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User of PHPVirtualBox here and I just want to say it's a wonderful piece of software that has drastically simplified my life!

To the author: thank you so much for dedicating your time and effort to this project, and I wish you all the best.

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I don't see what phpvirtualbox could be used for. Can you give me an example? How did it simplify your life?

I'm a remote worker and I use VirtualBox as a hypervisor on a server that runs on-site on the other side of the country. I could do most management through VBoxCommand (CLI) but I've become comfortable using the GUI, and because my interaction with VirtualBox is infrequent (I usually set it and forget it) I'm more efficient that way.

X-Forwarding over SSH for this use-case has been pretty annoying (mostly due to latency), and PHPVirtualBox has been a major improvement.

I thought VirtualBox wasn't meant to be used for production. Is the performance good? Or are you saying that you develop on a remote VM?

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