RE: Oracle Virtualbox Networking Multiple VMS (question for advanced Virtualbox users)
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:46:17 -0500
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Kevin,
Ahhhh...interesting approach. I was attempting to do something similar with the Microsoft Loopback adapter - install the adapter, enable ICS sharing between my LAN and the Loopback adapter and use the loopback adapter as my NIC for my VMS - *HOWEVER* my 'overly zealous' Network Admins have apparently disabled ICS on the domain (grumble). :) (Only kidding of course - I'm sure there's a good reason they do that)
I'm going to try your approach. Makes sense that it should work.
Regards,
Chris Taylor
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Lidh [mailto:kevin.lidh_at_gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 8:39 AM
To: Taylor, Chris David; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Oracle Virtualbox Networking Multiple VMS (question for advanced Virtualbox users)
What I wound up doing was downloading and installing VMware Player. This will run host-only and NAT networks on your system. Then I bridged to VMware's NAT. This let me set my static IPs
Hope that helps,
Kevin
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Subject: Oracle Virtualbox Networking Multiple VMS (question for advanced Virtualbox users)
I'm running Virtualbox on my Windows Enterprise desktop with 2 VMs (Oracle Linux 5.8 - RAC demo) and I'm having difficulty getting the internal networking between the guests setup the way "I want it". I do *not* want my vms to use bridged networking as they get IPs from the corporate DHCP server which is frowned on.
I used a NAT setup and changed Virtualbox to use the "Host Resolver as DNS Proxy" for each VM - now each of my VMS can do an NSLOOKUP which will resolve using A.) the host DNS or B.) the hosts file on the Windows host. With this setup I can add simulated DNS records to my hosts file on the HOST and the GUESTS will resolve as if connected to a real DNS server.
Now, I've assigned static IPs to my NAT'd vms, and they can talk to the host correctly *and* to the outside world correctly. *HOWEVER* the NAT'd VMs cannot talk to each other (grumble) through an apparent limitation of Virtualbox NAT implementation. (VMWare NAT'd vms can talk to each other I believe).
What I *want* is the NAT'd functionality of having my own IP ranges while *also* being able to talk to each other *and* use a remote DNS/HOSTS lookup to simulate a real DNS server to the VMs.
Any Virtualbox GURUs out there want to give me some pointers on Virtualbox networking that might help me accomplish what I'm wanting?
Any Virtualbox networking tricks I might not be aware of and could leverage? ( I thought about creating a specific host interface and binding to it as bridged network and using the created host interface as an internet gateway - I'm still leaning toward that approach but not sure it's actually doable on Windows 7).
Thanks!
Chris Taylor
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