Nat network support

[isage]

Add support for virtualbox nat networks as a resource and natnetwork type for NICs E.g.:

resource "virtualbox_natnetwork" "vmnet10" {
    name = "vmnet10"
    dhcp = true
    network = "192.168.6.0/24"
}

resource "virtualbox_vm" "squid" {
  count     = 2
  name      = format("node%02d", count.index + 1)
  image     = "virtualbox.box"
  cpus      = 1
  memory    = "256 mib"

  network_adapter {
    type           = "hostonly"
    host_interface = "vboxnet0"
  }

  network_adapter {
    type           = "natnetwork"
    nat_network    = virtualbox_natnetwork.vmnet10.name
  }
}

Requires https://github.com/terra-farm/go-virtualbox/pull/13

[VoyTechnology]

Please take a look at the failing CI @isage.

[isage]

It states right there in description that it requires terra-farm/go-virtualbox#13 of course it will fail otherwise.

[VoyTechnology]

Sorry, I missed that.

[nevill]

I just compiled the code (of course with terra-farm/go-virtualbox#13) and everything works well.

The thing is, in NAT Network, we cannot connect to the VM directly. But, usually terraform provisioners require a network connection to control it. Is there any work-around? Like providing a port forward resource and using it as connection?

[isage]

I'm not sure of usage cases (i was contracted to implement nat network support), but yeah, nat network supports port forwarding, so it should be doable ( in separate pull request)

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I just compiled the code (of course with terra-farm/go-virtualbox#13 https://github.com/terra-farm/go-virtualbox/pull/13) and everything works well.

The thing is, in NAT Network, we cannot connect to the VM directly. But, usually terraform provisioners require a network connection to control it. Is there any work-around? Like providing a port forward resource and using it as connection?

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[patsevanton]

I think need use NAT Network with Host-only Network.

[nevill]

I think need use NAT Network with Host-only Network.

@patsevanton In this case, Host-only + NAT is working and preferred. Because it doesn't need to create a NAT Network.

[patsevanton]

@nevill NAT interface have equal IP address on all virtualbox machine

https://github.com/terra-farm/terraform-provider-virtualbox/issues/75

Host-only + NAT Network have different IP address on all virtualbox machine

[nevill]

@nevill NAT interface have equal IP address on all virtualbox machine

75

Host-only + NAT Network have different IP address on all virtualbox machine

Yes, I understand the difference. Host-only NIC can have different IPs. In this way, they're equivalent, but NAT Network has one more resource to create.

I'd like to use NAT Network if the connection problem mentioned above gets resolved.

[patsevanton]

Hello! may be merge PR?

[jpts]

Hi folks, I'm interested in getting this functionality merged in (in addition to the go library PR). Is there anything else that needs to be done for this, except for rebasing and resolving conflicts?

@isage are you still interested in picking this up, or should I create a new PR to pickup the work in?

[isage]

I'm not interested, so go ahead. Same goes for go-virtualbox.

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Hi folks, I'm interested in getting this functionality merged in (in addition to the go library PR http:///terra-farm/go-virtualbox/pull/13). Is there anything else that needs to be done for this, except for rebasing and resolving conflicts?

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[VoyTechnology]

Closing in favour of #103.