Hello Michael, thanks a lot, this works indeed! 8-)
Regarding my remark about my ISP's firewall: The 'unusual' guest IP address had me think that the guest somehow directly connects to the internet bypassing my router; in fact, if it did, I'd get *paranoic*! ;-) Thank your very much, VirtualBox is now PERFECT for me! Very good! Alex Michael Thayer wrote: > Hello Alex, > > When you use NAT networking, the guest gets its IP address from > VirtualBox's internal DHCP server, not from your router's server. scp > on the guest connecting to the host should work regardless of your ISP's > setup, as through NAT, the guest sees anything the host does, and the > host just sees the guest (in fact, VirtualBox) as a local application. > Therefore, assuming your host's IP is 192.168.1.20, you can do > > scp file [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > from the guest and that will copy file from the guest to alex's home > directory on the host. The host will just see a local application > connecting to a local server, so firewalls should not play any role. > > Regards, > > Michael > > Alex Baer wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have the very same problem, even the IP address of my guest is >> identical to yours. >> >> My environment is: >> >> VirtualBox OSE 1.3.3 running on Slackware 11 as host, with a guest >> running Windows XP Media Center Edition. I configured NAT for the guest >> network connection. >> >> My naive expectation was that the guest would now get just a new IP >> address within my home network from my router/switch. But instead it got >> 10.0.2.15 from ... s o m e w h e r e ...? >> >> I too can surf the internet and use WindowsUpdate and so on. I just >> cannot connect to my host, as I would have to tunnel my ISPs firewall >> then from the outside. Not sure if I have the skills to do this... ;-) >> >> I think it's possible to set up the guest OS with a fixed IP address >> manually, but I tend to think there must be a cleaner way. >> >> Solution of this issue is vital, as only then I can use scp to transfer >> data between host and guest, for backing up data created on the guest, >> eg. Without some reliable way of exchanging data I am hesitating to >> actually use the guest for production. >> >> Thanks for any help! >> >> Alex _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
