Connecting oracle client installed on windows 10 to Oracle server installed on Virtual Box Windows 10

Question

I have below setup:

My machine - Windows 10 with Virual Box and Oracle 12c client On Virtual Box - Windows 10 with Oracle 12c Server

I need to connect to virtual box - oracle from my machine using sqlplus or any IDE.

I have tried Host Only adapter but I am not able to connect.

Please help.

Thanks.

Answer 1

What is the ip address of the hostonly adapter, on the Windows host? You can check that with the command 'ipconfig' and look for the entry 'VirtualBox Host-Only Network'.

C:\Users\estevens\Documents>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:

   Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
   Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::e172:fa54:d3d6:9712%15
   IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.56.1
   Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
   Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . :

Then, the network interface on the vm guest needs to be configured with a fixed ip address in the same subnet. In the above example, the host adapter is at 192.168.56.1 so the vm guest could be anything else in the 192.168.56.* (except for.1, as that is already taken). With that configuration, you can treat the vm just like any remote server in the data center.

I've written more about it here: https://edstevensdba.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/configure-the-virtualbox-network-2/

-- Error correction 19-May-2020: discovered that I had a typo in one of the IP addresses used in the above discussion. Corrected.