* Evan Layton (Evan.Layton at Sun.COM) wrote: > Glenn Lagasse wrote: >> * Evan Layton (Evan.Layton at Sun.COM) wrote: >>>> <note: only regression test run for virtual box because I could not >>>> find a way to make the virtual machine >>>> ping external network. Right now, I configure the network card of >>>> the virtual machine as NAT mode, but >>>> it only ping the host machine, could not reach IPS server. Which >>>> made is impossible to set up ipkg zones.> >>> I'm not sure what the problem is there. Anyone out there have any >>> ideas on what the problem might be? >> >> It's not a problem, pinging externally doesn't work in virtualbox under >> NAT. >> >> See: >> >> http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/181 >> >> Cheers, >> > > For some reason I though he was trying to ping osol-re
Right, by pinging externally I mean *any* address external from the virtual machine. Under NAT, ping just doesn't work for *any* address. If you need/want to be able to ping addresses outside of your virtual machine, you have to setup a host network interface. There are instructions in the virtualbox docs. Regardless of ping, pkg should work just fine from inside a virtual machine under NAT. I do it all the time, to on SWAN repos as well as external (pkg.opensolaris.org). Cheers, Glenn
