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Hello all,

Trying to do something a little differently. I have two guest machines running on my Windows host. One is Ubuntu, the other Windows 7.

If I configure & launch them in Host-Only mode they get assigned ip address of 192.168.56.101 and 102 (or something similar) and I can reach one from the other no problem. Similarly, if I configure/launch them in Bridged mode, they can both see each other and reach the internet via my host.

So here's what I'm trying to do: I want to set up the Ubuntu guest as Bridged (so I can access the web) but the Windows 7 as Host-Only (so it's blocked from the web) but I'd still like to be able to ping/connect to the Windows 7 VM from the Ubuntu VM.

Ubuntu VM (Bridged) - 192.168.1.3 <--> Windows VM (Host-Only) - 192.168.56.101

Any ideas?

Found an answer here:
christophermaier.name/blog/2010/09/01/host-only-networking-with-virtualbox

Virtualbox provides a way to add multiple adapters. So on the settings tab for my Ubuntu VM, I went to the Network settings and the Adapter 2 settings and for this particular adapter, chose Host-Only. It's stupidly easy.

So Adapter 1 is configured for Bridged and Adapter 2 is configured for Host-Only. Launched my Windows 7 VM (Host-Only). Launched the Ubuntu VM (Bridged + Host-only), entered ifconfig in a terminal and viola! I eth2 is setup and ready to go on the 192.168.56.0 subnet.