Comments on: VirtualBox: hosting LAMP Server on the guest OS and making it available to the host http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/06/28/virtualbox-hosting-lamp-server-on-the-guest-os-and-making-it-available-to-the-host/ Thoughts on Web Development, Scalability and Application Architecture Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:02:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: natural spectrum lamp http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/06/28/virtualbox-hosting-lamp-server-on-the-guest-os-and-making-it-available-to-the-host/comment-page-1/#comment-2575 natural spectrum lamp Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:50:32 +0000 http://blog.rajatpandit.com/?p=267#comment-2575 I am a new visitor to this blog and wanted to take a moment to let you know that I think it is great. I just subscribed to your rss feed and look forward to more updates. I am a new visitor to this blog and wanted to take a moment to let you know that I think it is great. I just subscribed to your rss feed and look forward to more updates.

]]> By: Stuart Colville http://blog.rajatpandit.com/2009/06/28/virtualbox-hosting-lamp-server-on-the-guest-os-and-making-it-available-to-the-host/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Stuart Colville Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:38:06 +0000 http://blog.rajatpandit.com/?p=267#comment-802 When I started using VirtualBox when I moved from OSX to Ubuntu, I found the port forwarding approach to be quite clunky and I missed the way networking is done in Vmware Fusion. On Ubuntu I've been using this approach which creates virtual interface on the host for communicating from the host to the guest. http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/04/08/virtualbox-access-guests-via-a-virtual-interface/ I generally find it's more flexible. YMMV doing something similar on OSX though here's a tap/tun driver http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/ In due course I've no doubt there will be an even better built-in way to do this... When I started using VirtualBox when I moved from OSX to Ubuntu, I found the port forwarding approach to be quite clunky and I missed the way networking is done in Vmware Fusion.

On Ubuntu I’ve been using this approach which creates virtual interface on the host for communicating from the host to the guest. http://muffinresearch.co.uk/archives/2009/04/08/virtualbox-access-guests-via-a-virtual-interface/ I generally find it’s more flexible.

YMMV doing something similar on OSX though here’s a tap/tun driver http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/

In due course I’ve no doubt there will be an even better built-in way to do this…

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