Re: [LUG] Inet address

If memory serves me correctly, VirtualBox defaults to NATting your virtual machines - essentially your host computer becomes a sort-of router for your guest machines.

If you go into the settings of any of your guest machines, into the networking settings, you should see several options in the "attached to" list:

+ Not attached - no network

+ NAT - uses your host as a sort-of router

+ Bridged Adapter - guest can actually join your *real* network (what you were expecting, by the sounds of it)

+ Internal Network - guests can communicate with other guests only

+ Host-only Adapter - guests can only communicate with the host, not each other or the wider real network

+ Generic Driver - not sure what this one is for as I've never used it

Grant.

On 14 May 2013 11:10, Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For some reason I have never noticed this before. I sometimes use VBox to check out various distros etc. For the first time I have run ifconfig on the VBox distro. I expected to see a result for the inet address starting with 192.168. Instead I got 10.0.2.15 which surprised me a bit.

Is this normal or should I be looking into it?

Thanks

Neil

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