In this case we are focusing on this command: The full VBoxManage commands and parameters list is available here:

The VirtualBox product comes with command line tools to be able to control nearly every aspect of your virtualization environment, including guest control, virtual disk management and in the case of what we are talking about here, host-only virtual networking. Add on Vagrant and you’re really ready for fun, but that’s another post altogether 🙂 VBoxManage It’s a platform specific thing because you are running Windows rather than Linux, and it isn’t an issue unless you are following command line scripts and docs from people using the other platform.įor those who haven’t tried out VirtualBox, it’s freely available, and you will find that it is a common platform for the OpenStack lab work that I do, as well as with the vBrownBag sessions.

If you’re trying out Virtual Box on a Windows host, there is a little catch with the virtual network interface names that happens.

Virtualbox interface windows 7