Phpvirtualbox
Phpvirtualbox for SME Server
Maintainer
Description
An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. phpVirtualBox is designed to allow users to administer VirtualBox in a headless environment - mirroring the VirtualBox GUI through its web interface. You can find more informations directly on the phpvirtualbox wiki, please Take a look to the documentation.
Requirements
You need to install the VirtualBox_Repository,the Stephdl Repository And the Epel Repository
Installation
This contrib is currently held in several repositories, so the following commands will install on your smeserver.
yum --enablerepo=stephdl,virtualbox,epel install smeserver-virtualbox smeserver-phpvirtualbox phpvirtualbox VirtualBox-4.3 dkms
You will then need to activate the database changes etc. The 'official' way is to perform
signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
Go to the phpvirtualbox panel at the url https://your-sme-ip/phpvirtualbox on your local-network. You can not reach this contrib trought internet. Your credentials are the user admin of SME Server but you can add more users by the db commands.
Kernel Upgrade
After a kernel update and the "signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot", even with the dkms module, the vboxdrv is not loaded because the module is not compiled with the new kernel, so you need to launch this command line in a root terminal.
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ] Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS[ OK ] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
Installation of Extension Pack
Support for USB 2.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards. See this chapter from the User Manual for an introduction to this Extension Pack. See this page to download the extension pack if the url is no longer good.
For example :
wget http://dlc.sun.com.edgesuite.net/virtualbox/4.3.0/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0-89960.vbox-extpack vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.3.0-89960.vbox-extpack
see vboxmanage-extpack for a complete list of commands
- To add a new extension pack, use VBoxManage extpack install <.vbox-extpack>. This command will fail if an older version of the same extension pack is already installed. The optional --replace parameter can be used to uninstall the old package before the new package is installed.
- To remove a previously installed extension pack, use VBoxManage extpack uninstall <name>. You can use VBoxManage list extpacks to show the names of the extension packs which are currently installed. The optional --force parameter can be used to override the refusal of an extension pack to be uninstalled.
- The VBoxManage extpack cleanup command can be used to remove temporary files and directories that may have been left behind if a previous install or uninstall command failed.
DB Configuration
Default configuration database which allows only the admin user of SME Server to manage phpvirtualbox
[root@sme8dev ~]# config show phpvirtualbox phpvirtualbox=service Group= Name=phpvirtualbox User=admin status=enabled
Allow Specific Users
The users must be declared and a password has to be set in the server-manager.
config setprop phpvirtualbox User "admin user2 user3" expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Allow Specific Groups
These groups must be declared in the server-manager and users need to be included
config setprop phpvirtualbox Group "Group1 Group2 Group3" expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Uninstall
yum remove smeserver-virtualbox smeserver-phpvirtualbox phpvirtualbox VirtualBox-4.3 dkms
Bugs
Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-foo component or use this link .
remove the nowiki tags from your page
<noinclude>[[Category: Contrib]]</noinclude>
