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Accessing your Virtualbox Guest from your Host OS
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Accessing your Virtualbox Guest from your Host OS

As a developer you want to ping and access the webserver on your virtual machine. This is a very simple solution to enable the bridge to the guest VM.

Requirements

  • VirtualBox (latest version)
  • A guest operation system (e.g. Ubuntu)

Setup

  • Shut down all running VM's
  • Right click on the VM > Change... > Network
  • Open Tab: Adapter 1
  • Enable the Adapter and select "NAT"

The next step is importand to make it work:

  • Open Tab: Adapter 2
  • Enable the adapter and select: "Host-only Adapter"
  • Select Name: "VirtualBox Host-only Ethernet Adapter"
  • Click at "Extended"
  • Select the adapter: "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop..."
  • Select the modus: "Allow all and host"
  • Click on "Ok" to save all settings.

Yes, you have to enable two adapters at the same time to make it work. Realy. You need a "NAT" and a "Host-only Adapter".

  • Start the VM
  • Open the terminal (with Ctrl+Alt+T)
  • Enter: ifconfig
  • Now you should see a local IP addresse like: 192.168.56.104
  • The IP address is dynamic an can be different on your VM

Test

  • Go back into your host machine
  • Open the command line: cmd
  • Ping the guest VM with the command: ping 192.168.56.104
  • You should see the ping response
  • If you have a webserver installed on the guest VM then open http://192.168.56.104 in your browser to the hosted website.
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