Ansible role Virtualbox

Installs headless Virtualbox and phpVirtualbox for remote access through Web GUI. Meant for a headless Ubuntu or Debian servers.

Once the role has run through you can access the VirtualBox GUI from a browser by opening http://<HostnameOrIP>/. Use the IP or the hostname here that Ansible was running against. Make sure port 80 is not blocked by any firewall.

For the first login use admin:admin. See more details in the phpVirtualbox docs

Requirements

Tested with Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04. Probably works with all Debian and Ubuntu flavours and versions which are not too old.

Role Variables

Those are the role variables you probably want to change:

• virtualbox_user: vbox - User that runs Virtualbox deamon and phpVirtualbox connects to. This is NOT the user for signing in to the phpVirtualbox GUI
• virtualbox_user_pw: abc123 - Plaintext PW for virtualbox daemon user, needed for phpVirtualbox connection config.

There is more variables you can overwrite when using this role. For a full list see defaults/main.yml.

Dependencies

Depends on no other roles.

Example Playbook

Copy this role into the roles/stefanhorning.virtualbox dir in your Ansible project. Preferably add it as a submodule. You can also install it with ansible-galaxy install stefanhorning.virtualbox. Then use it like so:

- name: My playbook
  hosts: servers
  roles:
    - { role: stefanhorning.virtualbox, virtualbox_user: vbox, virtualbox_user_pw: supersecretvalue }

License

BSD

Author Information

Stefan Horning