Info on networking setup

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Steviebone
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Info on networking setup

Post by Steviebone »

I am new to virtualbox. I am trying to virtualize some existing physical web servers using various Windows OS. I have successfully setup a machine with an existing physical host image. Machine boots fine but I do not understand how to make it connect to the either the local intranet or the WAN. I tried various network settings to no avail. Can someone point me to any in-depth tutorials on this process?

None of the adapter settings transferred and I had to manually configure the machines host adapter. But then I noticed that the host adapter for the vmbox itself was esdtablished on a different subnet. The network does not use DHCP, all of the machines are static ips.

Are there any tutorials online or otherwise that cover this in any detail?

Thanks.
mpack
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Re: Info on networking setup

Post by mpack »

Steviebone wrote: None of the adapter settings transferred and I had to manually configure the machines host adapter.
Transferred from what? The settings of your physical PC are not relevant to a simulation of one.

If you want to create servers then you should probably be using Bridged Networking.
Steviebone
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Re: Info on networking setup

Post by Steviebone »

Thank you. Bridged did the trick. Now to physical server building.
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