phpvirtualbox gives me a grey screen

xganesh · 2014-09-07 06:41:14

I followed the instruccions on the wiki page PhpVirtualBox.

However, at the end, all I am getting is a grey image.

# uname -r

3.16.2-1-ck

# pacman -Qs virtualbox

local/phpvirtualbox 4.3_1-1
    PHP/AJAX web interface for VirtualBox 4.*
local/vdfuse 82a-8
    A FUSE module for mounting VirtualBox disk images (VDI/VMDK/VHD) on the host
local/virtualbox 4.3.14-4
    Powerful x86 virtualization for enterprise as well as home use
local/virtualbox-ck-host-modules-bulldozer 4.3.14-4 (ck-bulldozer)
    Host kernel modules for VirtualBox running under Linux-ck. AMD Bulldozer Family 15h microarchitecture optimized.
local/virtualbox-ext-oracle 4.3.14-1
    Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack
local/virtualbox-guest-dkms 4.3.14-4
    VirtualBox Guest kernel modules sources
local/virtualbox-guest-iso 4.3.14-1
    The official VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO image
local/virtualbox-host-dkms 4.3.14-4
    VirtualBox Host kernel modules sources
local/virtualbox-sdk 4.3.14-4
    VirtualBox Software Developer Kit (SDK)

/etc/systemd/system/vboxweb_mod.service

[Unit]
Description=VirtualBox Web Service
After=network.target

[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/vboxweb/vboxweb.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/vboxwebsrv --pidfile /run/vboxweb/vboxweb.pid --background
User=user
Group=vboxusers

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

/etc/php/php.ini

# grep -Ev "(^;|^$)"  /etc/php/php.ini

[PHP]
engine = On
short_open_tag = Off
asp_tags = Off
precision = 14
output_buffering = 4096
zlib.output_compression = Off
implicit_flush = Off
unserialize_callback_func =
serialize_precision = 17
open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/:/etc/webapps/:/usr/share/webapps/phpvirtualbox/
disable_functions =
disable_classes =
zend.enable_gc = On
expose_php = On
max_execution_time = 30
max_input_time = 60
memory_limit = 128M
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED & ~E_STRICT
display_errors = Off
display_startup_errors = Off
log_errors = On
log_errors_max_len = 1024
ignore_repeated_errors = Off
ignore_repeated_source = Off
report_memleaks = On
track_errors = Off
html_errors = On
variables_order = "GPCS"
request_order = "GP"
register_argc_argv = Off
auto_globals_jit = On
post_max_size = 8M
auto_prepend_file =
auto_append_file =
default_mimetype = "text/html"
include_path = ".:/usr/share/pear"
doc_root =
user_dir =
extension_dir = "/usr/lib/php/modules/"
enable_dl = Off
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 2M
max_file_uploads = 20
allow_url_fopen = On
allow_url_include = Off
default_socket_timeout = 60
extension=curl.so
extension=gettext.so
extension=soap.so
extension=json.so
[CLI Server]
cli_server.color = On
[Date]
[filter]
[iconv]
[intl]
[sqlite]
[sqlite3]
[Pcre]
[Pdo]
[Pdo_mysql]
pdo_mysql.cache_size = 2000
pdo_mysql.default_socket=
[Phar]
[mail function]
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 25
mail.add_x_header = On
[SQL]
sql.safe_mode = Off
[ODBC]
odbc.allow_persistent = On
odbc.check_persistent = On
odbc.max_persistent = -1
odbc.max_links = -1
odbc.defaultlrl = 4096
odbc.defaultbinmode = 1
[Interbase]
ibase.allow_persistent = 1
ibase.max_persistent = -1
ibase.max_links = -1
ibase.timestampformat = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
ibase.dateformat = "%Y-%m-%d"
ibase.timeformat = "%H:%M:%S"
[MySQL]
mysql.allow_local_infile = On
mysql.allow_persistent = On
mysql.cache_size = 2000
mysql.max_persistent = -1
mysql.max_links = -1
mysql.default_port =
mysql.default_socket =
mysql.default_host =
mysql.default_user =
mysql.default_password =
mysql.connect_timeout = 60
mysql.trace_mode = Off
[MySQLi]
mysqli.max_persistent = -1
mysqli.allow_persistent = On
mysqli.max_links = -1
mysqli.cache_size = 2000
mysqli.default_port = 3306
mysqli.default_socket =
mysqli.default_host =
mysqli.default_user =
mysqli.default_pw =
mysqli.reconnect = Off
[mysqlnd]
mysqlnd.collect_statistics = On
mysqlnd.collect_memory_statistics = Off
[OCI8]
[PostgreSQL]
pgsql.allow_persistent = On
pgsql.auto_reset_persistent = Off
pgsql.max_persistent = -1
pgsql.max_links = -1
pgsql.ignore_notice = 0
pgsql.log_notice = 0
[Sybase-CT]
sybct.allow_persistent = On
sybct.max_persistent = -1
sybct.max_links = -1
sybct.min_server_severity = 10
sybct.min_client_severity = 10
[bcmath]
bcmath.scale = 0
[browscap]
[Session]
session.save_handler = files
session.use_strict_mode = 0
session.use_cookies = 1
session.use_only_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0
session.cookie_path = /
session.cookie_domain =
session.cookie_httponly =
session.serialize_handler = php
session.gc_probability = 1
session.gc_divisor = 1000
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440
session.referer_check =
session.cache_limiter = nocache
session.cache_expire = 180
session.use_trans_sid = 0
session.hash_function = 0
session.hash_bits_per_character = 5
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry"
[MSSQL]
mssql.allow_persistent = On
mssql.max_persistent = -1
mssql.max_links = -1
mssql.min_error_severity = 10
mssql.min_message_severity = 10
mssql.compatibility_mode = Off
mssql.secure_connection = Off
[Assertion]
[COM]
[mbstring]
[gd]
[exif]
[Tidy]
tidy.clean_output = Off
[soap]
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=1
soap.wsdl_cache_dir="/tmp"
soap.wsdl_cache_ttl=86400
soap.wsdl_cache_limit = 5
[sysvshm]
[ldap]
ldap.max_links = -1
[mcrypt]
[dba]
[opcache]
[curl]

