Windows – can’t ping from mac host to windows guest in virtual box

I have a CentOS guest OS in VirtualBox and am using a Mac OS X host. Bridged networking is working for me.

I did not enable Internet Sharing on my Mac OS X config. Is there a reason you needed to enable that? Have you tried the bridged networking option without Internet Sharing enabled?

In most cases the easiest setup is to use NAT and define port forwarding as needed.

For example, a simple Port Forwarding setup allowing connection to the VM from the host through shh on localhost:10022, and to the webserver on localhost:8080would be:

(Name - Protocol - Host IP : Host Port - Guest IP : Guest Port)
SSH - TCP - 127.0.0.1 : 10022 - 10.0.2.15(*) : 22
www - TCP - 127.0.0.1 : 8080 - 10.0.2.15(*) : 80

(*) virtual IP returned by a ifconfig from the VM, most probably different for you.

Should you have special requirements preventing NAT from working, please give some details about what you want to achieve.