Addressing virtualbox machines on the same LAN as FreeNAS?

[nskio]

Hi all.

I've got FreeNAS setup with a virtualbox jail. FreeNAS is at 192.168.1.2, and the vbox webmin is at 192.168.1.7. My network is 192.168.1.0/24, I'd like to be able to spin up machines in virtualbox and address them on the same network, i.e. new linux machine in virtualbox that I can address from my home network at 192.168.1.8. Right now, I can access the vbox machines via VNC and port number, but the IP is always the same as the virtualbox jail itself, which I thought was interesting.

I'm assuming this is pretty straightforward, but I'm not really sure how to start. Could anyone advise, or point me in the right direction? Thank you.

 

[danb35]

Of course. When you set up a virtual machine in the virtualbox web GUI, set its network interface to Bridged Interface. At that point, the VM will have a NIC on the same network as your FreeNAS box. How you get it an IP address is up to you, and will depend in part on the guest OS--you can either configure an IP address manually, or have it pick one up via DHCP.