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I just upgraded my PC to a Micro-ATX board and need to purchase a quad port NIC to run my VM's. Due to the high cost I wanted to make sure there are no issues when it comes to Vbox NIC virtualization.

Host OS = Windows 7 x64

The NIC I want to purchase is an Intel I340-T4 Quad port

Just FYI: a quad port NIC is not normally required in order to run VMs. Typically the VMs share normal host resources, e.g. the typical single wired NIC, if there's a second NIC it's usually wireless.

That said, it shouldn't matter to VirtualBox what NICs are on the host, provided the host supports it. As far as VirtualBox is concerned I assume it would just see four NICs available on the host, any of which a VM could bridge to. The VM sees a single port NIC (unless you add multiple NICs to the recipe).

I need a 4 port NIC because I want to segregate network traffic that will be connected to different network segments.
I thought it would work but after buying a Logitech C920 webcam and finding out that it won't work in my Ubuntu guest was a real downer.

Thanks for your reply.