networking guest Linux image web server on WinXP host
Posted: 13. Aug 2009, 15:38
This is just an outline of what I want to do with VirtualBox, so you can tell me your opinion about the best way to do it.
We have a WinXP machine with big hard drive, attached to a scanner which generates big TIFF files (about 100 MB each one). We want to use an opensource image server (iipimage.sourceforge.net) in order to give web access to those images.
We will use a Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP system, and this LAMP would run as guest VB machine on the host WinXP machine which contains the TIFF files. The web server should be shown to internet on port 80.
Since these are BIG TIFF files, I have some questions about how to configure it all for the best performance (I am quite a newbie in network administration):
- Fastest way for TIFF file sharing between WinXP and guest Linux web server: what is best? virtualbox shared files, or other systems (samba, NFS, ...)
- Networking: which kind should I use? I read the manual about some limitations of NAT, but I can't figure out if these are applicable in this case. Which web examples can I trust? Some posts are rather confusing (this one says "NAT is the easiest way to get your guests connected to the interweb, but you may want to use the guests as servers. For this you need Host Networking"):
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-set-up ... buntu.html
Many thanks in advance
We have a WinXP machine with big hard drive, attached to a scanner which generates big TIFF files (about 100 MB each one). We want to use an opensource image server (iipimage.sourceforge.net) in order to give web access to those images.
We will use a Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP system, and this LAMP would run as guest VB machine on the host WinXP machine which contains the TIFF files. The web server should be shown to internet on port 80.
Since these are BIG TIFF files, I have some questions about how to configure it all for the best performance (I am quite a newbie in network administration):
- Fastest way for TIFF file sharing between WinXP and guest Linux web server: what is best? virtualbox shared files, or other systems (samba, NFS, ...)
- Networking: which kind should I use? I read the manual about some limitations of NAT, but I can't figure out if these are applicable in this case. Which web examples can I trust? Some posts are rather confusing (this one says "NAT is the easiest way to get your guests connected to the interweb, but you may want to use the guests as servers. For this you need Host Networking"):
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-set-up ... buntu.html
Many thanks in advance