I am using Parallels Desktop 10.2 for Mac on OS X Yosemite. I am trying to configure my my client (Ubuntu 14.04) to host a website that is available to the host via a particular domain name. It's important to me that I can get this set up as it's the factor that determines whether I'll buy the license for Parallels Desktop 10 or I'll keep using Parallels Desktop 8.
In the advanced network settings, I configured the shared start address (since the host is sharing its network with this VM) to be 10.211.55.20. And I changed my /etc/network/interfaces file such that eth0 is configured statically.
/etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.211.55.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 10.211.55.20
This works to an extent. After adding an entry to the host's /etc/hosts file, I can access the server via the hostname I specified. However, the domain names don't resolve on the client. I've done some extensive searching to figure out what gives and can't find a solution that works for me. I've tried adding the line "dns-nameservers 10.211.55.20" and (in a different attempt) "dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4" (Google's public DNS) to no avail. I tried adding an entry to the /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base file also to no avail. Any ideas as to what I'm missing or doing wrong? I'm still pretty new to networking, so I don't entirely know what I'm doing outside of the help I can find via Google.
EDIT: Additionally, if somebody could guide me on how to configure this for IPv6, that'd be much appreciated.
Last edited: May 22, 2015
