Configure Hosts for Host-Only Adapter ETH1
This course is focused on creating one MiniSAP Developer Edition installation within a single virtual machine (the guest operating system).
Your personal computer (the host operating system) will also be configured to resolve a few network names to statically allocated IPs. This will allow the host operating system to connect to any of the guest operating systems you have running on the VirtualBox virtual network (subnet 192.168.86.x).
Benefit: You will be able to use your personal computer (the host operating system) as a ‘Presentation Server’ and install any client-side applications like SAP GUI, Lumira, Eclipse (with tools), BEx Analyser, etc.
All of these client-side applications will connect to the virtual machine(s) running the server-side services by using simple/custom hostnames like ‘neo’, ‘neo.matrix’ or ‘neo.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info’.
Example VM IPs for SAP Technologies:
192.168.86.11 morpheus.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info
192.168.86.12 neo.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info
192.168.86.13 trinity.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info
192.168.86.14 oracle.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info
192.168.86.15 architect.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info
192.168.86.16 sentinels.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info
This course will get you up and running with ‘morpheus.matrix.vpc.dataprofessionals.info (192.168.86.11)’. However, the instructions have been expanded to include a few other hostnames as a guide for when you start to explore virtual machine cloning and running multiple unique instances that can still connect to each other.
Tip: The intentional use of two VirtualBox network adaptors, allows all virtual machines to have duplicate hostnames on ETH0 (like vhcalnplci or hxehost) ignorant of the existence of each other; while also having unique hostnames on ETH1 (like morpheus or neo) and be able to communicate like a normal virtual network on the host computer … you’re very own Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
Benefit: You will not need to use the VirtualBox Network Port Forwarding feature that is commonly documented in other 3rd party configuration guides.
- Which operating system is your personal computer running?
- Mint 19.3: Do the ‘How-To Configure Hosts for Host-Only Adapter ETH1 (Mint 19.3)’ task; then come back here.
- OSX 10.15: Do the ‘How-To Configure Hosts for Host-Only Adapter ETH1 (OSX 10.15)’ task; then come back here.
- Windows 7: Do the ‘How-To Configure Hosts for Host-Only Adapter ETH1 (Windows 7)’ task; then come back here.
- Windows 10: Do the ‘How-To Configure Hosts for Host-Only Adapter ETH1 (Windows 10)’ task; then come back here.
- Congratulations, keep going.
