phpVirtualBox allows you to manage locally or remotely your virtual machines running under VirtualBox via web-based interface. This config will describe an installation and basic configuration of phpVirtualBox on Debian Linux.
First, we need to install apache2 and php support:
# apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 apache2 unzip wget
Next, we need to download phpVirtualBox. Please update your download link if necessary:
$ wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox-4.3-2.zip
Next, we will unzip and move the phpVirtualBoxcode into root directory of our apache2 webserver directory.
# unzip phpvirtualbox-4.3-2.zip # mv phpvirtualbox-4.3-2/ /var/www/html/vbox
Next, we need to setup our config.php file. First, copy a config.php-example the example config file to config.php.:
# cd /var/www/html/vbox # cp config.php-example config.php
By default the example config file works well. All what is required is to set a username and password for a user which is running virtual box. To do this open your new config.php and change to following lines to reflect to the credentials of your virtual box user:
/* Username / Password for system user that runs VirtualBox */ var $username = 'vboxuser'; var $password = 'password';
Change the owner of the entire vbox directory containing all phpVirtualBox files to www-data:
# chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/html/vbox
What has left is to start VirtualBox Web server. The virtual box web server should be started by the user defined in config.php file:
$ vboxwebsrv -H 127.0.0.1 Oracle VM VirtualBox web service Version 4.3.18_Debian (C) 2007-2015 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. VirtualBox web service 4.3.18_Debian r96516 linux.amd64 (Jan 26 2015 11:31:36) release log 00:00:00.000159 main Log opened 2015-02-28T08:25:43.845995000Z 00:00:00.000162 main Build Type: release 00:00:00.000166 main OS Product: Linux 00:00:00.000167 main OS Release: 3.16.0-4-amd64 00:00:00.000169 main OS Version: #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt2-1 (2014-12-08) 00:00:00.000201 main DMI Product Name: Z68X-UD3-B3 00:00:00.000211 main DMI Product Version: 00:00:00.000307 main Host RAM: 7986MB total, 6284MB available 00:00:00.000312 main Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv 00:00:00.000313 main Process ID: 8333 00:00:00.000314 main Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC (OSE) 00:00:00.161962 SQPmp Socket connection successful: host = 127.0.0.1, port = 18083, master socket = 9
now you can access your phpVirtualBox web interface by navigating your browser to:
http://localhost/vbox/
Where the default phpVirtualBox‘s username name and password is:
username: admin password: admin
