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hi, all,

just wondering if there's a special way to connect to the utorrent port for my windows xp vm?

i followed the instructions from utorrent to set up the static ip address and then portforward but without any luck.

the ip address that i got was different from the usual 192.168.0.1, when i ran the "command" and then "ipconfig/all" on my vm, i got an ip of 10.0.2.2 and only 1 dns server instead of 2:

ip address 10.0.2.15
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 10.0.2.2
dns servers 10.0.2.3

these figures didn't seem to help and no luck configuring a static ip + portforwarding.

again, would appreciate any instructions or links.

cheers

forgot to mention that i'm going through a d-link di-624 router.

You have to setup bridging on your host. it worked for me.

Zoltair wrote:You have to setup bridging on your host. it worked for me.

Belay that advice. VBox 2.1.0 was released today and apparantly no longer requires the use of bridged networking. However this is a major new release so may not be stable yet.

If you want to keep using NAT, you have to forward the port for uTorrent on the router to the Host IP, then on the Host forward it with VB to your VM. See the manual for the VB port forwarding (chapter 6.4.1 IIRC).

Ill keep using what I got until the new version has been proven to be stable. But good advice, never noticed the new version release.

Hi, All,

Thanks for the replies.

Sasquatch, I've been reading about and trying to forward the port for uTorrent on the router to the Host IP, then on the Host forward it with VB to your VM (NAT running behind NAT) for a few days now without success.

Sorry for the newb questions...not so easy to learn this stuff from scratch.

When trying to forward the port for uTorrent on the router to the Host IP, do I use the IP address, subnet, default gateway and DNS servers info from my host computer's ipconfig or the IP info from my router's WAN?

Second, I've been unable to do the VBoxManage command in DOS. I can get the prompt to "C:\>" but when I type in the instructions for my machine:

VBoxManage setextradata "[MyGuestMachine'sName]" "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/remotedesk/Protocol" TCP (all typed on the same line)

...I get the "vbox is not recognized as internal or external command" message.

Appreciate any help again...thanks all,

J

junkeeroo wrote:hi, all,

just wondering if there's a special way to connect to the utorrent port for my windows xp vm?

i followed the instructions from utorrent to set up the static ip address and then portforward but without any luck.

the ip address that i got was different from the usual 192.168.0.1, when i ran the "command" and then "ipconfig/all" on my vm, i got an ip of 10.0.2.2 and only 1 dns server instead of 2:

ip address 10.0.2.15
subnet mask 255.255.255.0
default gateway 10.0.2.2
dns servers 10.0.2.3

these figures didn't seem to help and no luck configuring a static ip + portforwarding.

again, would appreciate any instructions or links.

cheers

Currently NAT's "pseudo"-dhcp provides only first DNS server aliased to 10.0.2.3.

You only need 1 DNS server. The second is usually used as a backup in case the first goes down, and if the first goes down it's likely your VMs already have.