How To Set Static IP To VirtualBox VM

Table of Contents

  • 1 How to change network settings so you can ping the VM
  • 2 How to set static IP for VirtualBox’s VM

So you’ve installed a new VM on VirtualBox and everything went smoothly. When you boot up the VM and type

and here is what you got:

change ip virtualbox

You noticed that there isn’t any IP address that begins with 192.168! On your host machine, you type

for Windows, or

For Linux/Mac, you got something like this:

change ip virtualbox

You may even try to ping the VM’s address but no luck!

change ip virtualbox

Well, I’ll show you how to fix that.

How to change network settings so you can ping the VM

The first thing you do is going to Machine->Settings and click on Network then set the settings as below:

virtualbox VM change network settings to bridge mode

Attached to -> Bridge Adapter

Promiscuous Mode -> Allow All

Check Cable Connected.

Then click OK.

Wait for up to 1 minute for the VM to apply the changes. When you type

again, you should see there is one IP of the VM begins with 192.168

Default IP after applying new network settings.

And you can ping from the host machine to the VM:

change ip virtualbox

That’s great, however, the IP can be changed without you knowing it. That’s usually not a good thing. Next, I’m going to show you how to set a static (fixed) IP for the VM. No worries, it’s pretty quick!

How to set static IP for VirtualBox’s VM

Noticed that when you typed ip a , you see the network interface of your IP (begins with 192.168) is something like enp0s3 (yours could be different). You need to know this for the next step.

Next, type:

Since your VM is new, the file shouldn’t be available yet. The command above creates the file.

Next, use your favorite editor the put the following text in the file:

Replace enp0s3 with your VM’s network interface and 192.168.1.97 with your favorite IP address and save the file.

Here, I set the IP to 192.168.1.98 to make it different from what it currently is:

change ip virtualbox

You should see the IP updated as in the config:

change ip virtualbox

Now you have a static IP that you can ping from the host and other VM on your PC.

change ip virtualbox

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5 thoughts on “How To Set Static IP To VirtualBox VM”

Thank you for this article. My NAT settings occasionally fail and this is the only way I’ve found to reset it. After establishing a connection in Bridged Mode I can go back and set it to NAT again and it works.

Hi, thanks for this manual, as of march 2023, “gateway4:” is deprecated (manual an warning) one should use “default routes ” but now I’m out, could you update your manual to the new procedure to “noob understanding” form to cover the new situation? Thanks in advance

Sorry wrong formatting …

You should replace `gateway4: 192.168.1.1` with “yaml routes: – to: default via: 192.168.1.1 “` https://dothanhlong.org/virtualbox-assign-static-ip-to-vm/

Thanks for the tutorial. However, I encountered the problem that I couldn’t connect external network (ex. ping 8.8.8.8) after following the steps.

Here’s how I solve the problem. We cannot set the “favorite IP address” to any address. The first 3 part of the address should be the same as the gateway. For example, the gateway is 192.168.1.1, then we can only set favorite IP address to 192.168.1.X. We cannot set it to, for example, 192.168.56.101.

Please enlighten me if I’m wrong.

You are correct about setting the IP. However, the DNS server is different.

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VirtualBox Network Settings: Complete Guide

In this modern business world, networking is a crucial component of interactive computer operations. It is difficult to imagine how to exchange data between computers without networks in a world where everything is changing at ever-growing speed. One of the central focal ideas behind hardware virtualization is the possibility to use virtual machines in nearly all cases where physical computers can also be used.

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Virtual Network Adapters

Each VirtualBox VM can use up to eight virtual network adapters, each of which in turn is referred to as a network interface controller (NIC). Four virtual network adapters can be configured in the VirtualBox GUI (graphical user interface). All virtual network adapters (up to 8) can be configured with the VBoxManage modifyvm command. VBoxManage is a command line management tool of VirtualBox that can be used for configuring all VirtualBox settings including VirtualBox network settings. VirtualBox network adapter settings can be accessed in the virtual machine settings (select your VM, hit Settings and go to the Network section in the VM settings window).

VirtualBox Network Settings for Adapter 1

There you should see four adapter tabs. One virtual network adapter is enabled by default after virtual machine creation. You can tick the “ Enable Network Adapter ” checkbox to enable the adapter and untick the checkbox to disable (this checkbox defines whether a virtual network adapter device is connected to a VM or not).

Hit Advanced to expand advanced VirtualBox network adapter settings.

Types of Virtual Network Adapters in VirtualBox

A virtual network adapter is a software-emulated physical device. There are six virtual adapter types that can be virtualized by VirtualBox.

  • AMD PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A) . This network adapter is based on AMD chip and can be used in many situations. As for Windows guests, this network adapter can be used for older Windows versions (such as Windows 2000) because newer Windows versions such as Windows 7, 8 and 10 do not contain a built-in driver for this adapter. Originally, the Am79C970A PCI device contained a single chip 10-Mbit controller and the DMA engine was integrated. This network adapter also supports AMD’s Magic Packet technology for remote wake-up.
  • AMD PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973) . This virtualized network adapter is supported by almost all guest operating systems that can run on VirtualBox. GRUB (the boot loader) can use this adapter for network boot. Similarly to the previous network adapter, this one is based AMD chip.
  • Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (82540EM) . This adapter works perfectly with Windows Vista and newer Windows versions. The most of Linux distributions support this adapter as well.
  • Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC) . Windows XP recognizes this adapter without installing additional drivers.
  • Intel PRO/1000 MT Server (82545EM) . This adapter model is useful to import OVF templates from other platforms and can facilitate import process.
  • Paravirtualized Network Adapter (virtio-net) is a special case. Instead of virtualizing networking hardware that is supported by most operating systems, a guest operating system must provide a special software interface for virtualized environments. This approach allows you to avoid the complexity of networking hardware emulating and, as a result, can improve network performance.

The industry standard virtIO networking drivers are supported by VirtualBox. VirtIO networking drivers are a part of the KVM project and are open-source. These drivers are available for Linux with kernel 2.6.25 or later, and Windows including older versions such as Windows 2000, XP and Vista.

