Real NIC reserved for Guest only

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garidan
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Joined: 10. Nov 2015, 19:11

Real NIC reserved for Guest only

Post by garidan »

I need to let a guest use a physical NIC, but avoid the host to use the same NIC.
I'm now using VBOX 5.0.8.
Up to 5.0.RC I was just disabling everything on the NIC properties apart the "VirtualBox NDIS6 Bridged Network Driver" and it worked: windows had a NIC but no IP v4 or v6 so it could not use it.

With VBOS 5.0.8 if the NIC has no IP option and configured, I cannot see it in the Guest network settings to choose.

Any idea or experience about this ?

Thanks
LastWord
Posts: 19
Joined: 18. Sep 2011, 12:24
Primary OS: MS Windows 7
VBox Version: VirtualBox+Oracle ExtPack
Guest OSses: Windows XP (64 bit), Kubuntu (64 bit)

Re: Real NIC reserved for Guest only

Post by LastWord »

See bugtracker ticket Unable to select network adaptor that has TCP/IP disabled for details on the same bug.
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