NAT network service

[REL]

Hi,
I am trying to set the following:
I need some Windows Guest VMs on my MAC host which should use NAT network services to interconnect. I want to assign fixed IPs to the guest machines in order to make the connection independent from where I connect to the internet (yes, I am on a macbook).
For some reason (in which I am interested in) I cannot connect from my host to the VMs.

Please advise,

Areil

[mpack]

VMs on a NAT network are already independant of how the host connects, so your question is misplaced IMHO. You should not mess with the IP assignment in a NAT VM.

[REL]

could you please elaborate:

I need constant access to my VMs from my host as well as between the VMs.

If I work in bridged mode they receive always new IPs and I cannot refer to them the same way.

[mpack]

I mean that VMs which use NAT are assigned IP addresses by the VirtualBox NAT DHCP server, not by the physical network. So, don't mess with the IP addresses.

[Perryg]

Given your request I would simply add a second virtual adapter to the the guest set to host-only. This allows the host <> guest communications whether there is a network connection or not.
See chapter 6 Virtual networking in your VirtualBox users manual.