# phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox

phpVirtualBox: A Web interface to manage and access VirtualBox machines

Repository: https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/phpvirtualbox
Language: PHP
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: phpvirtualbox, virtualbox, virtualbox-machine, virtualbox-ova, virtualbox-vm
Last push: 2026-04-06T10:13:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 76, release rhythm 66, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4055, "days_push": 149, "days_rel": 149, "gap_med": 77.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1155, forks 268 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:47.826408+00:00)

## What it is
phpVirtualBox is a PHP-based web interface for managing and accessing Oracle VirtualBox virtual machines. It provides a browser-based frontend to control VMs on a host running VirtualBox 7.x.

## Use cases
- manage virtualbox vms from a browser
- web-based virtualbox admin panel
- remotely start and stop virtualbox machines
- self-hosted vm management ui
- control virtualbox without the desktop gui

## When to choose
- you run VirtualBox on a headless server and want browser-based management
- you want a free, self-hosted alternative to the VirtualBox desktop GUI
- you need multi-user access to VirtualBox VMs over the web

## When to avoid
- you use a hypervisor other than VirtualBox (e.g. Proxmox, VMware, KVM)
- you need ARM host support, which is not available
- you cannot run a PHP 8.x web server on the VirtualBox host

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, http-server, developer-tools
- domain: self-hosted, developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: self-hosted, php
- tags: virtualbox, web-interface, vm-management, php, hypervisor-frontend, virtualization, web-server, linux

## Member repositories
- phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:47.826408+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:32:13.837466+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/phpvirtualbox/phpvirtualbox (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:47.826408+00:00, sha ad33e815ad42)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.