Mysql server

Parrot comes with a MySQL server instance, that will tune itself to the size of VM it's provisioned on. A default MySQL user is set up for accessing databases from both guest and host OS.

Accessing

You can access the MySQL server from the host machine via port forwarding using the following details:

mysql://root:[email protected]:3306/

So you can use the following command line to connect:

mysql -u root -proot -h 127.0.0.1 -P 3306

From either the guest or host.

Default MySQL config

The default MySQL config supplied with Parrot contains some performance optimisations depending on the amount of memory the guest VM has. These are specified in the /etc/mysql/conf.d/parrot.conf file, which is auto-generated by Puppet. Everything else is standard Ubuntu.

We also specify the bind-address as 0.0.0.0, so MySQL is listening on all of the guest's network interfaces.