On Friday 25 May 2007 04:48:54 steve reilly wrote: > Hi all, > > > is it possible to run a webserver from virtualbox? The ip of xp doesnt > even show up on my router? (10.02.2.15) How can I forward an ip to the > virtual machine if It is not registered with the router? > > Thank you.
Hello Steve, By default, VirtualBox uses NAT networking, which is a simple and relatively fool proof system in which the guest is attached to a private network not visible to the host. Any packets sent out by the guest are passed on to the host's network and from there to the internet. From outside the guest's private network, the packets look like they have been sent from the host's IP address. To set up a web server using NAT networking, you can forward the port used by the web server to the guest's network (see the manual for details on how to set this up), which means that any packets which the host receives on that port will be passed on to the guest's private IP address. As an alternative, you can set up host interface networking, which gives the guest an IP which is visible to the host's network, but is more complex to set up. Hope that clarifies things a bit. Regards, Michael _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
