eskatos's thoughts

I like emulation/virtualization a lot. I used to use Win4Lin and VMWare for testing new systems/applications I now have switched to VirtualBox mainly because of the automation scripting tools (VBoxManage and friends).

I work/play on a linux laptop and need to run several virtual machines interconnected in an isolated network and the VirtualBox network configuration can give headaches, it gave me some : ) During the setup I had to write things down on paper, walk around chewing my pencil, scratch my head .. so I will share theses notes here hoping it will be usefull to someone.

Overview

For a 10000 feet view of the setup explained here, a simple picture is better than many words :

Virtual Network Overview

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