I have recently learned how to setup a virtual machine using vagrant (virtualbox), and I know how to access it from a web browser via the local adress such as 192.168.x.x:9292 since 9292 is the default gate. But I would like to access the server from another computer locally.
My question is if I could access it via cmd as I connect to it on my own with the command vagrant ssh but from another computer via a command like vagrant ssh 192.168.x.x?
As far as I understand you have to use external programs or setup something inside the vagrant environment? Is there a simple way to access the server or is it password protected? If I setup a website I can access that for example from another local machine but can I access files on the server (from another computer)?
I found how to connect to another computer locally by entering the vagrant environment, vagrant up --> vagrant ssh. And connected to another computer by typing in ssh vagrant#192.168.x.x where 192.168.x.x is the local address to the computer. The vagrant asks for a password and you type in the default password which I believe is vagrant and then you are connected to the other vagrant instance.
Assuming you have virtualbox provider for Vagrant you can achieve this by doing bridging the VBox network interface with Host.
Use this in Vagratfile (for public/private)
For Public
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network "public_network",
use_dhcp_assigned_default_route: true
end
For Private
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp"
end
above code will create IP in the range of Host network and using this you can access the file server from another machine.
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We are trying to use Vagrant to run a Redis server on Mac (using an Ubuntu Guest OS) with this Vagrantfile
Sadly we are unable to access the Redis database inside the Vagrant Box.
We get this error:
Error: Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - read ECONNRESET
This is the Network configuration in the VirtualBox VM:
What else do we need to add to the Vagrantfile to expose Redis to Mac?
(Note: the reason for using Vagrant is both to let people try redis without having to install it on their main OS, but more importantly to ensure that other elements of the app run as expected)
This may be helpful https://serverfault.com/questions/248248/cannot-connect-to-redis-installed-on-virtualbox-running-ubuntu-from-windows-7. I know question is about connecting from Windows, but the solution is mostly modifications to the Redis config within the VM in order to not bind Redis only to a local port in the redis.conf so that it can be accessed on the host machine(Mac in your case).
Also, depending on how you are trying to access Redis you may be able to configure a SSH tunnel on the host machine(Mac) in order to gain access to the Redis server within the Vagrant VM. I ended up going this route for my case to connect to Redis inside of a Vagrant VM for local development of an Ember JS app using ember-cli and ember-cli deploy with ember-cli-deploy-redis
You can give a Private IP to the Vagrant box and then access redis using the private IP.
For example, lets say you want to configure 192.168.33.10 as you Vagrant box IP. Simply add this line in Vagrant file.
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.network 'private_network', ip: '192.168.33.10'
end
From now u can access your vagrant box using 192.168.33.10
I happen to run Redis within a Docker container in addition to the Vagrant setup. Running into this question again and again, I want to a add my findings.
Indeed making sure binding to net devices is to 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 is essential. Since I am running Docker I just had to make sure the container is properly run:
docker run -d redis -p 0.0.0.0:6379:6379 redis
Then, in addition the known Vagrant configuration:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 6379, host: 6379
And voilà: running Redis in a Vagrant VM using Docker, able to access it from the Mac OSX host system.
This is without changing the Redis config, since Docker takes care of this.
I want to connect with a vagrant machine with different user instead of Vagrant also want to use another username and password instead of using keys. Also, I want to know is it possible to use ssh vagrant vm from another vm running in same machine. If so, how to do that?
Vagrant has a few options (see full doc https://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/vagrantfile/ssh_settings.html) :
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.ssh.username = "user"
config.ssh.password = "password"
end
note indeed, you need to make sure those users exist on the guest os (generally most vagrant box are created with vagrant user)
To have the connection between your different VMs, you can easily do that if you assign fix IP to the VM.
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.45.15"
end
when you connect to your second VM, you can run ssh vagrant#192.168.45.15 and it will ssh to the first VM
The scenario is that my dev environment is on a Vagrant box on my laptop (host) and I would like to do browser testing in a vitualbox vm, so I need to see one vm from another.
The vagrant box's port is :8080 which is forwarded to the host on the same port :8080. So I can see the server from the host at localhost:8080
Which address should I be using for the browser testing vm?
The testing vm's default gateway?
The vagrant vm's ip?
The host's virtual network ip?
And should I be using a NAT or host only adapter on the browser testing vm?
That makes for a lot of combinations, all of which I believe I have tried. What else do I need to understand here?
In your use case, you should be using Bridged networking (Public Network in Vagrant). If the VMs reside on the same host, you can even use internal (Private Network in Vagrant).
If using Public Network, the VM's 2nd NIC will be able to obtain an IP address from the DHCP server in your network (e.g. your home router).
