I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to 10.9.5 from 10.6.8. So far, so good (iSync and PPC apps do not work, but this is not the forum for this). I did a fresh installation and I migrated my files from my previous system (yes, I did the installation on another drive for safety). Now for the VBox problem/bug:
Since this was a fresh install, OSX
renamed my wireless connection from "Airport" to "Wi-Fi". Since all of my VMs include 4 network adapters (Host, Internal, Bridged, NAT), one of which is Bridged to the old "Airport" interface, VBox comes up with a warning during any VM starting that "
the following physical network interfaces were not found: Airport". So far, so good... (makes sense if you think about it).
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BUT, (and here's the bug), when I click on "Change Network Settings", VBox presents me a network settings dialog which comes up ... empty. No adapter is enabled (remember, I have 4 enabled), the network adapter is not attached, the type is the default PCnet-II (no matter the guest adapter), the cable is disconnected, etc.
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The second part of the "bug" is that if I click on Cancel, the VM starts fine, with all of its network settings untouched. INCLUDING the bridged adapter, which is automagically assigned to "Wi-Fi" and getting IPs and everything is peachy. But it's NOT visible in the settings.
??? Any thoughts ??? Should I file a bug report? I can easily search and replace all the instances of "Airport" to "Wi-Fi" with a simple replace in all of my .vbox files, but that's not the issue.
On a second thought, if anyone is brave enough to try it, you
could theoretically edit the .vbox file and change your bridged adapter to something non-existent. Any brave souls out there?