Basic steps to Network Communications | How to connect 2 VM machines as Local network in MAC M1 Chip

Pre Installations :

• UTM : You need to install UTM in your mac this works well in Mac arm hardware
• Ubuntu arm64 virtual machines : You will able to find ubuntu arm images from UTM gallery thats pretty easy to use.

Step 1 : You need to have 2 vms if you download one ubuntu machine you can clone that machine and rename it

Step 2 : Change the network setting to Bridged so it will able to connect to other vms

Step 3 : Start VMs seperately

Step 4 : You need to install sudo if it is not there

4.1. Log in as Root User:

If sudo is not working, you’ll need to use the root account directly to install it. Follow these steps to access the root account:

• Open a terminal.
• Use the following command to switch to the root user (no sudo required):

su -

• Enter the root password when prompted. If you don’t know the root password, you may need to reset it or gain access to the root account first.

4.2. Install sudo:

Once logged in as the root user, you can install sudo by following these steps:

Install sudo:

apt update
apt install sudo

After installation, you should be able to use sudo again.

Step 5 : You need to install network packages

5.1 : Install ifconfig

sudo apt update
sudo apt install net-tools

After install you can run ifconfig , This will display the network interfaces and their IP addresses.

5.2 Install ping for check connections

sudo apt update
sudo apt install iputils-ping

After the installation, verify that ping is working by checking its version.

ping -V

Step 6 : Now you are ready to go 😈

6.1 : We need to first check the network interfaces

ip link show

This will list all available network interfaces on your system, whether they are up or down.

• Look for an interface that corresponds to your VM’s network adapter. It could be something like enp0s3, ens33, or eth0.
• If you see an interface that looks right (e.g., ens33 or enp0s3), use that name in your ifconfig commands.

In my case it is enp0s1 youy can see it under 2 details set.

6.2 We need to assign IP addresses to both vms

# Vm1
sudo ifconfig enp0s1 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0

# Vm2
sudo ifconfig enp0s1 192.168.1.20 netmask 255.255.255.0

Check for the connection : you can ping from one vm to other vm IP

#vm2
ping 192.168.1.10

If you recieve this kind of output then you have successfully connect both vms 😇

In the next blog lets try to connect 3 vms there are few considerations we need to look when we connect 3 vms because one vm should act as a router. Lets see how to do that soon…….