Glenn Lagasse wrote: > * 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.
Not exactly always true. I can ping various machines on the local BRM network from within virtual box. I am using NAT as well. > > 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
