Hello, everyone
I am a currently studying for a technical degree in I.T and we work very often with Virtual machines.
My to questions to you guys, is how to make VMs created with Gnome boxes to communicate together ? Do I need an intermediary application? or network set up?
I was hoping it would just work and be as easy to use as WMware app.
I thank you in advance.
Hi, welcome to Zorin OS!
The virtual machines need to be on the same network to be able to communicate with each other. This is commonly done using a virtual interface which can be achieved using dnsmasq; programs like this are typically used under the hood and not directly, however.
I couldn't tell you how to do this with Gnome Boxes but look around into its settings to see if there's menu to control the networks. Otherwise, I'd recommend using KVM which is what Gnome Boxes uses under the hood anyway.
Here are some useful videos to get you started — the first two are introductory and the third one is all about networking:
Hi,
I believe VirtualBox supports what you asked about (letting VMs communicate with each other). VB is quite feature-rich, so you might want to look into it.