By selecting Bridged Adapter, your guest operating system will work on the same network as does your host. If you’re looking to make your virtual machine visible to your company network you’ll want to select Bridged Adapter. Through this setting you can select NAT, NAT Network, Bridged Adapter, Internal Network, Host-only Adapter, or Generic Driver. What should you do?įortunately, the VirtualBox developers created a setting that allows you to select the network type to be used for each virtual machine. This will not do, when those guest servers need to be used.

Unless you setup your network such that your desktop traffic can be routed to the network address translated virtual hosts, your virtual machines cannot be reached. Out of the gate, VirtualBox sets networking to NAT, which translates–pun intended–to a 10.0 network.

There is a very simple reason for this: the default network. If you make use of VirtualBox for your virtual machines - especially servers - you might have come across an issue where the machines on your company network cannot reach the guest platforms.