[OpenIndiana-discuss] Zone Networking under VirtualBox

[Geoff Flarity]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jeppe Toustrup <openindiana at tenzer.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 20:30, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flarity at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I should preface this by saying that while I've used Solaris 10 for 3
>> years a developer, I'm a very novice sysadmin.
>>
>> I'm very strongly considering using OI for a production deployment.
>> One requirement however is that it run inside VirtualBox so that
>> developers and create a VM for development testing and staging. Since
>> we'll be using zones in production, zones also need to work under
>> VirtualBox (OS X).
>>
>> Right now I'm using 'bridged' networking mode' under VirtualBox to
>> boot OI. The global zone has it's own IP and everything seems fine.
>> When I try to create a VNIC and try to use in a zone no matter what I
>> try I can't reach the 'internet'. I'm not even sure what documentation
>> applies (OpenSolaris docs seem dated, there's not much info on the
>> wiki etc).
>>
>> I'd really appreciate it if someone could point me in the right
>> direction here. The zones we create need to be able to hit the
>> internet. The dev's also need to be able connect to the zones from the
>> VirtualBox host OS. But that's about it.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Geoff
>>
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>
> Zones with exclusive networking inside VirtualBox can be a pain. This
> is because VirtualBox doesn't know of the extra MAC addresses for the
> VNIC's in OpenIndiana, and thus doesn't forward the packets to those
> MAC addresses to the OpenIndiana server.
>
> The only workarounds to this I can think of, is either using shared
> networking, which may work depending on your needs. That way all zones
> share the global zones MAC address, and will work fine. They do
> however not get their own network stack.
> Another workaround would be to add more virtual network interfaces in
> VirtualBox, and then assign these interfaces to each zone. They will
> appear as physical NICs to OpenIndiana.
>
>
> --
> Venlig hilsen / Kind regards
> Jeppe Toustrup (aka. Tenzer)
>
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Thanks Jeppe,

I'm making some progress now. I've set a container as exclusive IP
then given set the physical to one of the new nics. The container is
now reachable by the outside world.

Cheers,
GF