phillhutt

So, I’ve been playing with my “new” Dell I bought a few weeks ago. Trying to start working out some of the virtual machine goodness. So, I have VMWare Player, free from their website. I also downloaded Ubuntu server 8.10 virtual machine, also free from here (via torrent). This was stupidly easy to load up. I just un7zipped it and ran the .vmx config file. It booted up in a matter of seconds and it was able to get on the internet straight away. This was good, but I wanted it to get its own local IP address so it could be accessed by other computers on the network, and so that I could forward incoming port 80 connections to it so I can access it from outside. This required some googling and a little bit more work. Here I found a quick and simple guide on doing just that. It assumes however that you have a helpful GUI to help set up a static IP. So, after failing to remember how to edit that via command line I found this to point me in the right direction. I’m used to using nano to edit stuff with via command line, but for some reason it wouldn’t let me open it using that, so as per the instructions I had to use vi which I find impossible to use without references. So, this helpful page reminded me how fun vi was, and I could edit and save the file without throwing the machine out the window. Next I made sure that the VM was using bridged connection. Lastly I had to load up the vmnetcfg.exe program located in the vmware player install folder and set the VMnet0 adapter to my physical ethernet adapter and everything seemed to work (after restarting the VM). I can reach the website from other machines on the local network.

Next I will have to move it to the Dell I mentioned at the begining. I get to make use of having a gigabit network (between those two computers at least) and move the VM over. Should be pretty easy to load up on the other machine.