

Now launch your virtual machine and check the IP of the interface. From the drop-down menu with the label ‘Name,’ select the network’s name ( wlo1 in our case). Under the ’Attached to’ label, select the ‘Bridged Adapter’ option from the drop-down menu.ģ. Check to mark the ‘Enable Network Adapter’ option:Ģ. On the right pane, under Adapter 1 tab:ġ. In the new pop-up window, select the label corresponding to ‘Network.’ Right-click the virtual machine’s name and select the option ‘Settings’ or select the ‘Settings’ icon from the right pane. From the left pane of the VirtualBox main window, select the virtual machine from the list.

To enable Bridged networking mode in VirtualBox, follow the below steps: This VM can access all services on the network in the same way as any other machine on the Lan.

In this way, a route or a bridged network has been set up between the virtual machine and the network to which the Host machine is connected.Īll the machines connected to your LAN can communicate with your virtual machine as if it is another machine on the Lan. Data can be sent from the Host to the virtual machine using this interface. When we attach this software interface to a virtual machine, it appears to the Host machine as if the virtual machine is physically connected to the interface via a cable. This also creates a new network interface in software. By using this driver, VirtualBox takes data from the physical network and also inserts it into it. This driver filters the data from the physical adapter of the Host. In the Bridged networking mode of VirtualBox, a device driver called ‘net filter’ is used on the Host machine. To overcome this limitation, a bridged networking mode was introduced. The drawback with this mode is that other devices (including the Host) and VMs on the network cannot access the guest VM and the outside internet, and the Host can access selected services on the VM only using port forwarding.

NAT or Network Address Translation is the default networking mode of any new VM inside VirtualBox. Let us first understand the concept and working of Bridged networking mode. We will check the connectivity with the ‘ping’ command. We will use Ubuntu 20.04 VM running inside Oracle VirtualBox. This guide will learn how we can configure Bridged networking mode in a VirtualBox virtual machine. Not Attached (network card is present, but the cable is unplugged).There are six networking modes supported in VirtualBox, namely: It has many powerful networking features to set up any desired configuration. We do not need to mess up with our main Host OS. With VirtualBox, we can run multiple operating systems simultaneously. VirtualBox is one of the popular virtualization platforms from Oracle Corporation.
