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To make a long story short, I ended up getting a second hard disk in my machine, and I moved the snapshots and (I thought) the original VDI, but it turns out that the original VDI still resided on my original hard drive. I recently had it fail and could not recover the VDI, so now all I have is the ...

Wow, NOW I understand what I was missing... thanks for the help! I was so confused about how the VM was accessed via localhost, because I couldn't find any way to access it... turns out NAT forwarding was exactly what I was looking for. The manual did wonders. Thank you, thank you, thank you! :) And...

Forgive me if I sound like a complete idiot, but how exactly do I do that? That's what's been really confusing me about this whole thing... I don't know how to communicate with my VM at all. For example, with the NAT forwarding... I would forward from the host to the guest... but what is the guest's...

That's the problem, though. If I connect it to a network device (I have eth0 [wired] and wlan0 [wireless]), it only works when I'm USING that device--and I couldn't really get it to work reliable with my wireless card at all. So basically, unless I'm connected to a wired network, I can't get it to w...

I've been trying to setup a telnet server on my guest OS (Windows XP), but of course, there's the age-old problem of being able to connect to the Guest from the Host OS. I've tried using the bridged method with Host Internal, but since I'm on a laptop, I'm constantly switching between wired and wire...