Bridge Networking?

[BassKozz]

I followed the following directions to setting up a Bridge Network:

Networking
To start, NAT is by far the easiest way to get your guests connected to the interweb, but you may want to use the guests as servers, for this you need Host Networking. You will need to install bridge-utils and uml-utilities so that you can make a tap device and add it to a bridge.

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sudo apt-get install bridge-utils uml-utilities 

Now make a bridge, and put your current interface into it:

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sudo tunctl -t tap1 -u fred #where fred is the user you will be running vbox as 
sudo chown root.vboxusers /dev/net/tun
sudo chmod g+rw /dev/net/tun

Set the permission to persist across reboots, by editing as root /etc/udev/rules.d/20-names.rules and changing:

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KERNEL=="tun",                          NAME="net/%k" 

to

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KERNEL=="tun",                          NAME="net/%k",  GROUP="vboxusers",     MODE="0660" 

Make a new bridge called br0:

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sudo brctl addbr br0 

Put your current interface (in this case eth0) into promiscuous mode, then add it to the bridge and give the bridge a dhcp address.

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sudo ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 promisc 
sudo brctl addif br0 eth0
dhclient br0

Add the new tap1 device to the bridge

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sudo brctl addif br0 tap1 

You should now be able to use host networking in vbox, just change "attached to" to "host interface" and add the interface name of tap1 in your networking settings. Read the manual as well, there are some other nifty ways to do this. Do not forget to use the root account when doing this. Also reboot your computer afterwords.

But it's not working for me, when I boot up the guest VM, it shows limited to no connectivity in XP
And after I rebooted Ubuntu, I tried to run my VM and I was presented with the following error:

I tried to read the bridge networking directions in the users manual, but they went right over my head, can someone lend me a hand?

[BassKozz]

NM, I re-read section 6.5.1.1 Debian and Ubuntu hosts of the Users Manual and I was able to get it working

The part of the manual that confused me was after step #4 it reads:

To set up a host interface using Debian and Ubuntu’s native methods, do the following
instead of step 4 above:

And then proceeds to go over 4 new steps...

1. So which is better "native methods" or the other method (which I used - first 4 steps)?
2. Also if I want to run 2 VM at the same time I would need to go thru the steps in the users manual again, but instead this time change br0 to br1 correct? or can I simply just create a vbox1 and attach it to br0 ?

[BassKozz]

:BUMP:

1. So which is better "native methods" or the other method (which I used - first 4 steps)?
2. Also if I want to run 2 VM at the same time I would need to go thru the steps in the users manual again, but instead this time change br0 to br1 correct? or can I simply just create a vbox1 and attach it to br0 ?