Local or remote virtualbox hosts must be compiled with 'vboxwebsrv' useflag and the respective init script must be running to use this interface: /etc/init.d/vboxwebsrv start To enable the automatic startup mode feature uncomment the following line in the config.php file: var $startStopConfig = true; You should also add the /etc/init.d/vboxinit-@@SLOT@@ script to the default runlevel on the virtualbox host: `rc-update add vboxinit-@@SLOT@@ default` If the server is on a remote host, than the script must be copied manually from @@FILESDIR@@/vboxinit-initd to /etc/init.d/vboxinit on the remote host.