I am having some trouble connecting my Virtual Box to my home network regardless whether it is XP, Vista, or Server 2003.
I have the same workgroup name for every PC.
My router is a D-Link on a 192.168.0.x/24 network currently set as DHCP from .100 to .199.
My network adapter in my virtual PC is on a 10.0.2.x/24 network.
My virtual host network adapter in my Vista machine hosting Virtual PC defaulted to a 192.168.56.x/24 network (not sure how/why?). Do I even need to touch the "VirrtualBox Host-Only Network" adapter?
I changed the settings in my virtual machine:
IP Address: 192.168.0.100
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Preferred DNS Server: 192.168.0.1
These were the same settings for my actual LAN card through IPCONFIG (except of course IP address)
I can access the internet on my Virtual machine with default settings, I can see my server in network connections in Vista, but I can't connect. I created a shared folder in the virtual machine just to see if I could access it.
If I do a direct connect with UNC \\192.168.0.100 it doesn't do anything. I can ping to the Virtual machine, but can't ping out of it, within my local network.
I'm lost!
PLEASE HELP!!!
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Nevermind. There's an option in the virtual machines settings to "bridge connection" with your physical network card, and makes that machine appear as if it is on your network. Seems to work fine now.
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I hope you haven't been sweating on this problem for 12 hours!
Need Help Please - Connecting Virtual Box to Home Workgroup.
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by HTWingNut, Jul 4, 2009.