How to add additinal 4 virtual network adapters for a Guest?

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Jchen2012
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How to add additinal 4 virtual network adapters for a Guest?

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I am trying to add 4 additional virtual network interfaces to my Guest OS. I have looked at the command "VBoxManage modifyvm", but I am not clear how to execute the commands.
Any help will be very appreciated.

first time using Virtualbox.

Johnny
AnotherLife
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Re: How to add additinal 4 virtual network adapters for a Gu

Post by AnotherLife »

Go to the settings of the VM, you can set the adapters there.
mpack
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Re: How to add additinal 4 virtual network adapters for a Gu

Post by mpack »

You have not told us what your host OS is, so we cannot tell you in detail how to execute the VBoxManage command. In general you open up a terminal window, make sure your execution path is set correctly - or that you are in the folder that contains VBoxManage, then execute the command as described in the user manual.
Jchen2012
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Re: How to add additinal 4 virtual network adapters for a Gu

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The host OS is Windows 7, the guests OS are XenServer. Maximum adapters allowed from GUI is 4 in Virtualbox. I need more than 4 network adpaters.
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Re: How to add additinal 4 virtual network adapters for a Gu

Post by mpack »

In that case my previous reply is still correct. Yes, the max number of adapters represented in the GUI is 4, but ISTR that you can have up to 8 if you use VBoxManage to configure the additional ones - I''ve never needed to find out the details of how, but it looks straightforward, e.g. with "VBoxManage modifyvm --nic5 NAT" to configure a fifth adapter.
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