Jetchisel's CyberCabin: September 2013

phpVirtualBox home page has been moved from google to sourceforge it is in http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/files/latest/download. You will need to install VirtualBox since it is just a front end. before you can use this app. Refer to my guide on how you can install vbox. After you have installed vbox you will install a web server. We will use apache2 as an example. You can either use yast2 software management to install the lamp_server pattern and some php packages or use our friend zypper.

In this setup i choose to install to a different directory than /srv/www/htdocs. So just in case something unrecoverable happens :P in my system i will not delete the directory where phpvirtuablox resides. Here i choose /data/apache2. You can put it any where you like just replace the config entry in apache2.

To install the packages using zypper

zypper in patterns-openSUSE-lamp_server php5-soap

Create an entry for apache2

vi /etc/apache2/conf.d/phpvirtualbox.conf

The only thing you need to replace to meet your setup is /data/apache2 the rest is as-is.

Alias /phpvirtualbox /data/apache2/phpvirtualbox

<Directory   /data/apache2/phpvirtualbox>
   Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
   AllowOverride All
   Order allow,deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>

Unpack that zip file using unzip into /data/apache2.

unzip phpvirtualbox-"$version".zip -d /data/apache2/ && cd /data/apache2

Rename that file to just phpvirtualbox

mv -v phpvirtualbox-"$version" phpvirtualbox && cd phpvirtualbox

Now rename the php file

mv config.php-example config.php

Edit that config.php file and put the name of the user which uses virtualbox and the corresponding line and do it like this.

var $username = 'jetchisel';

var $password = 'mypassword';

var $ location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083';

var $consoleHost = 'IP ADDRESS OF YOUR COMPUTER';

Create an file called virtualbox in /etc/default and put something like this.

VBOXWEB_USER=jetchisel

Set permissions as root run the following commands.

chgrp -Rv vboxusers /data/apache2/phpvirtualbox

chmod -Rv 775 /data/apache2/phpvirtualbox

Edit that config.php file, un comment out the following.

var $startStopConfig = true;

var $enableAdvancedConfig = true;

For the deprecated system V.

Download the vboxinit for SuSE.

wget https://raw.github.com/Jetchisel/vboxinit/master/sysV-vboxinit -O vboxinit

copy the script to /etc/init.d

cp -v vboxinit /etc/init.d/vboxinit

set permission.

chmod u+rx /etc/init.d/vboxinit

Enable init script.

chkconfig vboxinit on

Check the script if it is working

/etc/init.d/vboxinit {start|stop|restart|status}

Enable the init scripts at boot time.

chkconfig vboxweb-service on

Restart the init scripts as root run the following.

service vboxautostart-service restart

service vboxweb-service restart

For SYSTEMD

Download the systemd version for SuSE.

wget https://raw.github.com/Jetchisel/systemd-vboxinit/master/systemd-vboxinit

You can save it to any place you want even in /home/user/bin. In this example i choose to put in to /usr/lib/systemd/

cp -v systemd-vboxinit /usr/lib/systemd

Set permissions

chmod ug+x /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vboxinit

chgrp vboxusers /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vboxinit

Create a systemd unit "vboxvmservice.service" (or any name that suits you)
inside /usr/lib/systemd/system and add the entry below: Replace " username " with the user that belongs to the vboxusers group.

       [Unit]
     Description=VBox Virtual Machine Service
       Requires=systemd-modules-load.service
     After=systemd-modules-load.service
   Before=shutdown.target reboot.target halt.target

       [Service]
       Type=oneshot
       User=username
       Group=vboxusers
       KillMode=none
       StandardOutput=syslog+console
       EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/virtualbox
       ExecStart=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vboxinit start
     ExecStop=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-vboxinit stop
     RemainAfterExit=yes

       [Install]
       WantedBy=multi-user.target

If you choose to save the systemd-vboxinit script in another path and not /usr/lib/systemd then you need to adjust the following entry.