VBoxGtk

[damNageHack]

http://vboxgtk.sourceforge.net/

A simple GTK frontend for VirtualBox.

Most of VirtualBox features are not supported, and those that are will probably fail.

Both OSE and PUEL are supported.



Latest
https://sourceforge.net/project/downloa ... 5.2.tar.gz

A build script is available
http://www.slackware.org.uk/slackbuilds ... m/vboxgtk/

[zAchAry]

Don't you need to install Qt, anyway, if you're downloading VBox from Sun/Oracle?

[damNageHack]

Don't you need to install Qt, anyway, if you're downloading VBox from Sun/Oracle?

Why considering about Qt?

To be honest, the above was a joke. Probably you did not get it.
Okay, I found a better description in the downlaod tar.gz

Information
===========

VBoxGtk is a simple GTK frontend for VirtualBox. Its objective is to
support only the basic features of VirtualBox and keep the interface
simple and clean.

VBoxGtk is released under the GNU General Public License. See the file
"COPYING" for details.


Dependencies
============

VBoxGtk requires python, pygtk and VirtualBox (with SDK). It has been
tested with python-2.6, pygtk-2.14, gtk-2.16 and VirtualBox-3.1.6;
other versions may not work.


Running
=======

To run VBoxGtk just execute the vboxgtk script in bin/. For installation
instructions, see INSTALL.

So it is python based and makes usage of the SDK.

EDIT
Please be kindly referred to the documentation.
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#frontends

[pwatk]

I've been waiting for this project to mature for a while. I'll have to take a look at it when I've got time.

[gapan]

I think there is no sense in providing a frontend for virtualbox unless we provide a package for virtualbox too. In any case, the Qt frontend is already included with virtualbox and it's already installed, so I don't see much sense in providing a separate frontend anyway.

[damNageHack]

I can understand that it makes not much sense to have a frontend for VirtualBox packaged though there is no package for the backend.

Let me kindly ask if you have read the documentation?
http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#frontends

it is relatively painless to create yet another front-end to the complex virtualization engine that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to Chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces.it is relatively painless to create yet another front-end to the complex virtualization engine that is the core of VirtualBox, as the VirtualBox core neatly exposes all of its features in a clean API; please refer to Chapter 11, VirtualBox programming interfaces.

The Main API is made available to C++ clients through COM (on Windows hosts) or XPCOM (on other hosts). Bridges also exist for SOAP, Java and Python.

All programming information (documentation, reference information, header and other interface files as well as samples) have been split out to a separate Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for download from http://www.virtualbox.org. In particular, the SDK comes with a "Programming Guide and Reference" in PDF format, which contains, among other things, the information that was previously in this chapter of the User Manual.

[JRD]

I think there is no sense in providing a frontend for virtualbox unless we provide a package for virtualbox too.

I'm planning to provide one (OSE version). I just still need to correct some things on 64 bits.