/etc/webapps/phpvirtualbox/config.php

<?php
/**
 * phpVirtualBox example configuration. 
 * @version $Id: config.php-example 452 2012-10-17 12:22:12Z imooreyahoo@gmail.com $
 *
 * rename to config.php and edit as needed.
 *
 */
class phpVBoxConfig {

/* Username / Password for system user that runs VirtualBox */
var $username = '';
var $password = '';

/* SOAP URL of vboxwebsrv (not phpVirtualBox's URL) */
var $location = 'http://127.0.0.1:18083/';

/* Default language. See languages folder for more language options.
 * Can also be changed in File -> Preferences -> Language in
 * phpVirtualBox.
 */
var $language = 'en';

/* Set the standard VRDE Port Number / Range, e.g. 1010-1020 or 1027 */
var $vrdeports = '9000-9100';

/*
 *
 * Not-so-common options / tweaking
 *
 */

// Multiple servers example config. Uncomment (remove /* and */) to use.
// Add ALL the servers you want to use. Even if you have the server set
// above. The default server will be the first one in the list.
/*
var $servers = array(
        array(
                'name' => 'London',
                'username' => 'user',
                'password' => 'pass',
                'location' => 'http://192.168.1.1:18083/',
                'authMaster' => true // Use this server for authentication
        ),
        array(
                'name' => 'New York',
                'username' => 'user2',
                'password' => 'pass2',
                'location' => 'http://192.168.1.2:18083/'
        ),
);
*/

// Disable authentication
var $noAuth = true;

// Host / ip to use for console connections
#var $consoleHost = '192.168.1.40';

// Disable "preview" box
#var $noPreview = true;

// Default preview box update interval in seconds
#var $previewUpdateInterval = 30;

// Preview box pixel width
#var $previewWidth = 180;

// Max number of progress operations to keep in list
var $maxProgressList = 5;

// Change default preview aspect ratio to 1. 
// http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28image%29#Previous_and_presently_used_aspect_ratios
#var $previewAspectRatio = 1.6;

// Enable custom VM icons
#var $enableCustomIcons = true;

/*
Exclusively use phpVirtualBox's groups configuration rather than VirtualBox groups.
This has the following effects:

*) Group changes made in phpVirtualBox will not be reflected in VirtualBox programs such as
	VirtualBox and VBoxManage
*) Group changes will not affect which folder a VM is placed in
*) You can rename groups that contain running VMs and move / copy running VMs to groups
*/
#var $phpVboxGroups = true;


/*
Allow to prompt deletion hard disk files on removal from Virtual Media Manager.
If this is not set, files are always kept. If this is set, you will be PROMPTED
to decide whether or not you would like to delete the hard disk file(s) when you
remove a hard disk from virtual media manager. You may still choose not to delete
the file when prompted.
*/
var $deleteOnRemove = true;

/*
 * File / Folder browser settings
 */

// Restrict file types
var $browserRestrictFiles = array('.iso','.vdi','.vmdk','.img','.bin','.vhd','.hdd','.ovf','.ova','.xml','.vbox','.cdr','.dmg','.ima','.dsk','.vfd');

// Restrict locations / folders
#var $browserRestrictFolders = array('D:\\','C:\\Users\\Ian'); // Or something like array('/home/vbox','/var/ISOs')

// Force use of local, web server based file browser instead of going through vboxwebsrv
#var $browserLocal = true;

