Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:44:38 +0200 From: Bernhard Froehlich <decke@FreeBSD.org> To: Thomas Steen Rasmussen <thomas@gibfest.dk> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www/phpvirtualbox needs vboxwebsrv for VirtualBox Message-ID: <9d6b8e56dc52e0ab45cbaaf36841ab4b@bluelife.at> In-Reply-To: <4C6412B0.6030008@gibfest.dk> References: <4C632B13.2000304@gibfest.dk> <4C6339FF.9070708@gibfest.dk> <dd80b46fb3a719e00abe0a9c5bf757b3@bluelife.at> <4C6412B0.6030008@gibfest.dk>
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On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:26:40 +0200, Thomas Steen Rasmussen <thomas@gibfest.dk> wrote: > On 12-08-2010 17:19, Bernhard Froehlich wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 02:02:07 +0200, Thomas Steen Rasmussen >> <thomas@gibfest.dk> wrote: >> >>> On 12-08-2010 00:58, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote: >>> >>>> Hello list, >>>> >>>> I noticed that /usr/ports/www/phpvirtualbox/ was commited to the ports >>>> tree and I wanted to try it out. It seems to need vboxwebsrv from >>>> VirtualBox which isn't built by the FreeBSD port by default. I saw >>>> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=76262 and tried going the >>>> same route, but I cannot even get it to compile using the alterations >>>> he does. >>>> Could vboxwebsrv possible be added as an option to the VirtualBox port >>>> >> ? >> >>>> That would be great. Or alternatively, can the people who committed >>>> www/phpvirtualbox comment on how you actually use it ? Do you >>>> compile VirtualBox from source ? >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance, >>>> >>>> Thomas Steen Rasmussen >>>> >>> Hello again, >>> >>> OK so I found out I was working with an old ports tree - sorry for the >>> noise, >>> vboxwebsrv is indeed available as an option in the current VirtualBox >>> 3.2.6 port. >>> >> Yeah correct. The virtualbox-ose port has an WEBSERVICE option that is >> disabled by default. I will discuss this and see if we can enable it by >> default or find another solution for phpvirtualbox users. There is also >> no >> rc startscript for vboxwebsrv at the moment because of lack of time but >> it's on my todo list. > Cool, that would be nice to have. >> If you want to test phpvirtualbox i recommend that >> you use virtualbox-ose 3.2.8 because it contains a lot of performance >> improvements for vboxwebsrv. >> > I'm already upgrading, thank you. > > Another question: As I understand it it is not possible to start virtual > machines with headless > VNC enabled from phpvirtualbox, as the VirtualBox API doesn't support it > yet - do you happen > to know if this is correct, and whether there is a solution in the > pipeline somewhere ? Currently phpvirtualbox only supports RDP with an flash based client in the browser. I've talked to the author about adding an VNC client and he seems to plan to add it in the future. There is also an ticket for this now [1] and he seems to have problems with the API because they lack VNC support. So I will raise this problem to the vbox developers and see if this situation can be improved. This will definitely take some time. [1] http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/issues/detail?id=33 -- Bernhard Froehlich http://www.bluelife.at/
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