Virtualbox Help

Resolving Guest DNS While Connected to Campus VPN

If your Virtualbox Guest cannot resolve DNS while the host is connected to campus VPN -- do the following:

Find the name of the active guest

While the guest is active, run the following command on the host to get the name of the guest.

VBoxManage list runningvms

If the command is not found, then it is not in the working PATH. On Windows hosts, the command is usually located C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox

Resolve DNS by Host OS

With the name of the VM, issue this command, next:

VBoxManage modifyvm "VM Name" --natdnshostresolver1 on

-- PeterBailie - 17 Jan 2018