Ubuntu – How to remotely access website in the virtual machine

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I have installed VirtualBox and a guest machine with Ubuntu.

From my host Ubuntu, I can browse to 192.168.56.10 and see webpages inside my guest Ubuntu server (and I can ssh user@192.168.56.10 into my guest machine, too)

Now my question is:

How to remotely access this website which resides inside my guest machine?

guest static ip: 192.168.56.10

host static Internet ip: 11.11.11.11 (I do have static Internet IP, but this only as example)

I want to be able to browse to http://11.11.11.11 from any computer and visit that page inside my virtual machine

Best Answer

In your router forward port 80 and 443 to 192.168.56.10

Then when an external request hits port 80 or 443 http https it will be routed to the VM guest machine at 192.168.56.10

This may only work if your default gateway is 192.168.56.1 or you may have to change the static address on the guest so matches the gateway .. for instance if your default gateway was 192.168.1.1 then you would need a static IP in the guest as 192.168.1.xxx .. for the easiest setup

Just as an added note that I was just reminded of .. this setup I use myself but I use a bridged connection in VirtualBox not the default NAT connection and now that I look at it, the above IP is most likely a NAT connection in Vbox

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U can access your vm anywhere by " D D N S " link (what it does give u static link and make your dynamic ip auto updated through DDNS link )

Example link would like this xxx.no-ip.org

most of router support ddns u can login your ddns id

now u need to DMZ to the ip of vm enter image description here

NOW OPEN VIRTUAL BOX > CLICK ON VM > SETTINGS > NETWORK enter image description here

NOW USE STATIC IP AS I HAVE DMZ TO IP 192.168.0.200 SO MY VM IP SHOULD BE 192.168.0.200

Install any service in your vm , like Apache , Ssh

now u can ssh anywhere from like this **ssh user-name@xxx.no-ip.org**

if your have apache installed on vm just paste link xxx.no-ip.org on web browser it will open your web from your vm

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Starting from version 4.0 we are able to limit Virtual Box bandwith for acess to disk images (see Virtual Box Manual for details)

We need to create a bandwith group first (in the example below named "Limit" for 20 MB/s):

VBoxManage bandwidthctl "VM name" add Limit --type disk --limit 20M
VBoxManage storageattach "VM name" --storagectl "SATA" --port 0 --device 0 --type hdd
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VBoxManage storageattach "VM name" --storagectl "SATA" --port 1 --device 0 --type hdd
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If you get this error:

VBoxManage: error: Cannot register the hard disk '.../foo.vdi' {...} because a hard disk '.../foo.vdi' with UUID {...} already exists

then replace the path to the disk image with the UUID given in the error (both should be the same) including the {}

To further limit disk access to 10 MB/s we can then issue

VBoxManage bandwidthctl "VM name" set Limit --limit 10M

This can even be done during runtime.

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