Create a web interface that starts VM's on the server side

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Published on 2012-07-06T19:25:36Z Indexed on 2012/07/06 21:18 UTC
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I am creating a service called TorCompute which allows for creating virtual Tor Hidden Service servers on my infrastructure (I say infrastructure, by that I mean just the 3x 32GB RAM machines waiting to be purchased).

What I would like to be able to do is for users to log on, access the web interface and spin up a VM with a variable about of RAM/Disk Space. I've written the PHP for logging in and have a nice web interface, just I need the code to actually create them! How would I go about doing this?

Thanks,

Stewart

EDIT: I will run them with VMWare Server, with vmrun

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