I am running a host Windows 7 machine with a Guest Windows Server 2008 RC2. The guest machine is hosted inside of VirtualBox. It appears that this issue can occur with any number of OS host or guest machines.
From the guest machine I could access the internet and access the host machine, but I could not ping or access the guest machine from the host. Turns out there is a network setting that needs to be changed.
On the guests ‘container’ go to Devices > Network Adapters
Then change ‘Attached to’ from ‘NAT’ to ‘Bridged Adapter’
at that point you should be good to go
Resources
From the guest machine I could access the internet and access the host machine, but I could not ping or access the guest machine from the host. Turns out there is a network setting that needs to be changed.
On the guests ‘container’ go to Devices > Network Adapters
Then change ‘Attached to’ from ‘NAT’ to ‘Bridged Adapter’
at that point you should be good to go
Resources
- virtualbox forums: Host can’t ping guest in Different OS ??
The only extra thing I had to do was change the guest network setting from a public network to private and now I can ping both ways.