Re: networking with virtual machine
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32:40PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running
> testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've
> done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking setup,
> and network configuration has changed in the meantime.
>
> I need to somehow set up a bridge interface so the guest can tap into
> it. I don't understand the docs I found about that. Looking at [1], I
> can see that my physical network adaptor won't have an IP address
> anymore and that there is only a bridge interface instead. This is
> probably not what I want, and I remember I did it differently before,
> after lots of experimenting.
>
If you're using Virtualbox, you don't need to set up a bridged interface
with regular Linux tools. You can just select "Bridged networking" for
your virtual machine and Virtualbox handles it.
In older versions of Virtualbox, it was necessary to set up a bridged
interface using Linux tools. Their documentation covered it fairly well
as I recall. I think that was in the version 1.x days. Maybe you can
find some of their old documentation.
-Rob
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