Help needed with remote RPC and VNC for VM hosts

[zombie67]

So I have a number of headless windows machines, that have linux VMs running on them. I would like to be able to have BOINCtasks connect to the VMs as well. Maybe even VNC into the VMs too. Is this even possible? If so, how do I tell what would the IP address of the VMs be (as perceived from other computers on my LAN)?

[Bok]

It actually depends on how you set up networking in the vm's as to whether they have a network accessible IP.

Log onto one of them in a commandline and type

ifconfig -a

and it should tell you it's IP address. Then try to ping it. You may well need to alter the networking part of the VM though, which is simple enough.

Which VM software is it?

[Fire$torm]

Take a look at these threads. The last one is a little vague but might hold a clue.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15301

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=35124

http://superuser.com/questions/322803/how-to-connect-to-virtualbox-remote-desktop-client-using-vnc

[zombie67]

It actually depends on how you set up networking in the vm's as to whether they have a network accessible IP.

Log onto one of them in a commandline and type

ifconfig -a

and it should tell you it's IP address. Then try to ping it. You may well need to alter the networking part of the VM though, which is simple enough.

Which VM software is it?

It is vbox, and the OS is ubuntu. Which IP address should I be looking at? My LAN is 192.168.1.x, so I am not sure how I could connect to a 10.x.x.x address?




$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:8f:04:f1
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe8f:4f1/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2075 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3667 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:930310 (930.3 KB) TX bytes:3622762 (3.6 MB)

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:6884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3504943 (3.5 MB) TX bytes:3504943 (3.5 MB)

[zombie67]

Ah, I think I have to choose "bridged" in the network setting of the machine in vbox. Thanks Guys!

Edit: Okay, follow up question. How do I define a fixed IP address. I looked all over the vbox manager, but no good.

[Bok]

hmm, not sure, but you can change it once you get in.

Look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

[zombie67]

hmm, not sure, but you can change it once you get in.

Look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Hrm. /etc/sysconfig/ does not exist. Why can this stuff be the same in all distros?

[zombie67]

I am using the DHCP addresses for now. In any case, for the first time in all my years of crunching, I am seeing the tasks from all my machines and VMs in a single GUI manager.

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!

AAAAAAWWWWWW YEEEEEAAAAAAAH!

\:D/ \:D/ \:D/

[Bok]

Which distro is it?

[zombie67]

Which distro is it?

10.04 LTS, with all the updates.

[Bok]

Debian based. Look in /etc/network/interfaces

[Fire$torm]

I am using the DHCP addresses for now. In any case, for the first time in all my years of crunching, I am seeing the tasks from all my machines and VMs in a single GUI manager.

THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME!!

AAAAAAWWWWWW YEEEEEAAAAAAAH!

\:D/ \:D/ \:D/

Koool! What did the trick?

[zombie67]

Koool! What did the trick?

> Ah, I think I have to choose "bridged" in the network setting of the machine in vbox. Thanks Guys!