VirtualBox Tutorial - Giving VMs Internal Network, Host PC and Internet Access

[@xar703]

NOTE: for newer versions of VirtalBox, the host-only adapters are no longer under preferences. Now they are found in the File menu under "Host Network Manager".

[@ServerAcademy]

Thanks!

[@Gurttastic]

THIS! Is what I've been searching for! I don't know how to express my gratitude towards you, I was about to cancel my course in Networking thanks to the firewall being an issue and blocking my connections to my AD domain. Thanks a ton, now I can eat and sleep properly again.

[@ServerAcademy]

Awesome! Glad it helped =) Please subscribe!

[@ServerAcademy]

Awesome!

[@TheCCBoi]

Same, I’ve been looking all day. Something like this shouldn’t be this hard to find lol

[@turkey343434]

I have been looking into this mess for 4 hours by now, until I stumbled upon your video. As it turns out, the only step I kept missing was the part where you unticked Ethernet2 checkboxes. Now it works like a charm. You are a life saver, sir!

[@DenzilNBrown]

You are a life saver. I have an octopus server on my host machine and think I accidentally got networking to allow Octopus to talk to a tentacle on a Win 2016 Server on VirtualBox - this was in the morning. After I had to reboot everything stopped working and I spent the entire day scratching my head and trying to get this setup to work again. Luckily I found your video an it was a piece of cake afterward. I can't say thanks enough. Paul, Thanks. And all the best with everything in life :). You are the greatest!

[@neelshah1617]

Spent nearly an hour for searching and setting up my host-only network on virtual box, not knowing about windows firewall policy effects on this network adapter. Really glad that I visited this video. I am able to ssh into VM on the host-only network after 2 hrs of battle now! :)

[@ServerAcademy]

Glad it helped you man! It can be confusing at first...

[@greenberrydrive4602]

Hi Paul, I wish I had seen this video 2 days back. Would have saved me lot of stress, countless Google and KZbin searches, and many, many Virtualbox reinstalls. Really clear and concise tutorial and worked perfectly. Many Thanks for the video and keep up the excellent work.

[@lifejoel]

I don't usually comment on videos but I must say you KNOW YOUR STUFF! Thanks a lot, I was able to finally get mine resolved after hours of searching. Bless!!!

[@RealDude]

This video helped me SOO MUCH. I couldn't figure out why a VM setup with Windows XP and a 20-year-old software package that I wrote and support for a customer couldn't print to my network printer. I was searching for days until coming across this video. The excellent manner in which it is presented made it very easy to follow.😊

[@rajeshlanke]

This was the simple and quickest demo youtube ever on to work and use different networking methods of Oracle VirtualBox

[@offorh.i.c8374]

Paul....i'm in tears here saying thank you...thank you...finally....thank you Paul...

[@dlissett821]

Thank you! You have such a natural talent for making things fun and simple!

[@Evercreeper]

super useful to clarify the networking with virtual box. i saw so many tutorials for "internet access" where they told you to just shut off your wifi, put it to bridged, then turn on your wifi. (yet to test if my vm works with this, it might not its a little iffy, but holy man this tutorial taught me SOOO much)

[@Evercreeper]

watched entire tutorial, and it was helpful to get my ip and stuff all set up but my mac os is not having my wifi haha. mac settings are so child-proof that there is hardly any settings even under "advanced settings". going to continue forth the search to get my safari working, but again, thank you so much.

[@ibrahimnadir]

This is when someone know what they are doing, they come up with stuff like that! Kudos to this PERFECT tutorial. Searched for hours until something COMPLETE like this :) Thanks!

[@ServerAcademy]

Thanks man I really appreciate that!

[@YonikMalik]

@@ServerAcademy Paul, if the VM gets a virus, since it is connected to the host... Will this mean the host will be infected as well.

[@ozziepilot2899]

Thanks for this, I've been out of admin for so long and needed a VM for a project and you refreshed my memory thanks again.

[@georgebrandon7696]

You know what's great about these old videos? They are still relevant today. P.S. Is anyone using ipv6 yet? LOL

[@sangeethavj]

Excellent. Fixed connection issues between host and guest!

[@wagnernoel6233]

FINALLY!! Found the answer that I was looking for for months!! *tears* Time to make increase my salary *rubs hands with evil laugh*

[@Shamahyadah]

Was having a few issues at first...but allllll is working well..Thank you so much Instructor Paul...You have helped me a great deal..many blessing to you!!!

