[vbox-dev] Connect to remote vboxwebsrv

[Klaus Espenlaub]

On 07.03.2012 16:52, Johan Roussay wrote:
> Sorry !
>
> vboxwebsrv --host 10.10.10.10

Is this a manually entered command? And is this IP address a valid IP 
address of the host where the webservice should run?

> It looks like not to read the conf file ...

vboxwebsrv doesn't read the conf file. It's the service start script 
which reads /etc/default/%PACKAGE%...

Klaus

>
> Le 7 mars 2012 à 16:34, Frank Mehnert a écrit :
>
>> 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