[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Virtual Image

[Yamil Suarez]

Thomas,

Quick question, in your VM's network adapter(s) settings, which device  
is each adapter attached to? The choices offered, can be for example  
NAT, Bridged, Internal network, Host-only adapter. Each choice has its  
own characteristics in terms if it allows the guest VM to access the  
internet, the host machine, and/or other guest VMs (running inside the  
same host). As well if it allows the host OS, outside users, or other  
guest VMs (running inside the same host) to access the original guest  
VM.

For example, If your "adapter 1" is set to NAT, then that explains why  
the VM can get on the internet or load webpages served by its own  
Apache server. To allow the host machine to be able to connect to the  
guest VM you can use the "host-only adapter," but by default you will  
not get access to the internet from the guest VM. You can instead  
choose "Bridged" and select your host machine's ethernet port, but if  
you are running on a laptop that is only using it wifi network device  
to connect to the internet, you might not able to use the wifi device  
as the Bridged target. Note, that the sample EG VM might be already  
set up with more than one adapter, and you can set up that VM to have  
a mix one adapter attached to NAT and another adapter attached to host- 
only to get the best of both worlds.

Here is a link tot he Virtual Box online manual with more technical  
details....
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#networkingmodes

My apologies if I have made any mistakes in my summary, I am just  
relaying what I have figured out on my own so far.

Good luck,
Yamil


On Oct 4, 2011, at 1:46 AM, Thomas Borysiewicz wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am very new to all of this however i have managed to setup several  
> different Virtual Images and have succesfully made them run on the  
> virtual machine.  However, I am running into a problem where the  
> Host Machine will not connect to the Virtual Machine.
>
> I am running the March 19th virtual image (http://evergreen-ils.org/~denials/README-Evergreen_trunk_2011_03_19_Squeeze.html 
> ) in oracle VM Virtualbox on a Windows XP Host Machine.  i can  
> access the catalog on the Virtual Terminal and am able to connect to  
> the internet as well. I have run into the smae problem with the  
> virtual image located here as well http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=virtual%3Avirtualbox%3Aubuntu804
>
> I apologize for being vague, im just not sure what to include.  any  
> assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Thomas Borysiewicz