Configuring a Network

VirtualBox has a few different networking modes. The default mode, NAT, short for “Network Address Translation,” works like the router we might have in our homes. The operating system in the virtual machine can access the outside network by forwarding the requests to the host operating system, just like how our home router lets us use a single internet connection across all of our devices. The downside with this approach is that we can’t access any services running inside the virtual machine from the host ...