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terrorfactor

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Registered: 2011-06-27

Posts: 7

phpvirtualbox: can't get it to work!

Hi all,

I've been trying to get a virtualbox with phpvirtualbox running on slitaz, but without much success.

I'm running a base (8mb, cli only) image with the cooking repo's atm, logged in as root (since I can't install stuff when I'm not).

A few scenario's:

Installing get-virtualbox, manually downloading phpvirtualbox and unzipping it in /var/www/, installing lighttpd, php-cli and php-soap. installing the virtualbox extensions from the vbox site. As root, vboxweb-service fails to start. It seemed to work(no errors) with a normal user ("vbox", created afterwards), but nothing is running. I also can't acces the service at http://localhost:18083. phpvirtualbox says that it can't connect to the webservice.

After googling and trying for hours, I decided to start again. I found that phpvirtualbox was in the cooking repo's, so I tried to let it install everything automatically.

=> tazpkg get-install phpvirtualbox, this also installed virtualbox-ose, httpd, lighttpd, php-stuff etc. Weirdly it put the phpvirtualbox directory(with the html docs etc) in /usr/share/phpvirtualbox.

I still can't access the webservice at http://localhost:18083. When trying to start vboxwebsrv(different servicename when installed from the repo) as root, it says [ok], but it's still not running and I still can't access it. When running it with a normal user created afterwards, I don't have the permissions to the file in /var/run/...(dir could be different, I can't remember). So even with a standard auto-install, the webservice won't run. Installing the extension pack didn't help either.

I did manage to get vrpd working, but a remote gui to manage and create the machines would be nice!

mojo

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Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: phpvirtualbox: can't get it to work!

There is no /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv binary to start.

Install line with vboxwebsrv is commented out.

virtualbox-ose.tazpkg receipt genpkg_rules:

#other binaries

#install -m 0755 VBoxManage VBoxSVC VBoxExtPackHelperApp VBoxXPCOMIPCD VBoxTestOGL vboxwebsrv webtest "$fs/usr/lib/virtualbox"

install -m 0755 VBoxManage VBoxSVC VBoxExtPackHelperApp VBoxXPCOMIPCD VBoxTestOGL "$fs/usr/lib/virtualbox"

Cook compile/package log for virtualbox-ose.tazpkg:

http://cook.slitaz.org/cooker.cgi?pkg=virtualbox-ose

Checking for GSOAP compiler:

  ** soapcpp2 not found -- disabling webservice!

terrorfactor

Member

Registered: 2011-06-27

Posts: 7

Re: phpvirtualbox: can't get it to work!

Can I just uncomment that line to get it installed, or what can I do?

I'm sorry, it's all pretty new for me, and the learning curve is quite steep

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: phpvirtualbox: can't get it to work!

Without gSOAP in slitaz repo there is no way for Cook the slitaz build server to compile vboxwebsrv.

Uncommenting the line won't accomplish anything except maybe generate an error because vboxwebsrv does not exist.

terrorfactor

Member

Registered: 2011-06-27

Posts: 7

Re: phpvirtualbox: can't get it to work!

Owh I see. Can't I install gSOAP manually, or at least try to?