Jumbo frames support

VirtualBox provides limited support for jumbo frames (Ethernet frames that can carry packets which size is more than 1,500 bytes). If you need to use jumbo frames, select an Intel virtualized network adapter, and configure that adapter to work in bridged mode. AMD-based virtual networks adapters don’t support jumbo frames. If you try to enable jumbo frames for AMD-based virtual network adapters, jumbo frames will be dropped silently for input and output traffic. Jumbo frames are disabled by default.

VirtualBox Network Modes

VirtualBox provides a long list of network modes, which is one of the most interesting features of VirtualBox network settings. Each virtual network adapter can be separately configured to operate in a different network mode. For example, you can set the NAT mode for the adapter 1 and the Host-only mode for the adapter 2. You can select the network mode in the Attached to drop-down menu.

VirtualBox network settings – selecting a network mode for the virtual network adapter

Let’s consider each VirtualBox network mode in detail.

Not attached

A virtual network adapter is installed in a VM, but the network connection is missing, much like when you unplug the Ethernet network cable when using a physical network adapter. This mode can be useful for testing. For example, you can enable this network mode for a short time to emulate unplugging the cable. When you disable the Not Attached mode by switching to another network mode, the network connection becomes available again. You can also check whether a DHCP client obtains the IP address correctly, whether the appropriate application can resume downloading after link interruption or packet loss, and so on.

Instead of using the Not Attached network mode, you can use any other network mode without ticking the Cable Connected checkbox. You can tick/untick the checkbox when a VM is in the running state (see the screenshot above). Don’t forget to hit OK to apply changes in the VM network configuration.

This network mode is enabled for a virtual network adapter by default. A guest operating system on a VM can access hosts in a physical local area network (LAN) by using a virtual NAT (Network Address Translation) device. External networks, including the internet, are accessible from a guest OS. A guest machine is not accessible from a host machine, or from other machines in the network when the NAT mode is used for VirtualBox networking. This default network mode is sufficient for users who wish to use a VM just for internet access, for example.

The IP address of the VM network adapter is obtained via DHCP and the IP addresses of the network used in this network mode cannot be changed in the GUI. VirtualBox has a built-in DHCP server and NAT engine. A virtual NAT device uses the physical network adapter of the VirtualBox host as an external network interface. The default address of the virtual DHCP server used in the NAT mode is 10.0.2.2 (this is also the IP address of the default gateway for a VM). The network mask is 255.255.255.0.

If you configure the network adapters of two or more VMs to use the NAT mode, each VM will obtain the 10.0.2.15 IP address in its own isolated network behind a private virtual NAT device. The default gateway for each VM is 10.0.2.2. In VirtualBox IP addresses are not changed when the NAT mode is used, as you can see below:

VirtualBox network modes – how the NAT mode works

In order to enable the  NAT  mode for a VM with VBoxManage, execute the following command:

  • VM_name is the name of your virtual machine;
  • nic1 is the number of the virtual network adapter;
  • nat is the name of the VirtualBox network mode that you need to set.

Port forwarding can be configured right from the VirtualBox VM network settings window by clicking the Port forwarding button (seen in the screenshot above). Detailed information about configuring port forwarding in VirtualBox network settings, which you can find below after the Network Modes section.

NAT Network

This mode is similar to the NAT mode that you use for configuring a router. If you use the NAT Network mode for multiple virtual machines, they can communicate with each other via the network. The VMs can access other hosts in the physical network and can access external networks including the internet. Any machine from external networks as well as those from a physical network to which the host machine is connected cannot access the VMs configured to use the NAT Network mode (similarly to when you configure a router for internet access from your home network). You cannot access the guest machine from the host machine when using the NAT Network mode (unless you are configuring port forwarding in global VirtualBox network settings). A built-in VirtualBox NAT router uses a physical network interface controller of the VirtualBox host as an external network interface (as is the case for the NAT mode).

VirtualBox network settings – the NAT Network mode

The network address and name can be changed in the global VirtualBox preferences ( File > Preferences ). In the left pane of the Preferences window, select Network to access global VirtualBox network settings, then double click your existing NAT network to edit the settings (you can also add a new network or delete an existing network by clicking the + or x icons).

Global VirtualBox network settings – editing the settings of the NAT Network

In the small pop-up window that will appear, it is also possible to enable/disable DHCP, IPv6 and configure port forwarding.

VirtualBox network settings – configuring the NAT Network

The default address of the  NatNetwork  is 10.0.2.0/24.

The default gateway IP is 10.0.2. 1 (the x.x.x.1 template is used to assign the default gateway IP). For example, if you create a new virtual network for the NAT Network mode in VirtualBox and set the 192.168.22.0/24 network address, the IP address of the gateway in this network will be 192.168.22. 1 . You cannot change the IP address of the gateway for the network used in the NAT Network mode and change the range of IP addresses issued by the DHCP server. Similarly, the IP address of the DHCP server is 10.0.2.3 by default (the x.x.x.3 template is used).

The IP configuration of the Windows 7 VM running on VirtualBox with a virtual network adapter configured in the NAT Network mode is displayed on the screenshot.

A Windows 7 VM is configured to work in the NAT Network mode

If you don’t want to edit VirtualBox network settings in the GUI, you can add a new NAT network with VBoxManage by using the command:

  • natnet1  is the name of the NAT network;
  • 192.168.22.0/24  is the address of that NAT network.

If you want to configure a VM network adapter in order to use the  NAT Network  mode with VBoxManage, run the following command:

  • nic1  is the first virtual network adapter (network interface controller);
  • natnetwork  is the name of the VirtualBox network mode.

You may need to shut down the VM before applying these settings.

In order to avoid repeating the same command with VBoxManage when selecting a network mode for the virtual network adapter of a VM in each section of the article, consider the names of all possible VirtualBox network modes:  none, null, nat, natnetwork, bridged, intnet, hostonly, generic.

Port forwarding is one more option that can be accessed and configured from this window. Port forwarding can be used to configure access from the host machine and other hosts of the same physical network to the services running on the guest OS inside the VM (see details below). As you can see, the location of the port forwarding settings for the NAT mode and NAT Network modes are different in the VirtualBox GUI. Port forwarding settings for the NAT mode are available in VM > Settings > Network while port forwarding settings for the NAT Network mode can be configured in File > Preferences > Network . This is because port forwarding rules for the NAT mode are individual for each VM while port forwarding rules for the NAT Network mode are common for multiple VMs whose adapters are connected to the appropriate NAT network. See details about configuring port forwarding below in the Port Forwarding section.

