Oracle Virtual Box provides a simple virtualisation environment for testing configurations. Most notably we can use OVB to provide test guest OS environments for MFEL.

However, the networking can be a little tricky. So here is a small guide on getting your VM working on a network.

For network configuration, VirtualBox (5.1) provides the following network modes:

• Not attached“ mode (not connected)
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Nat Network
• Bridged networking (network bridge)
• Internal networking (internal network)
• Host-only networking (Host-only adapter)
• Generic