The RemoteBox Web Appliance (RWA) allows RemoteBox to be used directly in any compatible web browser which opens up many more possibilities from distributed use, to using operating systems that don't have a native client available. It is intended to be used as a virtual machine running under VirtualBox

• Built upon Fedora Linux (Server Edition)
• RemoteBox interally runs as a standard user (security)
• Runs SELinux (security)
• Runs firewalld (security)
• Uses DHCP by default
• SSH enabled for remote-login but the root account is locked

• The RemoteBox Web Appliance should be considered experimental, at this stage
• For the most part it works reasonable well, however do not expect performance to be on-par with the desktop client
• There is no security preventing access to the RemoteBox web app itself, therefore you should run the appliance on private and trusted networks. RWA runs a firewall, so the user can mitigate this somewhat using firewall rules

Before importing the appliance, you will need to decompress it to a normal .ova file. There's many ways to do this. For example in Linux:

bzip2 -d RemoteBox-WA.ova.bz2

• If you choose to import using the VirtualBox GUI, select 'File->Import Appliance', browse to the OVA file and import.
• If you choose to import using RemoteBox, make sure the OVA file is accessible to the server and select 'File->Import Appliance', browse to the OVA file and import.
• If you choose to import using the command line

vboxmanage import RemoteBox-WA.ova

Once the appliance has been imported, please configure the virtual machine settings to make sure they are suitable for your use.

• Before starting for the first time, make sure you have configured the VM to your needs.
• Ideally you will have a DHCP server running on your network
• Simply start the appliance as you would any other VM.
• If the VM starts correctly, on it's console you should see something similar to the following:
• Open the URL shown in the console, in a web browser. For this example that would be http://192.168.1.202 and if everything works you should see the RemoteBox web app

The default appliance login credentials are:
• Username: remotebox
• Password: remotebox
You can login with these credentials using SSH (Secure Shell) or from the appliance console. You are strongly advised to change the password for this account. The remotebox user can run privileged commands via sudo.

As the appliance runs Fedora Linux (Server Edition), it's recommended you keep the system up to date. Login as the 'remotebox' user and run the following command, then reboot:

sudo dnf -y update

RDP / VNC Client
• The only RDP and VNC client that can be configured in the RemoteBox Web Appliance is Remmina. Do not change from the default client.
Supported Browsers
• Any browser which supports HTML 5 and Web Sockets should work.
• Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Seamonkey, Konqueror, Epiphany, Safari, MyPal, Web Positive amongst others, have been tested.
Network Configuration
The appliance is configured to use DHCP by default. Network settings can be changed using nmcli
Firewall
The appliiance runs FirewallD. You can change the firewall rules using firewall-cmd
Installing Packages
The appliance uses the standard Fedora repositories. Packages can be managed using dnf.
Docs
Please see the official Fedora documentation