Comments on Managing a Headless VirtualBox Installation with phpvirtualbox (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)

You need to adjust your link to phpvirtualbox to sourceforge

https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/

It is not working on ubuntu 16.04...

Always shows 'Invalid username or password' while I write correct one.

See:

root@ubuntuSvr:/var/lib/php# su vbox -c "vboxwebsrv"Oracle VM VirtualBox web service Version 5.1.4(C) 2007-2016 Oracle CorporationAll rights reserved.VirtualBox web service 5.1.4 r110228 linux.amd64 (Aug 16 2016 18:39:19) release log00:00:00.000106 main     Log opened 2016-08-18T19:56:23.307362000Z00:00:00.000108 main     Build Type: release00:00:00.000111 main     OS Product: Linux00:00:00.000111 main     OS Release: 4.4.0-34-generic00:00:00.000112 main     OS Version: #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jul 27 16:06:39 UTC 201600:00:00.000139 main     DMI Product Name: D2831-S100:00:00.000147 main     DMI Product Version:00:00:00.000198 main     Host RAM: 3882MB total, 3484MB available00:00:00.000201 main     Executable: /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv00:00:00.000201 main     Process ID: 685400:00:00.000202 main     Package type: LINUX_64BITS_UBUNTU_16_0400:00:00.001694 main     IPC socket path: /tmp/.vbox-vbox-ipc/ipcd00:00:00.007189 SQPmp    Socket connection successful: host = default (localhost), port = 18083, master socket = 900:00:05.007311 Watchdog Statistics: 0 websessions, 0 references00:00:08.341725 SQPmp    Request 1 on socket 10 queued for processing (1 items on Q)00:00:08.341764 SQW01    New SOAP thread started00:00:08.341796 SQW01    Processing connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=10 (0 out of 1 threads idle)00:00:08.342656 SQW01    External authentication library is 'VBoxAuth'00:00:08.382593 SQW01    Access for user 'vbox' granted00:07:03.775464 SQPmp    Request 2 on socket 10 queued for processing (1 items on Q)00:07:03.775576 SQW01    Processing connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=10 (0 out of 1 threads idle)00:07:03.818069 SQW01    Access for user 'vbox' granted00:07:32.989516 SQPmp    Request 3 on socket 10 queued for processing (1 items on Q)00:07:32.989610 SQW01    Processing connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=10 (0 out of 1 threads idle)00:07:33.031199 SQW01    Access for user 'vbox' granted00:12:31.690524 SQPmp    Request 4 on socket 10 queued for processing (1 items on Q)00:12:31.690615 SQW01    Processing connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=10 (0 out of 1 threads idle)00:12:31.734332 SQW01    Access for user 'vbox' granted

Is it a problem with: /var/lib/php/session? The session folder doesn't exist but there is 'sessions' folder.

What is the problem?

Just thought I'd say, I had the error at the top and starting/restarting the service didn't help, what did help was rebooting my server since the kernel had been changed.

Might help others! :)

OK,  serious issues with this recipe:

1 - phpvirtualbox 5.0 NOT compatible with Virtualbox 5.1.0

2 - Virtualbox website states Virtualbox 5.0 (to try to fix PROBLEM #1) not available for 16.04

3 - no phpvirtualbox 5.1 yet available

4 - Many postings about how vbox user account can be problematic and how localhost vs 127.0.0.1 can trip you up. I had to change config.php to the static IP of the host box to get past an error:

Could not connect to host (http://127.0.0.1:18083/)

Do the authors of these tutorials actually TEST the recipe? Or do they just recycle by cut/paste new version numbers over old?

Ken

This has been tested of course and PHPVirtualBox work works well with Virtualbox 5.1, that's why we described it in the above tutorial. When you install a Virtualbox 5.0 instead of the 5.1 from this tutorial then your setup will not work off and your setup is not the one described here. If you would have read the second page of the tutorial then you would have noticed that I wrote that PHPVirtualBox throws a message that it does not support VirtualBox 5.1 yet but it nevertheless works as VirtualBox 5.1 is downwards compatible with 5.0, so only new functions introduced in 5.1 are not availablethrough phpvirtualbox.

