Webmin Module

[mrhbit]

Hi all

Is there a webmin module for virtualbox (headless)?
For qemu and solaris zones exists each one.

regards
Soeren

[TerryE]

See section 10 of the US and the SDK reference. Yes it does. Only recently introduced, so still in component form without a fully integrated GUI toolset. The primitives are there, but for this current version at least you need to roll your own.

[markba]

See section 10 of the US and the SDK reference. Yes it does. Only recently introduced, so still in component form without a fully integrated GUI toolset. The primitives are there, but for this current version at least you need to roll your own.

When can we expect this webserver? I'm a bit lazy in this that I noticed the API, but I'm happy to wait, my time is restricted. As for now, the CLI will do.

[TerryE]

Sorry, I am just a guy who knows a bit about VBox and its bowels and spends a few hours each day responding so that users get a reasonable answer. I am a forum moderator, but am not part of the VBox team, and so can't comment on their current plans.

[Technologov]

Main problem with Webmin, in my opinion, is that it has very poor integration into Linux distros.

Webmin modules are not working, and webmin is not included at least in 2 major Linux distros. (openSUSE and Debian).

-Technologov

[markba]

Webmin is not included in Ubuntu since Dapper (6.06) due security reasons. I did not follow this discussion at that time, but it had something to do with logging in as root.

[hoegi]

Hi folks,
I am an experienced user with Windows and also have a Suselinux fileserver since years.
I tried to setup Ubuntu Hardy 8.0.4 using Ebox (which seems to replace Webmin) - maybe it is secure, but it trashed my installation after hours of work and I ended up with users multiplied in LDAP which I could not solve - so I reinstalled everything and used Webmins which works fine.
Security is a good goal, but my experience says that I prefer things that really work.
So if anybody knows about such a module I would appreciate it.

[TerryE]

In the Open world perhaps the best transport if you want to move to more server oriented architectures is SOAP. This can be transported over HTTPS complete with all of security mechanisms that surround this. The VBox team have created a SOAP service provider: vboxwebserv which provides everything that you need. Download and look at the SDK. Unfortunately the documentation really lacks decent example documentation on how to call this. I have found that the best approach is to download the source for vboxmanage.cpp and use this for templates. OK, this is C++, but the VBox utilities use this XPCOM interface themselves, so you can still read the call structures.

[mintra]

Webmin is in my view one of the most highly integrated cross platform tools, I my staff and clients can use any flavour of liunx/unix and the look and feel is the same. Webmin is very popular, and a simple Webmin module to list running, start at boot stop and maybe backup vbox servers would be very special.

It also allows you to use the underlying server for some trivial tasks such as DNS easily.

I have looked at how to do this and I am sure it would not be too difficult, unfortunately I am a bit of a retard (not a sarcastic comment) so I will break a wishbone in the hope that some else will do this.

John

[markba]

I'm currently evaluting ebox-platform as a substitute of webmin (due to webmin not supported in Ubuntu). Very slick and easy to use, with a professional and polished interface. At first, I'll be using it for simple file sharing and (domain) authentication, but more advanced features like DNS, DHCP, firewall, etc. are all possible. You can even have distributed ebox installations and centrally manage them. In my setup, Ebox is running in a separate VBox session, thus providing easy machine migration, disaster recovery and backup of VBox sessions.
http://ebox-platform.com/

... simple webmin module to list running, start at boot stop and maybe backup vbox servers would be very special.

For this you can use vboxtool (I'm the author), see my sig.