Which type of host network interfaces can be used ?

mabra · Post by **mabra** » 31. Aug 2016, 07:12

Hello !

I usually do not have physical interfaces on my hosts, which are free to share with Virtualbox - they are usually in use with virtual network infrastructure from VDE and/or OpenVswitch. I recently detected, that Virtualbox will crash down the complete host, if used with OpenVswitch ports ( see: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=79446 ).

Linux offers a lot of different interface types, if one issues:

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TYPE := { vlan | veth | vcan | dummy | ifb | macvlan | macvtap |
          bridge | bond | ipoib | ip6tnl | ipip | sit | vxlan |
          gre | gretap | ip6gre | ip6gretap | vti | nlmon }

So, my question is: Which type of this interfaces can I use inside a Virtualbox VM ??

Thanks anyway,
Manfred