// Disable file / folder browser.
#var $browserDisable = true;

// Disable Windows drive detection
#var $noWindowsDriveList = true;

// Just list all drives from C:\ - Z:\ without checking if they exist or not.
// This may be required on older Windows systems with more than one drive.
#var $forceWindowsAllDriveList = true;

/*
 * Misc
 */
 
/*
 * Auto-refresh interval in seconds for VirtualBox host memory usage information.
 * Any value below 3 will be ignored.
 */
var $hostMemInfoRefreshInterval = 5;

/* Show % of free host memory instead of % used */
#var $hostMemInfoShowFreePct = true;

/*
 * VM Memory warnings.
 * 
 * If $vmMemoryStartLimitWarn is enabled, each time a VM is started through
 * phpVirtualBox, it will check that the available host memory is greater than
 * the base and video memory of the VM + 50MB (a little bit of overhead). If it
 * is not, a confirmation dialog will be presented to confirm that you want to
 * start the VM.
 *
 * If $vmMemoryOffset is set (and $vmMemoryStartLimitWarn), $vmMemoryOffset
 * megabytes is subtracted from the available host memory before the check is
 * performed by $vmMemoryStartLimitWarn logic. For instance it may be a good
 * idea to always have VM memory requirements + 100MB free. 100 is the default.
 */
#var $vmMemoryStartLimitWarn = true;
#var $vmMemoryOffset = 100;


/*
 * Display guest additions version of a running VM on its Details tab
 */
#var $enableGuestAdditionsVersionDisplay = true;

/* Disable any of phpVirtualBox's main tabs */
#var $disableTabVMSnapshots = true; // Snapshots tab
#var $disableTabVMConsole = true; // Console tab

/* Screen resolutions for console tab */
var $consoleResolutions = array('640x480','800x600','1024x768','1280x720','1440x900');

/* Console tab keyboard layout. Currently Oracle's RDP client only supports EN and DE. */
var $consoleKeyboardLayout = 'EN';

/* Max number of network cards per VM. Do not set above VirtualBox's limit (typically 8) or below 1 */
var $nicMax = 4;

/* Enable advanced configuration items (normally hidden in the VirtualBox GUI)
 * Note that some of these items may not be translated to languages other than English. 
 */
#var $enableAdvancedConfig = true;

/* Enable startup / shutdown configuration.
 * This only works in linux and you must add the vboxinit file to
 * your startup scripts list.
 */
#var $startStopConfig = true;

// Authentication library.
var $authLib = 'Builtin';

// VM ownership
#var $enforceVMOwnership = true;

// Per-user VM quota
#var $vmQuotaPerUser = 2;


// Allow VDE network configuration. This must be supported by the underlying VirtualBox installation!
// If you do not know what VDE networking is - you do not need it, it is probably not supported by your
// VirtualBox installation and will cause errors if enabled.
#var $enableVDE = true; 

// Disable setting SATA controllers port count to the max port number found when saving VMs.
#var $disableSataPortCount = true;

/* Enable Parallel Port configuration - EXPERIMENTAL
LPT support may or may not work for you. 
!!! VirtualBox LPT support only works in Linux. !!!
*/
#var $enableLPTConfig = true;

/* Enable HardDisk IgnoreFlush configuration. This controls the "ExtraData" setting
 * in "VBoxInternal/Devices/[controller type]/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush". See
 * Responding to guest IDE/SATA flush requests at:
 * http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch12.html#idp12757424
*/
#var $enableHDFlushConfig = true;


/* END SETTINGS  */


}

/etc/httpd/conf/extra/phpvirtualbox.conf

  Alias /phpvirtualbox "/usr/share/webapps/phpvirtualbox"
  <Directory "/usr/share/webapps/phpvirtualbox">
    Options FollowSymlinks
    AllowOverride All
	Require all granted
  </Directory>

