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Title: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: stephdl on October 20, 2013, 05:19:12 PM
Ola

i wonder about different subjects with phpvirtualbox and virtualbox on a SME Server 8.0

-how we can do easily a bridge network, i'm thinking how you can do that...do you use the contrib bridge interface (https://wiki.contribs.org/BridgeInterface), do you have some explanations or a wiki page.

-what is the user who manage the vboxwebsrv now by default it is the root user and I do not like too much this behaviour.

If you can help, thanks in advance
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: stephdl on October 26, 2013, 12:20:56 AM
-how we can do easily a bridge network, i'm thinking how you can do that...do you use the contrib bridge interface (https://wiki.contribs.org/BridgeInterface), do you have some explanations or a wiki page.
When you want to get a real ip on your network, you can use the contrib BridgeInterface (https://wiki.contribs.org/BridgeInterface) and select br0 in the phpvirtualbox settings, it is quite simple and obviously easy, thanks to Vip-ire.

-what is the user who manage the vboxwebsrv now by default it is the root user and I do not like too much this behaviour.
i need some reviews, some advices and some tips  :lol:

Proxmox is devil :°
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: TerryF on October 26, 2013, 03:00:27 AM
Proxmox is devil :°

Can't help you with your projects Stephdl, I'm battling to handle ESXi :-), but I do whole heartedly concur with your observation  :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: stephdl on October 26, 2013, 02:06:34 PM
Why do you want to use ESXI, proxmox is not good enough for your usage ?

sorry i'm curious.
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: TerryF on October 26, 2013, 02:29:16 PM
Why do you want to use ESXI, proxmox is not good enough for your usage ?
sorry i'm curious.

On a N54L I have found ESXi 5.0 to perform better than proxmox.  I must admit I only tried proxmox once and found it a little unintuative and slow.  ESXi just works.

I will probably revist proxmox in the future, but for the time being ESXi does it for me.
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: guest22 on October 26, 2013, 03:35:03 PM
Can't help you with your projects Stephdl, I'm battling to handle ESXi :-), but I do whole heartedly concur with your observation  :lol: :lol:

History shows that there will come a day that Oracle (owner of Virtualbox) will shut down the project or commercialize/licenses it. So best to choose a disk format for your VM's that can be 'converted' to other virtualization platforms. (MySQL, OpenOffice, Open Solaris, Java, ring any bells...? ;-)
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: TerryF on October 26, 2013, 03:38:49 PM
History shows that there will come a day that Oracle (owner of Virtualbox) will shut down the project or commercialize/licenses it. So best to choose a disk format for your VM's that can be 'converted' to other virtualization platforms. (MySQL, OpenOffice, Open Solaris, Java, ring any bells...? ;-)

Hey HF, how goes the mustard industry :-)
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: stephdl on October 26, 2013, 04:14:55 PM
History shows that there will come a day that Oracle (owner of Virtualbox) will shut down the project or commercialize/licenses it. So best to choose a disk format for your VM's that can be 'converted' to other virtualization platforms. (MySQL, OpenOffice, Open Solaris, Java, ring any bells...? ;-)
Yeah it was my big nightmare few months ago, that oracle can shut-down the project, but i feel that they have learnt about the open-office project. You can see now the leader is Libreoffice, Openoffice is only a shadow of what he was before oracle comes.
I think that oracle want to be considered as a sponsor, but i do not know for how long it can pay.
When you look about linux distro as debian, this software is a part of their "free repository", i hope if they do this, we can believe in a good future.

But stay suspicious :D

For now by default you can choose

VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image)
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
HDD (Parallels Hard Disk)
QED (QEMU enhanced disk)
QCOW (QEMU Copy-On-Write)

Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: guest22 on October 26, 2013, 06:44:58 PM

For now by default you can choose

VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image)
VMDK (Virtual Machine Disk)
VHD (Virtual Hard Disk)
HDD (Parallels Hard Disk)
QED (QEMU enhanced disk)
QCOW (QEMU Copy-On-Write)


No RAW?
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: guest22 on October 26, 2013, 06:48:21 PM
Hey HF, how goes the mustard industry :-)

I expanded my business into the home made tomato ketchup. Making the perfect mustard became dull. Since McDonalds is scratching Heinz from the purchasing list, I think I have a good chance. I mean where else can they buy the best ketchup in the world.
Title: Re: PHPvirtualbox, best practice ?
Post by: TerryF on October 27, 2013, 12:01:46 AM
Well, lets see, start by calling it Tomato sauce, the word ketchup just doesn't cut it  :lol:

Apologies Stephdl we are wandering.. :-)