How-to start VirtualBox Web Service ?

[Technologov]

hi all !

I have installed Vbox 2.2.0 on my Windows XP host.

VirtualBox Web Service as I understand it, - is a Web Gui (like Gmail or Zimbra) for VirtualBox, alternative to normal Qt GUI. Is that assumption correct ?

1. I start the process:
D:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>vboxwebsrv.exe
Sun VirtualBox Webservice Version 2.2.0
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
Socket connection successful: host = default (localhost), port = 18083, master socket = 1644

2. I start FireFox and type in the address bar:
http://localhost:18083

3. On the command-line, where I started "vboxwebsrv.exe" I got:
Socket connection successful: host = default (localhost), port = 18083, master socket = 1644
1: accepted connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=1624... #### SOAP FAULT: HTTP GET
method not implemented [SOAP-ENV:Client]
Request served

4. FireFox renders this text:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<SOAP-ENV:Fault SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode>
<faultstring>HTTP GET method not implemented</faultstring>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

What is wrong ?

Does it requires Apache or IIS ?

-Technologov

[mikeleigh]

I am having the exact same issue.

[Technologov]

Josh Wright <jshwright at gmail dot com> wrote in the mailing-list:
============================================

http://github.com/JshWright/vboxweb/tree/master

In in interest of trying to start a community project that utilizes
the VBox SDK, I've started VBoxWeb, a web frontend for VirtualBox on
Solaris/Linux/Mac (only tested on Linux thus far) hosts using
cherrypy. Over the past week (with a lot of help from erstazi), it's
grown into what looks to be a solid launching point for an interesting
project.

So, download (or clone) it and try. Comments, suggestions, and code
are all welcome.
============================================
Comment from me:
Now it seems that VirtualBox' vboxweb service is not a GUI Frontend, but just programmer's API for building front-ends. Josh Wright is trying to do that.

[MKhaos7]

hi all !

I have installed Vbox 2.2.0 on my Windows XP host.

VirtualBox Web Service as I understand it, - is a Web Gui (like Gmail or Zimbra) for VirtualBox, alternative to normal Qt GUI. Is that assumption correct ?

Not really...
this webservice is not a web interface. It is intended to be used as a building block for people that want to write other interfaces" to VirtualBox, like the vboxweb from Josh Wright.
For all that matters you cannot use Firefox to access this.

Hope this helps.

[DaveTheRave]

Anyone got an answer to this question??
http://localhost:18083/vboxwebService.wsdl ... Should be a wsdl, It's just the same ol' crap :
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope>
?
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
?
<SOAP-ENV:Fault>
<faultcode>SOAP-ENV:Client</faultcode>
<faultstring>HTTP GET method not implemented</faultstring>
</SOAP-ENV:Fault>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

So where's the WSDL? Why doesn't it work