Networking in VirtualBox: An 11-Step Procedure

In a post on oracle.com, networking in VirtualBox, Fat Bloke surveys the different ways of setting up networking in VirtualBox, with a few pointers as to which configurations should be used and when. VirtualBox enables the configuration of up to 8 virtual Network Interface Controllers (NICs) for each guest. The choice of NIC-type comes down to whether the guest has drivers for that NIC. VirtualBox suggests a NIC based on the guest OS-type that you specify during creation of the vm that rarely requires modification. The choice of networking mode depends on how you want to use your vm (client or server), Fat Bloke explains, and whether you want other machines on your network to see it. He then examines the several possible modes, including:

Network Address Translation (NAT)
Bridged networking
Internal networking
Host-only networking
NAT with Port-forwarding The blog refers readers to the VirtualBox User Manual for further details.

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Other articles in the Virtualization section of Volume 172, Issue 2:

Virtualization at Oracle - Six Part Series
Networking in VirtualBox: An 11-Step Procedure (this article)
How to Use Oracle VM Templates

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