I've got a rather "messy" but practical configuration question.
Dual-boot laptop Windows 7/ubuntu.
In the Windows 7 environment, I also run a small number of vm's with ubuntu
virtual machines. when Windows 7 is running, I want to access the partition
containing the "native" home directory simultaneously from any VM and the host.
I figure the best way to do this is to run a really tiny virtual machine that
mounts the Linux partition and exports the file system via NFS. I can then mount
up the exported filesystem on all the other machines (host and guests)
This is what I've figured out so far:
Every guest is given a NAT interface so it can access the Internet
there is an "internal" network so that all guests can speak to each other
all guests have a host only network (one per guest) so they can talk to the host
and vice versa
each guest imports NFS from the NFS server over the internal network
host imports NFS over the host only network to the NFS server.
am I in the right place or have I missed the networking model entirely? I've
tried to share the host only network between multiple guests and it rarely works
well. Usually machines would appear or vanish at random times and it was not nice.
One other problem I have with virtual machine networking in general (all vendors
fail as far as I can tell) is that I should be able tell the system what my
guest name is during the DHCP process, just like real systems and the DNS server
should let me resolve a name like imacoolvm.vbox to an IP address. In the
meantime, I'll keep using IP addresses. And changing them every time an upgrade
changes the IP address range used for a network.
I will deal with this Windows 7 issue later but one of the places whereI have
run into problems is with Windows 7 and it's marvelous "I'm too smart for my
pants" networking services. I'm having trouble turning off the firewall for just
one interface etc.
thanks for making one of the better VM's. Usually (and I hope soon always) it
makes my life better.
--- eric
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