[vbox-dev] Connect to remote vboxwebsrv

[Klaus Espenlaub]

On 07.03.2012 17:56, Johan Roussay wrote:
> So, I have my web server wich contain the API code, its IP is 10.21.2.81.
> I try to access to a vboxwebsrv instance running on a machine A with the IP 10.21.2.71.
> I launch vboxwebsrv on A with the option --host 10.21.2.81 (or in the /etc/default/virtualbox, I guess it's the same).
> Then from the web server I try, without success, to connect to 10.21.2.71:18083

Misunderstanding obviously... with --host you must specify the IP 
address of the system where vboxwebsrv is running, in your case 10.21.2.71.

It's the wrong place to discuss the details of how the network API in 
most of today's OSes is ticking, and vboxwebsrv isn't different from the 
other pieces of software which deal with network traffic.

In general, if you want the webservice to accept connections on all 
interfaces, you can also specify 0.0.0.0.

Klaus

>
> Le 7 mars 2012 à 17:15, Frank Mehnert a écrit :
>
>> Hmm, if you set VBOXWEB_HOST in /etc/default/virtualbox then the
>> '-H' parameter is passed to vboxwebsrv which is equivalent to '--host'.
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> On Wednesday 07 March 2012 16:52:27 Johan Roussay wrote:
>>> Sorry !
>>>
>>> vboxwebsrv --host 10.10.10.10
>>>
>>> It looks like not to read the conf file ...
>>>
>>> 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
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