RemoteBox 1.2

RemoteBox is a GUI tool which lets you administer guests or virtual machines running under VirtualBox on a remote server or even the same local machine. VirtualBox is traditionally a desktop-side virtualisation solution. The goal of RemoteBox is to provide a GUI that should be familiar to VirtualBox users whist allowing them to administer a remote installation of VirtualBox. It does this via the VirtualBox API and SOAP interface which are exposed when running the VirtualBox web service.

RemoteBox is very much work in progress, however it is already quite usable and does a significant proportion of the tasks you can do with the original VirtualBox GUI, but with the added advantage of remote administration and remote display.

The RemoteBox client is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and with a little effort, also MacOS X. It has been tested against installations of VirtualBox running on Linux, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OS X.


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Requirements:

· gtk+
· Perl
· SOAP::Lite

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Rebased from GTK 2.16 to GTK 2.22 as the minimum version. If your OS / Distro is not new enough, you may wish to remain at v1.1.
· Added support for creating Full, State and Linked clones of guests
· When creating a parallels hard disk the image is now created with the .hdd extension rather than .parallels
· The state of the option on the connect dialog to save URLs and Usernames is now remembered between RemoteBox sessions
· Added option to attach an empty CD/DVD drive when editing a guest's settings
· Added option to attach an empty Floppy drive when editing a guest's settings
· Added option to manually set the port count for SATA controllers
· Added option to mark a hard disk image as a Solid State disk
· Added an option to mark a CD/DVD image as a Live CD/DVD.
· Added ability to manually set the port on a controller that a medium is attached to
· Added a refresh button to the Virtual Media Manager to refresh the list of current media
· Added support for changing a disk images type to Normal, Writethrough, Immutable and Multi-Attach
· Added a facility in the VMM to provide for the duplication and copying of hard disks. This also allows you to convert a disk from one format to another
· Timestamps are now prefixed to entries in the message log
· Hopefully finally fixed the bug where the change CD and Floppy menus were available when they should not be, even though this was supposed to be fixed in v1.1
· More fixes to the DVD & Floppy items in the Machine menu. On occassions it would still permit you to change disks on an unselected guest.
· Minor bug fix when reporting errors from VirtualBox or SOAP which contained characters. This would end up being treated as GTK markup
· Fixed the maximum BIOS time waiting to 65535. Higher values are invalid and the guest will not start until its changed.
· The usual plethora of GUI tweaks
· Significant code optimisation with rebasing to GTK 2.22