Bridging Network Connections

flcl · Post by **flcl** » 28. Aug 2008, 22:04

Hey everyone, I'm having some trouble figuring out how to bridge my network connections from with host and virtual machine(XP). I'm running Ubuntu, Hardy 8.04. Can anyone help me out please?

Post by **Sasquatch** » 28. Aug 2008, 23:18

Please read the VirtualBox FAQ. It has some information about bridges. Further, the User Manual has all the info you need. If you can't get it working, search the forums using Google. There are other, off site tutorials for setting up bridges in Linux.

We are volunteers here, but have big plans for the forums, introducing howto's and more. These will come in time, but it can take some before it will actually be put here.

souljahh2050 · Post by **souljahh2050** » 30. Aug 2008, 20:08

I am having the same problem, the FAQ and Manual did not help. Could someone explain step by step how to do this.

thx,

artships · Post by **artships** » 30. Aug 2008, 20:51

Does this help? http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=9032

I based it on this: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vboxbridge.html and this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox.

May I ask why you want to bother to bridge? Accepting the default just worked out of the box for me. I didn't go with the default because I had "special needs" - You?

souljahh2050 · Post by **souljahh2050** » 31. Aug 2008, 05:30

I would like to set up a Local area Network and run tversity on one of my xp virtualboxes. Later on I was hoping to setup and play around with a virtual domain.

Post by **Sasquatch** » 31. Aug 2008, 19:23

souljahh2050 wrote:I would like to set up a Local area Network and run tversity on one of my xp virtualboxes. Later on I was hoping to setup and play around with a virtual domain.

Does your "LAN" need the Host or the rest of the physicial network to be part of it? If not, use Internal Networking.

souljahh2050 · Post by **souljahh2050** » 31. Aug 2008, 20:05

The rest of the physical network

Post by **Sasquatch** » 31. Aug 2008, 20:58

Ok, read the Forum Posting Guide and give the information that is asked there.

scottro · Post by **scottro** » 1. Sep 2008, 21:54

I have a page that others, who found the FAQ and manuals a bit lacking, found helpful.

http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/vboxbridge.html

The manual was apparently written by Ubuntu folks--I've noticed various problems if one tries to follow it for Fedora and is inexperienced--for example, some commands (IIRC, haven't looked at the manual for awhile, and it may be fixed by now) didn't point out to the newcomer that if you use sudo, or su without a -, you're lacking sbin and /usr/sbin, which are necessary for some of the commands to work.

We folks who have been using RH systems for awhile are used to that, so we always make sure to mention it in various guides we might write. (That's why I think the docs weren't written by RH based system users)

We mention it to avoid the newcomers (that's not patronizing, it's simply something that isn't intuitive) coming back and saying, "I got command not found when I followed your instructions.)