Comments on: Creating a virtual development server using Virtualbox

By: me

me — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:53:05 +0000

awesome, thanks so much for this piece of info

By: Taitravis

Taitravis — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:05:31 +0000

Until the Adobe Creative Suite can run well on Linux I am stuck!

By: Anon

Anon — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:44:59 +0000

It didn't “change” anything – ufw is just another layer on top of iptables.

By: Craig

Craig — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 21:43:29 +0000

If you were a real snob, you'd just switch OS completely. You're just an amateur snob I'm afraid and a filthy Windows user too boot.

By: Supermike

Supermike — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 06:38:05 +0000

I have Windows 7 as the host OS, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as the guest OS. I set things up such that I can get on the Internet from inside the guest OS for web surfing, as well as make the website available to the host OS for debugging. So, as a LAMP developer, I can "live" in the Ubuntu side of things in the guest OS, but then flip over to the host OS to test in all the various browsers to see the website as the Windows' user would see it.

How did I do it? Simple. I just set up a bridged host adapter in the VB network settings and disabled the other adapters in the settings. It was automatically assigned an IP address by my home's router that has a DHCP NAT router on it. I then went to command line on Linux, identified the new IP address, and connected to it from the host OS web browsers.

Now, if I had a firewall on Linux as an extra precaution, I could poke holes either with 'ufw' (as you see in some of the posts above), or used the iptables command to poke holes. But I didn't need that because of two reasons. For one, my Windows 7 system has a firewall on it. For two, my DSL router has a firewall on it as well.

By: nhb

nhb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:45:25 +0000

Well that didn't work. I now have a virtual machine that took time to set up with the server and applications, that won't run. Thanks for your help.

By: nhb

nhb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:45:25 +0000

Well that didn't work. I now have a virtual machine that took time to set up with the server and applications, that won't run. Thanks for your help.

By: cbiggins

cbiggins — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:30:53 +0000

To return it to default values, just set it to nothing;
VBoxManage.exe setextradata “Fedora 10″ VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort

By: nhb

nhb — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:10:28 +0000

Ok I did that, went through the rest of your set up using VBoxManage and now the virtual machine won't start up at all. Configuration for host port failed. How do I set the values back so that it will run?

By: cbiggins

cbiggins — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:17:58 +0000

You should just need to either disable ufw;
sudo ufw disable

Or, if you want it to run, allow connections from ports 22 and 80..
sudo ufw allow 22
sudo ufw allow 80

And thats it.