Video Game LAN (Mac OSX host - Windows XP Guest)

[Legendman3]

Ok so at my school me and some friends got virtual box (4.1.2) installed. We put Windows XP on and installed Unreal Tournament 1995. I then tried creating a LAN game but it would not show up for my friends (who were on the same network and had the same configuration as me since I set it all up). Do I have to do something special to get LAN working?

[Legendman3]

Oh yes the Mac version is Mac OS X 10.6

[Perryg]

What network mode did you use in the guest settings? NAT? You would need to be in bridged mode (if your school even allows this transport on their network).

[Legendman3]

What network mode did you use in the guest settings? NAT? You would need to be in bridged mode.

Bridged mode? How do I do that?

[Legendman3]

Ok found out what bridged mode is. I have full admin rights on guest and host so I think ill try doing that.

[BillG]

If your network admin is clued up it probably still will not work. Many networks are designed to prevent a user simply plugging a machine into the network, and that is effectively what you are trying to do. As far as the network is concerned, the vm is another computer.