Help setting up Virtualized Server(s)

[Amorget]

Here is the setup:

Host OS: Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition with VirtualBox 1.6.4 installed. It has 2 network cards. One will be for a Static External IP address (I want to be able to point a www address at this box), the other is for the Internal Network (DHCP).

Guests: One Vista machine and one Windows Server 2008.

What I want:

I want the Vista machine to have a Static External address (hey, I have 5 static ones through my ISP, so why not?), so I can point a www address at it. I also want both the Internal Network NICs (One per machine) to be a Bridged connection so that they can do PPTP VPNing.

What is the best way of going about this?

Thanks,
Douglas

[greenpossum]

Set up bridging on the external interface and give the host and two guest OSes addresses on their interfaces on this bridge.

[Amorget]

Okay, I think I understand

Basically you have eth0 (external) with br0 creating a bridge to that. However, I am a little confused as to what I need to create for the host OS, I would guess create a couple TAP interfaces for the Guest OSs?

[greenpossum]

Okay, I think I understand

Basically you have eth0 (external) with br0 creating a bridge to that. However, I am a little confused as to what I need to create for the host OS, I would guess create a couple TAP interfaces for the Guest OSs?

Section 6 of the User Manual is what you want. 6.7 goes into details of the steps for various Linux flavours.