In the Bridged networking mode of VirtualBox, a device driver called ‘net filter’ is used on the Host machine.

To overcome this limitation, a bridged networking mode was introduced. The drawback with this mode is that other devices (including the Host) and VMs on the network cannot access the guest VM and the outside internet, and the Host can access selected services on the VM only using port forwarding. NAT or Network Address Translation is the default networking mode of any new VM inside VirtualBox. Let us first understand the concept and working of Bridged networking mode. We will check the connectivity with the ‘ping’ command. We will use Ubuntu 20.04 VM running inside Oracle VirtualBox. This guide will learn how we can configure Bridged networking mode in a VirtualBox virtual machine.

Not Attached (network card is present, but the cable is unplugged).

There are six networking modes supported in VirtualBox, namely: It has many powerful networking features to set up any desired configuration.

We do not need to mess up with our main Host OS. With VirtualBox, we can run multiple operating systems simultaneously. VirtualBox is one of the popular virtualization platforms from Oracle Corporation.

What is virtualbox networking feature