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| + | {{warning box|this how to is out of date. You probably wants to install the smeserver-phpvirtualbox and smeserver-virtualbox contribs for SME8 and SME9, then see here : [[Phpvirtualbox]]}} |
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| ===Maintainer=== | | ===Maintainer=== |
| [http://www.compsos.com.au CompSOS] | | [http://www.compsos.com.au CompSOS] |
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| ===Creating a Virtual Machine=== | | ===Creating a Virtual Machine=== |
| <ol> | | <ol> |
− | <li>Using a web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvbox to create your virtual machine. | + | <li>Using a web browser, go to http://yourdomain.com/phpvirtualbox to create your virtual machine. |
| <ul> | | <ul> |
| <li>Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)</li> | | <li>Create a new virtual machine (e.g. vmXP)</li> |
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| <ul> | | <ul> |
| <li>On Windows, open an RDP client (run -> mstsc) then type your server’s hostname:port number (e.g. myserver:9000), or your Server's (not your Guest) IP address followed by colon then the port number as shown on above image (Remote Desktop Server Port under Display) (e.g. 192.168.100.1:9000).</li> | | <li>On Windows, open an RDP client (run -> mstsc) then type your server’s hostname:port number (e.g. myserver:9000), or your Server's (not your Guest) IP address followed by colon then the port number as shown on above image (Remote Desktop Server Port under Display) (e.g. 192.168.100.1:9000).</li> |
− | <b>NOTE:</b> No need to change to port number to 9000 (as per above) in your Windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber). It will still be using port 3389 even though phpVirtualBox is using port 9000. | + | <b>NOTE:</b> No need to change to port number to 9000 (as per above) in your Windows registry (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TerminalServer\WinStations\RDP-Tcp\PortNumber). It will still be using port 3389 even though phpVirtualBox is using port 9000.<br/> |
| + | If you're remotely connected to your server's phpvirtualbox and adding a new Guest remotely, open port 9000 (source and destination TCP poty) pointing to server's IP, so you can be able to access the console built-in to PhpVirtualBox. |
| </li> | | </li> |
| </ul> | | </ul> |
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| </ol> | | </ol> |
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− | ===Upgrading VirtualBox===
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− | <li>Remove installed VirtualBox.
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− | <pre>yum remove VirtualBox-4.1</pre></li>
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− | <li>Install the latest VirtualBox, as of this date it is VirtualBox 4.2.
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− | <pre>yum install --enablerepo=virtualbox VirtualBox-4.2</pre></li>
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− | <li>Create a '''virtualbox''' file on your /etc/default/. On Virtualbox 4.1, virtualbox file was originally /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg.
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− | <pre>nano /etc/default/virtualbox</pre>
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− | <p>''virtualbox'' should have this content.</p>
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− | <pre>VBOXWEB_USER='root'
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− | VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1
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− | VBOXWEB_PORT=18083
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− | VBOXWEB_LOGFILE=/var/log/vboxweb
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− | INSTALL_DIR=/usr/lib/virtualbox
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− | </pre></li>
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− | <li>Install VirtualBox extension pack, you can find the extension packs [http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads here].
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− | <pre>wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack
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− | vboxmanage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack
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− | </pre></li>
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− | <li>Test if your VirtualBox upgrade is successful by starting your existing virtual machine.
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− | <pre>vboxheadless –s vmXP</pre> OR
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− | <pre>/etc/init.d/vbox start</pre></li>
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− | </ol>
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− | ===Upgrading phpVirtualBox===
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− | <ol>
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− | <li>Make a directory to save your existing phpVirtualBox folder.
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− | <pre>mkdir –p /tmp/phpvirtualbox-4.1.22</pre></li>
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− | <li>Change directory to your phpvbox ibay then copy all of your phpVirtualBox files.
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− | <pre>cd /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html/
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− | cp –R * /tmp/phpvirtualbox-4.1.22</pre></li>
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− | <li>Download the latest phpVirtualBox to /tmp/ folder.
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− | <pre>cd /tmp
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− | wget http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b.zip
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− | unzip phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b.zip
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− | cd phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b
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− | yes | cp -R * /home/e-smith/files/ibays/phpvbox/html/
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− | </pre></li>
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− | <li>Rename ''config.php.example'' to ''config.php'' and edit the configuration file as per above.
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− | <pre>mv config.php-example config.php</pre></li>
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− | <li>Restart vboxwebservice
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− | <pre>/etc/init.d/vboxweb-service restart</pre></li>
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− | <li>Download the latest VBox Guest Additions and install to your Guest VM.
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− | <pre>cd /opt/VMs/
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− | wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.2.0.iso
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− | </pre></li>
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− | </ol>
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| ===Troubleshooting=== | | ===Troubleshooting=== |
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| [[Category: Virtualisation]] | | [[Category: Virtualisation]] |
| [[Category: Advanced]] | | [[Category: Advanced]] |
| + | [[Category: Howto]] |