Comments on: How to connect to database inside VMWare from the web applications

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:22:50 +0000

The ip address of the virtual machine must be different from the address of the host (your pc), but it should be on the same subnet as the server from which you are trying to connect to the database.

How to change the ip address would be different depending on the virtual machine’s OS, which you didn’t specify.

Before trying to connect to the database, you should make sure you can ping the virtual machine from the server.

By: swatigaur

swatigaur — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:58:10 +0000

Hi Carlosdl,

Now inside the VM you can configure netwoking as if this were another physical machine on your network, join it to the domain, etc.

I have checked the IP address of my machine and the VMWare, both are different. Do I need to change the IP address of VMWare and put it in my machine’s IP address range???
Also the Server is in network with my machine and I need to create the DSN so that I can connect to the database inside VMWare.
I tried changing IP Address but its not reflecting. Can you please let me know how to change it.

By: michael morisy

michael morisy — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:11:14 +0000

Thanks for following up, Carlosdl and Swatigaur. Question clarifications are always appreciated!

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By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:33:17 +0000

It might be different depending on the Vmware product being used, but in general you would have to select the proper VM from the VM inventory, and in the Hardware section edit the network adapter to use a “Bridged” connection. Now inside the VM you can configure netwoking as if this were another physical machine on your network, join it to the domain, etc.

To create the DSN, the server name would be the host name of your VM (or its ip address), the default Oracle port number is 1521, the Oracle SID is a unique identifier or name of the database instance (it is defined when creating the database), and the user id and password would be from a database user that con log and query the database.

By: swatigaur

swatigaur — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:41:22 +0000

Thanks for your reply.

Can you describe in more details the steps I need to follow for this as I am new to use VMWare. Also I want to know for creating DSN we need to provide some parameters like server name, port number, sid, user id, password. Where can I get these details.