Hopefully this is the correct forum for my question.
I recently installed Linux Mint 18.2 Xfce 64-bit in a Virtualbox 5.2.0 VM on my Win7 work laptop. I have "Enable Networking" checked, and when I connect to "Wired connection 1" it appears to be successful, until I open Firefox and try to reach the internet, at which point I get "server not found" errors. I have compared the VB Network Settings to those of another VM on my laptop running Win10 which does allow me to connect to the internet, and I see no differences. I'm not sure if the problem is in my VB or LM settings. I'm trying to get this working so I can ditch the Win10 VM for the support I provide at my company.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
No internet connection in Linux Mint Virtualbox VM
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lafritz65
No internet connection in Linux Mint Virtualbox VM
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lmintnewb2
Re: No internet connection in Linux Mint Virtualbox VM
Can only give general thoughts on this, as only ever briefly played with virtualbox, started developing an interest in true hypervisors, specifically kvm but my current system doesn't support vm's at the moment. 
Anyway ... did you install the Guest additions for whichever version of virtualbox you're using ? Vaguely remember in the settings for managing a vm, there was a check-box under Networking or similar, that said something like use bridged network. Remember having to check that to get the guest to also be able to use the window$ hosts wireless connection.
Was a long time ago, installed from the latest available on the Oracle site, virtualbox and again ... guest additions. Think Mint comes with much virtualbox related packages already installed on it out-of-box ? Haven't tried v 18.2 so could be wrong and going from distant memory on what I'd typed above, so could also be wrong but might give you something to check out.
Anyway ... did you install the Guest additions for whichever version of virtualbox you're using ? Vaguely remember in the settings for managing a vm, there was a check-box under Networking or similar, that said something like use bridged network. Remember having to check that to get the guest to also be able to use the window$ hosts wireless connection.
Was a long time ago, installed from the latest available on the Oracle site, virtualbox and again ... guest additions. Think Mint comes with much virtualbox related packages already installed on it out-of-box ? Haven't tried v 18.2 so could be wrong and going from distant memory on what I'd typed above, so could also be wrong but might give you something to check out.
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lafritz65
Re: No internet connection in Linux Mint Virtualbox VM
I just confirmed that guest additions is installed, restarted the VM (in case I forgot to do it yesterday), and there is still no network connectivity. But thanks for the suggestion.
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lafritz65
Re: No internet connection in Linux Mint Virtualbox VM
Hmmm! All I did since last week is reboot the host; no other changes were made, yet it seems to be working now. Imagine that!