VPN on virtual machine

[Michael Butash]

How are you configuring the openvpn connection?  Using PIA vpn, they give
you an openvpn file to connect with, or at least did last I set it up, and
otherwise should just need the package dependencies installed with openvpn.

I'd say launch openvpn via the cli in debug to see what errors it's giving
with the ovpn file.

Bridge or nat should be irrelevant, I've run mine both ways.  You should
only need ports 1194 out to your VPN provider, you don't need to port
forward one back, and actually recommend you do NOT unless you're wanting
an openvpn server yourself to connect back to.  Mine works fine out via NAT.

-mb

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:57 PM Jim <jim.nantz15 at comcast.net> wrote:

> I decided to try a virtual machine for bittorrent.  The host machine
> runs kubuntu 14.04 with 4GB RAM. I've installed virtualbox 5.2.18.  The
> virtual machine is running lubuntu 18 and has 1GB RAM.  The problem is
> with the vpn.  I can't get openvpn or pptp to work.  I configured them
> using the same instructions I did on the host machine.  When I try to
> start a VPN connction(openvpn or pptp)  on the guest machine, the icon
> appears to show it's trying to connect, then it just stops without
> offering any error message.  In  Virtualbox's settings for the guest
> machine under network, I chose attached to NAT.
>
> Any ideas what I should do different?
>
> thanks
>
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