virtualbox.org

Hi Guys,

I have installed Virtualbox on UBUNTU within my network on different hardware. The Guest OS is Windows XP.

I am trying to send "Net send" - message between those guest, but this does not work.

Do you have an idea what could be the reason?

Thank you,
Ollie

if "net send" is some kind of command to send a message through a network, you have to create a network between the OS that sends the message and the OS that receives it.

Virtualbox's default network arrangement is NAT, which is good for getting the guest on the internet quickly, but is not right for communication between the guest and other PCs on your private network.

If you want two guests on the same host to talk to each other without the host or any other network PCs in the "conversation", use "Internal".

If you want the host PC and the guest(s) running on that host to talk to each other, but not the other PCs in the network, use "Host-Only".

If you want the guests and the host and other PCs in the network to talk to each other, or you want two guests running on different hosts to talk to each other, you must use Bridged. (note that Bridged doesn't always work with wi-fi, due to poorly-written wi-fi adapter drivers and/or wireless access point firmware. No way to predict if yours works or not, just have to try it.)