Posts tagged Manager
Android – Process Manager
Jun 9th
My next project will be Process Manager. Using lsof I will be scanning various ports to see if a particular process is listening for incoming connections. I am in the initial states of controlling the processes, but the algorithms are complete to read if the processes are running. Currently the app scans for Apache, Mysql, Sendmail, POP, and imap. I will expand it to 6 or so processes for the free version, and every possible pertinent process I can think of for the paid version. Restarting processes will require root access so some sort of sudo command, or shell script will be required. I should be ready to release the free version in less than a week or so. The paid version, just like VirtualBox manager will have DSA encrypted login and will support more hosts. The free version will be limited to 6 hosts or so. I may make the free version much more limited that the free VirtualBox Manager. This would be in an attempt to encourage the purchasing of the paid version.
The app will use the same UI I created for VirtualBox manager, which will substantially reduce the amount of time needed to code the app.
VirtualBox Windows Vista – Host Network Bridge and Tap
Jan 12th
This entire post is no longer applicable to the most recent version of VirtualBox. Here is a more recent post.
VirtualBox is well equipped for a Windows environment. Most of its features have a mechanism for automatic installation and setup. To get your guest OS, in Windows Vista, to have a real IP address from your router you first need a network bridge and tap. Open the VirtualBox manager:
Then select a guest OS and open its settings. Then click the network tab:
Then click the add network tap button:
It doesn’t matter what the name is 
Then adjust your guest OS networking adapter accordingly.
Now open your Windows Vista network configurations manager:
This screenshot is what your network configurations should be after everything is done. To achieve this simply select both the VirtualBox tap, that was previously created, and bridge it to your LAN connection. Select both by click on each adapter while pressing the shift key. Then right click on either of the two highlighted icons and select “bridge”. This will automatically create a bridge between the tap and your real host networking adapter. Wham bam, now you can select a real static IP in your VirtualBox guest OS on a Windows Vista system
Update (12/4/2009); At the top of this post I say that the information here is outdated. You can view the post listed above if you want, but here are the pertinent screenshots also:
Here is a screen from Windows Vista. Go to the network tab of the virtual machine settings:
Then select the attach to drop down menu:
Then change the attach to, drop down menu, to bridged adapter:
