I am using a dedicated server with a certain wan ip / netmask / gateway / nameservers. I got a second wan ip to use with virtualbox i installed on the server. I want to use bridge connection in virtualbox because i use some "servers" in it and want them to be able to be seen from internet .
I created a virtual network interface on the server and assigned the second ip to it. It works , meaning i can ping that ip from outside.I setup virtualbox to bridge to that interface but i am stuck at what settings i have to set up in the virtual guest so everything will work.
Second ip has netmask 255.255.255.255 so i assume its a single ip situation and probably using gateway and nameservers of the server because i was given none of them with it.
I have to mention that first ip and second ip are not in the same subnet , nor is the gateway (e.g. XX.YY.ZZ.WW , ZZ is different between first , second and gateway ip)
Thanks in advance.
You have to unbind TCP and all other protocols and services on the hosts NIC that you want to use in VBox. After that, you can configure a bridged network connection using that interface. After that, you can set the IP and network settings in your virtual system. This has also been addressed in this post: https://serverfault.com/questions/136969/dedicate-a-nic-to-a-virtualbox-vm