VirtualBox messes up my host network
I recently downloaded VirtualBox to my Windows machine (Windows 8) so that I could run Ubuntu on it (and play around with Linux). The internet worked fine on both the host and the virtual machine (although the network icon on the Windows taskbar changed). But today, when I turned on my computer, the connection to my router was "Limited" and there was no internet. I uninstalled VirtualBox (so that I now have internet) and thought about installing VMWare instead but the installation seems difficult and messy. I just one some "clean" virtual machine so that I could play around on Linux without dual-booting. How can this be achieved? Thank you!
VirtualBox messes up my host network
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I recently downloaded VirtualBox to my Windows machine (Windows 8) so that I could run Ubuntu on it (and play around with Linux). The internet worked fine on both the host and the virtual machine (although the network icon on the Windows taskbar changed). But today, when I turned on my computer, the connection to my router was "Limited" and there was no internet. I uninstalled VirtualBox (so that I now have internet) and thought about installing VMWare instead but the installation seems difficult and messy. I just one some "clean" virtual machine so that I could play around on Linux without dual-booting. How can this be achieved? Thank you!