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unable to connect to network on ubuntu in virtualbox

When I do ping google.com on the host (Win7) I get 74.125.227.164 and am able to ping without issue. When I do ping 74.125.227.164 on Ubuntu (my VirtualBox guest OS) I get a connect: Network is ...
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Can't access virtual machine after plugging ethernet cable

I have VirtualBox installed. My OS is Ubuntu 13.10. I configured a host only network at 192.168.56.1. I have 2 machines the first 192.168.56.20 the other 192.168.56.21. Everything worked fine before ...
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Ubuntu IP address from win 8

I'm running Ubuntu 13.10 under Virtualbox on a Win 8 system. The Ubuntu system seems to be fully configured and connected to the internet; I can start a Firefox session from within the Ubuntu VM. I'...
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Remote SSH to VirtualBox instance

I have an Ubuntu 13.10 instance running on a remote VirtualBox that I need to maintain for someone. I'm trying to figure out how I can SSH into this instance. Ubuntu has OpenSSH installed, but so far ...
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How to map a local Ubuntu Server in Windows 8.1?

I am currently running Ubuntu Server using Oracle's VirtualBox. I would like to map a network drive to my local Ubuntu Server in Windows 8.1. I can connect to my server using PuTTy just fine. I can ...
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Cannot access VirtualBox webserver on port 9000 from host OS

I have a Ubuntu 12.04 guest VB on a W7 host. On the guest, I am running a webserver on port 9000 and can access that webserver from the guest on 127.0.0.1:9000. In VirtualBox, I have enabled two ...
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Ubuntu Virtual Box Network speed - DNS Resolution

I've got Ubuntu 12.04 TLS running on Virtual box, when I try and do wget it's taking about 10 seconds to connect to a server, although the download itself is quick. If I run the same command in ...
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Enabling eth0 or eth1 for internal network in computer without internet access

I am installing virtual box in computer without internet access. I am not sure this computer has network adapter (Ethernet) or not. I have two virtual machine which can communicate each other (I ...
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How to access a vmware guest web server from another device on the network

I am developing a mobile website. I develop in Ubuntu via a virtual machine (vmware). I have a Windows 8 host and Ubuntu 13.10 guest. I want to be able to view the site-in-progress on my phone for ...
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host only network doesn't provide internet connection for vm

I have opened a vm with hostonly network as networking option on my desktop. I have assigned an appropriate static ip to the vm. I can establish an ssh connection to it from my desktop and I can also ...
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How do I isolate a Windows Virtual Machine in Virtualbox running in Ubuntu

I have searched and searched but not found a way to do this. The answers I found said to get a second nic and dedicate that to the windows guest. My host is linux mint 16. I see how to specify a ...
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Choose source interface for PPTP VPN on Ubuntu

I have an Ubuntu Virtualbox guest with two network interface, eth0 (NAT) and eth1 (bridged). I want to connect to a PPTP VPN using eth1, but I don't know how to specify which interface to use. If i ...
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How to ping virtualbox guest machine by hostname?

Here is the summary. VirtualBox 4.2.18 Host OS: Windows 7 Guest OS: Ubuntu 12.04 Networking: Bridged Adaptor I can ping Host and other machines in host's network from ubuntu guest using hostnames....
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Network unreachable on Ubuntu guest after trying to set up a host only network on Virtualbox

I have a Mac OS X host and a bunch of guests including Ubuntu and Arch Linux. I was trying to set up a host-only network at eth1 to let me ssh into the system. But now eth0 isn't working properly ...
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NoIP DNS for virtual machine under router

I have computer which runs Windows(Host OS). vmware(on Windows) runs ubuntu as Guest OS. My router gives Windows Host OS ip 192.168.0.2, Ubuntu Guest OS ip 192.168.0.128 Router forwards packets on 80 ...
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