[@vikrant17srivastava]

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for. Why would anyone dislike the video!?

[@AlexanderPoznanski]

Thank you for new information and beautiful approach to explain the subject.

[@ecarlosbc]

Dude YOu are The best teacher ever :D

[@ServerAcademy]

Thanks Carlos =)

[@marksutfin8997]

Very nice to see this step-by-step.. I'm adding 2 linux (Ubuntu) guests to a windows 10 VirtualBox host. Completed the global tools - host only network add of network 3. Now I'm looking for the equivalent of the windows config ("Use the Following IP Address/subnet/gateway") step on Ubuntu..

[@AndreMusic2000]

Thank you so much!! I have been looking for this for months now. GOD BLESS YOU!!!

[@mihailnikolov2176]

I have been struggling for hours before I encountered your amazing tutorial. Thanks so much for this masterpiece video which has helped me solve my problem and continue learning! I defenitely subscribed for your channel man!

[@lulura0171]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! Truly a lifesaver.

[@SalunkePurushottam]

This this, I was looking for years. 🙂

[@SWonYT]

You are a lifesaver. Infinite gratitude to you, sir!

[@SWonYT]

This video just helped me a second time!! Thank you so much!!!!!!

[@dv5946]

Very useful tutorial with good explanation, thanks

[@Sambooie1]

Awesome video, been looking around a while to get a local Wordpress site up and be able to connect to it thorugh my host machine. Thank you so much for the clear, step by step explanation. Will definitely be subscribing to you for more videos!

[@0x404Unknown]

Simply put, I love you ❤️

[@theowilliams8166]

Fantastic explanation, thank you so much!

[@sudheergodgeri]

Excellent and to the point demonstration - I was confused why my VMs (virtualbox) do not connect to each other/host : this helped - thanks.

[@satyamvirat3489]

I have been struggling with this issue since last 5 days and finally stumbled at this Video. Although it's quite clear yet, at 8:58, I am not getting a reply while pinging goolge.com I dont usually say or ask this but Plz reply ASAP

[@MuhammadAhmed-wh5kv]

Hey, that was really awesome tutorial! Really, you're the best!

[@jthymesthree602]

Subscribed. Best video out there on this topic.

[@shashikantbhushan1801]

Very well demonstrated, exactly what looking for.

[@saintfox5405]

Thanks Paul, you helped me a lot

[@erenferdi]

Worked for Ubuntu VM too, thanks a lot

[@Ivenothingbettertodo]

Thank you so much, Paul! I appreciate your attention to detail and the fact that you're easy to follow. Thanks to you, I was able to fix my wireless adapter issue, my VirtualBox and both my VMs' settings! And all that without bothering my favorite IT guy... :-) BTW, he thanks you too!

[@ServerAcademy]

That is awesome!!

[@shusterPO]

NAT instead NAT network helped. Thanks

[@hamdyahmed5742]

This is great and very helpful

[@sathivelandy]

Amazing video and great tutorial Paul. Finally, manage to solve the issue. Thanks and definitely will be subscribing.

[@RaduNordenhulk]

Workd fine, thank you!😀

[@Jxdx332]

awesome.... I was trying from last couple of days but this video solved my problem in minutes

[@nohaiionut5698]

New place for host only networks is in FILE tab menu, called host network manager.

[@ServerAcademy]

Thank you! I am going to put that in the description.

[@kylesojak6267]

Thank you, my host had 192.168.56.1 so following the instructions, it was failing

[@rizalord]

Thanks dude, it works

[@sohamkapoor1457]

Thanks your video resolved my issue :) I've been struggling like anything for this to work.

[@shaharyarahmed9899]

Can you make same tutorial for host "windows 10" and guest "ubuntu server"?

[@LeoAsres]

I was thinking that only me has that issue....... Please make it also for Linux users ?

[@No-bo4bd]

same!

[@shamli2022]

Me too having same issue my host is linux 19.2 and guest is windows 10 in virtualbox

[@zense4222]

This was very helpful. Thank you !!!

[@PublicUser2000]

Fantastically explained ! You are obviously a networking expert and if I may ask you a networking question. Will a Windows Server 2012's DHCP server assign IP addresses to wireless devices that connect to the Router's Wifi network if the router is on the same subnet as the Windows Server ? These devices will not be logging in to the domain.

