Can't get Vagrant box to communicate with host machine about fopnp

[brandon-rhodes]

You might have to do a lot of experimentation with your VirtualBox configuration. There are many ways of setting up the virtual network adapter in VirtualBox which seem to result in the virtual machine and the real machine not being able to see each other — network connections originating from inside the virtual machine can reach outside to the rest of the world, but cannot see the host machine. You might want to consult VirtualBox FAQs or documentation about how to establish network connections between the host and the virtual machine.

Have you tried out the Network Playground? It provides an alternative way to have several virtual machines that can all talk: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/fopnp/tree/m/playground#the-network-playground

You mention the hostname vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64 — unless you can ping that hostname successfully and ask your system what its IP address is and get back a reasonable answer, it might be that you simply don't have a working hostname that you can use for the box? I would recommend that you start with the other machine's raw IP address, and first get the script working with the IP address as its command line argument. Once you get that working, then you could switch to trying a hostname to see if it is supported on your system.

[brandon-rhodes]

Since I have not heard anything back — and since I suspect that trying out the Network Playground will indeed solve your problem by giving you a collection of virtual machines that are correctly networked together such that all of the scripts in the book work and where all the network settings are correct — I am going to provisionally close this issue. But please do open it if you have something else to ask about your situation. I was just working earlier this week to get Vagrant and VirtualBox talking together on my machine, so I know that these situations can result in frustrating hours!