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mitchellh / virtualbox

[ABANDONED] Create and modify virtual machines in VirtualBox using pure ruby.
http://mitchellh.github.com/virtualbox/
MIT License
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Support Remote Control #34

Closed warrickcustomhomes closed 14 years ago

warrickcustomhomes commented 14 years ago

Hi,

First off, thanks for a great library! Just what I was looking for! This is simply a feature request.

I didn't see any mention of support for interacting with an installation of VirtualBox on a remote machine. Any plans to support something like that in the future? With this being a wrapper around the 'VBoxManage' command, maybe remote control could be implemented using a RESTful interface? This way, web applications and command-line interfaces could be created to support remote access. Anyway, just a thought. :)

Thanks Again! Bryan

mitchellh commented 14 years ago

Bryan,

The gem is no longer a wrapper around VBoxManage. =] As of the last version (0.6.0), the gem uses the C API (or MSCOM interface on Windows) completely to talk to VirtualBox.

That being said, I think this feature is better off being implemented in an outside library which leverages this library. An example of such a thing is vboxweb_rb by KieranP which exposes a web interface to the gem.

It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to think someone out there could make any other interface to the gem as well.

Mitchell