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houghi wrote:

> Is there a way I can ssh to a virtual box? I am able to ssh from the
> VirtualBox distro to my real machine, so there is some sor of
> connection.
>
> However my real machine and the virtual box have the same local IP.
>
> houghi
Hiya,

One option may be to configure VirtualBox's networking into bridged mode.
See: http://en.opensuse.org/Virtualbox_Network_Bridging. Then ssh to the
virtual machine's IP as you would another physical machine on the network.

On a side note.... Is this ever going to be made easier? In VMWare bridged
mode networking has been a drop-down option in the network configuration
since at least version 3 or something like that.

kev.

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On Wednesday 16 Sep 2009 01:51, Kevin Lucas played with alphabet
spaghetti and left this residue on the plate:

> houghi wrote:
>
>> Is there a way I can ssh to a virtual box? I am able to ssh from the
>> VirtualBox distro to my real machine, so there is some sor of
>> connection.
>>
>> However my real machine and the virtual box have the same local IP.
>>
>> houghi
> Hiya,
>
> One option may be to configure VirtualBox's networking into bridged mode.
> See: http://en.opensuse.org/Virtualbox_Network_Bridging. Then ssh to the
> virtual machine's IP as you would another physical machine on the network.

That's exactly how I have mine configured, and it works just fine. More or
less.

> On a side note.... Is this ever going to be made easier? In VMWare bridged
> mode networking has been a drop-down option in the network configuration
> since at least version 3 or something like that.

It is much easier than on that page. Just update to version 3[0] and
it's as simple as clicking "Network", selecting the adaptor you're
wanting to use, clicking on "Attached to:", selecting "Bridged Adapter"
from the pop-up menu and then clicking on the pop-up "Name:"
and selecting the main systems adaptor.

E.g. all my test virtual machines have Adapter 1 enabled, the
"Attached to:" is "Bridged Adapter" and "Name:" is "eth0" . Apart from
a kUbuntu 9.04, which doesn't presently work and I'm trying to figure
out why not, all the virtual machines work fine. They request an IP
using DHCP, my DHCP server assigns them one and I'm then able to ssh to
or from them.


[0] You'll either need to use the one from Sun, or use the VirtualBox
repo on the build service, to get the latest 3.0.6 version. You can
find the 11.1 repo at:

<URL:http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.1/>

Regards,
David Bolt

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houghi wrote:

> Kevin Lucas wrote:
>> One option may be to configure VirtualBox's networking into bridged mode.
>> See: http://en.opensuse.org/Virtualbox_Network_Bridging. Then ssh to the
>> virtual machine's IP as you would another physical machine on the
>> network.
>
> Thanks.
>
>> On a side note.... Is this ever going to be made easier? In VMWare
>> bridged mode networking has been a drop-down option in the network
>> configuration since at least version 3 or something like that.
>
> Hey, VirtualBox is version 2.0.6 so it has a long way till it reached 3.
>
>
> As I don't have the time at this moment (making myself ready to go to
> Nurnberg) I am using sshfs to share files.

Better put your glasses on - my VBox says 3.0.6.r52128 .

I haven't worked out the why of it, but I run the VMs in bridged mode. They
gets an address via DHCP from my router and - at least inside the local
network - it is available at a unique address from the host. It just takes
one simple selection on the the setup screen to select the bridged mode -
no hassle.

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In article <slrnhb00uq.4bn.houghi.DeleteThis@penne.houghi>,
houghi <reply.to.server.DeleteThis@your.provider.invalid> wrote:
>Is there a way I can ssh to a virtual box? I am able to ssh from the
>VirtualBox distro to my real machine, so there is some sor of
>connection.
>
>However my real machine and the virtual box have the same local IP.

First enable IP Forwarding in the Host machines sshd config, then..

From within the VM call:

ssh -l you -R 1234:10.0.2.15:22 10.0.2.2

Now log into the guest with fom the host:

ssh -l you-on-guest -p 1234 localhost

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David Bolt wrote:

> On Wednesday 16 Sep 2009 01:51, Kevin Lucas played with alphabet
> spaghetti and left this residue on the plate:
>
>> houghi wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way I can ssh to a virtual box? I am able to ssh from the
>>> VirtualBox distro to my real machine, so there is some sor of
>>> connection.
>>>
>>> However my real machine and the virtual box have the same local IP.
>>>
>>> houghi
>> Hiya,
>>
>> One option may be to configure VirtualBox's networking into bridged mode.
>> See: http://en.opensuse.org/Virtualbox_Network_Bridging. Then ssh to the
>> virtual machine's IP as you would another physical machine on the
>> network.
>
> That's exactly how I have mine configured, and it works just fine. More or
> less.
>
>> On a side note.... Is this ever going to be made easier? In VMWare
>> bridged mode networking has been a drop-down option in the network
>> configuration since at least version 3 or something like that.
>
> It is much easier than on that page. Just update to version 3[0] and
> it's as simple as clicking "Network", selecting the adaptor you're
> wanting to use, clicking on "Attached to:", selecting "Bridged Adapter"
> from the pop-up menu and then clicking on the pop-up "Name:"
> and selecting the main systems adaptor.
>
> E.g. all my test virtual machines have Adapter 1 enabled, the
> "Attached to:" is "Bridged Adapter" and "Name:" is "eth0" . Apart from
> a kUbuntu 9.04, which doesn't presently work and I'm trying to figure
> out why not, all the virtual machines work fine. They request an IP
> using DHCP, my DHCP server assigns them one and I'm then able to ssh to
> or from them.
>
>
> [0] You'll either need to use the one from Sun, or use the VirtualBox
> repo on the build service, to get the latest 3.0.6 version. You can
> find the 11.1 repo at:
>
>
<URL:http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization:/VirtualBox/openSUSE_11.1/>
>
> Regards,
> David Bolt
>
Ahhhh, interesting. I'll either add that build repo or wait for 11.2. It's
not a huge deal at the moment for me to use NAT.

Thanks!

kev.