Bridged networking not working in Virtualbox under Windows 10

Question

I just upgraded my laptop from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and found that I am unable to start Virtualbox VMs configured with a bridged adapter.

See the configuration below:

Answer 1

My very simple solution that worked: select another networkcard!

1. Make sure your guest is shut down
2. Goto the guest Settings > Network > Adavanced
3. Change the Adapter Type to another adapter.
4. Start your guest and check if you got a decent IP for your network.

If it doesn't work, repeat steps and try yet another network adapter. The very basic PCnet adapters have a high succes-rate.

Good luck.