The VirtualBox Host-only adapter allows you to easily access the guest from the host (and vice versa), but doesn’t give the guest access to the internet.

The problem is that NAT users can’t access the guest from the host machine, which is rather annoying when you are testing out network software.

The VirtualBox NAT adapter is great, especially for laptop users-the guest VM always has access to the internet regardless of where your laptop is connected to.

This won’t actually help out performance, but if you want to access your guest VM from the host PC, and also give the guest VM internet access via NAT (network address translation), you’ve got to use more than one adapter to accomplish this. It’s free, and well worth checking out.īonus Tip! Access Guest via Host + Internet Access with VBox NAT If you’ve ever wondered how we manage to test so much software all the time-it’s because we use VirtualBox to safely test things without risk of harming our main PCs.

Install Guest Additions to Windows and Linux VMs in VirtualBox.

Mounting a Shared VirtualBox Folder from an Ubuntu Guest.

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