Specify bridged network interface by GUID, not name in config (#17819)

[M@v]

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[ModEdit; related ticket: #17819: Support for specifying bridged interface name by guid, not only name]

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Hello.
I'm facing a strange problem on one of my VMs running as service (using NSSM). Everything works fine, but all the users are using czech locales on the system, so they're getting "Gigabitové síťové připojení ..." as network interface name. When running as service, the interface name is "Gigabit network interface ..." - which is different from the user locale. As the VM is from time to time edited from user space, the network interface name changes and service could not start until configuration is corrected outside of GUI. This change in names was confirmed using

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vboxmanage list bridgedifs

run under different accounts.
I searched through documentation, but didn't find the posibility to specify network interface not by the name (which seems to use actual locales), but GUID (which doesn't change at all)? Anyone pointing me in hte right direction is welcome.

many thanks

[socratis]

but didn't find the posibility to specify network interface not by the name (which seems to use actual locales), but GUID

Most probably because there isn't such a possibility.

so they're getting "Gigabitové síťové připojení ..." as network interface name

Rename it in the Network Center to "Gigabit network interface". Done.

[M@v]

I was afraid that the GUID interface specification isn't possible, thanks for confirmation
Just renaming the interface doesn't work, as the VBox is IMHO taking the underlaying interface description (Device description property of the interface driver), not the name which can be changed. In fact, the interface was renamed to domain it's servicing...
I tried to run it directly under one of the account which is acessing the GUI (after forcing it to use english locale and restarting) and strange - the name is again localized instead of english one, althrough the english one is displayed in the VBox GUI:

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2018-06-13 15:34:29.417: VBoxManage.exe: error: Nonexistent host networking interface, name 'Intel(R) 82574L Gigabit Network Connection' (VERR_INTERNAL_ERROR)
2018-06-13 15:34:29.417: VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code E_FAIL (0x80004005), component ConsoleWrap, interface IConsole

List of interfaces from commandline under GUI account:

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Name:            Intel(R) 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
GUID:            0d99c371-71a5-42a9-9839-182aa6703be3
MediumType:      Ethernet
Wireless:        No
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-Intel(R) 82574L Gigabit Network Connection

Under service SYSTEM account:

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Name:            Gigabitové sítové pripojení Intel(R) 82574L
GUID:            0d99c371-71a5-42a9-9839-182aa6703be3
MediumType:      Ethernet
Wireless:        No
Status:          Up
VBoxNetworkName: HostInterfaceNetworking-Gigabitové sítové pripojení Intel(R) 82574L

I tried to force the same locale settings as system default using Windows 2008 R2 server control panel, after restart the behaviour is the same. Probably I'm not seeing something obvious. I'll try to solve it somehow and report when I'll be able to find some reliable solution.

Unfortunatelly the NSSM is the only reliable way to me to run the VM as service without user interaction during server startup.

[M@v]

Uaaa! Got it!
After diging with various locale configs, modifying the interface description inside registry etc. etc. I almost gave up. After all, idea about using different network driver came in my mind, so I grabed it directly at intel and voila - it seems this one doesn't have the friendlines of localized device description and interface options. Problem semi-solved Altough I wish to have guid interface specification options for such cases (at least under Windows host).

Hope this helps someone other to save some hours of trial and errors.

[socratis]

Impressive! So it was the drivers themselves doing that? Wow...
I'm going to mark this as {Solved] because you actually *did* find the solution. You could open a thread in the "Suggestions" section of the forums for your GUID idea and reference this thread. You got more chances of being heard...

[socratis]

I see that you opened ticket #17819. So, [Solved] is out, first post gets the ticket information added...