Yamil, Thank you very much for your quick response and kind advice, I see now where my problem is. After reading the chapter you highlighted, I realize I have much to learn.
Thanks for everything Tom On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Yamil Suarez <[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas, > > Quick question, in your VM's network adapter(s) settings, which device is > each adapter attached to? The choices offered, can be for example NAT, > Bridged, Internal network, Host-only adapter. Each choice has its own > characteristics in terms if it allows the guest VM to access the internet, > the host machine, and/or other guest VMs (running inside the same host). As > well if it allows the host OS, outside users, or other guest VMs (running > inside the same host) to access the original guest VM. > > For example, If your "adapter 1" is set to NAT, then that explains why the > VM can get on the internet or load webpages served by its own Apache server. > To allow the host machine to be able to connect to the guest VM you can use > the "host-only adapter," but by default you will not get access to the > internet from the guest VM. You can instead choose "Bridged" and select your > host machine's ethernet port, but if you are running on a laptop that is > only using it wifi network device to connect to the internet, you might not > able to use the wifi device as the Bridged target. Note, that the sample EG > VM might be already set up with more than one adapter, and you can set up > that VM to have a mix one adapter attached to NAT and another adapter > attached to host-only to get the best of both worlds. > > Here is a link tot he Virtual Box online manual with more technical > details.... > https://www.virtualbox.org/**manual/ch06.html#**networkingmodes<https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#networkingmodes> > > My apologies if I have made any mistakes in my summary, I am just relaying > what I have figured out on my own so far. > > Good luck, > Yamil > > > > On Oct 4, 2011, at 1:46 AM, Thomas Borysiewicz wrote: > > Hi, >> >> I am very new to all of this however i have managed to setup several >> different Virtual Images and have succesfully made them run on the virtual >> machine. However, I am running into a problem where the Host Machine will >> not connect to the Virtual Machine. >> >> I am running the March 19th virtual image (http://evergreen-ils.org/~** >> denials/README-Evergreen_**trunk_2011_03_19_Squeeze.html<http://evergreen-ils.org/~denials/README-Evergreen_trunk_2011_03_19_Squeeze.html>) >> in oracle VM Virtualbox on a Windows XP Host Machine. i can access the >> catalog on the Virtual Terminal and am able to connect to the internet as >> well. I have run into the smae problem with the virtual image located here >> as well http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/**doku.php?id=virtual%** >> 3Avirtualbox%3Aubuntu804<http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=virtual%3Avirtualbox%3Aubuntu804> >> >> I apologize for being vague, im just not sure what to include. any >> assistance would be greatly appreciated. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Thomas Borysiewicz >> > >
