virtualbox-python: VirtualBox not working on Debian 9

It seems the issue #99 is not only related to #102

In [1]: import sys

In [2]: sys.abiflags = ''

In [3]: import virtualbox

In [4]: vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()

In [5]: vm = vbox.find_machine(vbox.machines[0].name)
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TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library_base.py in _call_method(self, method, in_p)
    194         try:
--> 195             ret = method(*in_params)
    196         except Exception as exc:

/usr/lib/virtualbox/sdk/bindings/xpcom/python/xpcom/client/__init__.py in findMachine(self, Param1)

TypeError: internal error in PyXPCOM, parameter must be a bytes object

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

AttributeError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-5-65f32237fea6> in <module>()
----> 1 vm = vbox.find_machine(vbox.machines[0].name)

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library.py in find_machine(self, name_or_id)
   7278             raise TypeError("name_or_id can only be an instance of type basestring")
   7279         machine = self._call("findMachine",
-> 7280                      in_p=[name_or_id])
   7281         machine = IMachine(machine)
   7282         return machine

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library_base.py in _call(self, name, in_p)
    184         method = self._search_attr(name)
    185         if inspect.isfunction(method) or inspect.ismethod(method):
--> 186             return self._call_method(method, in_p=in_p)
    187         else:
    188             return method

/usr/local/lib/python3.5/dist-packages/virtualbox/library_base.py in _call_method(self, method, in_p)
    210 
    211             if errobj.msg is None:
--> 212                 errobj.msg = getattr(exc, 'msg', getattr(exc, 'message'))
    213             raise errobj
    214         return ret

AttributeError: 'TypeError' object has no attribute 'message'

• Debian 9
• Python 3.5
• VirtualBox OSE 5.1.30_Debian r118389