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[nop_90]

I am using the latest version of virtualbox 2.24
I am running ubuntu

I have a guest OS windows XP
I want to be able to connect to the guest OS from host.
How the fuk do i set this up ?

Thanx

[vsloathe]

The OS tools make it so you can share directories from your host OS to your guest OS.

[nop_90]

@vsloathe
thanx i already have that u misunderstand.

I have a host OS ubuntu
windoze guest OS

i want it so i can ping ip address of guest OS, ssh in it etc.

What type of networking do i set up ?
How do i set the ip routes

[dimitry12]

look into help under nat section ("6.4.1. Configuring port forwarding with NAT"), there are commands for VB to establish port forwarding (so your host is like router with NAT and guest is behind that router), though ICMP still doesn't work with NAT of course

[nop_90]

@dimitry yah you are right pings do not work
anyway this is what i ended up doing

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Networking
I have a wireless so i used method down at botton.

Here is part they left out.
After u bring up the tap0
when u do an IP config u will have something like this

tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6e:af:b4:2f:54:82 
          inet addr:192.168.10.200  Bcast:0.0.0.0  Mask:255.255.255.255
          inet6 addr: fe80::6caf:b4ff:fe2f:5482/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:406 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:500
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

On the guest OS set the IP to 192.168.10.201 (in this example)
Now from host u can connect to guest and vice versa

This is useful as shit