internal network with hostinterface

[muederkrieger]

Hi,
I like to put some windows vm's, isolated from the rest of the world, into a internal network. Because of some performance issues (Excel ...), I like to serve files with samba and not with vbox-shared-folders. How can I setup an addition interface (tap?) on my linux host (vbox 2.1.4) and connect it to the internal network "hub". The solution should like hostnetworking of vmware.

Thanks for help in advanced
Jan

[TerryE]

You can't. Internal networking (in the current version) doesn't permit the host to connect. The only way that you can use samba between the host and the guests is to set up (another) NAT or Host IF virtual NIC on each guest. If you set up the routing costs in the guests correctly, then they will still use the internal network for guest-to-guest communication.