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Hello. What version of PHP are you using?
Original comment by imooreya...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 6:08
I am using XAMPPLite 1.7.3 which has PHP 5.3.1 with it.
Original comment by cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 6:15
If you use VBoxManage to show running vms, do they show up in the list? Open a
command prompt and cd to C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox then type:
VBoxManage list runningvms
Original comment by imooreya...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 6:34
If I start a VM from either the cmd line or phpvirtualbox nothing is listed for
running vms. If I start a VM with the VirtualBox.exe it shows in the list.
I am not sure why it is not in the list when I start it from cmd line or via
the browser. It is clearly running as I am connecting remotely to it.
Thanks
Original comment by cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 7:09
Very strange. You don't have 2 installations of virtualbox do you? Also, are
you starting vboxwebsrv from the command line?
Original comment by imooreya...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 7:19
Only have the one install.
The vboxwebsrv is launched from a batch file that is ran via srvany.
I did find the issue. The two VM's I have are being started as a service using
"VboxVMService". It works however if a VM is started with it, it does not
report in the output from "VBoxManage list runningvms".
Starting them this seems to cause not only an issue with phpvirtualbox but the
VirtualBox.exe GUI as well. Is there a way to get VMs to run as a service (main
goal is so I do not have the login to the host server or leave it logged in)
that is compatible with phpvirtualbox?
Thanks
Original comment by cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 8:35
I have never figured out how to do this in windows. A google search shows
people with similar issues (vms not showing up in the virtualbox gui). Once
they are visible to the virtualbox gui, they will be visible to phpvirtualbox.
You may try the forums at virtualbox.org.
Original comment by imooreya...@gmail.com
on 19 Oct 2010 at 2:41
Thanks for the assistance. In researching this I am finding no matter what
method used to run VMs as a service the results are the same in that there is
no way for the GUI or phpvirtualbox to detect there state. This is unfortunate
as Virtual Box combined with phpvirtualbox would give Hyper-V and VMWare a run
for their money if this services thing could be worked out.
Original comment by cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 19 Oct 2010 at 6:48
I have an (untested) idea, if you are willing to try it out. I'm surprised this
has not been figured out in the virtualbox.org forums.
*) Make sure the service is set to run as the same user that you are logged in
as. The same user you are running VirtualBox.exe as.
*) Add this at the top of the batch file before the vboxwebsrv line:
set USERNAME=user
set HOMEDRIVE=C:
set HOMEPATH=\users\user
Replace "user" with the actual user name. Make sure HOMEPATH is set to the
actual path the the user's home directory.
Let me know if that works or not.
Original comment by imooreya...@gmail.com
on 19 Oct 2010 at 7:19
I just finished the test. Here is the setup.
Vboxwebsrv set as a service using srvany set to auto start that runs the
following batch file.
set USERNAME=administrator
set HOMEDRIVE=C:
set HOMEPATH=\Documents and Settings\administrator
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\vboxwebsrv.exe"
The service is set to logon using the administrator account. (Used this account
to rule out any permissions issue that may have altered the results)
Restarted the server but did not logon.
Pointed my browser to the ip of the server and everything loaded. No VM's were
started as I disabled the VboxVMSirvice. Started a VM via the browser and
everything worked. The state is reported as running and I have all the
controls. The console worked perfectly as well so I logged in and shutdown the
VM. The browser picked up the state change once the VM shutdown and went to
"Powered Off"
So to take this test one step further I remotely started the VboxVMSerice by
connecting to the host server's services MMC from my workstation. The VM
started fine but phpvirtualbox still reported the VM as powered off. I changed
the VboxVMSerice to run using the administrator acount as well but the result
is the same.
So I am wondering if the VM was started via the VboxWebSrv at host server
startup if phpvirtualbox would see the state properly. In my mind it would be
the no different than me clicking the start from the browser and it sending the
command to VboxWebSrv which starts the VM. I am reading through the SDK now but
wanted to get the results of the testing posted right away. I am thinking it
could be a variation of the function phpvirtualbox has now for starting VM's
just ran at startup after the vboxwebsrv is started. Or something along thoughs
line.
Hope this is helpful in some way and sorry for writing a book.
Original comment by cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 19 Oct 2010 at 11:21
Better to have more information than not enough :)
It is not a matter of how a VM is started or stopped. It is a matter of
VboxVMService using one virtualbox path and vboxwebsrv using another. We just
have to get them to use the same paths.
I'm not very familiar with VBoxVMService, but it looks like if you change the
VBOX_USER_HOME setting in VBoxVMService.ini to C:\Documents and
Settings\administrator\.VirtualBox things may work. Keep both services running
as the administrator account.
Let me know how it goes.
Original comment by imooreya...@gmail.com
on 20 Oct 2010 at 12:34
I made sure both the VBoxVMService.ini and vboxwebsrv are using the same path
and both services are using the administrator account. This server is a
standalone so it does not have a DOMAIN\administrator account to get confused
with.
Same issue. If the VM is started using VBoxVMService, phpvirtualbox does not
see as started. I also added the VBOX_USER_HOME to the system variables and
tried but no change.
Original comment by cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 20 Oct 2010 at 11:51
There is a solution, although I'm not sure I've implemented it correctly in
VBoxVMService. I just added the following lines at the end of the
VBoxVmServiceMain function,
// Start web service
// get working dir
char pWorkingDir[nBufferSize+1];
char pItem[nBufferSize+1];
GetPrivateProfileString(pItem,"WorkingDir","",pWorkingDir,nBufferSize,pInitFile);
RunConsoleApp(NULL, "C:\\Program Files\\Oracle\\VirtualBox\\vboxwebsrv.exe", pWorkingDir, NULL);
so that when starting the service, which starts my VMs, I also have an instance
of vboxwebsrv running in the same context as the VMs. And now phpVirtualBox
sees my machines started by the service.
Original comment by harold.r...@gmail.com
on 21 Jun 2011 at 4:05
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
cshaffer...@gmail.com
on 18 Oct 2010 at 3:26