Can't connect my python script to SQL database that's on VM

Question

I'm using VirtualBox as my VM, and on it I have SQL server, and my python script runs on local host.

My connection string looks like this engine = create_engine('mssql+pyodbc://'+username+':'+password+'@127.0.0.1:1433/'+database+'?driver=SQL+Server+Native+Client+11.0')

I'm getting "Data source name not found and default driver not specified" error. I've tried a lot of stuff, and I can't make it work still. Thanks

Answer 1

If you running Python script on System
The pythons script gets connected to localhost server of the system not Virtual Box

Answer 2

The problem was in database drivers. I worked on a pc with SQL Server Native Client 11.0 driver, but I didn't have it on the pc where I was deploying the script and on which the VM was on.