Virtual Box

Oracle Virtual Box provides a simple virtualisation environment for testing configurations. Most notably we can use OVB to provide test guest OS environments for MFEL.
However, the networking can be a little tricky. So here is a small guide on getting your VM working on a network.

Network Modes

For network configuration, VirtualBox (5.1) provides the following network modes:

Not attached“ mode (not connected)

Network Address Translation (NAT)

Nat Network

Bridged networking (network bridge)

Internal networking (internal network)

Host-only networking (Host-only adapter)

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