Python Error - 8/12/25

[AveerCode]

So while i was trying to run python in my macos vm i got this:
File "/Users/controlavm/VNCake/./vncake", line 312
f'127.0.0.1:{
^
SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal

[AveerCode]

@MYusufY why are you taking so long to notice me

[MYusufY]

Hey there @AveerCode , thanks for submitting this issue and sorry it’s taken me so long to get back to you :/

​I really get why you’d be wondering what’s taking so long. But here's the deal on my end:

• ​I'm just a high schooler right now. I’m 14 and living in Turkiye. Between school, studying, and everything else, I can't work on VNCake full-time, especially since it's just a hobby project and not something that makes me money.

• ​I haven't abandoned it, just put it on the back burner. I've been super focused on some of my other projects recently, so VNCake wasn't really a priority for me for a bit.

• ​GitHub didnt notify me. I didn't get a notification when you first opened this issue :/ I had no idea about the issue until you pinged me with the @.

​Anyway, now that I know about it, i will be checking it out so soon. Sorry again for the delay, and thanks again for your interest in VNCake.

(I wrote this in my school bus using my phone, im going to school right now... So i dont have any access to my computers, and i (unfortunately) can't release the fix right now. But still, i will probably release it today, when i arrive home.)

[MYusufY]

Hi again, @AveerCode! I just pushed a quick fix for that syntax error. The weird thing is it was actually working fine on my macOS, so I'm thinking it might be a Python version difference between our systems that caused the issue.

Could you pull the latest changes and let me know if it still gives you any errors?

Also, just wanted to mention that you don't need to run VNCake in a macOS VM specifically. It's cross-platform and works on Linux, Windows, and macOS natively. So if you were spinning up a macOS VM just to test VNCake, that's not necessary (unless you're testing it for a different reason, of course).

[AveerCode]

@MYusufY Well for some reason it works on my windows but when i click start server then start vm it fails to load a specific file, i wonder if you can fix the code and make it work or add a path for every folder so i can edit the path: 2025-12-14 16:05:28,026 [INFO] VNCake Manager starting up...
2025-12-14 16:05:28,051 [INFO] Database initialized
2025-12-14 16:05:28,052 [INFO] VM cleanup thread started
2025-12-14 16:05:28,052 [INFO] VNCake Manager ready - Access at http://localhost:5000
2025-12-14 16:05:28,065 [INFO] �[31m�[1mWARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment. Use a production WSGI server instead.�[0m

• Running on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
• Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000
• Running on http://192.168.68.69:5000
  2025-12-14 16:05:28,065 [INFO] �[33mPress CTRL+C to quit�[0m
  2025-12-14 16:05:38,217 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:38] "�[32mGET / HTTP/1.1�[0m" 302 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:38,228 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:38] "GET /login HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:38,523 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:38] "GET /static/vncake.png HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:38,834 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:38] "�[33mGET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1�[0m" 404 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:39,488 [WARNING] Failed login attempt for email: aveerplays@gmail.com
  2025-12-14 16:05:39,489 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:39] "POST /login HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:39,791 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:39] "�[36mGET /static/vncake.png HTTP/1.1�[0m" 304 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:41,273 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:41] "GET /signup HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:41,359 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:41] "�[36mGET /static/vncake.png HTTP/1.1�[0m" 304 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:43,944 [INFO] New user registered: aveerplays@gmail.com
  2025-12-14 16:05:43,945 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:43] "POST /signup HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:43,960 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:43] "�[36mGET /static/vncake.png HTTP/1.1�[0m" 304 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:44,758 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:44] "GET /login HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:44,830 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:44] "�[36mGET /static/vncake.png HTTP/1.1�[0m" 304 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:45,593 [INFO] Successful login for user ID 1 (aveerplays@gmail.com)
  2025-12-14 16:05:45,594 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:45] "�[32mPOST /login HTTP/1.1�[0m" 302 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:45,621 [INFO] Dashboard access for user 1 - no VM running
  2025-12-14 16:05:45,627 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:45] "GET /dashboard HTTP/1.1" 200 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:45,950 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:45] "�[36mGET /static/vncake.png HTTP/1.1�[0m" 304 -
  2025-12-14 16:05:46,435 [INFO] Starting VM for user 1
  2025-12-14 16:05:47,032 [INFO] Starting VM for user 1 - VNC port: 5900, noVNC port: 6082
  2025-12-14 16:05:47,044 [ERROR] Failed to start VM for user 1: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
  2025-12-14 16:05:47,044 [INFO] 127.0.0.1 - - [14/Dec/2025 16:05:47] "POST /start_vm HTTP/1.1" 200 -

[MYusufY]

@AveerCode, thanks for giving me the log. And I need to correct myself here. I totally remembered wrong :/ (it's been almost 5 months since I made VNCake, my memory failed me).

So the current version doesn't actually support Windows. I know I said it was cross-platform, but what actually happened was I started working on Windows support back then but never finished or released it. The version on main is really just for Linux servers, that's why you're getting that file not found error.

My bad for the confusion, I really thought I had released it. I actually feel like an AI now, cause i firstly said something wrong and now im saying sorry :)

Good news though, I'm finishing up the Windows version now. Gonna test it on my PC first and then push it. It'll have proper paths you can configure for QEMU, Python, etc so it'll actually work on Windows.
I'll let you know when it's up. Thanks for your patience, and so sorry again for confusion :/

[AveerCode]

ok

[MYusufY]

Hi again @AveerCode!
I finally finished the universal support update. Sorry it took a while to get this done.
The cross-platform version should work properly now on Windows, macOS, and Linux. I fixed the file path issues you were running into and added proper platform detection so QEMU uses the right acceleration method for each OS.

What you need to do:

• Pull the latest version
• Use the GUI to configure your paths (it'll try to auto-detect QEMU but you can browse manually if needed)

Please give it a shot and let me know if you hit any more errors. I want to make sure everything actually works for you this time since the last version was not working on Windows...

Thanks again for sticking with this and reporting the issues. Really appreciate it.

[AveerCode]

qemu for windows doesnt exist and qemu is telling people to install qemu on msys64, if you can research what file extension msys64 uses for qemu and change the default path to C:/msys64/[continue here] then this should end.