Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 - Manual (Page 81)

5 Virtual storage
which uses such an iSCSI target is done as described above. The only difference is that
the IP address of the target must be specified as a numeric IP address.
The IP stack accessing Internal Networking must be configured in the virtual ma-
chine which accesses the iSCSI target. A free static IP and a MAC address not used
by other virtual machines must be chosen. In the example below, adapt the name of
the virtual machine, the MAC address, the IP configuration and the Internal Network-
ing name (’MyIntNet’) according to your needs. The following 7 commands must be
issued:
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/Trusted 1
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/Config/MAC 08:00:27:01:02:0f
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/Config/IP 10.0.9.1
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/Config/Netmask 255.255.255.0
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/LUN#0/Driver IntNet
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/LUN#0/Config/Network MyIntNet
VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
VBoxInternal/Devices/IntNetIP/0/LUN#0/Config/IsService 1
Finally the iSCSI disk must be registered with the -intnet option to tell the iSCSI
initiator to use internal networking:
VBoxManage addiscsidisk --server 10.0.9.30
--target iqn.2008-12.com.sun:sampletarget --intnet
The target address must be specified as a numeric IP address, as there is no DNS
resolver for internal networking.
The virtual machine with the iSCSI target should be started before the VM using it
is powered on. If a virtual machine using an iSCSI disk is started without having the
iSCSI target powered up, it can take up to 200 seconds to detect this situation. The
VM will fail to power up.
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