two virtualbox (internal-network) setup

[Dick Dowdell]

Amer,

I agree with Dave.  What you want is what bridged networking
<https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bridged> is for.

Regards,
Dick Dowdell
Phone: 508-528-4018  Mobile: 508-498-7919

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:40 AM, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net>
wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-03-12 at 15:01 +0000, AMER wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > Dear All
> >
> > I have two virtualboxes I want to setup a network between them, my
> > host is Ubuntu 12.04
> > I tried to do the following:
> > assign one adapter of VM1 to net0
> > with ip 192.168.1.1
> > assign one adapter of VM2 to net0
> > with ip 192.168.1.1
> >
> > I saw in the internet a comments I should configure the
> > internal-network using VboxManager
> > I do not how to solve this problem and how to use Vboxmanager in
> > Ubuntu
>
> For starters, they'll need to be different addresses that also don't
> clash with anything else on your network.
>
> With VirtualBox, I find that it works well for me if I use the "Bridged"
> network setting, which allows your virtual machine to connect to your
> physical LAN. AFAICT the NAT setting appears to set up a virtual LAN
> inside the VM which most probably isn't what you want.
>
> BTW why are you using Ubuntu 12.04? Why not use the LTS 14.04 version?
> Fixing the IP address in the /etc/network/interfaces file is easy:-
>
> # The primary network interface
> auto em1
> #iface em1 inet dhcp
> #Changes to:-
> iface em1 inet static
>   address          192.168.2.2
>   netmask          255.255.255.0
>   network          192.168.2.0
>   broadcast        192.168.2.255
>   gateway          192.168.2.1
>   dns-nameservers  192.168.2.1 8.8.8.8
>
> This is what is in my 14.04 home server.
>
> Dave
>
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