Saturday, September 7, 2013

Missing File Menu in VirtualBox Manager


I was trying to configure "Host-Only" Networking in virtual box. The host machine in this case has ubuntu OS.

In network settings page, when i selected "Host-only Adapter", it was not showing any options.  

Instead, it showed following message at the bottom.
"On the network:Adapter 1 page, no host only network adapter is selected"





When i was trying to find the possible solution on web, every where they suggested to configure it at "File->Preferences->Network".

I could not fine File menu in the virtual box manager.

After lot of googling, i found the secret. It turned out that File menu is hidden.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=42333

I had to maximize the VirtualBox manager window and then hover mouse cursor over the title bar in order to see File menu!!!