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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.
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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)