Bridged Adapter

This mode is used for connecting the virtual network adapter of a VM to a physical network to which a physical network adapter of the VirtualBox host machine is connected. A VM virtual network adapter uses the host network interface for a network connection. Put simply, network packets are sent and received directly from/to the virtual network adapter without additional routing. A special net filter driver is used by VirtualBox for a bridged network mode in order to filter data from the physical network adapter of the host.

This network mode can be used to run servers on VMs that must be fully accessible from a physical local area network. When using the bridged network mode in VirtualBox, you can access a host machine, hosts of the physical network and external networks, including internet from a VM. The VM can be accessed from the host machine and from other hosts (and VMs) connected to the physical network.

If you have multiple physical network adapters on the host machine, you should select the correct adapter in VirtualBox network settings. On the screenshot below you can see two physical network adapters – Ethernet adapter and Wi-Fi adapter . If you use the bridged mode for a wireless network adapter, you cannot use low-level features of that Wi-Fi adapter in a guest operating system. For example, you cannot select Wi-Fi networks to connect to, enable the monitoring mode, etc. Instead, you need to connect to the Wi-Fi network on the host machine. If you have to use all features of the Wi-Fi adapter in the guest OS of the VM, use a USB Wi-Fi adapter and the USB Pass-through feature as explained in the blog post about installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox .

VirtualBox network settings – selecting an adapter for the Bridged network mode

In VirtualBox, the IP address of a VM virtual network adapter can belong to the same network as the IP address of the physical network adapter of the host machine when the bridged mode is used. If there is a DHCP server in your physical network, the virtual network adapter of the VM will obtain the IP address automatically in the bridged mode (if obtaining an IP address automatically is set in the network interface settings in a guest OS). Thus, the default gateway for a virtual network adapter operating in the bridged mode is the same as for your host machine. Let’s look at a simple example with IP addresses.

The address of the physical network: 10.10.10.0/24

The IP address of the default gateway in the physical network: 10.10.10.1

The IP address of the DHCP server in the physical network: 10.10.10.1

IP configuration of the host machine: The IP address – 10.10.10.72; netmask – 255.255.255.0; default gateway – 10.10.10.1.

IP configuration of the guest machine: The IP address – 10.10.10.91; netmask – 255.255.255.0; default gateway – 10.10.10.1.

VirtualBox network settings – bridged networking

Sometimes, you may find that you have multiple gateways in your physical network. You can use a host machine for connecting to necessary networks via one gateway and use a guest machine for connecting to other networks via the second gateway. You can also edit a routing table on your VM and add routes for using both gateways to connect to the appropriate networks. As you can see, the bridged network mode is a powerful option in VirtualBox network settings with a lot of use cases.

Promiscuous mode . This mode allows a network adapter to pass all received traffic, no matter to which adapter the traffic is addressed. In normal mode, a network adapter receives only frames that include the MAC address of this particular network adapter as the destination address in the header. The frames that are addressed to a MAC address which differs from the MAC address of the selected adapter (when traffic is not broadcast) are dropped when in normal mode. The promiscuous mode makes it possible for a physical network adapter to have multiple MAC addresses, allowing all incoming traffic to pass the physical network adapter of the host machine and reach the virtual network adapter of the VM which has its own MAC address that is represented on the host adapter, even if that traffic is not addressed to the virtual network adapter of that particular VM.

Most wireless network adapters don’t support the promiscuous mode. Bridging to Wi-Fi adapters is done in following way – VirtualBox replaces the appropriate MAC addresses in the headers of Ethernet frames that must be delivered to the virtual network adapter of the VM (the MAC address of the host Wi-Fi adapter must be used for that traffic). The promiscuous mode is useful for network testing and security audits. You can enable the promiscuous mode in VirtualBox network settings and monitor network traffic with a sniffer.

There are three options of using the promiscuous mode .

  • Deny . Any traffic that is not intended to the virtual network adapter of the VM is hidden from the VM. This option is set by default.
  • Allow VMs . All traffic is hidden from the VM network adapter except the traffic transmitted to and from other VMs.
  • Allow All . There are no restrictions in this mode. A VM network adapter can see all incoming and outgoing traffic.

The Promiscuous mode can be used not only for the Bridged network mode, but also for NAT Network , Internal Network and Host-Only Adapter modes.

Internal Network

Virtual machines whose adapters are configured to work in the VirtualBox Internal Network mode are connected to an isolated virtual network. VMs connected to this network can communicate with each other, but they cannot communicate with a VirtualBox host machine, or with any other hosts in a physical network or in external networks. VMs connected to the internal network cannot be accessed from a host or any other devices. The VirtualBox internal network can be used for modelling real networks.

For example, you can create three VMs, each of which has a virtual network adapter (Adapter 1) connected to the internal network. The IP addresses of these network adapters are defined from the subnet used for the VirtualBox internal network (you should define the subnet manually). One of these VMs ( VM1 ) also has a second virtual network adapter that is configured to operate in the NAT mode. The VM1 is configured as a router (one of the best solutions for creating a router is to install Linux and configure IPTABLES, but for the first time you can use simpler routing solutions in a case of VirtualBox network testing).

A VM2 and VM3 whose network adapters are connected only to the VirtualBox internal network can have access to external networks if the IP address of the internal network adapter of the VM1 are set as a gateway in the network settings of VM2 and VM3 .

Network configuration used in this example:

VM1 . IP address – 192.168.23.1 (internal network mode); 10.0.2.15 (NAT mode), gateway 10.0.2.2 (the IP address of the built-in VirtualBox NAT device).

VM2 . IP address – 192.168.23.2 (internal network), gateway – 192.168.23.1

VM3 . IP address – 192.168.23.3 (internal network), gateway – 192.168.23.1

VirtualBox internal network subnet: 192.168.23.0/24

See the diagram below for more clarity.

