Hello,
I recently switched from VirtualBox to VMware. It should be noted that I port forward on my router and I don’t use any static IP VPNs.
So once I port forward on my gateway, I have to also specify the ports on VirtualBox
I did it like this
If you have VMware Player:
Assuming that you are using a VM that isn’t your bait VM, you’ll have to go with a bridged connection. If you’re using a VPN (which is what you should do if you do something grey-hat like this), then you will have to configure it on the VM itself.