Want to use DSL for Host and domain for Guest

[jonjones88]

I am trying to set up VirtualBox on a Win 7 64bit computer that has 2 nics. I want to use the host for DSL and its Nvidia video card and then have the host use the corporate network since there will be no hardware intensive applications. Is this possible? The corporate network requires DHCP. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[BillG]

No problems from the VirtualBox side, but there could be a problem on the corporate network side. It really depends on how tight their security is. Many corporate networks prevent you from simply plugging a machine into their network and that is what the vm will look like to the network software. You would need to use bridged mode and the network software would see the MAC address of the vm, not the MAC of the physical NIC.

If that is not the case, all you need to do is run one NIC dedicated to the host OS and one dedicated to the vm. You control that through the NIC properties in the host OS.