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How to enable host only adapter for VirtualBox on Mac OS X

February 16, 2018 by Rick Hernandez 1 Comment

Enabling host-only adapter for VirtualBox 5.2.x on Mac OS X

Creating a host-only adapter

  • Open VirtualBox and click on “File > Host Network Manager” on the Menu Bar (Or press “Command” + “W” )
  • Click on the “Create” button in the Host Network Manager window – This will create a host-only network called “vboxnet0”
  • Select if you want this Host-only network to have DHCP Server enabled
  • Close the Host Network Manager Window

If you want to learn how to do it with VirtualBox 5.1.x watch it on JSecademy

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Rick Hernandez

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