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Using virtualbox I am running a server on Linux-Mint(guest) and client machine is windows-8 (host).

When I try to connect to the server (which looks like http://169.254.158.126:8080) from windows-8, nothing happens. Chrome shows this:

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So to solve this I have been looking through the Internet and I did these:

  • I have 2 network adapters in VirtualBox: NAT(10.0.2.15) and 'VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter'(169.254.158.126).

  • firewall is off in both windows and linux-mint.

  • anti-virus is off in windows.

  • I was not able to ping so I did some configuration as instructed in some web-pages and now I am able to ping successfully to 169.254.158.126(linux-mint) in windows. And even when the virtual machine is off, the ping shows success. Should I be worried about it?

  • I am a college student and I stay in hostel, so I use LAN to access Internet and my local-IP is 172.30.105.121. When I ping to 172.30.105.121 in linux-mint, it again shows success.

In many web-pages I have seen '10.1.x.x' in place of '169.x.x.x'. Is this the problem? I have tried many a times, but I always get 192.x.x.x or 169.x.x.x.

And my network settings show this (No Internet access for IPv4): enter image description here

Is that the problem? If yes, then how ping works fine? Please help. I have already wasted a lot of time and I need it badly.

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  • Can you visit a website on Mint
    – Virusboy
    Commented Nov 22, 2014 at 16:15
  • @Virusboy yes I can visit any website since it depends only on NAT adapter.
    – gmaster
    Commented Nov 22, 2014 at 17:38
  • You seen to use a proxy on your host. Is it a transparent proxy or a manually configured one?
    – user2313067
    Commented Nov 22, 2014 at 18:21
  • @user2313067 Its manually configured.
    – gmaster
    Commented Nov 22, 2014 at 18:47
  • Have you tried adding an exception for your site so it doesn't go through the proxy?
    – user2313067
    Commented Nov 22, 2014 at 18:48

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