pomaretta / boxial

VirtualBox Frontend for manage virtual machines on several host, in a future update, the client will allow the user to connect to different machines that are running the Boxial Server package.

Boxial

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A virtual machine dashboard manager using React, Express and NodeJS

Setup

Install dependencies

Install the dependencies for the client and server.

# in one terminal window
cd server && npm i
# in another terminal window
cd client && npm i

Start server

An Express server is exposes an API for accessing virtual machine data and host data. Configure MySQL credentials on server/env/db-credentials.js, dump the server/auth/boxial_starter.sql to create database structure containing the admin credentials.

# in /server
npm start

Server is running on localhost:8000.

Start client

A React server for the front end.

# in /client
npm start

Client dev server is running on localhost:3000.

You can view the app at localhost:3000. Log in with admin user and password admin

Production build

Run npm run build on client and server.

Todos

• Let choose the stop option, actually only save state.
• Client SQL database to store client preferences and users
• API Key auth on server
• User panel where change name or password
• Allow server selectión on page
• Connection tester to test connection before trying to use
• Storage Usage, show all disk usage
• Network view, allow to view all interfaces