Suns VirtualBox Goes Web 2.0 - VirtualBox Web Console


The VirtualBox Web Console (VBoxWeb) is an open source project implementing an AJAX version of the popular VirtualBox user interface. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances.

The project is currently in early stages and looking for contributors.

VBoxWeb makes use of the following technologies:

  • Sun VirtualBox
  • Python and the VirtualBox Python API
  • VirtualBox RDP Web Control (Flash based RDP client)
  • Prototype (JavaScript library)
  • jQuery and jQuery UI (JavaScript libraries)

Installation and Setup Instructions



Sun´s VirtualBox Goes Web 2.0 - VirtualBox Web Console


The server components are written in the Python programming language and make use of the VirtualBox Python API which is now part of the standard installation of VirtualBox (previously you had to get the VirtualBox SDK and manually setup the Python bindings) (via blog)

Links: project site(googlecode), vbox blog

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