On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jeppe Toustrup <openindi...@tenzer.dk> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 20:30, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I should preface this by saying that while I've used Solaris 10 for 3 >> years a developer, I'm a very novice sysadmin. >> >> I'm very strongly considering using OI for a production deployment. >> One requirement however is that it run inside VirtualBox so that >> developers and create a VM for development testing and staging. Since >> we'll be using zones in production, zones also need to work under >> VirtualBox (OS X). >> >> Right now I'm using 'bridged' networking mode' under VirtualBox to >> boot OI. The global zone has it's own IP and everything seems fine. >> When I try to create a VNIC and try to use in a zone no matter what I >> try I can't reach the 'internet'. I'm not even sure what documentation >> applies (OpenSolaris docs seem dated, there's not much info on the >> wiki etc). >> >> I'd really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right >> direction here. The zones we create need to be able to hit the >> internet. The dev's also need to be able connect to the zones from the >> VirtualBox host OS. But that's about it. >> >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Geoff >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > Zones with exclusive networking inside VirtualBox can be a pain. This > is because VirtualBox doesn't know of the extra MAC addresses for the > VNIC's in OpenIndiana, and thus doesn't forward the packets to those > MAC addresses to the OpenIndiana server. > > The only workarounds to this I can think of, is either using shared > networking, which may work depending on your needs. That way all zones > share the global zones MAC address, and will work fine. They do > however not get their own network stack. > Another workaround would be to add more virtual network interfaces in > VirtualBox, and then assign these interfaces to each zone. They will > appear as physical NICs to OpenIndiana. > > > -- > Venlig hilsen / Kind regards > Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer) > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
Thanks Jeppe, I'm making some progress now. I've set a container as exclusive IP then given set the physical to one of the new nics. The container is now reachable by the outside world. Cheers, GF _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
