Re: [tlug] VirtualBox Capabilities

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:41:01PM +0900, CL wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 05:51:18PM +0900, CL wrote:
> 
> Built-in NAT.  I'll have to go back and look for the list of which services 
> don't work.  I read up on bridged host interfacing and decided that I had 
> enough on my plate without adding this, but it may be something to try.

Of course, I have a page on it.  :)
http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vboxbridge.html

> One of the things that jumped out early is that the box has a switched-on Intel 
> 10/100/1000 LAN chip on board and the VBox driver for that service didn't work. 
>  I had to use the PC Net Fast III emulator, which worked immediately ... but 
> I've never seen one before.  

Keep in mind that Vbox guest is running a virtual interface.  It doesn't
really matter what the host has. 

> Time to Re-RTFM.

It's not a bad manual.  (Although its bridged networking section for
Fedora/RH based systems seems to be written by an Ubuntu user.)  :)



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