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Hello, I'm a first time poster but a long time lurker.

I have a windows 8 host machine os with an ubuntu 12.04 virtualbox os, and I'm using the ubuntu to run a software called zabbix that connects to the IP addresses of a device and reads the SNMP traffic. The issue is I'm connecting to the internet via an ethernet connection and I'm not sure if I even can do this, but I'm trying to give my virtualbox os the same IP address as the one I connect to in the host. Is this possible? I've tried several different configurations, such as using NAT for adapter 1 and Host-Only networking on adapter 2 but none of them seem to give me the required functionality I need. Any and all help with this is greatly appreciated, thank you.

clope023 wrote:... I'm trying to give my virtualbox os the same IP address as the one I connect to in the host. Is this possible?...

I'm not a network expert by any means, but this seems like a recipe for a "disaster"...

Two machines can not have the same IP address or neither one will work.

As already said, IP must be unique.
What are you trying to achieve? If you let us know what is your goal, we can help you come up with a way