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I searched the forums prior to asking this - hope I didn't miss something.

I'm curious if there are plans for a web-based interface to VirtualBox. At the moment, I'm running it on Redhat EL 5.2. My first impression was that it's darned fast.

I realize I could redirect the console via VNC or something. I saw mention of some efforts on Google, but none of them seemed up to date.


Thanks.

You've got VNC, RDP, and of course ssh tunnelled terminal or X in the case of *nix. I am not sure what else you need. You've also got the management interface as documented in the SDK.

please don't add a web interface, that's what killed vmware server 2!

frankly there are plenty of ways to access your guest - RDP, VNC, X11, SSH....

hell if you must have a web interface then install webmin in your guest.

if you want to admin the host then there are plenty of applications bundled with virtualbox - VBoxManage, VBoxHeadless etc.

I'm currently investigating some Python based webframeworks for providing a web interface to VBoxTool, a set of scripts for easy manipulation of sessions (start, stop, backup, etc.). For this purpose, CherryPy (http://www.cherrypy.org/) seems very promising. The web interface will be part of VBoxTool.

The web interface is *not* intended for screen input/output but solely for controlling those sessions, mainly on a headless (Linux) server; for screen redirection, you can already use the vrdp option.

As this is not yet developed, I'm merely outlining the architecture, any suggestion, thought or idea is welcome.

Markba

This sounds exactly what I need did you get anywhere, another way would be a webmin module, which just allowed starting and stoping vms

John

I developed some code, written in python and based on cherrypy. I'm able to start and stop sessions by a web-browser. However, I'm afraid, there isn't much further progress. Status is proof-of-concept and the code isn't even under source control.

Currently I'm lacking the drive of putting time into the web-interface, because the commandline usage of VboxTool is good enough for me, at this time. But, maybe this will change in due course.

A remark on Webmin: I'm not using it myself, mainly because it is not supported on Ubuntu (due to some architecture/security conflicts); for server configuration, I'm using ebox-platform. So in short, if you want to have a webmin plugin, I'm afraid I'm not your man.