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I'm running Windows inside a VM inside OSX. If I set the connection to host only, then I get a connection that seems to work. However, when I go try to go to web pages, they won't load. Why is that?
tony_sid
Posted 2011-03-05T09:17:10.293
Reputation: 11 651
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The hint is in the name of the connection type... "Host Only"
It means what it says - create a virtual network between the Virtual Machine and the Host Virtualbox is running on
To get outside the local host you will either need to use NAT mode or Bridged
Majenko
Posted 2011-03-05T09:17:10.293
Reputation: 29 007
I'm just going to outside sites like normal. Not using a proxy. – tony_sid – 2011-03-05T09:47:58.500
What if I want to use host only mode? What changes should I make to OSX? Which program is useful? – tony_sid – 2011-03-05T10:22:19.830
Then you would need to turn on ip forwarding (not sure how in OS/X, but if it's like FreeBSD then
sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1should do it until the next reboot) and add a static route to your router to the private host-only network routed through your OS/X machine's IP address (how depends on your router). – Majenko – 2011-03-05T10:25:43.290@Jedi Why do you want to use host-only? Sounds like NAT is the mode you really want. – Mark E. Haase – 2011-03-08T21:49:33.457