VirtualBox Web Console: Installation Guide

After you finish a successful installation of VirtualBox then you may not like to use graphical UI to operate VirtualBox, so do I, because its consumes too much memory and cpu resources. We need a simple tools but more user-friendly then a text command. Fortunately, VirtualBox has a web based UI,called as: VirtualBox Web Console.

Now, lets start to install it:

1. #apt-get install python
   We need python installed. For Windows we need Python Win32 Extension, download from here: http://python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html (no need tutorial how to install it because Windows is the most easy OS in the world for dummy users)
2. Since we use VirtualBox 3.1 then run:
   #cd /tmp
   #mkdir vboxweb
   #cd vboxweb
   #svn checkout http://vboxweb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ vboxweb-read-only
   If you have no "svn" then install it:
   #apt-get install subversion
   
   
3. #cd /tmp/vboxweb/vboxweb-read-only
   #python VBoxWebSrv.py
   You will see command executing like this:
   
   
   
   

   Download complete. Extracting ...
   Extracting rdpweb_1.0.swf
   Extracting license.txt
   Cleaning up ...
   Installation successful.
   [11/Feb/2010:10:13:05] ENGINE Bus STARTING
   [11/Feb/2010:10:13:05] ENGINE Started monitor thread '_TimeoutMonitor'.
   [11/Feb/2010:10:13:05] ENGINE Started monitor thread 'Autoreloader'.
   [11/Feb/2010:10:13:05] ENGINE Serving on 0.0.0.0:8080
   [11/Feb/2010:10:13:05] ENGINE Bus STARTED

   Note: leave this process still running and follow next step. You then can stop this process using Ctrl+C.
   
4. Now execute vboxweb, http://your_server:8080
5. Finish!