VirtualBox 4.2 and phpVirtualBox on Debian
With this tutorial we are going to explain how to install VirtualBox 4.2 and phpVirtualBox for remote management on Debian Linux.
Installing VirtualBox 4.2
We need to add the Debian repository for add the public key and install VirtualBox 4.2
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free
Run the following commands:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add - apt-get update apt-get install virtualbox-4.2
For different versions of Debian you can use the following repositories
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian natty contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian hardy contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny contrib non-free
Now we need to install VirtualBox Extension Pack
cd /tmp wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack VBoxManage extpack install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.2.0-80737.vbox-extpack
We need to create vbox user for VirtualBox and phpVirtualBox and add it to vboxusers group
useradd -d /home/vbox -m -g vboxusers -s /bin/bash vbox passwd vbox
Create the file /etc/default/virtualbox and put the following lines so that the VirtualBox SOAP API which is called vboxwebsrv runs as the user vbox
vi /etc/default/virtualbox
VBOXWEB_USER=vbox
Next we need to set vboxweb-service to start on boot
update-rc.d vboxweb-service defaults /etc/init.d/vboxweb-service start
Installing phpVirtualBox
We are going to install nginx and PHP to support phpVirtualBox
apt-get install nginx php5-common php5-mysql php5-suhosin php5-fpm php-pear unzip /etc/init.d/nginx start
Make changes to nginx default site so you can access your phpVirtualBox website
vi /etc/nginx/sites-available/default
server {
listen 80; ## listen for ipv4; this line is default and implied
listen [::]:80 default ipv6only=on; ## listen for ipv6
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
index index.php index.html index.htm;
# Make site accessible from http://localhost/
server_name _;
location / {
# First attempt to serve request as file, then
# as directory, then fall back to index.html
try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
# Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
# include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
}
location /doc/ {
alias /usr/share/doc/;
autoindex on;
allow 127.0.0.1;
deny all;
}
# Only for nginx-naxsi : process denied requests
#location /RequestDenied {
# For example, return an error code
#return 418;
#}
#error_page 404 /404.html;
# redirect server error pages to the static page /50x.html
#
error_page 500 502 503 504 /50x.html;
location = /50x.html {
root /usr/share/nginx/www;
}
# pass the PHP scripts to FastCGI server listening on 127.0.0.1:9000
#
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
include fastcgi_params;
}
# deny access to .htaccess files, if Apache's document root
# concurs with nginx's one
#
location ~ /\.ht {
deny all;
}
}/etc/init.d/nginx reload
Now we are going to install phpVirtualBox
cd /usr/share/nginx/www wget http://phpvirtualbox.googlecode.com/files/phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b.zip unzip phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b.zip mv phpvirtualbox-4.2-0b phpvirtualbox
Copy the config file and set the user and password for your vbox user
cd /usr/share/nginx/www/phpvirtualbox/ cp config.php-example config.php vi config.php
/* Username / Password for system user that runs VirtualBox */ var $username = 'vbox'; var $password = 'yourpassword';
That’s it. Open your browser and login using the default username and password which is admin
VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
phpVirtualBox: http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/
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Hi,
Thank you for your Post
I am newbie, could you please advice if I have to add the following to /apt/sources.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add –
apt-get update
apt-get install virtualbox-4.2
or just need to add the following to sources.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free
Then I run the following from the root
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | apt-key add –
apt-get update
apt-get install virtualbox-4.2
Thanks
Sorry I’ll make it more clear in the post, you need just to add:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free
and then run the commands.
Regards