bridged on nic1

[bonytony]

I tried using thefollowing command

VBoxManage modifyvm "plantshop" -nic1 bridged

as specified in the manual in section 6 and it says bridged is an invalid type

looking at the VBoxManage help - bridged is not listed -

has there been a change in the way this is done in virtualbox 2.2 ?

[vbtom]

Hi,
you have to specify the bridged adapter on host too. Try

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VBoxManage modifyvm --bridgeadapter1 eth0

if eth0 is the real Adapter connecting your host to your real LAN.

After that,

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VBoxManage showvminfo "<your machine>" 

should show your nic with a bridged interface.
T.

[bonytony]

Thanks for the replys guys - I think I got it sussed - theres no option in v box 2.2 for bridged. There is an option for hostif which I think is the option I need. I only need to specify now the ip address somehow for the vm and fire it up. I nottice there is also another option in the vbox manage for hostifdev which I think is the key, I'll let you know how I get on but I would be very interested if some supervboxuser has managed to suss this out already and uses it .
Are these options undocumented because I have not seen them after reading the manual