VirtualBox network settings – using the Internal network mode in a combination with the NAT mode

Note : You can also deploy such virtual infrastructure for testing firewall rules in IPTABLES before implementing them in your real network infrastructure, but it is preferable to use the bridged mode and not the NAT mode for the second virtual network adapter of the VM1 when connecting to/from external networks.

Host-only Adapter

This network mode is used for communicating between a host and guests. A VM can communicate with other VMs connected to the host-only network, and with the host machine. The VirtualBox host machine can access all VMs connected to the host-only network.

VirtualBox network settings – VMs use the host-only network

The VirtualBox Host-Only virtual network adapter is created in a host operating system for use in the host-only network. You can edit settings of this VirtualBox network by going to File > Host Network Manager .

VirtualBox network settings - configuring the Host-Only network

In our case, the default network address of the host-only network is 192.168.56.0/24 and the IP address of the virtual network adapter on the host machine is 192.168.56.1. You can edit these IP addresses manually in the Adapter tab. A DHCP server can be enabled or disabled by ticking the appropriate checkbox. In the DHCP Server tab, you can set the IP address of the DHCP server, netmask and the range of IP addresses to be issued for DHCP clients.

VirtualBox network settings – configuring a DHCP server for a Host-Only network

The virtual network adapters of the VMs don’t have a gateway in their IP configuration because the Host-Only mode doesn’t allow you to connect to any devices outside the host-only network. It is also possible to create more than one VirtualBox host-only network adapter in order to use different host-only networks—just press the Create button. If the host-only network is no longer needed, simply select the adapter and hit Remove .

Generic Driver

This network mode allows you to share the generic network interface. A user can select the appropriate driver to be distributed in an extension pack or be included with VirtualBox.

Two sub-modes are available for VirtualBox Generic Driver mode – UDP Tunnel and VDE (Virtual Distributed Ethernet) Networking.

UDP Tunnel . Virtual machines that run on different hosts can communicate transparently by using an existing network infrastructure.

VDE Networking . Virtual machines can connect to a virtual distributed switch on Linux or FreeBSD hosts. You need to compile VirtualBox from sources to use VDE networking since standard VirtualBox packages don’t include this feature.

Comparison of VirtualBox Network Modes

For more convenience, let’s summarize all information about network modes supported by VirtualBox in this table:

VirtualBox network settings – Comparison oVirtualBox Network Modes

Port Forwarding

Port forwarding is a process of intercepting traffic addressed to the appropriate IP address and port in addition to redirecting that traffic to a different IP address and/or port. Special applications can be used on computers and other router devices to configure port forwarding. One of the most popular use cases for port forwarding is by providing access to particular network services that are hidden behind the NAT from external networks. After configuring port forwarding rules, clients can access the appropriate services from outside by connecting to the router’s (host’s) external IP address and specified port.

The packets are first intercepted by an application on the router, then the application reads the destination IP address and port number of the appropriate headers (IP packet headers, headers of TCP or UDP segments). If a combination of the destination IP address and/or port number in headers matches a condition set in a port forwarding rule, the routing application rewrites the header information (IP address and/or port number) and sends a packet/segment to another network interface according to the port forwarding rule.

By default, connecting to VirtualBox VMs whose network adapters are set to operate in the NAT or NAT Network mode is impossible from a VirtualBox host and other hosts in LAN, but VirtualBox provides a built-in port forwarding feature to enable such access.

Example 1 – SSH access

Let’s now consider configuring port forwarding for connecting to VirtualBox VMs using the example of connecting to an SSH server running on an Ubuntu Linux VM that is connected to the network by the NAT mode. You can read how to install Ubuntu on VirtualBox in  this blog post .

The input data:

Host IP:  10.10.10.72  (a physical NIC).

Ubuntu VM IP:  10.0.2.15  (NAT mode)

User name:  user1

1. Install the SSH server on the Ubuntu VM.

apt-get install openssh-server

2. Edit the SSH server configuration file.

vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

3. Uncomment the string for enabling authentication with passwords.

PasswordAuthentication yes

4. Restart the SSH daemon (service).

/etc/init.d/ssh restart

5. Verify that the SSH server is working and try to connect to the SSH server from localhost (Ubuntu VM).

ssh [email protected]

6. If everything is OK, you can start configuring port forwarding in VirtualBox.

As you recall, you should open  VM settings  and select the  Network  section. Select your virtual network adapter that is configured to work in the  NAT  mode, expand  Advanced   settings and hit the  Port Forwarding  button. Click the  +  icon to add a new port forwarding rule in VirtualBox network settings of the VM.

VirtualBox network settings – configuring port forwarding for the NAT mode

An SSH server listens the 22-nd TCP port by default. Let’s create a rule that allows you to forward all connections to the VirtualBox host machine on port 8022 to the Ubuntu VM on port 22 that is listened by SSH server. First, you can create a rule that allows for connections only from the VirtualBox host.

The view of the port forwarding rules window in the VirtualBox GUI is shown on the screenshot below.

VirtualBox network settings – the SSH port forwarding rule is created

Open an SSH client (for example, PuTTY if you use Windows) on your VirtualBox host and connect to 127.0.0.1 on port 8022.

Other hosts in your physical network will be able to access the Ubuntu VM via SSH by connecting to the VirtualBox host machine on port 8022 if you create a similar port forwarding rule where the real IP address of your physical network adapter of the VirtualBox host will be defined instead of the localhost IP address (127.0.0.1). In this example, the IP address of the physical NIC on the VirtualBox host is 10.10.10.72.

Open an SSH client on your VirtualBox host or on another host attached to your LAN and connect to your VirtualBox host IP on port 8022.

Example 2 – HTTP access

If you want to deploy a web server on your VM and provide access to your web sites from outside, you can add another port forwarding rule. Let’s consider how to configure that port forwarding rule for accessing a web site deployed on an Ubuntu VM from a VirtualBox host machine and other machines connected to the physical local area network (LAN). Apache is used as a web server in this example.

First, install Apache on the Ubuntu VM running on VirtualBox.

apt-get install apache2

The ufw firewall is disabled in Ubuntu by default. If a firewall is enabled on your Ubuntu VM, make sure that access to the TCP 80 port is enabled.

