{"id":22,"date":"2018-01-01T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/colin\/morethanfour\/post\/Virtuabox-Host-Networking-revisited"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:59:52","slug":"virtuabox-host-networking-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/2018\/01\/01\/virtuabox-host-networking-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtuabox Host Networking revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My current work environment consists of a Windows 10 host running Virtualbox 5.2 with a Windows 7 guest VM,in which I run my client development tools. <\/p>\n<p>I had Virtualbox Host Networking set up on the default 192.168.56.x subnet, but the second adapter in the guest wasn\u2019t configured because at the time I had no need to \u201csee\u201d the host resources from the guest.<\/p>\n<p>Until now\u2026   I find that I needed to point some client tools on the guest VM at the SQL Server instance running on the host.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, no problem, just set up the second adaptor on the guest as 192.168.56.56, set the gateway as 56.1, and it should all work, right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-content\/uploads\/image.png\" width=\"305\" height=\"205\"><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, for some reason it did not work. I could PING the guest from the host side, but the host was not responding to pings from the guest.<\/p>\n<p>Temporarily disabling the Windows Firewall on the host allowed the guest to \u201csee\u201d the host. So it was a Windows 10 host firewall configuration issue.<\/p>\n<p>I found this post that explains how best to address this problem:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/936581\/how-to-config-windows-firewall-so-vm-host-only-can-ping-windows-7\" href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/936581\/how-to-config-windows-firewall-so-vm-host-only-can-ping-windows-7\">https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/936581\/how-to-config-windows-firewall-so-vm-host-only-can-ping-windows-7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Essentially:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Windows Firewall <\/li>\n<li>Scroll the right-hand pane down until you see \u201cWindows Firewall Properties\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Click on it <\/li>\n<li>Select Public Profile<\/li>\n<li>Click on \u201cCustomize\u201d<\/li>\n<li>un-check the \u201cVirtualbox Host Only Network\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"image\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-content\/uploads\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"451\" height=\"207\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This will disable Windows Firewall from getting in the way of networking between the host and guest. <\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/users\/687186\/andrew-joe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Joe<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My current work environment consists of a Windows 10 host running Virtualbox 5.2 with a Windows 7 guest VM,in which I run my client development tools. I had Virtualbox Host Networking set up on the default 192.168.56.x subnet, but the second adapter in the guest wasn\u2019t configured because at the time I had no need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualbox","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/colin\/morethanfour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}