VirtualBox webservice issue

Hi,

I have the virtualbox plugin installed and have been creating and running VMs via the command line for a while as I have been unable to get the webservice to connect, but it would now be useful to give someone access to this.

I get the following errors;

omv gui -> virtualbox -> virtual machines:

Error #64:
exception 'Exception' with message 'Error logging in to vboxwebsrv.' in /usr/share/phpvirtualbox/lib/vboxconnector.php:210
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/virtualbox.inc(176): vboxconnector->connect()
#1 [internal function]: OMVRpcServiceVirtualBox->getMachines(Array, Array)
#2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpcservice.inc(125): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc.inc(79): OMVRpcServiceAbstract->callMethod('getMachines', Array, Array)
#4 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(500): OMVRpc::exec('VirtualBox', 'getMachines', Array, Array, 1)
#5 {main}

and on phpvirtualbox:

Exception Object
(
[message:protected] => Error logging in to vboxwebsrv.
[string:Exception:private] =>
[code:protected] => 64
[file:protected] => /usr/share/phpvirtualbox/lib/ajax.php
[line:protected] => 128
[trace:Exception:private] => Array
(
)

[previous:Exception:private] =>
)

service vboxweb-service status
Checking for VBox Web Service ...running

ps aux | grep vbox
vbox 2887 0.0 0.3 209816 12700 ? Sl 15:35 0:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv --background -H 127.0.0.1
vbox 2914 0.0 0.2 103232 9008 ? S 15:35 0:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD
vbox 2932 0.0 0.3 128632 12652 ? Sl 15:35 0:00 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown

netstat -an | grep 18083
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:18083 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN

cat /etc/default/virtualbox
# Defaults for VirtualBox.
# Sourced by vboxweb-service on startup

VBOXWEB_USER=vbox
VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1

dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
ii openmediavault-virtualbox 1.0.14 all VirtualBox plugin for OpenMediaVault.
ii phpvirtualbox 4.3-2 all PhpVirtualBox is a web interface for VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-4.3 4.3.20-96996~Debian~wheezy amd64 Oracle VM VirtualBox
ii virtualbox-extpack-installer 4.3.20 all VirtualBox extpack installer.

Any help will be appreciated, but as I have VM's running I do not want to uninstall/reinstall the plugin.

Thanks!

In case this happens to anyone else the following fixed the issue for me;

chown vbox:vboxusers -R "/media/path/to/VMs"


su vbox -c "VBoxManage setproperty machinefolder '/media/path/to/VMs'"


su vbox -c "VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null"


/etc/init.d/vboxweb-service restart

no guarantees it will work for you, so just for information.