Now IвЂ™m going to create a Virtual Box, named вЂrac1-ol6-121вЂ™. You will see that a virtual network has been made on the guest-system. I created a second one in the virtual box manager: 178.10.ДЇor the purpose of this post, you will createВ a new host-only interface. You can also use the default host-only interface.ДЇor this post, weвЂ™ll add another one. This interface has also been configured as a DHCP-server, clicking on the other tab:Д«ut what I want is a fixed ip-address in another range ( not necessary, but for the purpose of this post to point things out), e.g. In my cases it looks like this (unfortunately my virtual box has been installed in Dutch language, sorry for that):Дouble-clicking the last one, the default one without a number: The configuration can be found on the Virtual Box Manager (not on a virtual box itself !). This can be compared as a loop-back interface. When installing Virtual Box on a computer thereвЂ™s already one default installed, and visible on your o.s., in this case the 192.168.56.1. To connect with the Virtual Boxes, I used the вЂHost-onlyвЂ™ network interface (Bridged is also possible, this will be explained later on).

Connection from the laptop to the Virtual Boxes. In real life itвЂ™s much faster to configure the three networks all together at once. There will be an explanation per connection for the purpose of this post. IвЂ™ll come back to this in the next chapter. More important for configuring the first connection: thereвЂ™s also a virtual, host-only network with a ip-address of 192.168.56.1: The default gateway of 192.168.1 is my internet router.

My ip-address is apparently 192.168.178.10, and through a wireless connection. My laptop is a Windows-7 machine, the two virtual boxes are equipped with Oracle Linux 6.5 with Oracle database 12c on it.ДЇor general understanding, needed later on in this post, my network configuration on my laptop, performing an вЂipconfigвЂ™ on o.s.-level: To performs a вЂyum updateвЂ™ and that kind of stuff. Occasionally connect to the internet from within the virtual boxes. Simulate a private network, a network between the virtual boxes, also with fixed ip-addresses.ДЈ. Connect from my laptop to my virtual box through ssh and sqlplus, with fixed ip-address.Дў. What I want is the following environment and some elements smells like a subset of the real life:ДЎ. And when I was googling around, it appeared to be IвЂ™m not the only one, so I felt the urge to share some experiences. I was setting up a virtual box environment with several Virtual Boxes on my laptop, and as IвЂ™m not a network вЂ“ specialist, I came across a few annoying things, challenges if you like. This post is intended to be a dummy guide, best practices, or whatever you call itвЂ¦ about setting up a network while working with virtual boxes on a desk- or laptop.

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