my inner geek

When developing stuff, configuring systems, or simply working with computers, I come across obstacles that can be solved easily once you know the solution. But finding the solution can take ages. In this blog, I am collecting the solutions for some of the technical problems that I encounter.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Make Virtualbox guests use the host's VPN connection

In my home office my guest OS in Virtualbox was not able to use its host's VPN connection. As shown here, VBoxManage can do the trick:

VBoxManage list vms
VBoxManage modifyvm <uuid here> --natdnshostresolver1 on
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