Simply add the following code block in your Vagrantfile and do a vagrant reload
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network "public_network"
end
You should be able to get the IP address by using vagrant ssh and ifconfig / ip addr show.
In case you don't want to go with public_network just like me then you should do the steps below using private_network:
Open Vagrantfile from your project root
Search for config.vm.network
Add this line config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.33.10". Remember this is not the IP of your base machine it's a virtual-box IP address and your machine IP should be different. You can say it's a fake IP address so change it to anything else like 192.168.30.20.
Reload your vagrant using vagrant reload.
Now go to your other virtual guest in my case it's the Windows Guest 2. My base is Linux Mint Vagrant box is on Ubuntu Guest 1. Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file as admin and do the above IP's entry in there like 192.168.33.10 local.youralias.com. And save the file, after that you can now browse the site now at http://local.youralias.com/.
In case your guest 2 is also Linux just edit this file sudo vi /etc/hosts, and add this line at top of it 192.168.33.10 local.youralias.com. Now save and exit and browse the URL :)
Enjoy! Happy coding.
Adding to accepted answer, you can actually set IP and specify which network interface to use.
My setup on linux box via wifi and static IP:
You can find your wifi interface name by running ifconfig command.
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network "public_network", :bridge => 'wlp8s0', ip: "192.168.1.199"
end
This may have many source cause. In my case, I use vagrant fedora boxe.
I tried:
First using the private_network that I attached to a host only adapter and launched httpd service to test the connection between guest and host
config.vm.network "private_network", type: "dhcp", name: "vboxnet2"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest:80, host:7070
but I was not able to ping my guest machine from the host and could no telnet the httpd service opened
Second using public_network and launched httpd service to test connectivity
config.vm.network "public_network", bridge: "en0: Wi-Fi (AirPort)", use_dhcp_assigned_default_route: true
I could ping my guest from my host but I could not telnet the httpd service.
For this two use case, the issue was that the port 80 on the fedora guest host was blocked by the firewall. Here is what fixed the issue and get all working for both privat_network and public_ntwork:
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port 80/tcp #open the port permanently
firewall-cmd --zone=public --permanent --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --list-port # list to check if the port was opened
systemctl stop firewalld # stop and open the firewall service
systemctl start firewalld
Old question, new answer: [disclaimer: i am not a vagrant expert]
both solutions might work but the solution in the "vagrant way of thinking" is that some component in your guest (rinetd?) should forward any requests to unknown ports to the host. From the host the request could then be mapped (via vagrant port forwarding) to a services that is running in the other guest.
So, to resume:
1.in guest-1 we do localhost:1234. Guest-1 will detect that this port is not available and forward to host
2. the host will check the vagrant port forwarding and forward to guest-2
3. in guest-2 we have some nice service listening to post 1234
4. done.
I am trying to connect to the Vagrant server using putty with IP:127.0.0.1 and port:2222. Yesterday i login successfully using username:vagrant and pass:vagrant. Today, unforunately this is what i received is a dialog box:"PuTTy fatal error:network error:Connection refused". Any ideas/suggestions about how to fix that
You may want to try configuring a static IP address for your VM in your Vagrantfile. Through past experience, I've found this to be a more stable way of connecting to your VM via SSH/SCP/SFTP or similar.
To set a static IP address (e.g. in this case 192.168.50.10), you'd put the following in your VagrantFile:
# Create a private network, which allows host-only access to the VM
# using the Static IP 192.168.50.10
config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.50.10"
This is documented in more detail in the Vagrant Documentation on Private Networks.
Once you've configured a static IP (and rerun 'vagrant up' or 'vagrant reload'), you should be able to connect to your VM using Putty/SSH by using that Static IP (192.168.50.10) and port 22.
I am running a Wordpress app inside a Vagrant box that needs to access a Rails app running on my host machine (using Pow). How do I do that?
I can access the Rails app on my host machine using myapp.dev and would like to access it from inside Vagrant as well, in the best case using the same domain.
All info I could find on that topic is about the other way around, where you want to access an app running inside Vagrant from the host machine.
So it just sounds like you need a host entry on your guest machine pointing back your host machine?
You could do something like the following:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
require 'socket'
local_ip = UDPSocket.open {|s| s.connect("64.233.187.99", 1); s.addr.last}
config.vm.provision "shell", inline: "echo \"#{local_ip} myapp.dev\" >> /etc/hosts"
end
This should use a socket to get your host machines IP address and then using a shell provisioner it will append that IP address to your hosts file which should allow your VM to use the domain name you want to communicate with your host OS.