After installing Apache, open a web browser on your Ubuntu VM and access the default Apache page by entering http://127.0.0.1 in the address bar. If everything is OK, you will see the Apache2 Ubuntu default page in your web browser.

This means that now you can configure a port forwarding rule in VirtualBox network settings for accessing your web site hosted on the Ubuntu VM. Open the Port Forwarding settings window by going to VM settings > Network > [select your adapter] > Port Forwarding (similarly as explained above). You can add a new rule by doing the following:

Open a web browser on your host machine or on any other machine connected to your physical network and enter the IP address of your VirtualBox host machine and port defined in the port forwarding rule created above:

http://10.10.10.72:8080

In the current example, 10.10.10.72 is the IP address of the VirtualBox host machine and 8080 is a TCP port listened on the VirtualBox host machine. A positive result of configuring port forwarding is shown on the screenshot below.

VirtualBox network settings – the HTTP port forwarding rule has been created successfully

You can also create similar rules for accessing a VM via RDP, FTP and other protocols.

Configuring port forwarding for VMs whose virtual network adapters work in the NAT Network mode functions similarly (see the section above where the NAT Network mode is explained for locating port forwarding settings for the NAT Network mode).

VirtualBox is a powerful virtualization solution that is flexible and provides a wide range of network settings. Each VM can use up to eight virtual network adapters, and each network adapter can be emulated as the appropriate model of real Intel and AMD network interface controllers (NICs). VirtualBox network adapter settings allow you to change the MAC address of each virtual NIC, plug or unplug the virtual network cable, and select the network mode. Setting the network mode for a virtual network adapter is one of the most interesting and important parts of VirtualBox network settings. There are six network modes, each of which can be utilized for different use cases. Port forwarding can be configured for external access to VMs whose network adapters operate in NAT or NAT Network modes.

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How To Set Static IP Address in VirtualBox Networking

Eric Buchanan

VirtualBox, an open-source virtualization software, allows you to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) on your physical machine. One of the key aspects of managing these VMs is networking. In this article, we’ll discuss how to set a static IP address in VirtualBox networking.

To set a static IP address in VirtualBox networking, you need to access the network settings of your virtual machine and modify the network connection to use a manual IP address configuration. Enter the desired static IP address, subnet mask, gateway address, and DNS server addresses, and save the changes. Restart the networking service or reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

Step 5: Save the Changes

Understanding virtualbox networking.

Before we delve into the process, it’s important to understand the basics of VirtualBox networking. VirtualBox provides various networking modes, such as NAT, Bridged Adapter, Internal Network, and Host-Only Adapter. Each mode has its own unique characteristics and use cases. However, for the purpose of this guide, we’ll focus on the Bridged Adapter mode, which allows your VM to appear as a separate device on your network.

Why Set a Static IP Address?

By default, VirtualBox assigns dynamic IP addresses to your VMs. While this is convenient, it can cause issues if you’re running services that require a consistent IP address, such as web servers or databases. By setting a static IP address, you ensure that the IP address remains constant, even after rebooting the VM.

Setting a Static IP Address

Now, let’s walk through the process of setting a static IP address on a VirtualBox VM. For this guide, we’ll assume you’re running an Ubuntu guest machine.

Step 1: Access Network Settings

First, open the network settings on your Ubuntu VM. You can do this by navigating to “Network Connections” in the Ubuntu GUI.

Step 2: Edit the Network Connection

Next, find the connection that corresponds to your network adapter. Click on “Edit” to modify its settings.

Step 3: Configure the IP Address

In the wired settings, change the connection type from “Automatic (DHCP)” to “Manual”. Then, click “Add” to create a new IP address configuration.

Step 4: Enter the IP Address Details

In the new configuration, enter your desired static IP address, subnet mask, and gateway address. If necessary, you can also specify DNS server addresses.

Finally, click “Save” to apply the new static IP address configuration. Your guest Ubuntu machine should now have a static IP address.

Troubleshooting

If you encounter any issues with saving the changes or enabling the static IP address, ensure that the “Save” button is enabled and that the DNS server addresses are correctly entered.

For different versions of Ubuntu or different network configurations, you may need to modify the network configuration files directly. Typically, these files are located at /etc/network/interfaces . In this file, you can specify the static IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS server addresses.

Remember to restart the networking service or reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

Setting a static IP address in VirtualBox networking can be a straightforward process. By following these steps, you can ensure a consistent IP address for your VM, making it easier to manage and access your services. As always, remember to double-check your settings and test your configuration to ensure everything is working as expected. Happy networking!

VirtualBox is an open-source virtualization software that allows you to create and manage virtual machines on your physical machine.

A static IP address is a fixed IP address that does not change. It is useful for running services that require a consistent IP address, such as web servers or databases.

Setting a static IP address ensures that the IP address of your virtual machine remains constant, even after rebooting. This is useful for maintaining consistent network connections and running services that rely on a specific IP address.

The Bridged Adapter mode allows your virtual machine to appear as a separate device on your network. It uses the host’s physical network adapter to connect the virtual machine directly to the network.

Yes, you can set a static IP address in other VirtualBox networking modes as well. However, for this guide, we focus on the Bridged Adapter mode as it allows your virtual machine to be directly connected to the network.

In Ubuntu, you can access network settings by navigating to "Network Connections" in the Ubuntu GUI.

To modify the network connection settings in VirtualBox, you need to open the network settings of your virtual machine and edit the corresponding network connection.

If you encounter issues, ensure that the "Save" button is enabled and that the DNS server addresses are correctly entered. If necessary, you may need to modify the network configuration files directly.

The network configuration files in Ubuntu are typically located at /etc/network/interfaces . You can modify these files to specify the static IP address, subnet mask, gateway, and DNS server addresses.

Yes, after making changes to the network settings or configuration files, it is recommended to restart the networking service or reboot the system for the changes to take effect.

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How to configure static ip in Ubuntu running on virtual box?

I am using Ubuntu on VirtualBox in Dell Laptop and wanted to know how I can configure the static IP in Ubuntu so that I can browse internet on Ubuntu and also use putty .

I am using data card for internet.

