Oracle VirtualBox with access via phpVirtualBox on OmniOS

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zos

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Hi,

I wrote a small script to install Oracle's VirtualBox 4.3 on OmniOS accessable via phpVirtualBox 4.3 frontend.

This may be useful if you're using a barebone setup of OmniOS and you're interested in Virtualization using VirtualBox.

Prerequisites:
(1) OmniOS (tested only, perhaps it may work on other OS like OpenIndiana too)
(2) napp-it
(3) AMP-stack (see free napp-it extension ampo, this script installs required php-Extension soap.so)

You can download it here: napp-it // webbased ZFS NAS/SAN appliance for OmniOS, OpenIndiana and Solaris downloads

Today I sent gea a newer version of the script, please be patient until he's uploaded it to his website.

The main differences between both versions are:
1. improved logging
2. daemon vboxwebsrv has become a SMF-service, so after restarting your server the service will be available automatically.

Have fun,
zos
 
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scobar

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It appears my vbox user disappeared, along with ampo and mediatomb...

Reinstalled everything, trying to get vbox back up and am being greeted with:

Code:
Exception Object
(
    [message:protected] => Could not connect to host (http://127.0.0.1:18083/)
    [string:Exception:private] => 
    [code:protected] => 64
    [file:protected] => /opt/local/share/httpd/htdocs/phpvirtualbox/lib/ajax.php
    [line:protected] => 128
    [trace:Exception:private] => Array
        (
        )

    [previous:Exception:private] => 
)

This is from the webgui.

Prior to my install going on vacation, it did work, I had a few ubuntu vm's running. Not seeing much on google for this error.
 

zos

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free napp-it extension "phpvirtualbox", new release

Today I sent gea a new release of the free napp-it extension phpvirtualbox including the following versions:
- Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.6
- phpvirtualbox 4.3.1

If anybody will find bugs, please let me know!
 

StephD

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Today I sent gea a new release of the free napp-it extension phpvirtualbox including the following versions:
- Oracle VirtualBox 4.3.6
- phpvirtualbox 4.3.1

If anybody will find bugs, please let me know!
Not sure I'd call it a bug but I get permission error when I try to connect host cdrom from vm. Workaround is to create and share ZFS pool to upload ISO image to and then browse to it from vm drive settings.
 

methos

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zos

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Oracle's latest release of VirtualBox, version 5.0.0 is out since July, 9 with the following features:
- Paravirtualization Support for Windows and Linux Guests
- Improved CPU Utilization
- Support of USB 3.0 Devices
- Bi-Directional Drag and Drop Support for Windows
- Disk Image Encryption

Finally phpvirtualbox 5.0-0 was released last sunday, which was the missing piece for updating the phpvbox-script for OmniOS. Up until @gea has uploaded the script to napp-it.org, you can install it with

wget -O - www.wp10455695.server-he.de/phpvbox | perl

Note: This script is not for updating an existing phpvbox-installation.
 
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