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Greetings, I have attached a diagram to show the layout, but basically I have a server that has 2 nics. I use NIC1 for the server and its services. Im using VirtualBox to run VMs and want to use NIC2 for the VMs exclusively and I want the VMs on a different network completely from the host.
Ive tried setting up NIC2 on the other network but I end up with networking problems on network1. Also I cant figure out how to tell VirtualBox to bind to the host NIC2.
Diagram
Thanks for your help.
Mike
All doable. Are you setting multiple default gateways? Post output of "ifconfig -a" and "route -an"
Thanks,
The documentation from VirtualBox is lacking and I cant tell if I can make the VM talk to the hosts NIC directly without having to configure the host NIC other than turning it on.
Yes, I want 2 discrete networks, one on each NIC on its own default gateway (one is on one ISP and one will be on another).
Right now I have the host in bridged mode so Im running the VM and the host on NIC1. This is only because when I turn on NIC2 on the host then I have networking problems on the host.
I "*" out my ips.
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:48:7d:cc:16
inet addr:* Bcast:* Mask:*
inet6 addr: * Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5882460 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5882117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:569368235 (542.9 MB) TX bytes:8258354786 (7.6 GB)
Base address:0x3000 Memory:d8020000-d8040000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:524140965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:524140965 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4932564712616 (4.4 TB) TX bytes:4932564712616 (4.4 TB)
vboxnet0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:76:62:6e:65:74
inet addr:192.168.56.1 Bcast:192.168.56.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::276:62ff:fe6e:6574/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:1692 (1.6 KB)