Input the keyword firewall in the Find a setting input text box.

For Windows, you can click the Windows Start icon -> Settings menu at the Windows screen bottom left corner.

This is because the virtual machine’s Firewall is enabled, so you should turn off the virtual machine’s Firewall.

But when you ping one virtual machine’s IP from another virtual machine, you may find that the 2 virtual machines can not ping each other.

: 255.255.255.0ġ.2 Make Sure The Host & Guest OS Can Ping Each Other.

Open a terminal window and run the command ipconfig (Windows) or ifconfig (macOS or Linux ) in both the Host & Guest virtual machine, you will find the 2 virtual machine’s IPs are in the same subnetwork.Įthernet adapter VirtualBox Host-Only Network:.

Click the OK button to save the changes.

Select the Bridged Adapter item from the Attached to drop-down list.

Make sure to check the Enable Network Adapter checkbox.

Click the Adapter 1 tab on the right side Network panel.

Click the Network item on the Settings window left panel.

Right-click the virtual machine, click the Settings menu item in the popup menu list to open the virtual machine’s Settings window.

Select the virtual machine in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager window left panel.

Shut down the VirtualBox virtual machine.

Before you can share folders between host & guest virtual machine, you should first make sure your virtual machine network adapter is bridged adapter, this can make the host & guest virtual machine’s IP exist in the same subnetwork.

1.1 Make Host & Guest OS Use Bridged Adapter.

Prerequisites For Share Folders Between Host & Guest Virtual Machine.

Macos virtualbox shared folder