[OT] help me with virtualbox

[Joao Ferreira gmail]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:49 +0200, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to setup a virtual box guest (ubuntu linux) hosted into another 
> ubuntu linux so that the guest system has a fixed ip address and the host can 
> reach it using a pseudointerface, but with the guest able also to use the host 
> to route to other networks. I've set up the virtual machine so that networking 
> is host-only-adapter, and setting up properly ip I can communicate from the 
> host to the guest using the same ip address.
> Then I enabled forwarding on the host system, but I cannot get out from the 
> guest:
> 
> 
> iptables -F
> iptables -t nat -F
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
> iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -s 192.168.200.203 -j MASQUERADE
> 
> (here 192.168.200.203 is the guest ip address).
> 
> Anybody can give me a clue?

You should use NAT networking ! That will give you all you want and you
do not have to setup any other settings. It's automagicall :)

Joao


> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
>