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Forwarding ports for services

Forwarding ports for services - VirtualBox Tutorial

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Forwarding ports for services

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- [Instructor] Frequently, virtual machines are used for development tasks and for other purposes that require access to a specific network port. If a guest is operating in bridge networking mode, we'll be able to access the ports on the guest unless they're blocked by a firewall because the guest is participating in the network just like other systems. But if a guest is in one of the NAT modes, we don't have a way of getting to the ports that a guest might be using to run a service because the guest is on a different network. VirtualBox gets around this limitation by allowing you to map or forward a port from a guest to a port on the host, making whatever service is running on that guest port accessible at the host's address with a different port. Let's take a moment and install a web server here in the guest. I'll install Apache and if your guest is running Windows, you can install XAMPP or a similar product to…

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