Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for FreeBSD! take 4

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Wed, 27 May 2009, Martin Wilke wrote:
>> First of all sorry for all unanswered mails, I got a stupid flu,
>> but now i feel better... ok now back to vbox, time for a new call
>> for testing :-)
>>
>> Following was added/fixed:
>>
>> - ACPI Support was added
>> - hostDVD support was added
>> - Fix startup on HEAD
>> - Plist problem under AMD64 was fixed
>> - Qt4 Frontend is now Optional
>> - Desktop file was added
>> - Xorg dependencies was fixed
>> - Guest additions was added (thx to Maho NAKATA <chat95 (at) mac dot
>> com>)
> 
> Nice :)
...
> 
> Are there plans (or patches :) for adding other types of network 
> support? NAT is usable but without the ability to forward ports it 
> makes logging in via SSH rather tedious (ie log out from the VM with -R 
> then log back in).
> 

Here's something that might help:

NAT host port 2222 to ssh (22) in virtual machine 'psyche'.
Do this while the VM isn't running.

$ VBoxManage setextradata psyche \
           "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/Protocol" TCP
$ VBoxManage setextradata psyche \
            "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/GuestPort" 22
$ VBoxManage setextradata psyche \
           "VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/guestssh/HostPort" 2222

Now you can just 'ssh -p 2222 localhost' to get into that particular
VM.

I'd also like to say thanks for the port! It's *very* useful!

    - Rich

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