Using Virtual Box Without Wan. The power of virtualization resides in the ability to network more than one computers and to be able to route traffic to one or multiple machines without the internet. Yes without the internet.
That allows me to simulate the traffic of a real netwrok without getting the internet involved.
Here are the instructions to set up a network without the internet.
1. First turn off the internet on your laptop or desktop
2. Set up a host-only network adapter.
3. Ipconfig /release Ipconfig/renew on the host and the virtualbox client
4. verify that both (host and virtual box machine are on the same subnet).
5. Voila. You should be able to communicate with the machine on your network.