[vbox-dev] Connect to remote vboxwebsrv

Frank Mehnert frank.mehnert at oracle.com
Wed Mar 7 15:34:23 GMT 2012


PLEASE,

could you reply to the mailing list and not directly to me? Thank you!
Which exact host IP option did you specify when it failed?

Frank

On Wednesday 07 March 2012 16:28:19 Johan Roussay wrote:
> Hi Frank,
> IP I specified is the web server with witch I  try to connect. But when I
> launch vboxwebsrv I have the following output : Socket connection
> successful: host = default (localhost), …
> 
> When i specify the host option in the command line, it says :
> 	###SAUP FAULT : Cannot assign request address [SAUP-ENV:Server]
> 
> Le 7 mars 2012 à 16:05, Frank Mehnert a écrit :
> > Hi Johan,
> > 
> > On Wednesday 07 March 2012 15:40:44 Johan ROUSSAY wrote:
> >> Dear all,
> >> I am trying to connect to the virtualbox webservice (vboxwebsrv) on a
> >> remote server with the java api. The problem is that the connection is
> >> refused (same with a web browser). The connection works locally
> >> (localhost: 18083 send me the xml).
> >> 
> >> I edited /etc/default/virtualbox on remote machines like this:
> >> VBOXWEB_USER=user group virtualbox
> >> VBOXWEB_HOST=ip of the computer that I want to access virtualbox
> >> 
> >> I'm on a debian, without firewall ...
> >> 
> >> Any idea?
> > 
> > are you sure that you specified the correct IP, that is, the one
> > which you are trying to connect to from the remote host? By default,
> > the webservice server binds to localhost but the VBOXWEB_HOST
> > parameter should make this work for remote connections ...
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Frank

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