Definitely a task for Claude…. Sent from my iPhone
On Sun, 31 May 2026 at 14:52, Terry Coles <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Back in 2022, Hamish and Patrick created Virtual Box VMs to simulate all > of the Pis in the Wimborne Model Town River System Network. At the time > there was a problem with creating host-only adapters, in that the only > IP Address allowed for the adapter was/is 192.168.56.0/24, so there was > a work round for this which involved creating a file > /etc/vbox/networks.conf and populating it with the IP range required. > However, since then Kubuntu (and Ubuntu) have changed their networking > configuration to be based on netplan and Network Manager and (I gather), > that file is no longer read. > > The Virtual Box docs are currently out of date and still refer to the > above method to overcome this and the only information that i have found > appears to be a number of YouTube Videos that describe how to > use netplan to set up networking on a Ubuntu host to a Ubuntu Server > VM. The makers of these videos appear to assume a lot of foreknowledge > of Linux networking, netplan and VBox, so I've struggled to find out > what needs to be done for our use case (11 Raspberry Pi VMs, supported > by a Raspberry Pi Base image). > > Can anyone point me to a more relevant source of information? > > -- > Terry Coles > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-06-02 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected] > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-06-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
