Problem with Pinging Metasploitable3 VM in Host-Only Network Mode (VirtualBox)

[Edisonmedina69]

Hello,

I’m facing issues when trying to ping my Metasploitable3 virtual machine (VM) from both my Ubuntu and Windows hosts.

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

I’m using VirtualBox and have set the VM's network adapter to Host-Only mode.
When I run the ip a command on Ubuntu, I see that the IP address is 127.0.0.1 (localhost), not an IP in the host-only network.
On Windows, when I run ipconfig, I get an IP that doesn’t match the host-only network IP I expect.
I’m new to this, so I apologize if I’m missing something basic. Could this be related to an installation error or something I did wrong during the setup? Should I manually assign IP addresses to the VM or the host-only network adapter?

Any guidance or troubleshooting tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!