how to get the ipaddress of a virtual box running on local machine [closed]

Question

I need to connect to my virtual box running on my local machine to transfer files from my local system to VM by using WinSCP.

How do I find the IP address? When I go to the settings and network tab, there I find something related to IP, but when I use that, it says cannot find or invalid.

Bespread

What is the OS of the VM? – Grantee

When I start mine using vagrant, it shows the ip address on boot time. Do you have console access to the vbox so you can type command to get ip address? – Mia

Yes I have a console – Bespread

Accessing your Ubuntu Virtualbox Guest from your Host OS [link]gist.github.com/odan/48fc744434ec6566ca9f7a993f4a7ffb – Tervalent

In case you want to get the ip without going to your vm you can use VBoxManage guestproperty enumerate <vmname> | grep IP on host machine as stated here [link] forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=36592 – Oodles

Answer 1

Login to virtual machine use below command to check ip address. (anyone will work)

1. ifconfig
2. ip addr show

If you used NAT for your virtual machine settings (your machine ip will be 10.0.2.15), then you have to use port forwarding to connect to machine. IP address will be 127.0.0.1

If you used bridged networking/Host only networking, then you will have separate Ip address. Use that IP address to connect virtual machine

Hughes

How do I use port forwarding to connect to the machine? And why is "IP address will be 127.0.0.1"? – Daugava

Please refer this site, to setup port forwarding. trainenv.blogspot.in/2016/03/… IP Address 127.0.0.1 is by default assigned to your host machine. When connection comes to this IP, it will forward the request to Guest machine. So that you can access guest machine through host machine. – Hughes

ip addr show doesn't work on Windows 10. – Googolplex

for windows use ipconfig – Goodden

alternative to ip addr show, you can just write ip a – Recessional

I try to ping 10.0.2.24 (inet) (from ip addr show in the vm) but i get not response – Dorothy