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Networking with Multiple Guests on VirtualBox

IT Support I showed up to work on my first day a couple of weeks ago and the first thing that I was given was a company Mac... A Mac! My absolutely brilliant idea was to ask IT support if I was allowed to wipe the hard-drive clean and install my favorite Linux distribution. After giving me the classic thousand-yard stare that every IT dude gives every time you ask for something, he told me that "it was not supported". Long story short, at the end of the first week, I was left with this piece of brushed Aliminum brick running some applications that does not even run on Linux but required by my new company. Virtualization Solution? Of course virtualization. Needless to say, this was a complex setup with multiple requirements: * I want to run a Fedora guest for every day use. There is nothing that can match Konsole running on a bleeding edge distribution out there. * I also need to run a CentOS guest for certain tasks such as building RPMs and other production related tas...