No host interface in Windows 2003

[themoon17]

First of all thanks to Team VirtualBox for such a beautiful innovation and technology.

Let me brief you the backgrounds of my problem:

1.I have windows 2003 SBS
2.2 physical NICs
3.1 NIC for DNS resolution and the other one is free presently.
4.Virtualbox Lastest Edition 2.1.0

My problem:

i have unbuntu installed as guest on the above host(win 2003),i Want my all LAN clients to ping this Ubuntu guest (I will have 4 such Ubuntu's as guests in future).As you know i need Host Interface to connect Guest Nic to Host Nic, Problem is there is not option to create a host interface in VBox , instead it shows me my Physical NICs in the list of Host Interfaces



can some1 please helpme in this.

Regards
Shashank

[onelson]

I have a similar issue.

I had my guest (linux distro) setup with 2 nic's one set to NAT (configured with dhcp) and one bound to a virtual host interface (with a static ip).

The nice thing about this setup was that the NAT provided my vm with internet access (piggy-backing from however the host was connected) and the virtual adapter I used to talk directly to the vm was on a completely isolated subnet. I could simply add an entry to my windows host file (pointing at the static ip of my vm) and set the virtual adapter to have a matching subnet.

I'm wondering how to get a similar setup going without a virtual adapter to work with.

[onelson]

Well, I guess I don't need to wonder any more.
Looking at some of the other issues in this section of the forum, I learned of the MS loopback adapter, which I'm now using exactly the same way I had been using the vbox virtual nic.

Not sure if it helps you, themoon17, but hopefully it will.

[Sasquatch]

First of all thanks to Team VirtualBox for such a beautiful innovation and technology.

Let me brief you the backgrounds of my problem:

1.I have windows 2003 SBS
2.2 physical NICs
3.1 NIC for DNS resolution and the other one is free presently.
4.Virtualbox Lastest Edition 2.1.0

My problem:

i have unbuntu installed as guest on the above host(win 2003),i Want my all LAN clients to ping this Ubuntu guest (I will have 4 such Ubuntu's as guests in future).As you know i need Host Interface to connect Guest Nic to Host Nic, Problem is there is not option to create a host interface in VBox , instead it shows me my Physical NICs in the list of Host Interfaces



can some1 please helpme in this.

Regards
Shashank

Did you read the changelog of 2.1.0? You no longer need to bridge the physical interface with a virtual one, but you can instead select the physical adapter directly.

[themoon17]

Thanks Sasquatch

Actually i worked on it yesterday. and i did get to know that now we can directly connect to physical interface:). Anyways thanks to you. Let me read the changes

[themoon17]

Thank to everyone again

[creambear]

First of all thanks to Team VirtualBox for such a beautiful innovation and technology.

Let me brief you the backgrounds of my problem:

1.I have windows 2003 SBS
2.2 physical NICs
3.1 NIC for DNS resolution and the other one is free presently.
4.Virtualbox Lastest Edition 2.1.0

My problem:

i have unbuntu installed as guest on the above host(win 2003),i Want my all LAN clients to ping this Ubuntu guest (I will have 4 such Ubuntu's as guests in future).As you know i need Host Interface to connect Guest Nic to Host Nic, Problem is there is not option to create a host interface in VBox , instead it shows me my Physical NICs in the list of Host Interfaces



can some1 please helpme in this.

Regards
Shashank

Did you read the changelog of 2.1.0? You no longer need to bridge the physical interface with a virtual one, but you can instead select the physical adapter directly.

Is it possible that I continue to use the virtual interface?

[Sasquatch]

Is it possible that I continue to use the virtual interface?

That option is no longer available from VB. You have to install a MS loopback adapter to get the old style back. Select the loopback adapter as HIF.