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Hello everybody,

I just began working with VB last week, so I really could need some pointers over here.

Of course I couldn't start with a simple Host/Guest setup no I was ordered to setup and consolidate three of our company machines into one. So here is what I want to achieve:

Currently we have three servers:

1.Gateway: Connected in two networks
2.Fileserver: Connected in two networks
3.CAServer: Connected only in our own department network.

So I set up a Suse11 system and installed VB. So far so good. I installed two VBs with Windows Server2003 so far (for number 1 and 2). ok but that's where I can't seem to come any further.

I have two networkdevices in my machine one pointing to the first net ( in my case 192.168.2.x ) and one to the second (192.168.88.x). So how do I make my machines utilize both networks simultaneously on different IPs? And how can they communicate to each other? I'm kinda puzzled here because when I set up two networkdevices for one of those VB only one seems to work properly (had the Fileserver on net 2 wich worked well, but I need it to have access via net 88 at the same time too.)

So any help would be appreciated. This whole VB-network thing makes me head spin

But I hope I might get some suggestions here.

Thanks in advance

kind regards

Nicholas Bergmann

You can attach several interfaces to a VM. Open the Settings and go to the Network section. There you see several tabs with interface numbers. Now with the latest version, you can attach the VM to the physical interface directly. Set two interfaces to be attached to Host Interface and select both physical interfaces, one for each. Now boot the VM and there should be two NICs in the Guest OS. You can set the corresponding IP addresses to each of them and you should have connectivity on both network sections.

To be sure that you don't mix the IP addresses with the actual network (putting .88.x to the .2.x segment) you can attach the virtual NIC one at a time. First one of the physical interfaces, boot the VM, set the correct IP, shut it down and do the other.

Good luck.