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Running a server as a guest in a VirtualBox virtual machine isn’t much good when you can’t network with the guest OS from your host machine. Instead of setting up host interface networking, you can simply port forward though VirtualBox’s NAT. Once port forwarding is set up, any computer on your network will be able to network with your guest OS though forwarded ports on your host.

VirtualBox’s GUI doesn’t expose this functionality, but the VBoxManage command line utility does. Before starting, remember to close your virtual machine before changing it’s configuration.

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