Currently in /etc/network/interfaces the settings is as follows:

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  • If host is connected to the internet, then why don't you just go into the VM settings and enable WIFI? –  horIzoN Mar 6, 2013 at 16:44
  • Ubuntu desktop or server? –  mikewhatever Mar 6, 2013 at 16:48
  • Do you want to browse the internet and use putty, or do you specifically want to have a static IP address? Your question seems to suffer from the XY-problem . –  zwets Mar 6, 2013 at 19:22

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Find your actual network configuration by typing

You should see something similar to

Edit the networking config file by typing

Inside it find the line

and change it to

The actual change may need to be modified to something more specific for you. IE if you're routers IP is 10.0.0.1 then your gateway and dns-nameservers would need to be configured accordingly. I set the address to 192.168.1.115 because the odds of you getting enough connections to reach that IP and have any conflict from DHCP are slim to none. Let me know if this works for you. Good luck.

--Also. Your network adapter should be bridged.--

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The easiest method is through network manager:

1- From the top of the screen select the network icon, next to the clock and volume, then click Edit Connections .

2- From the window that opens, go to Wired tab, select your connection (there should be only one connection, if you didn't touch anything). Then click Edit .

3- From the IPv4 Settings tab change Method from Automatic (DHCP) to Manual .

4- Under Addresses feild, click on Add .

5- Enter your desired IP address and subnet mask and click Save , you can also enter an optional DNS server here.

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  • 1 Though this will get the OP a static IP address on the guest, it is unlikely to fulfill his/her wish "to browse the internet and use putty". If OP has left the configuration of the VM Network Adapter at the default (NAT), it is more likely that s/he will have no internet connectivity at all. –  zwets Mar 6, 2013 at 19:20
  • yes I see, let me fix that. –  Soroosh129 Mar 6, 2013 at 19:26
  • @zwets aha, you have an answer, so I'll wait to see your comment on me editing the post. –  Soroosh129 Mar 6, 2013 at 19:28
  • To have bidirectional communication between host OS, guest OSs and other machines in your LAN, I changed network adapter to "Bridged Adapter" for each guest OS using VM Virtual Box Manager. In more details: open Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager, select guest VM (OS) on the left side, click top menu item "Settings", click "Network" on the left side menu from the displayed screen, select tab "Adapter1", change value of field "Attached to:" to "Bridged Adapter" and finally click button "OK". –  mvsagar Jan 10, 2017 at 3:05

If you want to connect your Ubuntu VM to the internet, there is no need to pick a static IP address. Assuming the host has an internet connection, and you have created a default ( NAT ) network adapter for your virtual machine, then just stick to DHCP in Ubuntu . It will get an IP address from the host and the host will do the NAT-ting to the internet.

If you insist on having a static IP address for the guest, then configure the virtual network adapter for bridged networking and allocate it to a network card on the host.

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How to create a VirtualBox VM with a static IP and internet access

Introduction.

Recently I’ve been working on installing Apache Airavata in a VirtualBox VM running on my laptop using our “standalone” Ansible installation settings. The goal is to have a locally running instance of Airavata that I can connect to when developing the Airavata Django Portal which I’ve been working on. That means I need Django running on my laptop to be able to access the VM (host-to-guest access) and the VM does need to be able to access the internet (guest-to-internet access) since the Ansible playbooks that are executed against the VM download and install software from the internet.

It turns out that getting this set up is not so trivial, but also, it’s not that hard once you know what VirtualBox provides and how to configure it. In summary, the approach I’ll give here is to create a VirtualBox VM:

  • with the default NAT network adapter (for internet access)
  • and then add a host-only network adapter and configure the VM with a static IP address (for host-to-guest access)

A quick word about VirtualBox networking modes. You can read all about the various networking modes here but here’s a quick summary:

  • NAT – the networking mode of the default network adapter when you create a new VM. This gives internet access but applications running on the host can’t make network connections to the VM.
  • Bridged – with this mode VirtualBox uses a special driver for the host’s physical network interface to create a virtual network interface for the VM. The VM gets an IP on the same network that the host is physically connected to. Host-to-guest communication and internet access are available.
  • Host-only – with this mode VirtualBox creates a virtual network that the host and the VMs are connected to. This allows host-to-guest communication but this virtual network has no access to the internet.

Now you might be wondering, why not just use a bridged network adapter? Well, you can, but there is one substantial downside. Whenever the network the host is connected to changes, the IP address of the VM will change. This is exacerbated in my case by the fact that I exclusively use wireless networks on my laptop, so my network is regularly changing. Also, I really need a static IP address for the VM to configure the Ansible scripts and because part of the process is to generate a self-signed SSL certificate for the VM’s IP address. But, if you’re using a wired workstation or you don’t have a lot of configuration dependent on the VM’s IP address, bridged networking might be a good solution to get you both internet access and host-to-guest networking.

Installing CentOS 7

Creating a CentOS 7 VM is covered well in other places (I used Jeramy Singleton’s guide ), so I won’t cover all of the steps here. But here are some quick pointers:

  • Set the type of the VM to Linux and the version to Red Hat (64-bit)
  • Download a minimal ISO from https://www.centos.org/download/
  • Log in as root and change the working directory to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and edit the ifcfg-enp0s3 config file and set ONBOOT to yes . Then reboot the VM to get network access.

Also note that whereas in Jeramy Singleton’s instructions he has you create a port forward (2222->22) to be able to SSH into the VM, in the following we’ll add a host-only network instead and use that IP address to SSH into the VM on the standard port 22.

Configuring host-only network

First, make sure that there is a host-only network to connect to. In my case, a default one was already created, called vboxnet0 . To check if you already have one, start VirtualBox and then click on the Global Tools button and make sure you are on the Host Manager Network tab.

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Take note of the IP Address of the network and the network mask. In the screenshot above, the IP Address is 192.168.99.1 with network mask of 255.255.255.0 which means I can assign IP addresses 192.168.99.2-254 statically. I’ve disabled the DHCP server since I’ll assign IP addresses statically, but in theory you utilize static and dynamic IP assignment (if you do that note that the DHCP server will hand out IP addresses from 100-254 by default, so don’t use those).

