxapi

vboxapi setup:

Windows:

PS C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\sdk\installer\python> python .\vboxapisetup.py install

MacOS:

export VBOX_INSTALL_PATH="/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS"
python3.11 /Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/sdk/installer/python/vboxapisetup.py install

NOTE: I had to install python3.11 as it was failing with python3.14

Validate install:

If the following results in no errors, we should be good.

PS C:\Users\redteamronin> python
Python 3.12.0 (tags/v3.12.0:0fb18b0, Oct  2 2023, 13:03:39) [MSC v.1935 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import vboxapi
>>> exit()
PS C:\Users\redteamronin>

Adding to LM Studio

Modify the mcp.json and add

"virtualbox_api": {
  "command": "python",
  "args": [
    "C:\\Users\\redteamronin\\VirtualBox_MCP\\virtualbox_api_server.py"
  ]
}

Then ensure the tool is enabled in LM Studio.