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I just found a package called "phpVirtualBox" from Octopi and then I googled and found that you can install it with the following command:

sudo pacman -S phpvirtualbox

So I installed it, but now how do I run it?

I looked in my start menu and searched for it, but it's not appearing there. I checked the Readme on their GitHub, but it's not listed how to launch or use it there either.

How do I actually open or use it?

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I looked in my start menu and searched for it, but it's not appearing there.

It's a server-side software. Users access it via HTTP: it cannot "live" in your start menu.

You will have to set up a web server on your machine, configure it so that the directory it got installed to works and executes PHP scripts (a perpetual source of security vulnerabilities, by the way), and then point a browser at your own server, and interact with it that way.

It doesn't seem to be the software you need if you just want a graphical tool for managing VMs on your machine. It depends on virtualbox, and virtualbox already brings a graphical frontend!

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  • Ah damn. I was hoping I could simply install this package, and then start my VM from this web interface. Because the GUI App VirtualBox doesn't open. As soon as I click on it, then it crashes immediately. So I'm not able to start any of my VMs for the past 2-3 days. And this isn't the first time that the VirtualBox App frontend has stopped working. A few months back, the same happened and I couldn't start any of my VMs for 2 weeks. Only 2 weeks later when I did a system update, it started working again. So I think I kind of need a second interface or way to start the VMs without the GUI App. Commented Aug 21 at 12:23
  • well, I'm not sure why you're going for more obscure things. If virtualbox crashes, another piece of software built atop of it won't fare better. Commented Aug 21 at 12:25
  • Seriously though, yesterday you were so close with virt-manager, with the only mistake seemingly being trying to use it via flatpak. I know the virt-manager package is just available natively on arch, why didn't you just install that? On debian, fedora, alma and Ubuntu, I have done just that and it was all it took to get working user VMs. I bet Arch has documentation, and it shouldn't be any harder (unless Arch is being special here, which I can't preclude, but it seems still the way of lower resistance). Commented Aug 21 at 12:27
  • (you'll want to uninstall virtualbox first, and probably reboot. If that crashes, I don't want to know what the kernel module did) Commented Aug 21 at 12:32
  • If I uninstall VirtualBox, won't I lose my VMs? I have tried to reinstall VirtualBox a couple of times now, but that didn't work. Commented Aug 21 at 12:35

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