IPX connection woes

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BlueTemplar
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Joined: 14. Nov 2010, 15:46
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
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Guest OSses: Windows XP

IPX connection woes

Post by BlueTemplar »

With a friend we'd like to play a LAN of Dungeon Keeper 1. This game doesn't support TCP/IP (only IPX), and doesn't work neither in Win 7 (my PC) nor Vista (his laptop).
I've installed Windows XP inside Virtual Box, and sent to my friend the resulting disk file.
We're connected by Wi-Fi and can ping each other successfully. But inside VirtualBox we can't connect to each other (using a bridged connection) because it says that "the network did not assign a network address to the computer". But when we then click "Details...", there's an IP address listed and we CAN ping each other from within XP!
Though both XP have IPX installed and configured like on this page -
http://www.lemma.org/2010/07/running-la ... indows-xp/
- we don't see each other when one of us tries to host a game.
I don't have Internet from within the VM either.
Last edited by BlueTemplar on 14. Nov 2010, 19:37, edited 1 time in total.
Perryg
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Re: IPX connection woes

Post by Perryg »

IFAIK IPv6 and IPX in VirtualBox is only supported via a wired network. Wireless supports only IPv4.
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