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Virtualbox Host Access

bobbytables · 2011-09-01 14:37:55

Lo, I'm running Win7 inside Virtualbox 4.0.4 OSE on an Ubuntu 11.04 host. I have some service ports open on the host and I would like to be able to access them from the Win7 guest running in the VM. E.g. [host-ip]:[port] I do not want to give the Win7 guest net access via the host, just access to local ports that I've…

01-09-2011 2:37pm

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Lo, I'm running Win7 inside Virtualbox 4.0.4 OSE on an Ubuntu 11.04 host. I have some service ports open on the host and I would like to be able to access them from the Win7 guest running in the VM. E.g. [host-ip]:[port]

I do not want to give the Win7 guest net access via the host, just access to local ports that I've opened on the host while I test some code I'm running in the VM.

Is this possible in Virtualbox?, or do I need extra firewall rules to back me up.

Any help appreciated

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#2 01-09-2011 11:23pm

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Have you tried using the free VMWare hypervisor instead of Virtualbox? You can boot it from USB key too.

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