I confirm some issues with phpvirtualbox 5.0 and Virtualbox 5.1.0. 

Here what happened to me:

I followed this tutorial and everything worked fine. 

When all was working, if I try command "netstat -tulpn | grep 18083" I (correctly) get:

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:18083         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3537/vboxwebsrv 

that is: vboxwebsrv is listening on port 18083

After some weeks, for some reasons, (only) vboxwebsrv crashed (while VMs continued to work correctly), and phpvirtualbox started showing "Error Fetching http headers (http://127.0.0.1:18083/)".

I tried "sudo systemctl restart vboxweb-service" but no effect.

I tried "sudo vboxwebsrv -b --host 127.0.0.1 -p 18083" and no effect, but console showed error: "#### SOAP FAULT: Address already in use [SOAP-ENV:Server]".

So I tried again "netstat -tulpn | grep 18083" and, strangely, output was:

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:18083         0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      1001       22406       23386/VBoxSVC   

It seems that after vboxwebsrv crash, the port 18083 start being used by VBoxSVC, and no more by vboxwebsrv.

Googled and tryed everything to solve the problem without restarting host server, but no success. The only thing that helped was to acpishutdown all VMs and restart the host. After server reboot, phpvirtualbox and everything restarted correctly.

I think is important to be able to recover a vboxwebsrv crash WITHOUT host server reboot.

Anyone had similar experience?

Thanks

Just add some commands at the beginning of the paper, and everything is OK!

The commands shows below:

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib

cd /tmp

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude install -y dkms

sudo aptitude install -y virtualbox-5.0

Hi. In stage 2 "Installing phpVirtualBox", the apache and PHP download gave me this error:

Unable to locate package libaprl

Unable to locate package libaprutill

Unable to locate package libaprutill-dbd-sqlite3

Unable to locate package libaprutill-ldap

Unable to locate package libaprl

What do I do?

after the problems of 'Invalid username or password', i added the "var $noAuth = true;" in config.php, then it worked.

works good

i added this to nano /etc/default/virtualbox

and i did not use vbox as my user but my default username and password

the first login in phpvirtualbox = admin admin then there in the file -> preferences settings i added my default username and password as admistrator

the error that phpvirtual does not work with the diferent version of virtualbox does not matter

don't forget to allow http in you ufw iptablets 

sudo ufw allow http

Please note that phpvirtualbox development is now managed on GitHub and the Sourceforge links are outdated.

New releases can be found here: https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox/releases

This guide really needs updating. 

As Tudor mentioned above, phpvirtualbox is no longer maintained on sourceforge. Instead download it via their github page: https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox

If you're following the guide on how to install Virtualbox above, don't install Virtualbox 5.1. Phpvirtualbox does not support virtualbox 5.1. Instead follow the same instructions, but install Virtualbox 5.2 instead. 

Because I'd installed version 5.1 first, I think I ended up with the wrong kernel module for virtualbox. The symptom was that I couldn't start any virtual machines once I created them.

The error I would get is:

Virtual machine terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)

If you're getting this error, the best thing you can do is try run virtualbox normally on the host, and confirm whether VMs will start correctly with that. I found I could not run VMs, and I got a more detailed error message than the above, specifying the kernel version being incorrect.

The way I fixed this was by:

- sudo apt remove virtualbox-dkms

- sudo '/sbin/vboxconfig'

Rerunning vboxconfig it noticed the kernel module was missing and went and downloaded and installed the correct version.

Now VMs are working for me in phpvirtualbox :-) 

Thanks,

Matt

you can pull this from the dev branch and it works on Virtualbox 5.2 as well.

https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox/archive/develop.zip

Hi,

I'm trying to get this working on Ubuntu Server 16.04. Everthing installs properly and I can get to the login page on my browser. However, when I try to login, I get the following error:

Error logging in to vboxwebsrv.

Exception Object

(

    [message:protected] => Error logging in to vboxwebsrv.

    [string:Exception:private] => 

    [code:protected] => 64

    [file:protected] => /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/api.php

    [line:protected] => 134

    [trace:Exception:private] => Array

        (

        )

    [previous:Exception:private] => 

)

Does anyone have any suggestion what is wrong?

Thanks!

zog