Making a Virtualbox Guest OS Accessible Over LAN

Case: When pinged from another PC on the LAN, the guest OS replies: “icmp_seq=XX Packet filtered” which is an error. Host and guest are both Solus Linux 4.1.

Solution

Bridge the guest system’s network adapter to the host’s:

1. Open Virtualbox
2. Settings for the guest OS
3. Network section
4. set Attached to: to be Bridged Adapter
   * The target adapter should be the one connected to the LAN, obviously.

Now the IP of the host corresponds to both systems – guest and host.

Further Reading

• VirtualBox Network Configuration

Sources

• networking – VirtualBox – How to connect LAN computers to Windows XP Guest – Ask Ubuntu