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I have set up guest (win xp) with bridged and host only adapters.

With the host (mac os x) connected to a network I can ping the host's IP address successfully and set up the guest's hosts file to resolve the host's name to this IP address.

If I disconnect the host from the network how can I ping it from the guest? What will its IP address or host name be? I have tried VBOXSRV but that doesn't resolve to anything.

Thx

If you are going to be running this with no network attached you would need to use host-only instead of and a second adapter set to NAT or Bridged if the guest need the Internet.

yes this is what I have done - set up one host only adapter and one bridged. When running host only how can the guest see the host though?

You can see what the IP address is by running ifconfig -a and ipconfig /all
If you did not change the address for host only it should be 192.168.56.1 for the host and 192.168.56.101 for the guest.

Yes that's it! I can now ping from host to guest and vice versa - thanks a million!