Hi John, Quickly with no details – you could use a virtual switch (bridge) that all of the VMs connect to, and assign addresses from a common IPv[4|6] subnet to the VMs. If you want the host to be on that same subnet, you’d need a virtual interface on the host, and attach it to the same bridge. (Or, you could tie and actual hw interface to the bridge, but this would only be necessary if you plan to let outside machines talk to your internal VM network.)
I’m sure it’s doable in VBox, but I’m more of a KVM/libvirt guy myself... So unclear on the VBox specifics. HTH, Will From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john boris Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 2:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [lopsa-tech] Question on setting up a Test network of VMs I am building a talk for our Tech meetings here at $WORK to show some system monitoring in action. Creating the VMs is easy but I am at a loss or not sure how to have a separate network in a virtual setup on my laptop. I would like to have four or five VMs with one being the montioring system. Then the others would have the the client's that talk back to the monitoring server. This talk will be given in a spot outside of my office so I just want to create this virtual network on my laptop. I am wondering if I gave them all IPs on the same subnet of the Monitoring server and point them all to that server would that do it? I am using Virtual box as the VM software and Ubuntu VM and a Windows VM as the other servers. If anyone can point me to a web document that explains this I'd appreciate it. I have been searching but I haven't found the magic formula of words to get a good response. TIA -- John J. Boris, Sr.
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