Web Server Access on a VirtualBox Guest

Web Server Access on a VirtualBox Guest
In: Computing ÊýÂë±à³Ì
7
Oct
2008
I been using VirtualBox to deploy virtual machines on my Windows
machine since a significant memory upgrade. VirtualBox is suprisingly
easy to used if compared to VMWare and it just fit to my basic needs.
Access the web server from the guest on host is pretty straightforward but not the other way.
In my scenario, my host OS is XP and the guest OS is Ubuntu. First,
we go to the XP host and open a command prompt, and configure the port
forwarding in the VirtualBox installation directory, as follows:
cd
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox
VBoxManage setextradata MyUbuntu "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0
/LUN#0
/Config/apache/HostPort" 8888
VBoxManage setextradata MyUbuntu "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0
/LUN#0
/Config/apache/GuestPort" 80
VBoxManage setextradata MyUbuntu "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0
/LUN#0
/Config/apache/Protocol" TCP
This simply arbitrarily assign port 8888 of our host XP to forward
connections to the guest Ubuntu’s port 80, which is the default port
for HTTP connections.
Having done that, we now turn on our guest Ubuntu and use our web
browser on host XP to browse http://localhost:8888/. Alright, now we
got a local web server to play with.
We can also allowing SSH connections from the host OS to the guest OS as follows:
cd
C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox
VBoxManage setextradata MyUbuntu "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0
/LUN#0
/Config/ssh/HostPort" 2222
VBoxManage setextradata MyUbuntu "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0
/LUN#0
/Config/ssh/GuestPort" 22
VBoxManage setextradata MyUbuntu "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0
/LUN