[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Virtual Image

[Thomas Borysiewicz]

Yamil,

Thank you very much for your quick response and kind advice, I see now where
my problem is.  After reading the chapter you highlighted, I realize I have
much to learn.

Thanks for everything

Tom

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Yamil Suarez <ysuarez at berklee.edu> wrote:

> 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<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<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<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
>>
>
>
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