Now add a host-only network adapter to the VM. First, make sure that the VM is shut down. Next, in the VirtualBox app select the VM and click on the Settings button. Click on the Network tab. Adapter 1 should be your NAT adapter. Click on the Adapter 2 subtab, select Host-only Adapter and the name of the host-only network ( vboxnet0 in this case).

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Click OK and start up the VM. Log in as root through VirtualBox console. Run

to find the name of the host-only network interface. In my case it was called enp0s8 .

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Create a file called ifcfg-enp0s8 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and give it the following contents:

Where NETMASK should match the settings for your host-only network as obtained above and IPADDR should be an available IP address in the host-only network (again, typically in 2-254 range).

Now when you run

you should see the IP address you configured in the ifcfg-enp0s8

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You should now be able to SSH to the VM from the host OS:

You can now connect applications running on the host OS to network services running on the VM via the host-only network and the VM can also connect to the wider internet via the NAT interface.

  • Aaron Kili’s post on adding a host-only network adapter was very helpful. He also has instructions on how to configure a static IP on Debian-based distributions.
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How to configure a static IP address on CentOS 7 with VirtualBox

This article aims to explain how to configure a static IP address on a CentOS 7 virtual machine using VirtualBox.

We will go step by step, and at the end of this blog, you will be able to ssh into your virtual machine using a never-changing IP.

What is a static IP?

Every computer has a random local IP address unless you have specified the contrary. These addresses are not fixed. It means that they could change.

In most cases, you don’t care about the IP address, but you usually do with virtual machines.

If you have a MySQL service running on a virtual machine, you would want to save the connection configuration once and re-use it every time. If the IP address changes, you have to modify the connection settings.

Another approach is to use port-forwarding. This approach is okay until you have 3 or more virtual machines with multiple services and ports to keep track of.

The following image shows the ideal local development environment with static IP addresses.

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Configure VirtualBox Networking

The app VirtualBox has some networking settings we have to set before changing the VM Linux configuration.

We want our VM to have the following:

  • Access to the internet
  • Access to our host computer

And we also want to be able to access the VM by IP.

Step 1: Stop the VM

You have to stop the VM before doing the following steps.

Step 2: Create Ethernet Adapter

Click on Tools - Networks and make sure you have an ethernet adapter created. Write down the IPv4 Prefix, because the static IP will be in this range.

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In the image above:

  • The gateway is 192.168.56.1
  • The network mask is 255.255.255.0 (24 bits)

The static IP of my VM will be in the 192.168.56.xx range.

Step 3: Change adapters

Right-click on the virtual machine and choose the “Network” tab. We are going to add 2 adapters:

  • The first one is going to be a NAT. This way the VM will have internet access.
  • The second one has to be a “Host-only Adapter” with the ethernet adapter of the previous step. This is the adapter that will have the static IP assigned.

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Configure VM Centos 7

Now that we have configured the VirtualBox networking, we will configure the inner VM networking settings.

Step 1: Start the VM

Double-click on the VM or right-click and start.

Step 2: Get the connection name

We know the static IP will be assigned to the second adapter, the Host-only Adapter.

Let’s check the vm networking using ip addr | head -n 20 :

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  • enp0s3: NAT Adapter
  • enp0s8: Host-Only Adapter

Now we know we have to assign an IP to the enp0s8 device. To get its connection name, you have to execute the following statement:

nmcli -p device

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The connection name is “Ethernet connection 1”.

Step 3: Configure connection IP

There are two ways of doing it:

  • Graphically with nmtui
  • With bash statements and nmcli

In our case, we will execute some statements in the console.

If we execute ip addr | head -n 20 again, we will see the previous IP address.

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Step 4: Reboot

The last step is to reboot the VM

Test the connection

Now we can connect to the VM using the command ssh [email protected]

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2.9. Fine Tuning the Oracle VM VirtualBox NAT Engine

2.9.1. configuring the address of a nat network interface.

In NAT mode, the guest network interface is assigned to the IPv4 range 10.0. x .0/24 by default where x corresponds to the instance of the NAT interface +2. So x is 2 when there is only one NAT instance active. In that case the guest is assigned to the address 10.0.2.15 , the gateway is set to 10.0.2.2 and the name server can be found at 10.0.2.3 .

If the NAT network needs to be changed, use the following command:

This command would reserve the network addresses from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.254.254 for the first NAT network instance of VM-name The guest IP would be assigned to 192.168.0.15 and the default gateway could be found at 192.168.0.2 .

2.9.2. Configuring the Boot Server (Next Server) of a NAT Network Interface

For network booting in NAT mode, by default Oracle VM VirtualBox uses a built-in TFTP server at the IP address 10.0.2.4. This default behavior should work fine for typical remote-booting scenarios. However, it is possible to change the boot server IP and the location of the boot image with the following commands:

2.9.3. Tuning TCP/IP Buffers for NAT

The Oracle VM VirtualBox NAT stack performance is often determined by its interaction with the host's TCP/IP stack and the size of several buffers, SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF . For certain setups users might want to adjust the buffer size for a better performance. This can by achieved using the following commands, where values are in kilobytes and can range from 8 to 1024:

This example illustrates tuning the NAT settings. The first parameter is the MTU, then the size of the socket's send buffer and the size of the socket's receive buffer, the initial size of the TCP send window, and lastly the initial size of the TCP receive window. Note that specifying zero means fallback to the default value.

Each of these buffers has a default size of 64KB and default MTU is 1500.

2.9.4. Binding NAT Sockets to a Specific Interface

By default, Oracle VM VirtualBox's NAT engine will route TCP/IP packets through the default interface assigned by the host's TCP/IP stack. The technical reason for this is that the NAT engine uses sockets for communication. If you want to change this behavior, you can tell the NAT engine to bind to a particular IP address instead. For example, use the following command:

After this, all outgoing traffic will be sent through the interface with the IP address 10.45.0.2. Ensure that this interface is up and running before changing the NAT bind address.

