Please help: host to guest network connection trouble

[nanoander]

I've installed VB 1.6.2 on WinXPsp2, Debian 4 on a virtual machine and mounted a web server on it. I need to browse webs on that web server from Windows, but I can't. That's all, good bye.

[shu8i]

I've installed VB 1.6.2 on WinXPsp2, Debian 4 on a virtual machine and mounted a web server on it. I need to browse webs on that web server from Windows, but I can't. That's all, good bye.

try to build a network bridge between your working network (WLAN/LAN) and the VirtualBox Network...

[TerryE]

The easier option is to stick with the default NAT and read section 6.4.1 of the user guide (hit F1 when you are in the VirtualBox Console to display this). On my VMs I set up as standard

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set SVM=VBoxManage setextradata <<your VM>>
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/Protocol  TCP
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/GuestPort 22 
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/HostPort  2222
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestwww/Protocol  TCP
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestwww/GuestPort 80 
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestwww/HostPort  81 

and now http://localhost:81/ browses the VM and I can do SSH based interactive log on and file transfer through localhost port 2222.

[Sasquatch]

Create a Host Interface is the easiest setup you can do. Add an interface useing the GUI, set an IP address for that interface on the host, put the Guest in the same range and you are good to go to test your sites from the webserver. If the webserver need to be able to access other resources like other machines on the network (or other machines need to access the webserver), you need to bridge the connections as described in the manual. If it only needs to access internet too, then you only need to add a second virtual interface on the Guest and set it to NAT.

[nanoander]

The easier option is to stick with the default NAT and read section 6.4.1 of the user guide (hit F1 when you are in the VirtualBox Console to display this). On my VMs I set up as standard

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set SVM=VBoxManage setextradata <<your VM>>
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/Protocol  TCP
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/GuestPort 22 
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/HostPort  2222
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestwww/Protocol  TCP
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestwww/GuestPort 80 
%SVM% VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestwww/HostPort  81 

and now http://localhost:81/ browses the VM and I can do SSH based interactive log on and file transfer through localhost port 2222.

Thank you very very much, that works perfect!