stoolpigeon's Journal: Using VirtualBox Guest as a Server

So right after I wrote my last je I googled a bit and set it up so that I could access my Fedora vm from the host OS (Mavericks).

It was pretty simple though I had to piece together exactly what to do from a few different places. These instructions work well though they leave out one part. The first part about creating a new interface - for me vboxnet0 wasn't already there. I needed to do go into the VirtualBox preferences, then in the networking section I needed to create a host-only network. Then it made it possible for me to create the host-only connection.

Now I can ssh to the guest and browse to it. Very nice. This will allow me to be a lot more productive when I travel.

I've also tried out Vagrant

[smittyoneeach]

Although, getting into AWS, I want to have a go at http://www.packer.io/ [packer.io] so that I can synchronize the local and cloudy bits.

Moo

[Chacham]

host OS (Mavericks)

Have you looked at 10.10 (beta) yet? Looks like the community is split over whether it's ugly or beautiful.

Re:

[stoolpigeon]

I'm in no rush to update. I wait on that stuff and let the early adopters find the problems.

I really don't get why everyone gushes over mac as being so superior to Windows when it comes to the stability of updates. Mac fans are just willing to endure more.