VMWare and VirtualBox

Static IP on Linux Host (Virtualbox, Bridged)

Goal: make virtual machine (guest) available to on your LAN

Way 1: change VM and router (dhcp server, dns server) settings, aka. “I own this place”

• the good: any PC on your LAN can access the VM under its name
• the bad: you need full control over dhcp and dns in your network

Way 2: change VM only

• the good: easy setup
• the bad: machines other that the host can access the guest only via its IP address

Way 1

1. change network settings of VM
   • Bridged
   • choose host interface that’s connected to the LAN
   • (if you did this before, click “settings symbol” and set old MAC address (see ifconfig of guest))
2. set “static” IP address
   • go to your DHCP server
   • set reserved IP for guest’s MAC address
   • (set name for guest’s “static” IP address)
3. boot VM, start ethernet with dhcp
   • e.g. via /etc/network/interfaces
   • ifdown eth0
   • ifup eth0

Way 2

1. do Way 1, step 1
2. set static IP-address on guest in same subnet as host
3. adapt /etc/hosts on host

Static IP on Linux Host (VMWare, NAT)

• Linux host running Ubuntu 9.10
• Linux guest tsvm running Ubuntu 8.04 server

Mission:

1. make tsvm (guest) accessible to host only via a static IP
2. be able to copy tsvm to another host and repeat 1)

Set Static MAC Address

Edit tsvm.vmx, delete those lines:

ethernet[n].generatedAddress
ethernet[n].addressType
ethernet[n].generatedAddressOffset

Add this line:

ethernet0.address = "00:50:56:00:13:37"

You can set another MAC address. It must have the form “00:50:56:XX:YY:ZZ” with XX between 00 and 3F and YY and ZZ between 00 and FF. (hex of course)

From http://www.vmware.com/support/gsx3/doc/network_macaddr_gsx.html

Set Static Device Name

find /etc/udev/rules.d/ -name "*-net.rules" -exec rm {} \;
echo 'KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{address}=="00:50:56:00:13:37", NAME="eth"' >        /etc/udev/rules.d/10-net.rules

vim /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth
iface eth inet dhcp

Set Static IP Address

In vmware go to Edit ‣ Virtual Network Editor. Set vmnet8 to NAT, tick both Use local DHCP service to distribute IP addresses to VMs and Connect a host virtual adapter (vmnet8) to this network. Set subnet IP to 10.0.0.0. The changes you made are saved to /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf. Edit this file and append:

host tsvm {
    hardware ethernet 00:50:56:00:13:37;
    fixed-address 10.0.0.23;
}

Now restart vmware networking services:

/etc/init.d/vmware restart

From http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_net_advanced_ipaddress.html and http://www.stereoplex.com/two-voices/vmware-fusion-guests-with-a-static-ip

Set Hostname on Host

On host, edit:

sudo vim /etc/hosts

and add:

10.0.0.23 tsvm