Question to the VirtualBox-Thread in the Guides-Forum

Huberer · Mar 4th 2020

First of all I want to thank you for the real great VirtualBox-Guide here. It's a pity that VirtualBox is not anymore in the Debian 10 repo.
With your how-to it was easy to install. Thanks again.

There's still one issue I had.
After I did all the steps in the guide I wanted to log in the web interface (IP-Server:8080) but neither with the vbox user nor with phpvirtualbox-webgui user I couldn't log in. I always got the info that user/password is incorrect.
So I was looking around in the www and found a hint to use admin/admin for user/password. With that I could log into the GUI.

Why it is like that? Did I something wrong or is this correct to use admin/admin.

Till now I didn't have time to create a VM. First I want to be sure that the basic stuff is running without any issues.

Thanks in advance

mkpd · Mar 5th 2020

I would like to thank ruru69 also for the guide. I tried Cockpit VM and didn't like it but I have been using vbox for many years so I may be biased.

admin/admin is the default for a new install to log into the phpVirtualBox web interface.
After logging in to the web interface go to file > preference > users and change the users as you wish.

I have created a VM and so far it has worked ok.

I still have 2 issues
vboxweb-services does not start on reboot. I have to start it manually but otherwise everything works fine.
If I try and save a shared Folder mount in the VM settings. phpVirtualBox crashes when I try and save the VM. I worked around this by adding the mount to the fstab inside the VM.

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