Version 4.0 of VirtualBox will have NAT port forwarding available in an easy to use GUI. The more fervent readers of this blog will remember this post which I described how to set this up on the command line.
Open your VirtualBox networking settings, and click the port forwarding button.
Click [...]
I’ve typically used bridged networking with VirtualBox, but you can run into some issues. If you’re somewhere without internet access, or if you’re changing IPs often, you might be better off using NAT settings. There’s a few other advantages – for instance you won’t need to check the IP of your machine in order to [...]
I like running VirtualBox headless on my Mac. It doesn’t show up in the Dock, and feels like it’s a remote server.
First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine.
haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. “WebServer” {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88} [...]
Mount VirtualBox Additions disk through the VirtualBox UI.
yum install -y gcc kernel-devel-`uname -r` mkdir /mnt/cdrom mount -o ro -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom sh /mnt/cdrom/VBoxLinuxAdditions-amd64.run
Info found on tuxtraining.com
I’ve done this using CentOS, but I’m pretty sure the same thing will work with RedHat the exact same way.
Virtualization is now a commodity with several free tools available from Sun, VMWare and Xen. If you’re like me, you like to create a new, clean VM for each experiment. However, this comes with a [...]
Note: The terminology used below also applies to VMWare. The screens are different, but the issue and the solution are the same.
When creating a new VM through VirtualBox, you might have a problem SSH’ing into the box. You also might notice you get a 10.0.x.xx type address, even though the rest of your network [...]
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