The VirtualBox web service
(vboxwebsrv
) is used for controlling
VirtualBox remotely. It is documented in detail in the VirtualBox Software
Development Kit (SDK); please see Chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces. As the
client base using this interface is growing, we added start scripts for
the various operation systems we support. The following describes how to
use them.
On Mac OS X, launchd is used. An example configuration file
can be found in
$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist
.
It can be enabled by changing the
Disabled
key from
true
to
false
. To manually start the
service use the following command:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist
For additional information on how launchd services could be
configured see http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/BPSystemStartup.html
.