/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

# grep -Ev "(^[[:blank:]]*#|^$)"  /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

ServerRoot "/etc/httpd"
Listen 80
LoadModule authn_file_module modules/mod_authn_file.so
LoadModule authn_core_module modules/mod_authn_core.so
LoadModule authz_host_module modules/mod_authz_host.so
LoadModule authz_groupfile_module modules/mod_authz_groupfile.so
LoadModule authz_user_module modules/mod_authz_user.so
LoadModule authz_core_module modules/mod_authz_core.so
LoadModule access_compat_module modules/mod_access_compat.so
LoadModule auth_basic_module modules/mod_auth_basic.so
LoadModule reqtimeout_module modules/mod_reqtimeout.so
LoadModule include_module modules/mod_include.so
LoadModule filter_module modules/mod_filter.so
LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule env_module modules/mod_env.so
LoadModule headers_module modules/mod_headers.so
LoadModule setenvif_module modules/mod_setenvif.so
LoadModule version_module modules/mod_version.so
LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
LoadModule proxy_connect_module modules/mod_proxy_connect.so
LoadModule proxy_ftp_module modules/mod_proxy_ftp.so
LoadModule proxy_http_module modules/mod_proxy_http.so
LoadModule proxy_fcgi_module modules/mod_proxy_fcgi.so
LoadModule proxy_scgi_module modules/mod_proxy_scgi.so
LoadModule proxy_wstunnel_module modules/mod_proxy_wstunnel.so
LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so
LoadModule proxy_balancer_module modules/mod_proxy_balancer.so
LoadModule proxy_express_module modules/mod_proxy_express.so
LoadModule slotmem_shm_module modules/mod_slotmem_shm.so
LoadModule lbmethod_byrequests_module modules/mod_lbmethod_byrequests.so
LoadModule lbmethod_bytraffic_module modules/mod_lbmethod_bytraffic.so
LoadModule lbmethod_bybusyness_module modules/mod_lbmethod_bybusyness.so
LoadModule lbmethod_heartbeat_module modules/mod_lbmethod_heartbeat.so
LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so
LoadModule unixd_module modules/mod_unixd.so
LoadModule status_module modules/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module modules/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule negotiation_module modules/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule dir_module modules/mod_dir.so
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module modules/mod_alias.so
<IfModule unixd_module>
User http
Group http
</IfModule>
ServerAdmin you@example.com
<Directory />
    AllowOverride none
    Require all denied
</Directory>
DocumentRoot "/srv/http"
<Directory "/srv/http">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
    Require all granted
</Directory>
<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
<Files ".ht*">
    Require all denied
</Files>
ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/error_log"
LogLevel warn
<IfModule log_config_module>
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\"" combined
    LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
    <IfModule logio_module>
      LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %I %O" combinedio
    </IfModule>
    CustomLog "/var/log/httpd/access_log" common
</IfModule>
<IfModule alias_module>
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/http/cgi-bin/"
</IfModule>
<IfModule cgid_module>
</IfModule>
<Directory "/srv/http/cgi-bin">
    AllowOverride None
    Options None
    Require all granted
</Directory>
<IfModule mime_module>
    TypesConfig conf/mime.types
    AddType application/x-compress .Z
    AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
</IfModule>
Include conf/extra/httpd-mpm.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-multilang-errordoc.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-languages.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-userdir.conf
Include conf/extra/httpd-default.conf
Include conf/extra/phpvirtualbox.conf
<IfModule proxy_html_module>
Include conf/extra/proxy-html.conf
</IfModule>
<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>

/etc/webapps/phpvirtualbox/.htaccess

# ls -l /etc/webapps/phpvirtualbox/.htaccess

The file is empty

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 14  2012 /etc/webapps/phpvirtualbox/.htaccess

Last edited by xganesh (2014-09-07 06:50:25)

xganesh · 2014-09-18 14:44:00

No replies?
Mods, maybe I posted this on the wrong section?

halfwalker · 2014-09-21 21:14:45

I'm getting exactly the same thing, though on a Ubuntu 14.04 box instead.

virtualbox-4.3.16
nginx v1.6.2
php5-fpm v5.5.9
phpvirtualbox v4.3-1

Virtualbox works fine - can create and run VMs headless or run virtualbox via ssh with X11 forwarding and it all is peachy. But phpvirtualbox via nginx is just a grey screen with a few divisions. That is, a thin bar of grey at the top, a main screen of grey, and a white box across the bottom.

xganesh · 2014-10-08 20:34:45

I've reviewed the settings, instructions and looked for answers. No joy so far. I'm uninstalling phpvirtualbox and reverting all the configs and settings to default, waiting for this project become mature enough to be usable in the near future.
Thanks for replying and for looking into this

janfai · 2014-10-26 20:17:07

I was getting grey page with few frames and error "Resource interpreted as Script but transferred with MIME type text/html" on a Ubuntu 12.04 server.

virtualbox-4.3.18
nginx v1.6.2
php5-fpm v5.3.10
phpvirtualbox v4.3-1

The problem was, my Nginx virtual server configuration file was missing following line:

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

/etc/nginx/sites-enabled/virtualbox.conf

--- cut ---
location ~ \.php$ {
try_files $uri =404;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
--- cut ---

I found this parameter on page: http://voidandany.free.fr/index.php/ins … graphique/

dslink · 2015-02-03 05:17:02

I was having the same issue just now, but it is working after reading this.

http://sourceforge.net/p/phpvirtualbox/ … /cbc7fa4b/

running under root "vboxwebsrv -H 127.0.0.1" got me to the login and admin/admin working. I have to do the rest because I was like wtf, and writing this made me think to run that command as root. Anyway. hope this helps someone.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-09-07 06:41:14