Hyper-V & Ubuntu Server

[David Fletcher]

On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 18:12 -0600, compdoc wrote:
> You can also set the address if you edit /etc/network/interfaces, but only
> if the VM uses the same network you do. In other words, if Hyper-V is using
> a virtual, private network, then changing the address won't make it work. 

If you're using VirtualBox, set the network configuration for the VM to
'Bridged' rather than 'NAT'. That will put it on the same network and
enable the use of a fixed IP address.