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Hey guys, completely new to using VB.


My setup is pretty simple. I have Windows Home Server setup on separate 400GB hard drive and I want to be able to set it up to appear as another machine completely on the network so it can do backups of all my machines in the house and everything.

My motherboard has 2 ethernet adapters in it and I am just wondering how do I get the VM set to where I can pull a IP address and the router see it as another machine and everyone on my network can see it also ??

I need my router to see it so I can port forward all the ports needed for web access also. I am also setting the IP statically.


Is this all possible ?

Thanks.

Nobody has any answers ?

Use "host interface" rather than NAT. You change change this setting under "Network" when the guest is shutdown. This is well explained in the manual, section 6.5.

I have noticed problems with this though (blue screen on shutdown of guest), but that could just be my version or me being an eejit.

I'm pretty sure I tried that last night. I don't get IPS within my routers subnet ranges though. I need to set a IP statically through the router. Maybe I didn't do it correctly ?

If I'm reading this correctly, since I have 2 ethernet adapters I can just use one for my host machine and use the other for the virtual machine. So I just can run a wire from my switch to my other port and it would be like another computer on the network ?


I'm new to VB so bare with me here.

I only started using it a week or so ago.

My experience of networking with Windows is some what fraught and I can't even get my host PC (Windows XPsp3) behaving itself (asymmetric pings are the bane of my life).

To get the guest working (Ubuntu 8.10), all I did was set the networking to "host interface" and it just worked on start. Due to my Windows networking issues, I was unable to test Samba etc, but internet was fine and the IP was in the correct range and subnet fine too. Checking on the router showed it up as a separate PC without any problems.

I'd do some basic checks (don't worry about the static IP just yet) and see if the networking if OK with "host interface". If you can see the guest via network neighbourhood, ping both ways and it can see the internet; then I'd say VB is running fine.

You are just left with some router glitch.

My host PC has a static IP and I did have a small problem with that; I'd forgotten to set the default gateway to the router's IP. maybe you have a similar (simple) problem?

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Thanks, I'll try and check it again when I get out of the office.