Instead use samba shares - fast and efficient.Some Linux users face a problem of the need to run Windows-specific utilities in Linux. 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:.

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