Any news on when bridged networking will make it to the Mac?
Any news on when bridged networking will make it to the Mac?
I want to move a bunch of vm's from parallels to VB but really need bridged networking. I've heard it's on the todo list but haven't heard a status in a while.
Bill
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Bridging is now supported:
From VB 1.6.2 User Guide:
Also:6.5 Introduction to Host Interface Networking (HIF)
With Host Interface Networking, VirtualBox creates a new networking interface in software on the host computer. This new software interface will then exist in parallel to your regular interfaces (e.g., on a Linux host vbox0 will exist alongside eth0). When a guest is using such a new software interface, it looks to the host system as though the guest were physically connected to the interface using a network cable: the host can send data to the guest through that interface and receive data from it. This means that you can set up routing or bridging between the guest and the rest of your network.
Network bridging is one of the simplest ways to use Host Interface Networking. Bridging allows you to connect several network devices together in software, so that data sent to one of the devices will be sent to all of them. For our purposes, this means that virtual machines can send packages through the host’s network card, using their own network hardware address, and receive packages sent to it. Other computers on your network will see your guests as though they were physically connected to the network. You will need wired (Ethernet) network hardware on the host for this as most current wireless network devices do not support bridging.
Bridged networking on mac OS X
I'm confused. Reading the VB 1.6.4 user guide, I see the quoted sections mentioned above, but there's no entry for Mac OSX in section 6. I see only Windows, Linux, and OpenSolaris.
So, is HIF supported on Mac OSX hosts or not? If so, is there a setup tutorial for it? Thanks.
-- david
So, is HIF supported on Mac OSX hosts or not? If so, is there a setup tutorial for it? Thanks.
-- david
ETA for HIF?
Any news on when this is likely to be done?
Very disapointed that there is a new release (1.6.4) and it's not part of it.
Very disapointed that there is a new release (1.6.4) and it's not part of it.
Below are two screenshots. The first shows the new Qt4-GUI of VirtualBox.
The second one shows the new settings dialog. As you can see there (and as you can see in the SVN-timeline), host interface networking is already implemented in the SVN-version.
http://i34.tinypic.com/152nfko.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/sxi15g.jpg
But please mind, that I did not test whether it works or not. But it seems quite obvious that it does
The second one shows the new settings dialog. As you can see there (and as you can see in the SVN-timeline), host interface networking is already implemented in the SVN-version.
http://i34.tinypic.com/152nfko.jpg
http://i33.tinypic.com/sxi15g.jpg
But please mind, that I did not test whether it works or not. But it seems quite obvious that it does
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Hello,
Is there now a bridging mode in VirtualBox 2.x?
I've see here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/310
it seems to be OK but it's not writed in the doc.
Thank you for your answer
Is there now a bridging mode in VirtualBox 2.x?
I've see here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/310
it seems to be OK but it's not writed in the doc.
Thank you for your answer
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