How To: Make VirtualBox Use Your Router's DHCP to get an IP Address in Linux
Update: The method below for getting a virtualbox IP from your DHCP works (in linux) - but it turns out there's an easier way (kindly pointed out by Mike in the comments below). You can just change your VirtualBox network settings from NAT to Bridged Adapter and point it at eth0/wlan0 or whichever connection is being used for networking. Then, optionally, you can configure the MAC address of the bridged adapter and set your router to assign a specific IP to a specific bridged adapter. Also, the built-in Bridged Adapter method works to deploy solutions from XNA Game Studio to my Xbox 360, so I'm rapt! Thanks, Mike! Note: The below bit is for linux only, the above method should work on any host OS! VirtualBox is an awesome bit of kit and I
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