Comments on: Howto: SSH into VirtualBox 3 Linux Guests

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:35:25 +0000

Okay, the problem was actually Firestarter on the HOST side (the iptables based firewall manager), that I happened to switch off at about the same time as rebooting the guest.

See:
http://osdir.com/ml/security.firewalls.firestarter.user/2006-04/msg00023.html

…but Firestarter is not really designed to deal with multiple interfaces.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:21:20 +0000

Thanks for explaining Networking magic numbers are not my strength…

I got this working under Debian Squeeze (host and guest), but for some reason “ifup eth1″ was not enough, it seemed to require a reboot of the guest.

This is excellent, now I can test webserver magic without cluttering up my actual PC. Thanks for the writeup

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:25:28 +0000

@Jason that’s just made up based on the settings for the vboxnet0

In other words to know what ips you can use for each vm look at what vboxnet0 is set to by running ifconfig on your host.

For me it’s defaulting to 192.168.56.1 so that tells me I can choose any IP address from 192.168.56.2 onwards.

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:17:05 +0000

Where did you get the “address 192.168.56.10″ line from?

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