Debian hosts not networking?
Posted: 16. Jul 2012, 08:21
Well, I've tried a lot of stuff over the last two days, and I'm about at my wit's end... I'm trying to set up two servers I can log into using PuTTY, all on my Windows laptop.
I've got a Fujitsu T900 laptop running Windows 7 64-bit and VirtualBox which I just downloaded and installed last Thursday. The help file says Graphical interface Version 4.1.18r78361.
It took some screwing around in order to get it to install Debian as a guest. (I had to create the guest as .vmdk or Debian failed to install.)
So now I have two Debian VMs for testing purposes. as stand-alone systems they seem to work fine.
I tried to set up a bridged network system following these directions http://www.tolaris.com/2012/05/16/using ... lbox-v2-0/ , but I can't use PuTTY to log into the VMs.
I need to travel a lot with this laptop, so I need to allow the VMs to find whatever hotel or restaurant wifi I'm using and then act like accessible systems. (The servers I'm remotely administering are no problem to log into. I just like to test my scripts before possibly crashing my users' servers.)
The Windows cmd shell shows a VirtualBox Host-only adapter address of 192.168.56.1, but I've configured my vnet0 interface to be 192.168.0.x .
The instructions say to use the name "vnet0" in the adapter name box but there doesn't seem to be any way to edit the name; I'm presented with a drop-down box.
Can someone direct me to some explicit instructions?
Thank you,
Mike B.
Update:
Iwent back to basic configurations for a while. The reason I'm trying to configure a bridged network is so that I can communicate between all three systems (Windows host and to VMs). However, when I run ifconfig on the linux VNs I don't get an IP address. This is true whether I try to bridge either the wireless or wired adapter.
Update2
Interestingly enough, there seems to be a problem with the VM seeing/bridging to the wifi adapter. Aaarggh...!
I've got a Fujitsu T900 laptop running Windows 7 64-bit and VirtualBox which I just downloaded and installed last Thursday. The help file says Graphical interface Version 4.1.18r78361.
It took some screwing around in order to get it to install Debian as a guest. (I had to create the guest as .vmdk or Debian failed to install.)
So now I have two Debian VMs for testing purposes. as stand-alone systems they seem to work fine.
I tried to set up a bridged network system following these directions http://www.tolaris.com/2012/05/16/using ... lbox-v2-0/ , but I can't use PuTTY to log into the VMs.
I need to travel a lot with this laptop, so I need to allow the VMs to find whatever hotel or restaurant wifi I'm using and then act like accessible systems. (The servers I'm remotely administering are no problem to log into. I just like to test my scripts before possibly crashing my users' servers.)
The Windows cmd shell shows a VirtualBox Host-only adapter address of 192.168.56.1, but I've configured my vnet0 interface to be 192.168.0.x .
The instructions say to use the name "vnet0" in the adapter name box but there doesn't seem to be any way to edit the name; I'm presented with a drop-down box.
Can someone direct me to some explicit instructions?
Thank you,
Mike B.
Update:
Iwent back to basic configurations for a while. The reason I'm trying to configure a bridged network is so that I can communicate between all three systems (Windows host and to VMs). However, when I run ifconfig on the linux VNs I don't get an IP address. This is true whether I try to bridge either the wireless or wired adapter.
Update2
Interestingly enough, there seems to be a problem with the VM seeing/bridging to the wifi adapter. Aaarggh...!