GUI Tool for networking

[bodhi.zazen]

Sure would be nice to see a GUI to handle all your networking/firewall needs.

How about automatic set up of a Bridge, especially on the windows side.

for example CoLinux sets up a Bridge as part of the install. as CoLinux is Open source your could likely adapt the same tools.

+1 Open source

If you want to stay with NAT, well that REALLY needs a GUI. You should be able to point and click to enable common servers (ssh, http, nfs, samba, ftp, cups). Also point and click to interact with LAN.

A GUI for NAT would be very, very nice

[philux]

I strongly agree with the need of a gui to simplify networking configurations choices (NAT, bridge ...)

I'am a 7 years old Linux teacher and I used VMWare for about 1 and a half year to improve the students "hands-on" training. I discovered recently Virtualbox and I already started using it instead of VMWare during classroom sessions. Here are some common networking scenarios that we use regularly :

- use 2 Linux machines to learn routing and NAT
- use 1 Linux/Samba VM and 1 Windows VM to learn Samba sharing

It is sufficiently difficult for some students to acquire these knowledges and the necessity to first configure Virtualbox is adding sometimes too much stress.

So it would be nice to hide the technical difficulties of Virtualbox network configuration in order to let the students focus on the Operating System they learn.

Anyway, thanks a lot to give us such a great product that I will recommand to anybody interested.

Have a good day,

Philux

[Technologov]

I completely agreed upon this.

I also have proposed a way to integrate the bridge-utils and TAP GUI into the operating system control center. For SUSE Linux, that would be Yast:

See:
[feature-request] Please add Network Bridge capability into Yast
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262960

Please add TAP Network capability into Yast: (10.4.2007)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=262970

I believe that those problems are better to be solved in the OS, because other virtualization software has similar difficulties. (Qemu/Dynagen/OpenVZ/...) maybe Xen too...

But solving the problem in application-specific way is OK too.. especially for cross-platform application like VirtualBox.