Using NAT Win8 Guest Does Not Recognize Host VPN Connection

[judp25]

Hi,

I am in the process of migrating to VirtualBox from VMware and am having some issues. I have read the documentation, forums, and blogs, but cannot find anything that helps.

On this system, I have a Windows 7 host, and a number of guests, all of which are experiencing this same problem. When I connect to my home network consisting of a wireless router connected to a cable modem, I have no problem connecting to the Internet - everything works as I would expect. However, when I connect to our company VPN with the Win7 host, the guest does not pick up the VPN connection and I have no network access. With VMware, the guest detected the presence of the VPN connection and used it automatically with no special configuration - or such was the case when in NAT mode.

I am using the NAT mode as well with these guests, and while they are all able to connect to the network when I am not connected to the VPN, as soon as I fire up the VPN connection, the guests no longer have network access.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be, or is this something that VirtualBox does not support?

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[BillG]

As a general rule, a VPN connection cannot be shared. If this actually works in VMWare it is an exception, not what I would expect.

[noteirak]

I think BillG sums it up rather nicely