Running a guest linux server on a windows host

sbrogers · Post by **sbrogers** » 29. Oct 2007, 20:33

Hello

I'm trying to run a linux server on a winxp host but i'm having trouble getting access to the guest as a server. (Network configured as NAT)

I've installed Ubuntu 7.10 Server on a virtual machine and it can access the internet ok, but I can't access any of the ports on the VM from the host.

I've installed openssh on the guest and I've forwarded the ports for ssh as specified in the VB documentation, and allowed VirtualBox an exception through the host firewall.

The way I would understand this to work (following the documentation example) is that VirtualBox would listen on the host for connections to port 2222 and forward any connections on to the guest port 22. So if I tried to use putty to connect to localhost port 2222 I should really be connecting to the guest, but instead I get a connection refused error.

Has anyone gotten this working or have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ben

Technologov · Post by **Technologov** » 29. Oct 2007, 22:12

sbrogers: Try bridge.