On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Aleksey Ilyushin wrote:
On Dec 17, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
I went to the Virtual Box application, selected my (non-running)
VM, hit the "Network" header and switched the VM to use host-only
networking. Then I started my VM. I had hoped I could do "ssh
vboxnet0" from my host machine to connect to the guest, but
Instead of vboxnet0, which is the name of the interface, you need to
specify the name of the guest (VM) system, or its IP address if the
name is not in DNS. You can look up (or change) IP address in global
network settings (see below).
Ok. Well, I am not an expert on setting up linux systems. So, I looked
elsewhere on the net to find the bits I needed (I think) to the /etc/
network/interfaces file in the Ubuntu guest. And I turned on (I think)
the DHCP server in VB. And the guests still cannot see anything to get
an IP address from.
It seems as though the information problem here is a matrix. I am
running VB on platform X. I am trying to run guest OS Y. I am trying
to setup up network configuration Z. I have to do procedure A on VB
and procedure B on the guests. It seems as though the "open-source-
ish" way to do this would be that each of these would be on a wiki. So
I would look for an article entitled "Using VB on Mac OS X to set up
Ubuntu 9 guests with Host-only Networking."
Instead I find a web page (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/User_HOWTOS)
where "articles" are hosted after they are sent in? That doesn't seem
very interactive. The "User HOWTO" page seems to cover only about 1/5
of the matrix here.
And I find a phpBB forum system. I moderate a forum system using this
for a commercial publisher. It is a PITA to use, there are lots of
redundant questioners with no answers to sort through, and the search
engine is crap. One might expect this from a commercial publisher, but
it does not seem very open-source.
This newtwork setup was pretty painless when I was using Parallels. I
guess I will have to go away and come back in a year or two, again,
and hope that VBox documentation is using open platforms and the docs
may actually be complete enough. We'll see.
In the VirtualBox graphical user interface, you can configure all
these items in
the global settings via “File” -> “Settings” ->
“Network”, which lists all host-only
networks which are presently in use.
On Mac it is a bit different: "VirtualBox" -> "Preferences",
"Network" tab.
Well, VB works on several platforms, and guests can be one of several
platforms. If the UI instructions cannot be correct for the given
platform, what is the point?
O well.
- ray
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