Exposing Ports from a Virtual Machine

Since release 0.5 ports from the internal virtual machine can be exposed to outside.

Requirements

Ports exposing works with Linux Kernel iptables so it requires the host to have it installed in properly configured.

The virtual machine must have a way to tell the host what is the internal IP to the host, so the qemu guest agent must be installed.

Configure Expose

From the virtual machine settings there is a new menu item Ports. There you can add new ports to be exposed.

There you must add the number of the internal port to be exposed and an optional name. If you set this port to restricted it will only be allowed to the remote client IP.

Fields

  • Port: internal port in the virtual machine

  • Name: optional short description of the service to expose

  • Restricted: restrict the port to the remote client if set

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Run

When the virtual machine gets started Ravada searches for a free port in the host to expose the port through.

In this example the user can connect to the IP 10.1.36.68 port 5954 to access the SSH server inside the virtual machine.

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Ports redirection requires the internal IP of the virtual machine to be active. So it retries for a while trying to redirect until an IP is detected or it fails.

Note

If your exposing ports don’t work. Check if the port is up and if you have the Qemu Guest Agent installed on the guest machine.

Settings

Internal ports are shown in the host at a different port. It can be changed from the global settings page.