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[nycphp-talk] Virtualbox as a dev environment

Gary Mort garyamort at gmail.com
Fri Sep 2 16:22:19 EDT 2011


On 9/2/2011 1:27 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
>
> You can set up the networking to bridge to the host OS's connection, 
> or to use a NAT subnet within the workstation. That is, your host 
> workstation can communicate with the VM, but other machines cannot. 
> I'm not a network guy, so sorry if my explanation is rubbish :)

Nope, makes perfect sense.  Question: can you do both?

That's how I have my virtualBox setup.  It gets 2 adapters.  Adapter 1 
is a bridge to the host OS's connection - and I don't run any servers on 
that interface.  Adapter 2 is an internal adapter is an internal only 
virtual network.  My host system has a virtual adapter connected to it, 
and every VM I run will also get a virtual adapter connected to it.

Mainly this means I can have everything up and running regardless of the 
status of my "real" network as my virtual network is always running.




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