[@TimStafford01]

Very good, thank you. Good for using Linux virtually on a Windows!

[@yiannisserpico2646]

Hi Paul. I got hot, man!!! Exciting video. Specially last couple of minutes you were doing too fast. I am a network geek and adore such videos. Many congrats, man. Keep going!! Thanks!

[@1nsurr3ction]

10:39 pshell is set-NetFirewallProfile -Name Domain -DisabledInterfaceAliases "Ethernet 2" the profilename and Ethernet name change as per specific setting

[@sureshvassudevan]

Awesome video.

[@PrakashReddyK]

THANK YOU. You saved my day.

[@ServerAcademy]

Awesome!

[@munwwarhussainshelia]

good video, and good trainer. great stuff

[@Bea_remembrance]

great video. getting virtual box servers to connect is a head ache but your video is good.

[@ServerAcademy]

Thanks!! Also thanks for commenting on my videos :)

[@dinman68]

Hey just signed up for the full course two days ago to Sever Academy. Only finished two parts of it so far because I have been adding a DC server and Client machine then end up having to delete them because something went wrong. This IP address stuff is so hard for me. But hopefully I'll get it all with the full course.

[@JJMiddleditch]

THANKS this was a great help.

[@Asallymusic]

Hey thank you so much for this video. I'd just like to confirm, is a client computer in your active directory in a totally different city form where the active directory is hosted in the virtual box, able to find the domain name provided they are connected to the internet?

[@amieromar5954]

Thanks you , you are awesome

[@RealmOfCode]

Excellent tutorial! Thank you...thank you very much! In my case, I didn't have to alter my firewall settings even though they're on and on high alert. Odd, but, can't complain: if it works, it works.

[@kaitykaity]

I'm on an older version of VirtualBox that doesn't require in-host virtualization and has never heard of Hyper-V. Even after I create new network, the network settings for the other adapters are grayed out and can't be clicked.

[@greenergreeny]

Hmmmm it seems I can’t manage my host only networks... just the NAT ones...

[@ServerAcademy]

Hey Random...looks like VirtualBox changed the location of the Host Only networks...what a pain!

[@leonardofigueiredo2483]

Is there something to do in this case?

[@advancengwarati2381]

Hie Random.......... did you solve your problem ? if you did please can you help me out.

[@brandoguzman8114]

thank you so much man, you finally solve my problem

[@lpm76]

@The90sBen788 No thats not true. I am on 6.0 and its still in File > Host Network Manager

[@PETAJOULE543]

Whats difference between host-only adapter and internal network? Would they work similarly in this case?

[@clijeron1973]

Thank you .! Great job !!!

[@guytouksa]

Really a very great tutorial but do you have the same with VMWare? I tried to follow the same guideline but still didn't success to have internet. Thanks

[@PVivekmca]

god bless you ! saved a lot of time !

[@moardub]

Oh mein gott. Thank you so much for this tutorial. I was trying to do this with Linux, and had the DHCP auto assign ip's but it wasn't, and I didn't realize I had left the wrong adapter selected >.< . Great tutorial.

[@borborduflomo7633]

thx a lot this video is awesome!!!

[@snifergt]

awesome dude, thanks.

[@AngelusChevalier]

Love the Vid, thanks paul..could you also make a short vid on how to connect VMs using internal network option instead of host-only network!!!

[@ruslank830]

Hi Paul, Why you created a new host-only adapter and did not use the existing one?

[@LP-kw3kj]

FINALLY someone that's not in a thick Indian accent that's hard to understand

[@yitzchokelefant7874]

You are amazing!

[@bojanbrdarevic6506]

awesome thank you a lot

[@AgentSkyper]

Hi, great video! Do you have one for Ubuntu VM as well? How can I setup the firewall in Ubuntu? For now Im pinging, but timed out

[@Shamahyadah]

The "Host-Only Networks" option in my Virtualbox 5.2.8 version!! it's located under "Global Tools"!!! --- at the top right of Virtualbox or File >>>Host Network Manger or Ctrl+W...I hope this will be helpful to someone!!

[@ServerAcademy]

THanks Raah! Yeah they change it and its quite annoying. Ill put it under the descriptionl.

[@joerattz]

Yeah me! Thanks!!!

