

Therefore, in this article I will show how to configure VirtualBox and guest OSes so that you get access to your virtual machines from the host, e.g., through terminal. Unfortunately, by default after you have installed a guest virtual machine (VM) you do not have network access to it.

Thus, to completely resemble my experience in the cloud I should have terminal access to the guest operating system.

Usually, my guest operating system (OS) is Ubuntu Server because I usually use this OS in the cloud. In order to have the same environment and to keep my working machine clean from the garbage left after such experiments, I do my investigations in a virtualized environment. From time to time, I experiment with different tools.
