Comments on: VirtualBox: Access Guests via a Virtual Interface

By: Damien Dell

Damien Dell — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 19:22:00 +0000

thanks exactly what I was looking for I agree this is the best way to go for doing this.

Only addition I had to make is choose bridged adapter vs host networking, as someone mentioned above.

also on my ubuntu virtualbox runs as my own user

By: Sasi Siddharth

Sasi Siddharth — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:23:33 +0000

Hi,
I’ve followed all the given steps. But I still am not able to connect between the host and the VM. I’m just trying to ping between them to check for connectivity, but in vain.
Can anyone please suggest any possibilities?
Thanks in advance…

By: peter daalder

peter daalder — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:46 +0000

You cannot imagine how thankful I am. Damn lost 6 years of my life getting this to work. The best!!!!! Many many thanx

By: Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests by Stuart Colville

Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests by Stuart Colville — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:11:53 +0000

[...] In a previous post I wrote about using a TAP interface to be able to SSH into linux guests from the …. Since then changes in the newer versions of VirtualBox have seen the addition of a virtual interface on the Host by default. This post details how to utilise this to allow communication from your host to your guests by simply configuring a second network interface on the guest. [...]

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:41:30 +0000

@poldim: I’m pretty sure you should be able to do something similar on a vista host – unfortunately I don’t have a vista installation to be able to work something out. If you do figure something out feel free to come back here and drop a link to a solution in the comments.

@Mark: Glad you got it working!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 06:18:15 +0000

Hi,

Yep, you’re right more haste less speed I think is the saying

Thanks again!

Mark

By: poldim

poldim — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:28:47 +0000

Any chances of a how to for those trying to run ubuntu guest on Vista host?

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:12:54 +0000

@Mark:

>Looking through the answers above, do you think the issue maybe I am missing the network point on the VM?

Indeed you need to configure eth1 on your VM in /etc/network/interfaces as per the instructions in the post.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:39:30 +0000

Hi,

Heres the strrange thing:
1, I cant ping the VM from the Host but I can connect to the Host from the VM…

2, Thanks for the pointer on the iptables, I will check it out.

3, The error when connecting to the VM from the Host is a network timeout.

4, Ah… No, I cant perhaps I need to set this up in /etc/network/interfaces?

5, I can see the tap0 in the host box.

Looking through the answers above, do you think the issue maybe I am missing the network point on the VM?

Thanks a million for your help so far

Mark

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:42:02 +0000

@Mark:

1. Can you ping your VM from the host machine on the ip address?
2. Presumably there’s no iptables rules preventing communication?
3. What error messages are you seeing when trying to connect?
4. Can you see eth1 listed in the output of ifconfig on the guest?
5. Can you see the tap interface listed in the output of ifconfig on the host machine?