2.9.5. Enabling DNS Proxy in NAT Mode

The NAT engine by default offers the same DNS servers to the guest that are configured on the host. In some scenarios, it can be desirable to hide the DNS server IPs from the guest, for example when this information can change on the host due to expiring DHCP leases. In this case, you can tell the NAT engine to act as DNS proxy using the following command:

2.9.6. Using the Host's Resolver as a DNS Proxy in NAT Mode

For resolving network names, the DHCP server of the NAT engine offers a list of registered DNS servers of the host. If for some reason you need to hide this DNS server list and use the host's resolver settings, thereby forcing the Oracle VM VirtualBox NAT engine to intercept DNS requests and forward them to host's resolver, use the following command:

Note that this setting is similar to the DNS proxy mode, however whereas the proxy mode just forwards DNS requests to the appropriate servers, the resolver mode will interpret the DNS requests and use the host's DNS API to query the information and return it to the guest.

2.9.6.1. User-Defined Host Name Resolving

In some cases it might be useful to intercept the name resolving mechanism, providing a user-defined IP address on a particular DNS request. The intercepting mechanism enables the user to map not only a single host but domains and even more complex naming conventions if required.

The following command sets a rule for mapping a name to a specified IP:

The following command sets a rule for mapping a pattern name to a specified IP:

The host name pattern can include the following wildcard characters: pipe ( | ), question mark ( ? ), and asterisk ( * ).

This example demonstrates how to instruct the host-resolver mechanism to resolve all domain and probably some mirrors of www.blocked-site.info site with IP 127.0.0.1:

The host resolver mechanism should be enabled to use user-defined mapping rules, otherwise they do not have any effect.

2.9.7. Configuring Aliasing of the NAT Engine

By default, the NAT core uses aliasing and uses random ports when generating an alias for a connection. This works well for the most protocols like SSH, FTP and so on. Though some protocols might need a more transparent behavior or may depend on the real port number the packet was sent from. You can change the NAT mode by using the following commands:

The first example disables aliasing and switches NAT into transparent mode, the second example enforces preserving of port values. These modes can be combined if necessary.

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Assign a Static IP Address to a VirtualBox Guest with a NAT Network Without Accessing the Guest

I am using VirtualBox 5.2.18 on Ubuntu Server 18.04. I have several VirtualBox guests machines sharing a NAT Network intnet . Currently, intnet has a DHCP server (set up by VirtualBox) that automatically assigns dynamic IP's to the guests. This works fine, but I would like the DHCP server to assign static IP's to specific guests based on their network interface's MAC address. Static IP's can be set inside the guests, but that takes time and is guest OS dependent. Is there a way, in VirtualBox, to assign static IP's to the guests?

There is a an executable in the VirtualBox installation folder called VBoxNetDHCP . Judging by the output of VBoxNetDHCP , it seems to allow for static IP assignment by MAC address. I cannot get it to work though, and documentation for it is virtually nonexistent.

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  • 2 When I do this I use another small VM to provide DHCP, DNS for a fake domain, etc. to my internal network. Using Debian 9 you can go as low as 128mb of ram and perhaps 1.5gb of disk use after install. –  ivanivan Aug 20, 2018 at 1:15
  • I'm leaning towards doing that, @ivanivan. Do you happen to have a tutorial at hand? –  Mohamed Laradji Aug 20, 2018 at 20:57
  • I'll post it as an answer, give me a few ... –  ivanivan Aug 21, 2018 at 0:01

3 Answers 3

Normally when I do things like this (and I do it a lot) I tend to use a VM acting as a network server that does things like DHCP, DNS - both caching for the world and locally spoofing fake.tld - etc.

Simplest way is to do a base, bare install of Debian via the netinstall image - select none of the package groups other than the ssh server option and perhaps "standard utilities".

Once it is up and running, to turn it into a DHCP server for your internal VM network, install the isc-dhcp-server package. Then edit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Here's a simple example from mine. This sets a short lease time (5 minutes), sets the client search-domain, etc. to "fake.tld", points their dns queries to 192.168.1.2, and gives out addresses in the range of 10.99.98.80-100 with 24 bits of netmask. Note that the VM doing this must have an adapter configured with an IP within the 10.99.98.0/24 subnet.

In addition to the general pool, I give the device with the MAC address of 80:c1:6e:2b:b6:cd an explicitly defined lease (as well as any other option like a DNS server to use, gateway, etc) for the .110 ip. Any such "static leases" must be for addresses OUTSIDE of your dynamic range, but within the subnet configured in both the config file AND on the network adapter of the machine hosting the service.

When you add a new host and you want it to have a specific IP, simply add another host stanza - the host name doesn't need to match whatever the client sends but it does need to be unique in the file. After you've added it, restart the service service isc-dhcp-server restart

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  • This worked for me, except that: 1. My DHCP VM uses Ubuntu Server (which is based on Debian ) rather than Debian . I installed the same isc-dhcp-server package. 2. My internal network ( intnet in my question) is 192.168.1.0/24 , and I used option routers 192.168.1.1; and option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.1; . I was able to tell which IP to use by using nmap -sn 192.168.1.0/24 . 3. I defined the options routers and domain-name-servers globally by adding them to /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf after the line # option definitions common to all supported networks... . –  Mohamed Laradji Aug 21, 2018 at 1:11

This can be done in the internal VBOX DHCP server:

1.- FindOut network name for dhcp server:

2.- You need also the mac address of your VM's interface

3.- Setup Static Lease for that MAC.

./VBoxManage dhcpserver modify --ifname "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter" --mac-address=08:00:27:f8:31:fa --fixed-address=192.168.56.20

4.- Restart DHCP server to apply changes

./VBoxManage dhcpserver restart --ifname "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter"

And that's it. You can do it not only for host-only networks but for any Vbox network with an DHCP server attached

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You do not need an addition DHCP Server software, with NAT Network intnet , we can setup VirtualBox dhcpserver

Copy guest MAC address from Settings as seen in screenshot

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Within our dhcpserver, lets add an Individual Config section

P.S. I remember the dhcpserver failed to assign the first IP address of our subset's range, then I tried last IP and it worked, since then I only use the last IP as static.

Reboot or Start your Guest VM

On a Linux based Guest, you can check if DHCP assigned an IP, such as from terminal

If you do not see an IP released, you need to edit the adapter config file, such as

Usually adding ONBOOT=yes fixes this issue, and off course one of reboots systemctl restart network systemctl restart network.service , shutdown -h now , reboot now :)

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