
Do not use the shared folders feature in virtualbox, it's quite buggy especially with windows 7 (and 64 bit).
That's it, now you have 2 way communication, with apache/any other service available as well as internet. Click next, select allow the connection, next, check all profiles, next, give it a name and save. For the scope, add in the first box (local IP addresses) 192.168.56.1, and in the second box (remote IP) 192.168.56.56. Chose custom rule, set the rule to allow all programs, and any protocol.
click on inbound rules (left column), then on new rule (right column). go to the windows firewall section, in control panel,. To overcome this and not make any security breaches in your setup:. This entails that the firewall will prevent proper access. Windows will automatically add the virtualbox host-only network to the list of public networks and that cannot be changed. Now, to make the connection available both ways (accessing the windows host from the ubuntu guest) there's still one more step to be performed.
Also, Ubuntu will have internet access, since the first adapter (set to NAT) will take care of that. What this will give you is being able to access the apache server on ubuntu, from windows, by going to 192.168.56.56. The host Windows will have 192.168.56.1 as IP for the internal network ( VirtualBox Host-Only Network is the name in network connections in Windows).
Start the virtual machine and assign a static IP for the second adapter in Ubuntu (for instance 192.168.56.56). The second adapter is set to host only. The first adapter is set to NAT (that will give you the internet connection). Setup the virtualbox to use 2 adapters:. I am seeing this and I am not seeing NTFS listed there. Ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume 'ubunto_shared': No such file orĥ- I read few articles about how to access that folder, so I ran Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on ntfs missingĬodepage or helper program or other errorģ- so I installed ntfs-3g using: sudo apt-get install ntfs-3gĤ- I then ran this command: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g ubunto_shared windows_shared I have a folder on Windows that I need to be able to access from my Ubuntu VM on Virtual Box.ġ- From Virtual Box, I went to Devices > Shared Folders > Shared Folder Settings, added a new Shared folder on my windows desktop named 'ubunto_shared' like the following:Ģ- Then from the Ubuntu VM, I ran the following command: sudo mount -t vboxsf ubunto_shared windows_shared
I am totally new to Ubuntu and a first timer user and been reading about this subject for a while.