Virtualbox Allow Host to Access (Network) Guest

The easiest way is set Settings -> Network -> Adapter 1 -> Bridged Adapter (Default should be NAT). It shall make the VM part of your local network, getting ip from DHCP.

Check your IP address of your VM client (Ubuntu).

ifconfig -a

eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:2b:31:6c  
          inet addr:192.168.0.176  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::fac6:2bd6:2e9:5f3c/64 Scope:Link
          inet6 addr: 2001:e68:542c:1838:e3fb:a14a:283c:bc4d/64 Scope:Global
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:9662 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:5760005 (5.7 MB)  TX bytes:1119239 (1.1 MB)
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xd020

My VM's ip is 192.168.0.176. I have a nginx server running, so I can use the host browser to access http://192.168.0.176.

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