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phpVirtualBox – A web-based front end for VirtualBox 
phpVirtualBox is a web-based front-end to VirtualBox that allows you to control your VirtualBox environment.An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. phpVirtualBox is designed to allow users to administer VirtualBox in a headless environment - mirroring the VirtualBox GUI through its web interface. 
INSTALLATION  
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$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 php-soap

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$ sudo systemctl start httpd
$ sudo /etc/init.d/httpd start</pre>
Visit <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpvirtualbox/">phpVirtualBox official Website</a> and download the latest version phpVirtualBox 
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$ sudo unzip phpvirtualbox-5.0-5.zip
$ sudo mv phpvirtualbox-5.0-5 /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox
$ sudo chmod 777 /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox</pre>
VirtualBox provides a service called vboxwebsrv which allow phpVirtualBox to connect to it. 
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$ sudo useradd virtual
$ sudo passwd virtual

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$ sudo usermod -a -G vboxuser virtual</pre>
Edit or create the following configuration file using your preferred text editor and Add the following contents. 
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VBOXWEB_USER="virtual"</pre>
Configure phpVirtualBox by editing config.php file. 
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$ sudo nano /var/www/html/phpvirtualbox/config.php
[...]
var $username = 'virtual';
var $password = '12345';
[...]</pre>
Start the virtualbox web service 
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$ sudo systemctl start vboxweb-service

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$ sudo systemctl restart httpd
$ sudo /etc/init.d/httpd restart</pre>
Working with phpVirtualBox 
 
Now you can access phpVirtualBox Web console on any system which have GUI desktop environements through http://ip-address-of-virtualbox-server/phpvirtualbox. The default username/password is admin:admin. 
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I have successfully got virtualbox interface, now you can Manage & Administrate the VM’s. 
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