Connecting to EAP server on RHEL virtual guest on laptop

[breathless]

Hi,

I'm total ex-technical newbie.  I'm fairly proud of this question because it means I've come some way to reaching what I want to do (as a now non-techie) but alas no further...

I'm interested in investigating the BPM and decision-modelling software from red-hat.  To this end, I've bought a developer (I know, I'm totally not) subscription for RHEL 7.1 and installed it as a guest on oracle's virtualbox on my laptop (and it runs too).

I've downloaded JBOSS developer studio onto my windows laptop and I've managed to set-up a samba share so that I can see the RHEL guest.  The EAP server I installed on a drive which is also a samba share.

I now want to set-up the developer studio to use the EAP server on virtualbox.  I go through the steps to add the server and I get the following message.

What does the virtual machine refer to in this case? I'm assuming the java virtual machine.  I have java installed on the guest (required for the EAP installation).  Do I have to make the directory where I have the JDK installed a samba share as well?

Has anybody done what I'm trying to do before and blogged their experiences?

[maxandersen]

Hi Anthony,

Before I go into details, are you sure you need to use a virtual machine running RHEL to do what you want to do ?

You could make things much simpler and just run your EAP server locally on your machine rather than having to go through the layer of virtual machine ?

If you really do want to use a virtual machine then look at this how-to article: http://tools.jboss.org/documentation/howto/configure_remote_server.html

[breathless]

Hi Max,

I only have a windows laptop, the requirements for EAP server suggest some server version of the operating systems.  Would it make a difference to use windows 8.1 instead of Windows server 2012?  It would only be myself who'd be using it.  I tried previously with EAP directly on my laptop and got a weird error which made me think that it was due to the O/S.

Thanks for the link, I'll give it a look and see how I get on.

Regards,

Anthony