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Connect to guest OS from Host OS

I have Ubuntu server 12.04 on VirtualBox inside Windows 7 OS. I set firewall inside Ubuntu to allow access to port 80. The Ubuntu server is running Apache server. I have chosen the Host-only Adapter ...
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VirtualBox Ubuntu can not connect to internet

I am running an Ubuntu 13.04 in the VirtualBox on Windows7. The network option is NAT. The problem is I can use apt-get command to get some package on the internet like : curl. I can access those ...
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Setting up VirtualBox networking

I have planned to install Ubuntu Server on our physical server but before that I'd like to mess up with that system in VirtualBox so I know I can get it working. I have installed Ubuntu Server 13.04 ...
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Virtualbox host with no network connection, and guest VM can browse normally

I just noticed the following. I use an Ubuntu 13.04 desktop as Virtualbox host. On the host I have two ethernet connections configured. There is only one network card, and the network cable is ...
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What is the reason of this Internet Connection Failure on Linux and VirtualBox

I installed Ubuntu linux distribution 10.04 on VirtualBox 4.2.12. The host os is windows 7. Now I want to do connect use wget. But the result is like: wget www.google.com Resolving www.google.com... ...
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Ubuntu on VirtualBox - getting internet access via mobile phone wifi hotspot?

I have Ubuntu running in VirtualBox and getting Internet access, via the host OS, from my office wlan. Sometime I take the laptop out of the office and use my mobile as a 'wireless hotspot' to get ...
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DNS issues on VirtualBox with Host-Only Adapter

I'm using Virtual Box to do LAMP development. I'm trying to test an external service' API, but the DNS on the VM only seems to resolve about half the time. I'm using Windows 8 and the VM is Ubuntu 10....
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Ping Ubuntu by hostname in a Windows machine

I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a Virtual Machine (Virtualbox). The network adapter is attached using bridged adapter. I can ping the guest OS by IP but I can't ping it via hostname. I already installed ...
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Virtual Box ssh not working on Virtual Box Ubuntu machine

I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed, and 12.04 Server set up in my virtual machine. My VM has internet access, and I can ping it from my host. ping symfony.dev # points to 192.168.56.101, and successful ...
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Ubuntu guest, OSX host - cannot connect guest to internet

I have a Virtualbox instance running the latest Ubuntu hosted on OSX. Things worked fine until today when, for no apparent reason, Ubuntu stopped raising the network card on startup. I've fiddled ...
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Connect to VirtualBox from internet

I have a windows 7 OS hosting Ubuntu server on VirtualBox. The host OS is connecting to the internet via a USB 3G modem. What I'm trying to do is connect to the hosted Ubuntu server from another ...
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virtualbox - 2 host connection

I want to connect two hosts(ubuntu) in virtualbox by: Attached to NAT. I set up in terminal: - 1st host: sudo ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 - 2nd host: sudo ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.2 ...
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Internet access ok on host, fails from guest unless host is using VPN

I have a Vagrant-provisioned CentOS guest on an Ubuntu host. Internet access from host is absolutely fine. But Internet access from guest often fails unless host is using VPN. For example: Host ...
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Access Host and VirtualBox from systems on external network

Ok here's the situation. I am running an Ubuntu Operating System as a VirtualBox instance in Windows 7. The main system, Windows 7, and the Ubuntu OS have Apache installed. Now my main system (...
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virtualbox and nginx server_name

I'm trying to configure gitlab running in an Ubuntu 12.04 guest with Windows7 host. I can ssh the guest using port-forwarding and access the nginx server using port redirection (8888 in host is 80 in ...
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