Monday, March 26, 2012

BackTrack5 and Windows XP Virtual LAN setup in Virtual Box

Well This post is for those guys who are trying to setup a virtual pen test lab on Virtual Box. I know Whole process of installing the two OS is easy, but How to get them on the same virtual LAN?
This process is Easy too, Just go to the setting section-> network setting and then choose VIRTUAL_BOX_HOST_ONLY_ETHERNET adapter for both the OSes.
Again You might have figured that already. :)

But here is where most people will get stuck. Most user will then try to ping the other OS to check if they are in LAN. Amazingly only windows system will be able to PING the Backtrack 5 System. But Backtrack won't be able to ping back.  The Ping command seems to stuck.

So How to make BACKTRACK 5 Ping the Windows System Ping?
Its your lucky day :)
--->>>turn off windows firewall . :) :)<<<---
Please leave comment if you were stuck at this point and this post really helped you go over :)
Cheers.

P.S. I really LOLED after I tried this on my virtual box windows installation and my backtrack was able to ping it :)
backtrack 5 in virtual box pinging another virtual windows machine