[SGVLUG] VirtualBox networking question

[Dan Buthusiem]

You're using virtualbox, right? Would you be able to draw me a picture? I
thought you wanted the guest1 (server) and guest2 (client?) to be
completely off in their own little world.
On Jun 6, 2012 6:19 PM, "Claude Felizardo" <cafelizardo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys, sorry it took a while to get back to this.  I had to move back
> to my cubicle office after temporarily moving to another office with a real
> window while they did some minor construction then I had a couple of other
> things that took priority for a while...
>
> Anyway, I finally got a chance to look at this and got it working.  They
> key as Matthew pointed out was to set the adapter type to "Bridged" instead
> of the default "NAT".  I'm doing this at work so I can't just assign
> "random" IPs nor can I muck with the firewall or routers.
>
> So I've got two virtual machines, both are configured for DHCP and use the
> live ethernet device as my desktop.   The difference is the VM with NAT,
> even though it has a 10.0.x.x address, it looks like it's coming from my
> desktop so it can access machines on the local subnet as my desktop.  The
> other VM with the bridged adapter has an IP from a DHCP server from outside
> the subnet so it can NOT access things that are restricted to project
> internal machines only which is exactly what I wanted.
>
> I did not have to make any funny cables, use any proxy servers or external
> machines nor did I have to create a VM to act as some kind of server.
>
>   Not sure if changing the MAC address made a difference.
>
> Actually, strike that.  I'm having a problem trying to reproduce this.
>  Looks like it really depends on which DHCP server responds determine if I
> can see the restricted servers or not.  Could be that the DHCP servers are
> getting tired of my asking for a new IP over and over?  Or perhaps its the
> winxp and win7 machines that are getting tired of being yanked around.  I'm
> currently installing ubuntu, we'll see how that goes...
>
> Nope, I installed the latest ubuntu and it looks like the local DHCP
> server gave me an IP on the same subnet.  Rats.
>
> Claude
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Matthew Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Yes, it's fairly easy to set this up in VB.
>>
>> You can even set it up through DHCP if you are a masochist ;)
>>
>> Matt
>>
>> - Put the VB Vnetwork NIC in bridge mode
>> - Assign it a unique MAC address
>> - Configure DHCP to assign an outside IP address to that MAC (or hard
>> code it, much easier)
>> - Configure your router to route that 1 address to the big bad world in
>> addition to its current nets.
>> -easy peasy
>> On May 24, 2012 8:13 PM, "nopbin at gmail.com" <nopbin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> With constraints as described, Virtualbox is not going to get you an ip
>>> address outside your firewall.  Best bet is to use an aws node or something
>>> like that if you don't have wired or wireless access to an external network.
>>> On May 24, 2012 7:57 PM, "Claude Felizardo" <cafelizardo at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I believe there are a couple of people on this mailing list who are
>>>> using VirtualBox or equiv...
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone setup a VirtualBox guest machine so it can access the
>>>> internet but can not access the host's local network?  Basically create a
>>>> network sandbox.
>>>>
>>>> For example, let's say I want to verify that an internal web server can
>>>> NOT be accessed from the internet yet I want to be able to access it from
>>>> my desktop and I don't have access to a machine outside my network to test
>>>> from.  So using VirtualBox, I created a virtual machine running Ubuntu.
>>>>  When I bring up a browser, I'm able to access a web server as if I was
>>>> connecting directly from my desktop.  I want to configure this virtual
>>>> machine so it has an IP address outside my local network.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?  Tried googling but either it can't do it or I'm just
>>>> not using the right keywords.
>>>>
>>>> Claude
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>
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