with your vm selected click settings, then click network in the adaptor tab change it from nat to bridged and then it should be assigned a ip by your router. You can check in linux with ifconfig
OK i'll give this a shot when i get home tonight. The quickest way to verify this works is to use ifconfig and then on the windows machine use
ping <ip from ifconfig inet4 address>
Right?
Also as of 9.0 the build process has changed and it requires a few new dependencies.
You can always use the bitcoin official binaries and then once it is installed go from there.
It didn't seem to complain about any dependency issues while i was building. How can I make sure?