Cannot connect to vboxwebsrv on OS X 10.11 installation

[jpstaub]

Error logging in or connecting to vboxwebsrv
NOTE: This is different than an Invalid username or password error.
This typically indicates that the username and / or password is incorrect in config.php. These must be set to the system username / password of the user that administers your VirtualBox virtual machines.

What does, "These must be set to the system username / password of the user that administers your VirtualBox virtual machines," mean for an OS X 10.11 installation?

I can use VirtualBox. I can start, stop and modify virtual machines. But putting my user account username/password information into config.php does not produce favorable results. All that's returned is the following:

Exception Object
(
    [message:protected] => Error logging in to vboxwebsrv.
    [string:Exception:private] => 
    [code:protected] => 64
    [file:protected] => /Library/WebServer/Documents/phpvirtualbox/endpoints/api.php
    [line:protected] => 134
    [trace:Exception:private] => Array
        (
        )

    [previous:Exception:private] => 
)

vboxwebsrv says the following:

00:21:35.684817 SQW01    Processing connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=8 (0 out of 1 threads idle)
00:21:35.735633 SQW01    Access for user 'my_login_name' denied

How do I modify systems settings so that phpvirtualbox logs in to vboxwebsrv?

[jpstaub]

In my case the problem definitely has something to do with "username/password."

"VBoxManage setproperty," is available so I used that to turn off authentication for the vboxwebsrv. The command is as follows:

$ VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null

vboxwebsrv was started with:

$ vboxwebsrv

End result was normal operation:

SQW01    External authentication library is 'null'
SQPmp    Request 2 on socket 8 queued for processing (1 items on Q)
SQW01    Processing connection from IP=127.0.0.1 socket=8 (0 out of 1 threads idle)
SQPmp    Request 3 on socket 11 queued for processing (1 items on Q)

Prior to modifying VBox properties a failed attempt looked like this:

SQW01    External authentication library is 'VBoxAuth'
SQW01    Access for user 'my_login_name' denied
main     requested termination, cleaning up

How does one go about modifying the authentication library 'VBoxAuth' so that vboxwebsrv takes those entries into account?

[Paul Bichis]

Hello,

Same scenario on Mageia 6, x86_64
It is something related to the librariers. (dunno whom or which)
I have a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 that does the same (VBoxAuth does not work, but unll auth works)
But on an Asus X550CC laptop, VBoxAuth works just fine.
(same .rpm packages)

[root@s1hp ~]# rpm -qa 'virtualbox'
phpvirtualbox-vboxtool-5.2-0.mga6
virtualbox-kernel-4.9.35-desktop-1.mga6-5.1.22-20.mga6
virtualbox-5.1.22-1.mga6
virtualbox-doc-5.1.22-1.mga6
phpvirtualbox-5.2-0.mga6
[root@s1hp ~]#

[root@asus_yatebts ~]# rpm -qa 'virtualbox'
virtualbox-kernel-4.9.35-desktop-1.mga6-5.1.22-20.mga6
phpvirtualbox-5.2-0.mga6
virtualbox-5.1.22-1.mga6
virtualbox-kernel-4.14.137-desktop-1.mga6-6.0.10-2.mga6
phpvirtualbox-vboxtool-5.2-0.mga6
virtualbox-doc-5.1.22-1.mga6
[root@asus_yatebts ~]#

[Smart Guide]

Hi,

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