Results tagged “networking” from Thoughts

This is an attempt at a how-to for getting a few servers up and running that can talk to each other as well as with your host desktop machine all with vitrtualization.  This has been a personal desire for some time and I have read documentation about how to do this and have tried multiple times, and every time it seems that the job is complex and error prone.  So this how-to will describe how I finally was able to get it working with almost no effort!  Yeah!

First of all, let's set the scene and give ourselves a goal:  We want to have a VM web server and a VM database server running on our desktop that runs a simple web application.  The two machines need to talk to each other.  And we want to be able to open our desktop web browser and access the web application running on these VMs.  And do all that without any complex configuration or breaking your desktop's network settings.

The first thing we will use in this setup is VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/)