Linux Machines and networking: is there a way to use the machine's IP address from the host?

[liquid1982]

Hi there! I have a networking-related question.

I am playing with mrsk, and Orbstack would be the perfect companion to quickly create Linux VMs on my localhost, instead of spinning them on a cloud provider.

But. I can't find a way to reach the VMs from my host machine by using the IP address I can get following these instructions.

For example, ip addr from an ubuntu box gives me 100.115.93.87, but ping 100.115.93.87 from the host machine of course does not resolve.

Ideas? Is this even possible? What would be an alternative?

[kdrag0n]

Great use case, thanks for sharing!

Support for connecting to machines by IP from macOS is planned, but not yet implemented. See #33.

In the meantime you should be able to do what you want using SSH port forwarding:

ssh -L 22:100.115.93.87:22 orb

[liquid1982]

That's awesome. Thanks for the quick response!

[kdrag0n]

Ah, I just realized that the issue only mentions the Docker bridge. I'll rename it and add it to the Linux machines docs to clarify that it should apply to both.

[KaraRyougi]

I have a similar question - is it possible for the Linux VM to get a separate IP address (say from DHCP on the LAN)? It seems the current implementation is not a bridge right?

[kdrag0n]

Networking bridged to an external interface (i.e. Wi-Fi) is possible but we don't currently have any plans to support it, mainly because it cannot ever be the default option due to VPN compatibility and we want to avoid having too many options. Feel free to open a feature request with any use cases you have in mind.

If you just want separate machine IPs that are accessible from macOS, see #89.