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Mixed virtual/physical LAN in VirtualBox

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Let us say I want to create a LAN some members of which will be VMs and some physical machines. I want to server IP addresses to them using DHCP and I want them to share the same LAN address space (say 192.168.10.0/24).

Is there a way to do that? If so, what is it?

posted May 6, 2015 by Sanketi Garg

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May be
Bridged networking.
commented May 6, 2015 by Gurminder

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