the PNG transparencies don't look too hot. The UI looks pretty-much the same on Firefox. I have excluded the URL from the screenshots. The screenshots are from the Safari Browser on my Mac. I have uploaded the screen shots to Flickr ( ). but there is a 128K limit on attachments on the forum. I tried to attach a ZIP file w/ 19 screenshots (PNG files). One not-so-good thing is, 'showvminfo' does not report all the settings! I have requested this be corrected (actually called it a feature reqeust). For the most part, almost all the VBoxManage command-line options have been implemented. All the General, Display, Disk Assignment, Network, COM Port, Shared Fodler settings can be modified. The Web front-end currently supports most of the capabilities provided in the client UI including creating, modifying, removing VMs (does not support creating/registering disks yet).

Depending on workload, that may be a bit shorter or longer. I think I'm about two months away from an initial release for some beta users to play with. There is one '.cfg' file that has key configuration details (VM startup sequence, delays, etc). If this gets much bigger, I might have to rethink that. Bumps CPU usage up ~8% every 60 seconds (configurable interval). Adds ~ 2% overhead to Host CPU (if graphing not enabled). Front End: PHP5 (though should work on 4.3) Will be released GPL (full source will be provided w/ traditional GPL provisions) Prior to even knowing about the python web solution, I had already begun putting my own together. Unfortunately, I cannot install Python on these systems and so have not had a chance to see the existing web interface that solution provides. With that many guests, and since my systems are headless boxes (no monitor/keyboard), I wanted a convenient way to administer the VMs especially when I'm away.

On my 'big' system, there are 11 guests (all openSUSE Guests) running all the time. On one of my systems, there are 25 VMs defined with 5 to 7 guests running at any given time. I've been using VirtualBox for a little while now (openSUSE 11.1 Host).

Php virtualbox interface