Read more

Connect to a VirtualBox guest machine over the network

Henning Koch
October 25, 2011Software engineer at makandra GmbH

You must reconfigure the guest so it will get its own IP address:

  • Shutdown the guest
  • In the guest's VirtualBox settings, choose Network and switch the network adapter type to Bridged
  • Restart the guest
  • Read the guest's IP address from the output of ifconfig (Unix) or ipconfig (Windows)
  • You can now connect to this IP address using HTTP, SSH, etc.
Illustration online protection

Rails Long Term Support

Rails LTS provides security patches for old versions of Ruby on Rails (2.3, 3.2, 4.2 and 5.2)

  • Prevents you from data breaches and liability risks
  • Upgrade at your own pace
  • Works with modern Rubies
Read more Show archive.org snapshot

Note that by doing this your VirtualBox guest is fully exposed on the local network, just like your host machine.

Posted by Henning Koch to makandra dev (2011-10-25 21:01)