[NBLUG/talk] [WLUG] Anyone host a network game from inside VirtualBox?

Jeff Hanson jhansonxi at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 13:57:40 PDT 2009


On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Jack Smith<jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've started playing a railroad game online and so far I've only got it
> working in my home network with my daughter as GM (she runs Vista).  I
> should be able to have my daughter in Australia connect by using my router's
> address and telling it to send port 1103 and 1104 to her computer.  The
> problem is what to do when the in-home daughter goes back to the
> University.  I can have the router pass the traffic to my Linux box (Fedora
> 11) but how do I have it pass it on to the Windows machine running in Sun
> VirtualBox?  Any ideas?

I haven't used VirtualBox but doesn't the guest VM get it's own MAC
and IP address?  You could just tell the router to forward to that IP
address directly.



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