VM Bridge conection with network off

[JuztBe]

Hello, 

At internship I have set up apache ubuntu server. It runs as a virtual machine with network adapter set as bridge. Then in windows host file I enter VM IP, domain name and I can connect to my project.
Problem is that in dorm bridge connection is blocked, I can't run it while having a network on.
How do I configure VM so I could reach it without network connection 

[Crunchy Dragon]

I'm pretty sure you can't access anything remotely without a network connection.

[JuztBe]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

I'm pretty sure you can't access anything remotely without a network connection.

Should there be a way to link a host and VM? I'm running VM locally on my machine.

[factorialandha]

what VM solution are you running ? Hyper V ? Vmware ? etc 

 

you can usually add an internal host only interface that gives the host and other VMs access to it, but it will not try to grab an external ip or bridge through to your externl network

 

[Crunchy Dragon]

11 minutes ago, JuztBe said:

Should there be a way to link a host and VM? I'm running VM locally on my machine.

Oh that's what you meant, I thought you were talking about connecting through the network. Derp.

 

Depends on what software you're using, but it appears that VMWare and VirtualBox both allow for networking between the host and VM. https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_net_configurations_hostonly.html

 

[JuztBe]

7 minutes ago, factorialandha said:

what VM solution are you running ? Hyper V ? Vmware ? etc 

 

you can usually add an internal host only interface that gives the host and other VMs access to it, but it will not try to grab an external ip or bridge through to your externl network

 

 

7 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Oh that's what you meant, I thought you were talking about connecting through the network. Derp.

 

Depends on what software you're using, but it appears that VMWare and VirtualBox both allow for networking between the host and VM. 

 

 

Virtual box. I'll look into that

[factorialandha]

Just now, JuztBe said:

 

Virtual box. I'll look into that

its relatively simple, effectively just setting your interface on the vm to be host only or something like that.

[Catsrules]

There are two way to get network access to a VM NAT or bridge. I believe the are named basically the same if your using virtual box, or VMware or any other Virtual program.

 

Easiest way is setting the VM's nic to NAT. This it the most basic, whatever network your host computers has access to the VM should also get access to. However NAT is limited because the host computer hides the VM behind it, so nothing on the network will have direct access to the VM. So this won't work if your VM is a server of some kind.

The other way is bridge, this will give the VM access to a specified nic on the host computer. It will act as if the VM was directly plugged into the network. (note I have had issues with this if the Host is connected to the network over WiFi. it depends on how the WiFi network is setup. Best to do this over a wired connection.)

 

[factorialandha]

 

 

Heres a video for host only networking too, incase it helps.