phpVirtualBox lets you remotely manage your headless virtual machines

phpVirtualBox lets you remotely manage your headless virtual machines

Filed under: OS Updates, Utilities

For the last couple of years I've heard a lot of talk about VirtualBox and VMWare -- but until six months ago, when it took me five minutes to install Ubuntu 'in a window' on my Windows 7 machine, I had no idea just how awesome virtual machines are. No longer must I have a bunch of headless Linux boxes under my desk -- I can just run them in windows on my uber desktop PC!

But... what if you want to retain that element of headlessness? What if you don't want to run your virtual machines on your main computer? They are quite resource intensive after all! VirtualBox's UI is quite complex, and while you can manage it all from the command line, it's far from easy. Fortunately, phpVirtualBox is here to valiantly plug the void between WIMP and CLI with a rather lovely Web interface.

phpVirtualBox is very nearly as good as the real thing, and as you can see from the screenshot above it's also almost identical. Except for a few small omissions, it's feature complete too: for all intents and purposes, phpVirtualBox allows you to painlessly maintain headless VirtualBox machines.

There's something about remotely managing computers via the Internet. I was outside earlier, on my laptop, and using Firefox to play with an installation of Chromium OS running on a headless Windows 2000 box. Magical, yes, but also really handy: I'm sure there's a whole slew of really neat things that can be done with remotely-managed virtual machines!

[thanks to Yansky for the tip!]

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