[@DavidMidwest]

When I open the network tab under preferences in virtual box I do not have the option to add a host only network.

[@metadigm]

Go to File -> Host Network Manager. Right click on created network and go to Properties for the rest.

[@joeechel3936]

Your video was great and i have a setup similar to what you showed and after following your instructions all is working just like you showed on my system. I have one question. Do you know if it is possible to access the VM's from other computers on the network. I can see all the computers and network printers on my network from the VM but cannot see either of the VM's. Don't know if this is possible but I will try anything you suggest. You created one of the best detailed videos on this procedure.

[@ServerAcademy]

Awesome! Glad it helped. You have two options: 1) Use a bridged network adapter (www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bridged) or 2) Setup port forwarding for the services you want to be accessible (www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#natforward). Most likely you want to use a bridged network adapter.

[@joeechel3936]

Took a short while to play around with it after reading the info at the links you sent but I was finally able to get it working just like you said it would. Thanks for the great help.

[@ServerAcademy]

Awesome! Glad you got it working Joe

[@photozen8398]

Excluding your adapter from the firewall doesn't it invite risk? unless for development purposes only right , no no for production, am I correct?

[@mreis1969]

Nice video @Server Academy. I know the subject in my question is out of the scope of this video but is there a way to port forward to specific VM's. Let's say. Host 8888 >> VM1 8080, Host 8889 >> VM2 8080?

[@raghuchinna1008]

Thank you so much sir It helpen me ao much

[@ShrideepakKS]

Hi, This video really helped me in connecting Host to Virtual machine. I have another requirement to connect two virtual machines in two different hosts and the host machines are in the same network. I would really appreciate it if you could share any link on how to do this or if you already have a tutorial for the same please share the link. Awaiting for your reply. Thanks, Shri

[@ServerAcademy]

You couldn't use a host-only network adapter - you need to use Bridged network adapters. This will cause your networks router to view the VMs as physical computers and assign them both IP addresses that you can access just like you would with a regular computer.

[@imeralfredo405]

Amazing tutorial but when I am in VM's cmd and I write ipconfig nothing appears, also my VM doesn't have internet hardware, can be the windows ISO?

[@AMo24Perc]

Hello! Great video, which I can say with confidence after having watched about 20 lousy ones. I am a Udemy subscriber. What is the name of your channel, or how can I find you to purchase a class?

[@srenu1214]

Super bro

[@preslaw1929]

Thanks a lot, i was wondering for a while how i can do it :)

[@kheshavlg]

awesome video sir . you are really great , thank you sooooo much it is really helpful :D !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ElmoGoesPunk]

hi is that same speed network? your main pc and virtual machine?

[@shumadev8334]

Paul, This is like the 10th video i am watching for getting internet issue fixed. I have windows 7 as host, have vitual box on which I have Centos 7. I want to have internet on Centos 7. Don't need an internal network (don't have any other VM at the moment). Which part of your video should i follow (which settings do i need) to get internet on Centos? thanks.

[@knutmakowski7163]

great work!

[@Siberian79]

Very nice video. Still, I can't get it to work. Even though I assigned host-only network adapter to my VM, when I start it in Control Panel I don't have any network connections. In device manager there are exclamation marks next to network controllers. Could it be because my host network adapter is Realtek, and not Intel?

[@vz07mk]

Thats a great video, Thank you for sharing. Im woindering if you wanted to join those VMs together as 2 DCs in a forest, if you would have to change the dns entries to that of the main DC in the forest. It seems that with a google dns server, the authentication would faill when trying to join the forest. I could be wrong but just wondering what you think ? Thansk again

[@durubalastefan7369]

Thank you !!

[@shakman8800]

i wanna create a WLAN more specifically an Ad-hoc network, using virtual machines would it be possible if i used multiple wireless dongles and assign one to each virtual machine?

[@FadhilMuhammad7]

So, what the use of NAT adapter with IP 10.x.x.x of both VMs anyway?

[@rikudouray]

Hey paul, my host is windows 10 and my guest is elcapitan. What's the preferred settings to make the network connection work? Thanks in advance!

[@erickguedes2008]

thanks a lot.

[@kylesojak6267]

I have been following your lab and I first setup Nat network as instructed but then I tried the Nat network and confirmed all the steps but it only shows ! and no internet

[@FranklinGuerrero777]

Thank you