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Hello,

i am struggling to install Remotebox.

I tried it with the video, but the repository cannot be added...

sudo wget http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb

gives back:

--2020-07-26 16:14:29--  http://archive.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb
Resolving archive.getdeb.net (archive.getdeb.net)... 143.95.32.90
Connecting to archive.getdeb.net (archive.getdeb.net)|143.95.32.90|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb [following]
--2020-07-26 16:14:29--  http://www.getdeb.net/install_deb/getdeb-repository_0.1-1~getdeb1_all.deb
Resolving www.getdeb.net (www.getdeb.net)... 143.95.32.90
Reusing existing connection to archive.getdeb.net:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2020-07-26 16:14:30 ERROR 404: Not Found.

So i downloaded the tarball and extracted the RemotBox 2.7 folder.
Inside the folder i tried:

sh remotebox

...it gives back:

remotebox: 4: use: not found
remotebox: 5: use: not found
remotebox: 6: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
Remotebox Version: 2.7
Virtualbox Version: 6.1.12r139181

Please help, i want to migrate form phpvirtualbox (the seems to be no release candidate which is compatible with Virtualbox 6.1) to RemoteBox.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ian Chapman - 2020-07-27

Hi,

Honestly, if you read the manual it tells you exactly what to do. Not only is it included in the archive, but available right here:

http://remotebox.knobgoblin.org.uk/docs/remotebox.pdf

But firstly, it's not a shell script but a perl script/

./remotebox

is all you need if the dependencies are installed

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- Jakob Czapski - 2020-07-27
  
  Hi thx for your fast reply!
  
  I tried:
  
  ./remotebox Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. Compilation failed in require at ./remotebox line 22.
  
  i tried also to install also GTK2:
  
  sudo apt-get install gtk2.0
  
  it installed then 450MB of packeges and still:
  
  ./remotebox Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. Compilation failed in require at ./remotebox line 22.
  
  is the result of ./remotebox
  
  UPDATE:
  
  i managed to install the gtk2 by sudo apt-get install libgtk2-perl
  
  now i got:
  
  ./remotebox Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30/Gtk2.pm line 126.
  
  well i am running a headless server, but i guess that refers on the display remotebox whos when connecting via http://<ip>:18083</ip> right?
  
  Cheers
  
  Jakob
  
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  - Ian Chapman - 2020-07-28
    
    In general RemoteBox runs on the client machine and not the same machine that VirtualBox is on. I have no idea what you're trying to do there.
    
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    - Jakob Czapski - 2020-08-01
      
      Damn!
      
      I must say you are completely right, my mindset totally followed the phpvirtualbox-logic...
      
      Thank you for the enlightment Ian, and please close this post.
      
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      - Ian Chapman - 2020-08-02
        
        Hi,
        
        No worries. :-)
        
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- Jakob Czapski - 2020-07-27
  
  Hi thx for your fast reply!
  
  I tried:
  
  ./remotebox Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. Compilation failed in require at ./remotebox line 22.
  
  i tried also to install also GTK2:
  
  sudo apt-get install gtk2.0
  
  it installed then 450MB of packeges and still:
  
  ./remotebox Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.30.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.30 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.30 /usr/share/perl/5.30 /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base) at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /home/hal9000/RemoteBox-2.7/share/remotebox/rbox_gui_init.pl line 9. Compilation failed in require at ./remotebox line 22.
  
  is the result of ./remotebox
  
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  - Ian Chapman - 2020-07-28
    
    And did you do
    
    apt-get install libgtk2-perl libsoap-lite-perl freerdp-x11 tigervnc-viewer
    
    as per the manual?
    
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Update:

i found an .rpm packag of remotebox amd installed it with "alien -i <package>"
it confirmed being installed. </package>

Then i followed:

[this instruction from chapter 4 on] (http://knobgoblin.org.uk/docs/remotebox.pdf)

The vboxweb-service is starting well:

systemctl status vboxweb-service
● vboxweb-service.service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (exited) since Sun 2020-07-26 20:24:28 CEST; 6min ago
    Process: 6434 ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUC>

Jul 26 20:24:28 hal9999 systemd[1]: Starting vboxweb-service.service...
Jul 26 20:24:28 hal9999 systemd[1]: Started vboxweb-service.service.

However connect attempt via

http://<lan ip of the server>:18083/

fails.

netstat -lntp | grep 18083

does not return any output.

Ian Chapman - 2020-07-27

What does your config file show?

They changed the behaviour in recent editions of VirtualBox with regards to logfile writing. It might be that you're hitting. On your VirtualBox server try this instead

Change the "virtual" user to be whatever you use...

mkdir -l /var/log/vbox
chown virtual:virtual /var/log/vbox

Change the logfile as appropriate in your /etc/default/virtualbox file.

VBOXWEB_LOGFILE="/var/log/vbox/vboxweb.log"

Restart the web service

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- Jakob Czapski - 2020-07-27
  
  /etc/default/virtualbox
  
  shows:
  
  VBOXWEB_USER=virtual VBOXWEB_TIMEOUT=0 VBOXWEB_HOST=localhost #VBOXWEB_HOST=127.0.0.1 VBOXWEB_LOGFILE=/var/log/vboxwebservice.log VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/var/lib/virtualbox-autostart VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/default/vb-autostart-perms
  
  btw i assigned a user virtual but gave no passwd, should i do it?
  Stupid questions: do i need the quotes around the values?
  
  /etc/default/virtualbox
  
  changed to:
  
  VBOXWEB_USER=virtual VBOXWEB_TIMEOUT=0 VBOXWEB_HOST=localhost VBOXWEB_LOGFILE="/var/log/vbox/vboxweb.log" VBOXAUTOSTART_DB=/var/lib/virtualbox-autostart VBOXAUTOSTART_CONFIG=/etc/default/vb-autostart-perms
  
  i stopped, restarted the vbox-web-service:
  
  systemctl status vboxweb-service.service
  
  ● vboxweb-service.service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2020-07-27 19:59:53 CEST; 6s ago Process: 54374 ExecStart=/usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxweb-service.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Tasks: 19 (limit: 18943) Memory: 37.2M CGroup: /system.slice/vboxweb-service.service ├─54397 /usr/lib/virtualbox/vboxwebsrv --background -H localhost -t 0 -F /var/log/vbox/vboxweb.log ├─54400 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxXPCOMIPCD └─54407 /usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxSVC --auto-shutdown Jul 27 19:59:53 hal9999 systemd[1]: Starting vboxweb-service.service... Jul 27 19:59:53 hal9999 vboxweb-service.sh[54374]: vboxweb-service.sh: Starting VirtualBox web service. Jul 27 19:59:53 hal9999 systemd[1]: Started vboxweb-service.service.
  
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  - Ian Chapman - 2020-07-28
    
    Looks OK to me. I don't think you need quotes unless you've got things like spaces in the filenames, but mine has quotes.
    
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