Topic: Setting Up a Test Environment with VirtualBox on Vista

[smallboxadmin]

Hi, I wanted to test SME as a possible replacement for an Ubuntu server box at a site I maintain.  I decided to test this in a virtual LAN with VirtualBox and Windows XP guest.  I documented my steps on my blog found here:

http://smallboxadmin.blogspot.com/2009/01/setting-up-sme-server-test-environment.html

I will post some questions that I have, but thought I'd try and get some good credits first 
Please don't beat me up because I used Vista though 

Thanks,
Ken

[Craig Cabrey]

Hi there -- and welcome!

Did you setup VirtualBox so that the virtual server has its own IP? Last time I tried VirtualBox & SME, things were very slow and didn't seem to work that well. That's why I use VMware now, but perhaps things have changed since then.

Craig

EDIT: Whoops, skipped right over the big chunk that has to do with networking... (Just skimming, really). That looks like an interesting way to test the server's gateway abilities, but wouldn't sme's dhcp function conflict with VirtualBox's internal dhcp server?

[smallboxadmin]

... but wouldn't sme's dhcp function conflict with VirtualBox's internal dhcp server?

Not a problem, because VirtualBox internal networking doesn't supply DHCP.  So, internal networking guests either need static IP's or internal DHCP supplied.  So the Internet facing side of the SME server gets it's IP via DHCP from Virtual Box, the internal side of the SME Server is static and supplies DHCP to the clients, because VirtualBox doesn't.

Ken