Port Forwarding to Guest

mholland · Post by **mholland** » 21. Jul 2008, 16:38

I have read the end user documentation on forwarding ports to the VB guest. The example listed appeared to be for configuring SSH. Could anyone provide me with an example on NAT Port Forwarding on port 3389 (HOST/GUEST) for RDP.

Should be pretty simple, documentation just wasnt that clear.

Post by **TerryE** » 21. Jul 2008, 16:52

You didn't search the forum very hard

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 4000#27351

Post by **h1d** » 21. Jul 2008, 16:54

There needs to be a GUI configuration for this, as it is quite awkward to edit the XML right now, along with the ability to bind to what IP on the host, instead of binding to all the interfaces without a way to alter it.

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... 9201#29201

scroll a bit, I've placed the XML bits you have to paste to, with a bit of tweak on the port numbers.

You have to reboot guest after the change. (Or should have turned it off before fixing the XML.)

[Edit : I guess his solution would be the above post.]

Post by **TerryE** » 21. Jul 2008, 17:56

Hey h1d, what has your ref to do with configuring and running headless?

Post by **h1d** » 22. Jul 2008, 01:09

I just thought he wanted to port forward some ports from host to guest, and was referring to the XML lines in my post.

Post by **TerryE** » 22. Jul 2008, 11:13

Much as I said on comment to your original post, the likes of you or I might be happy to edit XML files, but we recommend that general users stick to the command line tools designed to do this:

VBoxManage getextradata global|<uuid>|<name> <key>|enumerate
VBoxManage setextradata global|<uuid>|<name> <key>[<value>]

Post by **h1d** » 22. Jul 2008, 13:09

Oh ok, I didn't know you could do it that way.
First time I googled around on the topic, the search result told me to edit the XML.