On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 12:20 PM R360 Design INC via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

Hello everyone,

I have a VM virtualbox set up running CentOS Linux. The host OS is Windows 10. I then attempted to set up two-way network communication between the CentOS Guest and my Windows host. Has anyone attempted this and succeeded? I thought it would be straightforward but setting up the NAT adapter, and installing "VM Guest Addition" got me lost.

Hi Jonathan,

I second Jon's recommendation of setting the network adapter to bridged mode and I'd like to offer you two alternatives to VirtualBox.

The first alternative is Windows Subsystem for Linux <https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/faq>. This is more gentle on system resources than running any VM.

The second alternative is if you have Windows 10 Professional or higher, you are licensed for Hyper-V. That would be a higher performance option than VirtualBox.

Both are better integrated with Windows than VirtualBox.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay

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