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Google launches PHP Frontend to Virtualbox !
http://code.google.com/p/phpvirtualbox/

An open source, AJAX implementation of the VirtualBox user interface written in PHP. As a modern web interface, it allows you to access and control remote VirtualBox instances. Much of its verbage and some of its code is based on the (inactive) vboxweb project.

Features

* Start / Stop VMs
o Pause
o Save State
o Discard State
o Power Off
o ACPI Sleep
o ACPI Shutdown
* Snapshots
o Take Snapshot
o Delete Snapshot
o Restore Snapshot
* View VM Log files
* Configure VMs
o Excludes serial port configuration
o Excludes some display options that do not affect a headless environment
* Media
o Add media
o Full featured virtual media manager
o Create hard disk wizard
o Mount read-only media (DVD/CD and Floppy images) while VM is running
o Clone disk image
o Make disk image Immutable (read-only)
* Create virtual machine wizard
* Global networking configuration
o Add / remove / configure host-only interfaces
o Configure DHCP settings for host-only interfaces
* Import / Export Virtual Machines
* Virtual Machine Console access
o Allows specification of username / password and screen resolution
o Can be "detached" to open the VM's console in a minimal, new browser window

I Google...

no.no.no. you love sun, (now oracle :/ ), for the incredibly simple cli library provided with xVM... just dropping a front-end onto this is nothing really noteworthy... other than showing up the webmin devs for being the lazy sods they are ...

i use the cli to launch/term vm guests in order to isolate skype users from our domain... it's as feature rich as you could hope for while being surprisingly stable in practice...

on the plus side, this means the webmin interface will be getting this sooner than expected...

Lazy ... like me